British Association for Annual Conference 2015 Conference Programme Monday 13th – Wednesday 15th April 2015

Day 1: Monday 13th April 2015

REGISTRATION and refreshments: 09.00 - 09.30

Welcome and opening remarks: 09.30 - 09:45 (Beveridge Hall)

SESSION 1 (PLENARY): 09:45 – 11:00

Beveridge Hall

Muhammad Abdel Haleem (SOAS): The Qur'an in English in the age of BRAIS

Andrew Rippin (University of Victoria): The reception of scholarship on the Qur'an in the : issues and prospects

Chaired by Shuruq Naguib (University of Lancaster)

*REFRESHMENTS*

SESSION 2 (6 PARALLEL PANELS) 11:30 – 13:00

Panel 1: Text-Critical Approaches in Qur’anic Studies

Bedford Room

Mariana Klar (SOAS): Beyond a Form-Critical Surat al-Kahf

Nicolai Sinai (University of Oxford): Editorial Expansion and Literary Growth in the Medinan Suras

Holger Zellentin (University of Nottingham): Secondary Synchronicity as Literary Device

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Panel 2: Islamic Law and Human Rights

Bloomsbury Room

Mohammad Mesbahi (The Islamic College): Muslim family law: The rights of the wife, in light of International human rights (co-authored by Uddin)

Nehad Khanfar (The Islamic College): A Comparative Analysis of the Concept of Citizenship under Al-Madinah Constitution

Mahboubeh Sadeghinia (The Islamic College): A Conceptual Analysis towards Comprehensive Human Security: An Islamic Approach

Haider Al Khateeb (Middlesex University): The abuse of Islamic concept in causing humanitarian crises by violent extremism

Panel 3: Adab and Sufi Ethics in the Formative Period

Gordon Room

Saeko Yazaki (University of Glasgow): Morality in early Sufi literature: the Treatise of al-Qushayri and the Revelation of the Hidden by Hujwīrī

Annabel Keeler (University of Cambridge): Adab versus ādāb in the discourse of Sarrāj and Sulamī

Harith Ramli (Cambridge Muslim College): Sufi Adab and the Sunna: Balancing Individual Virtue and Social order in the Qūt al-qulūb

Panel 4: ʿIlm wa Taʿallum: Madrasas, Dialectics, and Mysticism in the 13th-16th Centuries

Woburn Room A

Talal Al-Azem (University of Oxford): The Education of an Historian of Education: ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Nuʿaymī (d. 927/1521)

Walter Young (University of Oxford): Models for Argument Analysis: Scripting al-Samarqandī’s Risāla fī Ādāb al-Baḥth

Giovanni Martini (University of Oxford): ʿAlā’ al-Dawla al-Simnānī’s ‘Hybrid-Structure’: Promoting the Preeminence of the Sufi Mode of Knowledge

Panel 5: Education, Violent Extremism and Criticality

Woburn Room B

Mike Diboll (Institute of Education, UCL): ISISes of the Imagination: Multiple Ontologies for the ISIS Phenomenon, and the ISIS of False Consciousness

Reza Gholami (Middlesex University): Diasporic Education and ‘Democratic Energy’: a Critical Exploration of ‘Muslim Schools’ and ‘Supplementary’ Education in the UK

Farid Panjwani (CREME): Extremism and ethics: an exploration of meta-ethical theory of Muslim extremism

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Panel 6: Islamic Branding: global perspectives, local consumptionscapes

Beveridge Hall

Nazli Alimen (London College of Fashion): Islamic Sub-Markets and Their Consumers: Faith-Inspired Communities in Turkey

Reina Lewis (London College of Fashion): The risks and opportunities of Islamic branding: commercial, spiritual, political

Jonathan Wilson (University of Greenwich): Being hip, happy, and halal – more than meat and money

*LUNCH*

SESSION 3 (6 PARALLEL PANELS) 14:30 – 16:00

Panel 1: Gender A

Bedford Room

Aljawharah Alassaf (AMIDEAST HQ- Washington DC): Religious Practice vs. Social Custom

Adal Almoammar (SOAS): The Cultural Concept of “Incompatibility in Lineage” and the Rights of Women in

Julia Lisiecka (SOAS): Re-reading Huda Shaarawi’s “Harem Years”– Bargaining with the patriarchy in the changing Egypt

