Archive for June, 2017

Symposium – alhikmah institute

The Al-Hikmah Institute of Al-Mustafa International University organizes a symposium on “Religion and Spirituality in the Contemporary World”. This symposium will be a three-day event exploring the relation between spirituality and religion in the world. This program will contain three parts including: 1. Presenting papers and lectures. 2. Workshops 3.

International Shia Day – International Shia Day

Your pledge helps reduce marginalization of this underrepresented population and stop the violence. For Shia Rights We Stand International Shia day intends to increase awareness about the struggles, rights, and achievements of Shia Muslims. This population is an underrepresented minority, violated against and marginalized. Global action is needed to accelerate Shia rights.

“Violence in Sharīʿa and its Contemporary Implications”

The 5th Annual Contemporary Fiqhi Issues Workshop is taking place at Al-Mahdi Institute, on the 6th and 7th July 2017. We are looking forward to welcoming scholars from across the UK, and the globe, representing a broad range of backgrounds and sub-disciplines within Islamic Studies.

Saudi warmongering against Qatar, Alkhalifa decide to kill more Bahrainis VOB.ORG

The Saudis are grinding their axes to throttle Qataris as they have been doing in Yemen and had done in Iraq, Syria, Bahrain and Egypt. Riyadh’s decision to severe diplomatic links with its neighbour and GCC partner is another twist in the kingdom’s quest for regional dominance.

1.ISOA is a private academic art center which holds international training courses in order to familiarize artists, professors and students of all around the world with different fields of Islamic Persian art. In cooperation with University of Tehran, Collage of Farabi, ISOA is organizing two international courses for the summer 2017.  The courses would be thought in English and their themes and dates are as following:

1. World of Persian Carpet, 24 August- 2 September, 2017

http://www.isoacourses.com/2016/12/05/world-of-persian-carpet/

2. Philosophy of Islamic Art, 24 August- 2 September, 2017

http://www.isoacourses.com/2016/12/05/philosophy-of-islamic-art/

The Courses are going to be held in various cities of Iran including: Tehran, Qom, Kashan and Isfahan and aim to increase understanding of Islamic Persian culture by providing opportunities for their participants to study different historical and philosophical aspects of Iran’s traditional art as well as experiencing Iran’s traditional life through visiting bazaars, mosques, museums, religious centers, and historical sites of the cities.

For more detailed information about the programs see http://www.isoacourses.com/

 

 

 

2. The University of New South Wales, Sydney, offers a new PhD scholarship to research Iranian Diasporic Women Filmmakers. Applications are open to come and work with a supervisory team including Michelle Langford, Laetitia Nanquette and Jane Mills. Apply by 10 July for a 2018 start.

Here are more details about the project: http://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply/scientia-phd-scholarships/migrant-subjects-literary-work-and-literary-circulation-global-world

And more details about the Scientia fellowship: https://research.unsw.edu.au/unsw-scientia-fellowship-program

 

 

 

3. CfP: Gotha manuscript workshop: Alchemy in the Islamicate world – Gotha, 28./29.09.2018

Alchemy was a widespread practice in the Islamicate world that was taught from early on to the 19th/20th century. In spite of its popularity attested to by historical references as well as the wealth of alchemical manuscripts that have come down to us, the study of Arabo-Islamic alchemy has been neglected for the last decades. Only recently have we seen a renewed interest in the field, giving rise to a number of publications.

Among its extensive collection of Oriental manuscripts, Gotha Research Library also houses a significant number of alchemical manuscripts (for the Gotha alchemical manuscripts in Arabic see Siggel, Katalog der arabischen alchemistischen Handschriften Deutschlands, vol. 2, Berlin 1950). The workshop aims at bringing together established and younger scholars working on alchemy and providing them with the opportunity to engage directly with the alchemical manuscripts of the Gotha collection. The exploratory character of the workshop refers not only to the direct engagement with the Gotha collection, but also extends to the field of Arabo-Islamic alchemy more generally. Possible questions to be discussed are: Which aspects of alchemy have received significant attention, what aspects deserve to be addressed more in the future? Which theoretical assumptions and methods have guided the research on alchemy, what theories and methods are relevant for future research? What are the current challenges in studying the alchemy of the Islamicate world and how could they be overcome?

