Categories : Field-specific (academic)

The Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs at the Harvard Divinity School cordially invites you to participate in a workshop, “Ashura: The Life and Legacy of Imam Hussain.” As millions of Muslims prepare to commemorate Ashura with Muharram drawing near, we are proud to present a unique multimedia workshop taking place between July 17th to the 31st.

The workshop includes: academic lectures, philosophy of Ashura storytelling, sayings of the Imams, a special narrative rendition on the life of Imam Hussain, and more.

The workshop provides attendees with resources to study Ashura and the life of Imam Hussain at their own pace within the timeframe of the workshop. There is no daily set time or limited viewing hours for the lectures.

Lectures include:

– An Overview of the Scholarly Study of Ashura and the Life of Imam Hussain
– Life of Imam Hussain (4/626 – 54/680)
– The Legacy of Karbala: Social and Political Reverberances after Ashura in Pre-Modern Islamic History
– Symbolism of Iconic Ashura Rituals in South Asia
– New content available!

Register by July 15, 11:59PM EST.

Register here: http://bit.ly/ashura-harvard.

The Institute of Ismaili Studies is hosting an event In Memory of Professor Wilferd Madelung (1930-2023). Various scholars will contribute to a discussion on Prof. Madelung’s legacy and contribution to the field.

ALL WELCOME in person and online.

Date: Tuesday 18th July
Time: 14:00 (London Time) [for those attending in person there is a small reception at 13:30]

Registration: https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/in-memoriam-professor-wilferd-madelung/

International Intensive Academic Course on Shi’i Theology 2023

The Double Act: Ali-Reza Bhojani and Morgan Clarke discuss the merits and surprises of collaborative research

2 ‘The Hermeneutics of al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā: The Interpretation
of akhbār al-āḥād in Kitāb al-Amālī‘
Ali Aghaei

6 ‘The Words of the Imām beyond Philosophy and Tradition:
Shī`ī Hadith Commentaries in the Ṣafavid Period’
Sajjad Rizvi

9 ‘`Allāma Ṭabāṭabā’ī and Exegetical Hadiths in al-Mῑzān:
A Contemporary Imāmī Commentary on Hadith?’
Shadi Nafisi

Mansur Sefatgol (ed.), Bayāz of the Royal Chancellery of Iran during the Safavid Era: Draft, Register and Rules for Preparing Diplomatic Correspondences (A Study of Iran’s Foreign Relations with Europe, Ottoman, Mughals, and the Khanates of Central Asia),
Tokyo: Research and Information Center for Asian Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo, 2023.
ISBN 978-4-903235-60-8

Download at:

https://repository.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/records/2007610

‘Interconfessional Dialogue on Faḍā`il of the Twelve Imams: Rethinking the Confessional Boundary between Sunnism and Shi`ism in Medieval and Early Modern Islam’
Orient, 58 (March 2023), 171-186.