The Sixth Annual Conference on Shi’i Studies

Sixth Annual Conference on Shi‘i Studies 13 March 2021
Panel: Theology and Philosophy Chaired by Hamid Tehrani, The Islamic College, London, UK
Questioning the concept of ghulat	Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, USA
Al-Insan al-Kamil and the Virtuous City	Polina Aniftou, University of Lancaster, Cyprus
Philosophical Determinism according to Sheikh Ghulam Rida Fayyadi	Shiraz Husain Agha, Independent researcher, Iran
The Quran vs. the Theory of Evolution: A Critical Assessment of the Contrasting Views of Two Prominent Shi‘a Scholars of the 20th Century: Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Tabatabaee and Dr Yadollah Sahabi	Ali Paya, The Islamic College, London, UK
Panel: Shi‘ism in Iraq and the Middle East Chaired by Amir Dastmalchian, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
The Edicts of Marājiʿ and the Concerns of Iraqi Youth Today	Sophia Butt, University of Birmingham, UK
Shi‘i Educational Traditions and Systems in Early Modern Iraq and Iran	Zackery Heern, Idaho State University, USA
Shi‘a Muslim Feminism: Alternative Voices of Resistance from Iraq and Kuwait	Hossein Nazari, University of Tehran, Iran Zeinab Mehanna, Al-Mustafa University, Iran
Panel: The Qur’an and Islamic Law Chaired by Amina Inloes, The Islamic College, London, UK
The Legal Purport of “Refraining from Seeking Clarification”	Aun Hasan Ali, University of Colorado Boulder, USA Hadi Qazwini, University of Southern California, USA
Shi‘i Exegesis in the Tenth Century: Ayyashi’s Tafsir as a Literary Genre	Liyakat Takim, McMaster University, Canada
Gender Justice in Islam: An Evaluation of Ziba Mir-Hosseini’s Religious Epistemology by Examining her Interpretation of Qur’an 4:34	Tim Orr, Indiana University, Purdue University Columbus, USA
Panel: Contemporary Issues Chaired by Amir Dastmalchian, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
The Islamic economy according to Mūsā al-Ṣadr: The avant-gardist thoughts of an original Shi‘i reformist cleric	Tristan Hillion-Launey, EHESS, France
The Role of Faith in Enhancing Environmental Practices in Khoja Shi‘a Faith Communities	Makbul Rahim, Middlesex University, London, UK
Panel: Ritual Practice Chaired by Muhammad Zakaria, The Islamic College, London, UK
Traditional Contact against Media Hegemony: The Importance and the Functions of the Ziarat-e Arbaeen in the Shi‘a World	Mohammad Samiei, University of Tehran, Iran
Performing Past, Narrating Today: Ta‘ziyeh as a Historiographic Intervention in Shia Islam	Mohammadreza Mashhadi Ayvaz, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Panel: Crossing Confessional Boundaries Chaired by Hamid Tehrani, The Islamic College, London, UK
Iranian Traders in Istanbul During the Late Ottoman Period: Commercial and Religious Reflections	Abdulkadir Yeler, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey
Shahid Thani’s Use of Non-Shi‘i Sources with a Focus on Islamic Ethics and Mysticism	Hamed Aleyamin, University of Tehran, Iran
Contemporary Shi‘i Engagement with the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Tradition	David Coolidge, Graduate Theological Union, California, USA

Sixth Annual Conference on Shi‘i Studies

13 March 2021