We invite papers from a variety of disciplines (for ex. philology, philosophy, history of science, history of religion, art history, paleography), on all aspects of alchemy, for example on

• the transmission of alchemical knowledge in different parts of the Islamicate world as well as between the Islamicate world and other regions
• the role of manuscripts for the transmission of alchemical knowledge
• codicological aspects of alchemical manuscripts
• questions of authorship and dating
• literary aspects of alchemical texts

To allow for a significant number of hands-on-sessions, preference will be given to papers dealing with Gotha manuscripts.

Please send a 400-word abstract to monika.hasenmueller@uni-erfurt.de not later than August 31, 2017.

The selected participants will be notified by October 30, 2017.

Costs for travel and accommodation will be covered, provided that external funding is granted.

The workshop is organized by the Gotha Research Library in collaboration with the project “Between Religion and Alchemy. The scholar Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs (d. 1197) as a model for an integrative Arabic literary and cultural history”, University of Zurich.

 

Conference Conveners:

Monika Hasenmüller, Gotha Research Library, University of Erfurt

Prof. Dr. Regula Forster, University of Zurich

Contact:

Monika Hasenmüller

Forschungsbibliothek Gotha der Univ. Erfurt

Tel.: +49(0)361/737-5566

monika.hasenmueller@uni-erfurt.de

 

 

 

4. One-year Arabic Lang & Lit position at UC Santa Barbara , 2017/18

https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF0101

Recruitment Period

Open date: June 5th, 2017

Next review date: June 19th, 2017
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Final date: October 31st, 2017
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

 

 

 

5. BRAIS prize for 2017 and call for submissions for 2018

The results of the second (2017) round of the BRAIS-De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World – for the best English-language doctoral thesis or unpublished first monograph based on a doctoral thesis on any aspect of the academic study of Islam and the Muslim world, past and present – can be found at

http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/2017-announcement

For the 2018 prize, applicants can be based in any country, and manuscripts will be assessed on the basis of scholarly quality and originality. The award includes publication of the winning manuscript and a prize of £1,000. The submission deadline is 1 September 2017. Full details are available here:
http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize

 

 

 

6. 11th Media Workshop “After the Internet – Television Today: Twenty Years of Al Jazeera”, Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Munich (LMU), 29-30 June 2017

Registration until 16 June 2017 via b.graef@lmu.de.  Information and programme: http://www.naher-osten.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/massenmedien/archive/11-programm_engl.pdf
 

 

7. École doctorale: « Islam(s) en Europe : terrains, risques et pratiques de recherche », Islams et chercheurs dans la cité, Paris, 11-12 septembre 2017

Ces journées proposent aux doctorants, postdoctorants et jeunes chercheurs travaillant sur les sociétés et pratiques musulmanes en Europe de se rencontrer et d’échanger sur les modalités d’enquête, que celle-ci s’appuie sur des observations participantes, des documents archivés, des entretiens qualitatifs ou des questionnaires.

Date limite : 25 juin 2017. Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/27284
 

 

8. Colloque international: « Pluralisme religieux, sociétés plurielles : les religions dans l’espace public européen », IPRA-Alliance Europa, Nantes, 3-5 octobre 2018

Deadline for abstracts : 1 septembre 2017. Information : http://ipra.eu/fr/2017/05/03/colloque-international-pluralisme-religieux-societes-plurielles-les-religions-dans-lespace-public-europeen/

 

 

9. Articles for Journal “Hamsa. Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies”

For this volume, we particularly welcome proposals offering original analysis on the broad subject of Judaic and Islamic studies.

Deadline for proposals: 15 October 2017. Information: http://www.hamsa.cidehus.uevora.pt/callforpapers.html

EGYPT, For the People or Against the People? – Shia Rights Watch

While the history of Shia Muslims in Egypt is long and extensive, anti-Shiism is prevalent in this nation. Once called the forgotten minority, Shia Muslims in Egypt are lost amidst country’s political unrest. Shia numbers are always undermined in state-issued reports in aims of suppressing the population.

For the rest of the SRW’s recent mailing, including ‘Incidents of Anti-Shiism in May, 2017’, see here.

