Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Shi‘i Studies

The Annual International Conference on Shi‘i Studies is organised by the Research and Publications Department of The Islamic College. The conference aims to provide a broad platform for scholars working in the field of Shi‘i studies to present their latest research and to explore diverse opinions on Shi‘i thought, practice, and heritage.

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Contents 

2024 (9th conference)

Redemptive Eschatology in Christianity and Shi‘a Islam: A Brief Analysis of Eschatological Hope in Two Religious Traditions
Maryam Omidi

A Critique of ‘Modern Science’ from the Perspective of Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Adam Ient

Prophet Muḥammad and his Miracles: Critiquing ʿAlī Dashtī’s View
Saeid Sobhani

The Shiʿi Ismāʿīlī Concept of Waṣiyyah: Exploring Esoteric Shariʿah during the Alamūt Period
Antonio Torres Fernández

Cultivating Spiritual Morality: Integrating Social Emotional Intelligence in Early Childhood Education for Holistic Development
Shahnaaz Alidina

From Wikālah to the Designated Deputies of the 12th Shi‘a Imam
Makbul Rahim

2023 (8th conference)

Defining Twelver Islam: Introducing a New Category for Research
Shabbir Agha Abbas

When Shari‘ah and Secularism Collide: The Shi‘i Bektāshī Order’s Contribution to Turkey’s Modern Politics
Antonio Torres Fernández

A Critical View on Sayyid Quṭb and the Status of Intellect (ʿAql) in the Interpretation of the Qur’an
Saeid Sobhani

Before After Virtue: The Philosophy of Muḥammad Bāqir al-Ṣadr
M. Mehdi Ali

Two Voices on Wilāyat al-Faqīh
Zain Alattar

Akhlāq, Imāmah, Wilāyah: A Comparative Study of the Ibāḍī and Jaʿfarī Schools
Julia Katarina and Sheikh Al Muatasim Al Maawali

Artificial Intelligence and Islamic Theology: An Interview with ChatGPT
Amina Inloes

2022 (7th conference)

The Prophetic Sīrah through the Qur’anic Paradigm: A Case Study of the Battle of Uḥud
Zoheir Ali Esmail

Rock Inscriptions of Haftād Qulleh, A New Source in Ismaili History of the Safavid Era
Karim Javan

The Unknowable Lord Has Manifested: Quiddity of Deity Between Divine Immanence, and Divine Transcendence, in the Ismāʿīlī Ginān Tradition
Stephen Cúrto

A New Critical Approach to Fact-Value Relationships
Ali Paya

Deceit, the Imagination, and Personal Discernment: Ibn Khaldūn and Occult Causation
Reem Elghonimi

A Sadrian Interpretation of Frank Jackson’s Knowledge Argument
Adam Ient

The Concept of Inṣāf According to its Applications in the Words of Shi‘a Jurists
Javad Esmaeili

2021 (6th conference)

The Quran vs. the Theory of the Evolution: A Critical Assessment of the Contrasting Views of Two Prominent Shi‘a Scholars of the 20thc: Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Tabatabaee & Dr Yadollah Sahab
Ali Paya

The Role of Faith in Enhancing Environmental Practices in Khoja faith Communities
Makbul Rahim

The Islamic economy according to Mūsā al-Ṣadr: the avant-gardist thoughts of an original Shi‘i reformist cleric
Tristan Hillion-Launey

The Edicts of Marāji’ & the Concerns of Iraqi Youth Today
Sophia Butt

Shahid Thani’s Use of Non-Shi‘i Sources with a Focus on Islamic Ethics and Mysticism
Hamed Aleyamin

Gender Justice In Islam: An Evaluation of Ziba Mir-Hosseini’s Religious Epistemology by Examining Her Interpretation of Qur’an 4:34
Tim Orr

Performing Past, Narrating Today: Ta‘ziyeh as a Historiographic Intervention in Shi‘a Islam
Mohammadreza Mashhadi Ayvaz

2020 (Conference cancelled due to the pandemic)

2019 (5th conference)

Judaism and Shi‘a Islam: Two Points of Comparison
Oliver Leaman

Contemporary Developments and Directions in Catholic-Shi‘a Dialogue
Zachary Candy

Discovery of the Kitāb al-Asrār Ascribed to the First Fāṭimid Caliph-Imam al-Mahdī: Its Ramifications
Ismail K. Poonawala

Panjtanī tradition: A Set of Traditional Beliefs and Practices of the Shi‘i Ismailis of Badakhshan
Abdulmamad Iloliev

Sulaym ibn Qays in the Kutub al-Sittah
ʿAli Yahya

Is an Action Part of Knowledge? A Critical Comment Concerning Critical Rationalism
S. E. Shahrestani

Ijtihad and Progression in Shi‘i Islam
Khairunnisa Aga

Following Ahl al-Bayt in the Land of Coffee and Sugar Cane: Shi‘i Communities of Brazil
Sergio Iván Moya Mena

