Archive for May, 2019

1.The University of Hamburg is hosting a summer course from August 14th to 18th for graduate students and researchers who work with manuscript materials in Arabic script and want to learn how to apply digital technology in their research. It includes both theoretical and practical sessions on digital encoding and editing of manuscript texts, data annotation, search and visualization.
There is no registration fee, but advanced registration is compulsory for the selection process as the number of participants is limited to twenty. The application deadline is the 24th of June, 2019.
For further details, please visit the website:
https://www.cobhuni.uni-hamburg.de/en/news-and-events/summerschool19.html or contact Alba Fedeli at alba.fedeli@uni-hamburg.de

 

 

 

 

2. Islam and Society: Challenges and Prospects. AAIMS Second Conference on the Study of Islam and Muslim Societies.

Hosted by the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University, in partnership with Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University.

30 September and 1 October 2019

Western Sydney University Parramatta South Campus, Female Orphan School

We are pleased to announce confirmation of our international keynote speaker, award winning scholar and activist Deepa Kumar from Rutgers University in the United States. She will be speaking on: Terrorcraft: The Making of the Racialized Terrorist Threat.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

The two leading nodes in Australian scholarship of race and ethnic studies are combining to offer the second Australian Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (AAIMS) Conference. After the successful inaugural conference, the second conference will further represent the depth and breadth of scholarship in Australia and internationally. It will showcase and reflect upon the range of Muslim experiences across many countries from multi-disciplinary perspectives. The conference will bring together scholars from such disciplines as law, politics, sociology, religious studies, geography, philosophy and theology. The conference will feature international and local keynotes who are leading scholars in their fields.

 

In addition to papers, we are calling for convenors and participants for conference panels on cutting edge topics that fit within the broad theme of the conference.

 

We strongly encourage Higher Degree by Research students to attend and the conference program will include networking, feedback and mentoring sessions. HDR students are eligible for a discounted fee.

 

Topics for presentation might include (but are not limited to) the following:

 

• Geopolitics of Islam
• Islam in an era of populism
• Countering Violent Extremism
• Islam and women
• Muslim organisations, politics and volunteering
• Islamophobic ideologies, manifestation, impact and response

 

• Refugees and Islamophobia
• Youth and Islam
• Islam in the spaces of education
• Law and religion
• Muslim popular cultures and new media
• Islam in Indonesia
• Converts, reverts and apostates

 

Application Process Abstracts (100-200 words) Brief bio (50-100 words)

 

Participants are expected to organise and financially cover their own travel and accommodation expenses. Advice will be later provided on registration options and suitable accommodation.

 

Please send abstracts to:

Mehrnosh Lajevardi Fatemi (M.lajevardifatemi@westernsydney.edu.au) by Friday 14 June, 2019

Queries can be directed to Professor Linda Briskman (l.briskman@westernsydney.edu.au) or Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh (shahram.akbarzadeh@deakin.edu.au).

 

 

 

 

3. Islamic Manuscript Traditions”: A talk by Sabine Schmidtke at the occasion of the spring meeting of the IAS Board of Trustees (May 2019). Please check out one of the following links:

YouTube link:  https://youtu.be/tYAr2jZQDsA
IAS Videos page link:  https://video.ias.edu/sabine/2019/0521-SabineSchmidtke

 

 

 

 

4. Associate Professorship in Arab and Islamic Studies, Department of the Study of Religion, Aarhus University

We are looking for scholars with a strong research profile in the modern or contemporary Arab or Islamic world, and with a research record that includes research focusing on some aspect of Shia Islam in the Arab world. Research related to globalisation, transnationalism or transregionalism which includes aspects of Islam would also be an advantage.

Deadline for applications: 13 June 2019. Contact: Marianne Birn (mbb@cas.au.dk)

 

 

 

 

5. Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Ottoman History, University of California, Los Angeles

This position at the rank of assistant professor in 16^th through mid-19^th century Ottoman history will begin on 1 July 2020. All candidates should have completed their PhD in history no later than 30 June 2020.

Deadline for applications: 15 October 2019. Information: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF04522

 

 

 

 

6. Short-Term Research Grants, Center for Islam in the Contemporary World, Shenandoah University

Applications are invited for short-term research grants for Summer and Fall 2020. Maximum amount for short-term research grant is $2,500 for faculty/post-doctoral applicants and $2,000 for graduate students. These grants are meant to support research and writing by individual scholars and advanced graduate students in the US and Canada. Grants could include funding for travel, research support, publication and dissemination of results.

