Categories : Field-specific (academic)

Conferences

Paper to be presented at 8th IDHN (Islamicate Digital Humanities Network) Conference.
To register:
https://georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckc-ChrTIrEtUev9h3Qc1FpkLjNXGu6AG0

Open Access:
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/the-renaissance-of-shii-islam-facets-of-thought-and-practice/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_content=The%20Renaissance%20of%20Shi%27i%20Islam%20book%20cover&utm_campaign=NL-CT_Islamic%20studies_OCT_22_UK

Centre for Shia and Cultural Studies: Online Courses

Tenets of Tashayyu’ will be running for eight weeks every Sunday at 2:00 pm GMT (UK time) from 30th October to 18th December 2022.

What is the Shīʿī path? Is it a political movement that emerged in reaction to certain historical events; a manifestation of Islam characterised by protest; a school of thought? This course provides an outline of some of the tenets of tashayyu’ (practicing the Shīʿī way) based upon the early texts and teachings of the Imams (as). It elucidates tashayyu’ as a path of love founded upon walāya (the dynamic bond between the Divine, the messengers and imams, and those on the path) and the transmission of hikma (light and wisdom) from the Imam to his Shīʿa. It also explores two of the key components of tashayyu’: the practice of taqīyya (precautionary dissimulation) and ʿadl (the principle of justice).
To book, see the options below.
https://onlineshiastudies.com/courses/tenets-of-tashayyu/

Esoteric Knowledge in Tashayyu’ will be running on Saturdays for eight weeks 5th November 2:00 pm to 24th December UK time.

Esoteric knowledge in the Islamic tradition is most often associated with Sufism (tasawwuf); however, Sufism developed as a culture only around the ninth century CE during the period of the latter Imamates. A large proportion of the teachings that began to be circulated by certain figures that claimed their authorship can actually be found in the much earlier hadīth collections and writings of the Imams of Ahl al-Bayt (as). In addition, there is evidence that the Imams dissociated themselves, both physically and verbally, from the emerging mystical movements that ignored the fundamental matter of the walāya of the Ahl al-Bayt (as).
This course opens with an introduction to the definition of esoteric knowledge in various cultures, leading up to that of Islam. It then examines the lesser known speeches of Imam ʿAlī ibn Abī Tālib (as). The course also gives an overview of the spiritual hierarchy of the elite Shīʿa; the schemas of a number of cosmic hierarchies from different religious traditions, and explores the phenomena of external time (zamān āfāqī) and internal time (zamān anfūsī). Finally, the practices of asceticism (zuhd), remembrance of God (dhikr) and love for God (mahābba) are discussed in light of the Qur’ān and hadīth of the Ahl al-Bayt (as).
To book, see the options below.
https://onlineshiastudies.com/courses/esoteric-knowledge-in-tashayyu/

For more information:
https://onlineshiastudies.com/

Religious Diversity in Contemporary Shi‘i Thought: The Views of Ayatollah ‘Abdollah Javadi-Amoli and Professor Mahmoud Ayoub
Saeid Sobhani
London: ICAS Press, 2022

“BARAKA BODIES: PRESENCE, ABSENCE, AND OBJECT AGENCY IN SOUTH ASIAN SHIʿI MATERIALITY”

[Silsila Fall 2022 Series]

Karen Ruffle, University of Toronto

Wednesday, October 12th, 12:30pm EDT

[Webinar] Silsila Fall 2022 Lecture Series, Body and Senses

Shiʿi image-objects capable of engaging in the production of acts such as taʿziyas (replicas of Imam Husain’s shrine-tomb in Karbala), ʿalams (metal standards representing the Imams or family of the Prophet Muhammad, the Ahl-e Bait), tabuts (coffin replicas), jhulas (the cradle of Husain’s infant son ʿAli Asghar), and Husain’s battle horse Zuljanah are visual images that stimulate acts of religious seeing for South Asian Shiʿa, making present the absent Imams and Ahl-e Bait.

As forms of Shiʿi materiality, image-objects such as the taʿziya and ʿalam, are focal objects that promote reciprocal visual exchange, creating cultural memory and social interaction. Through acts of reciprocal gazing, the image-object is transformed from object to subject, endowed with agency to work miracles, to intercede for devotees, and to hear devotees’ prayers.

Full details of the event and a link to register as an attendee can be found at:

https://as.nyu.edu/silsila/events/2022-2023/baraka-bodies–presence–absence–and-object-agency-in-south-asi.html

Only registered attendees will be able to access this event.