First Annual Conference on Shi‘i Studies |
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Shi‘i Studies: Past and Present |
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09-May-15 |
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Panel: Shi‘ism and Modern Education |
Why would Adherents to Islam Study Theological Studies to Obtain a Secular Qualification? |
Mohammad Mesbahi, The Islamic College, London, UK |
Religious Authority of the Imam and Educational Choices of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) Isma‘ilis in Karachi, Pakistan |
Khurshid Sana Khan, London, UK |
The Study of Shi‘ite Islam in North American Universities |
Liyakat Takim, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada |
Panel: Approaches towards Shi‘ism in the Western Academy |
An Evaluation of the Approach of the Western Academia to the Shi‘a Sources Related to the History of the Text of the Qur’an |
Seyfeddin Kara, University of Durham, Durham, UK |
Can Contemporary Shi‘ite Studies be released from the Hegemony of Orientalism? A Case Study of Professor Henry Corbin |
Hossein Kalbasi Ashtari, ‘Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran |
The Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa’ and Western Scholarship – A Critical Evaluation of S. M. Stern and Wilferd Madelung’s Contributions |
Ismail Poonawala, University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
Panel: Shi‘ism and Traditional Studies |
The Salihiyyah School in Qazvin and Shi‘i Religious Authority (with an emphasis on scholars from the Baraghani family) |
Isa Jahangir, The Islamic College, London, UK |
Philosophy and Shi‘ism: Two Sides of the Same Coin? |
Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA |
Panel: Shi‘ism, Anthropology, and Ritual Practice |
Anthropology, Shi‘ism, and Shi‘i Studies: An Overview of Entanglements, Contributions, and Possibilities |
Mohammad Reza Hashemitaba, Rice University, USA |
Marja‘iyyah from Below. Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religious Authority. |
Thomas Brandt Fibiger, Aarhus University, Denmark |
Texts, Interpretation, and Commemorating Imam Husayn |
Samer El-Karanshawy, Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, Doha, Qatar |
Panel: Shi‘ism in a Minority Environment |
For the Love of Ahl-Bayt: Transcending Sunni-Shi‘i Sectarian Allegiance |
Siti Sarah Muwahidah, Emory University, Atlanta, USA |
The Right to Offence, the Right to Shiaphobia |
Shereen Yousuf, DePaul University, Chicago, USA |
Institutionalization of Shi‘ism in Turkey and Current Problems |
Abdülkadir Yeler, Istanbul, Turkey |