Seventh Annual Conference 2022
Conference Highlights
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14 May 2022
9:00 – 10:00 | Panel: Interfaith and Intrafaith Studies
Chair: Amina Inloes
Talk : 1
Speaker: Oliver Leaman, Accademia Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy
Topic: Q. 9: 28 and its Role in Sunni/Shi‘a Polemics
Talk: 2
Speaker: Tim Orr, Indiana University Purdue University Columbus, USA
Topic: American Shia Muslim Interfaith Engagement: How Shia Muslims Can Achieve Peaceful Coexistence with American Evangelicals
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
10:15 – 1:00 | Panel: Theology, History, and Sacred Texts
Chair: Amir DeMartino
Talk: 1
Speaker: Karim Javan, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK
Topic: Inscriptions As a New Source in Ismaili History
Talk: 2
Speaker: Stephen Cúrto, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Topic: The Unknowable Lord Has Manifested: Quiddity of Deity Between Divine Immanence, and Divine Transcendence, within the Ismaili Ginān
Talk: 3
Speaker: Zoheir Ali Esmail, London, UK
Topic: The Prophetic Sīrah through the Qurʿānic Paradigm: A Case Study of the Battle of Uḥud
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
14:00 – 15:45 | Panel: Film, Theatre, Literature, and Social Media
Chair: Amir Dastmalchian
Talk: 1
Speaker: Reza John Vedadi, Loughborough University, London
Topic: How does the Hollywood film Dune present the Mahdi through a secular humanist lens?
Talk: 2
Speaker: Anuran Dasgupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Topic: A Tale of Harmony in Different Contexts: Premchand’s Theatrical Adaptation of the Epic of Karbala
Talk: 3
Speaker: Frank Gelli, Church of England
Topic: The Holy Grail, Islam, and Imam ‘Ali
Talk: 4
Speaker: Malakeh Shahi, Berlin, Germany
Topic: Shi‘a Visual Epistemology and its Application in the Field of Social Media
Talk: 5
Speaker: Nourmamadcho, Nourmamadchoev, Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK
Topic: Expressing Devotion to Shi‘i Imams in the Early Modern Poetry from Badakhshan
15:45 – 16:00: Break
16:00 – 17:30 | Panel: Islamic Law
Chair: Mohammed Ali Ismail
Talk: 1
Speaker: Aun Hasan Ali, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Topic: Some Notes on the Uses of Documentary Evidence in Imami Law
Talk: 2
Speaker: Leila Chamankhah, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Topic: Changing Patterns in Fatwas on Women in the Contemporary Shi‘a World
Talk: 3
Speaker: Fateme Zeynodini, Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, Iran
Topic: Sharia and the Development of Iranian Family Law
Talk: 4
Speaker: Javad Esmaeili, International Institute for Islamic Studies, Qom, Iran
Topic: The Concept of Insaf (Equity) According to its Applications in the Words of Jurists
8:15 – 18:30 | Closing Address
Speaker: Dr Isa Jahangir, Affiliation: Principal, The Islamic College, London, UK
