Archive for 2019

Local Elites and Dynastic Succession: Tabriz prior to, under and following Mongol Rule (Sixth/Twelfth to Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries) in: Eurasian Studies Volume 16 Issue 1-2 Year 2018

This article analyses the history of Tabriz from the late sixth/twelfth to the end of the ninth/fifteenth century. It develops the thesis that the local elites played an active and important role in determining a specific sequence of dynasties passing through the Mongols to the Safavids.

ADHRB, BCHR, GCHR and 22 NGOs Call on the Formula One Group to Implement a Freedom Complaints Mechanism to Protect Human Rights in Bahrain – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain

26 March 2019 – Today, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), and Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), along with 22 other international human rights organizations, issued a joint letter to the Formula One Group, raising concerns regarding the human rights …

See also ADHRB Weekly 292.
See also Human Rights Watch ‘Racing to Repression in Bahrain’.

NCHR Occasional Paper Series #11 2019 – Norwegian Centre for Human Rights

This paper, Blurring the Line between Countering Terrorism and Countering Dissent: The Case of Saudi Arabia, is written by Dr Norman Cigar, a Research Fellow at the Marine Corps University, Quantico, VA, from which he retired recently as Director of Regional Studies and the Minerva Research Chair.

See also: Foreign Policy
Los Angeles Times

UAE: Eight Lebanese Face Unfair Trial

(Beirut) – Emirati authorities detained eight Lebanese nationals for more than a year without charge in an unknown location, ill-treating them and denying them their due process rights, Human Rights Watch said today. Their trial, which began on February 13, 2019, continues to be marred with violations.

The Diversification of the Muslim Community in St. Petersburg in the 2010s in: Journal of Religion in Europe Volume 11 Issue 2-3 Year 2018

Through the intensification of migration, the number of Muslims has multiplied in ethnically Russian areas, including St. Petersburg. Within the heterogeneous Muslim community of the city, countless new communities and initiatives have emerged, but they increasingly face suspicions and restrictions from the authorities.

ʿĀmir b. ʿĀmir al-Baṣrī: Ismāʿīlī or Unorthodox Twelver Šīʿī-Ṣūfī? in: Arabica Volume 66 Issue 1-2 Year 2019

ʿĀmir b. ʿĀmir al-Baṣrī, according to evidence in his tāʾiyya, composed this long didactic mystical poem either in 700/1300-1301 or 731/1330-1331, while he was exiled to Sīwās in Anatolia. The object of this paper is fourfold. First, to give a brief sketch of his life gleaned from the extant Sunnī sources and determine the date of al-tāʾiyya’s composition or completion.

 

1.For progress on the Islamic Painted Page (IPP) database, see www.islamicpaintedpage.com.

IPP is a freely available database of Islamicate Arts of the Book which exists to help users locate paintings, illuminations and bindings, and to signpost them onward with links to authoritative online and print publications.

The database now exceeds 38,000 references, spanning 27,000 works in over 270 collections, all searchable by picture description as well as by place, date, accession number and other metadata. There is now better coverage of works all the way up to about 1900 CE; and the site is now able to present images for over 30% of all its entries.

IPP recently began a relationship with the University of Hamburg’s Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures that will enrich the database’s features and aims to extend the coverage of works published online as well as in print, especially including collections where Creative Commons, Public Domain or special permissions make it possible to display actual images. By the end of 2018, this already included digitised works from the British Library, Cambridge University Library, New York Public Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum fur Islamische Kunst, New York Public Library, Paris Bibliotheque Nationale, Royal Asiatic Society, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, and the Baltimore Walters Art Museum (with grateful acknowledgements).

 

 

 

 

2. The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture is pleased to invite applications for self-supported (unfunded) Associateships and for Harvard-funded Fellowships, to conduct advanced historical research in Islamic art, architecture, and archaeology at Harvard University.

AKPIA Associateships and Fellowships are intended principally for overseas scholars–preferably, but not exclusively, from Muslim countries–to support research in art and architectural history and archaeology. Our program’s Associateship and Fellowship positions are not intended to sponsor professional design, conservation, or urban development projects, nor are they intended to support research travel.

