1.Arabian Gulf Digital Archive
(collaboration between the UK National Archives and United Arab Emirates)
https://www.agda.ae/en/
“The Arabian Gulf Digital Archive (“AGDA”) is an online archive that has been created to showcase historical and cultural material that tells the story of the rich, intriguing and complex history of the Arabian Gulf.

An accessible resource, it serves to offer digital material that spans two centuries, documenting events and personalities that have shaped and defined the region. The contents offer an insight into the past with some material previously unseen by the general public.

AGDA contains, among other things, letters, memos, transcripts, photos and official correspondence from leaders and governments that shaped the events of their time. It’s a free and open resource for students, researchers, enthusiasts and anyone who is curious to explore the rich and varied past of the Arabian Gulf.”

2. Manuscripts of the Muslim World project made recently available digital copies of 208 manuscripts. The goal of the project is to provide digital
editions of more than 500 manuscripts and 827 paintings from the
Islamicate world broadly construed. Together these holdings will
represent in great breadth the flourishing intellectual and cultural
heritage of Muslim lands from 1000 to 1900, covering mathematics,
astrology, history, law, literature, as well as the Qur’an and Hadith.
The bulk of the collection consists of manuscripts in Arabic and
Persian, along with examples of Coptic, Samaritan, Syriac, Turkish, and
Berber.
The primary partners are Columbia University, the Free Library of
Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsylvania with significant
contributions from Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College.
This project is funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources.

The collection is available here:
http://openn.library.upenn.edu/html/muslimworld_contents.html
These 208 online manuscripts come from the following institutions:
37 manuscripts from the Free Library of Philadelphia
45 manuscripts from the University of Pennsylvania
127 manuscripts from Columbia University
1 manuscript from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

New content is added regularly so please check the site often.
Eventually the manuscripts housed there will also be available in more
public-friendly page-turning format but the OPenn raw files will remain
the canonical source. In addition, the local library catalogs at
Columbia, the FLP, and Penn will contain links to the digitized
facsimiles as well as to other manifestations differing by institution
(Columbia for instance will link to Internet Archive e-book versions).
Please do let us know about any interesting finds in the digitized corpus.
Kelly Tuttle, the cataloger for the project has recently begun tweeting
images from the project at https://twitter.com/MmwProject

3. “Dear Iranian Studies and Iranian Diaspora Studies Scholars,

The proposal submission website will open on May 15. As you draft your proposals and organize your panels, you can also take two additional steps today:

1) Register for the conference:https://associationforiranianstudies.org/conferences/2020/registration.

2) Review submission guidelines: https://associationforiranianstudies.org/conferences/2020/submission-guidelines

If your membership needs to be updated, you can take care of that too: https://associationforiranianstudies.org/membership.

We are looking forward to your participation in AIS 2020 at the University of Salamanca in Spain. For more information on the conference :https://associationforiranianstudies.org/conferences/2020 ”

4. Workshop on the History of Arabic Logic

May 7 – May 8

St Andrews, UK

Further info and the programme may be accessed at:

https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/workshop-on-the-history-of-arabic-logic/

5. 1st Islamic Perspectives on Ethical Issues Workshop.

The first workshop in the series is entitled: “Islamic Perspectives on Organ Donation after Death”

3^rd – 4^th October 2019

Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham, UK.

Proposals for a single presenter should include the following:

Contact information and a brief bio of presenter(s),
Tentative title(s),
Abstract(s) (300- 500 word).

The deadline for submission of proposals is 26^th July 2019. Successful applicants will be notified by 2^nd August 2019.

The workshop will be hosted at Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham. Accepted applicants from within the E.U. will be supported for their travel and hospitality during the workshop, with a further limited number of travel bursaries available for those applying from outside the E.U.

Further info at: https://www.almahdi.edu/call-for-papers-islamic-perspectives-on-organ-donation-after-death/

6. Islamic Manuscript Association’s Introduction to Islamic Codicology course on 23–27 September 2019 at Cambridge University Library, Cambridge.

