Video of Panelists’ Presentations
“Lives of Hadith”
NAAIMS 51st Annual Conference
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Cosponsored By:
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
A Vitual Conference on Zoom platform
All Sessions held in Eastern Standard Time (UTC-05:00)
Welcoming Remarks: NAAIMS President, Sarra Tlili, University of Florida &
Panel Session 1: Hadith in Contemporary Islamic Thought
Chair/Discussant: Omer Awass, American Islamic College, Chicago, IL
- Emad Hamdeh (Embry Riddle University, Daytona Beach, Florida): “Are Ḥadīth the Problem? Ḥadīth, Reform, and Modernity”
- Joel Blecher (George Washington University, Washington, DC): “Reflecting on Hadith Commentary: Continuity and Change”
- Nadir Ansari (University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada): “The Role of Ḥadīth in the Specification of the Ambiguous (ta yīn al-mubham) in the Qur’an: An Analysis of the Qur’an Exegesis of Aḥmad al-Dīn Amritsari (d. 1936, India)”
Panel Session 2: Transmission and Transmitters
Chair/Discussant: Mairaj U. Syed, University of California-Davis, CA
- Mohamad Anas Sarmini (University of Istanbul 29 of May, Istanbul, Turkey): “A Study in the Network Transmission of Hadith: Analysis of Studies that Dealt with Individual Narrations of Abu Hurairah as a Model”
- Syeda Beena Butool (Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL): “Transmitters as Storytellers: Authorship in an Eighth Century Hadith Collection”
- Heba Arafa Abdelfattah (Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa): “Does Hadith Prohibit Figural Representation (Taswir)?”
Panel Session 3: Hadith, Religious Identity and Ethos
Chair/Discussant: Jawad A. Qureshi, Zaytuna College, Berkeley, CA
- Aisha Y. Musa (Independent Scholar – Qur’anic and Islamic Studies, Tigard, OR): “And Muhammad is His Messenger: The Role of Sunna and Hadith in the Formation of Islamic Identity”
- M.A. Mujeeb Khan (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT): “Making Prophetic Therapy: Defeating the Competition with its Own Theories”
- Erin Atwell (University of Chicago, Chicago, IL): “Textual Inheritances of Taqwa in the Citations of Contemporary Egyptian Preacher Training Manuals”
Panel Session 4: Socio-political Uses and Invocations of Hadith
Chair/Discussant: Kamran Scot Aghaie, University of Texas, Austin, TX
- Han Hsien Liew (Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ): “The Caliphate will Last for Thirty Years: Political & Historical Debates in the Afterlife of a Prophetic Hadith”
- Masoud Shavarani (University of Islamic Denominations, Tehran Iran): “Man is Khalīfat Allāh or Abd Allāh in Hadith”
- Zahra Mohagheghian (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran): “The Goddess al-'Uzza, from Idol to a Black Woman: A Feminine Study in the Growth of a Tradition”