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, )

10.00-11:00 Keynote Speaker – Ibaḍiyya and Mu‘tazila in Early 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 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