The Shia-Jewish Legal Reasoning in Dialogue
Over the last four year, The Shia-Jewish Legal Reasoning in Dialogue has brought together 13 scholars from across the U.S. and internationally to study legal texts of both traditions via diverse methodologies of academic analysis. They have been divided into 6 working groups working on the topics of the legal self, constitutionalism, theocracy, language, female clerical authority, and the persecution of heretics. The Dialogue is not merely meant to identify similarities and differences, but to allow scholars to think their "own" tradition conceptually anew through this encounter.