Space aliens in Shi'i thought
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Join us as we welcome Amina Inloes as we discuss “Space aliens in Shi’i thought” Within Shi’i thought (Qur’an, Ahadith and
Event Details
Join us as we welcome Amina Inloes as we discuss “Space aliens in Shi’i thought”
Within Shi’i thought (Qur’an, Ahadith and works of scholars), the concept of life outside the Earth has been mentioned and discussed. This talk will delve into the literature on the topic, lay out the various perspectives and how often we see these ideas. It will touch on the reliability of these texts, their consistency with Islamic belief & science, and the discussions about these texts. Finally, the talk will cover the implications of these texts in what they mean for us, and what they mean about the texts more generally.
This programme will be face to face and streamed online.
We will be streaming the programme live on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/sicmtv
If you would like to recite Qur’an during the programme, please do let us know: email us: info@sicm.org.uk
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Mahfil Ali
39 Gloucester Road, North Harrow
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Amina Inloes is an American scholar, researcher, educator, public speaker, translator and a Shi’ite Muslim. She has written several books on the subject of Shi’ism.
She has a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter on Shi’ia hadith about pre-Islamic female figures mentioned in the Qur’an. Her PhD thesis, submitted in 2015, is entitled “Negotiating Shīʿī Identity and Orthodoxy through Canonizing Ideologies about Women in Twelver Shīʿī Aḥādīth on Pre-Islamic Sacred History in the Qurʾān.
She works for the Research and Publications Department of the Islamic College and is programme leader for the MA Islamic Studies program
Publications:
Mulla Muhsin Fayd Kashani, Spiritual Mysteries and Ethical Secrets: A Translation of al-Haqa’iq fi Makarim al-Akhlaq, tr. A. Inloes, N. Virjee, and M. Tajri (London: ICAS Press, 2012)
‘Khadijah bint Khuwaylid’, in The Islamic World: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture and Society, ed. Gordon Newby and James Ciment (Armonk, NY: Sharpe, forthcoming).
Review of Shi’ism: A Religion of Protest by Hamid Dabashi, in Journal of Shi’a Islamic Studies, vol. 6, no. 3 (2013)
‘The Queen of Sheba in Shi’a Hadith‘, in Journal of Shi’a Islamic Studies, vol. 5, no. 4 (2012)
A. Inloes and L. Takim, ‘Conversion to Twelver Shi‘ism among American and Canadian women’ in Studies in Religion(forthcoming)
‘Mukhtar al-Thaqafi: Character versus Controversy’ in the Journal of Shi’a Islamic Studies (Volume 2, 2009)
Review of The Shi’a Revival by Vali Nasr in the Journal of Shi’a Islamic Studies (Volume 4, 2008)
The Tragedy of Karbala: A Dramatic Interpretation of the Epic of Imam Husain (A).
Advisor and contributor to This is Islam by J. Elias
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