Archive for 2018

1.Conference: “Religious Marriages in the Mediterranean”, Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta, 20-21 March 2018

This multidisciplinary conference seeks to bring together researchers who have engaged in research on religious marriages in the Mediterranean.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2018. Information: http://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-religious-marriages-in-the-mediterranean-20-21-march-malta?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

2. International Conference: “The Druze Millennium: Celebrating a Thousand Years of Diversity”, American University of Beirut, End of April 2018 (2 days)

The conference will 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: 31 January 2018, Information: https://website.aub.edu.lb/cah/Pages/Call-for-Papers-The-Druze-Millennium—Celebrating-a-Thousand-Years-of-Diversity.aspx

 

 

 

3. International Conference: “Religious Conversions: Then and Now”, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheba, 28-30 May 2018

The conference tries to emphasize analogies between different religions in similar and different spacial and temporal settings attempting to identify internal transformations within each of the three Abrahamic faiths and cultures regarding conversion and inter-religious encounters.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2018. Information: http://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-religious-conversions-then-and-now-28-31-may-beer-sheva?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

4. Conference: “Quran and Islamic Tradition in Comparative Perspective”, Helsinki, 30 July – 3 August 2018, Finland

Topics might include the Quran and Islamic tradition in the wider context of the history of the Western monotheisms; Islam’s profound historical relationships with Judaism, Christianity, and the biblical heritage; and comparative inquiry and intercommunal dialogue more generally.

Deadline for abstracts: 14 February 2018. Information: https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?MeetingId=32&VolunteerUnitId=518

 

 

 

5. PhD Studentship for Research on “Refugee Entrepreneurship: Belonging and Social Inclusion for Refugees in the UK”, University of Southampton

Deadline for application: 31 January 2018. Information: https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=SCDTP947717CC

 

 

 

6. Funded Positions for Research Projects on “Islam, the Modern Nation State and Transnational Movements” by Gerda Henkel Foundation

 

Deadline for applications: 16 May 2018. Information: http://www.fundit.fr/fr/calls/research-projects-islam-modern-nation-state-and-transnational-movements

 

 

 

7. Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Social and Cultural History of Islam and Islamic Worlds, University of Lausanne

The successful applicant will have a PhD in History, History of the religions or a title considered to be equivalent, should be able to demonstrate solid skills in the concerned fields: thorough knowledge of at least one relevant language; excellent scholarly publications and experience in teaching, etc.

Deadline for application: 8 March 2018. Information: https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?career%5fns=job%5flisting&company=universitdP&navBarLevel=JOB%5fSEARCH&rcm%5fsite%5flocale=en%5fUS&site=VjItQWt5MjVDbnNGNGlkV21MMFpPZDkrdz09&career_job_req_id=13102&selected_lang=en_US&jobAlertController_jobAlertId=&jobAlertController_jobAlertName=&_s.crb=jPUzFPuD3R1w0UhkWox3sl8xvXA%3d

 

 

 

8. Core Faculty Position in Arabic Language and Linguistics, Georgetown University in Qatar

We seek applications from associate and full professors and scholars with previous experience as a program director, center director or department chairperson as well as with previous experience teaching Arabic to heritage language learners.

Review of applications will begin on 10 January 2018 until the positon is filled. For information contact aez3@georgetown.edu

 

 

 

9. Executive Director/Editor for the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), Washington, DC

The Executive Director/Editor (ED) holds primary administrative responsibility for MERIP and editing responsibility for Middle East Report and online publications. Qualifications:  Familiarity with and commitment to MERIP; Master’s degree in Middle East studies or equivalent; book or magazine editing experience preferred.

Review of applications will begin on 29 January 2018. Information: silversp@reed.edu

 

 

 

10. Other posts:

Arabic Language Teaching Fellow, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA

Applicants should be at least ABD in a field related to Arabic/Middle Eastern Studies and should have at least three years of experience in teaching Arabic at the college level and native or near-native proficiency in Arabic.

Deadline for application: 8 February 2018. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/47921.

 

 

 

Lecturer in Arabic Language, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME

One year initial appointment with possibility of renewal for term(s) of three and five years thereafter. Responsibilities will include teaching two language courses each semester, curriculum development, and active promotion of the Arabic program.

