Saturday April 24th 2004

Academic Program 8am- 4pm
Law School Auditorium, Yale University 

8:00am - 8:30am Breakfast & Registration - Law School Rm 122

8:45am - 9:00am Opening Remarks

First Panel
9:00am - 9:40am   Qualifications: Criteria for Determining Islamic Law Expertise
Zareena Grewal     "Authority/Crisis, Identity/Crisis: American Students of Knowledge and Traditional Islam"
Iza Hussin              "Islamic Law in the Colonial State: Change and the Construction of Authority in British Malaya"

9:40am - 10:20pm   Discussion
Speaker:    Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah
Moderator: Sayeed Rahman

Second Panel
10:30am - 11:10am Legal Authority:  What Constitutes Binding Legal Authority?
Anver Emon             "Human Agency in the Construction of Islamic Law"
Felicitas Opwis         "Changing the Terms of Authority in Islamic Law: The Punishment for Drinking Wine"

11:10am - 11:50am Discussion
Speaker:    Dr. Sherman Jackson
Moderator: Racha Omari

11:50pm - 1:00pm Lunch Break

Third Panel
1:00pm - 1:40pm  Islamic Law: Continuity or Change?
Junaid Quadri        "Towards an Islamic System of Human Rights: Reconciling the Issue of Apostasy"
Scott Lucas           "Alternative Methodologies: The Legal Hermeneutics of Hadith scholars, compilers of
                            Ikhtilaf al-fuqaha’ books, and Khalid Abou El Fadl"

1:40pm - 2:20pm Discussion
Speakers:  Dr. Khaled Abou El-Fadl
Moderator: Intisar Rabb

Workshop Rms 128 and 129
2:30pm - 4:00pm Roundtable Discussion with all Speakers
Moderator: Dr. Dimitri Gutas

Night Program 8pm- 10pm
Law School Auditorium, Yale University

“The Reel Face of Islam” 

8:00pm - 9:00pm Film Shorts: The American Muslim Experience

9:00pm - 10:00pm A Conversation with Imam Faheem Shuaibe