BRAIS CONFERENCE 2017: PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Day 1: Tuesday 11th April
17.00 – 17.30: Conference Registration
17.30 – 19.00: Welcome and Session One: Plenary (Lecture Room)
The Sociology of Islam: Promise and Problems
Bryan Turner (Australian Catholic University)
19.00 – 20.00 Dinner
20.00 – 21.30 Session Two: 7 Parallel panels
Panel 1: Mystical and Esoteric Approaches to the Qur’an
Chair: Ahmad Achtar (Heythrop College, University of London) (tbc)
Mohammed Rustom, (Carleton University) Ayn al-Quḍāt’s Theory of the Detached Letters
Maria De Cillis (The Institute of Ismaili Studies ) Al-Kirmānī’s Perspective on Spiritual Assistance and the Accomplishment of Prophethood in the Story of Moses and Shuʿayb
Ali Ashraf Emami (Ferdowsi University Of Mashhad ) A study into the concept of ‘canopies of clouds’ in the Qur’an
Shadaab Rahemtulla (University of Wales Trinity Saint David) Mainstreaming Marginal Methods: Social Justice, the Qur’an, and (Auto-) Hermeneutics
Panel 2: Legal Encounters: Issues and Debates in Contemporary Islamic Law
Chair: tbc
Joshua Roose (Australian Catholic University) Islamic Law in Western Courts: Testing the Seperability Thesis
Ully Damari Putri (University of Indonesia): Let’s Bring in the Muslims: Islamic Piety and HIV/AIDS Funding Policy in Indonesia
Abdul-Hussain Mahdiyah (Royal Holloway) Exploring the permissibility of organ donation in contemporary Shi’ite jurisprudence
Fatemeh Hosseini (Georgetown University) Religious Sexualities and Religious Bodies: Islam and Female Sexual Desire
Panel 3: Issues in Classical Islamic Thought
Chair: tbc
William Stevenson (University of St. Thomas) The Meaning of the Imamate in the Monistic Eschatology of Nasir al-Din Tusi
Reyhan Erdogdu-Basaran (Rice University) Alid Cause or Shi`ite Sentiments: The Imamate Doctrine within the Alevi Buyruk Manuscripts
Richard Saville-Smith (University of Edinburgh), The labels of druggists and the origins of Sufism
Nuha Alshaar (American University of Sharjah/Institute of Ismaili Studies, London) The System of Adab and its Components in Four Abbasid Foundational Writers (Ibn Qutayba, al-Jāḥiẓ, al-Qālī, and al-Mubarrad)
Merve Ozdemir (Sakarya University) Medicine in Ottoman Fatwa collections
Panel 4: Orthodoxy, Modernity and the Contested Construction of the ‘Islamic’
Chair: Carool Kersten (King’s College London) (tbc)
Conor Meleady (Oxford University) The meanings of Islamic ‘orthodoxy’ in the nineteenth century ‘official mind’
Josef Sebastian Linnhoff (University of Edinburgh) Sulayman ibn ‘Abdul Wahhāb on his brother & takfīr
Farangis Ghaderi (independent scholar) Islam and Kurdish Nationalism: Marginalization of Religious Voices
Elisa Orofino (University of Melbourne) Intellectual Islamists challenging the West: the case of Hizb ut-Tahrir
Panel 5: Anthropology of Islam
Chair: Caroline Ackley (University College London)
Muhammed Ahmed (SOAS) Everyday ethics: journeys of selfhood in Bradford, UK
Caroline Ackley (SOAS) Poetic Destiny: Journeys of Moral Becoming in Somaliland
Amir Massoumian (University College London) Ethnomusicology in Islam
Stefan Williamson Fa (University College London) Voices of Regret: Sound, Performance and Listening in Contemporary Shī’ism in Turkey)
Panel 6: British Muslims in Various Local Contexts
Chair: Ron Geaves (Cardiff University) (tbc)
Stefano Bonino (Northumbria University) Muslims in Scotland: The Making of Community in a Post-9/11 World
Jamil Sherif, The Anjuman-I Islam of London
Sarah Hackett (Bath Spa University) Rethinking Muslim Integration in Britain: A Rural Perspective
Sufyan Abid (University of Chester) Purifying and multiplying the profits: Analysing local and global dimensions of Muslim charity practices in Birmingham, UK
Panel 7: Islamic Studies: Global and Local
Chair: Hugh Goddard (University of Edinburgh)
Hugh Goddard (University of Edinburgh) Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations in Historical Perspective.
