First Annual Conference on Shi‘i StudiesShi‘i Studies: Past and Present9 May 2015 |
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Panel: Shi‘ism and Modern Education |
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Why would Adherents to Islam Study Theological Studies to Obtain a Secular Qualification? | Mohammad Mesbahi, The Islamic College, London, UK
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Religious Authority of the Imam and Educational Choices of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) Isma‘ilis in Karachi, Pakistan | Khurshid Sana Khan, London, UK
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The Study of Shi‘ite Islam in North American Universities | Liyakat Takim, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada |
Panel: Approaches towards Shi‘ism in the Western Academy |
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An Evaluation of the Approach of the Western Academia to the Shi‘a Sources Related to the History of the Text of the Qur’an
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Seyfeddin Kara, University of Durham, Durham, UK
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Can Contemporary Shi‘ite Studies be released from the Hegemony of Orientalism? A Case Study of Professor Henry Corbin | Hossein Kalbasi Ashtari, ‘Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran
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The Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa’ and Western Scholarship – A Critical Evaluation of S. M. Stern and Wilferd Madelung’s Contributions | Ismail Poonawala, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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Panel: Shi‘ism and Traditional Studies |
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The Salihiyyah School in Qazvin and Shi‘i Religious Authority (with an emphasis on scholars from the Baraghani family) | Isa Jahangir, The Islamic College, London, UK
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Philosophy and Shi‘ism: Two Sides of the Same Coin? | Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA |
Panel: Shi‘ism, Anthropology, and Ritual Practice |
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Anthropology, Shi‘ism, and Shi‘i Studies: An Overview of Entanglements, Contributions, and Possibilities | Mohammad Reza Hashemitaba, Rice University, USA
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Marja‘iyyah from Below. Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religious Authority. | Thomas Brandt Fibiger, Aarhus University, Denmark
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Texts, Interpretation, and Commemorating Imam Husayn | Samer El-Karanshawy, Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, Doha, Qatar |
Panel: Shi‘ism in a Minority Environment |
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For the Love of Ahl-Bayt: Transcending Sunni-Shi‘i Sectarian Allegiance | Siti Sarah Muwahidah, Emory University, Atlanta, USA |
The Right to Offence, the Right to Shiaphobia | Shereen Yousuf, DePaul University, Chicago, USA |
Institutionalization of Shi‘ism in Turkey and Current Problems | Abdülkadir Yeler, Istanbul, Turkey |