November 21-24, 2015 Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel Denver, CO
Identity Politics in the Fatimid Ismaili Tradition
Organized by Paul E. Walker Chair: Farhad Daftary, Institute of Ismaili Studies
Supported by Institute of Ismaili Studies
Samer Traboulsi, UNC Asheville–The Latter-Day Fatimids: Construction and Expression of Identity in the Ṭayyibī Ismāʿīlī/Bohra Community
Shainool Jiwa, Inst of Ismaili Studies– Lineage & Legitimacy: Examining the Baghdad Manifesto
Daniel Beben, Nazarbayev U–The Fatimid Legacy and the Foundation of the Modern Nizari Ismaili Imamate
Paul E. Walker, U Chicago–Rhetorical Methods of Demeaning an Enemy: Fatimid References to the ʿAbbasids
2:30-4:30 PM Monday November 23, 2015
Concealment and Manifestation: A Reappraisal of Ghayba and Satr in Shiʼi History
Organized by Edmund Hayes
Discussant: David B. Hollenberg, U Oregon
Daryoush Mohammad Poor, Inst of Ismaili Studies–Manifestation and Concealment in Ismailism: Hermeneutics of Revival
Edmund Hayes, U Chicago–The Political Production of the Twelver Occultation Doctrine in the Late 3rd/9th Century and Early 4th/10th Century
Omid Ghaemmaghami, Binghamton U–Notes on Three Curious Reports Concerning the Ghayba
5-7PM Monday November 23, 2015
Medieval Ismaili Muslim Thought: Methodology, Hermeneutics and Cosmology
Organized by Khalil Andani
Chair: Daniel Beben, Nazarbayev U
Joseph Vignone, Harvard U–Esotericism in the Formative Period of Ismailism: A Methodological Intervention
Aaron Viengkhou, Harvard Divinity School–The World as Discourse: Natural Science and Exegesis in the Jābirian Corpus and Early Ismāʿīlism
Khalil Andani, Harvard U–The Ismā‘īlī Influence on al-Ghazālī: A Reassessment
Paul Anderson, Harvard U–Ties of Blood and Water: The Ritualization of Knowledge and the Legitimization of the Dāʿī Muṭlaq in Ṭayyibī Shiʿism
Source: 2015 Annual Meeting
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