Archive for March, 2017

Introduction to Jurisprudential Maxims

Jurisprudential maxims (You can order your copy online al-qawa’id al-fiqhiyyah) play an important role in determining one’s legal duty in particular situations. When applied, these maxims – such as the ‘Maxim of Purity’, the ‘Maxim of No Harm’, and the ‘The Maxim of Averting Hardship’ – help define the course of action one should take in a given scenario.

Dozens injured as blast rocks market in Parachinar – The Express Tribune

At least 10 people were killed and scores injured as a blast rocked Parachinar’s local market on Friday. The blast occurred near Parachinar’s Shandak Bazaar, which according to eyewitnesses killed at least 10 people. Political administration has declared emergency in all markets and hospitals in nearby areas.

See also alJazeera
and the BBC
and Dawn
and Express Tribune

ISIS Threatens Iran in New Video | The Iran Primer

On March 27, the Islamic State group released a rare Farsi-language video threatening Iran. The nearly 40-minute clip, issued on social media by the group’s Diyala Province in neighboring Iraq, is titled “The Farsi Land: From Yesterday ’till Today.”

Rex Tillerson to Lift Human Rights Conditions on Arms Sale to Bahrain

The State Department on Wednesday notified Congress of its intent to proceed with the sale without the conditions, according to Micah Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Congress now has two review periods to examine the sale and raise any objections.

La Banque sans intérêt en Islam – Karthala

L’institution phare de la finance islamique – la banque sans intérêt – interroge, intrigue et fascine tant le grand public que le milieu de la recherche. Mais s’il est partout bien question de finance islamique, rares sont les sources francophones de première main disponibles sur le sujet.

18-year-old Mustafa Hamdan dies after security forces shooting – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain

24 March 2017 – Mustafa Hamdan, 18, died this morning at the Salmaniya Medical Complex, two months after security forces shot him in head and rendered him comatose. We, the undersigned, consider Hamdan’s death an extrajudicial killing by the Bahraini Government. We condemn state violence employed against peaceful protesters, the …

1. “24th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO)” combined with the “33rd Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT) / German Oriental Studies Conference of the German Oriental Society (DMG)” at the Friedrich Schiller-University in Jena on 18-22 September 2017.

31 March 2017 is the deadline for the registration of papers and panels. This is also the deadline for the individual registration of participants at a reduced fee.

For further information and registration see www.dot2017.de/en.

2. Islamic Art and Architecture (Zurich, Schaffhausen, 4-6 Jun 17)

https://networks.h-net.org/node/7636/discussions/172892/conference-islamic-art-and-architecture-zurich-schaffhausen-4-6

Zurich and Schaffhausen, May 4 – 06, 2017
Registration deadline: Apr 30, 2017

A l’Orientale – Collecting, Displaying and Appropriating Islamic Art
and Architecture in the 19th and early 20th centuries

International conference

Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Francine Giese (University of Zurich),
Prof. Dr. Mercedes Volait (CNRS/InVisu),
Dr. Ariane Varela Braga (University of Zurich)

Cooperations:
Museum Rietberg Zürich,
Moser Familienmuseum Charlottenfels der Heinrich und
Henri Moser Stiftung in Neuhausen bei Schaffhausen

Keynotes Speakers:
Kjeld v. Folsach (The David Collection, Copenhagen),
Yannick Lintz (Musée du Louv-re, Paris), Tim Stanley (Victoria and
Albert Museum, London),
Stefan Weber (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin)

Registration open:
http://www.transculturalstudies.ch/en/index/conferences/display-conference/registration.html

3. Workshop: “Eternal World and God’s Free Will in Islam – A Diachronic Perspective”, Yale University, New Haven, USA, 31 March – 1 April 2017

This workshop will focus on thinkers who write after al-Ghazali’s landmark criticism of Avicenna’s position on the subject and go from there into the 20th century.

Information: http://cmes.macmillan.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Eternity0331.pdf
 

4. Muslim Studies Program Tenth Annual Conference: “Islam, Muslims, and US Politics”, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 12-14 April 2017

Information: http://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/other-do-not-delete/events/?department=11  
 

5. Postgraduate Workshop: “Producing Knowledge on Islam in Europe: Epistemology, Methodology, Reflexivity”, Cambridge Muslims in Europe Postgraduate Forum, Cambridge, 25 April 2017

This workshop addresses the related themes of epistemology, methodology, and reflexivity, which have frequently arisen when problematizing our respective productions of academic knowledge, such as the multiple forms of insider-outsider negotiation for both Muslim and non-Muslim researchers, various issues of access, trust and representation, and the politicization of the Muslim subject in a security-saturated cultural context.

Information: www.eventbrite.com/e/producing-knowledge-on-islam-in-europe-tickets-32317669018
 

6. Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History/Political Science, Rhode Island College

Ph.D. in History or Political Science and college level teaching experience are required as well as research specialization in Middle Eastern History and/or Political Science with a focus on the region.

Position is open until filled. Information: https://employment.ric.edu/postings/2856
 

7. The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University presents

Thursday, April 6, 2017

“The Madrasa in Iran and Baghdad under the Saljuqs”

Maryam Kamali

Harvard AKPIA Associate

Lectures are free and open to the public.

They are held Thursdays, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., at the Arthur M. Sackler Building,

Room 318, Harvard University, 485 Broadway, Cambridge MA 02138.

For further information, call 617-495-2355 or

email agakhan@fas.harvard.edu or

visit http://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/

View our previous lectures:

http://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k69205&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup125394

and

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWrCLOybqB5FJ-Cj9wxE8vQ/videos

8. Lecture – Dr. P. Khosronejad, “Iranian Shiism, Persian Material Culture and Visual Piety”

The University of Tulsa
The Department of Religion and Anthropology

Chapman Hall Auditorium.

April 3, 2017, 4 P.M.

9.  The University of Exeter is looking for a strong academic in History
of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula to assist in the delivery of an
exciting new strategy for Gulf Studies at Exeter. In this role you will
contribute to further enhancing the research profile of the Centre for
Gulf Studies and of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies,
particularly in areas related or complementary to the history of the
modern and contemporary Gulf and Arabian Peninsula.

The post is advertised at either Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level –
candidates who are suitable for either level can apply.

Salary for appointments at Lecturer level: £33,943 – 41,709 per annum
Salary for appointments at Senior Lecturer level: £41,709 – £55,998
per annum

Application deadline: *20April 2017*.

All information and details are available here:
http://bit.ly/1rU1fTJ

UMAA v. Trump

On March 23, 2017, Muslim Advocates and our partners, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, filed UMAA v. Trump to challenge President Trump’s second Muslim ban.

See also:
https://www.splcenter.org/seeking-justice/case-docket/universal-muslim-association-america-inc-et-al-v-donald-j-trump-et-al
http://au.org/tags/umaa-v-trump

Live Public Webinar: The Portrayal of Women in Shi’ism in Western Academic Literature

A discussion of women in Islam is one of the most contentious and politicised subjects in contemporary studies of Islam and has been intimately tied with questions of “West versus East” and the colonialist project. It remains a flash point for perceived civilisational conflict in the media today.

CISS Research Series Paper 1: Muḥammad Kāẓim al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī al-Yazdī – Life and Activities of a Faqīh through a Turbulent Age by Leila Chamankhah

Here you can read all the latest news on Shi’a Muslim studies and Muslim research from the Centre for Islamic Shi’a Studies (CISS).