David Warren (University of Edinburgh) For the Good of the Nation? Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Ali Gomaa’s Arguments Over the Egyptian Counter) Revolutions 2011-13.
Alistair Hunter (University of Edinburgh) Negotiating faith and space in contexts of death and diaspora: funerary practices of British and French Muslims.
Khadijah Elshayyal (University of Edinburgh) Scottish Muslims and the 2011 Census: an integration success story?
Day 2: Wednesday 12th April
09.00 – 10.30 Session Three: Plenary (Lecture Room)
The History of Muslims in Britain
Ron Geaves (Cardiff University) and Humayun Ansari (Royal Holloway)
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 12.30 Session Four: 6 Parallel panels
Panel 1: Hadith: Textual Intersections and Reconfigurations
Chair: Omar Anchassi (University of Exeter) (tbc)
Yasmin Amin (University of Exeter) A Laughing God, between Sunni Approval and Shi’ite Rejection
Muhammed Abed (University of Leeds) Textual Analysis of Hadiths of ‘al-Mahdī’ in al-Kāfī and the Six Books
Muhammad Fawwaz Bin Muhammad Yusoff (University of Glasgow) A Study of Ibn Ḥibbān al-Bustī’s (d. 354/965) Transmitter Evaluation
Dzenita Karic (SOAS) The Ḥadīṯh as an Argument: Shaping the Image of Medina in the Ottoman Context
Panel 2: Islamic Finance: Debates, Contestations and Transformations
Chair: tbc
Valetino Cattelan (IE Business School Madrid) Islamic Finance in a Changing Capitalism: From Modernity to the Sharing Economy
Nur Nadia Adjrina (University of East Anglia) Exploring Islamic consumption and marketplace- A phenomenology study of Islamic life insurance consumption among Muslims in Malaysia
Saba Kareemi (Qatar University) Religion and the Corporate State: Is There Space for Fictitious Persons in Islamic Political Theory?
Nichola Gjorvad (Free University Berlin) What is an Islamic Economy?: Contested Views after the Egyptian Uprising
Panel 3: Islamic Philosophy and Theology: The Divine and the Human
Chair: Ayman Shihadeh, (SOAS) (tbc)
Ibrahim Aksu (Marmara University) Al -Fârâbî On Temperament
Hannah Erlwein (SOAS) The Problem of God’s Existence in al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111)
Laura Hassan (SOAS) Atomism as Theology: The Integrated Worldview of Classical Ash‘arism and its Dissolution in the thought of post-Classical Ash‘arīs
Ayman Shihadeh (SOAS) Essence in Mu‘tazilī Theology
Panel 4: Inter-Religious Relations A: pre-1100 CE
Chair: tbc
Owed Al-Nahee (University of Birmingham) Polytheism in Najrān; from the Holy Trinity Planetary to Imaged Idols worship
Elena Narinskaya (Cambridge University) Chosen People, Chosen Nation: the Stories of Moses and Israel in the Bible, Jewish Modrash, Christian Syriac Exegesis and in the Qur’an
AmirReza Haghighatkhah (University of Tehran) Muslim and Jews Encounter in Apological and Polemical Treaties: a Case Study of Islamic Commentary on Deuteronomy 33:2
Nathan Gibson (Vanderbilt University) Interreligious Contacts among Abbasid Scholars: a Digital Approach using Network Analysis
Panel 5: New directions in research on Islam, sexuality and gender
Chair: Anna Piela (Leeds Trinity University)
Anna Piela (Leeds Trinity University) Women-led mosques in the UK, the USA and Denmark as spaces of women’s citizenship – a comparative online study
Naaz Rashid (University of Surrey) Veiled Threats? Representing the Muslim woman in the UK's counter terrorism agenda
Asma Siraj, (Independent Researcher) “I’m just Yasmin in love with Sara”: Lesbian Love Weaved on an Invisible Thread
Zahra Tizro (York St John University) and Farhad Gohardani, Iranian conceptions of masculinities
Panel 6: Islam and European States: Nationalist Frameworks in Comparative Perspective
Chair: Christopher Moses, University of Cambridge
