Second Annual Conference on Shi‘i Studies7-8 May 2016 |
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Panel: Qur’an and Hadith Chaired by Amina Inloes |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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Abbas Mehregan, University of Cologne, Germany |
Panel: Shi‘i Minorities Chaired by Amina Inloes |
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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
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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
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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
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Sani Yakubu Adam (presented by Kabiru Haruna Isa), Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
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Panel: Diversity in Fiqh Chaired by Amina Inloes |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Shi‘as and Benedictines | Abbott Timothy |