Archive for 2020
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Middle East Women’s Activism digital archive is a collection of interviews with 96 women of different generations in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, which form the basis of a monograph, entitled, Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. All interviews were conducted by Nicola Pratt, University of Warwick, in 2013-2014 as part of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship exploring the relationship between gender and geopolitics in the context of the Middle East. The research received approval from the University of Warwick Humanities and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee and consent was given at the time of interview to make this material publicly available.
The archive will be of interest to researchers in the fields of gender studies and post-independence social history in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. The interviews consist of women’s personal narratives of their family background and education, how they became involved in public work (al-‘amal al-‘am), information about their activism and how it has changed over time and the impact of/their involvement in major national events, amongst other details. More.
2. The Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize in Islamic Art and Culture
Deadline: November 15, 2020
Every year the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) sponsors a competition and awards the Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize for the best unpublished essay written by a junior scholar (pre-dissertation graduate student to three years after the Ph.D. degree) on any aspect of Islamic visual culture. This competition is open to HIAA members only. The Ševčenko Prize recipient receives an award of $500 and a citation, generally presented at HIAA’s annual business meeting. The Prize is named in memory of Margaret Bentley Ševčenko, the first and long-serving Managing Editor of Muqarnas, a journal devoted to the visual culture of the Islamic world and sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard and at MIT. The winning essay will be considered for publication by the MuqarnasEditorial Board.
Submissions must include the paper in both Word and PDF format, and a separate sheet with the author’s contact information (address, telephone number, and email address). Papers should not exceed 10,000 words in length (including footnotes) and can be accompanied by up to 15 low-res illustrations.
Please note that submissions cannot be in press or under review with any publisher.
A letter of recommendation for the paper should be sent separately by the author’s adviser or referee.
All materials should be submitted by email to the Ševčenko committee chair, Hala Auji (sevcenko.hiaa@gmail.com) by November 15, 2020. Files exceeding 5 Mb should be transferred by FTP.
For further details, please visit: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/the-margaret-ševčenko-prize-in-islamic-art-and-culture
3. The Iran Society invites applications, through British Institute of Persian Studies, for a ONE YEAR bursary of £5000 for 2020-21 to enable a final year PhD student at a UK Higher Educational Institution (university, museum or similar) to complete and, time permitting, initiate a post-doctoral research project. The bursary may be divided into £2500 each for two finalists for the same purpose.
Applicants will need to provide:
- a curriculum vitae (CV);
- a brief summary of the project in under 100 words and a longer description in greater detail in not more than 700 words;
- a timeline plan indicating the stages of their project and the anticipated final date of submission;
- realistic details of their current funding position, budget and the costs of the study up to completion. If they will complete well within the year, they must give the financial details involved in any postdoctoral project till the final date of this award;
- names of two referees, one of whom should be their supervisor.
Publication is an absolute condition of the award, as is acknowledgement of both the Iran Society and BIPS, who will be administering it. The Iran Society and BIPS should see and approve the appropriate acknowledgement of funding in any proposed publication prior to its actual appearance.
Enquiries and applications should be sent by email to reach the BIPS Executive Officer (bips@britac.ac.uk ) no later than 11th October 2020 at 6.00 p.m. UK time. The referees should be requested to send their references directly to the Executive Officer. It is the responsibility of the applicants to ensure that the application form and references arrive by the deadline; late applications, or those without references, will not be considered.
See: https://www.bips.ac.uk/iran-society-bursary/
- September 19, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Leiden Yemeni Manuscripts Digitized
Leiden Yemeni manuscripts now digitally available
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently digitized circa 150 Yemeni manuscripts and has made them freely available for research and education. The manuscripts, dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, were digitized as part of the Zaydi Manuscript Tradition project. Yemen has been marked…
- September 17, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, is pleased to announce that “Byzantine Pieces of an Umayyad Puzzle: A Basalt Platform in the Azraq Oasis” has been rescheduled. In this lecture, Dr. Alexander Brey, Wellesley College, will discuss an Umayyad-era basalt reservoir platform built within the Azraq oasis in eastern Jordan and places its carved interlocking stones in conservation with early Byzantine zodiac and celestial diagrams.
October 1, 2020 | Zoom | 4:00–5:00 pm (Eastern time)
This lecture will take place live on ZOOM, followed by a question and answer period. Please register to receive the ZOOM link. An email with the relevant ZOOM information will be sent 1–2 hours ahead of the lecture. Registration closes at 11:00 AM on October 1, 2020.
