Eighth Annual Conference (2023)
Schedule
9:00–9:05 | Opening remarks
Dr Mohammed Ali Ismail
Director of Research and Publications at The Islamic College
9:05 - 9:45 | Keynote speech
‘Digging for Subalterns: Safavid Ijāzāt as a Source on the “Periphery”’
Andrew Newman
Personal Chair of Islamic Studies and Persian University of Edinburgh, UK9:45 - 11:00 | Contemporary Shi'i Thought
Chair: Mohammed Ali Ismail
— Two Voices on Islamic Government: Ayatollah Khomeini and Shaykh Muḥammad Jawād Mughniyyah on the Structure and Duties of the Islamic State
Zain Alattar, University of California Berkeley, USA
— Before ‘After Virtue’: The Philosophy of Muḥammad Bāqir al-Ṣadr
Mehdi Ali, University of Southern California, USA
— Gender Justice in Islam: A Critique of Ziba Mir-Hosseini’s Humanistic Ethic of Social Justice by Using Shi‘i Epistemological Assumptions
Tim Orr, Indiana University Purdue University, Columbus, USA
11:15 - 12:00 | Philosophy and the Intellect
— A Critical View on Sayyid Quṭb and the Status of Intellect (ʿAql)
Saeid Sobhani, The Islamic College, London, UK
— The Islamic College, London, UK Artificial Intelligence and Islamic Theology: An Interview with ChatGPT
Amina Inloes, The Islamic College, London, UK
12:00 - 12:45 | Regional Studies
Chair: Amina Inloes
— The Absence of British Shi‘a Muslims in the Multicultural and Integration Literature
Jaffer Mirza, King’s College London, UK
— When Shari‘ah and Secularism Collide: The Shi‘i Bektāshī Order’s Contribution to Turkey’s Modern Politics
Antonio Torres Fernández, Independent researcher
12:45 - 1:00 | Student awards
1:00 - 2:15 | Lunch
2:15 - 3:15 | Writings
Chair: Hamid Tehrani
— Mobility and Intellectual Production: Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad al-ʿĀmilī and his Moving Scholarly Circle
Mahdieh Tavakol, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
— Shi‘i Mysticism in the Turkish Divan of Shāh Ismāʿīl Khaṭāʾī
Amir Mohammad Hakimi Parsa, New York University, USA
— The Post-Mongol Ismaili Community in the Poetry of Nizārī Quhistānī (d. 1320)
Kasra Shiva, University of Oxford, UK
3:15 - 4:00 | Narrative studies
Chair: Amina Inloes
— A Deconstruction of Two Popular Western Fictional Narratives about Imam al-Mahdī, Contrasted with a Positive Literary Alternative
Rev Frank Gelli, Church of England, UK
— How has the Shi’a Muslim identity been represented in Hollywood films since 1986?
Reza John Vedadi, Loughborough University, London, UK
4:15 - 5:15 | Intrafaith studies
Chair: Amir De Martino
— The Imamate of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib and the Fatimid Alids: A Comparison of the Doctrine of Imamate between the Zaydiyyah and the Imamiyyah
Berhat Cem Oner, Independent researcher
— Akhlāq, Imāmah, Wilāyah: A Comparative Study of the Ibāḍī and Jaʿfarī Schools
Julia Katarina, The Islamic College, London, UK
Sheikh Al Muatasim Said Al Maawali, Centre for Omani Studies at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman and University of Birmingham, UK
5:15 | Closing address
Dr Isa Jahangir
Principal, The Islamic College
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