connected with – and also a result of – the publication of Ibāḍī books from Algeria, Oman, Egypt, Zanzibar, etc., since the end of the 19th century. These developments changed many previous concepts and introduced the notion of intellectual reformation process in the scholarship on Ibadism and the contributions of the scholars of Ibadism, such as, Nur al-Din Al-Salmi, and Muhammad ibn Yusuf Atfayyash, the author of “Sharh al Nail”, and Sulayman al-Baruni, all of whom advanced the field of Ibāḍī studies in recent years. Within this context, the study of Ibadism entered a stage of greater profundity and sophistication, thus becoming a more attractive subject of study to researchers and specialists. The critical text editions by Abulrahman al-Salimi and Wilferd Madelung, as well as a recent annotated translation of two theological primers by Ibāḍī theologians of the late thirteenth and the early nineteenth century respectively, namely the ʿAqīda al-wahbiyya by Nāṣir b. Sālim b. ʿUdayyam al-Rawahī and the Kitāb Maʿālim al-dīn by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Thamīmī (d. 1223/1808), with an introduction to the history of Ibāḍī doctrinal thought (Valerie Hoffman 2012) hold exceptional and unique interest for the history of Ibāḍī theology. Given the growing interest of international scholars in Ibāḍī studies, Ibāḍī theology will certainly play a prominent role in future scholarship. Conferences regularly held since 2009 on Ibadism are a major fact in this direction, attracting a number of experts in this field. On November 9–10, 2009, the first international conference in Europe on Ibadism (al-Ibadiyya), entitled “Ibadism, Ibāḍī Studies, and the Sultanate of Oman,” was held at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. Since then, eight international conferences have been dedicated to Ibadism and all proceedings were published in the Series entitled Studies on Ibadism and Oman. See also List of Islamic scholars References External links International Conferences on Ibadi Studies