Registration for attending the Fourth International Conference on Shi’i Studies 2018 is now open.
The Islamic College | 5-6 May 2018
| 8:30-9:00 | Refreshments and registration |
| 9:00-9:30 | Introductory address
Mohammed Ali Ismail Director of Research and Publications The Islamic College, London, UK
Isa Jahangir Chair of Board of Trustees The Islamic College, London, UK |
| 9:30-10:50 | Qur’an Studies
Chair: Muhammad Zakaria The Islamic College, London, UK
How important is the Qur’an really in Islam? Some observations from Islamic philosophy Oliver Leaman University of Kentucky, USA
The Qur’an between the past and the present: A search for response to modern social realities Yahya Baiza The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK
A comparative study of Biblical and Qur’anic methods of exegesis Mohammed Ali Ismail The Islamic College, London, UK |
| 10:50-11:10 | Coffee break |
| 11:10-1:00 | Texts: Past and Present
Chair: Amina Inloes The Islamic College, London, UK
Was ʿĀmir b. ʿĀmir al-Baṣrī an Ismāʿīlī as claimed by some scholars, or was he an unorthodox Twelver Shīʿī Ṣūfī who had gone through a phase of mystical union with the Divine? Ismail Poonawala University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Formulations of Imami scriptural knowledge in Shi‘i texts before and after the ghaybah Dominique Sirgy Yale University, USA
The Zaynab-Ziyād dialogues: Constructing a Zaynabian theology at the level of the texts Christopher Clohessy Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Rome, Italy
Shi‘i fiqh manuals (risālah ʿamaliyyah): Past and present Sayed Hossein Al Qazwini Karbala, Iraq |
| 1:00-2:30 | Lunch |
| 2:30-3:50 | Shi‘i ritual practice: Ashura and Arbaʿīn
Chair: Amir DeMartino The Islamic College, London, UK
The nature of the commemoration of Ashura in Iraq pre- and post-2003 Jafar Ahmad Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
The Arbaʿīn pilgrimage as a liminal and heterotopian practice: A study of alternative mode of living throughout the pilgrimage process Mohammad Nasravi Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Of blood and blades: How the Western press (mis-)represent the Ashura rituals Zeinab Ghasemi Tari University of Tehran, Iran Hossein Nazari University of Canterbury, UK |
| 3:50-4:10 | Coffee break |
| 4:10-5:10 | Shi‘i ritual practice: Iranian and Turkish
Chair: Hamid Tehrani The Islamic College, London, UK
The city of Ardabil and its influence in Turkish Shi‘i devotion Stefan Fa University College, London, UK
Abbas Fanniasl University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Iran
Techno-Muḥarram: The mourning soundscape and the Shi‘a public in post-revolutionary Iran Babak Rahimi University of California, San Diego, USA |
| 5:10-6:10 | Art and literature
Chair: Amina Inloes The Islamic College, London, UK
Intimations of the hidden Imam in the literary work of Jorge Luis Borges Frank Julian Gelli London, UK
A new Arabic amulet bowl from Eṣfahān with Persian inscriptions, Ali Reza Sedighifard Collection Ali Faraj University of Milan, Bicocca, Italy
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| 6:10-6:30 | Research and Publications at The Islamic College
Amina Inloes The Islamic College, London, UK |
| 8:30-9:00 | Refreshments and registration |
| 9:00-10:50 | Authority in Shi‘ism
Chair: Mohammed Ali Ismail The Islamic College, London, UK
The authority of the Imāmi marājiʿ Cameron Zargar University of California, Los Angeles, USA
The 1080-year-old person: The clergy and the Shiʿi community Mohammadreza Kalantari Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Kamāl al-Ḥaydarī Ahmed Chehab University of Detroit Mercy, USA
Al-Azhar and Shi‘ism: Tolerance, opposition or ambivalence? Syamsuddin Arif Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought and Civilizations, Jakarta, Indonesia |
| 10:50-11:10 | Coffee break |
| 11:10-1:00 | Political theory and contemporary thought
Chair: Amir Dastmalchian Canterbury Christ Church University, UK The Islamic College, London, UK
Shi‘ism and democracy Liyakat Takim McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Developing the political concept of theocracy: The case of velāyat-e faqīh and the Islamic Republic of Iran Ezra Tzfadya Otto Friedrich University, Bamberg, Germany
Al-Ākhūnd al-Khurāsānī and al-mashrūṭah (the Constitutionalist Movement) Sayyid Fadhil Bahrululoom London, UK
Justice and ethics as totipotent emergent properties: A critical rationalist perspective Ali Paya The Islamic College, London, UK |
| 1:00-2:30 | Lunch |
| 2:30-4:00 | Shi‘ism in South Asia
Chair: Muhammad Zakaria The Islamic College, London, UK
Residential choice, collective action and identity affirmation of migrants in a metropolis: The case of Gilgit-Baltistan Ismailis in Karachi, Pakistan Khurshid Sana Khan London, UK
Mystical philosophy in the light of Sufism and Vedantism Tayyaba Fatima Govt. College Women University, Faisalabad, Pakistan Mohammad Obaid Aslam Allama Iqbal Open University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
The Quṭb Shāhī era and the contributions of Mīr Momin Astrābādī in the spread of Shi‘a Islam in the Deccan Mirza Abbas The Islamic College, London, UK
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| 4:00-4:20 | Coffee break |
| 4:20-6:00 | Shi‘ism worldwide
Chair: Amina Inloes The Islamic College, London, UK
From disenfranchisement to wealth: The invention of a Shi‘i bourgeoisie in Lebanon between education, diaspora, remittances and neoliberal practices Omar Bortolazzi
Navigating identity: An overview of the Shi‘a Hazara community in London and the Midlands Rabia Latif Khan SOAS University of London, UK
The study of Shi‘ism in Denmark Nour Tessie Jorgensen University of Copenhagen, Denmark
The role of supplementary schools in shaping the Islamic identity of Muslim youth Karar Alsalemi The Islamic College, London, UK Mohammad Mesbahi The Islamic College, London, UK |
| 6:00-6:30 | Closing address
Mohammad Ali Shomali Director of the Islamic Centre of England |
