9:00-9:15 Opening remarks – Dr Isa Jahangir, Principal, The Islamic College

9:15-9:30 A decade of conferences – Prof Ali Paya, Department of Research and Publications, The Islamic College

9:30-11:00 Panel 1: Qur’anic studies

London room (Seminar room)

Chair: Dr Isa Jahangir

— The Tafsīr of Muḥmmad Muḥsin Fayḍ Kāshānī

Liyakat Takim
McMaster University, Canada

— Interpreters of Revelation: The Exegetical Influence of the Ahl al-Bayt

Mohammed Ali Ismail
Hawza Online, UK

— Revelation against Philosophy: Qur’anic Interpretation and Exegetical Method according to the School of Separation (Maktab-i Tafkīk)

Amir Mohammad Emami
University of Exeter, UK

International room (F12)

Chair: Shaykh Mirza Abbas

— Imāmah and Hermeneutical Constraints: Genre Formation, Hermeneutical Authority, and the Relative Autonomy of Twelver Shi‘i Tafsīr (online)

Fakhri Afif
UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung

Rika Leli Dewi Khusaila Rosalnia
UIN Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-12:30 Panel 2 –  Qur’anic studies (continued)

London room (Seminar room)

Chair: Amina Inloes

— Mahdī, Qur’an, and Global Historiography

David Coolidge
Bayan Islamic Graduate School, USA

— Diverse Modes of Expression: A Study on Storytelling and Parables in the Qur’an

Makbul Rahim
Independent researcher, London, UK

International room (F12)

Chair: Mohammed Ali Ismail

— The Transmission of al-Kashshāf from al-Zamakhsharī to al-Ṭabarsī: A Prosopographical Study of Ibn Shahrāshūb’s Intermediary Role (online)

Harun Bozkurt
Research assistant, Department of Tafsir, Faculty of Theology, Sakarya University, Turkey

— Translating the Qur’an in Eastern Europe: Russian and Ukrainian Shi‘i Contributions (online)

Akif Tahiiev
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

12:30-1:45 Lunch. Prayer facilities available.

1:45-3:15 Panel 3 – Narrative studies

London room (Seminar room)

Chair: Dr Saeid Sobhani

— The devotional confessions of an infallible Imam: A study of Safavid-era duʿā commentary

Vinay Khetia
Shia Research Institute and University of Toronto, Canada

International room (F12)

Chair: Amina Inloes

— Applying ICMA to Shi‘i Traditions: A Note on Reconstructing Imam’s Hypomnēma (online)

Abdullah Ansar
Carleton College, USA

— From Eulogy to Vision: The Narrative Journey of the Rawḍat al-Shuhadā across the Centuries in Iran (online)

Pouran Lashini
University of Texas, USA

— The Imaginary Context in Nahj al-Balāghah (online)

Zainab Sayed Zahed
PAAET, Kuwait

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30-4:45 Panel 4 – Theological discourse

London room (Seminar room)

Chair: Amina Inloes

— Imam Ali as Imagio Dei in Rajab al-Bursi’s Letterist Cosmology

Javon Canlas
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA

— The Twelver Shi‘i Problem of Ghaybah (online)

Hashem Morvarid
Trinity University, San Antonio, USA

4:45-5:45 Panel 5 – Human dynamics

London room (seminar room)
Chairs: Amir De Martino and Sara Abidi

— Producing Religious Authority: Sayyid Families, Genealogies and the Making of Alevi Religious Leadership (online)

Ufuk Erol
Leibniz Institute of European History, Germany

— Domestic Labour between Donation and Liability (online)

Samaneh Oladi
Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

5:45-6:00 Closing remarks – Amina Inloes Department of Research & Publications