Archive for November, 2018

BAHRAIN: Formula One Expresses “Concerns” for Imprisoned Female Activist Critical of The Grand Prix

15 November 2018 – On 12 November, Formula One expressed concern for Bahraini female political prisoner, Najah Yusuf, whose conviction involves criticising the Bahraini government and the Bahrain Grand Prix 2017. In June 2018, Najah was found guilty for, according to the Public Prosecution, promoting and encouraging people “to overthrow the political and social systems”….

For BIRD Weekly 213, click here.

Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Calls on Bahrain to Make Parliamentary Elections Free and Fair

06 November 2018 – Today, Representative Jim McGovern and Representative Randy Hultgren, the co-chairs of the Congressional Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, publicized a letter they sent last week asking Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa to “take all necessary steps to ensure that the upcoming elections for the Council of Representatives of Bahrain’s National Assembly meet international standards for free and fair elections.”

For ADHRB Weekly 277, click here.

Shia Course – SHIʿA STUDIES INTENSIVE COURSE

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The 8th Intensive Course on Shi’a Islamic Studies (Iran – 2019)

· Organized by the University of Religions and Denominations (Qom, Iran)
· Workshop: February 22-28, 2019
· Venue: Mashhad, Astan Quds Razavi
· Cultural Tour (Optional): Tehran, Isfahan, Qom
· Language: English
· Partial Scholarships are available
· Registration Deadline: 31 December 2018
· More Information: http://shiacourse.urd.ac.ir
· Contact: shiacourse@urd.ac.ir & iranstudytours@gmail.com

 

1.ESRC MSc/PhD studentships in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, the University of Edinburgh

ESRC Scottish Doctoral Training Programme MSc + PhD studentships for 2019 are available for students of Language-Based Area Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Starting date October 2019. Applicants must apply for admission with us by Dec 3^rd

For further information and eligibility criteria, see: https://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/graduate-school/fees-and-funding/funding/masters-students/other-funding/esrc-msc-phd-studentships

 

 

 

2. PhD Scholarship in Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh,

Starting 2019.

The Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to invite applications for one PhD scholarship in any area within its expertise.

The scholarship will be funded by IMES and will cover tuition fees for the PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.

Applications for both the Scholarship and the PhD must be made by 12th December 2018.

For more information, see: https://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/graduate-school/fees-and-funding/funding/phd-students/imes-phd-scholarship

 

 

 

3. Bibliography of the Arabic Bible: A Classified and Annotated History of Scholarship

http://amirmideast.blogspot.com/2018/11/bibliography-of-arabic-bible-classified.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AccessToMideastAndIslamicResourcesamir+%28Access+to+Mideast+and+Islamic+Resources+%28AMIR%29%29

 

 

 

4. Jobs:

Lebanese American University – Visiting Faculty, History of Islamic Art and Architecture
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=57754

 

 

The Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization, University of Washington in Seattle, WA, invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Persian and Iranian Studies, to begin September 2019. This is a full-time, 9-month position.

Open Date: Nov 2, 2018

Link for information and applications: https://apply.interfolio.com/57250

 

 

2019-20 Lecturer of Arabic

Department of Middle Eastern Studies – College of Liberal Arts – The University of Texas at Austin

 Location: Austin, TX

Open: Oct 26, 2018 Close: Dec 7, 2018

Description

The Department of Middle Eastern Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a lecturer position in Arabic starting in fall 2019. This position is expected to teach Arabic language courses at all levels (including advanced content courses) for an average of twelve hours per week according to the needs of the program. This position is renewable annually; contingent upon budgetary funding and performance. Security sensitive position; background check conducted on applicant selected.

For further information and to apply: https://facultyjobs.utexas.edu/position/40223.

 

 

The Bodleian Libraries are now accepting applications for Visiting Fellowships to be taken up during academic year 2019-20. Fellowships support periods of research in the Special Collections of the Bodleian Libraries, across a range of different subjects. Of particular interest might be the Bahari Visiting Fellowships in the Persian Arts of the Book.

Fellows are hosted in the Visiting Scholars’ Centre at the Weston Library, where they join a lively research environment.

Details of the Fellowship terms and application process can be found on our Fellowships webpage: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships.

A list of current Visiting Fellows and Affiliated Scholars in academic year 2018-19 can be found at: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/current-and-past-fellows/2018-19-visiting-fe….

