British Academy
London (UK)

June 2nd, 2009

10.00 Coffee and registration

10.30 Welcome and Introduction to the Project: Robert Gleave, Project Director (University of Exeter)

11.00 Morgan Clarke (University of Cambridge), “Contemporaneity and Tradition in the Hawza of Ayatollah Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah”

11.30 Alessandro Cancian and Massimiliano Fusari, “Representing the Iconography of Knowledge within Iranian Hawzas: Interaction between the Visual and the Textual in the case of Qom and Mashhad” (Research Programme Preview)

11.45 Mirjam Kunkler (Princeton University) and Roja Fazaeli (Trinity College Dublin) “Training female ulama in Jama’at al-Zahra – New Opportunities for Old Role Models?” (Research Programme Preview)

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Robert Riggs (University of Pennsylvania) “The Role of the Khums in Spurring Intellectual Innovation and Uniformity”

13.30 Sayyed Muhammad Ali Hosseinizadeh (Mufid University, Qum) “Modern Science, Traditional Authority: The influence of modern social science on the Shiite seminary”

14.00 Saeid Edalatnejad (Islamic Encyclopaedia, Tehran), “Islamizing Humanities or Modernizing Islamic Studies?”

14.30 Mohammad Samiei (Islamic College), “A Critical Appraisal of Two Important Channels for Disseminating Modern Knowledge in the Hawza (Qum and Mashhad): Hybrid Students and Research Institutes” (Research Programme Preview)

15.00 Tea/Coffee

15.30 Zachary Heern (University of Utah) “The Death of Intuitive Knowledge and the Triumph of Rationalism in the Hawza at the Turn of the 19th Century”

15.45 Alexander Hainy- Khaleel and Muhammd Saeed Bahmanpour (ICAS) “Philosophy in the “state-funded” Hawzas of Qom post-1979” (Research Programme Preview)

16.00 Reidar Vissar (NOPI) “On the Margins of the Hawza: The Shaykhis and the Akhbaris and Their Relationships with the Shiite Centres of Learning”

16.30 Closing Remarks