Archive for 2020
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Virtual Conference on “Fostering Ethics: Islam, Adoption and the Care of Children”, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 25 June 2020, 14:00 – 18:30 (BST)
This online conference brings together a number of academics and experts from the UK and abroad, to share relevant research and shed light on the issue from a variety of perspectives, including Islamic law and history, social science, and professional experience in care.
Information and registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fostering-ethics-islam-adoption-and-the-care-of-children-tickets-107553007942
2. 2nd “International Conference on Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (ICRSH)”, (Including MENA Studies), Budapest, 10-12 December 2020
ICRSH will bring together leading scholars, academics, and researchers in the field. Disciplines include Middle Eastern History, Islamic Law, Globalisation, Sociology of Religion, Inter-Religious Relations, Political Anthropology, Water Law, Media Studies, Economic History, Economic Geography, etc. (Business model of a professional conference enterprise? No academic affiliation?).
Deadline for submission of papers: 15 November 2020. Information: https://www.icrsh.org/
3. Conference: “The Middle East c.1960-1980. Global and Transnational Perspectives“, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 5 March 2021
The Conference will look at the ways in which events in the Middle East were shaped by global and transnational contexts and, in turn, the impact events in the region exercised on other parts of the world.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 July 2020. Information: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/centre/news/call-papers-middle-east-c1960-1980-global-and-transnational-perspectives-5-march-2021
4. International Conference on “Istanbul Unbound: Environmental Approaches to the City”, Istanbul Research Institute and Pera Museum in Collaboration with Heinrich Böll Stiftung, 8-11 April 2021
The Conference brings together innovative studies in the field of environmental history, political ecology, and critical art studies that utilize transdisciplinary methods and transcend predetermined scales and clearly delineated boundaries between the histories and stories of humans, nonhumans, and the built environment.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2020.
Information: https://en.iae.org.tr/images/pdf/istanbul-unbound/istanbul-unbound-.pdf
5. Interdisciplinary Workshop: “A World of Realms: A Long View of Diplomacy and Spatiality in the Premodern Islamic World”, University of Antwerp, Belgium, 20-21 May 2021
In a world as mobile as the Islamic world, how did diplomatic practices take shape and what meanings were ascribed to “territory” by rulers, administrators and the envoys who moved back and forth between different courts? We welcome papers dealing with the many spatial dimensions of interstate contact. Along with contributions on the various major Islamic states in the Maghreb, Africa, Middle East, Europe, and Asia, we also encourage papers on pastoral nomad and peripheral groups and their interactions with Muslim polities.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 August 2020. Information: https://www.uantwerp.be/images/uantwerpen/container2722/files/CfP%20Workshop%20UAntwerp_Diplomacy%20and%20Spatiality%20in%20the%20Islamic%20World.pdf
6. International Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī Symposium, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, 20-22 May 2021
Topics include: • Linguistics • Logic • Tafsīr • Astronomy • Mathematics • Medicine • Geography • Philosophy • Illuminationism • Sufism • Kalām • Music • Ethics and Political Theory • Shīrāzī in Manuscripts and Book Culture Studies • Commentaries (Shurūḥ, ḥawāshī, taʻlīqāt) • Scholarly Networks and Ijāzatnāmas • Urban Studies; etc.
Information: http://kutbuddinsirazi.cumhuriyet.edu.tr/en/index.php
7. PhD Scholarship on the Topic of “Islam/Muslims in Europe from a Sociological or Anthropological Perspective“, University College Dublin
S/he should have a background in sociology, anthropology and/or religious studies and be interested in undertaking qualitative or mixed methods research. Possible areas of focus include: Islamic revivalist/piety movements; Representation of Muslim minorities; Postcolonial legacies and diversity; Islamic institutions; Ethnic/racial/religious diversity present and past; Refugee migration and placemaking; and Muslim leadership.
Deadline for applications: 7 July 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6195942/fully-funded-phd-position-sociology-islammuslims-eruope
8. Awards and Prices of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA) for 2020
The deadlines for application for the undergraduate and graduate student awards of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA) as well as for the Redhouse Prize for Best Progress in Turkish and for the AATT Ottoman Turkish Translation Award have been extended until 30 June 2020.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/6165024/otsa-2020-awards-and-prizes-new-deadline
9. Best Article Award in Kurdish Political Studies, University of Central Florida (UCF)
For this award cycle, articles published in English in peer-reviewed journals in 2019 will be considered. The award is open to all disciplines under social sciences and humanities. The primary author of the article needs to be an untenured scholar at the time of the publication. The winner will be awarded $500.