Recipients are expected to be in residence, except for one or two short research-related trips. Please note—we offer unfunded Associate positions, and a limited number of funded (or partially funded) Fellowships. We will consider applications of scholars who can provide partial funding, or who have no other outside funding.  Application proposals may be for up to an entire academic year in duration.

DEADLINE All application materials must be received by April 1, 2019. Results will be announced by  late May.

CONTACT INFORMATION
Please direct any inquiries about the AKPIA Associateships and Fellowships at Harvard University to agakhan@fas.harvard.edu.

For the AKPIA Associate/Fellowship Application form and further information, visit the AKPIA website: https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/fellowships-associateships

 

 

 

 

3. POS: Library of Congress, Chief of the African and Middle Eastern Division

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/527677600

Open & closing dates

03/18/2019 to 04/18/2019

 

 

 

 

4. The international conference Le lingue islamiche will take place July 2-3, 2019 at Roma Tre University. The event is co-organized by Roma Tre University, The University of Naples “L’Orientale” and the Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik – Freie Universität Berlin.

Abstracts for presentation (max 250 words, bibliography excluded) are welcome, and shall be sent to lingue.islamiche@uniroma3.it. The deadline for the submission is April 19, 2019. Notifications on accepted contributions shall be sent by May 5, 2019. Contributions in either English or French, official languages of the conference together with Italian, are strongly encouraged.

Conference topics are inspired by Bausani’s ideas on ‘Islamic languages’ as presented in his paper “Le lingue islamiche: interazioni e acculturazioni” (in Bausani A., Scarcia Amoretti B., (eds.), Il mondo islamico tra interazione e acculturazione, Roma, Istituto di Studi Islamici, 1981, pp. 3-19). Bausani presents the category of ‘Islamic languages’, defined as the functional system(s) arising in a number of Islamicate societies through simultaneous—often specialized—use of genetically distinct languages by the same speakers and authors.

In Bausani’s own words: “a typological system to which the concept of ‘Islamic languages’ can meaningfully be applied is based on cultural superstrata or ethnolinguistic substrata, where cultural, rather than linguistic, considerations hold. […] the concept of Islamic languages is close (although by no means identical) to what justify talking about ‘Balkanic languages’ notwithstanding the diverse genealogy of languages in the Balkan area. The issue of the importance of a cultivated linguistic superstratum, and therefore of the non-ethnic unity of all Islamic languages […] is doubtless present, at least potentially, in the conscience of Muslim peoples.”

Read more at http://host.uniroma3.it/docenti/lancioni/lli/ or contact us at lingue.islamiche@uniroma3.it

 

 

 

 

5. XXI^ème Journée Monde Iranien

22 mars 2019

Auditorium du Pôle Langues et Civilisations
Inalco, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013, Paris

Organisation
Oliver Bast (Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 / Mondes iranien et indien)

Full programme at:

https://iran-inde.cnrs.fr/evenements-scientifiques/colloques-et-conferences-2019/xxieme-journee-monde-iranien.html?lang=fr

 

 

 

6. Call for Papers: “The Efficacy of Financial Structures for Islamic Taxes and Dues”

The 7th Annual Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop

4th – 5th July 2019, at Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham, UK

Islam has institutionalised, endorsed, and at times even enforced different forms of paying dues with the objective of providing for different categories of social or individual needs and requirements. Both mandatory and recommended categories of taxes and dues that Islam promotes are classified under the generic title of ṣadaqāt, which include zakāt, khums, fidya, kaffāra, fiṭra, waqf etc.

In the contemporary age, Muslims reside in an array of governing models (from Islamic government models to secular states) and this raises important questions relating to the efficacy and the potential for the evolution of financial institutions for Islamic taxes and dues. These questions are pertinent for Muslims living in the West, wherein they are already subject to mandatory dues or state taxation structures, which are levied irrespective of a person’s religious identity.

