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R. Gleave: Some Recent Lectures and Conference Presentations
“Taqiyya and the limits of legitimate violence in early Shii jurisprudence”,
Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Early Islamic Thought Conference, University
of Exeter. 4th September 2011
“Economics as a substitute for Violence in Islamic jurisprudence”, East-West
Philosophers Conference, Honolulu, 5th March 2011
“Between Qum and Jerusalem: Learning in Shiite Islam and Judaism”,
National Library of Israel, 8th January 2011
“Literal meaning and Hermeneutic Principles in Islamic Jurisprudence” IAS
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 6th January 2011
“Rituals and Messiahs: An introduction to the Shiite seminaries (hawza) of
Iraq and Iran”, Department of Middle East Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
20th October 2010
“The Hawza and Shiite Learning in Iraq and Iran”, Tel Aviv University, 25th November
2012
“Literal meaning and Muslim exegetical techniques”, IAS Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, 18th November 2011
“Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought”, University of
Leiden, Holland 10th October 2010
“The Early Shiite Law of Mut’a” at the Colloquium on the Study of Shii Islam (IIS,
London) 23rd September 2010
“Violence and Messianism in Modern Shiism” at the Legitimate and Illegitimate
Violence Conference (IAIS, Exeter) 13th September 2010
“Shii Law of temporary marriage in the Abbasid Period” at School of Abbasid Studies
(Katholike Universiteit, Leuven) 6th July 2010
“Mutazili and Shii conception of language” at Rationalist theology in Medieval Islam
conference (German Institute, Istanbul) 5th June 2010
26th May: “Should we teach Islam as a civilisation or a religion?” Key Note Address at
the HEFCE/HEI Islamic Studies Conference (Aston University, Birmingham).
“La Chari’a dans L’histoire: ijtihad, épistémologie et “Tradition classique”, La
Shari’a dans la monde, L’Université de Strasbourg, 25th-26th March 2010.
“The Evolution of Clerical Training in Shiite Islam in Iran and Iraq”, Islamic
Studies in Europe Symposium, British Academy, 23rd-24th March 2010
“Legal Exegesis in Early Imami Shi’ism”, School or Oriental and African
Studies, University of London, 24th February 2010
A series of five lecture entitled “Hermeneutics, Power and Juristic Authority:
Studies in the history of Shīˁī Muslim Law”, Leiden University, between 29th
October and 26th November 2009. See http://www.law.leiden.edu/current-
students/news/gleave.html for full details
“Developments in Shi’i Legal Theory: khabar al-wahid and al-ijma’ al-sukuti”
Islamic law Faces the Challenges of the 21st Century, The Van Leer
Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem, 19th-21st October 2009.
“The methods of exegesis attributed to the Shi’I Imams”, Qur’an
commentaries workshop, Institute of Isma’ili Studies, London, 2-4th October
2009
"Murder in Bushehr: Shar’ and Urf in Shiite Law", International Society of
Islamic Legal Studies Conference, University of Exeter, University of Exeter,
13th-15th July 2009

“Legal Theory (usul al-fiqh) and Clerical Authority in Modern Shi’i Thought”,
BRISMES Conference 2009, University of Manchester, Manchester, 4-6 July
2009
“Religion and Law in the Reign of Shah ‘Abbas: Shaykh Baha' al-Din al-Amili's
legal project” World of Shah Abbas Symposium, British Museum, 15th-16th
May 2009
“Meaning and Interpretation in early Imami legal theory”, Arabic Texts
Seminar, Pembroke College, Oxford, 8th May 2009
“Legal Epistemology and modern Shi'i Usul al-fiqh”, Le chiisme aujourd’hui :
débats religieux, dynamiques historiques et trajectoires politiques, Science-Po
(Institut d'Études Politiques) Paris, 27-28th April 2009
“La relation entre Fiqh et codification de la loi islamique : les zoroastriens
dans l’islam contemporain”, Institut d’Études de l’Islam et des Sociétés du
Monde Musulman, Paris, 2nd April 2009
“Le déclin de l'Akhbarisme au début de l’ère Qajar (1786-1925): causes et
consequences” Institut d’Études de l’Islam et des Sociétés du Monde
Musulman, Paris, 1st April 2009
"Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll: Ethical and Legal Theory in Post Revolutionary
Iran", The AKS Lambton Memorial Lecture, University of Durham, 4th March
2009.
"Political authority and Legal Theory in Iraqi Shiism", University of
Nottingham, 24th February 2009
“Politics and Authority in Shi’ite Law”, Science-Po (Institut d'Études Politiques)
Paris, 9th January 2009