Categories : Field-specific (academic)

Global Dynamics of Shi’a Marriages,
Religion, Gender, and Belonging
Edited by Yafa Shanneik, Annelies Moors
Rutgers University Press, 2021
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‘Could we use blood donation campaigns as social policy tools?: British Shi’i ritual of giving blood’
M. Hashemi,
Identities, Global Studies in Culture and Power, 2020

Law and Authority in Shi’ite Islam

British association for Islamic Studies online panel

Thursday 17 June, 3pm-4.45pm BST

Attendance is free and all are welcome. Participants should register in advance. To register click here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2021/brais-2021-online-series-registration

Chair: Rob Gleave (University of Exeter)

Raha Rafii (University of Exeter) Envisioning the Medieval Judge in the Genre of Adab al-qāḍī: The Protocol of the Judge.”

Kumail Rajani (University of Exeter) Even if the Prophet did not Say it”

Cameron Zargar (University of Exeter) Marja’iyya between law and laity: the requirements of jurists as imagined by their followers”

ONLINE Lecture: “Living the Love of the Imams in Twelver Shi’a Islam in Iran. Objects and Materials as a Vehicle for Devotion”, by Sepideh Parsapajouh (CNRS-CéSor/EHESS), Orient-Institut Istanbul, 16 June 2021, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm TRT

Based on field research, the lecturer will address the issue of religious materiality in the life of some Iranians Imamite Shi’a groups on three levels: in their daily lives; in the ceremonies and particular rituals on annual occasions, and finally in pious visits (ziyârat).

Please register your name and academic affiliation at events@oiist.net.
Information: https://www.oiist.org/veranstaltungen

‘Legacies of Islamic Ecumenicism:
Taqrib, Shi’a-Sunni Relations, and Globalized Politics in the Middle East’
Weatherhead Center, 2021
M. Sagha, ed.
https://shiism.wcfia.harvard.edu/publications/legacies-islamic-ecumenicismtaqrib-shia-sunni-relations-and?

Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought
Massignon, Corbin, Jambet
Z. Elmarsafy
Bloomsbury, 2021
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/esoteric-islam-in-modern-french-thought-9781780938240/

‘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