Categories : Field-specific (academic)

Female Religious Authority in Shi’i Islam
Past and Present
Edited by Mirjam Künkler and Devin J. Stewart
Edinburgh, 2021

Patterns of Wisdom in Safavid Iran
The Philosophical School of Isfahan and the Gnostic of Shiraz
J. Esots
Bloomsbury, 2021

DFDS 8th meeting (Winter 2021)
https://chat.whatsapp.com/ChiWkBj2mW0Ln9Ld7QpAJQ

Presenter:
Dr. George Warner
Center for Religious Studies
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

The Subject:
‘Ḥadīth Compilation and Authorial Agency: The Case of al-Shaykh al-Ṣadūq’s Kitāb al-Tawḥīd‘

Meeting Manager:
Dr. Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi, University of Tehran, Iran

Wednesday Nov.24, 2021, 4 p.m. Tehran Zone

More information via:
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/p/48/DFDS-8th-meeting-(Winter-2021-Series)/

Saturday 4th of December 2021
5:00 pm – 7:30 pm (UK Time)
The Islamic College
on Zoom
‘Fiqh and Expedience’
Ayatollah Abolghasem Alidoust
Prof. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im

Ayatollah Abolghasem Alidoust (Qom Seminary, Iran)
A senior Iranian cleric and legal scholar and professor of Fiqh at the Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought. He is a recipient of the Iranian Book of the Year Award for his book entitled Fiqh and Maslaha.

Prof. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im (Emory University, USA)
An internationally recognized scholar of Islam and human rights, Prof. An-Na’im teaches courses in international law, comparative law, human rights, and Islamic law. He is the author of Islam and the Secular State (Harvard University Press, 2008)

For more information and to register:
https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/2021/11/2nd-webinar/

‘Deconstructing Memories of Ali in Sunni and Shi’i Islam’
Nebil Husayn, 22.11.21 2 pm EST
Islam’s fourth caliph, Ali, can be considered one of the most revered figures in Islamic history. His nearly universal portrayal in Muslim literature as a pious authority obscures a centuries-long process that entailed the rehabilitation of his character. For many years, some Muslims disliked Ali and considered him an illegitimate ruler. In his new book, Opposing the Imam, Nebil Husayn considers the diverse ways in which early Muslims remembered Ali and contextualizes the rise of both Sunnism and Shi’ism. This presentation discusses key findings from this recent publication.
For more info and to register:
https://shiism.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/deconstructing-memories-ali-sunni-and-shi%CA%BFi-islam

Registration is now open for “Fatimid Cosmopolitanism: History, Material Culture, Politics and Religion” (Dec 6-9, 2021), an online conference which aims to progress the field of Fatimid studies by examining their political, cultural, artistic, social, economic and intellectual interactions. We welcome researchers and scholars with an interest in these areas to join.
For further information and to register:

5e journée d’études sur le chiisme contemporain’
vendredi 19 novembre 2021 – 10:00 – 16:00
Journée organisée avec le soutien du Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes (LEM), et du Groupe Sociétés Religions Laïcités (GSRL).
Organisateurs : Constance Arminjon (EPHE – PSL, GSRL) et Rainer Brunner (CNRS, LEM).
Lieu : Maison des sciences de l’Homme – 54, boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris, salle 20.
More information and to register:
https://www.ephe.psl.eu/agenda/5e-journee-d-etudes-sur-le-chiisme-contemporain

Hidden Empires and Muslim Sectarian Identities: The Emergence of Shi’a Sects in Early Islam (7th – 10th Centuries CE)
Mohammad Sagha, Humanities Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
Date: Monday, November 15, 2021, 3:00pm to 4:30pm, EST
Location: Online Zoom Webinar
To Register:
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_elngLU1kRAaHwlgqf8nMMA

ONLINE Mathieu Terrier (CNRS, LEM) : « L’opposition au pouvoir dans le shi’isme imâmite à la période prémoderne : de la révolte armée au contre-pouvoir spirituel », IISMM, Paris, 9 novembre 2021, 18h30 – 20h CET
Ses recherches portent principalement sur les ouvrages de « vies et doctrines des sages » dans le monde arabo musulman, l’évolution des idé es théologiques et philosophiques en islam shî‘ite de l origine à l ’époque moderne et la formation de la « philosophie shî‘ite » entre le XIVe et le XVIIe siècle.
Information et inscription https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e5Lagn9jhY

The department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to invite you to an online conversation with Dr Lloyd Ridgeon on Thu, 18 November 2021, 17:00 – 18:00 GMT. We will discuss his new book, Hijab: Three Modern Iranian Seminarian Perspectives.
The event is free but you need to register via the link below:
https://hijabbooklaunch.eventbrite.co.uk
Dr Lloyd Ridgeon’s book addresses the differences of opinion among seminarians on the hijab in the Islamic Republic of Iran. It focuses on three representative thinkers: Murtaza Mutahhari who held veiling to be compulsory, Ahmad Qabil who argued for the desirability of the hijab, and Muhsin Kadivar who considers it neither necessary nor desirable.
Join Lloyd in conversation with Professor Nacim Pak Shiraz, Personal Chair of Cinema and Iran at the University of Edinburgh, to discuss the book and its themes.