Deadline for applications: 31 December 2019. Information: https://www.contemporaryislam.org/research-grants.html

 

 

 

 

7. Grant for Academic Study Related to Yemen, British-Yemeni Society

Applications for this £500 grant are invited from anyone carrying out research in, or on Yemen, at a British or Yemeni University. Applicants’ nationality is irrelevant. Applications may be made to assist with study in any subject or field, so long as it is concerned with Yemen, and is for a specific qualification (e.g. BA, MA, PhD etc.).

Deadline for applications: 31 May 2019. Information: http://b-ys.org.uk/activities/bys-academic-grant

 

 

 

8. The Editorial board of the Journal of “Journal of Iranian Islamic Period History” would like to invite lecturers and academics to submit their articles in English for the future winter issue. All submitted articles should be original and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Articles can be sent anytime via: https://tuhistory.tabrizu.ac.ir/contacts?_action=loginForm

Any inquiries, please contact Dr Alireza Karimi, Editor in Chief. ali_karimi@tabrizu.ac.ir​,  alireza.karimi.46@gmail.com

 

 

9. The University of Religions and Denominations (Qom, Iran), as the sole specialized university of interreligious dialogue in Iran, has been active for more than two decades with the goal of creating tolerance, peaceful coexistence and mutual understanding and dialogue among the followers of all religions, in cooperation with several institutions and universities across the world.

The International Department of the university has a successful history of organizing academic conferences and short courses in which many professors and students have participated from all around the world.(For more information regarding the university please visit the following site: www.urd.ac.ir/en)

The International Intensive Courses of the department organizes academic programs twice a year, in summer and winter.

Having all mentioned above, hereby we are proud to invite you to attend the following courses for summer 2019 (and winter 2020: at the end of the paper):

2019 Summer  Courses
The 1st International Intensive Course Introducing Moderate Islam and Takfiri Islam	12-16 August 2019
Cultural Tour	17-20 August 2019
The 9th International Intensive Course on Shi’a Studies: the Status of Seminary and Clergymen in Shi’ite Thought	21-25 August 2019
The 2nd International Intensive Course on Women’s Studies in Islam and Iran	21-25 August 2019

 

For further information and how to apply:

Send your personal photo, passport copy, resume and the application form to us through:

Email:  shortcoursesurd@gmail.com

What’s App or Telegram:  +98 919 351 70 50 

 

 

 

Saudi religious moderation: How real is it?

Meet Mohammed bin Abdul-Karim Al-Issa, the public face of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman’s version of moderate Islam. Mr. Al-Issa’s moves also serve to strengthen ties with US President Donald J. Trump’s Evangelist voter base and shape an environment that legitimizes Saudi Arabia’s close cooperation with Israel.

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A Safavid Bureaucrat in the Ottoman World: Mirza Makhdum Sharifi Shirazi and the Quest for Upward Mobility in the İlmiye Hierarchy

This present article examines Mirza Makhdum Sharifi Shirazi’s (1540-87) life and career in the Ottoman Empire. Mirza Makhdum was a high-ranking Twelver Shiite bureaucrat in Safavid Iran, but after taking refuge with the Ottomans, he converted to Sunnism and started a new career as a judge in Diyarbakir, Bilad al-Sham, Baghdad, and the holy cities of the Hijaz.

5 UN Experts Call on Bahrain to Halt Executions of Two Individuals Amid Torture Allegations

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The War Between the Turks and the Persians

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1.3rd Annual Edinburgh International Graduate Conference in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies

Historical discourse has long concerned itself with patterns of change and discontinuity to demonstrate and validate models of periodisation and the compartmentalisation of the wider historical field. Building on these themes, this conference has chosen to focus on the opposing view by concentrating on inertia – how history, material culture, ideas and communities can be seen to maintain a stayed course or deviate if a significant force is exerted upon it. Inertia, a concept that has yet to be applied to mainstream Late Antique studies, introduces perspectives and frameworks that permit new approaches to traditional processes.

This conference will be hosted by the Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Society of the University of Edinburgh on the 22-23 November 2019 and will tackle the notion of inertia and the implications accompanying it for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine history from 500-1500 CE. Confirmed  speakers include: Prof. Dame Averil Cameron (Oxford), Dr. Yannis Stouraitis (Edinburgh), Dr. Lucy Grig (Edinburgh) Prof. Eberhard Sauer (Edinburgh) and Dr. Paul Reynolds (Barcelona).

