The Second Annual Conference on Shi’i Studies

Second Annual Conference on Shi‘i Studies 7-8 May 2016
Panel: Qur’an and Hadith Chaired by Amina Inloes
Translating Al-Kāfī: How to Make a Classical Shi‘i Text Accessible to Twenty- First Century Readers	Oliver Scharbrodt, University of Chester, UK
Devotional Literature and Practice in Twelver Shi‘ism: An Exploration of the Supplication of Kumayl ibn Ziyād as Attributed to ʿAlī ibn Abi Ṭālib	Vinay Khetia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
A Comparative Study of Feminist and Traditional Shi‘i Approaches to Qurʾanic Exegesis	Mohammed Ali Ismail, The Islamic College, London, UK
The Shi‘a Manuscripts Collection in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milano: Remarks on Kitāb Ghurar al-Fawāʾid by al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā	Ali Faraj, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy and Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy
Panel: Worldwide Islamic Heritage Chaired by Muhammad James
Lines Back to ʿAli, Roads Forward to Shi‘ism: An Historical Anthropology of Cham Sayyids’ Trajectories from Cambodia to Iran	Emiko Stock, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
‘Our Vanished Lady’: Memory, Ritual, and Shi‘a-Sunni Relations at Bībī Pāk Dāmān	Noor Zehra Zaidi, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Judaeo-Islamic Heritage	M. J. Shomali, University of Cambridge, UK
Panel: Philosophy and Shi‘ism Chaired by Amir Dastmalchian
Is Shi‘i Philosophy a Useful Concept?	Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
Redemption through Knowledge: The Metaphysics of Causality in the Kitāb al-Yanābīʿ of Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sijistānī	Lucas Oro Hershtein, University of Buenos Aires, National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina
Revelation and Philosophy: From Distinction to Equality. Study of the Maktab-i Tafkīk and their opponents in the Contemporary Shi‘a Seminary	SeyedAmirHossein Asghari, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
The Disenchantment of Reason: An Anti-Rational Trend in Modern Shi‘i Thought – The Tafkikis	Ali Paya, The Islamic College, London, UK and University of Westminster, London, UK
Tradition of Multivocality among Shi‘a Ulema	Abbas Mehregan, University of Cologne, Germany
Panel: Shi‘i Minorities Chaired by Amina Inloes
A Study Examining Iraqi Immigrants: Has the Shi‘a-Sunni Conflict Been Transferred to Ottawa, Canada?	Jafar A. Ahmad, School of Peace and Conflict Management, Royal Roads University, Canada
The African-American Twelver Shi‘a Community of New York	Abbas Aghdassi, University of Tehran, Iran; Visiting Research Scholar, Sociology Department, City University of New York, USA
Muslim (Shi‘a) Migration to Europe, and the Engagement of English and Islamic Laws	M. Mesbahi, The Islamic College, London, UK Tahir Wasti, The Islamic College, London, UK
Sunni Literary Reaction to the Growth of Shi‘a Ideology in Northern Nigeria	Kabiru Haruna Isa, Department of History, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
Shi‘a Processions and the Competition for Religious Public Space in Northern Nigeria 1994-2015	Sani Yakubu Adam (presented by Kabiru Haruna Isa), Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
Panel: Diversity in Fiqh Chaired by Amina Inloes
Fiqh for Minorities: Shi‘i Law in the Diaspora	Liyakat Takim, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Making of a Textual Source for the Law: the Case of Ritual (Im)purity of the People of the Book in the Twelver Shi‘a Jurisprudence	Mahmoud Pargoo, Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University, Sydney, Australia
The Fiscal Authority of the Imams: Analyzing Imamic Jurisprudential Statements on Khums and Zakāt	Ed Hayes, Colby College, Maine, USA
Panel: Virtual Presentations from the Hawzah Chaired by Amina Inloes
An Analysis of Shahīd Ṣadr’s Method: Discovering Islamic Economic Doctrine from Islamic Economic Laws and its Broader Application	Mahdieh Mohammadi Araghi, University of Allameh Tabataba’i, Tehran, Iran Mahmud Mohammadi Araghi, Hawzah ‘Ilmiyyah, Tehran, Iran
The Narrations about Clay (Ṭīnat)	Morteza Karim, University of Tehran, Iran and International Institute for Islamic Studies, Qom, Iran
Shi‘a Philosophers and the Question of the Criterion of Truth	Mahdi Hosseinzadeh Yazdi, University of Tehran, Iran
Panel: Pre-Modern Shi‘ism Chaired by Ali Paya
Where is the Imām? The Returning Messiah in the Tīmūrid Age	Tanvir Akhtar Ahmed, Stanford University, California, USA
The Polemical Work of ʿAli Qulī Jadīd al-Islām in the Context of European Missionaries to Safavid Iran	Alberto Tiburcio, McGill University (alumnus), Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Panel: Shi‘ism in Modern Iran Chaired by Ali Paya
Nineteenth Century Ideological Foundations of the Islamic Revolution	Ezra Tzfadya, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
The Mad Muslim Mob: De/Mythologizing Iran	Hossein Nazari, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Analysis of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis	Mersedeh Dad Mohammadi, University of Chester, UK
Iranian Women: Between Tradition and Modernity	Sarah Scio’, University of Perugia, Italy
Talk
Shi‘as and Benedictines	Abbott Timothy

Second Annual Conference on Shi‘i Studies

7-8 May 2016