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Third Annual Conference on Shi‘i Studies |
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6-7 May 2017 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |