8.45-9.30

Registration & Coffee

9.30-9.45

Welcome, Elisabeth Kendall, CASAW Director

9.45-10.30

Keynote Address: "Jihad in History"
Professor Carole Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh

10.30-11.45

Panel: Jihad, Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion in the Modern World

Chair: Roland Dannreuther, University of Westminster

Kamran Bokhari (Director of ME Analysis, Stratfor, US): "Jihadism: A Transnational Challenge to the Nation-State from Non-State Actors"

Meir Hatina (Hebrew University, Israel): "Martyrdom in Modern Islam: Ethos and Politics"

Brannon Wheeler (US Naval Academy): "Martyrdom and Territorial Claims: The Place of the Corpse in Suicide Jihad"

Kathleen Cavanaugh (National University of Ireland): "Speaking Law to War"

11.45-12.15

Coffee

12.15-13.30

Panel: Jihad and Martyrdom in Monotheistic Traditions

Chair: Mona Siddiqui, Glasgow University

Reuven Firestone (Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles): "Divine Authority and Territorial Entitlement: A Study of Two Interpretive Traditions"

Roberta Denaro (University of Naples-L’Orientale): "Dying on God’s Path: Definitions and Narrations of Martyrdom in Sunni Hadith Literature"

George Wilkes (Cambridge University): "War and the Martyr in Maimonides’ Commentary on the Mishnah"

13.30-14.15

Lunch

14.15-15.30

Panel: Framing Jihad in the Modern Age: The Role of Intellectuals

Chair: Sami Zubaida, University of London, Birbeck

Kamal Helbawy (Centre for the Study of Terrorism, London) : "Jihad as Explained by Hasan al-Banna"

Yasir Kazi (Yale University): "The Reception of IbnTaymiyya's Fatwa on "Ruling by Other than God‟s Law‟ Amongst Modern Salafi scholars"

Glenn Robinson (Naval Postgraduate School, US):" Jihadi Information Strategy: Sources, Opportunities and Vulnerabilities"

15.30-16.15

Keynote Address: "Re-Thinking Principles: Sh. Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Ayat al-Sayf."

Professor Sherman Jackson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

16.15-16.45

Coffee (Venue Change to Lecture Theatre 270)

16.45-18.00

Panel: Jihad in Islam’s Formative Period

Chair: Carole Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh

Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana University): "Early Competing Views on Jihad and Martyrdom in the Musannafs of Abd al-Razzaq al-San‟ani and Ibn Abi Shayba"

Andrew Marsham (University of Edinburgh): "The Oath of Allegiance (bay‟a) and Jihad in The First Century of Islam"

Yaacov Lev (Bar Ilan University, Israel): "Jihad in Fatimid history"

Osman Tastan (Ankara University, Turkey): "Jihad in Classical Islamic Legal Theory: Public and Private Contexts"

18.00

Reception (Raeburn, Carstares, Elder & Lee Rooms)

8.45-9.15

Registration & Coffee

9.15-10.00

Keynote Address: 'Jihad in the thought of Yusuf al-Qaradawi.'

Sheikh Rached Ghannouchi, Renaissance Party

10.00-11.15

Global and Local Jihadism: Political Dynamics and the Lessons of Deradicalisation

Chair: Said Shehata (London Metropolitan University)

Abdelwahhab El-Affendi (University of Westminster): "Shifting Narratives in the Jihad Discourse: What does De-radicalisation Consist of?"

Omar Ashour (University of Exeter): "From Jihadism to “Peaceful Jihad?” De-Radicalized Islamists between the Jurisprudence of Violence and the Logic of Consequences"

Ewan Stein (CASAW, University of Edinburgh): "Jihadi Revisions in Egypt: The End of Radicalism?"

11.15-11.45

Coffee

11.45-12.30

Keynote Address: "Between Peaceful Coexistence and the Call for Terror: The Ambiguous Doctrine of Jihad"

Professor Rudolph Peters, University of Amsterdam

12:30-13.30

Lunch

13.30-14.15

Keynote Address: "Jihad in Europe"

Professor Tariq Ramadan, University of Oxford

Discussant: Louise Richardson (Principal, University of St Andrews)

14.15-15.30

Panel: Jihad Beyond the Arab World: Motivations, Interpretations and Contexts

Chair: Hugh Goddard (Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World, University of Edinburgh)

Dominik Schlosser (University of Erfurt, Germany): " War of Defence and Just War: A Convert‟s View of Jihad"

Eric L. Germain (EHESS/IISMM, Paris): "Jihadists of the Pen in Victorian England: The Building of an Articulated Muslim Response to Western Press “Misconceptions” of Jihad"

Na’eem Jeenah (Afro-Middle East Centre, South Africa): "Jihad' as a Form of Struggle in the Resistance against Apartheid in South Africa"

15.30-16.00

Coffee

16.00-17.15

Panel: Militant Islam in Context: War, Occupation and Poverty

Chair: Tobias Kelly (University of Edinburgh)

Nora Ann Colton (American University of Beirut): "The Migration of Islamist Militancy to Urban Poverty Belts"

Maria Holt (University of Westminster): " 'A Plurality of Resistances': Women, Islam and War in Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories"

Lisa Welze (University of Oxford): " From Tribe to Faction: Cultural Politics in the Islamic Resurgence in Palestine"

Greg Philo (Glasgow Media Unit): "News and Public Understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"

19.30

Conference Dinner (for registered diners)

(to be held at The Royal Society of Edinburgh)