British Academy
10 Carlton House Terrace
London
SW1Y 5AH
May 13th, 2010
First workshop on
The History and Development of the Hawza
09.45am Opening Remarks (Robert Gleave, Hawza Project Director)
10.00am Sajjad Rizvi (University of Exeter), “Shaykhi and Akhbari Learning in Eastern Arabia” (Research Programme Briefing)
10.30am Reidar Visser (NOPI), “The Failed Attempt at Establishing an Akhbari Hawza in Basra”
11.00am Teas/Coffee
11.30am Zackery Heern (University of Utah), “Myth or History: The Foundation of the Hawza in Najaf” (Research Programme Briefing)
12.00pm Fouad Kadhem (University of Exeter), “Najaf, Baghdad and the Iraqi Politics 1950-1980”
1230pm Julien Pelissier (Universite de Toulouse), “The History of the Teaching of Financial and Economic Matters at the Hawzas of Qum and Najaf (1950-the present)” (Research Programme Briefing)
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm Alexander Hainy (ICAS), “Mirza Husain Nuri: The last Akhbari?”
2.30pm Mohammad Mesbahi and, Mohammad Samiei (ICAS), “The Breathing Period between two Dictatorships: 1941 – 1953 Hawza of Qum” (Research Programme Briefing)
3.00pm Mohammadjavad Ardelan (University of Oxford) “Ayatollah Sayyed Husayn Burujirdi’s life (1875-1961) and his role in the development of the hawza of Qum” (PhD Report)
3.15pm Tea/Coffee
3.45pm Bashir Damji (University of Exeter), “The Quest for Religious Self- Sufficiency: The Ethnic Hawzas” (Research Programme Briefing)
4.15pm Robert Riggs (Franklin & Marshall) “Tracing the Financial Underpinnings of the Hawza system in Iraq”
4.45pm Closing Remarks
5.00pm Close
There is no charge for attending the workshop, but registration in advance is necessary and catering numbers for lunch need to be finalised. To register, contact Ms Jane Clark (Jane.Clark@exeter.ac.uk). For enquiries about the Hawza Project generally, contact Professor Robert Gleave (gleave@thehawzaproject.net)
Royal Holloway College,
University of London
London (UK)
March 30th, 2009
Third and last workshop on
Knowledge and Authority in the Hawza
09.45am Opening Remarks
10.00am Mohammed Samiei (Islamic College, London), “Hybrid Students and Research Institutes in the Hawza”
10.30am Alexander Hainy (Islamic College, London), “Philosophy in the “state-funded” Hawzas of Qom post-1979”
11.00am Teas/Coffee
11.30am Morgan Clarke (University of Manchester), “Contemporaneity and tradition in the hawza of Ayatollah Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah”
12.00pm Roja Fazaeli (TCD, Dublin) and Miriam Kunkler (Princeton University), “Training female ulama in Jama'at al-Zahra - New Opportunities for Old Role Models?"
1230pm PhD Research Report: Fouad Kadhem (University of Exeter), “The relationship of Najaf clergy to the Baghdad government in historical perspective”
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm Reidar Vissar (NOPI), “On the Margins of the Hawza: The Shaykhis and the Akhbaris of Basra and Their Relationships with the Shiite Centres of Learning”
2.30pm Alessandro Cancian and Massimiliano Fusari, “What do you mean? Drafting a multi-media hands-on exploration over the transmission of knowledge at the Hawzas”
3.00pm Zackary Heern (University of Utah), "Charismatic Knowledge and Authority in Early Modern Shi'sm"
3.30pm Tea/Coffee
4.00pm Ali Hosseinizadeh (Mofid University, Qum), “Modern Science, Traditional Authority: The influence of modern humanities on the Shiite Seminary”
5.00pm Robert Riggs (Franklin & Marshall), “Khums collection and re-distribution: The legitimization factor in Shi‘i religious leadership structures"
5.30pm Closing remarks
7.30pm Workshop Meal (places are limited)
There is no charge for attending the workshop, but registration in advance is necessary and catering numbers for lunch need to be finalised. To register, contact the workshop organiser, Professor Vanessa Martin (v.martin@rhul.ac.uk), copying into your e-mail the Hawza Project administrator Ms Xeni Nikakis (admin@thehawzaproject.net). For enquiries about the Hawza Project generally, contact Professor Robert Gleave (gleave@thehawzaproject.net).
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