Archive for 2015
- September 03, 2015
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. International Workshop: “The Fiqhī Heritage in the Ottoman Empire and India”, Istanbul University, 27-28 February 2016
The aim of the workshop is to study Indian and Ottoman scholars and institutions in light of the works produced during the Ottoman period. The workshop will be held in Turkish, Arabic, and English.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2015. Information: http://ilahiyat.istanbul.edu.tr/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Fiqhi-Heritage-in-the-Ottoman-Empire-and-India.pdf
2. 19th Annual International Mediterranean Studies Association Congress, University of Palermo, 25-28 May 2016
150-200 scholarly papers will be delivered before an international audience of scholars, academics, and experts in a wide range of fields. A number of special events are being planned for Congress participants that will highlight the unique cultural aspects of Sicily.
Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2016. Information: www.mediterraneanstudies.org/
3. Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics and Middle East, Loyola University Chicago
The tenure-track position is beginning fall 2016. The successful candidate is expected to have a Ph.D. in Political Science at the time of the appointment. The Jesuit Catholic institution seeks candidates who will contribute to deliver a Transformative Education in the Jesuit tradition.
Deadline for applications: 30 September 2015. Information: pschrae@luc.edu
4. Assistant Professor of Islam and Modernity, University of Toronto
The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in Religion, Middle Eastern Studies, or an appropriate disciplinary area, by the time of appointment, or shortly thereafter, must have a high level of scholarly achievement in Islamic Studies, must be competent in Arabic and in classical sources, and must have competence in the academic study of religion.
Deadline for applications: 1 November 2015. Information: https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?job=1501073
5. Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore
The successful candidate should have a sound understanding of the contemporary Middle East, and be familiar with current scholarship on the region. Desirable qualifications include, among others, a Ph.D. involving work related to the Middle East and knowledge of at least one Middle Eastern language, preferably Arabic.
Deadline for applications: 1 October 2015. Information: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/index.php/web/new-job-opening
6. New Doctoral Program on „State Politics and Islamic Orthodoxy”, Institute of Social Justice, Australian Catholic University, North Sydney
The four-year program begins with an intense year of coursework and training, combined with serious theoretical and conceptual work. The demanding and rigorous year of coursework, comprised of four North American style doctoral seminars, provides students with a deeper understanding of the great debates in social and political thought, and better prepares them for the task of undertaking original investigations of their own.
Deadline for expression of interest: 16 September 2015. Information: http://isj.acu.edu.au/research/doctoral-program-in-social-political-thought/
7. Doctoral Fellowships, Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The scholarships will be for four years (starting 1st October 2015) and the value will be around 50,000 NIS per academic year. The candidate will be expected to carry out research in areas relevant to the study of conversion and inter-religious encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern periods and to contribute materials to the database on conversion.
Information: http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/csoc/Pages/news/Scholarships2016.aspx
8. Islamic Painted Page website – Upgrade
We are pleased to report an upgrade to The Islamic Painted Page database at www.islamicpaintedpage.com .
This database enables users to locate reproductions, commentaries and online images of thousands of Persian, Ottoman, Arab, Mughal, Sultanate and other paintings, illuminations and bindings up to c.1750 CE.
Following the addition of a full search by picture description facility in 2014, the new upgrade resolves issues about transliteration and MS references, besides enlarging the database from 17,500 to almost 21,500 references.
Accordingly the data has now been improved to provide consistent, fully-transliterated (Library of Congress) listings of MS authors and titles, as well Anglicised IJMES versions, plus entries in Arabic script. The site also now gives direct links into the relevant pages of the VIAF website, so that users can check other transliterations with confidence, and into relevant pages of the FIHRIST catalogue, for more definitive information about specific manuscripts.
Links to online images have also been extended, a print facility added, and there is a new Resources page where users can download listings of collections with their websites, publications with WORLDCAT links, and a 666-line listing of MS authors and titles in LC, Anglicised IJMES and arabic script with VIAF links.
Access remains free and users can create their own areas within the site to record search results, access additional features and communicate direct with the site admin. We are continuing to update the site and all feedback is welcome.
This upgrade has been made possible with support from The Islamic Manuscripts Association, whose assistance is gratefully acknowledged.
