Archive for 2020

1.ONLINE: Annual Meeting of the “International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA 2020)“, Boston, MA, 30 November – 3 December and 7-10 December 2020

Program Units include: The Qur’an: Manuscripts and Textual Criticism; Linguistic, Literary, and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur`anic Corpus; The Societal Qur`an; Qur`anic Studies: Methodology and Hermeneutics; etc.

Information: https://iqsaweb.wordpress.com/call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-2020/

 

 

 

2. Call for Participation: Workshops on “Research Ethics in MENA”,  Middle East Institute at Columbia University

Individuals are invited to participate in an interdisciplinary project exploring the ethical, political and economic challenges to conducting research responsibly in the Middle East and North Africa.

If you would like to learn more, or think you have something to contribute to the project please respond to the call for participation by 9 November 2020. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/10/07/call-for-participation-workshops-of-research-ethics-in-mena

 

 

3. Post-doctoral Researcher in 15^th-century Arabic Historiography, Ghent University

The candidate should have a PhD in the field of Arabic, Islamic Studies, (Middle East) History, Arabic Literature, Arabic Linguistics, or equivalent, and a promising track particularly regarding the historiography of al-Biqāʿī or Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, as demonstrated by relevant papers, publications, and conference participations.

Deadline for applications: 16 October 2020. Information: https://en.academicpositions.be/ad/ghent-university/2020/post-doctoral-researcher-in-arabic-historiography-16247-languages-and-cultures/148825?utm_medium=email&utm_source=transactional&utm_campaign=Job+alerts

 

 

 

4. Postdoctoral Research Associate (12 Months) for Iran and the Persian Gulf Studies (19^th – 21^st Century), Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University

The goal of the program is to support outstanding scholars of Iran and the wider Persianate world at an early stage of their careers and thus to strengthen the field of Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies in the United States and abroad.

Deadline for applications: 18 December 2020.

Information: https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=17821

 

 

5. 20 Fellowships at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem

Fellowships are 1-4 months and come with a stipend and room/board at the Albright. Fellowships are open to students and scholars in Near Eastern studies from prehistory through the Ottoman period, including the fields of archaeology, anthropology, art history, biblical studies, epigraphy, historical geography, history, language, literature, philology, religion, and related disciplines. All nationalities, and students and scholars at all levels, are eligible for at least some of the fellowships.

Deadline for application: 15 October 2020.

Information: https://mailchi.mp/aiar/apply-for-a-fellowship-at-the-albright-2324341?e=4b7f78b915

 

 

 

6. 2020 Lebanese Studies Association Book Award

Books must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research published in English between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2019. Subject matter can be on any aspect of the territories, populations (including diasporic), society, and cultures of present-day Lebanon from ancient times to the present, and as addressed by the disciplines of history, anthropology, sociology, political science, literature, art, science, etc. Yet the purview of the work should be clearly that of a scholar of Lebanon.

Deadline for nominations: 1 November 2020. Information: https://lebanesestudies.org/call-for-nominations-2020-lebanese-studies-association-book-award/

 

 

 

7. 2020 Lebanese Studies Association Book Award

Books must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research published in English between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2019. Subject matter can be on any aspect of the territories, populations (including diasporic), society, and cultures of present-day Lebanon from ancient times to the present, and as addressed by the disciplines of history, anthropology, sociology, political science, literature, art, science, etc. Yet the purview of the work should be clearly that of a scholar of Lebanon.

Deadline for nominations: 1 November 2020. Information: https://lebanesestudies.org/call-for-nominations-2020-lebanese-studies-association-book-award/

 

1.CFP Trans/Formations of Arabic Literary Theory at ICLS Columbia

Trans/Formations of Arabic Literary Theory conference series hosted by ICLS Columbia University and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award Committee. 

 

Preliminary Virtual Discussion Panel:
March 19, 2021, Arabic Literary Theory: Prospects and Limits [ Please Register Here ]

First in-person Session:
October, 14-17, 2021, Columbia University
Second in-person Session:
June 14-17, 2021, Columbia University Global Center, Reid Hall, Paris

[Dates subject to change due to current health situation.]

 

The primary focus of this conference is on Arabic literary theory, engaging with its development from the pre-modern era up to the present. We invite scholars to explore a plethora of thematic issues tied to the challenges of mapping, reconstructing, and studying varied sets of Arabic literary theoretical frameworks with the aim of identifying cross-temporal and trans-local conceptualizations and terms for a genealogy of Arabic literary theory. While focusing on the formation, transformation, re-organization and enduring legacy of pre-modern literary conceptualizations across the Arabic literary continuum, the conference approaches modernist literary explorations as invitations to the study of paradigmatic shifts in Arabic literary theory. The conference aspires to cement a dialogue between classical and modern epistemic systems while questioning their boundaries.

 

For more information, please email arabicliterarytheory@gmail.com .

 

German Sources on Safavid Persia – Mage Publishers

For this book, Willem Floor has selected and translated into English thirteen German sources reporting on events in Iran from 1580 to 1722. One of these sources has never been published before; four of them are complete books, while the others only have sections dealing with Iran.

Conflicting Worldviews: Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsāʾī’s Risālat al-Rashtīyah and the Problematic of Akbarīan Mysticism

Since its earliest exposure to Iranian Sufis in the mid-seventh century, Ibn ʿArabī’s mysticism has been the subject of lively discussion and examination. It has also left its imprint on many intellectual tendencies, particularly Sufism, esotericism and ḥikmat discourse.

SAUDI PIPELINE OF HATE: From Grade School to the Military, To Public Broadcasting

October 6, 2020 Washington DC – The Institute for Gulf Affairs is releasing a report revealing the extremist, Anti-Semitic, Anti-Shia & Anti-Christian contents of senior Saudi officials and literature in schools and military publications. Just like the Saudi Monarchy’s state was built on the extremist Wahhabi ideology, so is the Saudi military and educational system as shown in this and other publications.

To do or not to do?: Internal discussions on holding the religious festivals of Shiite Islam in 2020 during the Covid-19 lockdown

With the global spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, all countries of the world, and consequently most of the world’s religions, faced new conditions and unforeseen problems. One of these issues has been the religious interpretation of the epidemic, the duties of the believers in these circumstances, and the holding of religious ceremonies during the pandemic.

See also:’“Social Distance” against “Closeness” Reconsidering the issue of closeness in the shiite Islam festivals under the covid-19 pandemic’

Bahrain’s Double Standard on Religious Freedom: The Case of Ashura 2020

Ashura is a time of mourning and remembrance for the Shia Muslims. In Bahrain, its observance serves as both a symbol of their religion and a marker of their religious freedom. However, this year, Bahraini authorities have continued the systematic discrimination against the Shia citizens by curtailing their freedom of religious observation, citing COVID-19 as…

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1.ONLINE: 54^th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA 2020), 5-17 October 2020

 

Information, program and registration: https://mailchi.mp/280aec0a4672/mesa-2020-starts-monday-important-details?e=6c5710e83c

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE: Seminar: “Migration of Iranians (Shirazis) to East African Coasts and its Cultural Impacts”, SOAS, University of London, 5 October 2020, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm GMT

This talk by Amirbahram Arabahmadi, University of Tehran, focuses on historical relations of Iranians and east African coasts and specifically the immigration of a group of Iranians from Shiraz to the coasts and islands of East Africa about one thousand years ago.

Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/cas/events/05oct2020-migration-of–iranians-shirazis-to-east-african-coasts-and-its-cultural-impacts.html

 

 

 

 

3. ONLINE: Debate: “Protest Potentials in Post-COVID Mena: A Third Wave of the Arab Spring?”, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and German Development (DIE), 8 October, 3:00 – 4.30 pm, CEST

Participants: Rima Majed, Assistant Professor of Sociology, American University of Beirut; Amel Boubekeur, Visiting Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations; Irene Weipert-Fenner, Senior Researcher, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt.

Information and registration: https://archive.newsletter2go.com/?n2g=ezs426oj-ssblizts-11a9

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE: 4^th Islamicate Digital Humanities Conference of the Islamicate Digital Humanities Network (IDHN), 18 November 2020

We are calling for contributions from both members and guests employing digital methods in their research within the Islamicate Studies and related fields in the Humanities, as well as from our colleagues in Linguistics and Computer Science. We encourage submissions from those in Graduate School or beyond.

Information and registration: www.idhn.org

 

 

 

 

5. Three Doctoral Research Fellowships, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo

Research covers a wide range of topics under the broad rubrics of religious studies, cultural history and culture, politics, and history of Asia and the Middle East. Requirements: A Master’s degree or equivalent in a discipline relevant for the project. Fluent oral and written communication skills in English. The necessary competencies and skills (such as language) for the research project.

