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Registration Now Open for the 12th Annual Fiqhi Workshop on ‘Language and Meaning in Islamic Legal Theory’

Al-Mahdi Institute is pleased to announce that registration for its 12th annual AMI Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop titled ‘Language and Meaning in Islamic Legal Theory’ running from 4th – 5th July 2024 is now open!
The workshop aims to bring together scholars knowledgeable in Islamic legal theory, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of language to explore nuanced aspects of language and meaning discussed in Islamic legal theory.
Click here to find out more or register now.

(Link for More Information on the Conference: https://www.almahdi.edu/fw24)

NISIS Autumn School ’24: “Shiism and Sectarian Identities from Pre-Modern to Modern Islam”, Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies, Leiden University, 29-31 October 2024

Papers are invited on all the diverse aspects of Shiism and sectarian relations, 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 toward the overarching subject of the Autumn School.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2024.
Information: https://nisis.sites.uu.nl/2024/06/04/call-for-papers-shiism-and-sectarian-identities-from-pre-modern-to-modern-islam/

At the BRISMES 2024 Conference panels with papers of potential interest to Shii News include:
(2A) Historical Perspectives on Lebanese Politics
(3L) Intellectual Histories and Debates in the Islamic World
(5A) (Anti-)Sectarian Tensions and Discourses in the Middle East
(5C) Religion, Materiality and Aesthetics
(5E) Scholarly Figures Across the Indo- Iranian World
(7C) The Role of Religious Institutions, Platforms and Leaders in MENA Politics
(8H) Afghanistan’s Hazaras: History, Politics and Culture Locally and Beyond

The Conference Programme for the 2024 BRISMES annual conference (1-3 July) can be found at: