Conference Schedule
All sessions will be held in the BYU Hinckley Center Assembly Hall.
Format: 90-minute sessions featuring two 30-minute presentations, each by a distinguished scholar of Islam, followed by discussion with the other invited scholars and the audience.
Day 1:
Monday, Oct 18th
9:00-9:20:
Conference Opening with welcome by University Administration and General Orientation to Conference
9:30-11:00:
SESSION 1 – Islam and Muslims in the Global West: Challenges and Opportunities (Asma Afsaruddin & Sherman Jackson)
11:00-11:30:
Morning Break
11:30-1:00:
SESSION 2 – Women and Gender in the Islamic World: Continuities and Transformations (Sherine Hafez & Jamillah Karim)
1:00-2:00:
Lunch Break
2:00-3:30:
SESSION 3 – The Qur’an, Hadith, and Historical Origins (Hadia Mubarak & Jonathan Brown)
Day 2:
Tuesday, Oct 19th
9:30-11:00:
SESSION 4 – Perceptions of Islam in the West (John Esposito & Dalia Fahmy)
11:00-12:00:
Morning Break
12:00-1:30:
SESSION 5 – Contemporary Islamic Politics (Tarek Masoud & Shadi Hamid)
1:30-3:00:
SESSION 6 – Probing Islamic Diversity: Sunni, Shia, and Beyond (Tahera Qutbuddin & Abdulaziz Sachedina)
3:00-3:30:
Afternoon Break
3:30-5:00:
SESSION 7 — The Role of Sharia in the North American Umma (Natana DeLong-Bas & Asifa Quraishi-Landes)
5:00-5:45:
Concluding Roundtable Session
8:00-9:00:
"Muslims and Latter-day Saints: Understanding One Another"
Elder David A. Bednar and Elder Gerrit W. Gong
of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Joseph Smith Building Auditorium
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