This intensive five-day course will introduce the study of Islamic manuscript codices as physical objects, or the archaeology of the Islamic book. The lectures will provide an overview of writing supports, the structure of quires, ruling and page layout, bookbinding, ornamentation, tools and materials used in book making, the palaeography of book hands, and writing Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) manuscript descriptions. During hands-on sessions, participants will examine Islamic manuscripts from Cambridge University Library’s collections and complete a series of practical exercises on codicological description.

If you are interested then please contact the Association or apply via their website: http://www.islamicmanuscript.org/courses/introduction-to-islamic-codicology,-cambridge,-2018/course-fees-and-registration.aspx

7. L’inscription du troisième Congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans est désormais ouverte et le restera jusqu’au 1er juin 2019.

Le Congrès se tiendra les 3, 4, 5 juillet 2019 à l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, centre Panthéon.

L’inscription est obligatoire et sachez qu’il ne sera pas possible de vous inscrire au moment du Congrès.

La liste des ateliers est disponible à cette adresse, rubrique “Ateliers” https://congres-gismomm.sciencesconf.org/

L’inscription au Congrès se fera sur le site https://congres-gismomm.sciencesconf.org/register , rubrique “inscription”.

Pour ceux qui disposent déjà d’un compte sur HAL, les identifiants et mots de passe sont les mêmes que ceux de HAL. Les autres doivent se créer un identifiant et un mot de passe.
Le formulaire d’inscription est pré-rempli avec le nom et le prénom, il vous suffit de compléter le laboratoire et l’établissement d’appartenance, puis de cliquer sur le montant de votre inscription (rubrique “Participant”) :
– chercheurs non-membres de la SEMOMM : 30 euros

– doctorants non-membres de la SEMOMM : 10 euros

– adhérents de la SEMOMM (Société des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans) à jour de leur cotisation : https://www.semomm.fr/adherer/ Exonération des frais d’inscription
NB: les étudiants (en licence et master) qui souhaiteraient assister à un atelier pourront le faire, avec inscription obligatoire sur place.

Nous vous rappelons que le transport ne pourra pas être pris en charge, en revanche, un déjeuner (sandwichs et salades) vous sera proposé les 3 et 4 juillet (dans la limite des stocks disponibles) et un buffet sera organisé le 5 juillet.

Les pauses café et le cocktail inaugural sont compris dans l’inscription.

La participation sera libre pour le concert du jeudi 4 juillet, les fonds récoltés seront reversés à des associations humanitaires.

Nous vous remercions très vivement pour votre participation et votre collaboration, en souhaitant à tous un excellent congrès.
—
Cyrielle Michineau
Secrétaire générale du GIS Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans
email : cyrielle.michineau@ehess.fr

contact.gis@ehess.fr / direction.gis@ehess.fr

http://majlis-remomm.fr/
English version : http://majlis-remomm.fr/en/

https://www.facebook.com/GISMoyenOrient

https://soundcloud.com/iismm

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May 11, 2019
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Shii News – ‘Shiʿism between Pakistan and the Middle East’ – S W Fuchs

In a Pure Muslim Land | Simon Wolfgang Fuchs | University of North Carolina Press

“Challenges common assumptions about Shi’i Muslims, focusing less on Iran and more on Pakistan…Those who wade into the depth of Fuchs’s impeccable scholarship will find a nuanced picture of the debate in Pakistan about the ideal Muslim state in the modern world.”– Publishers Weekly “Exciting, stimulating, and convincing, this richly conceived study of the Shi’a in the Indian subcontinent raises crucial points about transnational links, religious authority, and doctrinal positioning.

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May 09, 2019
by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items

1.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.

Qualifications:

The successful candidate will be a native or near-native speaker of Arabic and hold an MA in teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) or a related field. Experience teaching for the Arabic Flagship Program is preferred. Applicants should have at least three years’ university teaching experience and experience teaching in an intensive program integrating the teaching of both standard and spoken Arabic. The successful candidate should have experience in coordinating multiple sections of a course.

Application Instructions:

Applicants should submit a letter of application indicating interest in the position, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, formal student evaluations, and statement of teaching philosophy.