Deadline for application: 1 February 2018. Information: https://careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/4643

 

 

 

Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics of the Middle East, University of Arkansas

The candidate may focus on issues such as the emergence of civil society and community engagement in a complex institutional environment, gender dynamics, migration, conflict resolution, or human rights.

Deadline for application: 1 February 2018. Information: http://jobs.uark.edu/postings/24353. Posting #F384P

 

 

Three-year Postdoctoral Assistant Professorship in Middle East Studies (Humanities or Social Sciences), Rutgers University, New Brunswick

We invite applications for a non-renewable three-year postdoctoral assistant professorship from any Middle Eastern Studies discipline in the humanities or social sciences.

Review of applications will begin: 15 February 2018. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/47764

 

 

 

Open Rank Faculty Position in Arabic, Claremont McKenna College, CA

The position is to begin in July 2018 for three years, with the possibility of renewal, subject to annual performance review.

Deadline for applications: 1 March 2018. Information: https://webapps.cmc.edu/jobs/faculty/faculty_opening_detail.php?PostingID=16032

 

 

 

Full-time Faculty Position in Arabic Linguistics, Arabic Culture or Relevant Fields, Department of Arabic Language and Culture, National Cheng-Chi University in Taipei, Taiwan

Deadline for applications: 28 February 2018. Information: https://mesana.org/professional-opportunities/employment.html#NatlChengChiU

 

 

 

11. Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires considers the role and place of gardens and landscapes in the broader context of the information sharing that took place among Europeans and Islamic empires in Turkey, Persia, and India. In illustrating commonalities in the design, development, and people’s perceptions of gardens and nature in both regions, this volume substantiates important parallels in the revolutionary advancements in landscape architecture that took place during the era. The contributors explain how the exchange of gardeners as well as horticultural and irrigation techniques influenced design traditions in the two cultures; examine concurrent shifts in garden and urban landscape design, such as the move toward more public functionality; and explore the mutually influential effects of politics, economics, and culture on composed outdoor space. In doing so, they shed light on the complexity of cultures and politics during the Renaissance.  This book points to new areas in inquiry about the influences, confluences, and connections between European and Islamic garden traditions.

Title:  Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires: Encounters and Confluences
Editor: Mohammad Gharipour
Publisher:  Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN13: 978-0-271-07779-6
Number of pages: 272
Number of illustrations: 122

 

 

Le shaykhisme à la période qajare

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1.Call for Papers

Heritage Revisited – Rediscovering Islamic Objects in Enlightenment Europe

27.-28. September 2018, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien

Mattia Guidetti (Universität Wien); Isabelle Dolezalek (SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“, Freie Universität Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin)

Themes and questions addressed may include the following:

• How was pre-existing knowledge on Islamic objects in Europe dissected and reassessed? Which narratives and legends circulated on these objects? How was new knowledge communicated?
• Orientalists travelled to see objects and exchanged letters discussing the Islamic material collected in Europe. Institutions interested in Oriental culture bourgeoned. Who were the scholars involved? What were the networks of scholars or institutions established or reinforced through the process of the “discovery” of Islamic objects in Europe?
• The 17^th/18^th -century interest in such objects entailed copious documentation. What were the materials produced (drawings, descriptions, copies of the objects…)? How did this genre of documentation differ from previous ones? How did it impact upon the subsequent history of the objects?
• Islamic objects that were now freed from fictitious attributions to saints or famous Latin kings, for instance, were perceived, touched and manipulated in new ways. Once the objects were “neutralized”, the process of musealisation started. Which institutions were involved and how did this process shape our modern perception of the objects? Was there any resistance, for example from the Church, to the demystification process of the objects?
• The act of reading inscriptions and “deciphering” the objects was not a neutral one, it entailed misreading and misinterpretation. How did this affect the reception of such objects in art historical literature and institutions?
• When looking at the rediscovery of Islamic origins and the subsequent reclassification processes of objects that were unquestioned parts of local heritage for centuries, are we also looking at a stage in European history when an explicit exclusion of Islamic objects from European heritage took place? What is the intellectual context of this shaping of national and European identities?

