Chair: Amina Inloes

Talk: 1

Speaker: Ismail Poonawala, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Topic: Was ʿĀmir b. ʿĀmir al-Baṣrī an Ismāʿīlī as claimed by some scholars, or was he an unorthodox Twelver Shīʿī Ṣūfī who had gone through a phase of mystical union with the Divine?

Talk: 2

Speaker: Dominique Sirgy, Yale University, USA

Topic: Formulations of Imami scriptural knowledge in Shi‘i texts before and after the ghaybah

Talk: 3

Speaker: Christopher Clohessy, Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic studies

Topic: The Zaynab-Ziyād dialogues: Constructing a Zaynabian theology at the level of the texts

Talk: 4

Speaker: Sayed Hossein Al Qazwini, Karbala, Iraq

Topic: Shi‘i fiqh manuals (risālah ʿamaliyyah): Past and present

Chair: Amir DeMartino

Talk: 1

Speaker: Jafar Ahmad, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

Topic: The nature of the commemoration of Ashura in Iraq pre- and post-2003

Talk: 2

Speaker: Mohammad Nasravi, Royal Holloway University of London, UK

Topic: The Arbaʿīn pilgrimage as a liminal and heterotopian practice: A study of alternative mode of living throughout the pilgrimage process

Talk: 3

Speaker: Zeinab Ghasemi Tari, University of Tehran, Iran

Topic: Of blood and blades: How the Western press (mis-) represent the Ashura rituals

Chair: Hamid Tehrani

Talk: 1

Speaker: Stefan Fa, University College, London, UK

Topic: The city of Ardabil and its influence in Turkish Shi‘i Devotion

Talk: 2

Speaker: Babak Rahimi, University of California, San Diego, USA

Topic: Techno-Muḥarram: The mourning soundscape and the Shi‘a public in post-revolutionary Iran

Chair: Amina Inloes

Talk: 1

Speaker: Frank Julian Gelli, London, UK

Topic: Intimations of the hidden Imam in the literary work of Jorge Luis Borges

Talk: 2

Speaker: Ali Faraj, University of Milan, Bicocca, Italy

Topic: A new Arabic amulet bowl from Eṣfahān with Persian inscriptions, Ali Reza Sedighifard Collection

Talk: 3

Speaker: Mohamed Ahmed Abd Elrahman, Fayoum University, Egypt

Topic: Turkish influences on architecture in the Zaydī Qāsimid state in Yemen

Chair: Muhammad Zakaria

Talk: 1

Speaker: Khurshid Sana Khan, London, UK

Topic: Case of Gilgit-Baltistan Ismailis in Karachi, Pakistan

Talk: 2

Speaker: Tayyaba Fatima, Govt. College Women University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Topic: Mystical philosophy in the light of Sufism and Vedantism

Talk: 3

Speaker: Mirza Abbas

Topic: The Quṭb Shāhī era and the contributions of Mīr Momin Astarābādī in the spread of Shi‘a Islam in the Deccan

Chair: Amina Inloes

Talk: 1

Speaker: Omar Bortolazzi, American University in Dubai, UAE

Topic: From disenfranchisement to wealth: The invention of a Shi‘i bourgeoisie in Lebanon between education, diaspora, remittances and neoliberal practices

Talk: 2

Speaker: Rabia Latif Khan, SOAS University of London, UK

Topic: Navigating identity: An overview of the Shi‘a Hazara community in London and the

Talk: 3

Speaker: Nour Tessie Jorgensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Topic: The study of Shi‘ism in Denmark

Talk: 4

Speaker: Karar Alsalemi, The Islamic College, London, UK

Topic: Navigating identity: An overview of the Shi‘a Hazara community in London

Talk: 5

Speaker: Mohammad Mesbahi, The Islamic College, London, UK

Topic: Muslim youth