More info: https://careers.insidehighered.com/job/1771395/2019-20-lecturer-of-arabic/

Close Date:
May 23, 2019

2. The Persian Heritage Foundation (New York) and SOAS are pleased to invite you to four lectures on Artists, Paintings and their Publics: Safavid Albums in the Seventeenth Century by Dr Massumeh Farhad, Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Instituton, Washington, D.C.

Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS University of London
Russell Square WC1H 0XG

Admission Free – All Welcome

16, 17, 20 and 21 May

Lecture programme available here

3. Two PhD positions at the University of Bologna (Department of Philosophy and Communication studies), fully funded for 3 years in the framework of the ERC project: “Alchemy in the Making: From ancient Babylonia via Graeco-Roman Egypt into the Byzantine, Syriac and Arabic traditions (1500 BCE -1000 AD)”, Acronym: AlchemEast.

For a full description of the ERC project, please visit www.alchemeast.eu

Applicants are expected to submit a research project (max. 20.000 characters with spaces) on any aspect of the ancient alchemical tradition. The submitted project can either focus on a selection of primary sources (depending on the period of interest, Greek, Syriac or Arabic alchemical texts) or propose a broader and more transversal investigation of issues related to ancient alchemical science and its relationship with adjacent areas, such as natural philosophy and medicine.

The posts will be based in Bologna. Deadline for applications: May 15th, 2019

For further information, please feel free to contact: matteo.martelli@unibo.it

Applications can be submitted only via the on-line system at the links

(Eng) https://www.unibo.it/en/teaching/phd/2019-2020/philosophy-science-cognition-and-semiotics-pscs

(Ita) https://www.unibo.it/it/didattica/dottorati/2019-2020/philosophy-science-cognition-and-semiotics-pscs-1

The two positions are part of the PhD programme: “Philosophy, Science, Cognition and Semiotics”. For a complete description of the programme and the required documents to be uploaded, please look at the PHD PROGRAMME TABLE available in the application webpage.

4. Six Postdoctoral and One PhD Positions, Project: “Thinking through Translocal Entanglements: Perspectives from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East” (2020-2024) at the Leibnitz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin

Specialists from History, Islam Studies, Anthropology Political Science, Sociology, Cultural Geography, and Economic History / Economic Anthropology are encouraged to apply.

Deadline for applications: 2 June 2019. Information: http://www.zmo.de/Ausschreibungen/Ausschreibung_ResearchProgramme2020_postdoc_phd.pdf

5. Two Two-Year Postdoctoral Fellowships for the Project „Refugees and the Arab Middle East: Protection in States Not Party to the Refugee Convention (REF-ARAB)“, University of Oslo, Norway

Requirements: PhD or equivalent academic qualification with a specialization in the Middle East, refugee studies, legal history, sociology of law, sociolegal studies, legal anthropology and/or a related discipline; fluent oral and written communication skills in English; knowledge of Arabic is strongly desirable. Experience from the Middle East and/or refugee studies is desirable.

Deadline for applications: 24 May 2019. Information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/168961/1-2-post-doctoral-research-fellowships

6. Senior Lecturer in Islamic Economic and Finance, Al-Maktoum College, Dundee, Scotland

The successful applicant will have proven research and teaching expertise and be able to contribute to teaching in any relevant areas, including to Islamic Moral Economy and Finance, Islamic Capital Markets, Islamic Commercial Law and Financial Transactions, Applied Islamic Banking and Insurance, etc. Fluency in English is essential and the knowledge of one or more languages of Islam, preferably Arabic, is desirable for the post.

Deadline for applications: 13 May 2019.

Information: https://d1ssu070pg2v9i.cloudfront.net/pex/almcollege/2019/04/10154932/SL-R_Islamic-Finance_May-2019_Further-Particulars.pdf

7. Lecturer in Islamic Economic and Finance, Al-Maktoum College, Dundee, Scotland

The successful applicant will be able to contribute to teaching in any relevant areas, including but not restricted to Moral Economy and Finance, Capital Markets, Commercial Law and Financial Transactions, Applied Banking and Insurance, Accounting and Auditing, and Risk Management in Banking and Finance. Fluency in English is essential and the knowledge of one or more languages of Islam, preferably Arabic, is desirable for the post.

