Obituary – Alhaj Hassan A.M. Jaffer
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wVPzHagwyqA P2:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y1AMTrF-OnY May Allah (SWT) by His infinite grace and mercy grant Marhum maghferat and a lofty place in the proximity of the Masumeen (AS) – Ameen. Please recite Sura-e-Fateha for the maghferat of the departed soul and all Marhumeen.
DYNTRAN Symposium: Paris 2018
Symposium of the DYNTRAN Project (ANR-DFG): Dynamics of Transmission: Families, Authority and Knowledge in the Early Modern Middle East (15th-17th centuries) 7-9 March 2018 Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 Maison de la Recherche, 4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris Salle Athéna Following the three previous workshops held in Marburg (2015), Cairo (2016) and Naples …
1.Two PhD scholarships are available in the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University (Australia)
(1) Working under the supervision of Prof Shahram Akbarzadeh, Dr Zahid Shahab Ahmed and Dr Dara Conduit to research Proxy Wars in Syria and Afghanistan – Details here: http://www.deakin.edu.au/…/hdr-scholarship-proxy-wars-in-sy…
(2) Working under the supervision of Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh and Dr Rebecca Barlow to work on Women NGOs and Policy Change in Iran – Details here: http://www.deakin.edu.au/…/find-…/hdr-scholarship-women-ngos
2. The Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations (ARIC) at the American University in Cairo (AUC) is pleased to announce its Fall 2018 graduate admissions cycle (deadline: 1 April 2018).
MA students my chose one from the following areas of specialization:
– Middle East History
– Islamic Art and Architecture
– Arabic Literature (classical and modern)
– Islamic Studies
The department currently offers two graduate tracks: The MA program, which culminates in a research-based thesis, and the Graduate Diploma, which requires course work only.
For information about the generous funding opportunities available for graduate study at AUC, please consult: http://www.aucegypt.edu/admissions/fellowships
Please visit our website for further information about our MA and Graduate Diploma programs, department faculty, and application process: http://schools.aucegypt.edu/huss/aric/Pages/default.aspx
Specific queries about the program should be addressed to: Ellen Kenney (ARIC Director of Graduate Studies), ekenney@aucegypt.edu, or Marwa Sabri (Senior Administrative Affairs Assistant), msabri@aucegypt.edu
Please pass this message on to interested students and advisors! The final application deadline is 1 April 2018.
3. Making Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Islamic Art and Architecture
March 1-2, 2018
Indiana University
This workshop will explore the changing production and reception of artworks and architecture during the long nineteenth century, in urban centers across the Islamic Mediterranean. Eleven papers by scholars working at the cutting edge of this emerging area of research will map transformations in image-making, architecture, and craft, with particular focus on changing technologies of production and reproduction, circulation, and exchange. Together, the papers in this workshop will break new ground by integrating artworks from the Islamic world into fully realized frameworks of modernity.
Co-organizers: Margaret Graves, Alex Dika Seggerman, and Ashley Dimmig
For more information, visit: https://makingmodernityislamicart.wordpress.com/
4. Dynamics of Transmission: Families, Authority and Knowledge in the Early Modern Middle East (15th-17th Centuries)
Paris, 7-9 March 2018
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle , Maison de la Recherche – 4, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris, salle Athéna
Contact: sandra.aube.lorain@gmail.com
Full program on: www.dyntran.hypotheses.org
Convenors: Maria Szuppe, Christoph Werner, Albrecht Fuess and Nicolas Michel
Organizing team in Paris:
CNRS, Mondes iranien et indien, 27 rue Paul-Bert, F-94204 Ivry-sur-Seine. France:
Sandra Aube,Sacha Alsancakli and Emmanuel Giraudet
with the cooperation of Anthony T. Quickel (in Cairo, IFAO) and Alberto Tiburcio (in Marburg, Philipps-Universität)
5. 5 Day Intensive Courses
Intensive Course on Pre-Islamic Arabia
Princeton, New Jersey (USA) May 28 – June 1, 2018
The course is intended primarily for graduate students, both from Princeton and from other universities.
The instructor will be Professor Christian Robin, a leading expert in the study of pre-Islamic Arabia. The objective of the program is to present the state of knowledge about ancient Arabia until the time of Muḥammad. Archaeological excavations and innumerable epigraphic discoveries have profoundly renewed the question in recent decades.
The program will have three objectives:
1. Give students access to the main source of information about Pre-Islamic Arabia, namely epigraphic texts. Two days will be devoted to the scripts and languages used in ancient Arabia (especially those of Sabaʾ, Maʿīn, Qatabān, Ḥaḍramawt, Nagrān, Qaryat, Hagar, Dedān and Taymāʾ, plus those of the desert populations) and those of the 5th and 6th century of the Christian era (with the appearance of Arabic writing which can be interpreted as a rejection of Ḥimyar).