Stephen Serpell
stephen.serpell@btinternet.com
9. CALL FOR PAPERS: Sacred Spaces and Political Places: Fostering Regional Identities
through Historical and Literary Medieval Pilgrimage I and II
The 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, Michigan
May 12 – 15, 2016
Among the many factors impelling medieval pilgrimage, these sessions seek to examine those elements which fostered regional identity. The dedication of pilgrims traveling varying distances to experience the divine at sacred destinations was simultaneously enhanced by patrons who promoted traffic to and maintained pilgrimage sites. Saints’ shrines, tombs, and holy relics reinforced cultural and social identities relevant to the geographical and religious characteristics of a given locale and they helped shape and strengthen the prevailing political landscapes.
These two panels call for papers which closely examine Muslim and/or Christian medieval texts, both literary and historical, which foster regional identity through their promotive character as they call attention to medieval sites of pilgrimage, relics, and/or the history of saints. By engaging in this dialogue through a cross-cultural lens, we not only aim to evaluate the common characteristics of shrine visitation and rituals in the Middle Ages but also their disparities in both Islamic and Christian literary and historical disciplines. We welcome papers which analyze several genres of medieval texts such as romances, chronicles, hagiographies, guidebooks, and travelogues to explore this topic. We urge papers to consider how textual accounts of pilgrimage and pilgrimage sites relate to practical experience, how the translation and distribution of relics affected centers of power in a region, or how legends associated with specific saints contribute to the understanding of a particular locale.
Please send in your abstract of no more than 300 words to Laura Clark (l_clark@baylor.edu) and Ali Alibhai (alibhai@fas.harvard.edu) by September 15th 2015. Panelists will be informed in early October 2015 regarding their acceptance in the panels.
10. University of California – San Diego – Assistant Professor, Islamic
Middle East
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51378
University of Wisconsin-Madison – Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral
Fellowship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51404
11. Fellowships Prince Dr Sabbar Farman-Farmaian Research Project
With the generous support of Farman-Farmaian Family, the IISH launches a new fellowship programme named the Prince Dr Sabbar Farman-Farmaian Fellowships for scholars who wish to use its collections for the study of social and cultural history of 18-20 century of Iran, whether from a regional, national, or comparative and transnational perspective.
Fellowships are awarded for six months each year. This is a call for applications for fellowships for the year 2016.
Until 15 October 2015 applications can be made.
Fellows receive a monthly stipend of €1,500. The fellowship also includes an economy return flight to the Netherlands, visa support, as well as arrangements for accommodation and health insurance in Amsterdam.
Minimum requirements/selection criteria
– An MA degree or equivalent academic track record,
– An update CV,
– A Research proposal in not more than 500 words.
The fellow’s research plan should fit the Institute’s focus on social history.
Fellows are expected:
– To write a report on their research activities at the end of the fellowship period,
– To be present at the institute customarily,
– To take part in the activities of the Institute’s Research Department,
– To interact with other fellows and the IISH’s research staff in the English language,
– To give at least one public lecture.
Selection will be made based on the quality and novelty of the proposed research project, its affinity to social history research conducted at the International Institute of Social History, and the applicant’s qualifications.
Outcome
Fellows are expected to present the results of their work both orally to the other members of the Research Department, and in writing with a paper of min. 5000 and max. 8000 words (including notes). It is envisaged that the PDF version of the paper will be published as an occasional paper on the website of the IISH.
Applications
Applications should be submitted before 15 October 2015 to:
General information about the IISH can be obtained via
https://socialhistory.org/en/jobs/fellowships-prince-dr-sabbar-farman-farmaian-research-project
More information about the fellowship can be obtained from Professor Touraj Atabaki, e-mail:
Department: Research Fellows
Deadline: 15 October 2015
12. California State University – Dominguez Hills – Assistant Professor of African History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51406
University of California – San Diego – Assistant Professor, Islamic Middle East
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51378
Columbia University – Assistant Professor, Modern Arabic Literature
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51395
Pennsylvania State University – Assistant Professor of Comparative
Literature & Arabic literatures and cultures
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51409
Washington State University – Instructor, Pre-1500 European and World
History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51394
13. DĀNESH INSTITUTE 2015 Annual Conference
Hosted by the Indiana University Department of Central Eurasian Studies
RESEARCH IN IRAN AND IRANIAN DIASPORAS:
FINDINGS, EXPERIENCES, AND CHALLENGES
Saturday, October 24, 2014; 8:15 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Indiana University Global and International Studies Building
355 North Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana
Preliminary Program
Mitra Fallhi, Lewis University. A Comparison of the Patterns of the Immigration of Iranians to the United States Before and After the Revolution of 1979, and Unique Characteristics of Iranians in American Society.