SEMINAR TO COMMEMORATE THE MARTYRDOM OF IMAM ALI (as) – Muhammadi Trust

Date/Time Date(s) – 18/06/2017 / 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Category(ies)No Categories Event Details You can download a pdf version of the above programme by clicking on the link below: Imam Ali Seminar 2017

 

1.CfP: Empires: Towards a Global History

The proposed conference is premised on the idea that empires drew their strength from a global systemic architecture of hegemony and dominance.  The objective of the conference is designed to emphasize how imperial interactions served to reinforce empires within their global scaffolding. “Towards a Global History of Empires” seeks to delineate different strands and interconnected themes that explain both empires’ persistence as well as their mutations over time.

The themes that we propose for the conference shall include:

• Political construction of empires and their dissolution
• Circulation within and between empires of ideas, techniques, institutions
• Circulation of goods and trade links between empires
• Movement of people within and between empires
• Empires as discursive formations
• Plural cultures and imperial centers
• Micro history and empire

We invite papers addressing the above themes from all periods of history. We are looking for work that looks at empire from a global history approach that emphasizes connections and encourages comparisons. Advanced research students as well as senior scholars are invited to apply for the conference.

Coordination:

Department of History, University of Delhi, India

Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, Harvard University, USA

Support: Department of History (UGC-Centre of Advanced Study), University of Delhi; Volkswagen Foundation , Germany; and Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, Harvard University.

Contact Info:

Jessica Barnard

Program Administrator, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History

Harvard University

Contact Email:

wigh@fas.harvard.edu

URL:

http://globalhistorynetwork.net/event/global-history-network-conference-empires-towards-global-history

 

 

2. The Problem of Evil: Ibn Sina’s Theodicy

By Shams Inati

Hardback, 201 pp.
978-1-4632-0654-3

Website: https://www.gorgiaspress.com/the-problem-of-evil-ibn-sinas-theodicy

 

 

 

3. Open Rank Faculty Position in Islamic Studies, Stanford University

The successful applicant must demonstrate substantial evidence of creativity and excellence in research and scholarship as well as a commitment to excellence in teaching and advising students at both graduate and undergraduate levels. The appointment would begin 1 September 2018.

Deadline for application: 15 September 2017. Information: http://mesana.org/professional-opportunities/employment.html#Stanford-IslamicStds

 

 

 

4. The 5th Perso-Indica Conference

Science and Philosophy: Translation, Transmission and Interaction between Persianate and Hindu Traditions

The Fifth Conference of Perso-Indica (see: www.perso-indica.net) looks at the forms of interaction and translation between Persian and Hindu cultures in the scientific and philosophical fields. Persian scientific studies in South Asia acquired important distinctive features compared with the treatises produced in Iran and the rest of the Muslim world during the post-Abbasid period. In the multicultural context of South Asia, where Muslims remained a minority of the population, a number of treatises dealing with Indian scientific materials were written in Persian: Persian language and texts became new means of expression and transmission of Hindu scientific knowledge and practices, allowing them to circulate beyond the networks of Hindu scholars. Persian translations of Sanskrit sources appeared from the Sultanate period, especially from the early 14th century, and the production of these texts lasted until the colonial period. Many of them were compiled by and for the Muslims; however, from the Mughal period onward, Persian scientific texts — dealing with both Hindu and Greco-Arabic materials — were also written by Hindu scholars and for Hindu noblemen. Certain sciences seem to have fulfilled specific demands of the ruling elite: such as astrology, prognostication and the treatises on the horse. Differently, the large amount of Persian texts dealing with Ayurveda and pharmacology chiefly emerged and developed outside the courts. The production of these texts does not seem to have been a homogeneous trend but rather a polycentric phenomenon in which the regional spaces occupied a key role.

In the scope of this conference we aim to explore especially the following topics:

Which were the common cross-disciplinary aspects and practices of scientific translation, and which were the non homogeneous features that characterized the reception of different Indian sciences in the Persianate environment, either from an historical, geographical or social perspective?

Which were the historical, geographical, regional and dynastic contexts in which these scientific studies emerged and developed?