Margherita Picchi (Università di Napoli “l’Orientale”): Complementary or equal? The nature of gender relations in contemporary Islamic discourse in Egypt

Panel 2: Law and Ethics A

Bloomsbury Room

Abdallah Alashaal (Fordham Law School): Legal reflections in the Holy Qur’an

Rana Alsoufi (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg): The use of Analogy as a Legal Method in Islamic Law

Sohail Hanif (University of Oxford): 6th/12th Century Ḥanafī Fatawa Literature and the Consolidation of School Identity

Mahadzirah Mohamad (Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin): Maqasid Syariah Approach of Measuring Quality of Life

Karen Taliaferro (Georgetown University – School of Foreign Service, Qatar): Mediating Reason and Revelation: Istihsān and the Necessity of Taqlid

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Panel 3: Inter-Religious relations

Gordon Room

Alex Mallet (University of Exeter) Two writings by al-Ṭurṭushī as Muslim reactions to the Frankish presence in the Levant at the beginning of the crusading period

Abdulla Galadari (Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education): Corruption of Scriptures: “Yuḥarrifūn” as a Contrast to the Term “Tuqīmū” in the Qur’an

David Beamish (SOAS): “And the Caliph was glad to command a people so proud of their liberties”: Albert Fua in Paris, 1900-1914

Esma Çakır (Dokuz Eylül University): Is God The Best Mediator Of All Times?

Kenan Cetinkaya (Bozok University): Turkish Response to the Christian Call for Dialogue

Panel 4: Classical Islamic Thought A

Woburn Room A

Elisabetta Loi (University of Aberdeen): Atheism in Islam: the case of al-Rāzī

Mansoureh Ebrahimi (University Technology of Malaysia): Maʻrifat and Muḥabbat’s Relations in AL- GHAZᾹLῙ’S Kīmiyā-i-Saʻādat

Farid Suleiman (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg): Ibn Taymiyya’s rejection of the ḥaqīqa/majāz-dichotomy and its significance for the controversy over the interpretation of the divine attributes

Ahmad Achtar (Heythrop College, University of London): ’s defense of Ash’arism against the criticism of Ibn Taymiyya regarding Qur’anic anthropomorphism

Panel 5: Contemporary Issues A

Woburn Room B

Mehdi Beyad (SOAS): The Role of Islam in the Political Thought of Muhammed ‘Abduh

Sevcan Ozturk (Social Sciences University of Ankara): Rereading the ‘Reconstruction’: Iqbal’s view of the problems of Islamic thought

Omar Anchassi (Queen Mary University; London): Fazlur Rahman’s ‘Qur’ānic Turn’, Islamic Law and Gender

Panel 6: Muslims in the West A

Beveridge Hall

Abdul-Azim Ahmed (Cardiff University): God’s House – The Adaab of The Guest

Muhammed Altıntaş (Erciyes University): Muslim Schools in England, Holland and France- A Comparative Study

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Yahya Birt (University of Leeds) Crisis, Reaction and Periodization, or what’s at stake in how academics frame British Muslims?

Amédée Turner and Davide Tacchini (The Catholic University, Milan): Muslim Grassroots in the West Discuss Democracy

Masoumeh Velayati (Al-Maktoum College): Muslim women’s Activism in the UK: Commitment to Moral and Religious Principles

*REFRESHMENTS*

SESSION 4: (6 PARALLEL PANELS) 16:30 – 18:00

Panel 1: Pillars of Imam Abdessalam Yassine’s Theory of Change: Spirituality, Social Justice and Effective Political Participation

Bedford Room

Abdelouahad Motaouakal (Imam Yassine Foundation): An Explanation of Yassine’s Alternative Approach to Reform in Morocco

Yahya Abdellaoui (European institute of Human Science): Social Justice: Its Principles and Rules in the Thought of Imam Abdessalam Yassine

Monir Birouk (Mohammed University, Rabat): Spiritual Purification between Rule-bound Ethics and Political Activism: Insights from Taha Abdurrahmane and Abdess

Panel 2: Legal Reform in the Intellectual Contributions of Ibn ‘Ashur: Maqasid Discourse, ‘Urf and