Tobias Müller (University of Cambridge) Creating the Islam that belongs to Germany: State intervention and local contestation
Matteo Benussi (University of Cambridge) Crescent and Red Star: The Russian State and Islam between late Socialism and now
Lenita Törning (Birkbeck, University of London) A Blue-Yellow Islam: public attempts to develop a Swedish Islam
Elsa Pirenne (Université du Luxembourg and Université catholique de Louvain) Islam in Luxembourg: how Muslim actors play a balancing act to institutionalise Islam
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Session Five: 7 Parallel panels
Panel 1: Muslims and the Notion of Islamic Education
Chair: Dr Abdullah Sahin (University of Warwick)
Farid Panjwani and Lynn Revell (Institute of Education, Canterbury Christ Church Canterbury) Hermeneutics and Religious Education: the case of teaching and learning about ‘Islam’
Emilie Roy (al-Akhawayn University) Educating Pious Citizens: How Malian Islamic Schooling Encroached In and Islamicized the Public Sphere
Jenny Berglund and Bill Gent (Södertörn University, Stockholm and the University of Warwick) The Muslim student experience of moving between two educational traditions
Mieke Groeninck (Catholic University of Leuven) Remembering the Priority of Being
Panel 2: Development and Change in Islamic Legal History
Chair: Joshua Roose (Australian Catholic University) (tbc)
Amr Osman (Qatar University) Theft in Islamic Legal History
Omar Anchassi (University of Exeter) Ghāyat al-Amānī fi al-Istimtā` bi al-Jawārī Or, Sexual Pleasure and Slave Concubinage: Nazar, Mass and Wat’ in Islamic Law from the Formative Period to ISIS
Eva Kepplinger (University College of Teacher Education of Christian Churches in Vienna) Developments in the Formulation of Islamic International Law by the Example of Naṣrid Granada
Salman Younas (The University of Oxford) The Construction & Augmentation of Legal Authority in the Early Ḥanafī School (3rd/9th-4th/10th Century)
Panel 3: Islamic Philosophy and Theology: Medieval Debates
Chair: tbc
Han-Hsien Liew (Harvard University) Ibn al-Jawzī and the Cursing of Yazīd: An Internal Ḥanbalī Debate on Rebellion Against Unjust Rulership
Mohammed Reza Moini (Seminary School of Qom) The Imamī - Muʿtazelī Theology in Medieval Ages; al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī as a Case
Ramon Harvey (Ebrahim College) Trope Theory in Islamic Theology: Prospects in Metaphysics and Ethics
Daryoush Mohammad Poor (Institute of Islmaili Studies) Ismaili Philosophy and Neo-Platonism: Myths and Realities
Hussam Timani (Christopher Newport University) Takfir in Medieval and Modern Islamic Thought: How Intellectual, Cultural, and Civilizational Decline Contributes to the Rise of Takfiri Thought
Panel 4: Contested Categories: Formulating and Negotiating Modernity in the Nahḍah and in the Twenty-First Century Ummah
Chair: Omar Anchassi (University of Exeter)
Wael Abu Uksa (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) Imagining Modernity: The Genealogy of Modernity in 19th-Century Arabic
Florian Zemmin (University of Bern) Modernity in Islamic Tradition. The Concept of ‘Society’ in the Journal al-Manar (Cairo, 1898–1940)
Stephen Jones (Newman University) Science, faith and the ‘clash of civilisations’: what interview narratives about Islam and science reveal about anti-Muslim prejudice
Glen Moran (Newman University) British Muslim perceptions of biological evolution
Panel 5: Shi’ism in Various Contexts: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives
Chair: Mohammadreza Kalantari (Royal Holloway University of London) (tbc)
Samer El-Karanshawy (University of Tufts) Victor Turner Textuality and Variation: on Anthropological Approaches to Imam Husayn’s Memory.
