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Papers Presented at the Third International Conference on Shi'i Studies 6-7 May 2017
| 8:30-9:00: Refreshments and registration 9:00-9:30: Introductory address (Shaykh Mohammed Ali Ismail, Director of Research and Publications, and Dr Amina Inloes, Research and Publications) | |
| Contemporary issues (9:30-11:00) | |
| Regina Rowland West Oxfordshire, UK
Fahimeh Mokhber Islamic Azad University, Iran | Reconstituting the Muslim ummah: The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of a new thinking on Islam |
| Oliver Leaman University of Kentucky, USA | Is there a distinctive medical ethics in Shi‘a Islam? |
| Sayed Hossein Al Qazwini Karbala, Iraq | The influence of time and place on an Islamic ruling |
| 11:00-11:15: Coffee break | |
| Intrafaith identity: Dynamics and demographics (11:15-12:45) | |
| Seyfeddin Kara Hartford Seminary, Connecticut, USA | Understanding the causes of sectarian tension in the Muslim world |
| Yaghoob Foroutan University of Waikato, New Zealand & Mazandaran University, Iran | A demographic perspective on Shi‘a- Sunni comparison: Patterns and differentials |
| Mashal Saif Clemson University, South Carolina USA | Seeking security: Pakistan’s Shi‘a ulema and their state |
Lunch: 12:45-2:00 pm
| Shi‘ism worldwide (2:00-3:20) | |
| Paulino R. RoblesGil Cozzi College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar | Shi‘is in Qatar: The paradoxes of coexistence in a modern Salafi state |
| Nada Al-Hudaid University of Manchester, UK | Mourning through Art: Shia in Kuwait and their Art Movement |
| Sergio Moya Mena National University, Costa Rica | Not far from Karbala: Shi‘i communities in the Colombian Pacific |
| 3:20-3:30: Coffee break | |
| Classical texts and exegesis (3:30-5:00) | |
| Ismail Poonawala Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles, USA | The chronology of al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān’s works |
| Ali Paya The Islamic College, UK | A critical assessment of ʿAllamāh Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s methodological approach and methods of interpretation in his magnum opus, Tafsīr al-Mizān, from a critical rationalist point of view |
| Mohammed Ali Ismail The Islamic College, London, UK | Classification of methods used by Shi‘i exegetes of the Qur’an |
| 8:45-9:15: Refreshments and registration 9:15-9:30: Opening address | |||
| Intersections: East and West (9:30-10:20) | Philosophy and mysticism (to be confirmed) | ||
| Ali H. al-Hakim The Islamic College, London, UK
Asghar Montazerolghaem University of Isfahan, Iran | The role of the Shi‘i Imams in the revival of divine leadership | ||
| Mohammad Javad Shomali University of Cambridge, UK
| Islamic ethics and moral psychology | ||
| 10:20-10:30 Coffee break | |||
| Knowledge, authority, and philosophy (10:30-12:00) | Shi‘ism worldwide: Nigeria (to be confirmed) | ||
| Zackery Heern Idaho State University, USA | Three sources of Shi‘i knowledge and authority: Continuity and change in Islamic intellectual history
| Zaharaddeen Sulaiman Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, Katsina, Nigeria | Interaction and Identity Construction: The Shiites in Katsina City, northern Nigeria |
| Revd Frank Julian Gelli London, UK | Philosophy: diabolical science or valid part of religious thought? A comparison between the views of the Shafiʿi Writer Ibn al-Salah al-Shahrazuri and the Shi‘i Thinker ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī | ||
| 12:00-12:10 Coffee break | |||
| Shiʿism worldwide: Europe and the United States ( 12:10-1:00) | |||
| Khosrow Tajbakhsh The Islamic College, London, UK
| Who, where, what am I? The identity of Shi‘a Muslims in Britain. | ||
| Liyakat Takim McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
| Preserving or extending boundaries: The Black Shi‘is of America | ||
| Shi‘ism Worldwide: Iran (2:15-3:15) | |||
| Lloyd Ridgeon University of Glasgow, Scotland
| The hijab controversy in modern Iran | ||
| Maria Lindqvist Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden | Neighbours of Fatimah: Conceptualizations of shariʿah among female Shi‘i intellectuals in Qom | ||
| 3:15-3:30: Coffee break | |||
| Education (3:30-5:00) | Biographical and Manuscript Research (to be confirmed) | ||
| Khurshid Sana Khan London, UK | The Ismaʿili religious education system of Baitul Ilm and the development of interpersonal skills among the internal migrants of Gilgit-Baltistan in Karachi, Pakistan | Ali M. Tarafdari & Saeed Tavoosi Masroor
National Library & Archives, Tehran, Iran | A research on the date and place of birth of Imam Sajjād |
| Yahia Baiza The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK | Authority, identity and pluralism in modern Ismaʿili religious education: A critique | M. Maddahi Al-Mustafa International University, Qom, Iran
| A Study on the origin of the title ‘Abū Turāb’ |
| Anis Kotia Middlesex University, London, UK | Challenges facing the Shi‘a community in developing a history syllabus for free schools | ||
| 5:00-5:30: Closing address (Dr M. A. Shomali, Director of the Islamic Centre of England) | |||