Applications for these Fellowships should be made by the deadline of midnight, Friday, 30 November 2018.

For further information, please email: fellowships@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.

 

 

 

5. The American Institute of Indian Studies welcomes applications for its summer 2019 and academic year 2019-2020 language programs.

Programs to be offered include Hindi (Jaipur), Bengali (Kolkata), Punjabi (Chandigarh), Tamil (Madurai); Marathi (Pune), Urdu (Lucknow), Telugu (Hyderabad), Gujarati (Ahmedabad), Kannada (Mysore), Malayalam (Thiruvananthapuram), Mughal Persian (Lucknow), Sanskrit (Pune) and Pali/Prakrit (Pune). We will offer other Indian languages upon request. All academic year applicants should have the equivalent of two years of prior language study. For summer Sanskrit, we require the equivalent of two years of prior study; for summer Bengali, Hindi and Tamil we require the equivalent of one year of prior study. For summer Urdu, we require the equivalent of one year of either Hindi or Urdu. We can offer courses at all levels, including beginning, in other Indian languages for the summer. Summer students should apply for FLAS or other funding if available at their institutions to cover the costs of the program.

Funding for Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu may be available through the U.S. State Department’s CLS program (see www.clscholarship.org). AIIS has some funding available for summer students who cannot procure their own funding. This funding is allocated on the basis of the language committee’s ranking of the applicants. AIIS will award language fellowships, on a competitive basis, to academic year and fall semester students, which would cover all expenses for the program. AIIS offers Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Urdu and other languages at all levels for the fall, although fellowships would only be available for students who will have had the equivalent of two years of prior language study by the beginning of the program. AIIS will offer funding to masters students to complete a capstone project of their choosing upon completion of the summer program. There will also be a special Mughal Persian archives workshop at the end of the summer 2019 Mughal Persian program in Lucknow.

The application deadline is December 31, 2018. Applications can be downloaded from the AIIS web site at www.indiastudies.org. For more information: Phone: 773-702-8638. Email: aiis@uchicago.edu.

 

 

 

6. Grabar Grants and Fellowships

These competitive grants and fellowships, established in memory of Professor Oleg Grabar and supported by the Oleg Grabar Memorial Fund, are intended to encourage and further the professional development of graduate students (Ph.D. candidates) and post-doctoral scholars in all areas of the history of Islamic art, architecture and archaeology. The number and amount of the grants and fellowships will be announced annually in accordance with available funds. The Grabar Grants and Fellowships are administered by HIAA’s Grants and Fellowships Committee, chaired by Professor Scott Redford

See: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/grabar-grants-and-fellowships

 

 

 

7. UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE, DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES, CLASSICS, AND PHILOSOPHY

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CULTURAL CENTRE OF THE EMBASSY OF I.R. OF IRAN
ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TO CELEBRATE THE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR WOMEN
Date: 01 MARCH 2019
Venue: UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE
Theme: Dialoguing Women in Christianity, Islam and African Traditional Religions

For further information, see :

http://harare.icro.ir/index.aspx?fkeyid=&siteid=198&pageid=11688&newsview=715025

 

 

 

8. Two-day workshop: The Ḥanafī School: History, Transformations, and Future

3-4 December 2018

The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS)

This workshop explores how Ḥanafīs articulate a history of the school and pinpoint milestones of its transformation under Muslim rule, with a special emphasis on the madhhab as a fulcrum for Ḥanafī legal continuity. The workshop will also examine Ḥanafī controversies, relationship to political power, and development of state judiciary, international relations, governance, interfaith relations, and women issues. We also encourage papers that assess contemporary discussions about reviving Islamic legal school and the role of fiqh in Muslim societies today.

Paper abstracts available at:

https://nias.knaw.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/WS-29-Final-Workshop-Program-DvM.pdf

 

 

 

9. Workshop: “On the Way into the Unknown? Comparative Perspectives on the ‘Orient‘ in (Early) Modern Travelogues”, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 28-29 November 2018

We invite you to discuss perceptions of the ‘Orient‘ (especially the Ottoman and Persian Empires) in travelogues from the 16th to the 19th centuries. To obtain a comprehensive understanding, the travellers will originate in as many as possible different cultures. Among others, non-European perspectives are particularly welcome, especially on travels within the Orient.

