2021
Tuesday 7th December – Wednesday 8th December 2021
Sunni-Shiʿi Early Hadith Interactions
What does side-by-side reading of Sunni and Shiʿi hadith reveal about their provenance? What does the existing corpus of Sunni and Shiʿi hadith tell us about their interactions, if any? What do similarities or, for that matter, dissimilarities between themes, style and structure of Sunni and Shiʿi hadith corpora tell us about their origins and development? Did a body of hadith literature emerge as a result of the conversation between early Shiʿi Imams and the Companions and Successors? This workshop—third in a series of Shii Hadith Workshops—aims to question these questions, read some relevant material and examine the discourses concerning the interplay between Sunni and Shiʿi hadith.
Sponsored by the LAWALISI Project
Convenors: Kumail Rajani & Ed Hayes
Tuesday 7th December 2021
09:15-09:30 Introduction
09:30-10:15 Ed Hayes (Radboud University Nijmegen): Shiʿi hadith and Early Islamic history: Problems and Directions
10:15-11:00 Simon Pierre (Université Paris-Sorbonne): Prophetic Ḥadīṯ and Pre-Prophetic Imāms: Authority and Law and the Christian Arab Case Study (7th-9th cent.)
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:15 Raha Rafii (University of Exeter): Non-Muslim Wet Nurses in Early Ḥadīth Collections: Between Ritual Purity and Islamic Science
12:15-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Belal Alabbas (University of Exeter) & Kumail Rajani (University of Exeter): Text Reading Session: Reading al-Jāmiʿ al-ṣaḥīḥ (al-Bukhārī) and al-Kāfī (al-Kulaynī)
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:45 Robert Gleave (University of Exeter): Migration of Materials on Menstruation in early Sunni and Shii Hadith
Wednesday 8th December 2021
9:00-9:45 Ali Zaherinezhad (University of Tübingen): The Identity of the al-firqa al-najiya, a Zaydi response
9:45-10:30 Aslisho Qurboniev (The Aga Khan University): Sunni and Shiʿi Hadith in the OpenITI corpus
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Roundtable discussion
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Participants:
Rob Gleave (Director of LAWALISI project), Belal Alabbas (British Academy Newton International Fellow and LAWALISI Postdoctoral research fellow), Raha Rafii (LAWALISI Postdoctoral research fellow), Omar Anchassi (LAWALISI Postdoctoral research fellow), Pooya Razavian (LAWALISI Postdoctoral research fellow), Kumail Rajani (LAWALISI Postdoctoral research fellow), Ed Hayes (Radboud University Nijmegen), Ali Zaherinezhad (University of Tübingen), Aslisho Qurboniev (The Aga Khan University), Simon Pierre (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Shahanaz Begum (PhD candidate, University of Exeter), Paul Gledhill (University of Exeter).
27th and 28th May 2021
Schools, Networks and Communities in the Study of Early Shii Hadith
What methodologies can we employ to understand the sociological context of hadith transmission and preservation? What are the function of isnāds, rijāl literature, mashyakha, etc. vis a vis hadith literature? How can we trace the schools of thought and interpretive communities which might have affected the way Shiʿi hadith corpora were put together and transmitted? What tools, methodologies, terms and concepts could contribute to our understanding of the sociological dimension of hadith studies?
Convenors: Kumail Rajani and Edmund Hayes
Thursday 27th May
4.00-4.10: Welcome and introduction
4.10-4.50: Hadi Gerami, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, “The idea of “taḥrīf al-Qurʾān” in the second Islamic century Shiism: notes on the explanation and development of taḥrīf traditions”
4.50-5.30: Edmund Hayes, Radboud University, “Tracing the Dissemination of the Imams’ Commands: Circular Letters During the Imamates of al-Hādī and al-ʿAskari”
5.30-6.10: Mushegh Asatryan, University of Calgary, “Hidden in Plain Sight and Between the Lines: Polemics in Saffar’s Basa’ir al-Darajat”
Friday 28th May
4.00-4.40: Ali Rida Rizek, “A Suggested Curriculum in Rijāl al-Najāshī: Shiʿi Imami Teaching at the Turn of the 5th/11th Century”
4.40-5.20: Najam Haider, Barnard College, Columbia University, “Excavating Zaydi Shiism in Early Kufa – Some Preliminary Thoughts on Method and Sources”
5.20-6.00: Discussion session
6.00: End of the workshop
Participants:
Robert Gleave (University of Exeter), Najam Haider (Barnard College, Columbia University), Belal Alabbas (University of Exeter), S. M. Hadi Gerami (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran), Mushegh Asatryan (University of Calgary), Ali Rida Rizek (Georg-August-University Göttingen), Andrew Newman (Edinburgh University), Farès Gillon (IIS, London), Gurdofarid Miskinzoda (IIS, London), Raha Rafii (LAWALISI Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Exeter), Kumail Rajani (LAWALISI Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Exeter), Ed Hayes (Radboud University Nijmegen), Paul Gledhill (University of Exeter), Mostafa Movahedifar (University of Birmingham), Ali Aghaei (Research Fellow, Universität Paderborn).
25-26 January 2021
The Probativity of Solitary Reports (ḥujjiyat al-akhbār al-āḥād) in Early Shiʿi Thought
Convenors: Kumail Rajani and Edmund Hayes
Monday-25/01/2021
10:00 to 10:15 Welcome and introduction
10:15 to 10:50: Ali Aghaei: The position of al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā (d. 436/1044) on the authority of
traditions with a single strand transmission line (ḥujjiyat akhbār
al-āḥād)
10:50 to 11:25: Mostafa Movahedifar: Isnād Criticism in Early Shīʿī Ḥadīth Scholarship: The Examples of Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣadūq (d. 381/991) and Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 460/1067)
11:25 to 12:00: Rob Gleave: Ibn Idrīs al-Ḥillī (d. c. 598/1201) and his polemics against al-khabar al-wāḥid
Tuesday-26/01/2021
10:00 to 10:35: Peyman Unugur: The Hanafī Influence On Baghdād Usūlī Scholars’ Approach to Khabar al-Wāhid
10:35 to 11:10
Kumail Rajani: Contracting and Releasing: The ambit of al-akhbār al-āḥād
11:10 to 11:45
Seyfeddin Kara: “The burden of proof is on the claimant”: A comparative study on the legitimacy of the use of Khabar al-Wahid between Shiʿi Usulis and Western Academia
11:45 to 12:00 Discussing Future Workshops
Participants:
Ali Aghaei (Research Fellow, Universität Paderborn), Ali Rida Rizek (PhD candidate, University of Göttingen), Amin Ehteshami (Research Fellow, Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin), Belal Abu-Alabbas (British Academy Newton International Fellow, University of Exeter), Edmund Hayes (Postdoctoral researcher, Leiden University), Gurdofarid Miskinzoda (Head of the Shiʿi Studies Unit, The Institute of Ismaili Studies), Kumail Rajani (LAWALISI Postdoctoral researcher, University of Exeter), Mostafa Movahedifar (PhD candidate, University of Birmingham), Peyman Ünügür (Assistant Professor, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University), Raha Rafii (LAWALISI Postdoctoral researcher, University of Exeter), Robert Gleave (Director of LAWALISI project, University of Exeter), Seyfeddin Kara (independent scholar).