8:30 – 9:00: Arrival

 9:00 – 9:05: Introduction

Opening remarks by Dr Mohammed Ali Ismail, Director of Research and Publications, The Islamic College, London, UK

 9:05 – 9:45: Keynote speech

Professor Robert Gleave, University of Exeter, UK, “Where did Shi‘i law come from? And where is it going?”

 9:45 – 11:15: Panel Session 1

Shi‘i Ritual and Popular Practice (Room F21)

Chair: Amina Inloes

Vinay Khetia (Shia Research Institute, Toronto, Canada), The Ritual Practice of Ziyārah and its Ontological Foundations in the Work of Avicenna

Maryam Omidi (The Islamic College, London, UK; The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA), Redemptive Eschatology in Christianity And Shi‘a Islam: A Brief Analysis of Eschatological Hope in Two Religious Traditions

Noor Zaidi (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA), Traces and Transfer: Life and Death in Wādī al-Salām

Biographical Studies (Room F12)

Chair: Amina Inloes

Zahra Azhar (Independent researcher, The Hague, Netherlands), Unveiling the Untold Exploring Female Narratives in Early Shi‘a Collective Biographies of the Imams

Huzaifa Dokaji (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA), The Shi‘i Women of Northern Nigeria, 1994-2015

Makbul Rahim (Independent researcher, London, UK), From Wukalāʾ to Designated Deputies of the Twelfth Shi‘i Imam

11:15 – 11:30: Break

 11:30 – 13:00: Panel Session 2

Mysticism and Esotericism (Room F21)

Chair: Hamid Tehrani

Amir Mohammad Hakimi Parsa (St Andrews University, Dundee, Scotland), Mysticism in the Formation of Shi‘i Statehood in Iran: From Ismāʿīl Ṣafavī to Rūḥullāh Khumaynī

Julia Katarina (The Islamic College, London, UK), ʿIlm al-Ghayb: The Mystical Imamate of the Walī of our Time

Antonio Torres Fernández (University of Alicante, Spain), The Shi‘i Isma‘ili Concept of Waṣiyyah: Exploring Esoteric Shari‘ah during the Alamūt Period

Science and Technology (Room F12)

Chair: Amir De Martino

Ali Hussain al-Hakim (Independent researcher, London, UK) and Zainab Al-Wasiti (Al-Mustansiriyyah University, Baghdad), An Islamic Medicine? An Epistemological Scrutiny and Historical Examination of Bīmāristāns in Baghdad in the First Abbasid Era

Adam Ient (Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham, UK), A Critique of ‘Modern Science’ from the Perspective of Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Malakeh Shahi (Metaschool, Berlin, Germany), Metaverse and Imaging Shi‘ism in a Virtual Reality: A Prolegomena to Any Future Shi‘i Studies

 13:00 – 13:15: Student Awards

 13:15 – 14:15: Lunch

 14:15 – 15:00: Book Launch

Al-Asfa: A 17^th-Century Shi‘i Exegesis of the Qur’an, by Mulla Muhsin Fayd Kashani, translated by Alexander Khaleeli

 15:00 – 16:30: Panel Session 3

The Qur’an and Hadith (Room F21)

Chair: Mohammed Ali Ismail

Maryamossadat Moballegh (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA), The Probative Force (Ḥujjiyat) of Non-Renowned Reports (Akhbār Āḥād) in the Interpretation of the Qur’an

Liyakat Takim (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada), Shi‘i Tafsīr in the Akhbārī Period

Saeid Sobhani (The Islamic College, London, UK) A Rebuttal to ʿAlī Dashtī’s Views on the Prophet Muḥammad and his Miracles

 Shi‘i Scholars (Room F12)

Chair: Saeid Sobhani

Ali Alsayegh (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK), Ayatollah Sistani’s Emotional Entrepreneurism During the Jihad Against ISIS 2014-2017

Seyed Jaafar Hosseini Milani (Independent researcher, London, UK), The Contribution of Grand Ayatollah Milani to the Development of the Mashhad Ḥawzah Islamic Studies Programme

 16:30 – 16:45: Break

 16:45 – 18:15: Panel Session 4

India and Mongolia (Room F21)

Chair: Amir De Martino

Imran Visram (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK),Vernacular Expressions of Shi‘ism in Late Medieval India: The Satpanth Movement

Abid Zaidi (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK), Shi‘i Revolution in the Shadow of the Nawab: Establishing a ‘Transnational Religious Economy’ between Post-Revolutionary Iran and Lucknow, India

Wu Hanqi (Inner Mongolia University, China), An Examination of Mongolian Tribal Genealogy Based on the Records of the Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh and the Tārīkh-e Waṣṣāf

 On Human Nature and Knowing (Room F12)

Chair: Hamid Tehrani

Shahnaaz Alidina (Independent researcher, Richmond Hill, Canada), Cultivating Spiritual Morality: Integrating Social Emotional Intelligence in Early Childhood Education for Holistic Development

Husain Heriyanto (Paramadina University, Jakarta, Indonesia), Imam ‘Alī’s Teachings for Transcendent Anthroposophy

18:15 – 18:30: Closing Address

Dr Isa Jahangir, Principal, The Islamic College, London, UK