Deadline for applications: 15 October 2020. Information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/191127/doctoral-research-fellowships

 

 

 

6. Assistant Professor in International Studies (Focus Middle East), School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

We invite applications from historians and anthropologists with expertise in colonialism, decolonization, and postcolonial legacies. We are particularly interested in scholars with expertise in the Middle East, South or Southeast Asia, or scholars with a global/comparative scope.

Deadline for applications: 29 October 2020. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/10/01/assistant-professor-in-international-studies

 

 

 

 

7. Defining Dialects: Accounting for Turkic Languages in the British Library Collections

 

 

 

 

8. Public Webinar

Islam and Evolution – An Opportunity for Conversation

Lecturer: Shoaib Malik, Assistant Professor of the Natural Sciences at Zayed University

Date: Tuesday, 13 October 2020

Time: 2p – 4p  (UAE) / 11a – 1p (UK)

Link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/c761c97b94774ac2a03676f211d4a025

Jan Lucasz. van Hasselt: A Dutch Painter in Safavid Isfahan

Abstract In February 1617, Jan Lucasz. van Hasselt arrived in Persia accompanying Pietro Della Valle (1586-1652), a Roman noble. Sometime between 1618 and 1621 Van Hasselt entered the service of Shah ʿAbbas I (r. 1588-1629), for whom he worked as a painter until the death of the shah.

1.Photos of Qajar Persia in an Old Dutch Book

http://persiandutch.com/2014/05/23/dutch-book-and-rare-photos-of-persia/

 

 

 

 

2. Sociocultural Anthropology (Assistant Professor, tenure-track)

Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia

Deadline: Review of applications will begin on October 23, 2020, and continue until the position is filled. 

Job Listing: https://www.arts.ubc.ca/academic-postings/unit/sociocultural-anthropology-assistant-professor-tenure-track/

The Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in sociocultural anthropology specializing in theoretical and/or ethnographic approaches to the study of race and racialization and/or queer theory. Regional focus is open, though the department has identified a strong interest in scholars working in Asia, the Middle East and/or Oceania.

 

 

 

3. Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Quran Online (https://brill.com/view/db/eqo), edited by Johanna Pink (Universität Freiburg), is the world’s foremost digital historical-critical reference work on the Quran. We are seeking professional scholars with demonstrable expertise in a variety of disciplines for the expansion and updating of the Encyclopaedia.

 

Since the printed volumes of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Quran appeared in 2001-2006, the larger field of Quranic Studies has expanded considerably. To account for the explosion of new research related to the Quran, the Encyclopaedia of the Quran Online (EQO) will be adding new articles and updating older entries. If your field of study and expertise appears below, or you feel your research should be addressed by the EQO, please reach out to the relevent members of the editorial board.

 

For articles or updates on Quranic exegetes, exegetical works, the broader Quranic sciences as well as social and liturgical practices related to the Quran (for example, recitation) please contact Associate Editor Shuruq Naguib (Lancaster University, shuruqnaguib@lancaster.ac.uk).

 

For articles or updates on modern Quranic Studies scholars, the Quran’s early history, and individual verses/ayat or suras, please contact Associate Editor Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau (Université de Strasbourg, asboisliveau@gmail.com).

 

For articles or updates on notable Quranic manuscripts, printed editions, Quranic and other significant epigraphy, or Quranic linguistics, please contact Associate Editor Süleyman Dost (Brandeis University, dost@brandeis.edu).

 

For articles or updates on biblical, para-biblical, Jewish, Christian, or other pre-Islamic texts with noteworthy relationships to the Quran, please contact Associate Editor George Archer (Iowa State University, garcher@iastate.edu).

 

For general inquiries about the project, or to propose articles or updates not suggested above, please contact  General Editor, Johanna Pink (Universität Freiburg, johanna.pink@orient.uni-freiburg.de).

 

Authors are asked to send their CV, affiliation (if applicable), and the titles of the entry/entries they are proposing to update or create, along with a short statement clarifying why this is significant to the study of the Quran.