Noor Zaidi (University of Pennsylvania) Still We Long for Zaynab: South Asian Shi’as and Transnational Homelands Under Attack
Robert Langer (University of Bayreuth) German Shia? – German Speaking Communities and Their Rituals in the Shiite Field in Germany
Dagikhudo Dagiev (Institute of Ismaili Studies) The Ismaili Hierarchy in the Context of Central Asia
Panel 6: British Islam: Historical and Contemporary Issues
Chair: Sophie Gilliat-Ray (tbc)
Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor (Coventry University) Muslim Women in Britain c. 1890 to 1948: Historical Grounding for Modern Debates
Shahnaz Akhter (University of Warwick) The Search for Muslim Identity: Defining British Islam
Asma Khan (Cardiff University) Experiences of Second Generation British Muslim Women in Education in the 70’s and 80’s
Kartina Choong (University of Central Lancashire) End-of-Life Care: When Religion and Law Collide
15.00 – 15.30 Tea
15.30 – 17.00 Session Six: Parallel panels
Panel 1: The Qur’an: Theology, Logic and Exegesis
Chair: Shuruq Naguib, Lancaster University
Ahmad Achtar (Heythrop College, University of London) The use of Q (3:7) as a foundation for theological hermeneutics of the Qur’an
Zaenal Muttaqin (University of Manchester) Al-Ṭabarī’s Treatment of Conflicting Opinions in the Interpretation of Q. 11:107
Safaruk Chowdhury (King Fahd Academy) The Lord of the Excluded Middle”: The Qur’an, Logic and Arguments
Johanne Louise Christiansen (Aarhus University) God charges no soul save its capacity': the notion of dispensation in the Qur’an
Panel 2: Emerging Perspectives in Islamic Legal Theory
Chair: Amr Osman (Qatar University) (tbc)
Samer Dajani (Cambridge Muslim College) A Flexible Sharīʿa: A Sufi Approach to Scholarly Disagreement
Hakime Reyyan Yasar (Heythrop College, University of London) The Relationship Between Majāz and Mind in Usul al-Fiqh: Searching for the Cognitive Traces in the Chapter of Majāz in the Uṣūl al-Fiqh of Ibn Malak and al-Sighnāqī (14th Century)
Sayed Hossein Qazwini (Islamic Seminary of Karbala) The History and Evolution of the Principle of Istishab in Shiite Usal al Fiqh
Miyase Yavuz (SOAS) The Mastermind of the Moroccan Family Law Reforms of 2004: Aḥmed al-Khamlīchī’s Conception and Practice of Ijtihād
Panel 3: Between Texts and Networks: Visualizing thirteenth through sixteenth Century Islamicate Intellectual Landscapes
Chair: Judith Pfeiffer (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
Giovanni Maria Martini (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) Visual Sufism. A Case Study from 14th Century Tabriz: Shīrīn Maghribī’s Short Metaphysical Treatises.
Walter Edward Young (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) Marginal Munāẓara: Dialectical Pedagogy in the Scholia and Glosses of al-Kīlānī’s Sharḥ al-Risāla fī Ādāb al-Baḥth.
Talal Al-Azem (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies) (title tbc)
Mohammad Gharaibeh (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) Commentaries read horizontally – Towards a sociological approach to the study of commentaries on Ibn aṣ-Ṣalāḥ’s Muqaddima fī ʿulūm al-ḥadīṯ.
Judith Pfeiffer (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) Gathering the ideal library: Müeyyedzade Abdurrahman Efendi (d. 922/1516) and the quest for universal knowledge
Panel 4: Inter-Religious Relations B: post-1100 CE
Chair: tbc
Razva Aydin (Sakarya University) The Effect of Islamic Thought on Rambam’s Articles of Faith
Yazid Said (Liverpool Hope University) Ali al-Munayyar’s Seventeenth Century Polemical Work against Egyptian Jews and Christians
Rana Abu-Mounes (Al-Maktoum College) The Role of Rumours in the 1860CE Riot of Damascus, an Exacerbating Factor in the Events
Mohammed Metawea (SOAS) Christian Threefold Typology, Islamic Kalam
Panel 5: Islamic Art and Poetry
Chair: Roy Jackson (University of Gloucestershire)
Jenny Norton-Wright (Manchester Museum) Exploring Islamic art in Manchester
Tamadher Alfahal (Birmingham City University) Exploring the Potentials of Adapting Philosophical Principles as a Generative Source for Islamic Creative Expression
Dena Fakhro (SOAS) Blood vengeance as a theme in the classical Arabic poetic tradition and its legacy
Leyla Tajer (Independent Scholar) A Unique Manuscript of Kashi’s Haft-Band: Spiritual Significance and Artistic Aspect
Panel 6: Marrying in Europe: Topography of Muslim Marriage Practices Today
Chair: Yafa Shanneik (University of South Wales)
Iman Lechkar (VUB Free University Brussels) Why do Female Belgian converts marry Islamically?
Annemeik Schlatmann (Utrecht University) Shia marriages in the Netherlands; adapting to Dutch context and western standards
Yafa Shanneik (University of South Wales) Shia Marriage Practices: Karbala as Erinnerungsort in London?