Register here: https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/byzantine-pieces-of-an-umayyad-puzzle-a-basalt-platform-in-the-azraq-oasis
Mary Jaharis Center lectures are co-sponsored by Harvard University Standing Committee on Medieval Studies.
Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, with any questions.
2. Turkish History and Culture in India: Identity, Art and Transregional Connections
co-edited by A.C.S. Peacock and Richard Piran McClary.
Leiden: Brill, 2020
https://brill.com/view/title/57315?language=en
3. Sheikh Zayed Book Award (9 categories) | Final Call for Submissions to 15th edition | 1 October 2020
Examples of previous winners
Marina Warner (Arabic Culture in Other Languages, 2013); Amin Maalouf (Cultural Personality of the Year, 2016); Ibitisam Barakat (Children’s Literature, 2020); and Moncef Ouhaibi (Literature, 2020).
Award categories include:
● Arabic Culture in Other Languages
● Translation (either to or from Arabic)
● Literature (including fiction, poetry and plays)
● Literary and Art Criticism
● Young Author (for writers under the age of 40)
● Children’s & Adolescent Literature
● Publishing & Technology
● Contribution to the Development of Nations
● Cultural Personality of the Year
For further information:
https://www.zayedaward.ae/en/how.to.nominate.aspx
4. Mideastwire announces free access to the Taliban Source Project
Through a partnership with Thesigers, the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (FFI) and the University of Oslo, Mideastwire.com has translated and is now making available 1,452 separate translations drawn from nine years of the Taliban’s Arabic language magazine, Al-Samood (Issues 1-99/2006-2014), which together constitute the overwhelming bulk of the Taliban Source Project (TSP) database.
Unfortunately, the TSP as a whole and our translations of Al-Samood specifically were only made available this year because of what we believe was a fundamental misunderstanding of the project and its implication.
Indeed, several years ago, the British Library, which was supposed to serve as the sole repository, judged that the archive contained some material that could contravene the Terrorism Act.
Thankfully, the University of Oslo recently stepped up and hosted the project, thereby recognizing how freely available, high-quality translations – especially of one’s purported adversary – can actually lead to greater understanding and, potentially, peace-building.
The material in both the original Arabic (downloadable PDF for each month) and English are all searchable in full.
Register at: https://www.mideastwire15years.com/
5. The HIAA Biennial Symposium, originally planned for October 2020, was postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. We are now writing to announce that the event will be held remotely by the University of Michigan on April 15-17, 2021. Please mark your virtual calendars!
We are currently revising the symposium program in order to accommodate our participants’ various time zones. Thank you for staying tuned for more information as we revise the schedule of panels and talks.
The remote pivot notwithstanding, we are so looking forward to hosting the HIAA Biennial Symposium remotely in April 2021! If any questions pop up, please do not hesitate to contact us at besener@umich.edu.
All best wishes,
Christiane Gruber and Bihter Esener
5. ONLINE: Conference via Zoom: “The Concept of Death, and the Concept of Life in Judaism, Christianity and Islam”, Research Unit “Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses”, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 23-24 September 2020
It is possible to join the conference after registration. Please contact Mr. Fabian Schmidmeier fabian.schmidmeier@fau.de. Program: https://www.kcid.fau.de/files/2020/09/program_online_conference_the-concept-of-life-and-the-concept-of-death-in-judaism.pdf
6. ONLINE: “4th Annual Late Antique, Islamic, and Byzantine Studies Conference”, University of Edinburgh, 19-21 November 2020
The conference focuses on disasters (natural, “manmade” or “supernatural”) that shape historical memory and our understanding of the past, concentrating on the problematic relations between catastrophes and memory in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine societies.
Information and registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/4th-annual-edinburgh-late-antique-islamic-and-byzantine-conference-tickets-117904135443
7. POSTPONED: Conference: “The Middle East c.1960-1980. Global and Transnational Perspectives“, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 5 March 2021; Postponed, New Date to be Announced
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.
8. Symposium on “Alanya and Alaaddin Keykubat on the Eve of 800th Year of Conquest”, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, 21-22 April 2021
The symposium will focus on Sultan Alaaddin Keykubat and the history of Alanya during Seljukid, Ottoman and Republican periods.