2. Summarize what is known about the history and institutions of the main kingdoms of ancient Arabia, with a focus on dating issues and the emergence of so-called “Arab” populations from the beginning of the Christian era.
3. Present the political, religious and cultural situation in Arabia of the 5th and 6th centuries, on the eve of Islam, with a kingdom of Ḥimyar (Jewish, then Christian) which dominates the whole of the peninsula, and to highlight certain continuities between antiquity and the first Islam.
Applications must be emailed to Julia Gilbert (jb85@princeton.edu) at the Near Eastern Studies Department at Princeton University by March 16, 2018. The subject line of the email should read, “Application for Pre-Islamic Arabia Workshop.”
Applications should comprise the following:
Letter of application with statement of interest
CV
Names, positions, and email addresses of two referees.
All items should be included in a single attachment, which may be a pdf.
Successful applicants will be notified in late March 2018 and students accepted for the course but coming from outside of Princeton will receive partial scholarships to help defray travel and accommodation costs. The course itself is free.
6. Le département d’études persanes de l’Université de Strasbourg recrute un Maître de Conférences. La personne recrutée assurera des enseignements de langue et linguistique persanes à tous les niveaux (initiation, moyen et avancé), panorama des langues iraniennes et la grammaire persane. Il ou elle assurera aussi des enseignements de traduction aux niveaux de licence et de master (cours de version et de traductologie) ainsi que des enseignements en français sur l’histoire de la littérature persane allant de la période antique à la période moderne. Une solide maîtrise des deux langues (persan et français) est exigée afin que le candidat recruté ou la candidate recrutée puisse assurer les cours fondamentaux de la spécialité et ceux offerts comme options aux autres composantes. Une solide expérience d’enseignement est essentielle.
Pour plus d’informations concernant ce poste, veuillez cliquer sur le lien suivant (voir 15ème section, numéro 4479) :
http://www.unistra.fr/index.php?id=20607
7. Poste de en études iraniennes à l’Université d’Uppsala
lecturer in Iranian languages, expecially Kurdish in Uppsala:
http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=195248
8. The Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Section des Sciences historiques et philologiques), Paris, invites applications for a full professorship in “Histoire et philologie du monde indo-persan / History and philology of the Indo-Persian World”. (Starting on 1st October 2018)
Please see https://www.ephe.fr/actualites/recrutement_des_enseignants-chercheurs_2018/shp-profils-postes-dossier-candidature-2018.pdf for details.
Deadline for application: 15 March 2018, 4pm (Paris time)
9. The Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien (CERES) of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum is advertising a job in the history of Iranian/Western Asian religions. Please follow the link for further information
10. Rencontre internationale : „Religions, identités, pratiques et perspectives plurielles“, Université Fès, Maroc, 17 mai 2018
Limite des résumes : 30 mars 2018. Information: ababoumoha@hotmail.com
11. Annual Conference: “The Interdisciplinary Study of Religions (ISR)”, Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS), Wayne State University, Detroit, 11-13 October 2018
ISR aims to bring comprehensive, integrated insights from multiple disciplines to the study of religions as complex human phenomena. Insights may be brought to bear on religions or religious phenomena from humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, along with other areas such as arts and professions.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2018. Information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rlNvq-gICuf5g-IjjHrOHpLJENvCHVDUgXPunBfsh4Y/edit
12. International Conference: “The Druze Millennium: Celebrating a Thousand Years of Diversity”, American University of Beirut, 30-31 October 2018
The conferenwill bring together leading researchers who have contributed to the field of Middle Eastern Studies with particular reference to the Druze. The conference will focus on the political, social and cultural evolution and/ or role of the Druze.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2018. Information: https://website.aub.edu.lb/cah/Pages/Call-for-Papers-The-Druze-Millennium—Celebrating-a-Thousand-Years-of-Diversity.aspx
13. Annual Conference: “AAR Qur’an Unit”, Denver, 17-20 November 2018
Topics that were mentioned at the last annual meeting are: The Qur’an and the Late Antique, the Qur’an and philosophy, Conceptions of time and history in the Qur’an, Liturgical uses of the Qur’an, Material culture and the Qur’an, Mystical letters and symbols in the Qur’an, Popular culture and the Qur’an, Reception history of the Qur’an, Regional issues and the Qur’an (e.g., the Qur’an in Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc.), Ulum al-Qur’an, The Qur’an in the context of teaching the study of religion. This list of topics is meant as inspirational rather than limiting.
