Categories : Field-specific (academic)

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:

https://www.gorgiaspress.com/al-abbas

This class will commence with translating and discussing Volume One of Henry Corbin’s four-volume masterpiece, En Islam Iranien (Inside Iranian Islam). In this volume, subtitled Spiritual and Philosophical Aspects, Henry Corbin elaborates upon the Twelver ShīꜤī concept of imamate (sacred leadership) and spiritual path in the ShīꜤī tradition.

Importantly in his study, Henry Corbin challenges the secular understanding of time and posits that, in order to apprehend the true teaching of this tradition, it is necessary to revive a ‘way of seeing’ that can perceive the more subtle ‘time of the soul’.

Sessions are £20.00/$25.00 and seventy-five minutes long. Once you have booked, you will be sent the Zoom link and a copy of the text that we will be discussing.

Next class Tuesday 18th June 2024 19:30-20:45 UK time.

If this time is not convenient for you, please contact info@onlineshiastudies.com to arrange another time.

Topic: Chapter One ‘ShiꜤism and Iran’.

Please click on the link for payment details:

https://onlineshiastudies.com/courses/henry-corbin-study-class/

HYBRID Book Presentation “Religion That Matters: Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala”by Fouad Gehad Marei (Lund University), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 6 June 2024, 5:00 pm CEST
The book engages with conceptual debates in the fields of Religious Studies, Material Religion, Anthropology of Religion, Media Studies, and Cultural and Heritage Studies. By examining how material things make the praesentia of the Sacred tangible, how they cultivate intimate relations between human and more-than-human beings, the book makes several propositions that push the frontiers of the social and anthropological
study of religion.

Register at:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrcuqgrDsuHtJwD9CbctpsgRI6YACpf5Xf#/registration

Zahir Bhalloo, book launch, Islamic Law in Early Modern Iran, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023

Oberseminar summer 2024, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München

May 27 2024, 6:00 pm, Central European Time (CET)

To attend online please contact m.hascisalihoglu@lmu.de / a.tiburcio@lmu.de

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