Bloomsbury Room

Dawood Adesola Hamzah (SOAS): Maqasid al-Shari’ah: A Reflection on Ibn ‘Ashur Reform Methodology

Tariq al-Timimi (SOAS): Configuring the Hadith Setting: Acknowledging the Impact of ‘urf on Prophetic Traditions and its Implication on Islamic Jurisprudence

Abdullah Sliti (Durham University): Rethinking Tradition: Ibn ‘Ashur’s Potential Reform

Panel 3: Shia Communities in Britain: Transnational and Diasporic Perspectives

Gordon Room

Sayyid Fadil Bahrululoom (Centre for Islamic Shi’a Studies): and Yafa Shanneik (University of Chester) ‘Who Buried Husayn?’: Shia Mourning Poetry by Women Writers in the 20th Century

Oliver Scharbrodt (University of Chester): Mapping Transnational and Diasporic Shia Networks in London

Sufyan Abed (University of Chester): Being Shia before and after ‘Ashura’: Discourses on Living a Piety-led Life among South Asian Shia Muslims in London

Chris Heinhold (University of Chester): The Construction of a British Shia Identity in London

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Panel 4: The Formation and Transformation of Physics and Metaphysics in Islamic Thought

Woburn Room A

Andreas Lammer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich) Science, Physics, and Metaphysics in the Works of

Laura Hassan (SOAS): Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī on the World’s Contingency: A Question for Physics or Metaphysics?

Anna-Katharina Strohschneider (Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg): on Metaphysics, Physics, and the First Principle

Panel 5: Why Critical Muslim Studies?

Woburn Room B

S. Sayyid (University of Leeds): Of Black and White Cats: Critical Muslim Studies and Decolonial Horizons

Abdool Karim Vakil (KCL): ReOrienting the Muslim Question

Nadia Fadil (KU Leuven): TBC

S. Sayyid (University of Leeds): : a colonizing trap or a process of emancipation?

Panel 6: Muslims in Britain: Everyday Experiences, Multi-Focal Perspectives (MBRN Panel)

Beveridge Hall

Christopher Moses (University of Cambridge): Chasing a Muslim story: an ethnographic vignette of media suspicion

Seán McLoughlin (University of Leeds): Pilgrimage, Performativity, and British Muslims: Scripted and Unscripted Accounts of the and Umra

Riyaz Timol (Cardiff University): To Sufi or not Sufi? Exploring the Spiritual Praxis of the Tablighi Jama’at

Carl Morris (University of Central Lancashire): Reclaiming and Reimagining Islam: African-Caribbean Converts in Britain

*Short Break*

SESSION 5 (PLENARY) 18:15 – 19:45: The Caliphate, in Theory

Beveridge Hall

Hugh Kennedy (SOAS): Caliphate: an idea through the ages

Carool Kersten (King’s College London): The Caliphate in the modern Muslim world: political ideal or Qur'anic metaphor?

Chaired by Ayman Shihadeh (SOAS)

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th Day 2: Tuesday 14 April 2015

BRAIS AGM (BEVERIDGE HALL: ALL WELCOME) 09:00 – 10:00

SESSION 6 (6 PARALLEL SESSIONS) 10:00 – 11:30

Panel 1: Qur’an and Hadith A

Bedford Room

Johanne Louise Christiansen (Aarhus University, Denmark): Ascetic practices in the Qur’an – the vigil as a case

Ramon Harvey (Cambridge Muslim College): At the Branching of Qirāʾāt and Fiqh in Kufa: Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī and the Legacy of the Ḥarf of ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

Marie Nuar (Pontifical University of St. Thomas): An Islamic Scriptural Anthropology

Mohammad Ali Tabataba’I and Saida Mirsadri (Tehran University): The Qur’anic Cosmology in its Historico- cultural Backdrop

Belal Abo-Alabbas (University of Oxford): Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī in Contemporary Arabophone Scholarship: A Review Essay

Panel 2: Islamic Studies in Different University Contexts

Bloomsbury Room

Syed Imtiaz (Cambridge Muslim College): Characterising Orientalist Studies at the University of Cambridge 1929-1970

Robert Ivermee (SOAS): The campaign for a Muslim university in colonial India

Emilie Roy (Al Akhawayn University): Combining Traditional Islamic Knowledge and Islamic Studies in Academia: Case Study at Al Akhawayn University

Panel 3: Culture A

Gordon Room

Essam Ayad (Suez Canal University): Early Terminology of Mosque Architecture: Derivation and Evolution

Fozia Bora (University of Leeds): Reflections on the fate of the Fatimid royal libraries: were they destroyed by Salah al-Din?