The 7th annual Fiqhī workshop at the Al-Mahdi Institute seeks to facilitate scholarship by directly addressing questions that analyse the origins, current structures and further development of financial institutions for Islamic dues. The workshop encourages, and invites, paper proposals that survey at least one of the following areas:

• Historical and contextual studies regarding financial institutions for taxes and dues that were institutionalised and endorsed by Islam, and their efficacy for past and present Muslim societies.
• Critical analysis of textual and theological foundations used to derive rulings about financial institutions for Islamic taxes and dues.
• (Re)assessing potential developments in jurisprudential and theological approaches, affecting prospective efficacy of Islamic taxes and dues.
• Empirical research analysing grassroot performances and acceptance of financial institutions for Islamic taxes and dues. In particular, examining how taxes, dues and charity (ṣadaqa) are channelled through religious authority structures and their impact upon the ultimate beneficiaries.

 

The workshop is pleased to host presenters from both traditional seminary and academic backgrounds, presenting from a range of disciplines. As has become an effective format in our previous annual workshops, the Fiqhī debates will be positioned alongside contributions from broader theological, historical and anthropological approaches – thereby enriching a multidisciplinary understanding of contemporary outlooks dealing with theefficacy of financial structures for Islamic taxes and dues. Details of previous workshops held at AMI can be viewed here.. https://www.almahdi.edu/contemporary-fiqhi-issues-workshops/

 

Proposals for a single presenter should include the following:

• Contact information, and a brief bio of presenter
• Tentative title
• Abstract(s) (400-word limit)

 

The deadline for submission of proposals is 15th May 2019. Successful applicants will be notified by 22nd May 2019.

 

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.

 

Proposals and queries should be sent by e-mail to: Muhammed Reza Tajri at tajrim@almahdi.edu

 

 

 

7.  The Council For British Research in the Levant (CBRL) is pleased to announce our undergraduate dissertation* prizes for dissertations on topics relating to the Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus, Israel, Palestine and Jordan), ancient or modern, for the academic year 2019:

 

• Levantine archaeology or history: the CBRL Prize for a final-year undergraduate dissertation, or major research paper

 

• Contemporary Levantine studies: the CBRL Prize for a final-year undergraduate dissertation, or major research paper

 

(*major final-year research papers are acceptable from departments where there is no dissertation.)

 

Please find more information on the prizes, including how to nominate dissertations from your department at this site: http://cbrl.ac.uk/news/item/name/2019-undergraduate-dissertations-prizes-in-levantine-studies

 

We would be very grateful if you would bring this to the attention of undergraduate degree exam boards this summer and to staff who are examining undergraduate dissertations on topics relating to the Levant.

 

With thanks and very best wishes,

The team at CBRL

 

 

 

 

8. 2019 Symposium: Death and Dying in Medieval Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Friday & Saturday
April 5-6
Great Room, International House (1623 Melrose Ave.)
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 

Click here to view a PDF version of the full 2019 Symposium program:

https://marco.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DeathDyingProgram2019.pdf

 

 

 

 

9. Call for Papers
Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies  

18-19 October 2019

This annual exploratory and informal workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies for investigating history writing in Arabic in the Middle East and North Africa in any period from the seventh century to the present

We are interested in papers that consider the practical and conceptual challenges of working on history writing in the region. Papers might elucidate the following sorts of questions:

• Through what practices of writing or otherwise encoding the past and of remembering and forgetting, have different groups in the Middle East and North Africa viewed their pasts?
• At different times and places, how have the significant contours, events and actors in their histories been seen? Was the significant past the same for court historians as for literary historians; for bureaucrats as for the military; for Sufis as for Muslim lawyers and Traditionists?
• How did non-Muslims and Muslims, men and women, adherents of different sectarian or juristic traditions, or speakers of different languages, within societies that became “Islamic” imagine the shape and meaning of their specific societies’ own pasts, and their relation to the universal history of the Islamic community?
• How have urban and rural people, workers and peasants, the religiously educated and the technocratic elite, developed different ways of writing, remembering, or commemorating particular events in, or the broad sweep of, local, national, or “Islamic” history?
• In what ways do educational institutions, museums, media organisations and proponents of heritage use history writing in Arabic to shape loyalties and senses of belonging in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe?

