For the text, see:
https://www.jamesmdorsey.net/post/a-battle-for-the-soul-of-islam-plays-out-in-a-bahrain-courtroom

IMES Research Seminar Series
University of Edinburgh, Spring 2022
“De-centring (the study of) Shiʿism”

This Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (IMES) Research Seminar Series builds on recent calls to “de-centre Shiʿism” (M. Künkler and M. Clarke, 2018). It brings together a range of perspectives on historical and contemporary topics that move beyond the cores and hierarchies within Shi‘ism – whether temporal, geographical, textual or sociological – which have long been assumed and given prominence in the field of Shiʿi studies. The Series also explores avenues to open up the field beyond its Shiʿi-centric confines and encourage more dialogue with the fields of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies more broadly.

The Monday seminars take place at 5.15pm UK time on Zoom. All welcome. To register, https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcuyvqjgvHdaSodYsuXt5D9W4T3lim0DW.

7 February Edmund Hayes (Radboud University)
Decentring the Imamate: Did the Imams Create Shiʿism, or Did the Shiʿa Create the Imams?

21 February Lucy Deacon (UoE)
Karbala from Canvas to Stage: The Influence of Traditional Storytelling on the Iranian Taʿziyeh
Carlos Mendez (UoE)
Exploring the Intra-Shiʿi Moral Panic behind the Controversial Film “The Lady of Heaven”

7 March Siti Sarah Muwahidah (UoE)
Carving an Inclusive Online Learning Space Under Constraints: A Study of Minority Shiʿi Women’s Digital Da’wa_in Indonesia

21 March Jeroen Gunning (Aarhus University/London School of Economics) & Morten Valbjørn (Aarhus University)
Where Have All the (Sunni) Islamists Gone? Bridging Studies of Sunni and Shia Islamism

4 April Songül Mecit (UoE)
Transnational Lives and Transnational Politics: The Alevis in Germany

For enquiries, please contact the convenor of the Series, Elvire Corboz (elvire.corboz@ed.ac.uk)

‘The Historical Roles of Jihād in Sunnī-Shīʿī Relations’
D. Stewart,
The Journal of the Middle East and Africa Volume 12, 2021 – Issue 2

Global Dynamics of Shi’a Marriages,
Religion, Gender, and Belonging
Edited by Yafa Shanneik, Annelies Moors
Rutgers University Press, 2021
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