Marije Coster (University of Groningen): Ties of blood versus ties of faith. The Muslim Muḥayyisa versus the non-Muslim Ḍirār b. al-Khaṭṭāb

Zsuzsanna Zsidai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): What does Turk mean in the medieval sources? – Remarks on an ethnonym

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Panel 4: The Transmission, Preservation and Socio-political Use of Knowledge: Historical Figures and Cultural Practices in Diverse Spatial Settings

Woburn Room A

Paula Manstetten (SOAS): The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus as Educational Institution in the Medieval Period

Rasmus Bech Olsen (Birkbeck College): The khaṭīb as Actor in 14th Mamluk Society

Daisy Livingston (SOAS) Archival and Documentary Practice in a Peripheral Milieu

Christopher David Bahl (SOAS): Cultural Exchange across the Western Indian Ocean, 1400-1600. Travelling Scholars and the Transmission of Texts

Panel 5: Contemporary Issues B

Woburn Room B

Lalel Gomari-Luksch (University of Tübingen): State of God or Godless state: the continuity of religion and state unity in Iran

Ayşe Polat (University of Chicago): Approved for Print: Late Ottoman Regulatory Mechanisms on Islamic Books

Caglar Ezikoglu (Aberystwyth University): Justice and Development Party’s Transformation in Turkey: From Conservative Democracy to Islamic Authoritarianism

Vahram Petrosyan (Yerevan State University); The Rise and the Evolution of in Iraqi Kurdistan

Panel 6: Muslims in the West B (Pecha Kucha format)

Beveridge Hall

Fayaz Alibhai (University of Edinburgh): People, Places and Texts: Presenting and Representing Islam at The Edinburgh International Book Festival

Laurens De Rooij (Durham University): The Interpretation of Islam in the News by a non-Muslim audience

Des Delaney (Dublin City University): Resolving Recognitive-Power Dilemmas: The Everyday Experience of Sunni Muslim Individuals in Dublin, Ireland

Alyaa Ebbiary (SOAS): You Are What You Learn: Religiously Educating British Muslims

Alaya Forte (SOAS): Flags and hijabs: the problematic and contested nature of symbols in contemporary Britain

Sandra Maurer (University of Kent) Digital Islam: Adapting traditional Islamic Practice in contemporary Britain

Karim Mitha and Shelina Adatia (University of Edinburgh + ITREB Canada): Toques and tea, or chapals and chai: Muslims, media, masti, and meaning

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Davide Pettinato (University of Exeter): British Muslim Youth Fighting Against Global Injustice: Introducing ‘MADE in Europe’

Farrah Sheikh (SOAS) A Tale of Three Cities: Spiritual Stories from British Muslims in London, Leicester and Norwich

*REFRESHMENTS*

SESSION 7 (2 PARALLEL PANELS) 12:00 – 13:30

Panel 1:

Beveridge Hall:

Likayat Takim (McMaster University, Canada): Fiqh for minorities: Shi'i law in the diaspora

Douglas Pratt (University of Waikato and University of Bern): A tale of two dialogues: 21st century Christian- Muslim initiatives

Chaired by Saeko Yazaki (University of Glasgow)

Panel 2:

Woburn B

New trajectories in the study of : two recent volumes (Institute of Ismaili Studies book launch)

Karen Bauer (Institute of Ismaili Studies): Aims and methods of the genre of tafsir

Andreas Görke (University of Edinburgh) and Johanna Pink (Freiburg University, Germany): Understanding tafsir in its broader intellectual context

Andrew Rippin (University of Victoria): Discussant

*LUNCH*

SSESSION 8 (6 PARALLEL PANELS) 14:30 – 16:00

Panel 1: The Qur’ān: The Text and its Reception

Bedford Room

Andrew Rippin (University of Victoria): The Names of the Chapters of the Qur’ān

Asma Hilali (Institute of Ismaili Studies): Was the Ṣanʿā’ palimpsest a Work in Progress? A Reconsideration of Old Qur’ān Manuscript Studies