Contributions are invited from scholars at all career levels, addressing any period and any part of the Middle East and North Africa, broadly defined.

Arabic Pasts is co-organised by Sarah Bowen Savant (AKU-ISMC), Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) and James McDougall (Oxford).

Please send by 3 April an abstract of 300 words or less to sarah.savant@aku.edu. There is a small budget to provide some travel assistance for scholars outside of London.

 

Time and Venue
18-19 October 2019
Atrium Conference Room,
Aga Khan Centre,
10 Handyside Street,
London N1C 4DN

Booking
This event is free but booking is essential. Book your place soon.

 

 

 

10. I am very pleased to announce the online release of our digital edition of the ʿAyn al-Naẓar, a short Arabic treatise by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī (d. 722/1322) on three logical relationships essential to dialectical disputation. Collated from two manuscript witnesses held by the British Library, the edition is accompanied by an Introduction, Glossary, and Guide; and its features, accessed by hovering over the Arabic text or clicking on buttons, include line-by-line English translations, with glossary-linked Arabic terms; full critical apparatus for variants, scribal additions, substitutions, corrections, etc.; short glosses from the manuscript margins; and magnifiable folio images of one of the original manuscripts.

As co-creator Dr. Frederik Elwert explains: “A digital edition is not only an edition that is available online, it represents also a different approach to the very act of scholarly editing. As such, the edition consists of two parts: An XML file following the guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative which captures scholarly statements about the text, and a rule set that converts these abstract statements into a navigable web page.”

The online edition is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, and is hosted by the Digital Humanities at the Center for Religious Studies (DH@CERES), Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Links to the project description and the digital edition itself are below. Feedback is welcomed, and we ask that you kindly disseminate this announcement to any who might find it of interest.

Digital Edition:
https://pages.ceres.rub.de/ayn-al-nazar/

Project Description:
https://dh.ceres.rub.de/en/projects/project/ayn-al-nazar/

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Dr. Walter Edward Young
MA, PhD Islamic Studies
https://mcgill.academia.edu/WalterEdwardYoung
Society for the Study of Islamicate Dialectical Disputation
https://ssidd.org/

 

 

 

11. The Alwaleed Centre at the University of Edinburgh is pleased to announce the launch of a free 5-week online course entitled “The Sharia and Islamic Law: An Introduction”.

The course begins on 6th May, but prospective students can now sign-up via the course homepage: www.futurelearn.com/courses/an-introduction-to-the-sharia-and-islamic-law

Delivered via the FutureLearn platform, this groundbreaking course will explore some of the diverse roles that the Sharia and Islamic law have played in Muslim life, both historically and today, encouraging students to think critically about the nature of religious law and its many manifestations.

 

 

12. Call for Paper Proposals: The 3rd Great Lakes Adiban Workshop at IU Bloomington

The Great Lakes Adiban Society (GLAS) invites submissions for its third annual workshop, scheduled to take place at Indiana University Bloomington, on September 28–29, 2019. We welcome papers that are works in progress and would benefit from extensive discussion and feedback, and especially encourage graduate students to participate.

The Society aims to provide a regional forum for scholars of Islamicate adab, particularly of the medieval and early modern periods, to meet and share their work. We leave our parameters of language and genre intentionally open in order to invite as wide a collaboration as can be useful, but as a group we are generally interested in the literary production of the broad complex of premodern Muslim societies across the Eastern Hemisphere. This naturally includes the major Islamicate languages of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu, as well as many others (Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew, Spanish, etc.) that participate in similar literary conventions.

Those who wish to participate can apply by filling out our online application at tinyurl.com/GLAS2019 by June 21, 2019. Please note that each accepted participant will be given 45 minutes to present and discuss their work; because of this, we have limited space and may have to turn down some submissions if we get too many. In such an event, preference will generally be given to scholars in the Great Lakes region, per the mission of this organization. While all participants are asked to cover the costs of travel and lodging, we will provide breakfasts, lunches, and at least one dinner over the course of the workshop. In addition, we hope to be able to offer small grants ($250) to offset graduate student travel expenses.