 

 

 

 

4. Call for papers for volume 22 (2022) of Methodos

“Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language”

 

Guest Editors Shahid Rahman and Walter Young invite submission of papers to be published in “Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language,” the forthcoming issue of Methodos, the online review of the research unit

« Savoirs, Textes, Langage » (UMR 8163 – CNRS, Université de Lille) (http://methodos.revues.org)

 

Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language

 

The domain of Islamic thought and intellectual history boasts an important body of studies relevant to the Arabic philosophy of language, as well as a growing interest in Islamic argumentation theory and practice. There remains, however, a dearth of volumes which pool research from both areas and examine them together. Filling this gap is more critical than ever; in our time, significant work is being conducted in argumentation theory, but little of it draws from, or relates to, the rich intellectual traditions of Islam (exceedingly few argumentation specialists have heard, for example, of Islamic traditions of dialectical theory [jadal, munāẓara, ādāb al-baḥth], much less benefited from the millennium of discussions and solutions they contain).

 

With this in mind, the main objective of this volume of Methodos is to provide a venue for studies of hermeneutics, linguistic analysis, and deductive reasoning (formal and informal) in the theory / practice of argumentation relevant to the Arabic philosophy of language, including contributions on: (1) theories which are geared towards argument (e.g., dialectical justifications and objections, linguistic fallacies, strategies and protocols for engagement on particular issues, etc.); (2) the dynamic of argument in shaping concepts and theories (e.g., explaining how systematic argument fashioned certain scholars’ solutions); and (3) theories “in action” (e.g., argument analyses of the historical, scholarly dialectic on a certain problem).

 

Understanding that interdisciplinarity is a quintessential feature of premodern Islamic thought, we are also particularly eager to attract contributions on Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language from a broad spectrum of premodern Islamic disciplines (philosophy, theology, law and legal theory, logic, dialectic, rhetoric, philology, grammar, linguistics, exegesis, etc.) so as to provide testimony for the dynamic “unity in diversity” of Islamic thought.

 

SUBMISSION OF PAPER PROPOSALS

 

Paper proposals (2500 characters) are to be sent electronically, in Word and PDF formats, to Leone Gazziero (leone.gazziero@univ-lille.fr) and Florence Thill (florence.thill@univ-lille.fr).

 

DEADLINE: 20 JANUARY 2021

 

Accepted languages : French, German, Italian, English.

 

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Once a proposal has been accepted, the authors will send their text in accordance with the guidelines described under « Conditions de publication et instructions aux auteurs » on the review’s website (http://methodos.revues.org/2124).

 

DEADLINE: 15 MAY 2021

 

 

 

5. Online Panel: Black and Afro-Iranians in Iranian Cultural Imaginary

Oct 6, 2020 03:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

 

Featuring panelists:
-Shadee Malaklou (Director of Berea College Women and Gender Non-Conforming Center)
-Parisa Vaziri (Asst. Prof. Complit Cornell U)
-Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda (Human Rights Lawyer, UN agencies and non-governmental organizations)
-Amir Vafa (Assistant Prof. English, Shiraz University)

Moderated by Sima Shakhsari (Associate Prof. Women’s Studies Minnesota U)

Sponsors: UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, Omar ibn Said Initiative,
Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, UNC Persian Studies Program, The American Institute of Iranian Studies

For more information, please contact Dr. Claudia Yaghoobi, Roshan Institute Associate Professor in Persian Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, Yaghoobi@email.unc.edu

 

Register at:

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XkEOn3iGRJK4ZGo6fBZ-EQ

 

 

 

6. University of Basel – 2 PhD positions in Near and Middle Eastern Studies

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60408

 

 

 

7. The12th Annual International Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Conference (IRTP) 23-26 June 2021 in Braga, Portugal

All detailed information about the Conference can be found at our web site: www.irtp.co.uk

Please submit your abstract till 31st January 2021 and join us at the conference the next year.

 

 

 

8. CFP: Comparative literary practice in the multilingual Islamic world(s)

Pre-modern comparative literary practice in the multilingual Islamic world(s)

a conference to be hosted by the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre (OCCT)

University of Oxford, 23-24 July 2021

with a volume of proceedings to follow

from Oxford University Press

https://www.occt.ox.ac.uk/pre-modern-comparative-literary-practice-multilingual-islamic-worlds

Abstracts (max. 400 words) should be sent in a Word document, along with a short biography that contains academic affiliations and publications. Please use the IJMES transliteration system. The deadline for all submissions is November 17th, 2020.

Please send abstracts to the conference’s email: premulticomparison@gmail.com