Abstracts no longer than 300 words should be addressed to following addresses by 1^st February 2018: dolezalek@tu-berlin.de and mattia.guidetti@univie.ac.at

 

 

 

 

2. Scholarships and Awards Available at the Centre for Iranian Studies (CIS), SOAS, University of London

Information: https://www.soas.ac.uk/registry/scholarships/

 

 

 

3. Articles for “Journal for Iranian Studies”

Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2018. Information: https://goo.gl/ByJdcm and

https://goo.gl/d44wNV

contact: m.zahid@arabiangcis.com

 

 

 

4. Pilot Project Grants from the British Institute for the Study of Iraq

We welcome applications in support of research on Iraq, in all fields of the arts, humanities or social sciences, concerned with any time period from prehistory to the medieval era to the present day.

Deadline for application: 1 February 2018. Information: http://www.bisi.ac.uk/content/pilot-project-grants

 

 

 

5. CfP: The International Congress on the Development and Exaltation of Knowledge and the Sciences in the Light of Revealed Rationality. 5-6 May 2018

See: http://icajcongress.ir/en/

– Deadline for submitting abstracts (of no more than 300 words): 10 February 2018

– UT Scholarships: The University of Tehran will be offering some scholarships for foreign graduate students to cover the registration fee and part of their traveling expenses and accommodations. To apply for a scholarship, please send a separate letter expressing financial need as well as travel expenses.

 

 

 

6. Nabia Abbott’s books at the Oriental Institute, Univ of Chicago

Books by Nabia Abbott available for download from the Oriental Institute

• Oriental Institute Publications 50: The Rise of the North Arabic Script and Its Kur’anic Development, with a Full Description of the Kur’an Manuscripts in the Oriental Institute, by Nabia Abbott (University of Chicago Press, 1939)

• Oriental Institute Publications 75: Studies in Arabic Literary Papyri I: Historical Texts, by Nabia Abbott (University of Chicago Press, 1957)

• Oriental Institute Publications 76: Studies in Arabic Literary Papyri II: Qur’anic Commentary and Tradition, by Nabia Abbott (University of Chicago Press, 1967)

• Oriental Institute Publications 77: Studies in Arabic Literary Papyri III: Language and Literature, by Nabia Abbott (University of Chicago Press, 1972)

• SAOC 15: The Kurrah Papyri from Aphrodito in the Oriental Institute. Nabia Abbott. Originally published in 1938.

• SAOC 16. The Monasteries of the Fayyum. Nabia Abbott. 1937.

• Two Queens of Baghdad: Mother and Wife of Harun al-Rashid. Nabia Abbott. Originally published in 1946.

• Aishah: The Beloved of Mohammed. Nabia Abbott. Originally published in 1942.

Search at: https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/oriental-institute-publications-oip

and: https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/islamic-studies

and: https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/miscellaneous-publications

 

7. Women of Islamic Studies

Women of Islamic Studies is a crowdsourced database of women scholars who work on Muslims and Islam. This ongoing project is in its beta version. Once sufficient data has been collected I will partner with a university for a more stable home.

https://drkristianpetersen.com/women-of-islamic-studies/

Pakistani politics risk aggravating problems and heightening regional tension

Credit: Balochistan Police Self-serving Pakistani politics threaten to aggravate the country’s myriad problems that have strained its relations with the United States and could heighten tension in the restless, key geo-strategic region of Balochistan, a vital node bordering Iran in China’s Belt and Road initiative and the earmarked home for the People’s Republic’s second foreign military base.

Africa Federation Archives – History of Dar es Salaam Mosque

In later years, the gents Imambara was extended vertically and the upper floor was dedicated to Ladies. Further vertical expansion of the mosque and the Imambara were done starting 1990s. Between 2004 to 2010, there was further expansion of the gents and ladies Imambara, including the demolition and total rebuilding of Mehfil-e-Abbas (A.S.)