If you have any questions, please feel free to write Cameron Cross at kchalipa [at] umich.edu. We look forward to hearing from you!

 

US State Department 2018 Report on Human Rights is ‘All Words and No Action’ when it Comes to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain

On 13 March 2019, the United States (US) Department of State released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2018. Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) is deeply concerned that, while the report continues to detail a range of US human rights concerns in Bahrain and …

For ADHRB Weekly 291, click here.

1.Post-doctoral researchers on the “European Qur’an”

The Université de Nantes, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Università di Napoli l’Orientale, the University of Kent and the University of Amersterdam are hiring post-doctoral researchers to join our project “The European Qur’an: Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion (1150-1850)” (EuQu).

For further details, see

https://www.kent.ac.uk/history/documents/EuQu-postdocs-call-for-candidates.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1O3ejf9w4ysr6BCbaxWTWR_gejpudsLqBkBQ-MYFDyWwfWcTQAoumV2Zs

The project also has a number of fully funded PhD positions in our ERC project on the European Qur’an (EuQu).

Particularly, they are looking for a candidate to write a thesis on The Qur’an and Anti-Trinitarianism, which assesses the significance of the Qur’an and of Islam for the radical Reformation and in anti-Trinitarian movements between the 16th and the 18th century. This PhD will be co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Martin Mulsow (Erfurt) and Dr Jan Loop, Senior Lecturer in History, Rutherford College, W2.W1, The University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NZ

More details can be found here:

https://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/search/FN05ERCHIS01

 

 

 

 

2. College of William and Mary – Visiting Assistant Professor in Middle
Eastern History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58343

 

 

 

 

3. International Conference on “Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions: Intellect, Experience and More” of the Aquinas and ’The Arabs’ International Working Group, Università di Pisa, 22-25 May 2019

See program at http://richardctaylor.info/aaiwg/2019-2/pisa/

 

 

 

 

4. International Conference of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) on “Women and Gender Studies in the Middle East”, Beirut, 6-10 March 2021

The conference will be held in partnership with the American University of Beirut and Lebanese American University.  The call is open to topics on gender and women’s studies in the social sciences and humanities: politics, economics, history, sexualities, culture, arts, digital humanities etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 October 2019. Contact: Angie Abdelmonem (angie.abdelmonem@asu.edu)

 

 

 

 

5. Visiting Assistant Professor of the History of the Modern Middle East, Western Washington University

One-year Visiting Instructor/Assistant Professor of History beginning on 16 September 2019, through 15 June 2020.  The position is open to historians of the Middle East. Qualifications: ABD in History or related field, by 15 September 2019.

Application review begins 15 April 2019; position is open until filled.

Information: http://employment.wwu.edu/cw/en-us/job/496597/visiting-assistant-professor-of-the-history-of-the-modern-middle-east

 

 

 

 

6. Prize for Best Article, Council for British Research in the Levant

The award recognises excellent research and scholarship that engages with current and emerging issues in the Levant that advances our understanding of the region. We are looking for original unpublished articles from scholars in different stages of their careers and from different disciplines: anthropology, sociology, politics, religion and theology, language and linguistics cultural studies, etc.

 

 

 

 

7. Nominations for Book Awards and other Awards of the Middle Studies Association (MESA) 2019

The MESA Awards annually recognizes outstanding contributions in scholarly achievement, mentoring of students and faculty, service to the profession, innovations in undergraduate education and teaching, and academic freedom.

Deadline of nominations: 1 April 2019. Information: https://mesana.org/awards

 

 

 

 

8. CfP: Workshop: Menstruation and Menopause in Islamic Legal Cultures

11-12 July 2019

Centre for the Study of Islam

Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies

University of Exeter

Workshop Topic:

Islamic legal literatures outline a series of ritual regulations to be observed by menstruating women and girls, as well as women and girls experiencing postpartum and intermenstrual bleeding.  There are also a series of complex regulations concerning puberty and the beginning of menstruation, and also its end and the menopause. These regulations build on references to menstruation in Quran and hadith literature, elaborated primarily in the genres of Quranic exegesis (tafsir), hadith commentary (sharh al-hadith) and law (fiqh).  There is also extensive anthropological and historical evidence of Muslim practice in relation to menstruation and the menopause.  Menstruant and menopausal women are portrayed in different forms of writing outside of the specifically religious genres – including poetry, belle lettres, historical and biographical works.  There is also material and documentary evidence of the practices associated with menstruation and menopause in Muslim societies and communities.

