Panels

• Perspectives on Deliberation, Public Reason and Islam
  
  
• Theorizing the Islamic Response to Public Reason
  
  
• Islamic Law in the West
  
  
• Religion, Truth, and Political Loyalty
  
  
• Empirical Perspectives on Religiosity and Muslim Political Integration in America

Schedule

Friday, December 7

8:30am - Continental Breakfast

9:15am - Introduction: Andrew March

9:30am- 12:00pm
Panel 1: Perspectives on Deliberation, Public Reason and Islam

Lucas Swaine, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
“Demanding Deliberation: Political Liberalism and the Inclusion of Islam”

Micah J. Schwartzman, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Virginia
“The Sincerity of Public Reason”

Naz K. Modirzadeh, Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research
“Justifying Across Doctrine and Practice: Dilemmas of Resistance and Reform in International Law and Islamic Law”

12:00pm - Lunch and Friday Prayers

2:00 - 4:00pm
Panel 2: Theorizing the Islamic Response to Public Reason

Sherman Jackson, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Michigan
“Islam and Liberal Public Reason”

Mohammad Fadel, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Toronto
“The True, the Good and the Reasonable: The Theological and Ethical Roots of Public Reason in Islamic Law”

4:00 - 4:15pm - Coffee Break

4:15 - 6:15pm
Panel 3: Islamic Law in the West

Matthias Rohe, Professor of Law, Erlangen University
“European Sharia - Perspectives of Segregation, Assimilation or Integration for European Muslims?”

Haider Hamoudi, Associate Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh
“Realism and Resistance: Shi’ism and the Contemporary Liberal State”

Reception and dinner with participants to follow.

Saturday, December 8

10:30am - 12:30pm
Panel 4: Religion, Truth and Political Loyalty

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi, PhD Candidate in Religious Studies, Yale University
“The Theological Doctrine of Salvific Exclusivity in Islam and Its Possible Effects on Ideal Citizenship”

Mostapha Benhenda, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
“Rawlsian Political Liberalism and Islam: Can they be Reconciled?”

12:30pm - Lunch

2:00 - 4:30pm
Panel 5: Empirical Perspectives on Religiosity and Muslim Political Integration in America

Amaney Jamal, Assistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University
“Muslim Americans: Enriching or Threatening American Democracy?”

Matt Barreto, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Washington and Karam Dana, PhD Candidate in Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Washington
“Political Incorporation and Isolation of Muslims in America: The Role of Religiosity in Islam”

Mucahit Bilici, University of Michigan
“Muslim Encounters with American Citizenship: A Sociological Analysis of the Minority Fiqh Debate”