Information: https://papers.aarweb.org/content/quran-unit
Interactions between Twelver Shiites and Christians: history, theology, literature
International conference with the participation of Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware) and Francis Richard (CNRS, Paris), in Paris, France, Wednesday, April 11, through Friday, April 13, 2018 The interactions and exchanges between Twelver Shiites and Christians, Catholics as well as Protestants, have rarely been studied in detail.However, there were intensive mutual contacts, as indicated by numerous travelogues, missionary reports, theological and polemical works, diplomatic correspondence, etc.
Bahrain: Five years in jail for Nabeel Rajab’s tweets
A court in Bahrain has convicted political activist Nabeel Rajab, and sentenced him to five years in prison for his comments online denouncing Saudi Arabia’s role in the war in Yemen and for criticising prison abuse in his country.
See also BBC News
See also Amnesty International statement
1.Job: Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences – Researcher, History
and Society of Pakistan
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56406
2. Gorgias Press’ international Classical Islamic World Book Prize(CIW) will now close on MONDAY 12th MARCH 2018. The CIW prize will recognise three exceptional early career contributions to the academic study of the classical Islamic world. In particular, the CIW will invite scholars from across the world to submit unpublished monographs that are either revised PhD theses or first Postdoctoral monographs, written in English or German.
The winners of the CIW will be announced in September 2018. The winning submission will be awarded an inscribed glass plaque, offered a contract to publish their monograph under Gorgias Press’ Islamic History and Thought Series, and $500 worth of Gorgias Press publications. Prizes will also be awarded to the second and third place submissions. The panel of judges is as follows:
See: https://www.gorgiaspress.com/classical-islamic-world-book-prize
3. Annual Conference: “Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)”, University of Pittsburgh, 24-28 October 2018
The geographic domain of Central Eurasia encompasses Central Asia, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, the Black Sea region, the Volga region, and East and Central Europe. Practitioners and scholars in all fields with an interest in this region are encouraged to participate.
Deadline for abstracts: 28 March 2018. Information: http://www.centraleurasia.org/annual-conf#CFP
4. Articles for “CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East”
The aim of the journal is to provide research and theoretical considerations on the representation of Islam and the Middle East in cyberspace, as well as the impact of the internet and new media in Muslim and Middle Eastern contexts.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 April 2018. Information: http://www.cyberorient.net/detail.do?articleId=3682
5. Articles for Special Issue on “Critical Kurdish Studies: Interrogating Practices of Knowledge Production in Representations of the Kurds and Kurdistan”
We seek original and thought-provoking contributions that problematize essentialisms in scholarship, literature, and popular/social media.
Deadline for abstracts: 23 March 2018. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/1348168/call-papers-special-issue-critical-kurdish-studies
6. The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) is pleased to announce that it will be offering its intensive summer Arabic programs in Beirut between June 20 and August 8, 2018
The Summer 2018 CAMES Arabic Programs will be directed by Dr. Mahmoud Al-Batal, Professor of Arabic at AUB, and will feature an outstanding team of instructors from AUB and other educational institutions in Lebanon, Europe, the US, and the Arab world.
The application deadline is April 10, 2018.
For detailed information about the academic content of the programs, application forms, cost, and financial support available, please visit our website: http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cames/sap/.
If you have any questions, do contact us at cames@aub.ed.lb
7. THE QUR’AN: MANUSCRIPTS AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM (IQSA)
Call For Papers: This year the programming unit will schedule a thematic session entitled “Reading and Accessing Manuscripts of the Qur’an and of Qur’anic Commentaries”. We invite papers that deal with all eras and regions of the manuscript tradition encompassing manuscripts of the Qur’an, Qur’anic commentaries, and qira’at works, as well as the variety of palaeographic, art historical, codicological, philological, historical, and text-critical issues that one encounters in this discipline in terms of access to collections and new technologies for manuscript study. For example, papers may focus on presenting a particular manuscript or collection of manuscripts, on introducing future and past projects for accessing, digitising and displaying collections or on describing new technologies for reading or analysing manuscript texts and exploring issues of textual criticism. Papers on any topic within the range of the interests of The Qur’an: Manuscripts and Textual Criticism programme unit are welcome. Proposals should include a title and an abstract of approximately 400 words.
8. CFP – Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies (Indiana University Press) -2018 issue
by Hussain Ahmad Khan
The editors of Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies (PJHS) invite scholars to submit articles on any aspect of history of any region and period. Published by Indiana University Press (Bloomington, USA), the semi-annual scholarly journal aims to develop critical ideas on less explored and innovative themes in the discipline of History.
Deadline for submission for 2018 issues is 15 April 2018.
To submit a manuscript for consideration, please use the following link for registering an account or log-in to your existing account and then click the ‘new submission link:
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/pjhs/login
For style-sheet, visit the following link:
http://hak3408.wixsite.com/khaldunia/guidelines-for-contributors
For more information and queries, send an email to hak@khaldunia.org (and cc to pjhs@khaldunia.org)
Journal’s website: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/pages.php?cPath=4&pID=97
9. Call for Applications to the MA program in Turkish Studies at Sabancı University
Sabancı University is now accepting applications for the MA program in Turkish Studies.