Deadline for (self-) nominations: 3 July 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/6127501/call-submissions-best-award-kurdish-political-studies
10. Articles and Special Issue Submissions for Journal “Comparative Islamic Studies”
This biannual, peer-reviewed journal aims to publish studies of Islam and Islam-related topics that contribute to the field(s) of Islamic and/or Religious studies. CIS welcomes contributions along these lines from all disciplinary angles, be they political, anthropological, historical, ethnographic, literary, linguistic, etc. Along with standard comparisons between Islam and other religions, cultures, societies and/or civilizations, CIS wishes to encourage creative approaches to comparative studies.
Information: https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/CIS
11. Metissage, the Contrapuntal and Heterotopia
The last in a series of eight public events on Pluralism and Plurality in Islamic Cultures, co-produced by Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, the Aga Khan Museum and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture Education Programme. The event will be held online.
In this presentation, Shezad Dawood will commence by sharing a specially produced film that explores his engagement with how different cultures and systems of meaning intersect and inform each other, generating both consonance and dissonance. Beginning with his celebrated ‘tumbleweed’ works, he will go on to discuss the importance of light, music, textiles and film as mediums through which cultural hybridity can be explored. The film will be followed by a live Question and Answer session with the artist.
Time and Venue
Monday 6 July 2020, 18.00-19.30 (UK time)
Online
Booking
This event is free but booking is essential.
- June 23, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – BIRD: Bahrain Court Finalises Death Sentences
Torture Survivor Faces Imminent Execution After Bahrain’s Highest Court Finalises Death Sentences Against Two, Reinstates Citizenship to One
15 June 2020 – This morning, Bahrain’s Court of Cassation, the country’s highest appeals court, upheld the death sentence against Zuhair Ibrahim Jasim Abdullah, a 40-year old former restaurateur arrested in November 2017 on suspicion of carrying out a terror attack which killed a police officer.
- June 22, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Written Heritage Research Institute’s (Miras Maktoob’s) Digital Library
The Written Heritage Research Institute has published 330 titles of books in approximately 440 volumes so far. This software consists of the full text of 201 titles (231 volumes) of the Institute’s works on topics including Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Thought & Science, History and Geography, Arabic Language and Literature, Science and Technology, Heritage of Transoxiana, Heritage of Indian Subcontinent & Pakistan, Facsimile Editions, Treatises, Textology Series, Manuscript Studies, Bibliography, Manuscript Catalogue, Festschrifts, Commemorations, Ancient Iranian Heritage, and Textual Studies.
Features and Capabilities:
• Full searchable text of 201 titles of Miras Maktoob’s books in 231 volumes, facilitating the researchers’ access to the most important textual resources of Islamic sciences and humanities.
• Access to all functional concepts through lists of keywords.
• Ability to search book titles and contents by selective list.
• Linkage between books and their computerized texts.
• Specialized indexing of the sources and manuscripts available in the program.
• Research capabilities such as note-taking, saving, editing and printing.
Price for the university students and faculty, and independent researchers: 200 €
Price for the academic institutes and universities: 300 €
To order, please contact yusef_saadat@yahoo.com
For more information, please contact info@mirasmaktoob.ir
Website: www.mirasmaktoob.ir
- June 22, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Overview of Digital Sources For the Study of the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey
2. Thesaurus d’Epigraphie Islamique, Edition 2020
Conceived and directed by L. KALUS, co-directed by F. BAUDEN, developed by F. SOUDAN
New Website : http://www.epigraphie-islamique.uliege.be
This project aims to bring together all the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish (or even in other languages) inscriptions of the Muslim world until the year 1000 AH, that is to say, the period usually identified as the Middle Ages.
The collection and computerization of the inscriptions began in the late 1980s, the whole Muslim world now being covered. Currently, the database contains some 49,500 cards that critically present the text of the inscriptions already published, while certain texts are presented for the first time. Inscriptions known to exist because they are mentioned in publications of all kinds are also taken into consideration. Many of the inscriptions are illustrated with photographs from the Max van Berchem Foundation Photo Library as well as from other collections. It is also now possible to consult the website in English (however the contents of the cards remain in French).
