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Scott Alexander’s interest in Islam dates back to the early 1980s, when he was both witnessing the events of the Islamist revolution in Iran, and concentrating in comparative religion as an undergraduate at Harvard. After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard, Scott went on to Columbia University in New York where he earned the M.A. and Ph.D. in the history of religions, with a concentration in Islamic studies. From 1986 to 1990, Scott taught courses on Islam and the history of religions at Columbia, Fordham, and Princeton University, and in 1991 he took a position on the religious studies faculty of Indiana University in Bloomington where he taught as an assistant professor of Islamic studies from 1993 to 2000.

Scott is the author of a number of articles on Islamic history and religion and Christian-Muslim Relations published in scholarly journals, edited collections, and encyclopedias such as the Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East (Macmillan, 1996) and the Encyclopedia of the Qur’an (E.J. Brill, 2001-2005). He has also authored many online blog posts and op-ed essays addressing issues of Islamophobia, and has been featured in a number of videos such as the Knowing and Loving Our Neighbors of Other Faiths series (Work of the People, 2010). His most recent scholarlyresearch focuses on the role of triumphalism in Christian-Muslim Relations and deals with the inherent contradiction between religious claims to universal truth and the religiously motivated desire to impose this truth on others as a means of political and cultural domination.

In addition to sitting on the editorial board of The Journal of Islamic Law and Culture, Scott is a regular consultant on Catholic-Muslim relations for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He also is a member of the advisory boards for the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago, the Lake Institute on Faith and Giving at the Indiana University School of Philanthropy, and the Alliance for Shared Values (New York City), the Niagara Foundation (Chicago) and the Antalya Kültürlerarası Diyalog Merkezi (Antalya, Turkey).

Scott lives in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago where he is a member of the parish family of the Church of St. Thomas the Apostle. He is the proud father of Myles “Chitriman” Alexander, a rising professional triathlete, and is married to Karen Lewis Alexander, currently vice president for development at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

🔸کنفرانس: معماری ایرانی، 1000_1250، 23 تا 24 آوریل 2016، دانشگاه سنت اندروز انگلستان
🔸The Architecture of the Iranian World, 1000-1250
21–24 April 2016, St Andrews, UK

این کنفرانس تمرکز خود را بر عصر طلایی معماری ایرانی که پایه گذار پارامترهایی برای گسترش معماری در قرن های بعدی بوده ، گذاشته است. فرم کلاسیک معماری برای مساجد، مناره ها، مساجد، مقبره ها و کاروانسراها توسعه یافت و استفاده از آجر چهره معماری را در ایران تغییر داد و باعث خلق گنبدهای به یاد ماندنی شد…

شرکت کنندگان:
Dr Alireza ANISI (Iranian Research Center for Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Tehran)
Mr Warwick BALL (Independent Scholar)
Professor Sheila BLAIR (Boston College, Massachusetts)
Professor Jonathan BLOOM (Boston College, Massachusetts)
Professor Abbas DANESHVARI (California State University, Los Angeles)
Dr Eisa ESFANJARY (Art University of Isfahan, Isfahan)
Dr Abdullah GHOUCHANI (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Dr Joachim GIERLICHS (Qatar National Library, Doha)
Professor Roberta GIUNTA (University of Naples)
Professor Robert HILLENBRAND (University of St Andrews/ University of Edinburgh)
Professor Mohammad KHAZAIE (Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran)
Prof. Dr. Lorenz KORN (University of Bamberg)
Dr Richard McCLARY (University of Edinburgh)
Professor Marcus MILWRIGHT (University of Victoria, Canada)
Professor Bernard O’KANE (American University in Cairo)
Professor Mahnaz SHAYESTEHFAR (Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran)
Dr Paul WORDSWORTH (University of Oxford)
Mr Mustafa TUPEV (University of Bamberg)

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• 19th Century Ideological Foundations of the Islamic Revolution
Ezra Tzfadya