Deadline for abstracts: 7 January 2019. Information: http://www.travelogues-project.info/cfp/

 

 

 

10. Articles on “Islam in Europe, Religious Pluralism, Immigration” for Special Issue of “Religions”

Articles on Islam and political movements, social trends, Islamic authority, new media, gender, Islamic culture and branding Islam as well as keeping into account historical background and emerging trends of the presence of Islam in Europe will be particularly welcome.

Deadline for manuscripts: 31 January 2018. Information: Contact the Special Issue Editor Prof. Dr. Stefano Allievi at stefano.allievi@unipd; https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions

 

Program

Program of sessions at MESA 2018 annual meeting in San Antonio.

Readers of this list might pay particular attention to:
(5136) Ecological Spillover: Climate and Environmental Risks from the Indian Ocean World to the Middle East
(5160) Adaptations of Political Philosophy in and from Islam
(5325) Political Legitimacy in Masnawis & Advice Literature
(5336) Iranian Diasporas
(5355) Political & Religious Development During the Safavid Period
(5301) Sectarianism, Identity and the State in Lebanon
(5307) Unorthodoxies Shi’ism, Sufism, Feminism
(5312) Minorities in the Middle East
(5256) Gender, Law and Violence in Lebanon – Feminist Contestations Post-Arab Uprisings
(5351) Politics & Identity in the Arab States of the Gulf
(5349) Identity and Political Mobilization in Contemporary Lebanon

Séminaire «Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien»

Séance du 15 novembre 2018, 17h-19h

Mohammad Ali AMIR-MOEZZI, Directeur d’études, École Pratique des Hautes Études/PSL

« Nouvelles recherches sur les origines de l’islam et de l’imamologie shi’ite »

A l’occasion de la parution de son livre La Preuve de Dieu. La mystique shi’ite à travers l’œuvre de Kulaynî (Cerf, 2018), M. A. Amir-Moezzi expose, à travers quelques thèmes, ses dernières recherches sur la question encore bien énigmatique des origines de l’islam et du shi’isme : le caractère problématique du Coran, la dimension apocalyptique du message de Muhammad et le milieu biblique qui l’a vu naître, le problème de l’avènement du Messie, les relations christologiques entre Jésus et ‘Alî.

Mohammad Ali AMIR-MOEZZI est Directeur d’études à l’École Pratique des Hautes Études/PSL où il occupe la chaire de l’islamologie classique. Membre de l’Académie ambrosienne (Milan) et de plusieurs sociétés savantes, il est l’auteur de nombreux livres et articles dont, parmi les plus récents : Le Coran silencieux et le Coran parlant (CNRS Éditions, 2012) et l’ouvrage collectif, L’ésotérisme shi’ite, ses racines et ses prolongements (Brepols, 2016).

Lieu: INaLCO, amphi 6, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris.
Organisateur : Amr Ahmed (INaLCO), Samra Azarnouche (EPHE), Oliver Bast (Sorbonne nouvelle – Paris 3), Agnès Devictor (Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne), Julien Thorez (CNRS)

O Scharbrodt, ‘A minority within a minority?: the complexity and multilocality of transnational Twelver Shia networks in Britain’, Contemporary Islam (2018).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-018-0431-0

Bahrain’s Unending Shia Repression

by Emile Nakhleh Amid the Saudi-caused horrific human tragedy in Yemen and the ongoing investigation into the premeditated murder of Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, …

 

1.Assembling the Tropics

Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450–1700

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

• Online publication date: August 2018
• Print publication year: 2018
• Online ISBN: 9781108164856
•   https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108164856

 

 

 

2. Reception, Appropriation, and Innovation:
Byzantium between the Christian
and Islamic Worlds
2ND ANNUAL EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL
GRADUATE BYZANTINE CONFERENCE
30th November – 1st December 2018

See: https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/classics/news-events/events/reception-appropriation-and-innovation-byzantium-b

 

 

 

3. CALL FOR PAPERS 

McGill University’s Institute of Islamic Studies

Graduate Student Symposium

April 4-5, 2019

The organising committee of the McGill Institute of Islamic Studies Graduate Student Symposium welcomes abstract submissions to their ninth annual symposium, to be held on April 4-5, 2019 at McGill University.

Our aim is to provide an opportunity for graduate students based in various parts of the world and approaching the study of Islamicate thought and life across time and space through a multiplicity of disciplinary and methodological approaches to share their work with the Institute’s faculty and students in an atmosphere of constructive and supportive criticism. We are pleased to invite graduate students at all stages of research and dissertation-writing related to Islam and Islamicate communities anywhere in the world (East Asia, South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East) to submit proposals for individual paper presentations.