The database continues to be regularly enhanced and supplemented. Please take note that the database has moved to a new website address.
3. Simon Fraser University – TERM LECTURER IN GLOBAL ASIAN STUDIES
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60146
4. An eighth century Judaeo-Persian letter from Dandan-Uiliq
British Library
5. Part-time lecturer in Arabic (Modern and Classical), University of Chicago
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College of the University of Chicago seeks to add to the University’s existing program in modern Arabic language. We invite applications for appointment as a part-time Lecturer able to contribute to both Modern Arabic and Classical Arabic course offerings. The start date of the appointment will be September 1, 2020. The initial appointment will be for one year, with review and reappointment determined by a collective bargaining agreement between the University and the Service Employees International Union. The position is benefits-eligible.
The teaching assignment for this position will be four courses in the Arabic language across three quarters. These courses will typically include a yearlong sequence in High Intermediate Classical Arabic and a fourth course in advanced readings in Arabic, which may include both modern and classical idioms. The selected candidate will also be required to engage in regular professional development.
Qualifications
Applicants should demonstrate previous language teaching experience at the college or post-secondary level, in both Modern and Classical Arabic. An M.A. degree or equivalent is required, and a PhD is preferred. Candidates with specialized training in second language acquisition, second language pedagogy, and/or assessment are especially encouraged to apply.
Application Instructions
To apply for this position, please submit your application through the University of Chicago’s Academic Recruitment website at http://apply.interfolio.com/76648. An application must include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, one sample syllabus for intermediate Classical Arabic, and the names and contact information of three potential recommenders.
Application deadline: All applicant materials must be received by 11pm central time July 23, 2020.
This position is contingent upon budgetary approval. The terms and conditions of employment for this position are covered by a collective bargaining agreement between the University and the Service Employees International Union. For information on the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, please go to https://nelc.uchicago.edu. For questions about the position, please contact Amanda Young at amanday@uchicago.edu.
6. Shahnameh: then and now (online event)
25 June @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm UK time
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/shahnameh-then-and-now-online-event/
7. Saad D Abulhab. Lost in Translation, Presumption, and Interpretation: Adam, Noah, and the Ancient Mesopotamian Mythology of the Creation and the Flood.
Blautopf Publishing. 2020.
http://blautopfpublishing.com/
Google Books:
https://books.google.com/books?id=lFzrDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08B333BSQ
8. “Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) is an AHRC-funded project that seeks to further knowledge and understanding of the early interactions between England and the Islamic worlds. Through our pages and our blog we hope to create an accessible space to reveal the exciting discoveries of researchers as they navigate the seas of history and literature, and investigate the intersecting webs of our pasts.
Like the engagements it explores, MEMOs is also a point of engagement. It is a space for researchers, practitioners and anyone with an interest to connect and stay up-to-date with news and events in the field, as well as the work of colleagues and specialists. By this we hope to build a network of knowledge and appreciation around the longstanding global relationships that continue to define our interconnected identities and shape our world.”
Website: https://memorients.com/
9. Interviews with Global Health historians:
https://theglobalhistorypodcast.com/2020/05/12/series-global-histories-of-health-medicine-and-disease-in-the-early-modern-world/. Included thus far in the series are:
- Monica Green, on the Black Death and the Global History of Disease
- Sebestian Kroupa, on Global Histories of Science and Medicine in the Early Modern Philippines
- Nükhet Varlık, on Plague, Public Health, and Healing in the Ottoman Empire
- Hugh Cagle, on Nature, Disease, and ‘Assembling the Tropics’ in the Portuguese Empire
- June 20, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – ‘Les Imams et les Ghulāt’ – M. A. Amir-Moezzi
Les Imams et les Ghulāt. Nouvelles réflexions sur les relations entre imamisme “ modéré ” et shiʿisme “ extrémiste ”
Abstract L’article examine la complexité voire la confusion qui marque la notion de ghulūw à travers l’étude des ouvrages hérésiologiques et doctrinaux dans leur grande diversité. L’étude montre que tous les thèmes qualifiés d'” extrémistes ” se trouvent intégrés, d’une façon ou d’une autre, dans le corpus doctrinal shiʿite dit “ modéré ” ; tous sauf un : l’antinomisme ( ibāḥa ).
