Religion and Society in Qajar Iran
A three-day conference on 4th-6th September 2000 to be held at Clifton
Hill House, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Draft conference programme:
Sunday 5 September 2000
pm: Conference Participants and Attendees arrive
Monday 4 September 2000
9.00am Registration
10.15am Opening of Conference
10.30am Panel 1: Religion, State and Law in Qajar Iran
10.30 S.A. Arjomand: Public Ethic and Public Law in the Early Qajar
Period
11.15 M. Sefatgol: From Dar al-saltane-ye Isfahan to Dar al-khalafe-ye
Tehran: Continuity and Change in the Safavid Model of Religious Institution
(1795-1895/1209-1313)
12.00 Coffee
12.15 I. Schneider: Religion and State Jurisdiction in Nasir al-DinÕs
Reign
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm Panel 2: Missionaries and Christians in Qajar Iran
2.00 A. Amanat: Mujtahids and Missionaries: ShiÕi Responses to
Christian Polemics in the Early Qajar Period
2.45 M. Zirinsky: Presbyterian Missionaries in Iran: American Imperialists
or Altruists?
3.30 F. Hellot: Features of the Relationships between communities in
Ourmieh in the early 20th century
4.15 Tea
4.45pm Panel 3: Religion and Science
4.45 H. Ebrahimnejad: Religion and Medicine in Qajar Iran
5.30: S. Majid Mirmontahai: Science and Religion in Naserid Intellectual
thought: Clash or reconciliation?
6.15 Close
7.30pm Supper
Tuesday 5 September 2000
9.30am Panel 4: Doctrinal Debates and Philosophy
9.30 R. Gleave and M. Sefatgol: The Qajar Akhbari School: A study of
al-FawaÕid al-Shiraziyya of Fath Ali Zand
10.00 A. Newman: Anti-Akhbari Sentiments among the Later Qajar Ulema:
The case of Muhammad Baqir Khwansari (d.1313/1895)
10.45 Coffee
11.15 T. Lawson: The Reception of Fayz Kashani in the Early Qajar Period
12.00 S. Rizvi: Being and Sanctity: Two Poles of Intellectual and Mystical
inquiry in Qajar Iran
12.45pm Lunc
2.00pm Panel 5: Constitutional and Post-Constitutional Religious Developments
2.00 J. Cole: Shaykh al-RaÕis in Shiraz and Tehran: Prologue
to the Constitutional Revolution
2.45 H. Abadian: Religion and Society in Haji Agha ShiraziÕs
Thought
3.30 S. Yazdani: Heterodox Intellectuals of the Iranian Constitutional
Revolution
4.15 Tea
4.45 P. Minouchehr: The Constitutionalist Olama of the Atabat and the
Exile Persian Press
5.30 M. Tafreshi: Religious, Society and Socio-Cultural Changes in Khorasan
Persia (1905-25)
6.15 Close
7.30pm Supper
Wednesday 6 September 2000
9.30am Panel 6: Religion and Social Identity
9.30 K. S. Aghaie: Muharram Rituals, Social Identities and Political
relationships Under Qajar Rule: 1850s-1930s
10.00 N. Kondo: Vaqf and Private Property of Manuchehr Khan MoÕtamed
al-Dowle
10.45 Coffee
11.15 C. Werner: Pious Merchants: Religion Sentiments in Wills and Legacies
12.00 R. Haag-Higuchi: Religion in public and private life: the case
of the poet Yaghma-yi Jandaqi (1781-1859)
12.45pm Lunch
2.00pm Panel 7: Religious Minorities
2.00 M. Momen: The Role of Women in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
Century Iranian BahaÕi Community
2.45 H. Sahim: Iranian Jews in the Qajar Period: A Comparison of Two
Incidents
3.30 M. Deboo: Amelioration of Zoroastrian Infidels in Qajar Iran
4.15 Tea
4.45pm Panel 8: Artistic Expression and Religious Sentiment
4.45 P. Khosrownejad: Religious Motifs and Qajar Muslim Gravestones
5.30 J. Scarce: Pictorial representations of religious and Folk Culture
in Qajar Tilework and Related Arts
6.15 Closing Remark
8.30pm Conference Dinner
Thursday 7 September
am: Participants and attendees depart after breakfast.
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