Reflecting our department’s primary research areas, the symposium’s themes include but are not limited to:

 

• theology, philosophy, mysticism, and jurisprudence

• history, political science, and anthropology

• Urdu, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature

 

An abstract of 250-500 words and a one-page résumé should be sent electronically to miisscsymposium@gmail.com  by December 30, 2018. Please include a tentative title for your paper and two or three keywords describing its regional and disciplinary focus, as well as your name, programme of study (MA, MPhil, or PhD), and departmental and institutional affiliation. Applicants will be notified of a decision by January 15, 2019. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us with any other queries.

 

 

 

4. Conference: “Law, Islam & Anthropology”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, GAIR and RIMO, Halle/Saale, 9–10 November 2018

The discussion will range from the traditional domain of family-related regulations regarding commercial transactions to the perception of ethical norms in daily life. Questions such as actor-driven social distinctions and cross-societal processes of interpreting and applying Islamic texts and tradition will be emphasized.

Registration until 6 November via islamiclawconference2018@eth.mpg.de. Program at http://www.eth.mpg.de/de/events?url=7166%2Fevent_details_1510566232.html

 

 

 

5. Conference: “Mapping the Role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern and Contemporary History”, Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS University of London, 1 December 2018

Forty years after the Revolution, how can we evaluate the role of Iranian intellectuals in the history of Iranian modernity and in the process of the Iranian democratic debate? This question and many others are some of the key points this one-day conference will explore.

Registration at https://store.soas.ac.uk/product-catalogue/london-middle-east-institute/events/mapping-the-role-of-intellectuals-in-iranian-modern-and-contemporary-history

 

 

 

6. Colloque : “Islamisme et violence : débats et enjeux”, Université de Montréal, 25-26 mars 2019

Le colloque analysera différentes approches théoriques qui se sont développées depuis un demi-siècle, en milieu tant musulman que non-musulman, pour tenter d’expliquer ou de comprendre ce phénomène de l’islamisme et de ses rapports à différentes formes et degrés de violence, à la fois au sein de la diversité islamique et musulmane.

Date limite pour la soumission d`une candidature : 15 novembre 2018. Information: https://cerium.umontreal.ca/nouvelles-et-evenements/nouvelles/une-nouvelles/news/appel-a-contributions-islamisme-et-violence-de-47069/

 

 

 

7. Professorship in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Bern

Depending on his or her formal qualifications, the successful applicant will be employed as assistant professor with tenure track, as associate professor or as full professor. An assistant professorship requires an outstanding PhD and a second, advanced research project. Candidates for an associate or full professorship are required to have a habilitation thesis or equivalent qualifications.

Deadline for applications: 30 November 2018. Information: http://www.philhist.unibe.ch/about_us/now_happening/ausschreibung_islamwissenschaft/index_eng.html

 

 

 

8. Visiting Fellowship in Islamic Finance, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

Applicants must be specialists in Islamic Finance and/or a closely related discipline, preferably with practical experience of policy-making with an international or comparative component. The fellowship will start in October 2019.

Deadline for application: 4 February 2019. Information: https://www.oxcis.ac.uk/sites/www.oxcis.ac.uk/files/inline-files/Visiting%20Fellowship%20in%20Islamic%20Finance%202019.pdf

 

 

 

9. Assistant Professor in Islam Studies, Augustana College

We seek a candidate who specializes in the study of Islam. Additional specializations might include one or more of the following: Gender and Religion, contemporary or historical Islamic movements in Southwest Asia and beyond, Muslim-Christian interactions, and Inter-faith dialogue.

Deadline for applications: 7 November 2018. Information: www.augustanafaculty.org/career_positions.php?cat=3&id=218

 

 

 

10. Assistant Professor in Contemporary and/or Modern Judaism, Syracuse University

This is tenure-track position to begin August 2019. We seek a colleague with a specialization in contemporary and/or modern Jewish religion and culture with possible areas including but not limited to America, Israel, and/or Europe. Candidates should demonstrate Jewish Studies research and teaching interests at any variety of possible intersections such as the arts, science, history, ethnicity, race, gender, politics, and/or sexualities.

