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Visions of <i>Sharīʿa</i>

Dr Ali- Reza Bhojani, Ph.D. (2013), Durham University, is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education, Lecturer at the Al-Mahdi Institute, and Research Associate at the University of Oxford. He is author of Moral Rationalism and Sharīʿa: A Study of Independent Rationality in Modern Shī ͑ī Uṣūl al-fiqh (Routledge, 2015).

Problematizing Ottoman Sunnism: Appropriation of Islamic History and Ahl al-Baytism in Ottoman Literary and Historical Writing in the Sixteenth Century

A growing number of studies argue that the Ottomans became militantly Sunni in the sixteenth century as they participated in the age of confessionalization. In defining Ottoman Sunnism, state policy and state-appointed jurists and scholars played a significant role.

Conference Call for Papers: Historicizing the Shiʿi hadith Corpus

Hosted by Leiden University Centre for Islam and Society (LUCIS) and Shiʿi Studies Unit, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London (IIS)

Date: June 24-26 2020

Location: Leiden University, the Netherlands

Convenors: Hassan Ansari, Edmund Hayes, Gurdofarid Miskinzoda

Abstract deadline: January 31st 2020

This conference will focus on the processes which led to the early production, evolution, dissemination and canonisation of a set of distinctively Shiʿi hadith corpora. These corpora are both clearly linked to the greater project of hadith in Islam, but they also follow certain, understudied processes specific to the Shiʿi communities. In the conference, both the specificities of the various Shiʿi hadith corpora (Twelver, Zaydi, Ismaili, Nuṣayri, and so on) will be addressed, as well as their links and cleavages with hadith corpora preserved by other Muslim traditions. The focus of this conference will be the period in which the Shiʿi hadith corpora were initially formed and canonized, and therefore will aim at contributions dealing with the years roughly 700-1250 CE, however extensions to this period will be accepted if the case demands it.

This conference will bring together scholars working on the formation and canonisation of Shiʿi hadith, to summarise progress, and sketch out future directions and lacunae. The aim of the conference is to produce a landmark publication for the study of Shiʿi hadith, to be published as part of the Institute of Ismaili Studies’ Shiʿi Heritage Series, and all participants will be expected to submit their papers for consideration in the resulting volume.

Participants in the conference will be asked to present original research which illuminates and reflects upon the key sub-fields of the study of Shiʿi hadith, including particular figures, geographical schools, texts, social contexts, topics and methods. Thus, even if contributions are on a narrowly focused topic, it is essential they address the larger questions and framework of the conference, indicating how their work relates to work that has been done in the larger field, and how it fills a gap or strengthens a direction of research which will be salutary to the field. Contributions might address the following areas for the formative period of the Imami, Ismaili, Zaydi or other Shiʿi traditions:

· Definitions of hadith and hadith studies (comparing Imami, Ismaili, Zaydi perspectives)

· Genres and terms, such as hadith, khabar/akhbār), aṣl, kitāb, muṣannaf, jāmiʿ, masāʾil, nawādir

· Authenticity, dating, transmission history

· Manuscripts of Shiʿi hadith works

· Dealing with particular Imams and the bodies of hadith ascribed to them

· Mechanisms of production, dissemination and circulation of hadith during the lifetime of the Imams and thereafter

· Hadith relating to a particular event, such as the Occultation or the rise of the Fatimids

· Hadith in a particular era of production and compilation, such as the Buyid or Seljuk eras

· Hadith in a particular location, such as Qum or Qayrawan

· Post-classical hadith compilations

· Particular hadith compilers and their works, such as Qāḍī Nuʿmān or Ibn Babawayh

· Hadith of Nusayris, Druze or “ghulāt”

· Hadith and history writing

· Hadith and law

· Hadith and theology, philosophy or mysticism

· Hadith and ethics, piety, practice, liturgy (prayer, ziyāra, etc.)

· Exegetical hadith/ hadith in exegesis

· Apocalyptic hadith

· Science, medicine and magic

· Hadith, adab and poetry

· Hadith and heresiography

· Bio-bibliographical literature (rijāl and fihrist)

· Hadith criticism and commentary

· Isnād criticism

Details

Please send an abstract of around 300 words to e.p.hayes@hum.leidenuniv.nl by January 31st 2020.

Draft papers should be pre-circulated 1 month before the conference.

Final chapters should be submitted for the edited volume by January 31st 2021.

Subsidies for travel and accommodation will be available.

Ma’rifa: A Shi’a Youth Conference

Shi`a students today find themselves dealing with a myriad of challenges. Between the struggles of navigating faith in America, creating spaces to cultivate spirituality, balancing several identities, as well as being a minority within the Muslim community, students need a meaningful forum to engage these issues.

Themed Section on ‘The comparative politics of sub‐state identity in the Middle East’: Nations and Nationalism: Vol 26, No 1

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with articles by Toby Dodge, Fanar Haddad, Raymond Hinnebusch and Morten Valbjørn

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سحابة النور

نظام تشغيل برامج نور عبر الإنترنت

For a detailed overview of the Noor programmes produced by the Computer Research Center of Islamic Sciences, click here.

Shi’i Islam and Sufism

Offering new perspectives on the relationship between Shi’is and Sufis in modern and pre-modern times, this book challenges the supposed opposition between these two esoteric traditions in Islam by exploring what could be called “Shi’i Sufism” and “Sufi-oriented Shi’ism” at various points in history.

Arbaïn, un pèlerinage sous tension à Karbala

Des millions de chiites se sont mis en marche sur les routes menant à Karbala pour le pèlerinage d’Arbaïn, dont la date cette année est le 19 octobre. Aujourd’hui, comme hier, il est un enjeu pour le pouvoir irakien, surtout au moment où des manifestations populaires secouent le pays.

The Kurdish Emirate of Brādōst, 1510-1609 in: Oriente Moderno Volume 99 Issue 3 (2019)

The Brādōst Kurdish emirate, ruling over Rawāndiz and adjoining areas including parts of Urmīya, is one of the numerous Kurdish ruling families of Kurdistan, which succumbed to the conquering Ottoman and Safavid arms in the 16th-century. While Ardalān, Ḥakkārī, Chamīšgazak, and many other Kurdish emirates were yielded to the several recent studies, Brādōst remained a neglected Kurdish emirate.