Which were the symmetric features of these interactions? How did Hindu scholars assimilate scientific notions drawn from Muslim sources? Did Muslim scientific materials circulate through translations and become incorporated into Sanskrit sources, and which disciplines were concerned? How and to what extent did Persian-speaking Hindu scholars appropriate Muslim sciences by reading the sources in the original languages?

Which genres of Persian texts on Indian sciences were produced, and how did the role of different types of texts evolve or change according to the requirements of different disciplines? What was the influence of direct translations from Sanskrit and other Indian languages and what was the role of new Persian treatises on Indian sciences? Moreover, how were Indian notions and practices incorporated and transmitted in Persian works which dealt chiefly with Greco-Arabic knowledge?

How were the source terms and notions translated in the lexicon and the concepts of the target culture? Which Indic terms were incorporated in Persian texts? Did their transliteration into Persian script follow common patterns or evolve? What was the role of intermediate translations in vernacular languages in the production of these Persian texts, and how did this influence translation?

Which were the non textual, oral and social aspects of the interaction? How was knowledge taught and transmitted between masters and students of different religious groups and networks of scholars, and how did these interreligious pedagogical interactions emerge and develop?

What were the impact and the legacy of these interactions and of the corpus of Persian texts for Indian sciences? Did these studies propose conceptual changes compared to the Greco-Arabic tradition? Did they have a reflexive impact that could redefine certain concepts of the target culture which were involved in translation? In a wider perspective, did these Persian studies circulate also outside South Asia, and into which languages were they translated?

 

Date: 1st and 2nd February 2018.

Venue: Friedrich-Wilhelm University Bonn, Germany

Scientific coordination: Eva Orthmann (Friedrich-Wilhelm University, Bonn) – Fabrizio Speziale (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris)

Contact for information: Soraya Khodamoradi: skhodamo@uni-bonn.de

Deadline for submission of abstract proposals: 1st August 2017, abstract proposal must be sent to: skhodamo@uni-bonn.de. The abstracts will be assessed by peer review.

Web page: http://www.perso-indica.net/events-news/31

 

 

 

5. The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations based in London (AKU-ISMC) is inviting experienced scholars to join the Institute as a visiting scholar within the 2017-2018 academic year.

We are looking to host two categories of visiting scholars. Between September and December 2017 we would be open to hosting scholars from one to three months. We are also looking to host one or two visiting scholars for periods of three to twelve months throughout the academic year.

The Institute aims to focus on issues of relevance to Muslim societies and is seeking to attract voices from Muslim contexts through its visiting scholars programme. The Institute focuses on three broad research themes:

The Construction of Knowledge about Muslim Cultures and Societies
Understanding the Processes of Social Change in Muslim Cultures and Societies
Governance for the Public Interest in Muslim Contexts
A key outcome of the visiting scholars programme will include the organisation of a public event or workshop which will be funded by the Institute. Other expected outcomes will depend on the duration of the visit and may include:

Public lecture(s)
Research workshop(s)
Teaching within the Institute’s Masters’ and/or Professional Programmes
Publication (for longer term positions)
Visiting scholars would also be expected to engage in discussions about their work and that of colleagues at the Institute as well as dialogue through seminars with students.

Requirements:
The Institute invites applications from experienced scholars and researchers with an international reputation and strong academic knowledge who will offer distinctive perspectives on a particular area of study relevant to the Institute’s research interests.

Candidates should have:

A PhD linked to one of the areas of interest to the Institute
Extensive scholarly publications and experience within the field
Demonstrated research and teaching experience within Muslim majority contexts
Proficient communication skills in English
Salary level

Depending on the candidate’s academic profile, the Institute will pay gross salaries based on its current scales ranging from £50,000 to £65,000 per annum pro rata. Where applicable, an economy class return flight will be paid. Please note that accommodation in London will need to be independently organised by the researcher(s). Other benefits include: office space, access to computer facilities and access to the Library.

Application Procedure

Interested candidates should send their CV and a proposal for a public event/workshop (maximum 2 pages) to ismc.personnel@aku.edu

The proposal should include a timeline for the public event/workshop, potential participants, budget and outputs.

Application Deadline: 15th June 2017

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend interviews (either in person or online, as appropriate) during the month of July 2017.

More information about AKU-ISMC’s research themes can be found on our website.

