Second Annual Conference 2016
Conference Highlights
Explore the full lineup of sessions
7 – 8 May 2016
Panel: Qur’an and Hadith
Chair: Amina Inloes
Talk : 1
Speaker: Oliver Scharbrodt, University of Chester, UK
Topic: Translating Al-Kāfī: How to Make a Classical Shi‘i Text Accessible to Twenty
First Century Readers
Talk: 2
Speaker: Vinay Khetia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Topic: Devotional Literature and Practice in Twelver Shi‘ism: An Exploration of the Supplication of Kumayl ibn Ziyād as Attributed to ʿAlī ibn Abi Ṭālib
Panel: Worldwide Islamic Heritage
Talk: 1
Speaker: Emiko Stock, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Topic: Lines Back to ʿAli, Roads Forward to Shi‘ism: An Historical Anthropology of Cham Sayyids’ Trajectories from Cambodia to Iran
Talk: 2
Speaker: Noor Zehra Zaidi, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Topic: ‘Our Vanished Lady’: Memory, Ritual, and Shi‘a-Sunni Relations at Bībī Pāk Dāmān
Talk: 3
Speaker: M. J. Shomali, University of Cambridge, UK
Topic: Judaeo-Islamic Heritage
Chair: Amir Dastmalchian
Talk: 4
Speaker: Lucas Oro Hershtein, University of Buenos Aires, National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina
Topic: Redemption through Knowledge: The Metaphysics of Causality in the Kitāb al-Yanābīʿ of Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sijistānī
Talk: 5
Speaker: Abbas Mehregan, University of Cologne, Germany
Topic: Tradition of Multivocality among Shi‘a Ulema
Panel: Shi‘i Minorities
Chair: Amina Inloes
Talk: 1
Speaker: Jafar A. Ahmad, School of Peace and Conflict Management, Royal Roads University, Canada
Topic: A Study Examining Iraqi Immigrants: Has the Shi‘a-Sunni Conflict Been Transferred to Ottawa, Canada?
Talk: 2
Speaker: Abbas Aghdassi, University of Tehran, Iran; Visiting Research Scholar, Sociology Department, City University of New York, USA
Topic: The African-American Twelver Shi‘a Community of New York
Talk: 3
Speaker: Tahir Wasti, The Islamic College, London, UK
Topic: Muslim (Shi‘a) Migration to Europe, and the Engagement of English and Islamic Laws
Talk: 4
Speaker: Kabiru Haruna Isa, Department of History, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
Topic: Sunni Literary Reaction to the Growth of Shi‘a Ideology in Northern Nigeria
Talk: 5
Speaker: Sani Yakubu Adam (presented by Kabiru Haruna Isa), Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
Topic: Shi‘a Processions and the Competition for Religious Public Space in Northern Nigeria 1994-2015
Panel: Diversity in Fiqh
Chair: Amina Inloes
Talk: 1
Speaker: Liyakat Takim, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Topic: Fiqh for Minorities: Shi‘i Law in the Diaspora
Talk: 2
Speaker: Mahmoud Pargoo, Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University, Sydney, Australia
Topic: Making of a Textual Source for the Law: the Case of Ritual (Im)purity of the People of the Book in the Twelver Shi‘a Jurisprudence
Talk: 3
Speaker: Ed Hayes, Colby College, Maine, USA
Topic: The Fiscal Authority of the Imams: Analyzing Imamic Jurisprudential Statements on Khums and Zakāt
Panel: Virtual Presentations from the Hawzah
Chair: Amina Inloes
Talk: 1
Speaker: Mahdieh Mohammadi Araghi, University of Allameh Tabataba’i, Tehran, Iran
Topic: An Analysis of Shahīd Ṣadr’s Method: Discovering Islamic Economic Doctrine from Islamic Economic Laws and its Broader Application
Talk: 2
Speaker: Mahmud Mohammadi Araghi, Hawzah ‘Ilmiyyah, Tehran, Iran
Topic:
Talk: 3
Speaker: Morteza Karim, University of Tehran, Iran and International Institute for Islamic Studies, Qom, Iran
Topic: The Narrations about Clay (Ṭīnat)
Talk: 4
Speaker: Mahdi Hosseinzadeh Yazdi, University of Tehran, Iran
Topic: Shi‘a Philosophers and the Question of the Criterion of Truth
Panel: Pre-Modern Shi‘ism
Chair: Ali Paya
Talk: 1
Speaker: Tanvir Akhtar Ahmed, Stanford University, California, USA
Topic: Where is the Imām? The Returning Messiah in the Tīmūrid Age
Talk: 2
Speaker: Alberto Tiburcio, McGill University (alumnus), Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Topic: The Polemical Work of ʿAli Qulī Jadīd al-Islām in the Context of European Missionaries to Safavid Iran