A Brief Introduction to Danish Shi‘is and their Attitudes towards Mosques
Nour Tessie Joergensen

The Social and Psychological Dimensions of Parenting in Shi‘i Islam
Shahnaaz Alidina

2018 (4th conference)

The Impact of ʿĀshūrāʾ Rituals on Shi‘a-Sunni Relations in Iraq
Jafar Ahmad

Shi‘i Fiqh Manuals (al-Risālah al-ʿAmalīyah): Past, Present and Future
Sayed Hossein Al Qazwini

The Authority of the Imāmī Marājiʿ
Cameron Zargar

Creation or Revelation: A New Look at Verse 30 of Sūrah al-Baqarah
Vahid Mahdavi Mehr

Religion and Reason in Islam: Conflicts and Solutions
Oliver Leaman

The Zaynab-Ziyād Dialogues: Constructing a Zaynabian Theology at the Level of the Texts
Christopher Clohessy

Al-Ākhūnd al-Khurāsānī and al-Mashrūṭah (The Constitutionalist Movement)
Sayyid Fadhil Bahrululoom

The Danish Research History of Shi‘ism
Nour Tessie Jorgensen

2017 (3rd conference)

Reconstituting the Muslim Ummah: The Disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the Emergence of a New Thinking on Islam
Regina Rowland and Fahimeh Mokhber

Three Sources of Shiʿi Knowledge and Authority: Texts, Reason, and Mysticism in Islamic Intellectual History
Zackery Heern

The Influence of Time and Place on Ijtihād
Sayed Hossein Al Qazwini

Is there a Distinctive Shiʿa Medical Ethics?
Oliver Leaman

A Critical Assessment of ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Methodological Approach and Methods of Interpretation in his Magnum Opus, Tafsīr al-Mīzān from a Critical Rationalist Point of
View
Ali Paya

Philosophy: Diabolical Science or a Valuable Part of Religious Thought? A Comparison Between the Views of the Shāfiʿī Writer Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ al-Shahrazūrī and the Shiʿi Thinker ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī
Revd Frank Julian Gelli

Authority, Identity, and Pluralism in the Modern Ismāʿīlī Religious Education Programme: A Critical Reflection
Yahia Baiza

Neighbours of Fāṭimah: Conceptualizations of Shariʿah among Female Shiʿi Intellectuals in Qom
Maria Lindqvist

Integration or Isolation: Black Shi‘ism in the American Diaspora
Liyakat Takim

Islamic Art and Mourning: Shi‘a use of Art in Rituals
Nada al-Hudaid

2016 (2nd conference)

The Mad Muslim Mob: De/Mythologising Shi‘i Iran in V. S.
Naipaul’s ‘Islamic’ Travelogues
Hossein Nazari

The Disenchantment of Reason: An Anti-Rational Trend in Modern Shi‘i Thought – The Tafkīkīs
Ali Paya

Philosophy in Islam: The Concept of Shi‘ism as a Philosophical Genre
Oliver Leaman

Reading More Than Persepolis
Mersedeh Dad Mohammadi

Iranian Women: Between Tradition and Modernity
Sarah Scio’

A Comparative Study of Islamic Feminist and Traditional Shi‘i Approaches to Qurʾanic Exegesis
Mohammed Ali Ismail

The Role of Custom in Shaping Islamic Law
Liyakat Takim

A Study Examining Iraqi Immigrants: Has the Shi‘a-Sunni Conflict Been Transferred To Ottawa, Canada?
Jafar Ahmad

Shi‘a Processions and the Competition for Religious Public Space in Northern Nigeria 1980–2015
Sani Yakubu Adam

Sunni Literary Responses to the Spread of Shi‘a Ideology in Northern Nigeria
Kabiru Haruna Isa

The Twelver/Imāmī Manuscript Collection in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Milano: Remarks on Kitāb Ghurar al-Fawāʾid by al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā – MS.1665 (H 43)
Ali Faraj

Shi‘a Narrations about Creation from Two Types of Clay (Ṭīnah)
Morteza Karimi

2015 (1st conference)

Philosophy and Shi‘ism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Oliver Leaman

The Ṣāliḥiyyah School in Qazvīn and Shi‘i Religious Authority, with an Emphasis on Scholars from the Baraghānī Family
Isa Jahangir

Marjaʿiyyah from Below: Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religious Authority
Thomas Fibiger

For the Love of Ahl al-Bayt: Transcending Sunni-Shi‘i Sectarian Allegiance
Siti Sarah Muwahidah

Right to Offense, Right to Shiaphobia: A Rhetorical Analysis of Yasir Qadhi’s Framings of Offense
Shereen Yousuf

The Study of Shi‘i Islam in Western Academia
Liyakat Takim