Ibadi Theology
Rereading Sources and Scholarly Works
May 28th- 30th 2012
University of Naples “L’Orientale”
Sala Conferenze, Palazzo DuMesnil
MAY 28TH
8.30-9.00 Registration
9.00-10.00 Welcoming and Lida Viganoni (Rector of the University Introductory Remarks of Naples “L’Orientale”), Roberto Tottoli (Dean of the Department DAAM), Agostino Cilardo (Dean of the Faculty of Arab-Islamic and Mediterranean Studies), Luigi Serra (Director of the Center of Berber Studies), Abdulrahman Al Salimi (Chief Editor of Al-Tasamoh Journal, Oman)
10.00-11:00 Keynote Speaker – Ibaḍiyya and Mu‘tazila in Early Islam Wilferd Madelung (Oxford University)
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
Reading and Rereading Ibadi Sources
Session I: Chair: Agostino Cilardo (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
11.30-12.00 Saleh Al-Busaidi The Reading of the Quran, Sunna and Akhbar in Early Ibadi Sources
12.00-12.30 Cyrille Aillet Breviary of Faith and Sectarian Memorial. A New Reading of the Kitâb Ibn Sallâm (3rd/9th)
12.30-13.00 Allaoua Amara L’Evolution de la théologie ibadite maghrébine d’après une épître hérésiographique du XIIe siècle
13.00- Discussion 13.30
13.30-14.30 Lunch
Session II:
Chair: Valeria Fiorani Piacentini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan)
14.30-15.00 Ersilia Francesca Ibadi Studies in Naples. Rereading the Works of Last Century Italian Scholars
15.00-15.30 Heidrun Eichner Ibadi Epistles. Theological Concepts in Early Ibadi Sources
15.30-16.00 Danylo Radivilov Rereading Omani Siyar. Khalid b. Qahtan
16.00-16.30 Discussion
16.30-17.00 Coffee Break Session II (continued)
17.00-17.30 Anna Maria Di Tolla Berber Translations of Some Ibadi Aqidas
17.30-18.00 Leonard Chiarelli The Ibadiyya in Muslim Sicily. From the Conquest to Lucera?
18.00-18.20 Discussion
Dinner
MAY 29TH
9.15-10.15 Keynote Speaker – Ibadi Identity and Imperial Policy in the Josef van Ess Early Abbasid Period (Tübingen University)
10.15-10.45 Coffee Break
The Ibadi Theological Discourse
Session III
Chair: Carmela Baffioni (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
10.45-11.15 Abdulrahman Al The Creation of the Quran in Ibadi Salimi Theology
11.15-11.45 Mustafa Bendrissou Le Concept du péché et le sort du pécheur chez les auteurs ibadites des trois premiers siècles de l’hégire
11.45-12.15 Moez Dridi Theology of Human Act. Imposing the Impossible. Al-taklîf and its Problems among Ibadis
12.15-12.45 Discussion
12.45-14.00 Lunch
Session IV
14.00-15.00 Keynote Speaker – Early Ibadiyya in Comparative Radwan Al-Sayed Perspective (Lebanese University, Beirut)
Chair: Michael Jansen (RWTH Aachen University)
15.00-15.30 Mohammed Hassen Controversies between Ibadites- Wahbites and other Doctrines (3rd/9th- 4th/10th Century)
15.30-16.00 Yohei Kondo The Concepts of walāya, barā’a, and wuqūf among the 2nd/8th Century Ibadis
16.00-16.30 Discussion
16.30-17.00 Coffee Break
Session IV (continued)
17.00-17.30 Leonard Douglas The Prohibition of Literal Anthropomorphic Attributes to The Divine
17.30-18.00 Yacine Daddi Slavery and Manumission in Ibadi Addoun Theology
18.00-18.30 Bianca Maria Scarcia The Conception of jihad among the Amoretti Ibadis
18.30-19.00 Discussion
Dinner
MAY 30TH
9.30-10.30 Keynote Speaker – Moderation and Extremism in Early John Wilkinson: Ibadi Thought
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
Contemporary Ibadi Theology
Session V
Chair: Claudio Lo Jacono (Istituto per l’Oriente "Carlo Alfonso Nallino"), Rome
11.00-11.30 Valerie Hoffman Articulating Ibadi Theology in the Modern Age
11.30-12.00 Annie Higgins Ibadi Values and Modern Islam
12.00-12.30 Amal Ghazal Politics and Polemics. Ibadi Theology in North Africa in the Modern Period 12.30-13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.00 Lunch
Session VI
Chair: Roberto Tottoli (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
14.00-14.30 Augustin Jomier Ibādī Thought and Colonial Encounters
14.30-15.00 Mustafa Ouinten Shaykh Muhammad b. Yusuf Atfayyash. Sa contribution au développement de la pensée théologique ibadite
15.00-15.30 Farid Bouchiba An Unpublished Manuscript of Doxography. The Mabhath al-firaq of Shaykh Atfayyash
15.30-16.00 Anna Rita Coppola Nūr al-Dīn Al-Sālimī and the Ibadhi Theology: the Mashāriq Anwār al- ‘Uqūl
16.00-16.30 Discussion
16.30-17.00 Coffee Break
Studies on Ibadism. Past, Present and Future Perspectives
Concluding Session
Chair: Heinz Gaube
17.00-18.00 Wilferd Madelung, Josef van Ess, John Wilkinson, Radwan Al- Sayed, Heidrun Eichner, Cyrille Aillet, Ersilia Francesca 18.00-18.30 General Discussion
Dinner