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Papers Presented at the Second International Conference on Shi'i Studies 7-8 May 2016
| 10:30-11:30 – Panel 1 | |||
| Session A: Qur’an & Hadith | Session B: Worldwide Islamic Heritage | ||
| Oliver Scharbrodt | Translating Al-Kafi: How to Make a Classical Shi’i Text Accessible to 21st Century Readers | Emiko Stock | Lines Back to Ali, Roads Forward to Shi’ism: An Historical Anthropology of Cham Sayyids’ Trajectories from Cambodia to Iran |
| Vinay Khetia | Devotional Literature and Practice in Twelver Shi‘ism: An Exploration of the Supplication of Kumayl ibn Ziyad as Attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib | Noor Zehra Zaidi | “Our Vanished Lady”: Memory, Ritual, and Shi’a-Sunni Relations at Bibi Pak Daman |
| 11:45-12:45 – Panel 2 | |||
| Session A: Modern Thought | Session B: Worldwide Islamic Heritage (continued) | ||
| Mohammed Ali Ismail | A Comparative Study of Feminist and Traditional Shi‘i Approaches to Qur’anic Exegesis | Ali Faraj | Shi‘ite Manuscripts Collection in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana / Milano: Remarks on Kitab Ghurar al-Fawayid by Ash-Sharif al-Murtada |
| Ali Paya | The Disenchantment of Reason: An Anti-rational Trend in Modern Shi‘i Thought – Tafkikis | J. Shomali
| Judaeo-Islamic Heritage |
| 2:00-3:30 – Panel 3 | |||
| Session A: Philosophy and Shi’ism | Session B: Shi’ism in North America and Europe | ||
| Mohammad Hoseinzadeh | Shi’a Philosophers and the Question of Criterion of Truth | Jafar Ahmed | A Study Examining Iraqi Immigrants: Has The Shi’a-Sunni Conflict Been Transferred to Canada? |
| Lucas Oro Hershtein | The Meaning of Knowledge in Early Philosophical Shi’ism. A Comparative Analysis of the Kitab al-Yanabiʿ of Al-Sijistani and Its Neoplatonic Sources | Abbas Aghdassi | African American Twelver Shi’a Community of/in New York |
| Oliver Leaman | Is Shi’i Philosophy a Useful Concept? | Tahir Wasti and M. Mesbahi | Muslim (Shi’a) Migration to Europe, and the Engagement of English and Islamic Laws |
| 3:45-5:15 – Panel 4 | |||
| Session A: Philosophy and Shi’ism (continued) | Session B: Shi’ism in Nigeria | ||
| Ali Jafari | The Perfect Man According to Sadra and Buddhism: A Comparative Study | Sani Yakubu Adam | Shi’a Processions and the Competition for Religious Public Space in Northern Nigeria 1994-2015 |
| Seyed Amir Hossein Asghari | Revelation and Philosophy: From Distinction to Equality. Study of the Maktab-i Tafkik and Their Opponents in the Contemporary Shi’a Seminary | Kabiru Haruna Isa | Sunni Literary Reaction to the Growth of Shi’a Ideology in Northern Nigeria |
| Javad Esmaeili | Reason, Metaphysics, and Ayatollah Javadi Amoli | ||
| 10:30-11:30 – Panel 5 | |||
| Session A: Fiqh and Minorities | Session B: Kalam | ||
| Liyakat Takim | Fiqh for Minorities: Shi’i Law in the Diaspora | Morteza Karimi | The Narrations of Clay ( Tinat) and Their Analysis |
| Mahmoud Pargoo | Making of a Textual Source for the Law: The Case of Ritual Impurity/Purity of the People of the Book in the Twelver Shi’ite Jurisprudence | Valipoor and Daryabari | A Critique of Prof. Amir-Moezzi’s Views on Messianic Teachings |
| 11:45-1:15 – Panel 6 | |||
| Session A: Multiple Voices | Session B: Shi’ism in Pre-Modern Iran and Surrounding Regions | ||
| Abbas Mehregan | Tradition of Multivocality among Shi’a ʿUlamaʾ | Tanvir Akhtar Ahmed | Where Is the Imam? The Returning Messiah in the Timurid Age |
| Aun Hasan Ali | A New Approach to Twelver Shi’ism | Alberto Tiburcio Urquiola | The Polemical Work of Ali Quli Jadid al-Islam in the Context of European Missionaries to Safavid Iran |
| Qasem Mohammadi | Shrinkage of the Scope of Ijtihad in Shi‘a Jurisprudence and Its Reasons | Ezra Tzfadya | 19th Century Ideological Foundations of the Islamic Revolution |
| 2:30-4:00 – Panel 7 | |||
| Session A: Socio-Political Issues | Session B: Contemporary Iran | ||
| Ed Hayes | The Fiscal Authority of the Imams: Analyzing ImamicJurisprudential Statements on Khums and Zakat | Hossein Nazari | The Mad Muslim Mob: De/Mythologizing Iran |
| Mahdi Mojtahedi | The Military Conduct of Prophet Muhammad and Imam Ali: Examining Their Use of Water Resources | Mersedeh Dadmohammadi | Analysis of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis |
| Mahdieh Mohammadi Araghi & Mahmoud Mohammadi Araghi | An Analysis of Shahid Sadr’s Method: Discovering Islamic Economic Doctrine from Islamic Economic Laws and Its Broader Application | Sarah Scio | Iranian Women: Between Tradition and Modernity |
| 4:00-4:20 – Panel 8 | |||
| Abbott Timothy | |||
| 4:20-4:50 Closing address by Dr. M. A. Shomali | |||