Nuha Alshaar (Institute of Ismaili Studies): Ibn Rushd/ Averroës’ Rational Reading of the Qur’ān

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Panel 2: Asia

Bloomsbury Room

Mansur Ali (Cardiff University) How do we know the Prophet said it? Hadith commentary as polemic in post- colonial India: a study of al-Uthmani’s I’la al-Sunan

Muhammad Arshad (University of the ): Muhammad Asad’s concept of : A critical evaluation

Raana Bokhari (Lancaster University): A Challenge to the Discourse by ‘’ Extremism in

Siti Nor Aisyah Ngadiran (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia): The Issues of Western Interpretation on the History of Islam in Malaysia-Indonesia from the Perspective of Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

Max Regus (Tilburg University): Constructing Inclusive Citizenship in Quasi-Secular State: Some Reflection on the Case of Ahmadiyya Islam Minority in Contemporary Indonesia

Panel 3: Medieval Muslims Responding to Christian Challenges

Gordon Room

Diego Sarrió Cucarella (Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies): Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi on fighting for God’s cause: virtue or vice?

Zeynep Yucedogru (University of Nottingham): Ibn Taymiyya’s Contextual Interpretation of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in Matthew 28:19

Younus Mirza (Allegheny College): The Disciples as Companions: Ibn Taymiyya’s Refutation of the Exegetical Argument that the Messengers (rusul) in Surat Ya Sin are the Disciples of Jesus

Mònica Colominas Aparicio (University of Amsterdam): Religious Polemics as Discursive Practices in Late Medieval Christian Iberia: The Literature of the Mudejars against the Christians and the Jews

Panel 4: Classical Islamic Thought B

Worburn Room A

Emrah Kaya (University of Nottingham): A Comparison of the Divine Names and Attributes in Ibn al-Arabi and Ibn Taymiyya

Rami Koujah (Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education): On the Purposiveness of God's Actions and its implications on legal theory: A look through the writings of Sayf Al-Din al-Amadi

Seyed Mousavian (University of Gothenburg): On the Origination of Human Soul: From an Avicennian Point of View

Abdullah Sliti (Durham University): Freedom & Responsibility: Ibn al-Qayyim’s Compatibilism of Dual Agency

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Panel 5: Contemporary Issues C

Woburn Room B

Fouad Gehad Marei (Freie Universität Berlin): Hezbollah’s Order: A Postcolonial, Social Movement Approach

Emmanuel Karagiannis (King’s College London): The Rise of Electoral Salafism in North Africa: Ideological Modification or Political Necessity?

Zoltan Pall (National University of Singapore): The Construction of Salafi Religious Authority in Lebanon

Georgios Rigas (University of Edinburgh): Egypt relations during Morsi’s presidency

Panel 6: Beyond ‘Negative Perceptions of Muslims’: Incorporating Elusive Manifestations of Islamophobia

Beveridge Hall

Afroze Zaidi-Jivraj (University of Birmingham): Questioning ‘Identifiable Muslimness’: Ethnic Minority Muslims at the Intersection of Colour Racism and Islamophobia

Stephen H Jones (Coventry University): British Muslim Organisations, the Spectre of Political Islam and the Conceptualisation of Islamophobia

Daniel Nilsson DeHanas (King’s College London): ‘Rotten Borough’ and ‘’?: The Politics of Media Portrayals of Tower Hamlets

AbdoolKarim Vakil (King’s College London): Islamaphobia Discussant (TBC)

*REFRESHMENTS*

SESSION 9 (6 PARALLEL PANELS) 16:30-18.00

Panel 1: Gender B

Bedford Room

Shuruq Naguib (Lancaster University): Tahara in the light of Tafsir

Cafer Sarikayer (Boğaziçi University): An Ottoman Woman Writer in the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition: Fatma Aliye Hanım

Ahmed Balto (Trinity College Dublin): The Burqa and the right to freedom of expression: Analyzing the Place of the Islamic Veil in Europe

Abdulrahim Vijapur (Aligarh Muslim University, India): Women’s Rights in Islamic Traditions and CEDAW: A Move towards Convergence?

