ICISIC

Call for Papers

The Research Center for Islamic Philosophy and Theology organizes the conference on the following 5 main topics and 40 sub-topics: 1. Concept of death 2. Concept of immortality 3. Criteria of personal identity 4. Postmortem survival - Historical origins of the belief in the survival - The survival in different religions and denominations - Types of survival - Arguments for the survival:   * Philosophical arguments   * Mystical arguments   * Theological arguments   * Merely transmission-based arguments   * Empirical arguments (such as near-death experiences) - Dualistic accounts - Non-dualistic accounts 5. Life after death - Views about the human fate after death   * Annihilation   * Reincarnation - Barzakh   * The quality of barzakh   * Life in barzakh   * Arguments for barzakh   * The nature of human in barzakh and life in barzakh (physical or  otherwise) - Resurrection   * The quality of resurrection   * The resurrection and the nature of the return (philosophical and    mystical accounts and arguments)   * The resurrection and the universal soul   * The first and the second blow (nafkha)   * The resurrection of non-human entities   * Other stages of the resurrection (ṣirāṭ or the bridge,mīzān or    the scale,the presentation of actions) - Physical and spiritual resurrections   * Longitudinal bodies   * Arguments for physical resurrection   * Identity of the person in this world and the afterlife - Heaven and Hell   * Eternity in the Hell   * Renewal of one’s condition in the Heaven and the Hell   * Embodiment of actions Papers should not exceed 8000 words and can be in English, Arabic or Persian. Deadline for abstracts is March 16, 2019 and deadline for papers is September 16, 2019.