Farida Belkacem (European University Institute, Florence) How do “Western Vocal Muslims” respond to the society debates on same-sex marriage?
17.30 – 18.30 Session Seven: Plenary (Lecture Room)
An Encyclopaedia of Islam for the Twenty-First Centre: What, How, and For Whom?
Everett Rowson (New York University) and Gudrun Krämer (Freie Universität Berlin)
19.00 – 20.00 Dinner
Day 3: Thursday 13th April
09.00 – 10.30 Session Eight: Plenary (Lecture Room)
BRAIS Annual General Meeting and Prize Giving
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 12.30 Session Nine: 6 Parallel panels
Panel 1: Contemporary debates in South-East Asia
Chair: Carool Kersten (King’s College London) (tbc)
Norbani Ismail (Georgetown University) Islamic Reform and Religious Bureaucratization in Malaysia: Mufti as an Agent of Change
Reza Idria (Harvard University/UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh) Sarcasm and Satire: Contesting Sharia Law in Aceh, Indonesia
Siti Syamsiyatun (Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies) Muslim Women shaping Humane Community in Indonesia: Aisyiyah’s contributions and challenges
Leonard Chrysostomos (Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies) Visualising Piety: Muslim Comics in Contemporary Indonesia
Moch Fakhuroji (State Islamic University, Bandung) Islam in Play Store: Islamic Apps and Religious Engagement in Contemporary Indonesia
Panel 2: Global Muslim Minorities
Chair: tbc
Muhammed Haron (University of Botswana) Southern Africa’s Muslim Minorities: Recording their Histories, Annotating their Lives
Louise Lund Liebmann (University of Agder) Ethnicity as a 'priviledged speaking position': Public discourses on Scandinavian Muslims
Riyaz Timol (Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK) Islamic Revivalism and Europe’ s Secular “Sacred Canopy”
Lili Di Puppo (Higher school of Economics) The multiple meanings of “traditional Islam”: Establishing boundaries for Islam in Russia
Panel 3: Exploring Conceptual and Experiential Dimensions of Sufism
Chair: Lloyd Ridgeon (University of Glasgow) (tbc)
Cennet Ceren Cavus (Marmara University) The “Eternal Feminine”: Feminine Aspect of God according to Ibn Arabi and Frithjof Schuon
Eyad Abu Ali (SOAS): The Development of Sufi Dream Theory in the 12th and 13th century: The Emergence of a Systematic Oneirology in Kubrawi Sufism
Jason Welle (The Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies): Mind the Gap: The Spiritual Progress of Early Ṣūfī Women
Santiago Espinosa (University of Granada) Expresions of Wólof cultural identity through contemporary Mouride-Baayfaal Sufi religious praxis in Sacromonte, Granada-Spain
Panel 4: Decoloniality and Dreaming: Filling the Vacuum
Chair: Hizer Mir (University of Leeds)
Syed Mustafa Ali (The Open University – UK) The Revolutionary Heart: Epistemic Decolonization as Revolution
Hizer Mir (University of Leeds) Horizonism: Managing Difference in Islam
Walaa Quisay (University of Oxford) Neo-Traditionalists and Disenchanment: Critiques of Modernity and Secularity
Panel 5: Gendered articulations of pilgrimage to Mecca. Anthropological Approaches
Chair: Marjo Buitelaar (University of Groningen)
Kholoud Al-Ajarma (University of Groningen) Mecca in Morocco: the role of the Hajj in the lives of contemporary Moroccan women
Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany (University of Groningen) Claiming Female Space during the Hajj
Marjo Buitelaar (University of Groningen) Empowerment through Hajj performance. Asra Nomani’s memoir Standing Alone
Anwar Al-Khaldy, (Freie Universität Berlin/ University of Groningen) Reconceptualizing the Hajj as an instrument for women’s self-transformation
Panel 6: Islamic Law in Britain
Chair: Sufyan Abid (University of Chester) (tbc)
Amin Al-Astewani (Lancaster University) The Dynamic Role of Islamic Tribunals in the Modern English Legal System
Naheed Ghauri (Birkbeck College) The Qur’anic model Interaction and Navigation of Islamic Heterogeneous Autonomous Legal Orders with State Law: A Case Study of Muslim Religious Tribunals in the UK