The organising committe particularly encourages contributions on the following topics:

• Dynastic and Political Changes: Patterns of continuity across ruling classes, court-life and dynastic succession.
• A View from Below – Story of the Common Masses: The role of perceived ‘minority’ groups (religious, ethnic or cultural) that constituted the numerical majority of the population but are ignored or omitted in sources written for/by the dominant group.
• Patterns of Trade and Economic Infrastructure: ‘domestic or foreign’.
• Forms of Expression and Transmission: Listening through language, art and ideas.
• Frontiers (and beyond): Military, diplomatic or cultural interactions across linguistic and political delimitations.

Also, papers from postgraduate students and early career researchers from all disciplines (Archaeology, Art History, History, Theology etc.) which take advantage of interdisciplinary source-critical approaches are strongly encouraged.

Poster presentations

There will be a special poster session held during the conference of 1 hour, which will take place on Saturday afternoon, allowing for discussion with the authors. The posters will be left up for the duration of the conference so they can also be visited during the breaks and during the reception.

The committee strongly encourage submissions from undergraduate as well as graduate students. The poster size cannot exceed 70cm (width) x 100cm (height)

Deadlines

Deadline for abstracts is 3 June and notification of acceptance will be confirmed by mid-June. Please submit your abstract of no more than 300 words, and a 100-word professional biography to edibyzpg@ed.ac.uk. Please indicate on your abstract if you are submitting for poster or paper, and submissions from individuals or groups are welcome. There will be a small registration fee of £15 and lunch will be provided on both days. The committee aims to publish a selection of the papers in a peer-reviewed volume that will bring together the strongest contributions in each area to produce an edited volume of high-quality, deep coherence and rich variety.

The organising committee: P Harrison, A Nayfa, S Nwokoro, L Pecorini Goodall and A Stockhammer.

 

 

 

 

2. The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art
8th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art

November 10-11, 2019 in Doha, Qatar

Conference registration is now open at www.islamicartdoha.org.

From medieval trade routes to the contemporary migrant crisis, the seas have served as both connective tissues and barriers between intellectual, political, and artistic traditions. Nowhere, perhaps, is this dual role more evident than within the visual cultures of the Islamic world. Stretching from centers around the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, to the coasts of Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and with tendrils extending across the Pacific and Atlantic, these ethnically, linguistically, and socially variegated traditions were both united and divided by the seas and those who crossed them.

 

Inspired by Qatar’s distinctive location as part of international trade routes linking the Central Islamic lands, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean, the eighth biennial Hamad Bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art, to be held in Doha November 10-11, 2019, will foster a lively, engaged, and critical discussion touching upon some of the most vital questions raised by these vibrant and rich interchanges of the arts. How did exposure to imported materials and ideas transform formerly local artistic traditions? What role did travel, diplomacy, and gift-giving play in crafting seemingly discrete forms and practices? How are the movements of people, shifting markets for labor, and the uneven distribution skills and techniques, bound up with the formation and metamorphosis of styles? How did the shipment of commodities and curiosities from distant places shape and change social, cultural, and religious institutions? What role do the objects created from such interactions have in enhancing cultural understanding or generating enmity and mistrust? And how has the ever-increasing pace of globalization effected such developments?

 

Panels will explore these themes, with an eye to interconnectivity across geographic boundaries both within the world of Islam and beyond, embracing the full span of their visual and material cultures.  For more information, write to Marisa Brown at mabrown@vcu.edu.

 

Conference Co-chairs

Radha Dalal, Assistant Director of Art History and Assistant Professor of Islamic Art, VCUarts Qatar

Sean Roberts, Interim Director of Art History and Associate Professor of Pre-Modern Mediterranean Art, VCUarts Qatar

Jochen Sokoly, Associate Professor of Islamic Art, VCUarts Qatar

 

 

 

 

3. Conference: “The Near Eastern Saddle Period: The Formation of Modern Concepts in Arabic, Turkish, and Persian”, University of Bern, 12-14 June 2019

Deadline for registration: 31 May 2019. Information & program: http://www.islamwissenschaft.unibe.ch/unibe/portal/fak_historisch/dkk/islamwissenschaft/content/e101652/e784868/e800167/TheNearEasternSaddlePeriod_Programme_ger.pdf

 

 

 

 

4. “Congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans”, SEMOMM, IISMM, GIS MoMM, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, 3-5 July 2019

