1. The History of Art Department at The Ohio State University invites applications for an ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the history of pre-modern Islamic art and architecture. Specialists in all periods, from approximately 700 to 1700 AD, and geographic regions (including Central, and South Asia) are encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will carry out research on pre-modern Islamic art or architectural history; teach one course per semester for four semesters, the exact classes to be determined in accordance with the candidate’s area of expertise and departmental needs; and deliv= er one public lecture and one formal presentation of research to the department and wider university community during the two-year term of appointment .

Diverse in terms of its temporal and geographic coverage, the faculty of th= e History of Art Department at OSU is particularly interested in questions = of historiography and critical theory; in cross-cultural exchange and the n egotiation of artistic, cultural, and political boundaries; in art’s role in mediating social action; and in issues of representation and the affective engagement of the image. Applications from scholars whose work relates to one or more of these areas of inquiry are especially welcome.

Application Instructions:

Applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and a statement = of research and teaching interests, and three letters of reference. Inquir= ies may be directed to Lisa Florman (florman.4@osu.edu). Review of applica= tions will begin on March 1, 2016, and we encourage submission before that = date. However, applications will continue to be accepted until the position= is filled. Please apply online through Academic Jobs Online at: http://academicjobsonline.org.=20

2.Virginia Tech — Virginia Polytechnic Institute – Instructor in Religion and Culture http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52652

3. The Islamic Manuscript Association, in partnership with Qatar National Library and the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, is pleased to announce an intensive three-day course entitled Safeguarding Islamic Books and Manuscripts: An Introduction to Cultural Heritage and Property Law, to be held at the 3–5 April 2016, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Student Center in Education City, Doha, Qatar from 3 to 5 April 2016.

For more information and to register, visit the course webpages at islamicmanuscript.org.

4.Open Access Journal

Open Access Journal Archive: Studia Orientalia (1925-2013)

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 07:30 AM PST

Studia Orientalia (1925-2013)
Published: Helsinki : Finnish Oriental Society, 1925-
ISSN: 0039-3282
Text in: French, German, English

http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/StOrE/issue/archive

Continues as : Studia Orientalia Electronica
ISSN: 2323-5209
Downloadable list of all Studia Orientalia publications (pdf)

5. Intensive applied summer course (13-24 June 2016)

Hands on Camera: Documentary film as a medium for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies

Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies (IPGS) program, School of International Studies, Oklahoma State University

in collaboration with

Filmmaking For Fieldwork (Manchester, U.K.)

The Iranian Documentary and Experimental Film Center (Tehran, Iran)

The Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies (IPGS) program at the Oklahoma State University is presenting its first applied course in visual research methods and documentary filmmaking for Iranian Studies in collaboration with “Filmmaking For Fieldwork” (Manchester, U.K.) and in association with “the Iranian Documentary and Experimental Film Center” (Tehran, Iran). The IPGS visual program is a theoretical and practical visual study course, which is open to all who have a background in human and social science, cross-cultural visual studies, film studies, documentary production, and with special interest in contemporary Iran. This course maps on theoretical and practical aspects of ethnographic film by using documentary film as a medium for area studies (Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies). It exposes the different ways in which Iranian culture can be represented visually and the cultural interpretations of its visual representations.

For more information, please visit:

https://ipgs.okstate.edu/hands-on-camera

For more information, contact:

Dr. Pedram Khosronejad

Farzaneh Family Scholar

Associate Director for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies

School of International Studies

Oklahoma State University

E-mail: Pedram.khosronejad@okstate.edu

6. Volume 43 of Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 43 will be published in a few months.

The volume’s contents can be found on our website: http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/upload/_FILE_1456933643.pdf

7.http://www.audaciousascetic.com/listen.htm

“Osama Bin Laden Tapes” is a companion website to the book The Audacious Ascetic :
What the Bin Laden Tapes Reveal About Al-Qa’ida by Flagg Miller.

