1.Durham University Teaching Fellow in Arabic  School of Modern Languages and Cultures Grade 7: – £33,797 – £40,322 per annum Fixed Term – Full Time Contract Duration: 12 months Contracted Hours per Week: 35 Closing Date: 06-Jun-2021, 11:59:00 PM https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=21000427&lang=en For informal enquiries please contact Professor Jonathan Long, Head of School (j.j.long@durham.ac.uk ), or Dr Adam

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‘Teaching Ethics in Early Ibadism: A Preliminary Study’
Jana Newiger,
In: Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam: Religious Learning between Continuity and Change (2 vols)
Leiden, 2020
Editor: Sebastian Günther
https://brill.com/view/title/56045

The ‘Ulama in Contemporary Pakistan
Contesting and Cultivating an Islamic Republic
Mashal Saif
Cambridge, 2020
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ulama-in-contemporary-pakistan/3749EB0360E0355D8A9A702FF8ADB1E8

Falling Out of Love with the Franks: The Life and Writings of an Armenian Catholic Diplomat in the Service of Late Safavid Persia
Henry R. Shapiro

Iranian Studies
Volume 54, 2021 – Issue 3-4

1.ONLINE Talk: “Kings and Heroes, Lovers and Poets: the Shahnameh’s Continuous Appeal” by Prof. Charles Melville (British Institute of Persian Studies), Iran Heritage Foundation, London, 12 May 2021, 5:30 pm GMT The Shahnameh, or Book of Kings, is arguably Iran’s most famous work of literature and one of the world’s

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Turkish Journal of Shiite Studies is an academic peer-review journal that publishes on Shiite studies. Submission of articles for the new issue (June 30, 2021, Volume:3, Issue:1) continues to May 30. Turkish Journal of Shiite Studies is a double-blind peer review and no fee is requested from the author before or after the publication.

For the details and submission:
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/siader

‘An explosion near a school in a Shia district of west Kabul has killed at least 25 people, many of them young students, and wounded dozens more, Afghanistan’s interior ministry said.

Ambulances were rushing to evacuate the wounded from the scene of the blast on Saturday near Syed Al-Shahda school, in the Shia majority neighbourhood of Dasht-e-Barchi, Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said.’

See: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/8/blasts-kill-dozens-near-school-in-afghan-capital-kabul

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See also The New York Times.
See also The Wall Street Journal.
See also Vice News.

1.Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2021). https://www.hackettpublishing.com/muslim-sources-of-the-crusader-period-4415         2. Call for Chapters: The Historicity of Democracy in the Arab and Muslim worlds   In the framework of the HISDEMAB research project on the historicity of democracy in the Arab and Muslim

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‘A Silent Quest for New Shīʿa Religious Leaders in Italy’
M. Mirshahvalad,
Journal of Muslims in Europe, 2020-10-28, Vol.10 (1), p.68-84.

‘The Banū Yahrāsan, Political and Sacred Leaders in Ibāḍī Djerba’
V Prevost.
Al-Masāq, Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean
Volume 33, 2021 – Issue 1