Les thèmes proposés peuvent relever d’un ou plusieurs domaines des sciences humaines et sociales (anthropologie, archéologie et histoire de l’art, droit, économie, géographie, histoire, islamologie et sciences religieuses, linguistique, littérature, philosophie, sociologie, science politique), dans une perspective globale ou régionale (Maghreb, Proche-Orient, Turquie, Iran, Asie Centrale, Islams en Asie, Afrique, Europe et Amérique), historique et/ou centrée sur le contemporain.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2019. Information: https://www.semomm.fr/congres-gis-moyen-orient-mondes-musulmans-2019-appel-a-contributions/

 

 

 

 

5. Workshop: “Islamic Perspectives on Organ Donation after Death”, University of Bedfordshire, 3-4 October 2019

The workshop welcomes and encourages proposals for papers dealing with issues pertaining to organ donation, including but not limited to: the perceptions and opinions of Muslims regarding organ donation; the determination of death in Islam and its implications for both heart-beating donation and donation after controlled and uncontrolled cardiac death; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 26 July 2019.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/4114264/cfp-%E2%80%9Cislamic-perspectives-organ-donation-after-death%E2%80%9D

 

 

 

 

6. 10^th Annual Conference “Diversities of the Arab World”, during the Arab Week in Mexico, Mexico City, 19-25 November 2019

We encourage submissions on research projects focusing on the Middle East and North of Africa from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, in English or in Spanish. The overarching conference theme will be Gender and Sexuality, though submissions on other topics are also welcome.

Deadline for abstracts: 14 July 2019. Information: https://www.cide.edu/semanaarabe/en/

Link for submitting abstracts: https://www.cide.edu/semanaarabe/en/registro/

 

 

 

 

7. Lecturer in Arabic Language, University of Bayreuth, Germany

75%-position commencing on 15 October 2019. Candidate profile: native or near-native proficiency in Arabic; knowledge of German or English/French; A. degree or higher in Arabic language and/or linguistics; specialization or certificates in TAFL (Teaching Arabic as a Second Language) are especially welcome; university-level teaching experience.

Deadline for applications: 15 June 2019. Information: https://www.uni-bayreuth.de/de/universitaet/arbeiten-an-der-universitaet/stellenangebote/nicht-wissenschaftliches-personal/SZ-1undengl_/index.html

 

 

 

 

8. Lecteur de langue arabe à l’Université de Lorraine, Nancy

L’arabe doit être la langue maternelle du candidat ou une langue qu’il pratique à l’égal de sa langue maternelle. Les candidats aux fonctions de lecteur de langue étrangère doivent justifier d’une année d’études accomplie avec succès après l’obtention d’un titre ou d’un diplôme français ou étranger d’un niveau équivalent à celui du diplôme national de licence (Bac+4).

Dossier de candidature à envoyer avant le 15 juin 2019 par mail à laurence.denooz@univ-lorraine.fr

 

 

 

 

9. Enseignant contractuel de langue arabe à l’Université de Lorraine, Nancy

Le candidat sera détenteur de préférence d’un doctorat français d’études arabes (civilisation, littérature, linguistique ou langue) ou au moins d’un niveau master. Il devra faire la preuve de sa maîtrise de la langue arabe et de la langue française.

Dossier de candidature à envoyer avant le 15 juin 2019 par mail à laurence.denooz@univ-lorraine.fr

 

 

 

 

10. 1st Annual Muslim Minorities and Human Rights Conference

This conference aims to encourage academic and quality research on Muslim minorities’ issues, and trying to provide academic and practical solutions to the problems and challenges of social, political, educational aspects that are faced by Muslim minorities in Britain. Aiming also to create a forum of dialogue on related issues for researchers and stakeholders.

Centre for Arab Progress – London is pleased to invite researchers and academics to participate in the 1st Annual Conference, to be held on (5th September 2019), entitled: “Islam, Muslims in Britain: radicalisation, deradicalisation, islamophobia and human rights”.

The conference aims to become an important academic and research platform in the UK on Islam and Muslim minorities and related matters. In addition, the papers that are accepted and presented in the conference will be published as hard copy and in electronic format.

For further information on the conference please visit the conference website on the following link: http://mmhrc.co.uk/

 

The East India Company’s Farmān, 1622‒1747

The East India Company’s presence and ongoing trade in Persia was reliant on the privileges outlined in the Farmān, granted after the capture of Hormuz in 1622. The relationship between these two powers was cemented in the rights enshrined in the Farmān, which was used by both to regulate their varying needs and expectations over the course of 125 years.