1:15-2:30 Lunch

2:30-4:00 – Panel 7

Session A: Socio-Political Issues
• The Fiscal Authority of the Imams: Analyzing Imamic Jurisprudential Statements on Khums and Zakāt
Ed Hayes
• The Military Conduct of Prophet Muhammad and Imam Ali: Examining their use of water resources
Mahdi Mojtahedi
• An Analysis of Shahid Sadr’s Method: Discovering Islamic Economic Doctrine from Islamic Economic Laws and its Broader Application
Mahdieh Mohammadi Araghi and Mahmoud Mohammadi Araghi

Session B: Contemporary Iran
• The Mad Muslim Mob: De/Mythologizing Iran
Hossein Nazari
• Analysis of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis
Mersedeh Dadmohammadi
• Iranian Women: between tradition and modernity
Sarah Scio

4:00-4:20 Shi’as and Benedictines by Abbott Timothy

4:20-4:50 Closing address by Dr. M. A. Shomali

BRAIS 2017 Call for Papers

Fourth Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies

Tuesday 11 April (5pm) - Thursday 13 April (5pm) 2017

Chester Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Chester

Call for panels and papers

Following BRAIS’s successful conferences in Edinburgh (April 2014) and London (April 2015 and April 2016), the organisers invite proposals for whole panels or individual papers on any aspect or sub-discipline of Islamic Studies, for the Fourth Annual Conference of BRAIS. Islamic Studies is broadly understood to include both Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority contexts as well as historical, textual, and contemporary anthropological and sociological approaches.

Pre-arranged panels are particularly welcome on themes within the subject area, such as:

Qur’anic studies
Sociology of Islam
Law
Muslims in Britain/Europe/North America and other minority contexts
History, Medieval and Modern
History of Science
Philosophy and Theology
Muslims in Africa and Asia
Intellectual History
Islamic Art and Architecture
Diversity within Islam
Economics and Finance
Education
Gender Studies
Islam in the Media
Interreligious Relations
Individual proposals will also be considered, and, if accepted, will then be grouped with similar submissions by the conference organisers.

How to submit you panel/paper proposal

For panels, a 200-word outline of the theme of the panel, together with 200-word abstracts of each paper and the details of each presenter, should be submitted using the form which is available HERE. Please save the document as follows: "Surname of panel chair_first name of panel chair_panel". Example: "Smith_John_panel".

For individual papers, a 200-word abstract of the paper should be submitted using the form which is available HERE. Please save the document as follows: "Your surname_your first name_paper". Example: "Smith_John_paper".

ALL PANEL AND PAPER SUBMISSIONS MUST BE IN ENGLISH. SUBMISSIONS IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

All completed forms should be sent by email attachment to brais@ed.ac.uk by 5pm (UK time) on Wednesday 30th November 2016. You will receive an email notification confirming the receipt of your form.

IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE A NOTIFICATION RECEIPT, PLEASE CONTACT US.

All panel and individual paper proposals will be reviewed (double blind) by two members of the BRAIS Conference Committee. We will contact you at the end of January 2017 to inform you as to whether your panel/paper has been accepted.

If you have any questions, please contact the Conference Committee on: brais@ed.ac.uk.

Plenary sessions at the conference

The conference committee is very pleased to announce that plenary lectures at the conference will be delivered by Prof Bryan Turner (Australian Catholic University) on ‘Can there be a “Sociology of Islam”?’; Profs Humayun Ansari (Royal Holloway, London) and Ron Geaves (Cardiff University) on ‘The History of Muslims in Britain’; and Profs Everett Rowson (New York University) and Gudrun Krämer (Free University of Berlin) on the new edition of The Encyclopaedia of Islam (kindly sponsored by Brill).

Travel to/from Chester

Chester is easily accessible, either by train from London Euston (2 hours) or via Manchester Airport and Liverpool John Lennon Airport.