Categories : Field-specific (academic)

Including:
Edmund Hayes, “The Epistolary Imamate: Circular Letters in the Administration of the Shiʿi Community”;
Georg Leube, “Local Elites during Two Periods of Civil Strife: Al-Ashʿath b. Qays, Muḥammad b. al-Ashʿath, and the Quarter of Kinda in Seventh-Century Kufa”;
Nimrod Hurvitz, “Rulers, Ḥanābila, and Shiʿis: The Unravelling Social Cohesion of Fourth/Tenth-Century Baghdad”;
Paul Walker, “Resistance to and Acceptance of the Fatimids in North Africa: A Shiʿi Dynasty in Negotiation with Both Adherents and Enemies”

9 December 2024 – When does a group become a group? Remarks on the ‘birth’ of Shi’i Sufism, academic reification, and the issue of confessional identity
With Dr. Alessandro Cancian (Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies)
13 January 2025 – Ismaili Cosmology : Nature and Religion
With Dr. Daryoush Mohammad Poor (Associate Professor and the Interim Head of the Constituency Studies Unit at the Institute of Ismaili Studies)
3 March 2025 – Reconstructing the Higher Thought of Muhammad b. ‘Abd al-Karīm al-Shahrastānī (d.548/1153): Eclecticism or Intellectual Synthesis?
With Dr. Toby Mayer (Senior Research Associate at the the Institute of Ismaili Studies)
11 April 2025 – Expressions of Islamic Syncretism in the Ismaili Traditions – The Case of the Nizari Ismailis of Central Asia
With Dr. Hakim Elnazarov (Head of the Central Asian Studies at the Institute of Ismaili Studies)

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/banquet-of-the-brethren-an-ismaili-guide-to-spiritual-hermeneutics-9780755653928/

Zahra Institute:
Wednesday, 4 December, at 6 PM Central/ 7 PM Eastern Time.
Dr. Akihiko Yamaguchi will present, “Safavid Policy in the Kurdish Borderlands: A Comparative Study with Ottoman Kurdish Policies”.

Dr. Yamaguchi is a professor of Middle Eastern History at Sophia University in Tokyo. His research primarily focuses on the history of Iran from the 16th to early 20th centuries, with a special emphasis on minorities and peripheral regions.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95861905448?pwd=GVhh6furcdhIwnCnqxdLlRrIVF26yD.1

See:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/early-nizari-ismailis-and-their-neighbouring-powers-9780755656677/

For further information:
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/publications/acss/cfp/