17th Annual UMAA Conference

UMAA2019 will take place at Tysons Corner Sheraton in Tysons, Virginia from July 5th-July 8th. Room Information Rooms can be booked directly with the Tyson’s Sheraton at (703) 448-1234 under the UMAA room block. $99/night including Breakfast Saturday and Sunday morning.

 

 

1. Arabeya Arabic Language Center in Cairo, Egypt still has  spots open in  for the  upcoming Summer Intensive Arabic Program.   We offer customized, intensive Arabic classes taught by native-speakers, and provide students with accommodation, excursions and cultural immersion. We are looking for professor recommendations for students who are passionate about studying Arabic and are interested in immersing themselves in Egyptian culture for the summer. Check out more information about our program: Summer intensive program.

For more information please contact us directly at info@arabeya.org

 

 

 

 

2. The DH Training Workshop: Digital Methods for Linguistic Investigation will take place November 13-15, 2019 at Freie Universität Berlin.  

The event is organized by Simona Olivieri, Humboldt Research Fellow at Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik, Freie Universität Berlin, with the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

 

The workshop will bring together 20 trainees together with experts to share experiences, methods and techniques for the creation, management and use of linguistic data.

Our aim is to present a sketch of different methodologies for the digital treatment of languages and linguistic information, and to give an overall view of the benefits of applying digital methods to investigate humanities research questions.

 

Ideal trainees will be students, PhD students and postdocs from linguistic disciplines interested in digital treatment of languages, e-lexicography and creation of digital resources.

The training will focus on standards-compliant representations of texts in digital form, and sessions will be organized in hands-on slots on data modeling and managing.

 

Main instructors will be Laurent Romary (Directeur de Recherche, Inria, Team ALMAnaCH, France), Toma Tasovac, (Director of the Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities (BCDH)/Director of DARIAH-EU), and Giuliano Lancioni (Roma Tre University).

The workshop will also feature public lectures to present Digital Humanities projects on Arabic and Syriac. Keynote lectures will be given by Simona Olivieri (FU Berlin) and Giuliano Lancioni (Roma Tre University), Karlheinz Mörth (Director of the Austrian Center for Digital Humanities – Austrian Academy of Sciences), and George Kiraz (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton / Beth Mardutho).

 

Applicants should submit their bio and a short proposal presenting their background and interest in the field. The description of a concrete project involving linguistic data that they would like to work on during the training sessions will also be considered in the selection. All documents should be sent as a single PDF-file attachment labelled as “Last Name_DHWorkshopFU.pdf” to Dr. Simona Olivieri simona.olivieri@fu-berlin.de by July 15, 2019.

Attendees will be required to bring their laptops and sample data to the training sessions, so to be able to work on the application of the methodologies presented by the instructors.

Participation is free of charge.

 

Important dates:

May 15, 2019     First call for participation

June 24, 2019    Second call for participation

July 15, 2019     Deadline call for participation

July 28, 2019     Notification of acceptance

November 13-15, 2019 Workshop dates

Further inquiries can be sent to simona.olivieri@fu-berlin.de

Read more at FUB website

 

 

 

 

3. Call for Abstracts

Initiative on Islam and Medicine’s Islamic Bioethics Symposium October 18-20, 2019
&
Fifth Islam and Bioethics International Conference

University of Chicago, USA October 21, 2019

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

The Initiative on Islam and Medicine’s Islamic Bioethics Symposium set to take place in conjunction with the fifth Islam and Bioethics International Conference (following Haifa University 2001, Penn State University 2006, Ankara Turkey 2010, and Coimbra Portugal 2015) will take place on October 21, 2019 at the University of Chicago. This one-day symposium will focus on the normative and ethical dimensions of mental, reproductive and sexual health. Organized and chaired by Prof. Aasim Padela MD MSc this symposium dovetails with a landmark three-day conference focused on Muslim health disparities, “Advancing Muslim American Health Priorities [A-MAP].”

 

Scholars of various disciplines (medicine, Islamic studies, natural sciences, law, history, sociology, philosophy, etc.) are invited to participate in both the Islamic Bioethics Symposium and A-MAP. The symposium language is English.

 

Suggested Islamic Bioethics Abstract Topics

 

Normative issues related to Muslim Mental, Reproductive and Sexual Health, as well as papers on the field of bioethics in general.

 

Abstract submission deadline is June 15^th, 2019.

To submit your abstract, please use the link below and follow the instructions:

http://voices.uchicago.edu/islamandmedicine/amap/

 

Notification of acceptance: on or around June 30^th, 2019.

