Shii News – Papers at 2022 Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS)

BRAIS 2022: Provisional Programme
Papers of potential interest to Shii News readers:
(for fuller information, see the above link to the programme)

Torsten Hylen (Dalarna University) Three times Karbalāʾ: comparing early accounts of the death of al-Ḥusayn
Siti Sarah Muwahidah (University of Edinburgh) Shi’i Women’s Digital Da’wa in Indonesia: Nurturing New Female Authorities And Bridging Sectarian Divides
Oliver Scharbrodt (Lund University) Contesting Ritual Practices in Twelver Shiism: Modernism, Sectarianism and the Politics of Self-Flagellation (taṭbīr)
Faezeh Izadi (University of Calgary) Religion in the face of the modern world: A case study of Radical Life Extension and Shia Islam
Murtaza Shakir (Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah) The Beseeched Burial: Reflections on the Historical Events Associated with the Shrine of Al-Sayyida Nafīsa in Cairo
Muhammad Tajri (Al-Mahdi Institute) Evolution of Shīʿī Taqlīd on UK University Campuses
Olav Elgvin (University of Bergen) For the Greater Good: Common Goals and Institutional Sunni-Shi‘a Cooperation in Norway
Teemu Pauha (University of Helsinki) Mut‘a marriage, online boundary-work, and the social psychology of Sunni-Shi‘a relations
Elvire Corboz (University of Edinburgh) and Emanuelle Degli-Esposti (University of Cambridge) From the margins to the centre: Shi‘a-led grassroots organisations and the shaping of an inclusive Muslim identity in Britain
Jesper Petersen (Copenhagen University) Observing the Sunni-Shia divide in fieldwork
Lucy Deaon (University of Edinburgh) Karbala on Stage: Retelling the Martyrdom of Imam Husain in the Iranian Taʿziyeh

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