1. Zoom talk: In honour of Babur’s birthday on 14 February — a day celebrated in Uzbekistan as part of its cultural heritage — we warmly invite you to a special lecture: Babur Day Special: Mirza Haydar Dughlat and East Turkestan in Literary Memory The lecture will explore how writers
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1. CfP: “Muslims Between Fragility and Hope in an Age of Existential Crisis” Online Conference (MS Teams), Tuesday 29th September 2026 Hosted by The MUSER Project, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Glasgow How do Muslims understand and make sense of the multiple existential crises that face humanity
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On ISIL’s involvement, see
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/6/explosion-rocks-mosque-in-pakistans-islamabad
Posted in: News, Pakistan1. Upcoming Zoom Talk on Persian Language Study, 5.2.26, 2pm CST “The History of Persian Language Studies in the US” Dr. James D. Clark History Department The University of Nebraska at Omaha Thursday, February 5, 2026, 2:00 p.m. CST Zoom Registration Link: https://unomaha.zoom.us/meeting/register/Pi7CmYeaTTeLNa9DedzbkA 2. Prochaine séance
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1.PhD studentship (Medieval Arabic and Islamic Studies) at the University of Exeter (UK): ‘Pustules, Palaeogenetics and Pandemics from Galen to Rhazes: How to do the Early History of Smallpox and Measles’ The Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies (IAIS) wishes to recruit a Graduate Research Assistant to support the work
Posted in: Academic itemsArticles on “Alevism: History, Religion, and Transformation” for a Special Issue of the Open Access Journal “Religions”
We welcome historical, ethnographic, comparative, and theoretical perspectives from religious studies, anthropology, history, sociology, ethnomusicology, and political science to situate Alevism within broader debates on religion and modernity.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2027.
Information:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/167FG68S4I
1. ‘”Political jurisprudence” in HTS, IS and Al-Qaeda texts: competing visions of Islamic government’ J S Islam, M S Siyech, Politics, Religion and Ideology, 2025 (26/4) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21567689.2025.2606088 2. Online BRISMES event What’s in an Archive? The Colonial and Anticolonial Afterlives of MENA Archives Tuesday, 27 January
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