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(in comparison with Ancient Mesopotamia, Judaism and Christianity).Convenor: Asma Hilali29-30 May, 2012The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London Second Floor, Room 2:3Places are limited, so please RSVP to Ms Hena Miah (hmiah@iis.ac.uk).The workshop's description, programme, abstracts and participant biographies are available at:http://iis.ac.uk/view_article.asp?ContentID=113412Tuesday 29 May13:50  Welcome: Asma Hilali, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London14:00–15:00  Session 1:  Canonisation. Chair: Stephen Burge, The Instituteof Ismaili Studies, London'Fragmentation and Compilation: The Human Free Will as an Example in HadithLiterature'Viviane Comerro-de Prémare, Institut National de Langues et CivilisationsOrientales, Paris'Practice – Teaching – Tradition: Constructing the Authority of SunniIslamic Religious Texts'Stefan Leder, Orient Institut Beirut15:15-16:15  Session 2: Citation. Chair: Stefan Leder, Orient InstitutBeirut'On the Consumption of Law in Modern Central Asia: Who Cares for DoctrinalCitations in the Fatwas?'Paolo Sartori, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna'Citation, Appropriation and Re-Shaping in the Reception History of theQur’an. The Epistles of the Pure Brethren (Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa’) as aCase in Point'Omar Alí-de-Unzaga, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London16:30-17:30  Session 3: Books and Beliefs. Chair: Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, TheInstitute of Ismaili Studies, London'Athens, Jerusalem, Mecca: The Patristic Crucible of the AbrahamicReligions'Guy Stroumsa, University of Oxford'Conceptualising Books in Mesopotamia: The Composition of ExtispicyTreatises in the Old-Babylonian Period'Jean-Jacques Glassner, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris17:30–18:00     General discussion. Chair: Asma HilaliWednesday 30 May09:30-10:30  Session 4: Text Shaping. Chair: Karen Bauer, The Institute ofIsmaili Studies, London'Modelling the Paleo-Muslim Qur'an'Aziz al-Azmeh, Central European University, Budapest'Typology of Variants in the San‘a Palimpsest (Manuscript 27.1 Daral-Makhtutat)'Asma Hilali, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London11:00–12:00  General discussion. Chair: Asma Hilali