Sairah Al-Qasim (Nottingham Law School) ‘Islamic Law’ as part of legal education for legal professionals in England and Wales
Zainab Naqvi (University of Birmingham) Women’s Experiences and Views of Unregistered Muslim Polygamous and Monogamous Marriages in the UK
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Session Ten: 6 Parallel panels
Panel 1: Higher Education Reform in Muslim Societies
Chair: Anas Al-Shaikh-Ali (AMSS – UK)
Jeremy Henzell-Thomas (Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge) Islamic Education as Holistic Education
Ziauddin Sardar (The Muslim Institute) Higher Education: A Mutually Assured Approach
Ermin Sinanovic (The Fairfax Institute USA) Integration of Knowledge as Reform
Panel 2: Fiqhi Perspectives on Contemporary Issues
Chair: Muhammad Mesbahi (The Islamic College)
Ali Paya (The Islamic College) The Epistemic Status of Fiqh and Shari’a Law
Nehad Khanfar (The Islamic College) What Your Right Hand Possesses: The Islamic legal concept of “Mulk al-yameen” between Family Law and the Law on War and Slavery
Ali Al-Hakim (The Islamic College) The Media: An assessment of being Modern and Islamic, a Fiqhi approach
Amina Inloes (The Islamic College) Virgin Mary in Shi’i hadith and the Struggle over “The Divine Feminine”
Panel 3: Approaches to the Virtues in the Arabic Tradition
Chair: Sophia Vasalou (University of Birmingham)
Neelam Hussain (University of Birmingham) Kitāb Sirr al-Asrār and the Virtues of a Ruler”
Sophia Vasalou (University of Birmingham) Greatness of spirit (iẓam al-himma) in the Arabic tradition
Ayse Icoz (University of Birmingham) Defining a Christian Virtue in the Islamic Context: Merits of Gratitude (shukr) in Elias of Nisibis’ (d.1046) Kitāb Dafʿal-Hamm
Feriel Bouhafa (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) Averroes’ Moral Theory in the Bidāyat al-mujtahid
Panel 4: Inter-Religious Relations C: modern Asia and Africa
Chair: tbc
Amit Sampat (Leiden University) Perceptions of Islam and Muslims by a Hindu Mystic: A Systematic Study of Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani’s Thought on Islam and Muslims
Amar Sohal (University of Oxford) Maulana Azad and the Idea of Parity: A Muslim Argument for Indian Nationalism, 1930-51
Benjamin Kirby (University of Leeds) Rivalrous joking and religious co-presence: daily entanglements of Muslims and Christians in Dar es Salaam
Dicky Sofjan (Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies) Thorn in the Flesh: Islam and Religious Othering in Southeast Asia
Panel 5: Shiite ‘ulama’, the State, and Discourses of Orthodoxy
Chair: Mohammadreza Kalantari (Royal Holloway University of London) (tbc)
Alireza Bhojani (Al -Mahdi Institute) A Justice-orientated ‘Liberal Inclusivism’: Mirza Qummi on the Soteriological Implications of False Belief in Matters of Fundamental Doctrine
Oliver Scharbrodt (University of Chester) Anti-Sufism in Early Qajar Iran: Aqa Muhammad Bihbahani (d.1801) and his Risala-yi khayratiyya
Mohammadreza Kalantari (Royal Holloway University of London) Protecting the Citadel of Islam (Hefz-e Bayza-ye Eslam): a Case of Shiite Clergy and Najaf Seminary in early Hashemite Iraq
Elvire Corboz (Aarhus University, Denmark) Muhsin al-Hakim and Iranian Politics: The Transnational Interventions of a Marja’ on the Rise
Panel 6: Reformulations of Religious Authority in Diasporic Contexts
Chair: tbc
Amine El Yousfi (University of Cambridge) Local Muslim leaders in Paris and London: Re-examining religious authority
Zulfiqar Khimani (University of Cambridge) Transformation of a Community’s Perception of Religious Authority: A Case of Nizari Ismaili Muslims in the United Kingdom
Tazeen Ali (Boston University) Rethinking Interpretative Authority: The Women’s Mosque of America
Jesper Petersen (Lund University) Collective reinterpretation of Islam in the women led Mariam Mosque in Copenhagen
15.00 – 15.30 Tea
15.30 – 17.00 Session Eleven: Plenary and Close (Lecture Room)
When East meets West: cultural contacts across the Mediterranean
Jaakko Hameen-Anttila (University of Edinburgh)