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Panel 2: Law and Ethics B

Bloomsbury Room

Ali-Reza Bhojani (Al-Mahdi Institute): Moral rationalism, Shari’a and Human Rights

Khadiga Musa Latef (Prince Muhammad bin Fahd University, KSA): Reasons of resurgence on writing on al- Qawāʿid al-Fiqhiyya (Legal Maxims) in the 8th/14th century

Yahya Sabbaghchi (Sharif University of Technology): Revising the Necessity of Theology in Jurisprudence

Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Qatar): Understanding the Ethical in Islamic Legal Reform

Panel 3: Aspects of

Gordon Room

Eyad Abuali (SOAS): Majd al-Dīn al-Baghdādī’s (d.1219) Tuḥfat al-Barara: The Development of Kubrawī

Naghmeh Dadvar (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad): The Introduction to the Karamat and its Inconsistencies through Mysticism works

Omar Edaibat (McGill University): Muḥyiddin Ibn ʿArabī’s Sharīʿa: A Theory of Legal Pluralism

Haruka Endo (SOAS): Al-Shaʿrānī’s (d. 1565) response to Controversies over Ibn ʿArabī’s (d. 1240) Anthropomorphism

Abdulmamad Iloliev (Institute of Ismaili Studies): Moses and Jesus in the Poetry of Mubarak-i Wakhani: An Ismaili-Sufi Perspective

Panel 4: Classical Islamic Thought C

Woburn Room A

Salimeh Maghsoudlou (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris): Reception of Avicenna’s Argument for the Unity of God in the Ṣūfī Milieu of Sixth Century: the Case of ‘Ayn al-Quḍāt al-Hamadānī

Janis Esots (The Institute of Ismaili Studies): Being and Knowledge according to Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī

Ali Fikri Yavuz (Istanbul University): Epistemology and Beatific Vision in Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī (d. 1303 AC)

Muhammad Faruque (University of California, Berkeley): The Meaning of Metaphysics in Heidegger and Mullā Ṣadrā

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Zacky Khairul Umam (Freie Universitaet Berlin): Our Shaykh in the intellectual formation of 17th century Medina: Religious approaches of Aḥmad al-Qushāshī (1583-1660)

Panel 5: Conversion

Woburn Room B

Ayse Baltocioglu-Brammer (The Ohio State University): “Turning Kızılbaş” or “Turning Safavid” Understanding Conversion within Islam in the 15th-16th Century Political Context

M.A Kevin Brice (Newcastle University): White British Muslims – “They are all just converts, aren’t they?” Looking beyond the stereotype.

Geoffrey Nash (University of Sunderland): and Islamic Modernist Thought

Dorothea Ramahi (University of Cambridge): Situating Otherness: Perspectives on Female Converts to Islam in Britain

Panel 6: Muslims in the West C

Beveridge Hall

Sejad Mekic (Cambridge Muslim College): Husein Đozo and in Tito’s Yugoslavia

Cecilie Endresen (University of Oslo): Accommodationist and neo-fundamentalist approaches to the nation and religious others in Albania

Anna Zadrożna (UCL): `A book for a Muslim woman`; female sexuality in text books and everyday narratives

Sanja Bilic (University of York): Muslim Women Organising: Religion, Identity and Politics in Bosnia and the UK.

*SHORT REFRESHMENT BREAK* 18.00-18.15

SESSION 10 (PLENARY) 18:15 – 19:45: Panel Discussion and Public Event

Beveridge Hall

Developing Islamic Studies in the UK: Future Horizons

Chaired by Professor Hugh Goddard (University of Edinburgh)

Professor Sophie Gilliat-Ray (Cardiff University)

Dr Judith Pfeiffer (University of Oxford)

Professor Zahia Salhi (University of Manchester)

Dr Ataullah Siddiqui (Markfield Institute of Higher Education)

Prof Maurits Berger (Leiden University)

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th Day 3: Wednesday 15 April

SESSION 11 (6 PARALLEL PANELS) 09.00-10.30

Panel 1: Gender C

Bedford Room

Fauzia Ahmad (University College London): The British Muslim Relationship Crisis

Ester Barrajon Fernandez (Sciences Po Bordeaux, France): Deconstructing gender identities: the place of the Islamic women in Western medias

Nasima Hassan (University of East London): Exploring Muslim Consciousness in the Narratives of British Muslim Women in East London

Misha Zand (University of Copenhagen): The Culture of Breast Cancer in The Islamic Republic of Iran

Panel 2: Bioethics

Bloomsbury Room

Farrokh Sekaleshfar (Manchester University): An Islamic Theosophical Perspective to Organ Donation

Amel Algrahni (Liverpool University): Womb transplantation and Islam

Hossein Godazgar (Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education): Is physician assisted suicide consistent with Islam?