The deadline for applications is 20 April 2018.
All students are admitted on scholarship.
Our program offers a rich and highly flexible interdisciplinary curriculum that capitalizes on the intellectual and scholarly resources available at one of Turkey’s leading institutions of higher education. During the program, students choose from a broad range of courses in History, Political Science, Economics, Cultural Studies, Conflict Resolution, Visual Arts, and other fields pertinent to their chosen area of focus. In addition, the curriculum seeks to address the needs of those international students who aspire to learn or improve their command of the Turkish language.
The program gives several opportunities for advancement. Graduates will be competitive candidates for PhD programs in various fields of the Humanities and the Social Sciences, especially History and Political Science. The MA degree in Turkish Studies is also a vital asset for students interested in a career in the public sector (government positions, diplomacy, etc.), the private sector (international business, media, tourism), and NGOs.
Students carry out their studies in the city of Istanbul with its inexhaustible opportunities for linguistic, cultural, and intellectual immersion.
For further information about the program, please visit the website: http://ts.sabanciuniv.edu
For additional details about the application process: http://www.sabanciuniv.edu/en/admission-requirements-for-the-graduate-school-of-social-sciences
Our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/117968741561686/
10. Call for Applications to the MA and PhD programs in History at Sabancı University:
Sabancı University is now accepting applications for its MA and PhD programs in History.
The deadline for applications is 20 April 2018.
All students are admitted on scholarship.
Sabancı University’s Graduate Program in History concentrates on Ottoman and Modern Turkish History. It aims to foster fresh, unbiased and critical visions of the Ottoman past that are informed by broad-minded and novel theoretical insights and comparative sensibilities characterizing leading-edge practice in historical studies. At the same time, the program is also aimed to provide students with a deep and comprehensive familiarity with primary sources, as well as the necessary skills to deal with them. In its rigorous but also innovative and comprehensive approach to Ottoman and Modern Turkish studies, the History Programs benefits from the wide-ranging professional capabilities of its academic staff as well as from the interdisciplinary make-up of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. The separate MA and PhD trajectories in the program are envisaged as constituting a total and integral course of study that promotes research in diverse areas ranging from political and legal to intellectual and cultural history as well as nationalism studies. This is carried out through close cooperation between faculty and students, faculty members attaching great importance to mentoring and one-on-one consultation.
Students pursue their studies in the city of Istanbul with its inexhaustible opportunities for linguistic, cultural, and intellectual immersion.
For further information about the program, please visit the website: http://hist.sabanciuniv.edu/
For additional details about the application process: http://www.sabanciuniv.edu/en/admission-requirements-for-the-graduate-school-of-social-sciences
Our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/117968741561686/
For further information, please contact the program coordinator, Prof. Tülay Artan: tulay@sabanciuniv.edu
11. MA Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World
The aim of the MA Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World is to provide international graduate students with a thorough understanding of the deep and diverse links between the Muslim, Jewish and Christian intellectual contributions during the medieval period. The program is characterised by a strongly research-driven, interdisciplinary and interreligious approach with an emphasis on primary texts in original language (Arabic). Students will be trained and mentored by internationally renowned guest lecturers who are counted among the leading experts in their respective fields of research.
The primarily web-based MA program also includes three face-to-face sessions in Cordoba and Berlin per academic year during which the students and teachers will actually come together for discussion, teaching and examination. Freie Universität Berlin offers this one-year, full-time MA program of 60 ECTS to an expected number of 20 students, many of whom are from the region of the Middle East. The language of instruction is English.
Application period for the academic year 2017/18 is from 15 April until 31 May 2018.
For more information: www.ihiw.de
For direct enquiries: ieiw@geschkult.fu-berlin.de
History of Hadith Compilation
£20.00 Authors: Muhammad Ali Mahdavirad Translator: Alexander Khaleeli Cover: Paperback In stock Today, hadith books are taken for granted, but, in the first century after the Prophet (S), it was by no means certain that the Prophet’s words would be transcribed.
Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Authors A-Z – Institutt for kulturstudier og orientalske språk
Return to JAIS Home Muhammad al-Sharkawi → “Sharkawi” Hani El- Ayyan → “Elayyan” Return to JAIS Home Return to JAIS Home Sandra S. Campbell, Famous Last Words: The Maq â til of the Zubayrids in Medieval Islamic Histories. 13/4 (2013): 58-75.
The Bahrain Uprising, Seven Years Later
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On clashes in Bahrain today, 14 February, see alJazeera
See also ADHRB Weekly Newsletter #239.