Horizon 2020

INSTITUTE OF ARAB AND ISLAMIC STUDIES Hawza Studies: Current Research, Future Developments College of Social Sciences and International Online Workshop Studies Stocker Road Sponsored by LAWALISI projectExeter (Law, Authority and Learning in ImamiEX4 Shiite 4ND Islam)

www.lawalisi.eu Tel: +44 (0) 1392 264025 th Fax: +44 (0) 1392 724035 17 September 2020 Email: [email protected] 16 JanuaryFunded 2018 by the European Research CouncilWeb: (No. www.exeter.ac.uk/iais 695245)

Dear friends

0945 ParticipantsRE: LAWALISI log onUṣūl to Workshop: Zoom Texts(instructions on Naskh in late below) classical Uṣūl al- Monday 22nd January 2018: The Deer Park Hotel 1000 Welcome (Rob Gleave) We are looking forward to welcoming you next week for the uṣūl texts workshop, convened as part of the LAWALISI project. The programme is on the next page, but here are some practical details: 1015 Rob Gleave, “Hawza and Haram: The Scholarly-Shrine Relationship” Workshop venue: 1045 MaryamThe Rutner Deer Park, Hotel“Maktab -e Fāṭemeh: Educating Women in Islamic Sciences in EX14 3PG in the 1960s”Tel: 01404 41266

1115 Arun Rasiah,Some of you “From will have Qum visited to there Colombo: before. It isNew a lovely Iterations country house of in rural Devon, Life about in 30 South Asia” mins by car from Exeter. The nearest train station is Honiton, which is a 5-10 minute taxi drive from the hotel. My colleague Pam Navran will have contacted you directly regarding your travel, 1145 Generalincluding discussion where necessary, taxis from Honiton station or elsewhere as appropriate.

For your information, telephone numbers are: 1200 Lunch HomeBreak Tel: 01884266416 Office Tel: 01392264025 1400 Roja Fazaeli,Mobile: 07785542174 "Gendered Spaces of the Hawza: Women's agency, religiosity and state control" Pam’s number: 01392 264040 (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 0925 – 1530)

1430 MorganAccommodation Clarke and and Alireza Meals: Bhojani, “The jāhil and the ‘ālim: ordinary people’s taqlīd Accommodation and all meals will take place at the Deer Park Hotel. We convene on Sunday night of Hawza authority”for a meal at around 1900. The workshop will commence at 0930 on Monday morning and end at around 1800 in the evening of the same day. 1500 Break I hope this is all clear and look forward to seeing you!

1515 MaryamRob Moazzen , “The Institutional Restructuring of the Shi‘i Higher Learning: Ḥawza-yi ‘Ilmiya -yi Qum under the Leadership of Ayatullahs Ḥā’irī and Borujirī”

1545 Ahab Bdaiwi, “Whence Islam? The Origin of Islam Question in the Shii Hawza”

1615 Closing remarks

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