14 May 2022 |
9:00 – 10:00 |
Panel: Interfaith and Intrafaith Studies |
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Chaired by Amina Inloes |
Q. 9: 28 and its Role in Sunni/Shi‘a Polemics |
Oliver Leaman, Accademia Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy |
American Shia Muslim Interfaith Engagement: How Shia Muslims Can Achieve Peaceful Coexistence with American Evangelicals |
Tim Orr, Indiana University Purdue University Columbus, USA |
Nader Shah’s Ja‘fari Madhhab: Shi‘i-Sunni Reconciliation in an Imperial Context |
Mohammad Amir Hakimi Parsa, SOAS, London, UK |
10:00 – 10:15 |
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Break |
10:15 – 1:00 |
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Panel: Theology, History, and Sacred Texts |
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Chaired by Amir DeMartino |
Inscriptions As a New Source in Ismaili History |
Karim Javan, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK |
The Unknowable Lord Has Manifested: Quiddity of Deity Between Divine Immanence, and Divine Transcendence, within the Ismaili Ginān |
Stephen Cúrto, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA |
The Prophetic Sīrah through the Qurʿānic Paradigm: A Case Study of the Battle of Uḥud |
Zoheir Ali Esmail, London, UK |
Quranic Verses Shaping Djem and False Perception of Alevism in the Society |
Birul Topuz, Potsdam, Germany |
A Mobile and Invisible Religion: The Kizilbash (Alevi) Belief System in Dersim |
Cevat Dargin, Princeton, USA |
1:00 – 2:00 |
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Lunch |
2:00 – 3:45 |
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Panel: Film, Theatre, Literature, and Social Media |
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Chaired by Amir Dastmalchian |
How does the Hollywood film Dune present the Mahdi through a secular humanist lens? |
Reza John Vedadi, Loughborough University, London |
A Tale of Harmony in Different Contexts: Premchand’s Theatrical Adaptation of the Epic of Karbala |
Anuran Dasgupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
The Holy Grail, Islam, and Imam ‘Ali |
Frank Gelli, Church of England |
Shi‘a Visual Epistemology and its Application in the Field of Social Media |
Malakeh Shahi, Berlin, Germany |
Expressing Devotion to Shi‘i Imams in the Early Modern Poetry from Badakhshan |
Nourmamadcho, Nourmamadchoev, Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK |
3:45 – 4:00 |
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Break |
4:00 – 5:30 |
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Panel: Islamic Law |
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Chaired by Mohammed Ali Ismail |
Some Notes on the Uses of Documentary Evidence in Imami Law |
Aun Hasan Ali, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA |
Changing Patterns in Fatwas on Women in the Contemporary Shi‘a World |
Leila Chamankhah, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
Sharia and the Development of Iranian Family Law |
Fateme Zeynodini, Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, Iran |
The Concept of Insaf (Equity) According to its Applications in the Words of Jurists |
Javad Esmaeili, International Institute for Islamic Studies, Qom, Iran |
5:30 – 6:30 |
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Panel: Philosophy |
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Chaired by Hamid Tehrani |
A New Critical Approach to Fact-Value Relationships |
Ali Paya, The Islamic College, London, UK |
Deceit, the Imagination, and Reason: Ibn Khaldūn and Occult Causation |
Reem Elghonimi, Austin, Texas, USA |
A Sadrian Interpretation of Frank Jackson’s Knowledge Argument |
Adam Ient, Peterborough, UK |
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