Fifth Annual Conference 2019
Conference Highlights
Explore the full lineup of sessions
27-28 April 2019
Panel: Shi‘ism, Judaism, and Christianity
Talk : 1
Speaker: Ezra Tzfadya, Otto Friedrich University, Bamberg, Germany
Topic: Shi‘a-Jewish interreligious dialogue: Developing historically conscious, philosophical conversations in difficult times.
Talk: 2
Speaker: Zachary Candy, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
Topic: Contemporary developments and directions in Catholic-Shi‘a Dialogue
Talk: 3
Topic: Mohammad Amir Hakimi Parsa, SOAS, London, UK
Topic: Nader Shah’s Ja‘fari Madhhab: Shi‘i-Sunni Reconciliation in an Imperial Context
10:00 – 10:15
Break
Panel: Qur’an and Hadith: New questions
Chair: Amir DeMartino
Talk: 1
Speaker: Mohammed Ali Ismail, The Islamic College, London, UK
Topic: Is tafsīr ʿaqlī a method in Qur’anic exegesis?
Talk: 2
Speaker: Gianni Izzo, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Topic: Sacred botany of the ‘alam al-mithal: A survey of harmal from the Vedas to the Shi‘a Imami traditions
Talk: 3
Speaker: Jalal Fairooz, International University of Islamic Sciences, London, UK
Topic: Crisis management from the perspective of the Qur’an: Contemporary theories and Shi‘i scholars’ interpretations
Talk: 4
Speaker: Birul Topuz, Potsdam, Germany
Topic: Quranic Verses Shaping Djem and False Perception of Alevism in the Society
Talk: 5
Speaker: Cevat Dargin, Princeton, USA
Topic: A Mobile and Invisible Religion: The Kizilbash (Alevi) Belief System in Dersim
13:00 – 14:00 : Lunch
Panel: Texts and readings: Early classical
Chair: Mohammed Ali Ismail
Talk: 1
Speaker: Ismail K. Poonawala, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Topic: Discovery of the Kitab al-Asrar ascribed to the first Fatimid Caliph-Imam al-Mahdī: Its ramifications
Talk: 2
Speaker: Mustafa Yousuf Roker, Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah, Karachi, Pakistan and Goldsmiths University, London, UK
Topic: Religion on the archetype of Creation: Exploring Inductive Reasoning in the Discourses of Al -Mu’ayyad fi al-Din al-Shirazi
Talk: 3
Speaker: Dawood Mirza, Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah, Karachi, Pakistan
Topic: The literary alliance: A stylistic analysis of Nasir Khusraw’s confession-ode and Dai al-Mu’ayyad al-Shirazi’s panegyrics for Caliph-Imam al Mustansir
Talk: 4
Speaker: Ali Aghaei, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany
Topic: The Hermeneutics of al-Sharif al-Murtada (d. 436/1044) in the Interpretation of akhbar al-ahad in his Ghurar al-Fawa’id wa-Durar al-Qala’id
Panel: Isma‘ili experience and expression
Talk: 1
Speaker: Abdulmamad Iloliev, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK
Topic: Panj-Tani tradition: A set of beliefs and practices of the Shi‘i Ismailis of Badakhshan
Talk: 2
Speaker: Nourmamadcho Nourmamadchoev, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK
Topic: In praise of the ahl al-bayt: Poetic expressions from early modern Badakhshan
Talk: 3
Speaker: Khurshid Sana Khan, London, UK and BRAC, Bangladesh
Topic: The mirage of equal educational access and the saga of Shi‘a Hazara’s participation in Kankor (university entrance exam) in Afghanistan
Panel: Qur’an and Hadith: Interpretations and sources
Talk: 1
Speaker: Safdar Razi Master, University of Lund, Sweden and Alqaem Institute for Advanced Studies, Sweden
Topic: Moses’ Meeting with God on Mount Sinai
Talk: 2
Speaker: Alistair Key, Manchester, UK
Topic: Sulaym ibn Qays in the Sunni Kutub al-Sittah
Sulaym ibn Qays in the Sunni Kutub al-Sittah
Chair: Hamid Tehrani
Talk: 1
Speaker: Syed Alam Shah, University of Karachi, Pakistan
Topic: Comparative analysis of Heidegger and Mulla Sadra on the conception of being and human existence
Talk: 2
Speaker: Seyed Ehsan Shahrestani, International Colleges of Islamic Science, London, UK
Topic: Is action part of thinking? A critical comment concerning critical rationalism
Talk: 3
Speaker: Syed Alam Shah, University of Karachi, Pakistan
Topic: Abdul Rahim Afaki, University of Karachi, Pakistan
