Categories : Field-specific (academic)

Inaugural Khōjā Studies Conference

14-16 December 2016, CEIAS-EHESS, Paris | Sponsored by The World Federation

A History of the Shi’a People

Click here to download a sample excerpt of the book! (PDF format) This book deals with the history of the Shi’a Ithna-‘Ashari Muslim community from the early days of Islam up to present day.

Some Aspects of Conversion Narratives in Late Safavid Iran and their Circulation: The Case of ʿAlī Akbar Armanī : Eurasian Studies

This study focuses on a conversion narrative from the late Safavid period, the Iʿtirāf-nāma, written by an Armenian merchant known after his conversion as ʿAlī Akbar Armanī. The study addresses questions on the transmission of texts, the conventions of the genre of convert literature, and the socialization of converts into Muslim scholarly families.

International workshop: “Mapping Sunni-Shi‘i Relations in Europe”, University of Gothenburg, 7–9 June 2018.

This workshop aims to explore the multifaceted nature of Sunni-Shi‘i relations in Europe, and analyse how these relations are shaped.

This workshop is the first of a series of exploratory workshops on Sunni–Shi‘i Relations in Europe funded by the Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS). The core team members of the project are Elvire Corboz (University of Edinburgh), Göran Larsson (University of Gothenburg), and Tuomas Martikainen (Migration Institute of Finland), with also the collaboration of Marius Linge (University of Oslo).

For the programme of the workshop or information on the project, please contact Elvire Corboz (elvire.corboz@ed.ac.uk).

La preuve de Dieu. La mystique shi’ite à travers l’oeuvre de Kulaynî de Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi – Les Editions du cerf

Le titre du présent ouvrage est inspiré du Livre de la Preuve (Kitâb al-hujja), oeuvre d’une des autorités religieuses les plus importantes…

SEMINAR TO COMMEMORATE THE MARTYRDOM OF IMAM ALI (a.s.)

35 PARK ROAD, LONDON NW1 6XT

Opposite Mumtaz Restaurant

Tube station: Baker Street

Chair: Farhana Mayer

Since attaining her BA /MA in Arabic with Islamic Studies from Pembroke College, Oxford, Farhana has held tertiary level teaching positions for Sufism at SOAS and at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, where she also taught Qur’an interpretation and was the Academic Coordinator of the Graduate Programme in Islamic Studies & Humanities. She is currently an Aziz Foundation scholar at Oxford University where she is engaged in interdisciplinary doctoral research in the fields of Qur’anic Studies, Muslim theology and jurisprudence. Farhana continues to be involved in community interfaith work and interdenominational ecumenism.

Gulamabbas Lakha

Empirical Research on Integrating Islam with Psychotherapy for Depression

Gulamabbas Murtaza Lakha is undertaking research and teaches Psychology of Religion at the University of Oxford. His doctorate focuses on how Islam could help to address depression in the UK Muslim population. This includes investigating how NHS psychotherapies can be adapted by harnessing cognitive therapies found in ʾakhlāq teachings and mindfulness techniques within dhikr practices. His previous research includes neuro imaging of dhikr; Islamic psychological teachings for anxiety and depression; and early Arabic commentaries on al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya. He holds four master’s degrees spanning Psychology and Neuroscience, Theology, Islamic Studies, History and Arabic from Oxford and the Islamic College in London. His professional training was in financial economics and has twenty years of experience in the investment industry. His community work over the last decade includes lecturing on contemporary Islam across the UK and on Muslim TV channels, having also served as founding principal of the Oxford Madrasa.

Sajjad Rizvi

‘Created for Another Time’: Ethics and Spirituality in Imam Ali’s Advice to his Son

Sajjad Rizvi is Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at the University of Exeter. Trained as a historian at Oxford and Cambridge, he has written extensively on Islamic thought in the early modern period focusing on the Safavid thinker Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī. He spent a post-doctoral year as the first fellow in the new Quranic Studies unit at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London and then taught for 2 years in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Bristol. His current projects include an intellectual history of philosophy in Iran and North India on the cusp of colonialism, an analysis of the noetics of Mullā Ṣadrā, and a short monograph on Mīr Dāmād. He has advised various government departments and private sector concerns on Iraq, Iran, Shiʿi Islam in the Gulf, and Islam in Britain and Europe.

AN OPEN INVITATION

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Call for Papers: Shiʿi Piety: Theory and Materiality from Premodern to Postmodern, November 16, 2018

Hosted by the Leiden University Shiʿi Studies Initiative (LUSSI)

This one-day workshop brings together graduate students and early career scholars working on topics related to Shiʿism in all periods and from any disciplinary perspective. The workshop is open to work on Zaydi, Twelver, Ismaili and other forms of Shiʿism. The aim is thereby to allow for the discussion both of micro-historical and ethnographic specificities as well as long durée patterns and developments.

The workshop will address the concept of piety in its material expression, its literary representation and its theoretical articulation.

Central topics include:
• Belief and its implications in philosophy, theology, and law
• Rites and rituals in spaces and texts
• Spatial, material, and literary manifestations of piety
• Networks
• Impiety
• The daily lives of pious beings

We particularly welcome scholars working on the intersection between the material expression of piety, and the intellectual or theoretical articulation of what it means to be Shiʿi. Contributions will be expected to be clear in how they define and understand piety, whether a theological conception or as lived tradition.

For consideration, please send a 300-word abstract to lussi@hum.leidenuniv.nl by July 15th.

The language of the workshop will be English.

Travel subsidies will be available for participants.

About the Leiden University Shiʿi Studies Initiative.
Islamic studies is a flourishing field, but the study of Shiʿi Islam in all its forms still remains underpopulated. The primary objective of LUSSI is to connect scholars and address lacunae in the field by promoting the study of Shiʿism in all its expressions and disciplinary approaches.

The Chronology of al-Qāḍī l-Nuʿmān’s Works ” Brill Online

A chronology of an author’s works is necessary for understanding his or her intellectual evolution. Al-Qāḍī l-Nuʿmān wrote numerous books on diverse disciplines, such as jurisprudence, history, traditions of the Messenger of God and the Ismāʿīlī imams, biographies of the Fāṭimid caliph-imams, refutations of the Sunnī schools of law, and allegorical interpretation of the Qurʾān and the šarīʿa.

زمینه‌های تبلیغاتی تأسیس دولت‌های سادات در شمال ایران در قرن نهم

پیدایش دولت‌های مرعشیان، آل‌کیا و آل‌عماد و بعد از آن تاسیس دولت صفوی که آن هم ادامه آنها و بر پایه نوعی انقلاب-سیادت بود، نیاز به زمینه‌های تبلیغاتی فراوانی در ایران مرکزی، شمال ایران و خراسان داشت. بخشی از این تبلیغات، در کتاب‌های انساب و عمدتاً بر محور بحرالانساب شکل گرفت.