Date: Sunday,  21st  August  2011 at 2:00pm

Venue: Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, WC1E 7HX

Chair: Gulamabbas Murtaza Lakha, CFA

Gulamabbas has been active in the arena of Islamic personal development and psychology for the last twelve years and has been lecturing on the subject since 2007. He is presently writing a book on self analysis and Islamic personal development, drawing upon the Shi’i teachings of akhlaq (psychology and human interaction).
He is currently undertaking postgraduate study at the Islamic College in London and postgraduate work in theology at the University of Oxford.

Speaker: Dr. Reza Shah-Kazemi
Imam Ali and Mystical Doctrine
Reza Shah-Kazemi studied International Relations and Politics at Sussex and Exeter Universities before obtaining his PhD in Comparative Religion from the University of Kent in 1994. Dr Shah-Kazemi is at present a Research Fellow with the Department of Academic Research and Publications where he is Managing Editor of Encyclopaedia Islamica. He has authored several works, including Spiritual Quest: Reflections on Qur’anic Prayer according to the teachings of Imam ‘Ali (IIS/IB Tauris, 2011) as well as numerous other papers and books.

Speaker: Dr. Sajjad H. Rizvi   
Imam 'Ali and the Qur'an
Sajjad Rizvi is Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History. Trained at Oxford and then Cambridge, he specialises in the history of philosophical and hermeneutical traditions in the Islamic East. The author of Mulla Sadra Shirazi (Oxford, 2007), Mulla Sadra and Metaphysics (Routledge, 2009), and An Anthology of Quranic Commentaries on the Nature of God (with Feras Hamza, Oxford, 2008), he is currently finishing a monograph on Mir Damad and another one on the noetics of Mulla Sadra. His next projects are an intellectual history of Islamic philosophy in India, 1500-1900, and a study of apophatic theology in Islamic thought.

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