La 3^e séance de l’Atelier Eurasie centrale 2025-26 du GSRL à l’EPHE aura lieu le mardi 3 février 2026, de 11h00 à 13h00, au bâtiment recherche Nord du campus Condorcet, 14 cours des Humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers (métro Front populaire), en salle 5.001 (cinquième étage) — ainsi qu’en ligne via le lien :

https://cnrs.zoom.us/meeting/register/aoxujpOVQI2tzztzLhjaDA

Les personnes présentes sur site mais ne disposant pas d’un badge du campus sont invitées à demander un passe à la réception, afin de pouvoir accéder aux ascenseurs.

NB – Séance exceptionnelle, supplémentaire, en collaboration avec le Centre Chine–Corée–Japon du CNRS/EHESS et l’Institut d’étude de l’islam et des sociétés du monde musulman de l’EHESS, non programmée dans le calendrier initial du séminaire.

Nous y écouterons une présentation de M. Mohammed TURKI ALSUDAIRI (Université nationale d’Australie & EHESS/IISMM) sur le thème :

On the sectarian governance of Muslims in the People’s Republic of China

"The pre-emption and management of threats to governmental authority and societal stability arising from intra/inter-Muslim sectarian disputes (jiaopai jiufen) has been a longstanding preoccupation of a succession of Chinese states since the seventeenth century, and particularly so in the Northwest, where many sects and tariqas (menhuan) are fixtures of the Islamic religious landscape. This interest in the ‘sectarian question’ (jiaopai wenti) has certainly held with the People’s Republic, though theoretical attitudes and implemented policies for how best to manage the infighting of the sects have undergone significant change over time. This talk outlines the evolution (and draws out the patterns) of what could be described as a state tradition of sectarian governance wherein Muslim communities were made legible — and managed accordingly — through a classificatory taxonomy of groups/sects (paibie/jiaopai shibie). In reconstructing the party-state’s discordant vision and management of Muslim sectarianism over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mohammed Turki Alsudairi purposefully seeks to go beyond previous approaches surrounding state-religion relations, which had typically conceptualised the party-state’s governance of ‘Islam’ in an undifferentiated manner, oftentimes focusing on ethnicity or religiosity as key markers of concern. Throughout this talk, he showcases the centrality of sects and sectarianism as operative notions and, more importantly, their relevance and utility in the Chinese political context as instruments of authoritarian rule."

Au plaisir de vous retrouver à cette occasion,

Stéphane Dudoignon, Agathe Guy, Lina Tsrym