Division: Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Assistant Professor
Main Research: Initiative 4 "Studies in the Potentialities of Local Culture, Institution and Technology"
Project Title: Ecology in contemporary Sufism
Research Theme:
- The School of Ibn Arabi
- Islamic Studies during the Ottoman Period
- Sufism in the contemporary world
References:
- "Analytical Framework of Sufism," Asian and African Area Studies, vol. 2, 2002, pp. 173-192 (in Japanese).
- "Sufism in the Past and Present: Based on the Three-axis Framework of Sufism," Annals of the Japan Association for Middle East Studies, vol. 21/2, 2006, pp. 7-21 (in English).
2007 G-COE Research Outcome:
- Tonaga, Yasushi 2007, Preface to Special Issue: Birth and Succession of Holiness among Sufis and Saints, Orient: Reports of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, vol. 42, pp. 1-3.
- Tonaga, Yasushi 2007 Preface to Special Issue: The Tariqa’s Cohesional Power and the Shaykhhood Succession Question, Asian and African Area Studies, vol. 7-1, pp. 1-3.
List of Academic Presentations during 2007:
- Tonaga, Yasushi, Fact or Fiction?: The Images of the Sufi Authors in 10th-12th Century, International Conference “The Place and Role of Dervish Orders in Bosnia-Herzegovina on the Occasion of the Year of Jalaluddin Rumi 800 Years Since His Birth”, Fakultet islamskih nauka, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 13th-15th December, 2007.
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2010 Research Outcome:
List of Academic Presentations during 2010:
- Yasushi Tonaga, Ambiguity in Context’ according to Islamic Thought: Bridging Theory and Actuality around the Saints in Islam.,International Workshop, “Pilgrimage and Sanctuaries: Ambiguity in Context”,13 November 2010, Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland
2011 Research Outcome:
- Yasushi Tonaga, Tatsuro Fujikura, Akiko Kinoshita and Daisuke Maruyama (eds.), Proceedings of ITP International Symposium, “New Horizon of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Asian and African Area Studies”, Kyoto: Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies and Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, 2011, xvi+201+34pp.
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