News (14/02/2012)
Istvan Kristo-Nagy ("Why the takfir of the zanadiqa? Struggle and Interaction between monotheism and dualism") and Robert Gleave ("Takfir and Taqiyya in Medieval Shii Fiqh") both presented papers at the International Conference Takfir: a Diachronic Perspective to be held at the Centro De Cientias Humanas y Sociales in Madrid, 24th-26th October 2011. For details click here.
Istvan Kristo-Nagy presented a paper entitled "The Status of Intellectuals as a point of bifurcation in the social evolution of the West and of Islamdom: the Case of Ibn al-Muqaffa'" at the Centro De Cientias Humanas y Sociales in Madrid on 24th November 2011. For details, click here.
Istvan Kristo-Nagy is to present a paper at the meeting of the Middle East Studies Association in Washington DC, on 3rd December 2011, entitled "Iranian Revival after post-conquest trauma as reflected in Ibn al-Muqaffa''s Oeuvre" - on a panel for the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, for details, click here.
Robert Gleave addressed US Navy Midshipmen on Islamic law and Shiism as USNA, Annapolis, on 11th October 2011: for details, click here
Istvan Kristo-Nagy presented at the colloquium, Representing Administration and Bureaucracy in Historical Perspective (University of Liverpool, 27-29 October 2011). His paper was titled: 'Wisdom versus wildness. How to tame killing kings and punish cunning careerists?" For details,
click here.Robert Gleave presented at the confernece The Qur'an: Text and Culture, 10th-12th November 2011, with a paper looking at Quranic and non-Quranic justifications for violence in modern Shi'i Messianism ("The Expendable Qur’an in Modern Shi’i Messianism"). For details click here.
Report on the Second LIVIT conference, Legimitate and Illegitimate Violence in Early Islamic Thought, held 5-6 September 2011 at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter. Click here.
LIVIT Conference: Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Early Islam, 5th-6th September 2011, University of Exeter: Programme and registration details.
LIVIT Panel at The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Conference: 27th-29th June 2011, University of Exeter: Rob Gleave will chair the panel, including the following papers:
Istvan Kristo-Nagy: “Rebelling Devil and Revengeful God. Who is the originator of violence and who is the originator of the arts?”
Bianka Speidl: "Shi'i 'liberation theology' - political and religious argumentation in the thought of Muhammad Hussain Fadlallah"
Mohammed Ali: "The Sacred, Divine Code of Conduct: Al-Wala' wal Bara' (Loyalty and Disavowal) in Modern Salafism"
Tayyeb Mimouni: "Salafi Reactions to the 25th January Revolution in Egypt"
Click here for details of the BRISMES conference; click here for details of BRISMES.
Istvan Kristo-Nagy gives lecture at the Trinity College Dublin, 16th June 2011, at the Empires and Bureaucracy Colloquium. The paper was entitled:
Ibn al-Muqaffa', The Wise Jackal: Conflict and Cooperation between Arab Rulers and Persian Bureaucrats at the Formation of the Islamic empire.
Bianka Speidl, LIVIT PhD student, gives a paper at the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies Inaugral postgraduate Conference, University of Exeter, 21st May 2011, entitled “The Evolvement of the Palestinian Issue in the Discourse of Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah (1345-2010, for details, click here
Rob Gleave to give plenary presentation at the East-West Philosophers conference, entitled "Ethics, Harm and Money: Economics as a substitute for violence in Islamic jurisprudence", May 2011
Istvan Kristo-Nagy gives lecture at the Virginia Military Institute March 2011 at the East Meets West Conference: The paper was entitled, "A Violent, Irrational and Unjust God, antique and medieval criticism of Jehovah"
Istvan Kristo-Nagy gives lecture at SocRel (British Sociology Association Sociology of Religion) Study Day
February 2011
Istvan Kristo-Nagy gives lecture at SocRel (standing in for Robert Gleave) on "An Overview of Historical Evolution of Attitudes to Violence in Islamic Thought"
Robert Gleave to give lecture at AKU-ISMU
January 2011
Robert Gleave to give lecture AKU-ISMU on Thursday 3rd February 2011, "Cutting and Killing: Justified Violence in Islamic Thought"
Istvan Kristo-Nagy gives lecture at the Institut Catholique de Toulouse
January 2011 at the conference "Christianismes Islams et Sociétés Arabes"
The paper was entitled, "Quelles étaient les raisons de la première inquisition en Islam?"
Robert Gleave gave the first annual LUCIS lecture at Leiden University
October 2010
Robert Gleave is to give a public lecture in Leiden University Center for the Study of Islam and Society entitled “Justifications for Violence in Islamic Thought” on Wednesday 6th October 2010, 17.00.
More details here
First LIVIT confernece held at the University of Exeter
September 2010
Rob Gleave's introduction to the LIVIT project, previously available on the Global Uncertainties Website (press play below)
RobertGleave.mp3
