1.Position – Sullivan Visiting Professor in Islamic Art History – Deadline May 18 The Department of Art and Art History at Wesleyan University invites applications for a one-year, full-time Sullivan Visiting Professor of Art History. We seek an historian of pre-modern Islamic Art with an emphasis on South, Central, or

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1.ORHAN ELMAZ, Digital Tools and Methods in (+/- Contemporary) Qurʾānic Studies . MONDAY MAJLIS ONLINE. 4th of May (Monday) 17:00-18:30 (UK time) Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter Register please on this link:   https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/fbHQXhbxSm6-9gtiDQ4ovQ#/registration You can watch the previous Majlises here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-.

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The Affective Algorithm: Mapping the Emotional Architecture of Fatimid Geniza Petitions (Part 1)

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1. Séminaire « L’Afghanistan à travers les âges » – 6e séance mercredi 6 mai 18h-19h30 Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à la troisième séance du séminaire « L’Afghanistan à travers les âges », qui se tiendra mercredi 6 mai 2026, 18h-19h30, en salle 3.01 à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins,

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Bahrain makes rare arrest after AP report

1.The University of London is running an intensive short course on Islamic manuscripts, in person, 8-12 June. Some three million Islamic manuscripts are thought to survive in collections around the world. Most of them are unedited and unpublished. This course offers an in-depth, hands-on introduction to the practical skills needed

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Steve authored such works as
Astronomy and astrology in the Islamic world (2016)
Time in early modern Islam : calendar, ceremony, and chronology in the Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman empires (2013)
Half the world : the social architecture of Safavid Isfahan, 1590-1722 (1999)
Shahjahanabad : the sovereign city in Mughal India, 1639- 1739 (1993)

and, as your moderator, was an alumnus of Dartmouth College.