9:00-9:15 Opening remarks – Isa Jahangir, Principal, The Islamic College

9:15-10:45 Panel 1: Qur’anic studies

London room (Seminar room)

Chair: Tbc

— The Tafsīr of Muḥmmad Muḥsin Fayḍ Kāshānī

Liyakat Takim
McMaster University, Canada

— Interpreters of Revelation: The Exegetical Influence of the Ahl al-Bayt

Mohammed Ali Ismail
Hawza Online, UK

— Revelation against Philosophy: Qur’anic Interpretation and Exegetical Method according to the School of Separation (Maktab-i Tafkīk)

Amir Mohammad Emami
University of Exeter, UK

International room (F12)

Chair: Tbc

— Repositioning Twelver Shi‘i Tafsīr as an Autonomous Genre: Genealogical Periodization, Hermeneutical Authority, and a Non-Sectarian Lens in Qurʾanic Studies (online)

Fakhri Afif
UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung

Rika Leli Dewi Khusaila Rosalnia
UIN Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten

— Reason and Revelation (online)

Muhammad Asim and Hafiz Muhammad Abdullah
Sheikh Zaid Islamic Center, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan

— The Role of Shi‘i Tafsirs in the Educational System of the Safavid Era and Their Social Function (online)

Marziyeh Sarvmaily
University of Mazandaran, Iran

10:45-11:00 Break

 11:00-12:30 Panel 2 –  Qur’anic studies (continued)

London room (Seminar room)

Chair: Amina Inloes

— Gender Equality and Shi‘i Thought: Feminist Readings of ʿAllāmeh Ṭabāṭabāʾī and Banū Amūn

Zahra Mohagheghian Gourtani
Independent researcher, Göttingen, Germany

— Mahdī, Qur’an, and Global Historiography

David Coolidge
Bayan Islamic Graduate School, USA

— Diverse Modes of Expression: A Study on Storytelling and Parables in the Qur’an

Makbul Rahim
Independent researcher, London, UK

International room (F12)

Chair: Mohammed Ali Ismail

— The Transmission of al-Kashshāf from al-Zamakhsharī to al-Ṭabarsī: A Prosopographical Study of Ibn Shahrāshūb’s Intermediary Role (online)

Harun Bozkurt
Research assistant, Department of Tafsir, Faculty of Theology, Sakarya University, Turkey

— Exegetical and Jurisprudential Foundations in English Translations of the Quran: A Case Study of Sūrat al-Fātiḥah and Sūrat al-Mā’idah (online)

Babak Mashhadi
International Institute for Islamic Studies (IIIS), Iran

— Translating the Qur’an in Eastern Europe: Russian and Ukrainian Shi‘i Contributions (online)

Akif Tahiiev
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

12:30-1:30 Lunch. Prayer facilities available.

1:30-3:00 Panel 3 – Narrative studies

London room (Seminar room)

Chair: Tbc

— The devotional confessions of an infallible Imam: A study of Safavid-era duʿā commentary

Vinay Khetia
Shia Research Institute and University of Toronto, Canada

— Authenticity, Transmission, and Reception: Reassessing Ṣaḥīfat al-Riḍā through Digital Methods

Ali Aghaei
Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

— Which Eve, Which Women? Creation Narratives and the Making of Women’s Status in Islamic Thought

Thulfekar Ali
University of Glasgow, UK

International room (F12)

Chair: Amina Inloes

— Applying ICMA to Shi‘i Traditions: A Note on Reconstructing Imam’s Hypomnēma (online)

Abdullah Ansar
Carleton College, USA

— From Eulogy to Vision: The Narrative Journey of the Rawḍat al-Shuhadā across the Centuries in Iran (online)

Pouran Lashini
University of Texas, USA

— The Imaginary Context in Nahj al-Balāghah (online)

Zainab Sayed Zahed
PAAET, Kuwait

3:00-3:15 Break

3:15-4:15 Panel 4 – Theological discourse

London room (Seminar room)

Chair: Tbc

— Imam Ali as Imagio Dei in Rajab al-Bursi’s Letterist Cosmology

Javon Canlas
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA

 — The Discourse of Iblīs and Adam in Mubārak-i Wakhānī’s Poetic Works

NourmamadchoNourmamadchoev
The Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS), UK

 International room (F12)

Chair: Tbc

— The Twelver Shi‘i Problem of Ghaybah (online)

Hashem Morvarid
Trinity University, San Antonio, USA

— Application of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (online)

Farzaneh Mehrafza
Islamic Azad, Iran

4:15-5:15 Panel 5 – Human dynamics

London room (seminar room)
Chair: Tbc

— Producing Religious Authority: Sayyid Families, Genealogies and the Making of Alevi Religious Leadership

Ufuk Erol
Leibniz Institute of European History, Germany

— Shi‘i Historical Developments in East Africa: Minority Identity, Transnational Networks, and Theological Localization in Tanzania

Ayub Rashid
The Islamic College, London, UK

International room (F12)

— Domestic Labour between Donation and Liability (online)

Samaneh Oladi
Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

— Beyond Patronage: Iranian Women as Founders (Wāqifāt) of Qur’anic Manuscripts at Astan Quds Razavi (5th–7th/11th–13th Centuries)

Seyyedeh Jamileh Hashemnia and Mohammad Ebrahim Roshanzamir
Razavi University, Iran

 5:15-5:30 Student awards

5:30-6:15 Keynote talk – On The Study Quran – Professor Maria Massi Dakake, George Mason University, Virginia, USA (online)

6:15-6:30 Closing remarks