Note: We will only contact candidates short-listed for interview. If you have not heard from us within four weeks after the closing date, please presume that your application has not been successful.

By submitting an application to AKU-ISMC you provide your consent to the Institute under the Data Protection Act 1998 for the Institute to share the contents of your application with relevant colleagues based at other locations of the University (including in Pakistan and East Africa), and with its nominated agents for the purpose of completing this recruitment exercise.

 

Apply through: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BBQ150/call-for-visiting-scholars-2017-18/ 

 

 

 

6. Announcement and Call for Applications: Iran Graduate Student Workshop

May 25, 2017

To build bridges across Persian and Iranian Studies programs, scholars
from New York University’s Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Department
and the Gallatin School (ISI-NYU), Princeton University’s Center for
Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, and the University of Pennsylvania’s
Middle East Center announce the */Iran Graduate Student Workshop
/(IGSW)*. The workshop will provide a valuable venue for academic
exchange and production, giving distinguished young scholars of the
field an unrivalled opportunity to present and promote their research.

On *_May 4-5, 2018_*, the University of Pennsylvania will host the
second gathering of this joint workshop, to be followed by similar
meetings at the other campuses every two years. This second workshop in
2018 will consist of PhD students that are near ABD status and preparing
their dissertation proposals (i.e., typically in their 2nd or 3rd year
of graduate work). In addition, the first cohort will participate again,
as discussants, in the 2018 workshop, as they approach the end of their
graduate work.

Applicants for the second round, in 2018, must focus on modern Iran
(roughly 18^th -20^th centuries), other countries of the Persianate
world, or diasporas, or conduct relational histories and comparative
work; and will be drawn from disciplines and programs in the humanities
and social sciences, including anthropology, art history, economics,
history, literature, politics, sociology, and related fields.

* *

*IGSW Purpose:*

•   To provide graduate students with intellectual feedback on their
research, encompassing both 
area studies and disciplinary critiques,
twice in their graduate student careers.

•   To ensure that graduate students of Iran are aware of, and make
their work accessible to, 
scholars from other parts of “their” area
(i.e., the Middle East broadly defined) as well as from 
their own
discipline, whether it be history, literature, or the social sciences.

•   To use the above points to make sure that graduating scholars who
focus on modern Iran will 
continue to be placed, if not more frequently
placed, in both area studies and disciplinary 
departments.

•   To help doctoral students improve skills in scholarship and teaching.

To apply, please send the materials below by */_August 15, 2017_/*//to
igsw2018@gmail.com <mailto:igsw2018@gmail.com>:

•   One letter of recommendation from an advisor or committee member
supporting the research project and attesting to the student’s good
standing in their program of study.

•   Curriculum vitae

•   Research proposal of 1,000 words on argument, methods, and evidence
to be used in 
dissertation 
Decisions on applications will be sent out
by */_September 30, 2017_/*. If selected by the IGSW committee,
participants will be expected to attend workshops in years 2018 and
2020. Travel and accommodation for accepted applicants will be provided
by the IGSW.
 

 

 

7. Call for application: Summer School Reading and analysing Ottoman manuscript sources

Summer School

Beirut, Lebanon, 27th to 30th of August 2017

Description

The French Institute of the Near East (Ifpo), the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB), the University of Balamand, the Lebanese University (Doctoral School of Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences), the Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Centralasian Studies (CETOBaC), the Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi, the İbn Haldun Üniversitesi, and the Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies (JaCMES) with the support of the Open Jerusalem project are organising a summer school devoted to reading and analysing Ottoman manuscript sources. This is the second edition, following the summer school of 2016 in Amman, Jordan.

During the four-day programme we will introduce young researchers (mostly MA and PhD candidates, but postdocs may also apply) to reading, combining and analysing manuscript sources from various archives of the Ottoman era, produced at local, provincial and imperial levels. We concentrate mainly on materials from the 16th and 20th centuries, but welcome also explorations into earlier archives. Our summer school offers future researchers introductory presentations of the archival situation, various types of sources and basic research tools and workshops with a focus on the actual work with texts. The aim is to overcome the initial difficulties researchers often face when working with archival material from the Ottoman period, one of which is an administrative terminology no longer in use today.

For more info: http://www.ifporient.org/node/1935