Deadline for applications: 13 May 2019. Information: https://d1ssu070pg2v9i.cloudfront.net/pex/almcollege/2019/04/10155042/Lecturer-Islamic-Finance_May-2019_Further-Particular.pdf

8. 15 Early Stage Researcher Positions in the Marie Skłodowska Curie Action, Innovative Training Network MIDA: “Mediating Islam in the Digital Age”, IISMM, Paris

The project is to train 15 creative, entrepreneurial, and innovative researchers in social and human sciences through an interdisciplinary research programme, whose main objectives are to understand the tremendous influence that digitisation and technological innovations have on Islam. The location is depending on which project the candidate applies for.

Deadline for applications: 1 June 2019. Information: https://www.itn-mida.org/callforposition

9. Assistant Professor or Associate Professor for the History of the Ottoman Empire, University of Virginia

This is a one-year salaried part-time appointment (renewable for up to one additional year), starting 25 August 2019, through 24 May 2021.

The position will remain open until filled. Information: Karen Parshall (khp3k@virginia.edu)

10. Postdoctoral Fellowships (1-2 Years) and Visiting Scholarship (One Month – 2 Semesters) in Modern Turkish and Middle East Studies, Center for Global Governance, Shanghai University, 2019-20

Deadline for application: 26 May 2019. For information and application contact Prof. Tugrul Keskin (tugrulkeskin@t.shu.edu.cn)

11. Middle East and North Africa Mobility Grants for Young Researchers

The aim of this call for projects is to fund research stays between Switzerland and the following countries: Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates.

Deadline for applications: End of December 2019.

Information: http://cefas.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article672&lang=fr

12. Applications for Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, 2019

Deadline for Submissions is August 15, 2019.

The Foundation for Iranian Studies invites applications for its annual award of $1000 for the best Ph.D. dissertation in a field of Iranian Studies. Students completing their dissertations between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019 are eligible to apply for the 2019 award.

Dissertations must be nominated by the author’s advisor and be accompanied by the Dissertation Committee’s letter of acceptance. Both documents may be emailed provided they contain appropriate official insignias and signatures.

Applicants for the 2019 award should submit a digital copy of the dissertation, either mailed on disc to

Secretary

Foundation for Iranian Studies

Bethesda, MD 20814 USA

Or emailed to

fis@fis-iran.org or

gafkhami@fis-iran.org

For further information about the award, selection criteria, and previous winners consult the Foundation for Iranian Studies Website at www.fis-iran.org, Programs, Dissertation Awards. Inquiries should be emailed to fis@fis-iran.org.

Gholam Reza Afkhami

Chair

Dissertation Award Committee

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May 08, 2019
by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – ‘A Chronicle of the Early Safavids’ – K Ghereghlou

A Chronicle of the Early Safavids and the Reign of Shah Ismāʿīl (907-930/1501-1524) Edited by Kioumars Ghereghlou

In this volume, Kioumars Ghereghlou presents an edition, with preface and indexes, of a previously unpublished sixteenth-century Persian chronicle. Written by Qāsim Beg Ḥayātī, a court scribe to Shah Ṭahmāsp (r. 1524-76), it covers Safavid history beginning with the early part of the fourteenth century and closing with an account of Shah Ismāʿīl’s (r.

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May 06, 2019
by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – CfP: ‘Shi’ism & Sufism in Afghanistan’

AFGHANISTAN, an Edinburgh University Press Journal (http://www.euppublishing.com/loi/afg), seeks submissions on the variegated Islamic cultures and practices of Afghanistan and its inter-connected regions (Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan). Contributions on Shi’i (Imami and Isma’ili) and (tariqa and non-tariqa) Sufi traditions are particularly welcome.
Submission guidelines at: https://www.euppublishing.com/page/afg/submissions

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May 04, 2019
by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Macron on Bahrain

France Dismisses Misleading Statements from Bahrain’s Foreign Minister on “Political Dialogue” in Bahrain

1 May 2019 – Yesterday, President Macron of France received King Hamad of Bahrain at the Palace Elysee in Paris. Following the meeting, palace staff released an official press release on their website, in which they stated that “the president encouraged Bahraini authorities to continue their efforts to re-establish a political dialogue that includes all…

For BIRD Weekly 234 click here.

