International Conference
Organised by the Centre for Islamic Shi’a Studies (CISS)
Saturday March 5th 2011, 9:30am – 5pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, London

A Host of Panels on:
Jurisprudence (Fiqh), Biographical Studies (Ilm al-Rijal), The Science of Narration (Ilm al-Hadith), Philosophy (Falsafa),Exegesis (Tafsir) and Mysticism (Irfan)

Paper Titles Include:

• ‘Idealization or Realization: Methodology of Ayatullah al-Khu’i in Mu’jam al-Rijal’
• ‘Shi’i Juristic Scholarship in the 16th Century: Three Treatises on the Question of the Legality of the Friday Prayer’
• ‘Ibn Qawlawayh and His Legacy in 17th Century Safavid Iran: The Texts of Kamil al-Ziyarat as Recorded in Bihar al-Anwar’
• ‘The Four Intellectual Journeys of Mulla Sadra: A Summa Philosophia for Islam’

With Keynote Lectures by:

Professor Liyakat Takim (McMaster University, Canada)
Dr Andrew J Newman (University of Edinburgh)

Speakers from Overseas including USA & Switzerland