Corrigenda:
P. 9, 4e ligne avant la fin : ‘ālim > ‘ālam (2 fois)
P. 17, milieu : walāyatanā > walāyatinā
P. 22, 3e ligne avant la fin et p. 23, ligne 2 : ma‘rifa > ma‘rifat
P. 22, note 80, ligne 4 : Abū Bakra > Abū Bakr
- June 19, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – AI on Bahrain, Kuwait Surveillance
Alarm over ‘invasive’ Gulf contact-tracing apps
Kuwait and Bahrain have rolled out some of the most invasive Covid-19 contact-tracing apps in the world, putting the privacy and security of their users at risk, Amnesty International says. The rights group found the apps were carrying out live or near-live tracking of users’ locations by uploading GPS co-ordinates to a central server.
- June 17, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Iran’s Experiment with Parliamentary Governance
The Second Majles, 1909-1911
By Mangol Bayat
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2020
https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/2978/iran-s-experiment-with-parliamentary-governance/
2. DECONSTRUCTING ISLAMIC STUDIES
Edited by Majid Daneshgar and Aaron W. Hughes
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674244689
3. Viola Allegranzi & Valentina Laviola (eds.), Texts and Contexts. Ongoing Researches on the Eastern Iranian World (Ninth-Fifteenth C.)[Pubblicazioni dell’Istituto per l’Oriente C.A. Nallino 120]. Roma, 2020. ISBN 978-88-97622-53-6
The volume contains papers presented at the Round Table Texts and Contexts. Ongoing Researches on the Eastern Iranian World (Ninth-Fifteenth C.), held at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” on September 14, 2018. The contributors deal with a variety of topics (textual and manuscripts studies, archaeology, epigraphy, numismatics), and present new researches and little-known data on the history and material culture of the Pre-Modern Persianate world. The Scientific Committee was composed by M. Bernardini (“L’Orientale”), G. van den Berg (Universiteit Leiden), R. Giunta (“L’Orientale”) and M. Szuppe (CNRS-CeRMI, Paris).
4. Youtube international symposium on epidemics June 18 and 19, 2020
THE TESTIMONY OF HISTORY: TO LIVE AND OVERCOME THE EPIDEMIC IN THE PRESENT
June 18-19, 5:30-7:00 p.m. (Lisbon time)
The new coronavirus (SARS-CoV 2) and COVID-19 brought unexpected challenges to Humanity. The answer to these challenges is more than a quest for biomedical science and transcends health issues. In this context and seeking complementarity between health sciences and the emerging field of health humanities, this Symposium is promoted, which aims to recourse to historical knowledge to understand and help to live the difficult present time.
This role attributed to the humanities and historical studies has been highlighted in recent months in various initiatives (webinars, online conferences, special magazine numbers, interviews, opinion articles) carried out by various institutions and civil society, and in several countries.
This seminar aims to be a space for knowledge sharing on the theme of epidemics, in different geographical contexts, national and foreign, limited to the Middle and Early Modern Ages, seeking to establish a bridge between the past and the present. It will be held in two days and consists of brief presentations (10 min.) carried out by invited researchers, followed by debate, and open to all those interested in participating.
This proposal is a joint initiative of two ongoing hospital and health history research projects: Hospitalis: Hospital architecture in Portugal (PTDC/ART-HIS/30808/2017) (IR: Joana Balsa de Pinho; European Institute for Culture Sciences Padre Manuel Antunes; ARTIS – Institute of History of Art, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon) and Royal Hospital of All Saints: the city and health (IR’s: André Teixeira, Edite Martins Alberto, Rodrigo Banha da Silva; DPC-Lisbon City Council, CHAM – Center for Humanities, NOVA FCSH).