 

Registration fees:

 

– Full participation (A-MAP and Islamic Bioethics Symposium – October 18-21, 2019)

Physicians	Other Professionals	Trainees and Students
$400	$275	$200

 

– One day participation (1-day A-MAP or Islamic Bioethics Symposium)

Physicians	Other Professionals	Trainees and Students
$150	$100	$75

 

 

The registration fee includes:

1. Conference booklet and name badge
2. Access to all sessions
3. Daily Lunch
4. Daily Coffee breaks
5. A token of appreciation

 

Preferred Hotel:

 

La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham Chicago – Lake Shore
4900A S Lake Shore Dr

Chicago, IL 60615

 

Rate is $160 per night when you mention “University of Chicago Guest” at booking

 

Other nearby hotels can be found at: http://voices.uchicago.edu/islamandmedicine/amap/

 

For additional information please consult:

 

Stephen Hall – Initiative on Islam and Medicine

shall5@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu

 

Prof. Vardit Rispler-Chaim, Co-organizer of the 5^th Islam and Bioethics International Conference, vrispler@univ.haifa.ac.il

 

 

 

5. “vHMML offers resources and tools for the study of manuscripts and currently features manuscript cultures from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. The site houses high-resolution images of manuscripts, many of them digitized as part of HMML’s global mission to preserve and share important, endangered, and inaccessible manuscript collections through digital photography, archiving, and cataloging. It also contains descriptions of manuscripts from HMML’s legacy microfilm collection, with scans of some of these films…

Virtual HMML [vHMML] Reading Room, the digital library of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, has thousands of Islamic manuscript records, with 400,000 West African Islamic manuscript images and metadata coming from Timbuktu, Mali in the coming years.

The vHMML platform also includes a component called School, a resource for teaching Arabic paleography from the 9th to 20th centuries, using Christian Arabic manuscripts from Sinai and HMML’s collections.

See: https://www.vhmmlschool.org/arabic

 

 

 

5. British Library: Digital Access to Persian Manuscripts

(Click here (https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/persian.html#fragment_name) to go straight to a list of all manuscripts digitised so far)

From the pocket miscellany (Add.MS.27261), with its exquisite miniature illuminations, compiled in 1410-11 for Timur’s grandson Sultan Jalal al-Din Iskandar, ruler of Fars, to unique historical documents and literary manuscripts, the Persian Manuscripts collection at the British Library is one of the most significant collections in the world in both size and importance. Consisting of over 11,000 works in almost as many volumes, it combines the two world-class collections of the British Museum and the India Office Library. These manuscripts originate from the whole of the Persianate world, in particular Iran, Central Asia and India and range in time from the 12th century to recent years, representing most of the traditional fields of humanities and religious studies. Many of the Persian manuscripts are copies of rare texts, with examples of some of the finest illustrated Mughal, Timurid and Safavid paintings.

 

 

 

6. ‘Beyond ‘Sectarianism’? Towards an Alternative Understanding of Identity Politics and Communal Antagonism’.

24-25 October 2019

Woolf Institute, University of Cambridge

Enquiries to Dr Emanuelle Degli Esposti: ed530@cam.ac.uk

The University of Cambridge invites applications for a two-day interdisciplinary workshop to be held at the Woolf Institute as part of the British Academy-funded project “Beyond ‘Sectarianism?’”. Despite its prevalence in the academy and the public sphere, the term “sectarianism”, with its problematic normative and empirical assumptions, cannot do justice to the nuances and intricacies of individual and collective forms of subjectivity and belonging in the contemporary global age.

This two-day workshop on 24,25th October will bring together scholars working on issues of individual and group identity in order to work towards building a common conceptual and theoretical tool kit for the study of intra-communal antagonism.

Papers are welcomed from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including those that focus on the conceptual, epistemological, ontological, and ethical implications of the term “sectarianism”. For more information and see the attachment or access from  here.

Please submit abstracts of up to 350 words, plus a short bio (max 150 words) detailing author name, institutional affiliation, and contact information, to Dr Emanuelle Degli Esposti at the Centre of Islamic Studies (mailto:ed530@cam.ac.uk) by 30 June 2019.

 

Dr. Hossein Kamaly to Fill Imam Ali Chair for Shi’i Studies | Hartford Seminary

President Joel N. Lohr and Hartford Seminary are pleased to announce that, as of July 1, Dr. Hossein Kamaly will hold the Imam Ali Chair for Shi’i Studies and Dialogue among Islamic Legal Schools. He will also be Associate Professor of Islamic Studies.