Deadline for applications: 13 November 2018. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=57680

 

 

 

11. Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, Croft Institute for International Studies, University of Mississippi

The position will start in August 2019. We are seeking an anthropologist of the Middle East. Preference will be given to critical medical anthropologists and/or engaged cultural anthropologists who work with refugee/migrant populations. Ph.D. in Anthropology is required by the time of appointment.

Deadline for applications: 20 November  2018. Contact: Vivian Ibrahim vibrahim@olemiss.edu. Information: https://careers.olemiss.edu/job/University-Croft-Assistant-Professor-of-Anthropology-and-International-Studies-MS-38677/514002600/

 

 

 

12. Summer School (Arabic Program and MENA Area Studies), International University of Rabat, 1-26 July 2019

The Arabic program includes 24 in “Moroccan Spoken Arabic” out of 69 hours. MENA Area Studies Program aims to introduce international students to the region through a cross-cultural study of its history, society, literature and politics.

Deadline for applications: 19 May 2019. Information: http://www.uir.ac.ma/en/summer-program

 

 

13. Article sur “Iǧtihād et taqlīd dans l’islam sunnite et šīʿite” pour Revue MIDÈO

Date limite : 15 janvier 2020. Information: https://www.ideo-cairo.org/fr/2018/10/i%C7%A7tihad-et-taqlid-dans-lislam-sunnite-et-si%CA%BFite/

 

 

 

14. DRUGS IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD (ca. 1050–ca. 1400)

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/event-story.aspx?id=585af024-781c-4eab-9892-1ad9bcc4ec5d

7-8 December 2018, King’s College London

Sponsored by the Wellcome Trust and supported by the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies (CLAMS) at King’s.

 

 

 

15. Call for Papers for our one-day conference on the theme of ‘Leadership, Authority and Representation in British Muslim Communities’ to be held at Cardiff University on 21 January 2019.  More information below.  Please note the deadline for abstract submission which is 3pm on 7 December 2018.

This one-day conference brings together academics and activists to explore issues of leadership, authority and representation in British Muslim communities.  Who speaks for British Muslims?  How is authority construed, constructed and exercised in an age of mass media and the Internet?  What internal and external factors shape leadership structures and modalities of representation for British Muslims living as a minority in a culturally Christian but largely secular social context?  Where do leaders come from in a decentralised religious tradition lacking a priestly hierarchy?  How do government discourses and media representations impact upon dynamics of leadership and authority in British Muslim communities?

For more information, including how to submit your abstract, visit:

http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/islamukcentre/conference-on-leadership-authority-and-representation-in-british-muslim-communities/

 

 

 

16. The Judeo-Persian manuscript collection in the British Library

https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2018/11/the-judeo-persian-manuscript-collection-in-the-british-library.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+asian-and-african+%28Asia+and+Africa%29

 

 

 

17. Fully funded Phd opportunity at the University of Bristol Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship for a resident citizen of the Palestinian Territories.

 

Possible topics might include (but are not limited to):

• Issues relating to racism and discrimination.
• National narratives that create second-class forms of citizenship.
• Majority/minority relations in Israel/Palestine.
• A comparative study of Islamophobia and antisemitism, paying attention to particular national contexts e.g. comparing Israel/Palestine and the UK.
• Obstacles to progress into higher education or the labour market that are connected to race/ethnicity.

Full details at:

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/fees-funding/awards/hespal/

 

 

 

18. The University of Hamburg has 55 vacant positions (research associates) for the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’. The aim of the research of the cluster is to establish a unified, comparative and comprehensive approach for studying how the production of written artefacts has shaped human societies and cultures, and how these in turn have adapted written artefacts to their needs. The Cluster’s approach is structured into five Research Fields which unfold major aspects of the Cluster’s research. Since the material object is the starting point for the Cluster’s research, the scientific methods of material analysis will constitute the first field (Research Field A). In contrast to this field, but closely connected to it, the remaining four fields address cultural practices.

 

For the five clusters (including Inscribing Spaces and Archiving Artefacts), see https://www.written-artefacts.uni-hamburg.de/en/research-fields.html

For the vacant positions, see https://www.written-artefacts.uni-hamburg.de/en/vacant-positions.html

 

Life sentence for Bahrain opposition leader

Sheikh Ali Salman was accused of spying for Qatar after Bahrain cut ties with the rival state.

See also Amnesty International.
See also ADHRB.
See also NY Times.
See also BIRD Number 212.