Seema Golestaneh, Indiana University. Of Mirrors and Mirroring: Discovering Mimetic Relationships in “the Field” in Iran.
Bahar Karimi, King’s College London, Great Britain. Second Generation of Iranians in Britain: The Question of Dual Culture.
Annahita Mahdavi, Long Beach City College. Same Event, Different Experience: What Makes Immigration a Different Experience for Each Individual?
Mozhgan Malekan, University of Cincinnati. Who Is the Ideal Woman? A Phenomenological Study of Feminist Identities among Iranian Muslem Immigrant Women in Columbus, Ohio.
Alice Miggiano, University of Naples, Italy. The Iranian Diaspora in Italy.
Niloofar Shariat, Independent Scholar and Ali Akbar Mahdi, California State University-Northridge. Does a Dispersed Family Make for a Better Life? The Case of Iranian Transnational Families.
Bita Zakeri, Indiana University. Who Is the Researcher? A Multifaceted Self in a Transnational Realm.
FOR REGISTRATION, PLEASE SEE THE ATTACHED FORM
The conference is co-sponsored by the Indiana University School of Social Work, the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, and Society for Promotion of Persian Culture.
For information regarding DĀNESH Institute, please see:
http://www.daneshinstitute.org.
For information about the CEUS Department, please visit:
http://www.indiana.edu/~ceus/.
For a map of the Indiana University campus, visit: http://map.iu.edu/iub/
14. ‘Sovereignty and Imperialism: Non-European Powers in the Age of Empire’
10 September 2015 – 11 September 2015
Sponsored by: The Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), the Trevelyan Fund and the Iran Heritage Foundation
Convened by : Dr David Motadel (Gonville and Caius College, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge)
Venue
CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT – SG1&2
Introduction
In the heyday of empire, most of the world was ruled, directly or indirectly, by the European powers. On the eve of the First World War, only a few non-European states had maintained their formal sovereignty: Abyssinia (Ethiopia), China, Japan, the Ottoman Empire, Persia (Iran), and Siam (Thailand). Some others kept their independence for a while, but then succumbed to imperial powers, such as Hawaii, Korea, Madagascar, and Morocco. Facing imperialist incursion, the political elites of these countries sought to overcome their political vulnerability by engaging with the European powers and seeking recognition as equals.
The conference ‘Sovereignty and Imperialism: Non-European Powers in the Age of Empire’ will explore how diplomats, military officials, statesmen, and monarchs of the independent non-European states struggled to keep European imperialism at bay. It will address four major aspects of the relations of these countries with the Western imperial powers: armed conflict and military reform (Panel 1); capitulations, unequal treaties, and subsequent engagement with European legal codes (Panel 2); royalty and courts (Panel 3); and diplomatic encounters (Panel 4). Bringing together scholars from across the world, the conference will be the first attempt to provide comparative perspectives on the non-European powers’ engagement with the European empires in the era of high imperialism.
Programme & Abstracts
Please click here
Registration
Registration fee is £50 (full) and £25 (students). It includes lunch and tea/coffee
Deadline for registration is Sunday 6 September 2015
For any inquiries please contact: conferences@crassh.cam.ac.uk
Accommodation
The following websites will be able to help with accommodation:
Visit Cambridge
Cambridge Rooms
University of Cambridge accommodation webpage
15. The Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) Program at the College of William and Mary seeks applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level. The successful applicant will be jointly appointed in a home department and AMES. AMES is a concentration within the interdisciplinary major of Global Studies, and is supported by 32 faculty affiliates from eleven departments.
We are interested in individuals with research and teaching expertise in Middle Eastern, East Asian, and/or South Asian studies. We welcome applicants in the humanities or humanistic social sciences including, but not limited to Anthropology, Art and Art History, Cultural Studies, Government, Literature, Religious Studies, and other areas of scholarly expertise pending departmental approval. Teaching expectation is two courses per semester, and the successful candidate will be responsible for teaching the interdisciplinary core course in AMES as well as upper-level courses in AMES and his/her home department.
Candidate must apply online at https://jobs.wm.edu. (https://jobs.wm.edu/postings/22241)
Submit a curriculum vitae, and a cover letter including statement of research and teaching interests. You will be prompted to submit online the names and email addresses of three references who will be contacted by us with instructions for how to submit a letter of reference.
