| First Annual Conference on Shi‘i Studies | |
| Shi‘i Studies: Past and Present | |
| 09-May-15 | |
| 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 |