Keynote Address - Evil, Suffering, and the Global Pandemic
Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Hume on Trial: Can Evil and Suffering be Justified?
Muhammad U. Faruque
Aphorisms on God, Evil, and Liberation
Mohammed Rustom
Suffering Before God:
The Hermeneutics of Tawhid in the Act of Supplication
Sara Aziz
Suffering as Metaphysical Narrative:
Another Author’s Story
Cyrus Ali Zargar
Sacred Somatics:
An Islamic Perspective on the Role of the Body in the Care of the Dying
Hina Khalid
Unnecessary Evil: An Islamic Neoplatonic Theodicy from the Ismaili Tradition
Khalil Andani
Necessity and Freedom in God, Evil, and the Human Response
Özgür Koca
On Suffering and the Human Condition:
Reflections from the Sufi Tradition
Atif Khalil
Self-knowledge, Divine Trial and Discipleship
Mukhtar H. Ali
Aesthetic Theodicy: Light from the Horizon of Karbala
Nicholas Boylston
Living with Pain, Confronting Addiction
Amer Latif
Trials as Transformation: Islamic Chaplaincy and the Problem of Human Suffering
Ailya Vajid
Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s Metaphysical Theodicy
Justin Cancelliere
Climate Change and Specific Evil: An Avicennan Reading
Rosabel Ansari
Transformative Love Amid Suffering: A Perspective from Hilmi Ziya Ülken (1901-1974)
Taraneh R. Wilkinson
Human Suffering in Light of the Oneness of Being
Mohammad A. Mansouri
Roundtable Discussion
Rustom and Faruque