The Islamic College hält vom 7.-8. Mai 2016 eine die Shi’i Studies Conference ab. Die Teilnahme kostet 40£, 25£ für Studenten.
Das Programm (von der Website)Please note that Session A and Session B are parallel sessions held in separate rooms.
Saturday (7 May 2016)
9:30-10:00 – Registration, coffee
10:00-10:30 – Opening talk – Dr. M. A. Shomali
10:30-11:30 – Panel 1
Session A: Qur’an & Hadith
• Translating Al-Kafi: how to make a classical Shii text accessible to 21st century readers
Oliver Scharbrodt
• Devotional Literature and Practice in Twelver Shi‘ism: An Exploration of the Supplication of Kumayl ibn Ziyād as Attributed to ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
Vinay Khetia
Session B: Worldwide Islamic heritage
• Lines Back to Ali, Roads Forward to Shiism: An Historical Anthropology of Cham Sayyids’ Trajectories from Cambodia to Iran
Emiko Stock
• “Our Vanished Lady”: Memory, Ritual, and Shi’a-Sunni Relations at Bibi Pak Daman
Noor Zehra Zaidi
11:45-12:45 – Panel 2
Session A: Modern thought
• A comparative study of feminist and traditional Shi‘i approaches to Qur’anic exegesis
Mohammed Ali Ismail
• The Disenchantment of Reason: An Anti-Rational Trend in Modern Shi‘i Thought – The Tafkikis
Ali Paya
Session B: Worldwide Islamic Heritage (continued)
• Shi‘ite Manuscripts Collection in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana / Milano: Remarks on Kitāb Ġurar al-fawāyd by aš-Šarīf al-Murtaḍā)
Ali Faraj
• Judaeo-Islamic Heritage
M. J. Shomali
12:45-2 – Lunch
2:00-3:30 – Panel 3
Session A: Philosophy and Shi’ism
• Is Shi’i Philosophy a Useful Concept?
Oliver Leaman
• Redemption through knowledge. The metaphysics of causality in the Kitāb al-Yanābīˁ of Abū Yaˁqūb al-Sijistānī.
Lucas Oro Hershtein
• Shi’a Philosophers and the Question of Criterion of Truth
Mohammad Hoseinzadeh
Session B: Shi’ism in North America and Europe
• A Study Examining Iraqi Immigrants: Has The Shia-Sunni Conflict Been Transferred To Canada?
Jafar Ahmed
• African American Twelver Shia Community of/in New York
Abbas Aghdassi
• Muslim (Shia) Migration to Europe, and the Engagement of English and Islamic Laws
Tahir Wasti and M. Mesbahi
3:45-5:15 – Panel 4
Session A: Philosophy and Shi’ism (continued)
• The Perfect Man According to Sadra and Buddhism: A Comparative Study
Ali Jafari
• Revelation and Philosophy: From Distinction to Equality. Study of the Maktab-i Tafkīk and their opponents in the contemporary Shī’a Seminary
SeyedAmirHossein Asghari
• Reason, Metaphysics, and Ayatollah Javadi Amoli
Javad Esmaeili
5:15-5:30 – Closing
Sunday (8 May 2016)
10:00-10:30 – Coffee, announcements
10:30-11:30 – Panel 5
Session A: Kalam
• The narrations of Clay (Tinat) and their analysis
Morteza Karimi
• A Critique of Prof. Amir-Moezzi’s Views on Messianic Teachings
Valipoor and Daryabari
Session B: Shi’ism in Nigeria
• Shia Processions and the Competition for Religious Public Space in Northern Nigeria 1994-2015
Sani Yakubu Adam
• Sunni Literary Reaction to the Growth of Shia Ideology in Northern Nigeria
Kabiru Haruna Isa
11:45-1:15 – Panel 6
Session A: Diversity in Islamic scholarship
• Fiqh for Minorities: Shi’i Law in the Diaspora
Liyakat Takim
• Making of a Textual Source for the Law: the Case of Ritual (Im)purity of the People of the Book in the Twelver Shi’ite Jurisprudence
Mahmoud Pargoo
• Tradition of Multivocality among Shia ʿUlamāʾ
Abbas Mehregan
Session B: Shi’ism in Pre-Modern Iran and Surrounding Regions
• Where is the Imām? The Returning Messiah in the Tīmūrid Age
Tanvir Akhtar Ahmed
• The Polemical Work of Ali Quli Jadid al-Islam in the Context of European Missionaries to Safavid Iran
Alberto Tiburcio Urquiola
• 19th Century Ideological Foundations of the Islamic Revolution
Ezra Tzfadya
1:15-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:00 – Panel 7
Session A: Socio-Political Issues
• The Fiscal Authority of the Imams: Analyzing Imamic Jurisprudential Statements on Khums and Zakāt
Ed Hayes
• The Military Conduct of Prophet Muhammad and Imam Ali: Examining their use of water resources
Mahdi Mojtahedi and Rasool Akbari
• An Analysis of Shahid Sadr’s Method: Discovering Islamic Economic Doctrine from Islamic Economic Laws and its Broader Application
Mahdieh Mohammadi Araghi and Mahmoud Mohammadi Araghi
Session B: Contemporary Iran
• The Mad Muslim Mob: De/Mythologizing Iran
Hossein Nazari
• Analysis of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis
Mersedeh Dad Mohammadi
• Iranian Women: between tradition and modernity
Sarah Scio’
4:00-4:20 Shi’as and Benedictines by Abbott Timothy
4:20-4:50 Closing address by Dr. Isa Jahangir