The event will be broadcast on CHAM’s YouTube channel.
day 18: https://youtu.be/txfwRs-4cio
day 19: https://youtu.be/fHfFQFBh0YI
Organizers: Edite Martins Alberto (CHAM, NOVA FCSH; DPC, CML) and Joana Balsa de Pinho (IECCPMAL; ARTIS, FLUL)
Institutional partnerships: Artis – Art History Institute, School of Arts and Humanities, Universidade of Lisbon; CHAM – Centre for the Humanities, NOVA FCSH; CIDH – Chair Infante Dom Henrique for Atlantic Island Studies and Globalization, Aberta University; European Institute for Cultural Sciences Father Manuel Antunes; Lisbon City Council.
Information and program: https://projecthospitalis.net/en/
5. 8th Annual MUBIT Doctoral Workshop: “Arab Marxism: The Global History of Revolutionary Movements in the Middle East in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries”, University of Basel, 25-26 September 2020
The workshop will be offered by PD. Dr. Manfred Sing (Leibniz Institute of European History) and Miriam Younes (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung). If the Coronavirus regulations of the University of Basel do not allow workshop participants to meet in person, it will be held online.
Deadline for registration: 10 July 2020. Information: https://nahoststudien.philhist.unibas.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/nahoststudien/CfA_MUBIT_2020_Arab_Marxism_Final.pdf
6. POSTPONED: 21st Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), Ohio State University, Columbus, 15-18 October 2020 – Postponed to October 2021
A new call for proposals will be announced in early 2021. Papers are also welcome for Iran, Afghanistan and the Black Sea region.
Information: https://www.centraleurasia.org/conferences/annual/
7. CANCELLED: Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, St. Louis, 18-22 November 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, AAA has cancelled the 119th Annual Meeting in St. Louis.
Information: https://www.americananthro.org/annual_meeting?navItemNumber=566
8. Research Assistant (3 Years) for History of Egypt (19th/20th Century), Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz
The researcher will write a doctoral dissertation within the project “The Historicity of Democracy in the Arab and Muslim World”. Requirements: M.A. in History or a related discipline (Islamic Studies, Political Sciences, Sociology, Anthropology or a neighbouring discipline) with a focus on the modern history of the MENA region; excellent command of the Arabic, English, and German language (for non-German speaking applicants: Certificate of sufficient German skills or a strategy to improve them).
Deadline for application: 21 June 2020. Information: https://www.ieg-mainz.de/Ausschreibungen—Ausschreibungen-im-Detail—2020-05-12-Research-assistant–m-f-d——History-of-Egypt–19th-20th-century——-_site.site..ls_dir._siteid.64_nav.9_entryid.134_likecms.html
9. Postdoctoral Researcher in “Ancient Near Eastern Empires”, University of Helsinki
The project covers the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Persian, Hellenistic, and early Roman / Parthian Empires and is focused on the long-term processes by which social group identities and lifeways were negotiated. Applications are welcome from social scientists (anthropologists, sociologists, economists, or political scientists) with expertise in migration, forced labor, and/or identity studies, and ancient historians of any of the relevant empires with similar profiles.
Deadline for applications: 31 July 2020.
Information: https://socioloxy.com/postdoctoral-researcher-in-ancient-near-eastern-empires,i6873.html
10. Fellowship for Studies on “Rethinking Premodern Jewish Legal Cultures”, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2021-2022)
Applications are invited that propose the study of Jewish law or legal thinking within relevant historical contexts; that explore the relationship between law and other aspects of society or culture; that attend to questions of form, genre, and rhetoric; etc.
Deadline for applications: 12 October 2020.
Information: https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/scholarly-programsinternational-fellowship/apply
11. PhD Dissertation Award and Graduate Paper Prize of the “Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies” (AGAPS)
Recent PhD graduates and graduate students are invited to apply for these awards for studies focused on the Arabian Peninsula, inclusive of the transnational flow of people, goods and ideas across the Gulf, Red Sea and Indian Ocean.
Deadline for applications: 15 August 2020. Information: https://agaps.org/agapsmesa/mesa-awards/
12. Articles and Papers on “Religious Transformations in the Arab World – Spirituality, Religious Doubt, and Non-Religion”, for Special Issue of the Journal “Religion” and for Panel at MESA, Washington, DC, 10-13 October 2020
This special issue and the MESA panel look to compose a cross section of current work in social science, religious studies, and related fields on Islam/religion and non-religion in the Arab World.
Deadline for final article: 1 December 2020.
Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Religious_Arab
For panel at MESA contact Karin van Nieuwkerk (k.vannieuwkerk@ftr.ru.nl)
- June 16, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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- June 15, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to European Imperialism
Edited by Robert Gleave, István Kristó-Nagy
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
2. The Art Bulletin – seeking Islamic art submissions
The Art Bulletin is actively seeking to increase submissions in certain subject areas, including articles on material from the Islamic world. Please consider The Art Bulletin as a potential venue for your research.The guidelines and process for submitting an article can be found on the CAA website:
https://www.collegeart.org/publications/art-bulletin/submissions
All submissions that are sent out for review will undergo rigorous, double-blind peer review.
3. British Library: Asian and African studies blog
The Politics of Prognostication in the Cairo Sultanate
In today’s complex and ever-changing circumstances, who wouldn’t want infallible means for interpreting the world around them and even predicting future events? While today’s leaders look to their medical, economic, military and other expert advisers, historically rulers across the world have also consulted astrologers, dream-interpreters and specialists in other forms of divination and occult sciences.
The Mamlūk sultans of late-medieval Egypt and Syria were no different in this regard. Many manuscripts copied within the Cairo Sultanate have survived and a number of them are on various methods of interpreting the present or foretelling the future. Since some of these manuscripts were produced for politically high-ranking patrons, we are in the privileged position of being able to read over the shoulders of Mamlūk sultans and amīrs (military commanders) and get a feeling for the place of prognostication in Mamlūk politics.
4. Late Ottoman History, Dept. of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
Job Closing: Jul 08, 2020.
The Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations (NMC) in the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure-stream position in Late Ottoman History. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor, and the anticipated start date is September 1, 2020.
5. Call for Submissions: Syrian Studies Association Prizes for Outstanding PhD Dissertation on Syria
In order to promote and highlight excellence in research, the Syrian Studies Association awards annual prizes for the best writing on Bilad al-Sham until 1918 and on Syria in the period following. This prize alternates between recognizing books, articles, and dissertations.
In 2020, the SSA seeks submissions for the most outstanding PhD dissertation published between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2020.
In order to be considered for the prize, candidates must join the association. Information about the Syrian Studies Association is available at the following website: http://www.ou.edu/ssa/index.html
Submissions in languages other than English are welcomed.
Submissions should be sent electronically. Dissertations must be completed and deposited.
The deadline for submissions is July 15, 2020. All submissions should be sent to Paul M. Cobb, Chair of the Prize Committee, at the following address: pmcobb@upenn.edu Winners will be announced at the SSA annual meeting held in conjunction with the Middle East Studies Association in November 2020 and online. Inquiries should be directed to Paul M. Cobb.
6. Research Associate (QNRF) at Doha Institute
The term of appointment will be up to 9 months with possible renewal, approximately starting on September 2020, for work on an externally sponsored research grant.
A full-time highly motivated Research Associate (RA) is being sought for a research project led by Dr. Eid Mohamed and funded by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) titled, “Computational Study of Culture: Cultural Analytics for Modern Arab and Islamic Studies.” The project will operate within the Research & Grants Department led by the Director at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI).
We welcome applications from scholars in Arab studies with a specialization in literary, rhetorical, cultural, or historical studies. We are particularly interested in those who engage in research areas that bring the field of Arab Literature/Humanities into the digital age and the digital humanities domain. Scholars with research that explores the critical and cultural significance of using digital tools and methods in the context of questions of East-West encounters, representation, culture and politics are highly preferred.
The project’s research at this stage will consist of the exploration and analysis of discrete sets of texts that are relevant for the project’s time, space, and scope. The successful candidate is an innovative scholar who will bring theoretical, methodological, and technical expertise to the QNRF NPRP project on the computational study of Arab culture and history.
Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled, but priority will be given to those received by August 1st, 2020.
For full details and to apply, please use this link:
https://www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/EN/Careers/Pages/Apply.aspx?JobId=DIAC_2020_003
- June 13, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – 12 June: International Shia Day
Campaign – International Shia Day
For Shia Rights We Stand! Participate in International Shia Day by using #612ShiaDay and/or #IntShiaDay on Social Media to show solidarity with Shia Muslims. 2020 A right to be June 12 marks International Shia Day, a day dedicated to recognizing hardships Shia Muslims as a minority group face.
- June 12, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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