Information: https://selcuklu.alanya.edu.tr/ctrcms/media/61/tmp//2020_05_11_alanya_sempozyum_call_for_papers_EN.pdf
9. Post-Doctoral Researcher (3 Years) in Islamic Manuscripts of Sumatra, SOAS, University of London
Requirements: PhD, or be very close to completion of a PhD, in a relevant subject (i.e. philology, codicology, textual or literary analysis, history and/or ethnography utilising Islamic manuscripts in Malay and/or Arabic and/or other relevant languages); etc.
Deadline for applications: 3 October 2020. Information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CBK758/post-doctoral-researcher-in-islamic-manuscripts-of-sumatra?uuid=aeb9c14b-f17f-11ea-a3a3-064da8edb92a&campaign=jbew20200908&source=jbe
10. Articles on “Feminist Political Economy in the Arab Region” for a Special Issue of the Journal “Al-Raida”
This issue of Al-Raida asks what feminist political economy, or FPE, can contribute as a critical framework for analyzing, understanding, and challenging dominant socioeconomic and political systems in the Arab Region. With an emphasis on process, FPE examines the lived realities of social difference, and the constraints and pressures of the everyday under global capitalism.
Deadline for full-length article: 27 November 2020. Information: http://alraidajournal.com/index.php/ALRJ/announcement/view/5
11. Articles for “Al Noor”, the Undergraduate Middle Eastern Studies Journal of Boston College
Our aims: – Facilitate a nonpartisan, unbiased conversation within the Boston College community and beyond about the Middle East. – Provide a medium for students to publish research on the Middle East. – Promote diverse opinions and present a comprehensive view of the myriad of cultures, histories, and perspectives of the Middle East
Deadline for submissions: 11 October 2020. Information: https://www.bcalnoor.org/ and https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/09/10/al-noor-fall-2020
12. ARIT Summer Fellowships for Advanced Turkish Language in Istanbul offers intensive advanced study of Turkish at Bogazici University during the summer 2021. Participants must have two years of Turkish language study or the equivalent. The fellowships cover round-trip airfare to Istanbul, application and tuition fees, and a maintenance stipend. The application deadline will be in early February, 2021.
For additional information please see the ARIT webpage at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT/FellowshipPrograms.html
13. The Silk Road: Crafting global futures, global pasts
Panel Proposal, International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS )12
Kyoto, Japan, 24-27 August 2021
Prof Tim Winter, University of Western Australia
Deadline for Abstracts 25th September 2020
The Silk Road has emerged as one of the key geocultural and geostrategic concepts of the 21st century. Built around narratives of maritime and overland trade and exchange connecting Asia with Africa and Europe, Silk Road discourses are rewriting histories, remapping futures. In the age of Belt and Road, they now operate as platforms for international trade, diplomacy, infrastructure development and statecraft.
The ascendancy of the Silk Road in international affairs means it is also fast gaining currency across academic disciplines, migrating outwards from Archaeology, Asian Studies and History into International Relations, Political Geography, Religious Studies, Public Health and Urban Studies, to name a few. Such developments raise important questions about how to interrogate and locate the Silk Roads, conceptually and empirically.
In China’s worldview the Silk Roads serve as both ‘shared heritage’ and ‘shared destiny’. So what does the idea of ‘reviving’ them for the 21st century tell us about global futures? How are we to read the Health Silk Road as a platform for COVID-19 medical cooperation across Asia and beyond? What’s really at stake in the Digital Silk Roads? And is the push for Silk Road narratives finally putting Asia at the centre of global history?
In exploring such themes, this panel takes the Silk Road as a topic of critical investigation. It addresses the urgent need to take Silk Road discourses seriously, interrogating the work they do crafting both pasts and futures around certain themes, ideologies and structural relations.
Papers are welcome that consider the Silk Roads across different contexts, in academia or policy.
Please send 250 word abstracts and author details to Tim Winter, tim.winter@uwa.edu.au by 25th September 2020.
See: silkroadfutures.net
14. Call for Papers: 4th Islamicate Digital Humanities Conference
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 will have four to six presentations of 20 minutes each in which you can introduce your project and share your expertise and questions with the network.
To contribute, send an email to info@idhn.org with the preliminary title, an abstract of 150 to 250 words, and your academic affiliation until October 2nd, 2020. We encourage submissions from those in Graduate School or beyond. Find more information on www.idhn.org and join at https://idhn.org/contact/.
15. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: SoFCB JUNIOR FELLOWS PROGRAM
Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) invites applications for its 2021–23 cohort of junior fellows. The deadline is Monday, 2 November 2020.
