“Local and Global identities. Social change and Ibadi diaspora communities.”

Date: May 20-23 2017

Venue: The University of Tokyo, Center for Middle Eastern Studies (Komaba Campus), Tokyo, Japan

The first international conference on Ibadi Studies was held in a European university, at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, on November 9-10, 2009. Since then six more conferences took place in various European universities and foundations that are well known for their academic cultivation of Arab-Islamic and Oriental studies.

The conferences examine a wide range of research and pertain to an interdisciplinary introduction to Ibadism and the Ibadi Studies through historical, religious, anthropological, political, and ethno-archeological approaches, as well as to the religion and theology of Ibadism, Ibadi jurisprudence and history, and cover a long historical period from the Basra period up to the Nahda period (Islamic renaissance) and Ibadism today.

The panels will include four major sections:

• Identity, Social Change and Diaspora: Theoretical Considerations
• The Formation of Ibadi Identity
• Ibadi Identity in modern times
• Expressions of Ibadi Identity

Conference Program:

• SESSION I – THE FORMATION OF IBADI IDENTITY
  CHAIR: VALERIE HOFFMAN

– WILFERD MADELUNG: Kitab al-Akila of Najjad b. Musa al-Manhi

– HOSSEIN MODARRESSI: Living in the land of the oppressors: Common Ibādī-Shīʿite solutions for a

– JOSEF VAN ESS: Changing Images. The Khawarij in public perception during the first centuries of Islam

– ABDULRAHMAN AL SALIMI: The Critical of the Hadith in early Ibadi Literature

• SESSION II – THE FORMATION OF IBADI IDENTITY
  CHAIR: EFIM REZVAN

– ADAM GAISER: Ibadi Identity in the mirror of heresiography

– MIKLOS MURANYI: The case of Hud b. Muhakkam al-HawwarI and Yahya b. Sallam al-Basri

– AMANDA PROPST: The place of the Prophet Muhammad in early Ibadi literature (the siyar)

• SESSION III – THE FORMATION OF IBADI IDENTITY
  CHAIR: WALID SALEH

– YOHEI KONDO: Migration, Scholarly Exchange and the Early Development of Ibadi Law in Oman

– AHMAD ABU AL WAFA: The Homeland and Location Concept in Ibadi Jurisprudence

– MOHAMMED ECH-CHEIKH: Ibadi Community. Between Identity and Differentiation. Some philosophical Reflections

– BRAHIM BAHAZ: The first stapes of the Ibadi Identity in the Maghreb of the Middle Times

• SESSION IV – THE FORMATION OF IBADI IDENTITY
  CHAIR: NAMIE TSUJIGAMI

– ERSILIA FRANCESCA: The spread of the community. Ibadi diaspora in the early Ibadi sources

– WALID SALEH: The Ibadi Legal Tradition and Early Islam

– SALEH ALBUSAIDI: The Concept of Spatial Dimensions in the Ibadi School

• SESSION V / THE FORMATION OF IBADI IDENTITY
  CHAIR: ΑΜΑL GHAZAL

– ANNA MARIA DI TOLLA: Berber Kharijism in North Africa: Some aspects of the relationships between the Sufri Midrarides of Sijilmasa and the Ibadi Rustumid of Tahert in the late eighth and tenth centuries

– VERMONDO BRUGNATELLI: A medieval Ibadi tawhid in Berber: some considerations

– MUSTAFA BENDRISSOU: The Ibadi Opposition heritage in the Middle East and the Maghreb during the three first Centuries of the Hegira.

• SESSION VI / IBADI IDENTITY IN MODERN TIMES
  CHAIR: HATIM AL TAY

– JERZY ZADOWNSKI: Imam Nur al-Din al-Salimi (1286-1332/1869-1914) and Islamic Reform in the Modern Identity Context

– PAUL LOVE: Private Libraries as Communal Archives: The Private Library of Shaykh Salim b. Yaqub (1903-1991)

– SASSI BEN YAHYATEN: Ibadis in Egypt

• SESSION VII / EXPRESSIONS OF IBADI IDENTITY
  CHAIR: DIETRICH OLMS

– MUHSIN ΑL KINDI: Identity and intercommunication. Referential in the Modern Omani Poetry

– BARBARA MICHALAK-PIKULSKA: Identity in Literary Output and Cultural Life in Oman

– HILAL AL HAJIRI: Portuguese Colonization in Omani Literature: The Image of National Identity and Resistance

• SESSION VIII / IBADI IDENTITY IN MODERN TIMES
  CHAIR: KAZUO MORIMOTO

– MARIANNE LAANATZA, Ibadi societies in Nort Africa (Algeria, Libya and Tunisia)

– BRAHIM BENYOUCEF: Openness, mobility and identity: The case of the Ibadi community of the Mzab

– AUGISTIN JOMIER: Dealing with the trading Diaspora: Mizabi Ulama and Traders in Algeria, 1920s-1950s

– FARHAT JAABIRI: Identity Affection. My experience with the Ibadis of Jebra from 1952 to 2016

• SESSION IX / EXPRESSIONS OF IBADI IDENTITY
  CHAIR: JERZY ZDANOWSKI

– VALERIE HOFFMAN: Political Geography and Ibadi Thought in Modern Oman and Zanzibar

– AMAL GHAZAL, Science, Education and anti-Colonialism: An Ibadi Project of Reform in the Interwar Period

– KIMBERLY WORTMANN, Omani-Ibadi institutions in post-revolutionary Zanzibar

• SESSION X / IDENTITY, SOCIAL CHANGE AND DIASPORA: THEORETICAL RECONCIDERATIONS AND EXAMPLES
  CHAIR: YOHEI KONDO

– NAMIE TSUJIGAMIE: Gulf Women as Emerging New Social Actors: Consumption and Business Opportunities in Sex-Segregated Riyadh

– EMILY GOSHEY: Modern Ibadi Discourse on the Afterlife: Toward distinction within the mainstream

– ANGELIKI ZIAKA and NIKI PAPAGEORGIOU: Tradition and Modernity: Shaping Oman’s Religious Identity

– SEAN FOLEY: From Madison Avenue to Muscat: Ibadi Responses to the Modern Cigarette Industry

More information at: http://www.ibadistudies.org/