Yale CIR: Program

Saturday, April 14, 2007
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Yale University

Conference Schedule

8:00 - 9:15am Registration; Breakfast & Coffee

9:15 - 9:30am Welcome

9:30 - 11:30am Panel 1: Hermeneutics: Texts and Society
Response: Zareena Grewal; Moderator: Homayra Ziad

Juliane Hammer, "Hermeneutics, Identity & Society: American Women's Approaches to the Qur'an"
Martin Nguyen, "Hermeneutics as Translation: An Assessment of Islamic Translation Trends in America"
Saminaz Zaman, "From Imam to Cyber-Mufti: Navigating the Supermarket of Islamic Identities in America"
Mark Gould, "Kemal A. Faruki: an Islamist, a Modernist"

11:30 - 11:45am Coffee Break

11:45 - 1:45pm Panel 2: Change and Continuity in Theology and Law
Response: Yasir Qadhi; Moderator: Sayeed Rahman

Ayesha Chaudhry, "The Problems of Conscience and Hermeneutics: A Few Contemporary Approaches"
Fareeha Khan, "Gender, Tradition and Change: Some Reflections on the Deobandi Presence in America"
Youshaa Patel, "Tradition in Motion: Pluralizing Islamic Law through Incorporation of Custom"
Junaid Ahmad, "From Liberal to Liberation Theology: An Islamic Hermeneutics of Social Justice"

1:45 - 3:00pm Lunch Break and Dhuhr Prayers

3:00 - 5:00pm Panel 3: Case Study: Pluralism
Response: Matthew Ingalls; Moderator: Altaf Saadi

Vince Biondo, "Islam in the U.S. and Britain: Tribalism and Pluralism"
Anas Malik, "The Case for a Minarchist Libertarian Political Islam"
al-Husein N. Madhany, "Pooh-Poohing Pluralism: Ijtihading Hadith to Build a Theology of Exclusion"

5:00 - 5:30pm Coffee Break and 'Asr Prayers

5:30 - 6:30pm Roundtable Panel Discussion, Moderator: Dr. Farid Esack

6:30 - 7:30pm Keynote Address, by Dr. Ingrid Mattson, Moderator: Mahan Mirza

7:30pm Conclusion & Maghrib Prayers