Ninth Annual Conference 2024
Highlights
Schedule
9:00 - 9:05 AM | Opening remarks
Dr. Mohammed Ali Ismail
Director of Research and Publications, The Islamic College, London, UK
9:05 – 9:45 | Keynote speech
Professor Robert Gleave
University of Exeter, UK
“Where did Shi‘i law come from? And where is it going?”
9:45 – 11:15 | Panel session 1
Shi‘i Ritual and Popular Practice (Room F21)
Chair: Amina Inloes
Vinay Khetia (Shia Research Institute, Toronto, Canada)
The Ritual Practice of Ziyārah and its Ontological Foundations in the Work of Avicenna
Maryam Omidi (The Islamic College, London, UK; The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA)
Redemptive Eschatology in Christianity and Shi‘a Islam: A Brief Analysis of Eschatological Hope in Two Religious Traditions
Noor Zaidi (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
Traces and Transfer: Life and Death in Wādī al-Salām
Biographical Studies (Room F12)
Zahra Azhar (Independent researcher, The Hague, Netherlands)
Unveiling the Untold: Exploring Female Narratives in Early Shi‘a Collective Biographies of the Imams
Huzaifa Dokaji (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
The Shi‘i Women of Northern Nigeria, 1994-2015
Makbul Rahim (Independent researcher, London, UK)
From Wukalāʾ to Designated Deputies of the Twelfth Shi‘i Imam
11:30 – 13:00 | Panel session 2
Mysticism and Esotericism (Room F21)
Chair: Hamid Tehrani
Amir Mohammad Hakimi Parsa (St Andrews University, Dundee, Scotland)
Mysticism in the Formation of Shi‘i Statehood in Iran: From Ismāʿīl Ṣafavī to Rūḥullāh Khumaynī
Julia Katarina (The Islamic College, London, UK)
ʿIlm al-Ghayb: The Mystical Imamate of the Walī of our Time
Antonio Torres Fernández (University of Alicante, Spain)
The Shi‘i Isma‘ili Concept of Waṣiyyah: Exploring Esoteric Shari‘ah during the Alamūt Period
Science and Technology (Room F12)
Chair: Amir De Martino
Ali Hussain al-Hakim (Independent researcher, London, UK) and Zainab Al-Wasiti (Al-Mustansiriyyah University, Baghdad)
An Islamic Medicine? An Epistemological Scrutiny and Historical Examination of Bīmāristāns in Baghdad in the First Abbasid Era
Speaker: Adam Ient (Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham, UK)
A Critique of ‘Modern Science’ from the Perspective of Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Malakeh Shahi (Metaschool, Berlin, Germany)
Metaverse and Imaging Shi‘ism in a Virtual Reality: A Prolegomena to Any Future Shi‘i Studies
14:15 – 15:00: Book Launch
Book: Al-Asfa: A 17th-Century Shi‘i Exegesis of the Qur’an,
Launched: Mulla Muhsin Fayd Kashani,
Translated: Alexander Khaleeli
14:15 – 15:00 | Book launch
Al-Asfa: A 17th-Century Shi‘i Exegesis of the Qur’an
Mulla Muhsin Fayd Kashani
Translated by Alexander Khaleeli
15:00 – 16:30 | Panel session 3
The Qur’an and Hadith (Room F21)
Chair: Mohammed Ali Ismail
Maryamossadat Moballegh (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
The Probative Force (Ḥujjiyat) of Non-Renowned Reports (Akhbār Āḥād) in the Interpretation of the Qur’an
Liyakat Takim (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)
Shi‘i Tafsīr in the Akhbārī Period
Saeid Sobhani (The Islamic College, London, UK)
A Rebuttal to ʿAlī Dashtī’s Views on the Prophet Muḥammad and his Miracles
Shi‘i Scholars (Room F12)
Chair: Saeid Sobhani
Ali Alsayegh (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK)
Ayatollah Sistani’s Emotional Entrepreneurism During the Jihad Against ISIS 2014-2017
Seyed Jaafar Hosseini Milani (Independent researcher, London, UK)
The Contribution of Grand Ayatollah Milani to the Development of the Mashhad Ḥawzah Islamic Studies Programme
16:45 – 18:15 | Panel session 4
India and Mongolia (Room F21)
Chair: Amir De Martino
Imran Visram (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
Vernacular Expressions of Shi‘ism in Late Medieval India: The Satpanth Movement
Abid Zaidi (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
Shi‘i Revolution in the Shadow of the Nawab: Establishing a ‘Transnational Religious Economy’ between Post-Revolutionary Iran and Lucknow, India
Wu Hanqi (Inner Mongolia University, China)
An Examination of Mongolian Tribal Genealogy Based on the Records of the Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh and the Tārīkh-e Waṣṣāf
On Human Nature and Knowing (Room F12)
Chair: Hamid Tehrani
Shahnaaz Alidina (Independent researcher, Richmond Hill, Canada)
Cultivating Spiritual Morality: Integrating Social Emotional Intelligence in Early Childhood Education for Holistic Development
Husain Heriyanto (Paramadina University, Jakarta, Indonesia)
Imam ‘Alī’s Teachings for Transcendent Anthroposophy
18:15 – 18:30 | Closing address
Dr Isa Jahangir
Principal, The Islamic College