Mausoleums in Safavid Family History

An Unpublished Royal Edict from the Ardabil Shrine (912/1507) [DYNTRAN WORKING PAPER 28, September 2017] by Naofumi ABE The presence of family mausoleums is a common phenomenon in Muslim-majority regions of Western and Central Asia, Northern Africa, and the Indian Subcontinent. Modern research on Muslim mausoleums has been mainly linked to scholarly interest in Sufism …

 

1.Conference: “Biography and Violence. Violent Dynamics and Agency in Collective Processes and Individual Life Histories”, Center of Methods in Social Sciences, University of Göttingen, Germany, 9-10 February 2018

This interdisciplinary and international conference offers an opportunity for discussion and exchange between scholars engaged in research on violence and those engaged in biographical research, from their different academic perspectives.

Conference program: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/conference+program/576655.html

 

 

 

2. 8th Annual Gulf Research Meeting, Cambridge, 31 July – 3 August 2018

Deadline for abstracts: 10 February 2018. Information: http://grm.grc.net/

 

 

 

3. Call for Paper-Seminar: “Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm: Interdisciplinary Explorations”, CILE, Doha, 14-16 October 2018

The seminar papers as well as the rest of accepted papers will be published as a thematic in the peer-reviewed Journal of Islamic Ethics or as an edited volume in the book-series Studies in Islamic Ethics (Brill).

Deadline for abstracts: 5 February 2018. Information: www.cilecenter.org/en/news/call-for-papers-islamic-ethics-and-the-trusteeship-paradigm-interdisciplinary-explorations/

 

 

 

4. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA): “Without Boundaries: The Global Middle East, Then and Now”, San Antonio, Texas, 15-18 November 2018

All topics welcome within MESA’s purview.  Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2018. Information: http://mesana.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers.html

 

 

 

5. Five Positions for Doctoral Students, Law and Anthropology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany

Positions are to start on 1 October 2018. They are awarded for three years, with the possibility of two six-month extensions (pending a positive evaluation).

Deadline for application: 31 January 2018. Information: https://recruitingapp-5034.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/341/Description/1

 

 

 

6. Three Postdoctoral Research Positions, Law and Anthropology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany

 

Of particular interest for this call are projects that engage in empirically informed research in an effort to find legislative, administrative, judicial, or practical solutions to issues of accommodating diversity (cultural, religious, ethnic, etc.) under state law.

 

Deadline for application: 31 January 2018. Information: https://recruitingapp-5034.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/340/Description/1

 

 

 

7. Associate Director of the Middle East Centre, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

A Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience are required. A Master’s degree, or higher, in addition to 3+ years of experience preferred. Information: https://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/postings/33509

 

 

 

8. Summer School: “Government and Politics of the Middle East” or “Culture and Society in the Middle East” and Arabic or Persian Language”, SOAS, London Middle East Institute, 18 June -19 July 2018

Students may choose to take any combination of the courses with or without Arabic or Persian. Deadline for application: 25 May 2018. Information: www.soas.ac.uk/lmei/summerschool/government-and-politics/

 

 

 

9. Chapter for Edited Book on “Islamophobia in Muslim Societies”

This interdisciplinary, edited book will cover various topics on history, culture, media, education, politics, international relations, etc., related to Islamophobia in Muslim majority societies.

Deadline for abstracts:  10 January 2018. Information: bayrakli@tau.edu.tr

 

 

 

10. Articles on “Iran`s Role in the Middle East: The Prospect of a Shia Crescent Emerging” for Special Issue of “Journal of Iranian Studies”

Deadline for articles: 1 March 2018. Information: m.zahid@arabiangcis.com

 

 

 

11. “Race and Medieval Studies: A Partial Bibliography”

A *freely downloadable* version of the “Race and Medieval Studies Bibliography,” crowdsourced online over the last 6+ months. It is now published in the latest issue of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies. The pdf is here: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Fs41280-017-0072-0.pdf . Springer has agreed to keep the bibliography permanently available outside of any paywall in recognition of its open-access, collaborative, and anti-racist origins. The bibliography also continues to be available for suggestions and additions here, and there are plans to migrate it at some point to a more stable web presence. In the meantime, this version in postmedieval will (we hope) be an aid to teaching and research.