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May 01, 2019
by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items

1. Bibliotheques d’Orient

“This searchable web site began in 2016 by the Bibliothèque National de France and seven heritage and research libraries in Cairo, Alexandria, Beirut, Istanbul and Jerusalem. It was created to reveal the permanence and wealth of the scientific, intellectual and interreligious exchanges in this region. It is for researchers, teachers and students, and for all those who want to broaden their understanding of this region of the world, in its historic depth, so as better to grasp current events. It will be updated over time when new resources are obtained. Collaboration of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and international partners to create and curate open access thematic collections of digitized material from and about the Middle East.”

http://heritage.bnf.fr/bibliothequesorient/en/discover-project

2. Conference on “Sufism and the Body”, University of Utrecht, 12-13 September 2019

Drawing on recent literature regarding sensation, embodiment, and the material turn in the study of religion, this conference assesses the role of the human body in Sufism. It attempts to bridge the gap between the study of the spiritual and corporeal in Sufism by focusing on the place of the body in Sufi thought, practice, literature, and art.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2019.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3786519/sufism-and-body-international-conference-university-utrecht-12

3. Two Lecturers/Assistant Professors in Turkish Linguistics and in Modern Turkish Literature, University of Cyprus

Sufficient knowledge of Greek and Turkish is required. Other requirements for appointment depend on academic rank and include prior academic experience, research record and scientific contributions, involvement in teaching and in the development of high quality undergraduate and graduate curricula.

Deadline for applications: 10 June 2019. Applications to be submitted at https://applications.ucy.ac.cy/recruitment . Information: www.ucy.ac.cy/acad.staff.procedures

4. AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship, Research Project:“Material_Cultures_ of_ Refuge_ in_ Lebanon”, University College_London

In cooperation with Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University Museums. Applicants may have a strong Master’s-level degree or equivalent experience, including, but not limited to, museums or curatorial experience or work in the third sector relating to displacement in the Middle East. Regional expertise in the Middle East would be preferable and proficiency in (Levantine) Arabic would be an additional asset. Students with experience working on museum collections, archives, or related topics are particularly encouraged to apply.

Deadline for applications: 17 May 2019. Information: https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?b3duZXI9NTA0MTE3OCZvd25lcnR5cGU9ZmFpciZ2dF90ZW1wbGF0ZT05ODImamNvZGU9MTc5OTAyOSZwb3N0aW5nX2NvZGU9MjI0Jg%3D%3D=&owner=5041178&ownertype=fair&vt_template=982&jcode=1799029&

5. Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

One-year, non-tenure-track lectureship, commencing 1 August 2019. The successful applicant will be able to teach World Civilization after 1500 and upper division courses in the area of specialty. Ph.D. in history or a related field must be in hand before the position begins.

Deadline for applications: 15 July 2019. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58500

6. Intensive Arabic Courses, Casa Árabe, Madrid and Cordoba, 3 June – 12 July 2019

Intensive and semi-intensive courses in Modern Standard Arabic, conversational Arabic, Moroccan Darija and Levantine Arabic, intended for people who want to begin learning Arabic or gain new momentum for their Arabic in a few weeks. We are offering Arabic classes in English (beginners and A1.1, according to MCER) in Madrid and Arabic classes in Córdoba (in Spanish).

Deadline for registration: 26 May 2019. Information: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/summer-courses-intensive-arabic-courses-for-children-and-adults (Madrid); http://www.casaarabe.es/eventos-arabes/show/cursos-intensivos-de-arabe-en-verano-en-cordoba (Córdoba – in Spanish).