Jan Ali (University of Western Sydney, Australian): A Sociological Analysis of Organ Transplantation in Islam – read by Hossein Godazgar

Panel 3: Culture B

Gordon Room

Benedikt Koehler (Earhart Foundation Grantee): The Origins of Capitalism in Early Islam

Mohammad Jafar Yahagahi (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad/ Persian Academy): The History of Beyhaqi and the Holy Qor’an

Phillip Bockholt (FU Berlin): Writing History in the Manuscript Age: Persian Historiography in Safavid Iran and Moghul India

Salim Ayduz (British Muslim Heritage Centre): Süleymaniye Medical Madrasa (Dār al-Tib) in the History of Ottoman Medicine

Halit Ahmet Ciftci (Suleyman Demirel University): The Problem of Environmental Pollution and the Analysis of the Perception of Environment in Islamic Texts

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Panel 4: Theological Rationalism

Woburn Room A

Chair: Ayman Shihadeh

Taneli Kukkonen (NYU Abu Dhabi): Al-Ghazālī on the Antiquity of Religious Ethics

Gregor Schwarb (FU Berlin): Necessity of existence’ (‘wujūb al-wujūd’) and ‘necessary existent’ (‘wājib al- wujūd’ ) in ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Hamadhānī’s (d. 415/1025) K. al-Manʿ wa-l-tamānuʿ

Ayman Shihadeh (SOAS): Al-Ghazālī and the Conundrum of Body-Soul Dualism

Panel 5: Africa

Woburn Room B

Rafiu Adebayo (University of Ibadan): A Comparative Study of the Scriptural “Rajm” and Yoruba Traditional “Magun” in Nigeria

Mahmud Adesina Ayuba (Adekunle Ajasin University, Nigeria): Islamic Orthodoxy and Sufism Ideological Conflicts: Towards a Solution

Omer Kocyigit (Leiden University): The Struggle for Legitimacy: Intellectual and Religious Debates about the Sudanese Mahdi

Yusuf Salahudeen (Federal College of Education, Kano-Nigeria): Harnessing Quranic Schooling with the Challenges of Early Childhood Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Adrienne Vanvyve (Université libre de Bruxelles): Muslim claims in the name of secularism (Burkina Faso)

Panel 6: Financial Islamic Institutions in Arab Transitions: Possible Avenues for Financial Development

Beveridge Hall

Chairs: Fatihi Talahite and Olivia Orozco de la Torre

Mehmut Asatay (Durham University): Searching for the Nexus between Islamic Finance and Economic Development: Can Islamic Finance Generate Economic Development for the Post-Arab Spring?

Samuel Beji (Tunis University) and Adnen Oueslati (Center of International Economic Integration (LIEI)): The Tunisian Financial System in the post-revolution period: what about Islamic Finance?

Randi Deguilem (CNRS / TELEMME-MMSH (Aix-en-Provence)): Rethinking a Traditional Institution: Contemporary Use of Waqf as a Development Tool in Islamic Finance

Valentino Cattelan: Islamic finance and credit economy: a community-based approach for local development in Arab Transitions

Rodney Wilson (Durham University): Islamic Banking and Finance in North Africa - (Skype participation)

*REFRESHMENTS*

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SESSION 12 (PLENARY): 11.00-12.15

Beveridge Hall

Chair: Mustafa Baig

Prof R Gleave (University of Exeter): Belief, Violence and the Reformulation of Islamic Thought

*LUNCH*

SESSION 13 (6 PARALLEL PANELS) 13.00-14.30

Panel 1: and Hadith B

Bedford Room

Sara Mallawi (SOAS): , Muslim Communities & Interpretations of Islam

Mirina Paananen (As-Suffa Institute, Birmingham): Mastering the Art: Instruction in Qur’an Recitation within the UK Muslim Population (Case Study: Birmingham)

