| Third Annual Conference on Shi‘i Studies | |
| 6-7 May 2017 | |
| Panel: Contemporary issues | |
| Reconstituting the Muslim ummah: The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of a new thinking on Islam | Fahimeh Mokhber, Islamic Azad University, Iran |
| Is there a distinctive medical ethics in Shi‘a Islam? | Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, USA |
| The influence of time and place on an Islamic ruling | Sayed Hossein Al Qazwini, Karbala, Iraq |
| Panel: Intrafaith identity: Dynamics and demographics | |
| Chaired by Amina Inloes, The Islamic College, London | |
| Understanding the causes of sectarian tension in the Muslim world | Seyfeddin Kara, Hartford Seminary, Connecticut, USA |
| A demographic perspective on Shi‘a-Sunni comparison: Patterns and differentials | Yaghoob Foroutan, University of Waikato, New Zealand and Mazandaran University, Iran |
| Seeking security: Pakistan’s Shi‘a ulema and their state | Mashal Saif, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA |
| Panel: Shi‘ism worldwide | |
| Chaired by Amir DeMartino, The Islamic College, London, UK | |
| Shi‘is in Qatar: The paradoxes of coexistence in a modern Salafi state | Paulino R. RoblesGil Cozzi, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar |
| Mourning through Art: Shi‘a in Kuwait and their Art Movement | Nada Al-Hudaid, University of Manchester, UK |
| Not far from Karbala: Shi‘i communities in the Colombian Pacific | Sergio Moya Mena, National University, Costa Rica |
| Panel: Classical texts and exegesis | |
| Chaired by Alexander Khaleeli, The Islamic College, London, UK | |
| The chronology of al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān’s works | Ismail Poonawala, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| A critical assessment of ʿAllamāh Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s methodological approach and methods of interpretation in his magnum opus, Tafsīr al-Mizān, from a critical rationalist point of view | Ali Paya, The Islamic College, UK and University of Westminster, UK |
| Classification of methods used in Qur’anic and Biblical exegesis | Mohammed Ali Ismail, The Islamic College, London, UK |
| Panel: Intersections: East and West | |
| Chaired by Amir Dastmalchian, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK | |
| The role of the Shi‘i Imams in the revival of divine leadership | Ali H. Al-Hakim, The Islamic College, London, UK |
| Asghar Montazerolghaem, University of Isfahan, Iran | |
| Islamic ethics and moral psychology | Mohammad Javad Shomali, University of Cambridge, UK |
| Panel: Knowledge, authority, and philosophy | |
| Chaired by Amir Dastmalchian, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK | |
| Three sources of Shi‘i knowledge and authority: Continuity and change in Islamic intellectual history | Zackery Heern, Idaho State University, USA |
| Philosophy: diabolical science or valid part of religious thought? A comparison between the views of the Shafiʿi Writer Ibn al-Salah al-Shahrazuri and the Shi‘i Thinker ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī | Revd Frank Julian Gelli, London, UK |
| Panel: Shi‘ism worldwide: Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States | |
| Chaired by Hamid Tehrani, The Islamic College, London, UK | |
| The role of Shi‘i mawlūd festivities in combatting Kauraye youth violence in Katsina Metropolis, northern Nigeria | Ibrahim Sani Kankara, Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, Katsina, Nigeria |
| Waisu Iliyasu Safana, Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, Katsina, Nigeria | |
| Who, where, what am I? The identity of Shi‘a Muslims in Britain | Khosrow Tajbakhsh, The Islamic College, London, UK |
| Preserving or extending boundaries: The Black Shi‘is of America | Liyakat Takim, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada |
| Panel: Shi‘ism Worldwide: Iran | |
| Chaired by Amina Inloes, The Islamic College, London, UK | |
| The hijab controversy in modern Iran | Lloyd Ridgeon, University of Glasgow, Scotland |
| Neighbours of Fatimah: Conceptualizations of shariah among female Shi‘i intellectuals in Qom | Maria Lindqvist, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Panel: Education | |
| Chaired by Mohammed Ali Ismail, The Islamic College, London, UK | |
| The Ismaʿili religious education system of Baitul Ilm and the development of interpersonal skills among the internal migrants of Gilgit-Baltistan in Karachi, Pakistan | Khurshid Sana Khan, London, UK |
| Authority, identity and pluralism in modern Isma‘ili religious education: A critique | Yahia Baiza, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK |
| Challenges facing the Shi‘a community in developing a history syllabus for free schools | Anis Kotia, Middlesex University, London, UK |