The College of William & Mary values diversity and invites applications from underrepresented groups who will enrich the research, teaching and service missions of the university. The College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and conducts background checks on applicants for employment.
Information on the AMES Program may be found at http://www.wm.edu/as/globalstudies/ames/
and job information at:
https://jobs.wm.edu/postings/22241
16. Sheikh Hamad Awards for Translation and International Understanding
(Doha, Qatar, 2015)
Nominations are now open for SHATIU in the following categories:
1. Translation from Arabic into English ($200.000)
2. Translation from English into Arabic ($200.000)
3. Translation from Arabic into Turkish ($200.000)
4. Translation from Turkish into Arabic ($200.000)
5. Achievement award ($200.000)
Please visit our website ([http://]www.hta.qa/en ) for details and rules of submission.
- September 02, 2015
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- August 31, 2015
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- August 29, 2015
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Shii News – CfP: The first International Seminar on Shariati and the Future of Human Sciences/ Humanities (Tehran, Dec., 2015)
Call for Papers: The first International Seminar on
Shariati and the Future of Human Sciences/ Humanities
Date: Dec. 14-15: 2015
Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies in Cooperation with the Institute for Culture, Art and Communication, and the Iranian Sociological Association Tehran, Iran
Proposals are invited for the first international conference on Shariati and the future of Human Sciences/ Humanities to be held from 14 to 15 December 2015 at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran (http://www.ihcs.ac.ir/Pages/Features/Home.aspx?wid=66) .
Topics:
– Shariati and Quran Studies
– Shariati and Critique of the west
– Shariati and Mysticism and Sufism
– Shariati and Iqbal
– Shariati and History and Philosophy of Religions
– Shariati and Existentialism
– Shariati and Islamology
– Shariati and philosophy
– Shariati and the Critique of Orientalism
– Shariati and Religious Intellectualism
– Shariati and post-colonial Critiques
– Shariati and Heidegger
– Shariati and Politics
– Shariati and Marxism
– Shariati and Literary Studies
– Shariati and Intellectualism
Submission of Abstracts:
The Deadline for abstracts is 22 Sep. and for papers is 22 Oct., 2015. Abstracts of up 400 words should be submitted in Word format by email to seyedjavad@hotmail.com .
For academic enquiries contact: ++98-21-88052301- ++98-936-159-5025
- August 29, 2015
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Florin Curta (University of Florida) and Andrew Holt (Florida State College in Jacksonville) are the editors of a three-volume encyclopedia entitled Great Events in Religion: An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History (under contract with ABC-Clio). We are seeking contributors to write entries considering key events in worldwide religious history from prehistoric times to the present. Current entries consider topics that range from the first Neanderthal burial to the ordination of the first woman in a mainline Protestant denomination. The roughly 470 proposed entries range in size from 750 to 3000 words.
We desperately need contributors to cover a number of entries pertaining, or at least related to Islam. Here is the list:
Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah and the establishment of the Shi’ia Ismaili Fatimid dynasty (909)
Building of the al-Hakim Mosque in Cairo (928)
Cairo is established as capital of the Fatimid state in Egypt (969)
Destruction and razing of the Husayn Mosque in Karbala by Caliph al-Mutawakkil (850)
Fatimid Dynasty (Founding of)
Khan Tarmashirin’s conversion to Islam (1330s)
Khan Uzbek’s conversion to Islam (1313)
Rise of the Mamluks
Şêx Adî and the establishment of Yazidism
University of al-Azhar in Cairo (founding of)
Abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate (1924)
Establishment of the Secular Republic of Turkey
Fall of the Ottoman Empire
Partition of India and the beginnings of the Hindu-Muslim conflict (1947)
Qajar implementation of Shi’ia Islam in Iran
Safavid dynasty and the proclamation of the first Shi’ia empire
Shah Ismail I and the founding of the Safavid dynasty (1501)
Usman dan Fodio and the establishment of the Sokoto Caliphate in Western Africa (1810s)
We need those contributions by mid-November. The intended audience of the encyclopedia consists primarily of first-year college students. We are therefore seeking contributors who can write meaningfully about a number of scholarly issues, but in a manner appropriate for college students. At a minimum, potential contributors should be at the level of an advanced graduate student. This project obviously provides them with the opportunity to add some minor publications to their c.v.
If interested, please contact any of the two editors at fcurta@ufl.edu or Andrew.Holt@fscj.edu
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2. Assistant Professor of Islamic Law and Society, New York University
The tenure-track position is to begin September 1, 2016. It is not limited as to historical period or to the Middle East as conventionally defined.
