PRACTICES OF DEVOTION TO THE AHL-E BAIT
AT HOME AND IN DIASPORA:
MATERIALITY, RITUAL, AND THE DIGITAL SENSES
Tuesday, May 23 2023
9:00 am – 7:00 pm
A one-day workshop co-organized by
Michel Boivin (CNRS-CESAH) and Karen Ruffle (University of Toronto)
Campus Condorcet – Bâtiment de Recherche Sud
Room 0.015 – 5 cours des Humanités – 93300 Aubervilliers
https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2023/05/Ahl-e-bait.pdf

Al-Mahdi Institute Research Seminars

All seminars are hybrid with instructions for joining online and in-person provided on each of the links below. All times are UK times.

Wednesday 10^th May, 15:00 – 16:30

Before “After Virtue”: The Philosophy of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr

Mehdi Ali, University of Southern California

Wednesday 31^st May, 15:00 – 16:30

A letter from ʿAlī on the history of the caliphate: A key source text

Nebil Husayn, University of Miami

Wednesday 14^th June, 15:00 – 16:30

Counter-securitization among Shia Muslims in Birmingham

Guillermo Martín-Sáiz, Durham University

The Clergy and the Modern Middle East
Shi’i Political Activism in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/clergy-and-the-modern-middle-east-9780755644872/

Incidents of Anti-Shiism, March 2023

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13530194.2022.2126349?src=recsys

‘A Shi`i Lebanese reading of Sunni Hadith: progress, inclusivity, and an empowered contestation of narratives’
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2023
Access here

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sunni-shia-relations-saudi-ramadan-series-by-toby-matthiesen-2023-03

See also:
https://www.edu.momento-films.com/product-page/the-sky-wept-for-forty-days