Somia Qudah-Refai (University of Leeds): Dogmatic Approaches of Qur’ān Translators: Linguistic and Theological Issues

Sohaib Saeed (SOAS): Translating Tafsir: Prospects and Problems

Fatma Betul Altintas (Erciyes University): The Academic Study of Hadith in North American Universities

Panel 2: Law and Ethics C

Bloomsbury Room

Nawaf Alyaseen (Oxford Brookes University): Trademark forms in Islamic

Nehad Khanfar and Ahmad Bawab (The Islamic College): A Critical Review of the Islamic Mortgages offered in the Banks in England

Fatumetul Zehra Guldas (University of Leicester) Human Dignity and Health Care: An Islamic Perspective

Rukhsana Waraich (International Islamic University ): Ownership in Human Body: A Shariah Analysis

Panel 3: Contemporary Developments in Shi’ism

Gordon Room

Mersedeh Dad Mohammadi (University of Chester): Reading More than Persepolis: A Shia Response to Marjane Satrapi's Memoire

Daryoush Mohammad Poor (Institute of Ismaili Studies): Authority without Territory: doctrinal shifts in modern Ismailism

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Babak Rahimi (UC San Diego): Digital Hawza: the New Media and Shia Islamic learning in Qum

Mohammad Tajri (Lancaster University and Al-Mahdi Institute): Assessing Perceptions of Islamic Authority amongst British Shia Muslim Youth

Panel 4: Critical Islamic Thought D

Woburn Room A

Tobias S. Anderson (University of Edinburgh): Caliphal succession in the first Islamic chronicle: the Tārīkh of Khalīfa b. Khayyāṭ

Bashir Saade (University of Edinburgh): Notions of Authority in Early Muslim texts

Neelam Hussain (University of Birmingham): The Transmission and Manuscript Traditions of Kitab Sirr al- Asrar: Readership & Audience

Elif Tokay (Istanbul University): Human knowledge as the way towards God in the Arabic translations of Gregory Nazianzen’s orations

Panel 5: Themes in Education

Woburn Room B

Syed Mehdi Ashraf (Islamic College of Advanced Studies): New Paradigm for the Educational Advancement of Muslims

Yahia Baiza (The Institute of Ismaili Studies): The ‘Ulama, Education and Muslim Civilizations: A Historical Analysis

Sharifah Syed Bidin (Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin): The Concept of Tarbiah in the Teaching and Learning of the Al-Quran to Adult Learners

Kenan Tekin (Columbia University): Classifications of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Matthew Wilkinson (Institute of Education, University of London): A philosophy to 'underlabour' Islam in a multi-faith world: Islamic Critical Realism

Panel 6: Muslims in the West D (Pecha Kucha format)

Beveridge Hall

Z.Ayca Arcilic (The University of Texas at Austin): Reaching Out to Turkish Muslims: Turkish Muslim Leaders’ Perceptions of the Contemporary Muslim Councils in France and Germany

Mahdi Barmani (UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies (Ireland)): Iraqi Shia-Muslims in the USA: a Conflict-Generated Diaspora

William Barylo (EHESS; Paris, France): Muslim Charities in Europe: redefining a positive image of Islam in the public sphere at a grassroots level. Case study of France and Poland.

Erdem Dikici (University of Bristol) Muslims Integration in Europe: A Transnational Perspective

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Ayse Elmali (University of Sheffield): What does the headscarf mean for Muslim university students?: The case of University of Houston

Dzenita Karic (SOAS): Where is our (spiritual) home? The identity search of Bosnian Muslim intellectuals in the period of Austro-Hungarian rule

Maryyum Mehmood (King’s College London): From Socialist Jews of Weimar to British Muslim Student Activists: The Struggle for Acceptance of Europe’s Minorities

Fatima Rajina (SOAS): The Emergence of Islam in Argentina

*REFRESHMENTS*

SESSION 14 (PLENARY): 14.45-16.00

Beveridge Hall

Chaired by Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor (Univeristy of Derby)

Professor Shaheen Sardar Ali (University of Warwick): Writing women's human rights: weaving a counter- narrative of Muslim women's contribution to the CEDAW script

Concluding Remarks

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