Muslims Between Fragility and Hope in an Age of Existential Crisis Conference

Reconfiguring Muslim Selfhood between Hope and Fragility

1. Lisa Franke: “Reconfiguring Imān: Muslim Engagements with Ethical Uncertainties and Existential Crises”

2. Iqbal Akhtar: “Hijra as Hope: Migration Theology and Muslim Responses to Existential Displacement”

3. Amina Tawasil: “Surveillance, Affect, and the Logic of Protection: Fragility and Hope in Muslim Ethnographic Fieldwork in Iran”

Theological Issues of Hope and Fragility

1. Mazin Almas: “Between Ajal and Shafāʿ a: Al- Māturīdī’s Eschatological Theology and Rethinking Existential Risk”

2. Gregory Vandamme: “The Providential Threshold of Existential Risk: Ibn ʿAjība on Plague, Metaphysical Causality, and Ethical Response”

3. Osman Eltayib: “Fasād, Mīzān, and Iṣlāḥ: Ecological Fragility and Moral Repair in Islamic Environmental Ethics”

Muslim Thinkers’ Engagement with Hope and Fragility

1. Ibrahim Ozdemir: “Said Nursi and the Secular Void: Existential Risk, Meaning, and the Islamic Philosophical Alternative”

2. Mahnoor Farooqi: “Between Fragility and Becoming: Iqbal’s Khudi and Historical Time”

3. Saida Mirsadri: “Rethinking Evil in an Age of Existential Risk: Muhammad Iqbal and the Reconstruction of Islamic Responses to Suffering”

Topography of Hope and Fragility

1. Cecilee Glaus Jones: “Making oddkin in polycrisis: Muslim- Indigenous relations in the Greater Toronto Area”

2. Anika Kabani: “If it’s meant for me to get asylum, then God will help me’: Muslim Hope, Bureaucratic Fragility,and Risk in the United States”

3. Alice Catanzaro: “Spiritual (In)Security: Religious Chaos and Risk in Morocco”