Chair: Amina Inloes

Talk: 1

Speaker: Seyfeddin Kara, Hartford Seminary, Connecticut, USA

Topic: Understanding the causes of sectarian tension in the Muslim world

Talk: 2

Speaker: Yaghoob Foroutan, University of Waikato, New Zealand and Mazandaran University, Iran

Topic: A demographic perspective on Shi‘a-Sunni comparison: Patterns and differentials

Talk: 3

Speaker: Mashal Saif, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA

Topic: Seeking security: Pakistan’s Shi‘a ulema and their state

Chair: Amir DeMartino

Talk: 1

Speaker: Paulino R. RoblesGil Cozzi, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

Topic: Shi‘is in Qatar: The paradoxes of coexistence in a modern Salafi state

Talk: 2

Speaker: Nada Al-Hudaid, University of Manchester, UK

Topic: Mourning through Art: Shi‘a in Kuwait and their Art Movement

Chair: Alexander Khaleeli

Talk: 3

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

Topic: The chronology of al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān’s works

Talk: 4

Speaker: Ali Paya, The Islamic College, UK and University of Westminster, UK

Topic: A critical assessment of ʿAllamāh Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s methodological approach and methods of interpretation in his magnum opus, Tafsīr al-Mizān, from a critical rationalist point of view

Talk: 5

Speaker: Mohammed Ali Ismail, The Islamic College, London, UK

Topic: Classification of methods used in Qur’anic and Biblical exegesis

Chair: Amir Dastmalchian

Talk: 1

Speaker: Ali H. Al-Hakim, The Islamic College, London, UK

Topic: The role of the Shi‘i Imams in the revival of divine leadership

Talk: 2

Speaker: Abdülkadir Yeler, Istanbul, Turkey

Topic: Institutionalization of Shi‘ism in Turkey and Current Problems

Chair: Mohammed Ali Ismail

Talk: 1

Speaker: Khurshid Sana Khan, London, UK

Topic: The Ismaʿili religious education system of Baitul Ilm and the development of interpersonal skills among the internal migrants of Gilgit-Baltistan in Karachi, Pakistan

Talk: 2

Speaker: Yahia Baiza, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK

Topic: Authority, identity and pluralism in modern Isma‘ili religious education: A critique

Talk: 3

Speaker: Anis Kotia, Middlesex University, London, UK

Topic: Challenges facing the Shi‘a community in developing a history syllabus for free schools

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