7 – 8 May 2016 |
Panel: Qur’an and Hadith |
Chaired by Amina Inloes |
Translating Al-Kāfī: How to Make a Classical Shi‘i Text Accessible to Twenty- |
Oliver Scharbrodt, University of Chester, UK |
First Century Readers |
Devotional Literature and Practice in Twelver Shi‘ism: An Exploration of the Supplication of Kumayl ibn Ziyād as Attributed to ʿAlī ibn Abi Ṭālib |
Vinay Khetia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
Panel: Worldwide Islamic Heritage |
Lines Back to ʿAli, Roads Forward to Shi‘ism: An Historical Anthropology of Cham Sayyids’ Trajectories from Cambodia to Iran |
Emiko Stock, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA |
‘Our Vanished Lady’: Memory, Ritual, and Shi‘a-Sunni Relations at Bībī Pāk Dāmān |
Noor Zehra Zaidi, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA |
Judaeo-Islamic Heritage |
M. J. Shomali, University of Cambridge, UK |
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Chaired by Amir Dastmalchian |
Redemption through Knowledge: The Metaphysics of Causality in the Kitāb al-Yanābīʿ of Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sijistānī |
Lucas Oro Hershtein, University of Buenos Aires, National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina |
Tradition of Multivocality among Shi‘a Ulema |
Abbas Mehregan, University of Cologne, Germany |
Panel: Shi‘i Minorities |
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Chaired by Amina Inloes |
A Study Examining Iraqi Immigrants: Has the Shi‘a-Sunni Conflict Been Transferred to Ottawa, Canada? |
Jafar A. Ahmad, School of Peace and Conflict Management, Royal Roads University, Canada |
The African-American Twelver Shi‘a Community of New York |
Abbas Aghdassi, University of Tehran, Iran; Visiting Research Scholar, Sociology Department, City University of New York, USA |
Muslim (Shi‘a) Migration to Europe, and the Engagement of English and Islamic Laws |
Tahir Wasti, The Islamic College, London, UK |
Sunni Literary Reaction to the Growth of Shi‘a Ideology in Northern Nigeria |
Kabiru Haruna Isa, Department of History, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria |
Shi‘a Processions and the Competition for Religious Public Space in Northern Nigeria 1994-2015 |
Sani Yakubu Adam (presented by Kabiru Haruna Isa), Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria |
Panel: Diversity in Fiqh |
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Chaired by Amina Inloes |
Fiqh for Minorities: Shi‘i Law in the Diaspora |
Liyakat Takim, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
Making of a Textual Source for the Law: the Case of Ritual (Im)purity of the People of the Book in the Twelver Shi‘a Jurisprudence |
Mahmoud Pargoo, Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University, Sydney, Australia |
The Fiscal Authority of the Imams: Analyzing Imamic Jurisprudential Statements on Khums and Zakāt |
Ed Hayes, Colby College, Maine, USA |
Panel: Virtual Presentations from the Hawzah |
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Chaired by Amina Inloes |
An Analysis of Shahīd Ṣadr’s Method: Discovering Islamic Economic Doctrine from Islamic Economic Laws and its Broader Application |
Mahdieh Mohammadi Araghi, University of Allameh Tabataba’i, Tehran, Iran |
Mahmud Mohammadi Araghi, Hawzah ‘Ilmiyyah, Tehran, Iran |
The Narrations about Clay (Ṭīnat) |
Morteza Karim, University of Tehran, Iran and International Institute for Islamic Studies, Qom, Iran |
Shi‘a Philosophers and the Question of the Criterion of Truth |
Mahdi Hosseinzadeh Yazdi, University of Tehran, Iran |
Panel: Pre-Modern Shi‘ism |
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Chaired by Ali Paya |
Where is the Imām? The Returning Messiah in the Tīmūrid Age |
Tanvir Akhtar Ahmed, Stanford University, California, USA |
The Polemical Work of ʿAli Qulī Jadīd al-Islām in the Context of European Missionaries to Safavid Iran |
Alberto Tiburcio, McGill University (alumnus), Montréal, Quebec, Canada |
Panel: Shi‘ism in Modern Iran |
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Chaired by Ali Paya |
Nineteenth Century Ideological Foundations of the Islamic Revolution |
Ezra Tzfadya, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany |
The Mad Muslim Mob: De/Mythologizing Iran |
Hossein Nazari, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand |
Analysis of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis |
Mersedeh Dad Mohammadi, University of Chester, UK |
Iranian Women: Between Tradition and Modernity |
Sarah Scio’, University of Perugia, Italy |
Talk |
Shi‘as and Benedictines |
Abbott Timothy |