2nd International Conference on Shi’i Studies

You are cordially invited to attend the 2nd International Conference on Shi’i Studies.

Registration: Visit www.islamic-college.ac.uk/shiistudies or email ed****@is*************.ac.uk.

Registration fees (including lunch):
Saturday & Sunday – £40.00 (£30.00 for students)
Saturday or Sunday – £25.00 (£20.00 for students)

Dates: 7-8 May 2016
Location: The Islamic College, 133 High Road, London NW10 2SW

REGISTRATION LIMITED TO 100 PEOPLE PER DAY

Schedule (subject to change)
Please note that Session A and Session B are parallel sessions held in separate rooms.

Saturday (7 May 2016)

9:30-10:00 – Registration, coffee
10:00-10:30 – Opening talks
10:30-11:30 – Panel 1
Session A: Qur’an & Hadith
• Translating Al-Kafi: how to make a classical Shii text accessible to 21st century readers
Oliver Scharbrodt
• Devotional Literature and Practice in Twelver Shi‘ism: An Exploration of the Supplication of Kumayl ibn Ziyād as Attributed to ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
Vinay Khetia

Session B: Worldwide Islamic heritage
• Lines Back to Ali, Roads Forward to Shiism: An Historical Anthropology of Cham Sayyids’ Trajectories from Cambodia to Iran
Emiko Stock
• “Our Vanished Lady”: Memory, Ritual, and Shi’a-Sunni Relations at Bibi Pak Daman
Noor Zehra Zaidi

11:45-12:45 – Panel 2
Session A: Modern thought
• A comparative study of feminist and traditional Shi‘i approaches to Qur’anic exegesis
Mohammed Ali Ismail
• The Disenchantment of Reason: An Anti-rational Trend in Modern Shi‘i Thought- Tafkikis
Ali Paya

Session B: Worldwide Islamic Heritage (continued)
• Shi‘ite Manuscripts Collection in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana / Milano: Remarks on Kitāb Ġurar al-fawāyd by aš-Šarīf al-Murtaḍā)
Ali Faraj
• Judaeo-Islamic Heritage
M. J. Shomali

12:45-2:00 – Lunch

2:00-3:30 – Panel 3
Session A: Philosophy and Shi’ism
• Shi’a Philosophers and the Question of Criterion of Truth
Mohammad Hoseinzadeh
• The meaning of knowledge in early philosophical Shiism. A comparative analysis of the Kitāb al-Yanābīʿ of Al-Sijistānī and its Neoplatonic sources.
Lucas Oro Hershtein
• Is Shi’i Philosophy a Useful Concept?
Oliver Leaman

Session B: Shi’ism in North America and Europe
• A Study Examining Iraqi Immigrants: Has The Shia-Sunni Conflict Been Transferred To Canada?
Jafar Ahmed
• African American Twelver Shia Community of/in New York
Abbas Aghdassi
• Muslim (Shi’a) Migration to Europe, and the Engagement of English and Islamic Laws
Tahir Wasti and M. Mesbahi

3:45-5:15 – Panel 4

Session A: Philosophy and Shi’ism (continued)
• The Perfect Man According to Sadra and Buddhism: A Comparative Study
Ali Jafari
• Revelation and Philosophy: From Distinction to Equality. Study of the Maktab-i Tafkīk and their opponents in the contemporary Shī’a Seminary
SeyedAmirHossein Asghari
• Reason, Metaphysics, and Ayatollah Javadi Amoli
Javad Esmaeili

Session B: Shi’ism in Nigeria
• Shia Processions and the Competition for Religious Public Space in Northern Nigeria 1994-2015
Sani Yakubu Adam
• Sunni Literary Reaction to the Growth of Shia Ideology in Northern Nigeria
Kabiru Haruna Isa

5:15-5:30 – Closing

Sunday (8 May 2016)

10:00-10:30 – Coffee, announcements

10:30-11:30 – Panel 5

Session A: Fiqh and minorities
• Fiqh for Minorities: Shi’i Law in the Diaspora
Liyakat Takim
• Making of a Textual Source for the Law: the Case of Ritual (Im)purity of the People of the Book in the Twelver Shi’ite Jurisprudence
Mahmoud Pargoo

Session B: Kalam
• The narrations of Clay (Tinat) and their analysis
Morteza Karimi
• A Critique of Prof. Amir-Moezzi’s Views on Messianic Teachings
Valipoor and Daryabari

11:45-1:15 – Panel 6

Session A: Multiple voices
• Tradition of Multivocality among Shia ʿUlamāʾ
Abbas Mehregan
• A New Approach to Twelver Shi‘ism
Aun Hasan Ali
• Shrinkage of the Scope of Ijtihād in Shī‘a Jurisprudence and its Reasons
Qasem Mohammadi

Session B: Shi’ism in Pre-Modern Iran and Surrounding Regions
• Where is the Imām? The Returning Messiah in the Tīmūrid Age
Tanvir Akhtar Ahmed
• The Polemical Work of Ali Quli Jadid al-Islam in the Context of European Missionaries to Safavid Iran
Alberto Tiburcio Urquiola
• 19th Century Ideological Foundations of the Islamic Revolution
Ezra Tzfadya

1:15-2:30 Lunch

2:30-4:00 – Panel 7

Session A: Socio-Political Issues
• The Fiscal Authority of the Imams: Analyzing Imamic Jurisprudential Statements on Khums and Zakāt
Ed Hayes
• The Military Conduct of Prophet Muhammad and Imam Ali: Examining their use of water resources
Mahdi Mojtahedi
• An Analysis of Shahid Sadr’s Method: Discovering Islamic Economic Doctrine from Islamic Economic Laws and its Broader Application
Mahdieh Mohammadi Araghi and Mahmoud Mohammadi Araghi

Session B: Contemporary Iran
• The Mad Muslim Mob: De/Mythologizing Iran
Hossein Nazari
• Analysis of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis
Mersedeh Dadmohammadi
• Iranian Women: between tradition and modernity
Sarah Scio

4:00-4:20 Shi’as and Benedictines by Abbott Timothy

4:20-4:50 Closing address by Dr. M. A. Shomali

For more information, visit http://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/shiistudies