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BLM: Bilal and the formation of the early …

Recent events highlight the religious obligation of engaging with, contributing to and supporting social justice movements. Black Lives Matter has spread across the world. In different places and spaces the violence of racism is being challenged. Black lives also matter throughout time.

Recent events highlight the religious obligation of engaging with, contributing to and supporting social justice movements. Black Lives Matter has spread across the world. In different places and spaces the violence of racism is being challenged. Black lives also matter throughout time. The life of Bilal needs to be re-examined from early Islamicate sources that need to be recovered to illustrate how the indomitable spirit of faith deals with subjection, racism, religious persecution and political marginalisation. Bilal is not a token, but a symbol. Bilal helps make the Muslim Ummah truly universal.

Join Sheikh Dr. Tajul Islam (Iqbal Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam), Professor S. Sayyid (Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies) and Sheikh Ahmed Haneef (Islamic Centre of England) for a conversation on the role of Bilal in disrupting racial and social hierarchies and underwriting the egalitarianism of the Islamicate.

WHERE?
SR (1.08), Parkinson Building, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9JT

WHEN?
Monday the 20th March 2017
18:30 – 20:30

Brought to you by:
Iqbal Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam
Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies
ReOrient; The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies
LUU Ahlul Bayt Islamic Society
LUU Islamic Society

The Zaydi Manuscript Tradition

Alberto Tiburcio
‘Muslim-Christian Polemics and Scriptural Translation in Safavid Iran: ʿAli-Qoli Jadid al-Eslām and his Interlocutors’Iranian Studies, 50/2 (2017) 247-69

Apologies for the error in the date for the Second International Ismaili Studies Conference, which in fact commences tomorrow!

Second International Ismaili Studies Conference Program – Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam

L’imamat et l’Occultation selon l’imamisme

AMI Research Seminars Spring 2017

16th March 2017:
Dr Jafar Morvarid (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad)
“Theology of Shi‘ite Ziyārah: the Case for a Norm-Sensitive Approach to Religion”

27th April 2017:
Dr Mansur Ali (Cardiff University)
“Shifting discourse in the Muslim organ donation debate: reports of finding”

18th May 2017:
Dr Arzina R Lalani (The Institute of Ismaili Studies)
Title: tbc

Oxford Bibliographiues Online
Hadith: Shi’i, Kumail Rajani
Introduction

Hadith, according to Imami Shiʿi Islam, is narrative record of a saying, deed, or tacit approval attributed to one of the People of the Household (Ahl al-bayt): fourteen infallibles which include Prophet Muhammad, his daughter Fatima, and twelve rightly guided Imams appointed by the Prophet. Ismaʿili Shiʿa will concur with this definition through their chain of Imams, whereas Zaydi Shiʿa would be more open to embrace the sayings of the Companions. Generally, the chain of narrators of a particular report is supposed to be considered a part of hadith, making hadith a combination of chain of narrators (al-sanad) and text (al-matn). Theoretically, hadith serves the purpose of an auxiliary source to the Qur’an but in practice it is the focal point of reference for jurisprudence, Qur’anic exegesis, theological doctrines, and moral values. The distinct feature of Shiʿi Hadith literature, Zaydis being an exception, is the absence of hadith narrated by a Companion of the Prophet.

Read more here.

Introduction To Islam

Introduction to Rijal Studies