Proceedings of the Third Annual International Conference on Shi'i Studies (2017)

List of articles:1. Reconstituting the Muslim Ummah: The Disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the Emergence of a New Thinking on IslamRegina Rowland and Fahimeh Mokhber2. Three Sources of Shiʿi Knowledge and Authority: Texts, Reason, and Mysticism in Islamic Intellectual HistoryZackery Heern3. The Influence of Time and Place on IjtihādSayed Hossein Al Qazwini4. Is there a Distinctive Shiʿa Medical Ethics?Oliver Leaman5. A Critical Assessment of ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Methodological Approach and Methods of Interpretation in his Magnum Opus, Tafsīr al-Mīzān from a Critical Rationalist Point of ViewAli Paya6. Philosophy: Diabolical Science or a Valuable Part of Religious Thought? A Comparison Between the Views of the Shāfiʿī Writer Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ al-Shahrazūrī and the Shiʿi Thinker ʿAllāmah ṬabāṭabāʾīRevd Frank Julian Gellivi7. Authority, Identity, and Pluralism in the Modern Ismāʿīlī Religious Education Programme: A Critical ReflectionYahia Baiza8. Neighbours of Fāṭimah: Conceptualizati