The workshop will bring together researchers examining different aspects of menstruation and menopause – from the ritual and religious to the social and cultural – from different methodological perspectives, and across different time periods.  Contributions using a variety of theoretical insights from ritual, gender, sexuality, textual, anthropological and historical studies are particularly welcome.  Presentations can cover premodern and modern formations of ritual practice around menstruation and menopause.  The workshop will be a combination of formal papers (20 minutes presentation, 10 minutes of questions), and extended textual/source reading sessions (up to 1 hour).  We envisage a workshop of 10-12 papers/text presentations and a total of around 15 attendees, though this will depend on selected abstracts.

To Contribute:

Presentation proposals are invited from scholars at all career stages, though early career scholars (near completion, or recently completed, doctoral students) are particularly encouraged to submit presentation proposals.  Proposals should be in the form of a 200 word abstract in English.  For paper proposals this abstract should outline your main argument and field of enquiry.  For textual/source reading sessions, the abstract should introduce the text and explain how it contributes to our understanding of the topic.  Our aim is to cover (economy) return fares, other travel expenses and (where necessary) visa costs for all participants from workshop funds. Please submit abstracts to csi@exeter.ac.uk before Monday 6^th May 2019.  Applicants are welcome, in their accompanying emails, to outline their educational background and research expertise.  Selection will be made both on the basis of quality and coverage of research topics and presentation formats.

The workshop is co-convened by Dr Shuruq Naguib (Lancaster University) and Professor Robert Gleave (University of Exeter) and is supported by the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (Exeter). Further information can be obtained by emailing csi@exeter.ac.uk.

 

 

 

9. Mejlis Institute Summer School in Languages (Armenian, Persian, Turkish) and Connected Histories

Yerevan, Armenia

July 15 – August 15, 2019

Mejlis Institute is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the 2019 intensive summer program that will take place between July 15 and August 15, lasting four weeks. The program will consist of three parallel language courses – Armenian, Persian and Turkish – and a series of seminars devoted to topics in connected histories of Armenia, Iran and Anatolia from the medieval period onwards.

The program is primarily, though not exclusively, targeted at advanced undergraduate and graduate students wishing to study either Armenian, Persian or Turkish and interested in topics of intercultural connections. While applicants of different levels will be considered, preference will be given to those who have already achieved the intermediate or advanced levels. Apart from learning in the classroom, students will be able to practice their language skills in conversations with fellow participants from Armenia, Turkey and Iran.

MA and PhD students engaged in research and interested in working on particular sources will also be given an opportunity to receive additional guidance on individual basis.

Application deadline: May 1, 2019

Program fee 1400 USD, financial aid options available

For more information please visit https://mejlisinstitute.org/overview-1

 

 

 

 

10. The Bodleian Libraries are now accepting further applications for Bahari Visiting Fellowships in the Persian Arts of the Book to be taken up during the academic year 2019-20.

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 the 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-fellows

Applications for these Fellowships should be made by the deadline of 9.00am, Friday 26 April 2019

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

 

 

 

11. Post-doc: Cultural and religious history of Muslims and Christians in the Iberian Peninsula and/or the Maghreb (9th to 16th centuries) (Barcelona)

For further information: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/389511

 

 

12. Brill Publications 2018 in Open Access:

https://www2.brill.com/OA18

 

 

Dr Michael Axworthy, FRSA, FRAS (1962-2019)

It is with great regret that we announce the passing of our colleague and friend Michael Axworthy on 16 March 2019. Michael read History at Peterhouse, Cambridge before moving on to a successful career at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; he met his wife Sally while they were both working at the British Embassy in Bonn.

See the Daily Telegraph obituary here.