Conferences and Workshops


 Conferences and Workshops

·   “Avoiding the Ruler: Piety And Quietism In Imami Ethical Discourse” ― Workshop on Typologies in the Islamic Ethical Discourse, Orient-Institute Beirut & American University of Beirut, 10th-11th March 2022.

 

·   “A Suggested Curriculum in Rijāl al-Najāshī: Shiʿi Imami teaching at the turn of the 5th/11th Century” ― Schools, Networks and Communities in the Study of Early Shiʿi Ḥadīth, 2nd online workshop held by the Shiʿi Hadith Project. 27th-28th May 2021.

 

·   Ḥadīth and fiqh Revisited: Depictions of legal dispute (khilāf) in early Imami ḥadīth compendia” ― Historicizing the Shiʿi hadith Corpus, Leiden, NL – postponed due to Corona pandemic (originally planned on 24-26th June 2020; now expected in January 2022).

 

·   Ibn Abī ʿAqīl wa-Ibn al-Junayd bayna al-dhākira wa-l-nisyān” (in Arabic) ― Joint conference between Najaf Seminary (Ḥawza) and Göttingen University. Göttingen, October 2018.

 

·      “Early Imāmī Legal Discourse: The Case of Ibn Abī ʿAqīl and Ibn al-Junayd” ― 29th Annual Meeting of Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI). University of Münster, 10-14th September 2018.

 

·   “The Intellectual and the Ruler: Society, Government and Authority in Miskawayh’s Gedankenwelt,” — SFB 1136 (Bildung und Religion) – International Conference: “Ethical Instruction as Educational Discourse: Thought and Impact of the Classical Muslim Thinker Miskawayh (d. 1030) between Reception and Transformation,” Göttingen 24.-27. Mai, 2018.

 

·   Presenter: Mirzā al-Qummī on Abrogation (naskh) in Qawānīn al-UṣūlUṣūl Texts Workshop (on Abrogation), LAWALISI project (Law, Authority and Learning in Imāmī Shīʿī Islam), Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK – January 22nd, 2018.

 

·   “The Appointees of ʿAlī in Nahj al-Balāghah” — Nahj al-Balāghah: The Words of ʿAlī, London: The Shiʿah Institute - 3rd Annual Symposium 14th-15th December 2017.

 

·   “The disciples of al-Shaykh: Imāmī Legal Scholarship after al-Ṭūsī (d. 460/1067)” — Shi’i Studies: The State of the Art: International Conference held at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ - December 7th-9th, 2017.

 

·   Presenter: al-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī on contradictory reports in Mukhtalaf al-ShīʿaUṣūl-furūʿ Texts Workshop, LAWALISI project (Law, Authority and Learning in Imāmī Shīʿī Islam), Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK – October 9th-10th, 2017.

 

·   “Ḥasan and Ḥusayn in Qurʾān: Portrayals and Perceptions of Shīʿī Exegeses” — 33. Deutscher Orientalistentag: „Asien, Afrika und Europa,“ Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 18.–22. September 2017.

 

·   “Miskawayh's Kitāb al-Saʿāda: Background and Reception” — SFB 1136 (Bildung und Religion) – Workshop: Islamische Ethik bei Miskawaih: Werk und Rezeption, Göttingen 11-12 May 2017.

 

·   “Working for the Unjust Ruler in Early Imāmī Thought” — 227th Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society. Los Angeles, California, 17th-20th March 2017.

 

·   “‘Kitāb and Waṣiyya’: Narratives of Imāma and succession to Ḥusayn on the day of ʿĀshurāʾ” — Lamenting Karbala: Commemoration, Mourning, and Memory. London: The Shiʿah Institute - 2nd Annual Symposium 31st August – 2nd September 2016.

 

·   “Scholars of Ḥilla and Early Imāmī Legal Tradition: Ibn Abī ʿAqīl and Ibn al-Junayd Retrieved” — University of Chicago Shi'i Studies Group Symposium: The Acquisition and Transmission of Knowledge, Chicago, April 1st-2nd, 2016.

 

·   Al-Fiqh li-ʾl mughtaribīn: Shīʿī Jurisprudence for Expatriates”— 3rd Sharīʿa Project (A UK-Netherlands Islamic Legal Studies Network funded by NWO-AHRC), Leiden University, November 15th -16th, 2013.