The Sixth Annual CIR Conference at Yale
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Hermeneutics and the Future of Islam in America
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
Assesment 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"
J. Ahmed, F. Ahmed, I. Syed, "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
Vice Biondo, "Islam in the U.S. and Britain:
Tribalism and Pluralism"
Anas Malik, "The Case for a Minarchist Libertarian
Political Islam"
Al-Husein al-Madhany, "Pooh-Poohing Pluralism:
Ijtihading Hadith to Build a Theology of Exclusion"
Peter Wright, "Rethinking the Inimitable"
5:00 - 5:30pm Coffee Break and 'Asr Prayers
5:30 - 6:30pm Roundtable Panel Discussion, Moderator:
Mahan Mirza
6:30 - 7:30pm Keynote Address, by Ingrid Mattson,
Moderator: Mahan Mirza
7:30pm Conclusion & Maghrib Prayers