“Website has been designed to allow non-Arabic speakers to listen to material featured in The Audacious Ascetic while reading English translations in real-time as the recordings unfold. As the book demonstrates, much of the meaning of bin Laden’s words and the significance of Al-Qa’ida for his early primary audiences was lost when edited and converted to print, video, and electronic media for global consumption. These recorded excerpts have been selected and produced specifically to accompany the book. They are best contextualized in tandem with the perspectives and arguments therein.”

8. https://www.islamic-empire.uni-hamburg.de/en/publications-tools/publications/working-paper-series.html

This space is dedicated to the working paper series published by the “Early Islamic Empire” project. The papers published here are works in progress and should be considered stimuli for debate.

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March 04, 2016
by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – ‘Des marges du chiisme au pouvoir califal’ (Paris, 10.3.16)

Séminaire ‘Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien’

Séance du 10 mars 2016, 17h-19h

Farès Gillon, doctorant à l’EPHE (Vème section)

« Des marges du chiisme au pouvoir califal : le parcours de l’ismaélisme d’après un recueil de traités fâtimide, le “Livre du Dévoilement” (Kitâb al-Kashf) »

Au Xème siècle, l’accès au pouvoir d’une dynastie de vizirs chiites à Bagdad, les Bouyyides, s’accompagna d’une codification du corpus textuel duodécimain et d’une marginalisation des traditions et doctrines jugées “irrationnelles”, celle des groupes que les hérésiologues nommèrent les “ghulât”, “extrémistes” ou “exagérateurs” chiites. Un phénomène comparable eut lieu dans l’ismaélisme avec l’arrivée au pouvoir des Fâtimides. Passant du statut de mouvement clandestin à celui de doctrine officielle, l’ismaélisme se trouva face à la nécessité d’ajuster sa théologie.

Le Kitâb al-Kashf, témoin clé de cette période charnière de l’ismaélisme, est une compilation de six traités réunis au début de l’époque fâtimide. Certains, manifestement pré-fâtimides, furent alors adaptés aux nouvelles exigences théologiques. Essentiellement consacré à des exégèses coraniques, l’ouvrage se situe à la croisée de plusieurs influences, puisque, outre les thèmes classiques du chiisme ancien, on y perçoit aussi les intuitions fondamentales et constantes de l’ismaélisme, ainsi que la trace édulcorée d’influences “ghulât” et proto-nusayrites, cette édulcoration étant elle-même une trace des remaniements fâtimides.”

] Helia Tavakoli, doctorante à l’Université de Franche-Comté

« 1771 et au-delà : un tournant dans la réception de la langue et de la littérature persane en France ? »

La connaissance du monde persan, en France, débute au XVIIIe siècle avec la découverte aussi bien de sa littérature que de son histoire. Vers la fin du siècle, elle évolua de la « persanerie » de Montesquieu vers la vraie discipline reconnue, le « persanisme ». Dans le sillage du Britannique William Jones, qui venait de réaliser A Grammar of the Persain Language, Anquetil-Duperron achève, en 1771, sa traduction du livre sacré du zoroastrisme, Zend-Avesta. Si le premier ouvrage suscite l’intérêt pour une langue et une littérature encore méconnue en Europe, le second lève le voile sur une histoire et une religion encore ignorées en France. Le conflit scientifique de Jones et d’Anquetil-Duperron suscita des critiques et des recherches controversées en France et révéla l’engouement pour les études persanes en France au cours du XIXe siècle.

Cette communication entend donc démontrer et décrire comment la science européenne découvrit la langue et les textes de l’antique religion de l’Iran à travers l’Avesta. Après avoir introduit l’influence de la publication de L’Histoire de la Grammaire Persane de Jones nous reviendrons notamment sur l’influence de ces deux œuvres sur les études du XIXe siècle.

Lieu : Université Sorbonne nouvelle – Paris 3, centre Censier, 13 rue de Santeuil, salle 410 (4e étage), 75005, Paris.

Organisateurs :

Matteo De Chiara (INaLCO), Denis Hermann (CNRS), Fabrizio Speziale (Paris 3 – CNRS), Julien Thorez (CNRS).

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