Jonathan Hsy, Department of English, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.

and Julie Orlemanski, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

 

 

 

12. Typographia Linguarum Externarum – The Medici Oriental Press. Knowledge and Cultural Transfer around 1600

Workshop organized by Eckhard Leuschner (Universität Würzburg) and Gerhard Wolf (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut)

Florence, 11-12 January 2018

For details and the programme, see http://www.khi.fi.it/5756808/20180111

This workshop is organised within the framework of the project ‘Die Typographia Medicea im Kontext: Text und Bild als Medien des Kultur- und Wissenstransfers zwischen europäischen und orientalischen Kulturräumen um 1600’. It presents the research of the project team and scientific guests, concerning both the printed works of the publishing house and the records of its activities. These are set in the contexts of the publisher’s global networks and related processes of transfer in the broadest sense: the translation practices, which go hand in hand with the publication of multilingual editions, the medium specific exchanges (between manuscripts and printed books as well as between texts and images), and the physical transport of printed books to the ‘Orient’.
 

 

13. The 4th annual Islamic Archaeology Day co-hosted by SOAS and UCL will be held at the UCL Institute of Archaeology on Saturday February 3rd 2018 between 11 and 6pm.

For more information see: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/articles/2017-18-events/islamic-archaeology-day-2018

 

Shiʿi studies

The Leiden University Shiʿi Studies Initiative (LUSSI) is part of LUCIS.

 

1.Utrecht University : Assistant professor Islamic and Arabic Studies (1,0 FTE) Job description

This position is attached to the subject area Islamic and Arabic Studies within the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University. The subject area offers a dynamic, research-oriented environment with a strong commitment to excellence in teaching and curriculum development. Research and teaching in Islamic and Arabic Studies at Utrecht University is carried out in close collaboration with the subject area Religious Studies, as well as with other programs within the Faculty of Humanities and beyond.

This position includes both teaching (70%) and research (30%).

Start date: 1 June 2018

Deadline for application: 5 January 2018

For more information about this position, please contact Prof Christian Lange via c.r.lange@uu.nl.

 

 

2. The ‘Flower Garden’ (Phulban), an illustrated Dakhni romance, at the British Library

Today’s post is from guest contributor and regular visitor to Asian and African Collections, Sunil Sharma, Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature at Boston University.

http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2017/12/the-flower-garden-phulban-an-illustrated-dakhni-romance.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+asian-and-african+%28Asia+and+Africa%29

 

 

 

3. Mathal: The Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Multidisciplinary Studies is looking both for new submissions, and for Associate Editors to assist (unpaid) in editing the journal. Mathal is a double blind peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to scholarly discussion of topics present in the Islamic, Jewish, Persian, and Turkish thought, cultures, literature, and practices.

See: http://ir.uiowa.edu/mathal/

 

 

 

4. News from Exeter’s Understanding Shari’a project:

Islamic Law and Sexuality conference, 9th-11th January 2018

The programme for this conference is now on-line at:

http://www.usppip.eu/news/islamic-law-and-sexuality-conference-9th-10th-january-2018-university-of-exeter/

We are pleased to announce the opening keynote lecture for the conference:

Professor Kecia Ali (Boston University), “Sex, Enslavement, and Consent in Islamic Law: Approaches, Aims, and Audiences”

Tuesday 9th January 2018, 5.00pm

Lecture Theatre 1, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (University of Exeter).

Those coming from outside Exeter, if you are interested in attending, details can be found here:

http://store.exeter.ac.uk/conferences-events/college-of-social-sciences-and-international-studies/iais/islamic-law-and-sexuality-conference

Places are limited.  The “full package” includes 3 evening meals (3 course meals, including drinks) with the participants, conference attendance and all in-confernece meals and refreshments; “conference only” includes conference attendance, all in-conference meals and refreshments.

 USPPIP summer school, 8th-14th July 2018

USPPIP plans its first summer school for advanced doctoral candidates and early career researchers in Islamic Legal Studies.  Selected participants will be fully-funded (including travel to and from Exeter), and will participate in intensive sessions sharing research, preparing work for publication or submission as part of a doctoral thesis, and preparing translated texts on the theme of “Uses of the Past in Islamic Law”.  Details available https://tinyurl.com/y7mh7sac.  Closing date for applications is 28th February 2018.

 

“Maslaha, Siyasa and Good Governance: Sharia and Society” to be held at the University of Bergen, 19th-20th April 2018: Applications for the workshop are now closed.  The programme will be published in the New Year.