IBADI JURISPRUDENCE

May 27th- 29th 2013

Jagiellonian University in Krakow

MAY 27TH

8.30-10.00 Registration
9.00-10.00 Private meeting with His Magnificence Rector of the Jagiellonian University
Prof. Dr. Wojciech Nowak with His Excellency Minister of Awqaf Shaykh Abdallah Al-
Salmi and his delegation in the Rectors office

10.00 10.45 Opening session

Prof. Dr. Barbara Michalak-Pikulska - The Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies
Prof. Dr. Wojciech Nowak - His Magnificence Rector of the Jagiellonian University
Dr. Abdarrahman Al-Salimi
Mr. Adam Kuach - His Excellency Ambassador-Head of Delegation of the European
Union to Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
His Excellency Bishop Prof. Dr. Tadeusz Pieronek
Dr. Urszula Lewicka - the daughter of Prof. Dr. Tadeusz Lewicki

10.45 -11.00 Coffee break

SESSION I
THE FORMATION PERIOD AND THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF IBADI
JURISPRUDENCE
Chair: Josef van Ess
11.00-11.30 Wilferd Madelung: Aqwal Qatada, the Shu'aybiyya and the Nukkar
11.30-12.00 John Wilkinson: Contextualizing the Development of Ibadi Fiqh
12.00-12.30 Farhat Jaabiri: Rasail Jabir b. Zayd from a Jurisprudence Perspective
12.30-13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.30 Lunch
SESSION I (continued)
Chair: Jerzy Zdanowski
14.30-15.00 Ridwan Al-Sayid: Origins of Ibadi Legal Thought between Theology and
Jurisprudence
15.00-15.30 Hossein Modarressi: Common Ibadi / Shi'ite Legacy in Imam Nur al-Din Al-
Salimis Maarij Al-Amal
15.30-16.00 Adam Gaiser: Takfir Re-examined: Ambiguity and Polemic in the Sources on
the Muhakkima
16.00-16.30 Ersilia Francesca: Early Ibadi Law
16.30-17.00 Discussion
17.00-17.30 Coffee break
SESSION II
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
Part I: The Maghreb
Chair: Adam Bieniek
17.30-18.00 Mustapha Badjou: The Concept of Ijtihad According to the Ibadi School of
Jurisprudence
18.00-18.30 Cyrille Aillet and Mohamed Hassen: The Legal Responsa Attributed to the
Third Imam of Tahert, Aflah b. Abd al-Wahhab (208-56/823-72) and the Early Ibadi
Jurisprudence in North Africa
17.30-18.00 Latifa Guendouz: The Ibadiyya Doctrine in North Africa: Example of the
Rustamid State
18.00-18.30 Leonard Chiarelli: Ibadi Communities in Muslim Sicily
18.30-19.00 Discussion
20.00 Dinner
MAY 28TH

SESSION II (continued)
Part II: Oman and Central Asia
Chair: Ersilia Francesca
9.00-9.30 Yohei Kondo: The Development of Ibadi Jurisprudence in Oman from the
Third/Ninth to the Fourth/Tenth Centuries. A Preliminary Study on Some Marriage Issues
9.30-10.00 Usmanov Ibrokhim Sabirovich: The Representation of Ibadis in Scholarly
Works from Mawerannahr
10.00-10.15 Discussion
10.15-10.45 Coffee break
SESSION III
THE IBADI JURISPRUDENCE AND THE THEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE
Chair: Stefan Schreiner
10.45-11.15 Abdarrahman Al-Salimi: On the Emergence of Ibadi Theo-Jurisprudence
11.15-11.45 Mohammed Ech-Cheikh: Theology and Jurisprudence in Medieval Ibadi
Thought (Al-Warjilani)
11.45-12.15 Angeliki Ziaka: The Roots of the Usul Al-Fiqh in the Ibadi Madhhab. A
Comparison Between Abu Said Al-Kudami and Ibn Baraka
12.15-12.45 Muhammad Kamal Imam: Ibadism and Maqasid Sharia
12.45-13.15 Discussion
13.15-14.45 Lunch
SESSION IV
IBADI CASE LAW
Chair: Mathias Rohe
14.45-15.15 Roswitha Badry: A Matter of Limited Female Agency: Omans Personal
Status Law and Ibadi Jurisprudence on khul and Other Forms of Divorce Initiated and/or
Approved by Women
15.15-15.45 Agostino Cilardo: The Ibadi Law of Inheritance
15.45-16.00 Discussion
16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.00 Danylo Radivilov: The Early Omani Siyar. Sin and Repentance in the Ibadi
Legal Theory
17.00-17.30 Douglas Leonard: A Basis for Oman's Religious Tolerance: A Review of the
Late 19th and Early 20th Century Ibadi Jurisprudence of Nur al-Din al-Salmi from Oman
and Mohammed Atfayish from North Africa Regarding Coexistence with Jews and
Christians.
17.30-18.00 Stefan Schreiner: Jewish Law in Ibadi Context. The Case of Levirate
18.00-18.30 Discussion
19.30 Dinner

MAY 29TH
SESSION IV
IBADI CASE LAW (continued) - IBADI LAW IN CONTEMPORARY TIME
Chair: Heinz Gaube
9.00-9.30 Ahmed Abou-El-Wafa: Ibadi Jurisprudence and the Law of the Sea
9.30-10.00 Mathias Rohe: Water and the Law in Oman
10.00-10.30 Michael Jansen: Ibadi Architectural Law
10.30-11.00 Discussion
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.00 Yahya Misho: Ibadi Jurisprudence on Urbanism and Architecture. Al-
Furstais Kitab al-Aradiyn
12.00-12.30 Amal Ghazal: Ibadi Jurisprudence: Responses to Modernity
12.45-13.00 Valerie Hoffman: Ibadi Scholars on Association and Dissociation, from the
Tenth to the Twenty First Century
13.00-13.30 Discussion
13.30-15.00 Lunch

SESSION V
IBADI MADHHAB AND THE SUNNI AND SHIITE SCHOOLS
Chair: Hossein Modarressi
15.00-15.30 Okilov Saidmukhtor Saidakbarovich: The Sunni Creed and Ibadi Teaching:
Differences and Similarities
15.30-16.00 Miklos Muranyi: Malikism and Ibadism. Notes on Some Hitherto Unknown
Manuscripts
16.00-16.30 Sagdiev Khabibullo Yodgorovich: The Theological Views of the Hanafi
Scholar Abujafar al-Tahawi in Comparison with Ibadi Teachings
16.30-17.00 Discussion
17.00-17.30 Coffee break
SESSION VI
LAW AND POETRY
Chair: Barbara Michalak-Pikulska
17.30-18.00 Hilal Al-Hajri: The Modernity of Our Ancestors: Penetrating Taboos in
Classic Omani Poetry
18.00-18.30 Muhsin Al-Kindi: The Composition of the Ibadi Legal Poets
18.30-19.30 Discussion Final Remarks and Conclusion

20.00 Dinner