Categories : Field-specific (academic)

‘A New Source for the Study of Avicenna’s Safavid Reception’
S. Di Vincenzo
Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, 2021

‘Alid loyalty or Shiʿite tendency: a comparative approach to the Alevi Buyruk texts’
R. Erdoğdu-Başaran
Middle Eastern Studies, 2021

‘A Direct Flight to Revolution: Maududi, Divine Sovereignty, and the 1979-Moment in Iran’
S. W. Fuchs,
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2021

‘Misplaced Verses: a Qurʾānic Hermeneutic of One Early Shiite Approach’
J. Witztum
Shii Studies Review, 2020

Opposing the Imam,
The Legacy of the Nawasib in Islamic Literature
N. Husayn
Cambridge, 2021
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/opposing-the-imam/896944C8DFD2A509194523E6D9C5AED2

Online Summer School on Shiʿi Studies
Ahl-ul-Bayt University, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, and Hekmat Institute will hold an online summer school.
Location: Zoom online platform
Time: July 12 to July 31, 2021
(The summer school is in English.)

The International Intensive Academic Course on Shi’i Studies by Hikmat International Institute will cover the history, key doctrines, branches, rituals and practices, spiritual teachings as well as political thought of Shi’I Islam. It will mainly focus on the Twelver Shi’I tradition, to which the majority of the Shia belong today. This is a university-level course and is designed mainly for students and academics who wish to enhance their understanding of Shi’I Islam. This is the most comprehensive course you can find online about Shi’i Islam as there will be 18 sessions to cover a wide variety of different aspects of this important faith tradition. Instructors are among the best academics in these fields. Each session will be 2 to 3 hours based on the plan of the instructor to be made up of activities and delivery as they see fit.

Important Dates
Registration Start April 10, 2021
Early Bird Discount June 10, 2021
Registration Deadline June 30
Course Start July 12, 2021
Course End July 31, 2021

For further information and to register, see here.

‘Aurangzeb as seen from Gujarat: Shi‘i and Millenarian Challenges to Mughal Sovereignty’
S. Sheikh
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2018

‘Karamah (‘marvel’): an exploration of the literal and ethnographic meaning of miracles among Shi`a female artists in Kuwait’
N. Al-Hudaid
World Art, Volume 10, 2020 – Issue 1: Art, Dreams and Miracles: Ethnographic Reflections and Representations

‘Divine Sovereignty and Clerical Authority in Early Shi‘i Islamism: Bāqir al-Ṣadr (1935–80) and Taqī al-Mudarrisī (b. 1945) on the Islamic State’
O. Scharbrodt
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2021

Hijab, Three Modern Iranian Seminarian Perspectives
L. Ridgeon
Gingko, 2021
https://www.gingko.org.uk/title/hijab/