About International Conferences on Ibadi Studies

The first international conference on Ibadi Studies was held in a European university, at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, on November 9-10 2009.

Since then seven more conferences took place in various universities and foundations worldwide that are well known for their academic cultivation of Arab-Islamic and Oriental studies:

• The Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen (2011)
• The University Orientale of Napoli (2012)
• The Institute of Oriental Studies of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow (2013)
• The Corpus Christi College of Cambridge University (2014)
• The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in St. Petersburg (2015)
• The St Antony's College of Oxford University (2016)
• The University of Tokyo Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (2017)
• The University of Peking, Department of Foreign Languages (2018)

The conferences examine a wide range of research and pertain to an interdisciplinary introduction to Ibadism and the Ibadi Studies through historical, religious, anthropological, political, and ethno-archeological approaches, as well as to the religion and theology of Ibadism, Ibadi jurisprudence and history, and cover a long historical period from the Basra period up to the Nahda period (Islamic renaissance) and Ibadism today.