7. Master of Science: “Economics of the Middle East (EMEA)”, University of Marburg

The program offers a wide range of courses focusing on economic, social and geopolitical issues of the Middle East and North Africa region, which equips students with the theoretical and empirical knowledge necessary to start a professional or academic career in this growing field of study.

Deadline for application: 15 July 2019. Information: www.uni-marburg.de/emea

8. “The Digital Muṣḥaf Project aims to create a database of images of early Qurʾānic fragments from dispersed muṣḥafs or codices of the Qurʾanic text and, as far as possible, virtually re-create the original codices so that they are available for scholars and the public in one place together with descriptions and metadata.

There is an ever-growing scholarly interest in Qur’anic Studies in the East and the West. The newly founded International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) is but one manifestation of this. In particular there is an interest in early Qur’anic fragments from a number of points of view including those of chronology, textual criticism, art history, palaeography, and codicology. There may be a number from the high-hundreds to as many as a figure in the low-thousands of fragments from early muṣḥafs from the 7th to 10thcenturies C.E., scattered throughout the libraries of the world, the exact figure is not known, and although Whelan (1990), Dutton (1999) and others have done valuable work in identifying fragments belonging to the same muṣḥaf, much work remains to be done.

For this Pilot Project, the team decided to focus on a single muṣḥaf, namely the codex discussed by Estelle Whelan (Writing the Word of God, Part I, p. 116-118 ) of which 344 folios are known to be dispersed throughout various libraries. We have given this Codex the rubric Digital Muṣḥaf 1 (DM1). Please refer to Appendix 1 for details of currently known fragments.

Of this muṣḥaf, the following fragments have been selected for the pilot project:
Chester Beatty Library, CBL Is 1407, fols. 1-4.
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Cod. 12.11 Aug. 2°, fols. 1-6.
BNF Cod. 350a, fols. 99-141.
The Bodleian Libraries, MS. Marsh 178, 22 fols.

For the online reconstruction of DM1, 149 images from the four participating libraries have been gathered for display: 44 from the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, seven from the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, 86 from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and 12 from the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel. Our reconstruction of the original codex is powered by the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), a set of standards and tools for creating interoperable image repositories.

The images of DM1 are hosted in IIIF-compatible format by the Bodleian (in the case of the Chester Beatty, Wolfenbüttel and Bodleian images) and the BnF (in the case of the BnF’s own images). To bring all 149 images together, and to display them in the correct original sequence rather than in the order in which the libraries’ fragments have been bound, the Bodleian team created a IIIF manifest (http://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/manifests/mushaf.json), a piece of linked data in JSON-LD format that specifies the sequence, location and associated metadata for a collection of digitized objects. The Digital Mushaf manifest specifies the location and technical details for each DM1 image, along with page-level metadata provided by our scholars.”

http://digitalmushaf.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

9. The monograph GEOPOLITICS OF ISLAM (Araucaria magazine)

can be found at:

https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/araucaria/index

10. The Alwaleed Centre at the University of Edinburgh seeks to appoint an Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow on Muslims in Europe for a three-year fixed-term position to provide cover for the Alwaleed Lecturer during her externally funded research leave.

Information and details on how to apply can be found at the following link: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=047791.

11. Oklahoma State University – Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval Middle Eastern History

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58507

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May 01, 2019
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Shii News – 2 research fellowships and 1 PhD studentship on transnational Twelver Shiism (Birmingham, UK)

The Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham is seeking applications for 2 post-doctoral research fellowships and for 1 PhD studentship. The fellows and PhD student will work as part of the ERC-funded project “Creating an alternative umma: Clerical authority and religio-political mobilisation in transnational Twelver Shiism”. For more information on the project, see: https://alterumma.bham.ac.uk/

Further information and particulars on the fellowships and the PhD studentship are available here:

– Research Fellowship on the development of Shii ritual practices: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BRR683/research-fellow

– Research Fellowship on Shii devotional poetry: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BRR704/research-fellow-alterumma-5

– PhD studentship: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BRR988/phd-studentship-alterumma-creating-an-alternative-umma-clerical-authority-and-religio-political-mobilisation-in-transnational-shii-islam

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