Review of applications will begin on October 1, 2015. Information: http://meis.as.nyu.edu/
Assistant Professor of Middle East Politics, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Appointment of the tenure track position begins July 1, 2016. ABD or Ph.D. required. Information: http://apply.interfolio.com/30161 and govsrch@hamilton.edu
Assistant Professor of Middle East Politics, Tenure-Track, Elon University, NC
Appointment is beginning in August 2016. Deadline for application: 15 September 2015. Information: www.elon.edu/facultyemployment/openings
Indiana University – Bloomington – Contemporary Central Asia, Open
Rank Search
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51352
School of the Art Institute of Chicago – FULL-TIME FACULTY POSITION:
HISTORIAN OF ART, DESIGN, OR ARCHITECTURE BEFORE 1800, WITH AN
EMPHASIS ON GLOBAL AND TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES (OPEN RANK)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51334
University of Pennsylvania – Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship
in the Digital Humanities
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51342
Missouri State University – Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern
History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51353
Daemen College – Assisstant Professor of History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51361
The position requires a primary emphasis in world history with any regional focus except Russia/Europe and expertise in environmental history and/or the digital humanities.
3. Forty more Arabic scientific manuscripts go live in Qatar Digital Library
In November 2014 we announced the first forty Arabic scientific manuscripts to go live in the Qatar Digital Library. We are now pleased to let you know that a further forty Arabic manuscripts have been uploaded.
4. The travels of a manuscript: Rashid al-Din’s Compendium of Chronicles (Add.7628)
The Jāmiʿ al-tavārīkh or ‘Compendium of Chronicles’ is a monumental universal history composed by Rashīd al-Dīn (d. 1317) in Persian at the beginning of the 14th century. It was originally written for the Mongol Ilkhan of Iran Ghazan Khan (d. 1304) but was finally presented to his brother and successor Oljaytu Khan (d. 1317) possibly in 1307. The work acquired enormous popularity both in medieval and modern times especially for its unique description of the rise of Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Empire. There are copies of this work in all the major libraries in Europe and the Middle East, including several masterpieces of 14th century manuscript illustration.
5. The Third Perso-Indica Conference
The Sultanate Period and the Early Mughal Empire
September 3rd – 4th, 2015
University of Delhi
Department of Persian
Conference Center (opp. Botany Dept.)
September 3rd
Opening session (Venue: Main Hall)
9.30-10.00: Dinesh Singh, Chander Shekhar, Fabrizio Speziale
Political analysis, identity and historiography
10.00-10.30: Satoshi Ogura – Linguistic Cosmopolitanism, Political Legitimacies and Religious Identities in Šāhmīrid
10.30-11.00: Mayank Kumar – Tʼari ḫ-i Qal’ah-i Ranthanbore: Historical Investigation of Persian Rendering of a Sanskrit/Brajbhasa/Rajasthani Text
Chair: Radha Vallabh Tripathi
Coffee break
Natural and occult sciences (Venue: Room 5)
11.30-12.00: Kazuyo Sakaki – Changing Ourselves – the Textual Transmission of the Sivasvarodaya
12.00-12.30: S. M. Razaullah Ansari – Persian Translations of Kitāb-i Barāḥī Sang’hitā
12:30-13.00: Eva Orthmann – Religion and Astrology in the Kitāb-i Barāḥī, Aspects of Translation
Chair: Kashif Ghani
Lunch break
Medical knowledge
14.30-15.00: Fabrizio Speziale – A 14th-Century Revision of the Greco-Arabic and Indian Theories of the Humours: The Hybrid Model by Šihāb al-Dīn Nāgawrī
15.00-15.30: Azarmi Dukht – Persian Writings of the Sultanate Period – Valuable Sources of Indic Knowledge. Case Study: Ṭibb-i Sikandar Šāhī: Persian Translation and Compilation of Medicinal Information from Sanskrit Sources
15.30-16.00: Sonia Vij – Rahasya to Laḏḏat: Translating Secrets of Sexuality
Chair: Ramesh Bhardwaj
Coffee break
September 4th
Sufism and Yoga
9.30-10.00: Carl Ernst – Enigmas of Translation in the Kamaru Pancasika, an Early Persian Work on Yoga
10.00-10.30: Soraya Khodamoradi – Rušd-Nāma and the Idea of Immortality
Chair: IH. Siddique
Coffee break
Literature
11.00- 11.30: Chander Shekhar- Indian Elements in Persian Narrative (Pre-Mughal Period): a Survey
11.30-12.00: Muzaffar Alam and Thibaut d’Hubert – Mufarriḥ al-Qulūb: A Fifteenth-Century Persian Translation of the Hitopadeśa
12.00-12.30: Pegah Shahbaz – Jawāhir al-Asmār: an Early Fourteenth-Century Persian Translation of Sukasaptati
