10:00-10:30
Yerevan State University
REGISTRATION
10:30-10:45
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Hayk Kocharyan,
Yerevan State University
Sona Grigoryan,
University of Vienna
10:45-12:00
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Dīn and Religio, Milal and "Religions": On the Use of Theo-Anthropological Classifications between Islam and the West
Rushain Abbasi,
Stanford University
12:00-13:00
LUNCH BREAK
13:00-15:00
SESSION I․ CHAIR Mushegh Asatryan, University of Calgary
EARLY NOTIONS OF DĪN
Ilkka Lindstedt,
Before Islam: Dīn in pre-Islamic Epigraphy and Verse,
University of Helsinki
Dīn in the Poems Attributed to Zayd ibn ʿAmr ibn Nufayl
Nora K. Schmid,
Marburg University
The Formation of Arkān al-Dīn in the Hadith Tradition: A Comparative Numerical and Structural Study of the Pillars of Religion
Hayk Kocharyan,
Yerevan State University
15:00-15։15
COFFEE BREAK
15:15-17:00
Visit to Matenadaran
18:00
DINNER
10:00-12:00
SESSION II․ CHAIR Nora K. Schmid, Marburg University
DĪN AND POETRY
“The dīn has become confused”: Metaphorics of Dīn in pre- and early-Islamic Poetry
Alfred El Khoury,
University of Münster
Returning Religion’s Debt: Anxiety and Becoming Muslim in Early Arabic Poetry
Rawad Wehbe,
University of Utah
Personalized and Private Dīn in the Abbasid Poetry
Sona Grigoryan,
University of Vienna
12:00-13:30
LUNCH BREAK
13:30-14:50
SESSION III․ CHAIR Sona Grigoryan, University of Vienna
DĪN AND POLITICAL AUTHORITY
Dīn and Politics in the Letters of the Caliphs in "Ansab alAshraf" by Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Jābir al-Balādhurī
Alis Eloyan,
YSU
Countercultural Religion։ How should we understand Qaramita’s Religiosity?
Mushegh Asatryan,
University of Calgary
14:50-15:30
COFFEE BREAK
15:30-17:30
SESSION IV․ CHAIR Alfred El Khoury
DĪN IN ADAB AND ETHICS
Adab within the Epistemic Framework of Dīn: Ethics, Social Conduct, and Knowledge in Medieval Islamic Culture
Mariam Elmasyan,
Yerevan State University
‛Adl and Dīn: In Search of Justice
David Hovhannisyan,
Yerevan State University
Mapping the Semantic Field of Dīn in Nahj al-Balāgha: Between Early Islamic Moral Authority and Buyid-Era Intellectual Construction
Tatevik Mkrtchyan ,
Yerevan State University
17։30
DINNER
09:00-11:00
SESSION V․ CHAIR Rushain Abbasi, Stanford University
DĪN IN KALĀM, FIQH, AND FALSAFA
Al-Taklīf al-ʿAqlī and the Universality of Dīn: Rethinking Moral Obligation Beyond Confessional Boundaries
Mariam Al-Attar,
American University of Sharjah
The Term Dīn in Pre-Modern Islamic Legal Hermeneutics and Theology
Katharina Ivanyi,
University of Vienna
From Dīn to Milla: al-Fārābī’s Political Conception of Religion
Federico Stella,
Università Degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale
11:00-11:30
COFFEE BREAK
11։30-12:10
SESSION VI․ CHAIR David Hovhannisyan
OTHERING THROUGH DĪN
Who is in, who is out? The role of Dīn in constructing “Otherness” in Ibn al-Jawzī’s Talbīs Iblīs (The Devil’s Deceit)
Shushan Kyureghyan,
Yerevan State University
12։10-12։50
FINAL DISCUSSIONS
12:50-13:30
LUNCH BREAK
13:45
Visit to the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute
18:00
CLOSING DINNER
