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Shii News – Hybrid: ‘Silsila, Slave Hegemony, and the Safavid Body Politic’ – J O’Brien (17.10.24, 6pm EST)

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Shii News – AMI: CfP: ‘Reason and Rationality in Islamic Legal Theories and Law’ (Birmingham, 17-18 July, 2025)

Call for Papers: Reason and Rationality in Islamic Legal Theories and Law

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Shii News – Online: ‘What is Shi’ism? Factionalism and Universalism in Islamic Studies’ – O Mir-Kasimov (28.10.24, 5pm UK time)

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Shii News – CfP: Global Shi’ism: Migrations, Diasporas and the Islamic Revival in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’ (Oxford, 3-4 April, 2025)

CfP deadline: 31 October, 2024

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Shii News – ‘The Ottoman Ibadis of Cairo, A History’ – P M Love, Jr

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Shii News – ‘Nahj al-balāgha, Identity and Adab Literature in the Būyid Period’ – G Warner

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Shii News – CfP: ‘Devotion to the Prophet’s Family in Islamic Thought and Practice’ (London, 2025)

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Shii News – ‘ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as a cosmic image in Rajab al-Bursī’s Mashāriq al-anwār’ – M A Mansouri

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Shii News – Hybrid ‘The Early Ismaili da’wa in Central Asia’ – R Adem (London, 5pm, 2.10.24)

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Shii News – Extended deadline: ‘NISIS Autumn School: “Shiism and Sectarian Identities from Pre-Modern to Modern Islam”, Leiden University, 29-31 October 2024’

Papers are invited on all the diverse aspects of Shiism and sectarian relations. Relevant sub-themes include (but are not limited to) those mentioned above, ranging from pre-modern to modern Islam and from the majority-Shiʿi regions in the Persian Gulf to Shiʿi minority communities elsewhere (including in the West).

Papers may take a text-based approach, have their roots in ethnographic fieldwork, be based on political theory, or take another academic approach.

Extended deadline for papers: 29 September 2024.

Full information: https://nisis.sites.uu.nl/2024/09/13/call-for-papers-shiism-and-sectarian-identities-from-pre-modern-to-modern-islam/

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