Chair: SH. Qasemi
Lunch break
14.00-14.30: Balram Shukla – Kathakautukam: a Sanskrit Rendering of Yūsuf and Zulaikha
14.30- 15.00: Syed Akhtar Hussain – Ṭūṭī Nāmah: Persian Tapestry Woven by Indian Threads
Chair: Corinne Lefèvre
Coffee break
Aesthetic and musicology
16.30-16.00: F. ‘Nalini‘ Delvoye – Translating Aesthetic Concepts and Qualities Prescribed for Artists and Connoisseur-Patrons in Two Sultanate Period Indo-Persian Texts on Performing Arts
16.00-16.30: Chandragupta Bhartiya and Ali Akbar Shah – Sangeetratnakara and Lahajāt-i Sikandar Šāhi va Latāif-i Nāmutanāhī, A Persian Translation (A Comparative Study)
Chair: Raza Ullah Ansari
Coffee break
17.00-19.00: General discussion
Scientific coordination: Chander Shekhar (University of Delhi) – Eva Orthmann (University of Bonn) – Fabrizio Speziale (University Sorbonne Nouvelle – CNRS).
Contact for information: Soraya Khodamoradi: skhodamo@uni-bonn.de.
6. The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University seeks to fill a position in Modern Arabic Literature at the rank of assistant professor. The successful candidate will have broad intellectual interests, a commitment to both undergraduate and graduate education, and a willingness to contribute to new departmental initiatives. Participation in the Columbia College Core Curriculum will be expected.
Applicants should submit a c.v., cover letter, a representative sample of scholarship, and upload their dissertation abstract and a sample course syllabus. They should also arrange to have recommendations sent by three referees. The search committee will begin reviewing applications on September 25, and will continue until an appointment is made.
For more information and to apply, please visit our online site:
academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=61316
Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
7. The Program in Arabic Language and Culture in the Department of Classics at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for a tenure-track position. The field of specialization is open, although we welcome especially applications from scholars of either modern Arabic literature and culture or Islamic Studies (classical and modern). The appointment will commence in July 2016. The successful candidate will be prepared to teach undergraduate courses in Arabic language as well as a broad range of undergraduate courses in the literature, culture, and history of the Arabic speaking world. Completion of the Ph.D. is required. Please apply through Interfolio.com using the following link: http://apply.interfolio.com/31050.
Complete dossiers will include a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, three letters of reference, and evidence of teaching experience and research, if available. Review of complete applications will begin on November 20, 2015. The University of Notre Dame seeks to attract, develop, and retain the highest quality faculty, staff and administration. The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to building a culturally diverse workplace. We strongly encourage applications from female and minority candidates and others that will enhance our community. Moreover, Notre Dame prohibits discrimination against veterans or disabled qualified individuals, and requires affirmative action by covered contractors to employ and advance veterans and qualified individuals with disabilities in compliance with 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-300.5(a).
Information about the Program in Arabic can be found at http://arabic.nd.edu
- August 28, 2015
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- August 25, 2015
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Shii News – Bahrain Update
Bahraini political activist goes on trial after calling for reform
Amnesty Internationa
21 August 2015, 13:02 UTC
The prosecution of Ebrahim Sharif, a political activist detained after making a speech calling for reform in Bahrain, demonstrates the authorities’ dogged determination to quash dissent and curtail freedom of expression in the country, said Amnesty International ahead of the start of his trial on 24 August.
Ebrahim Sharif, who is a former Secretary General of a secular political opposition party, the National Democratic Action Society (Wa’ad), was arrested in July 2015 after giving a speech at a public gathering to commemorate the death of Hussam al-Haddad, a 16-year-old boy who was shot dead by riot police in 2012.
Read more at:
https://www.amnesty.org/latest/news/2015/08/bahraini-political-activist-goes-on-trial-after-calling-for-reform/
- August 21, 2015
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- August 21, 2015
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