Continuing the work of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography (2012–17), this scholarly society works to advance the study of texts, images, and artifacts as material objects through capacious, interdisciplinary scholarship—and to enrich humanistic inquiry and education by identifying, mentoring, and training promising early-career scholars. Junior Fellows will be encouraged and supported in integrating the methods of critical bibliography into their teaching and research, fostering collegial conversations about historical and emerging media across disciplines and institutions, and sharing their knowledge with broader publics.
The fellowship includes tuition waivers for two Rare Book School courses, as well as funding for Junior Fellows to participate in the Society’s annual meeting and orientation. Additional funds are available for fellows to organize symposia at their home institutions, and fellows will have the option of attending a bibliographical field school to visit libraries, archives, and collections in a major metropolitan area. After completing two years in good standing as Junior Fellows, program participants will have the option to become Senior Fellows in the Society.
The Society is committed to supporting diversity and to advancing the scholarship of outstanding persons of every race, gender, sexual orientation, creed, and socioeconomic background, and to enhancing the diversity of the professions and academic disciplines it represents, including those of the professoriate, museums, libraries, archives, public humanities, and digital humanities. We warmly encourage prospective applicants from a wide range of disciplines, institutions, and areas of expertise.
For more information and to apply, please visit:
http://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/sofcb/
For more information about diversity and the SoFCB, please visit the SoFCB Diversity & Outreach Committee’s Welcome Letter: https://rarebookschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/SoFCB_Welcome_Letter_2020.pdf
Inquiries about the SoFCB Junior Fellows Program can be directed to Sonia Hazard, SoFCB Selection Committee Chair, at shazard@fsu.edu, or Donna Sy, SoFCB Administrative Director, at rbs-mellon@virginia.edu.
- September 15, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Shi‘i NGOs in Tanzania – M. Leichtman
Transnational Networks and Global Shi’i Islamic NGOs in Tanzania
Javascript needed Please enable JavaScript on your browser, so that you can use all features of this website. main-content 2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter Media and policy analysis often depicts African Muslims as pawns in the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, ignoring the wider history of trans-regional connections between Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
- September 14, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Tributaries and Peripheries of the Ottoman Empire
Ed G Karman
Leiden: Brill, 2020
https://brill.com/view/title/56530
2. ONLINE: 4th 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.
Deadline for submissions: 2 October 2020. Information: www.idhn.org
3. Conference: “Knowledge Systems and Ottoman-European Encounters: Spatial and Social Dynamics”, University of Zurich, 21-23 January 2021
The conference will focus on knowledge from or about the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period, addressing two questions: from a spatial perspective, how can the Ottoman Empire be included into a European history of knowledge? From a social viewpoint: how was knowledge inside or about the Ottoman Empire organized and what kind of social functions can there be distinguished?
4. Visiting Professorship (6 Months) at Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) under the Kuwait Program, Sciences Po, Paris
The visiting professorship will start 6 January 2021. We are seeking professors or researchers who are full-time faculty members of professorial rank from the social sciences or economics with a Middle East/Gulf focus.
Application deadline: 15 September 2020. Information: https://www.sciencespo.fr/kuwait-program/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Call_KSP_Visting_Faculty_Spring_2021_V2.pdf
5. 30 Fellowships for10 Months per Academic Year (Focus Mediterranean Studies) Offered by “French Institutes for Advanced Study” at High-level Scientific Residencies in Paris, Lyon, Marseille, and Montpellier
The fellowships are offered to outstanding researchers of all career levels. The minimum requirement is a PhD + 2 years of research experience at the time of the application. Exception will be made for scholars with a Master + 6 years of full‐time research experience after the degree. Researchers from all countries are eligible, but they have to have spent no more than 12 months in France during the three years prior to the application deadline.
Deadline for applications: 15 September 2020. Information: https://www.fias-fp.eu/
6. Book Proposals for New Series on “Cinema and Media Cultures in the Middle East“, Peter Lang Publishing
The purpose of the series is to demarcate and critically examine the shifting terrain of film- and media-making in the Middle East, and of practices of film and media studies regarding it, testing them both against their larger, social enabling conditions at the national, regional, and transnational levels. Titles in the series will engage recent developments in the field of Middle East film and media studies.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6380782/cinema-and-media-cultures-middle-east
7. The Arab Regional Center for World Heritage (ARC-WH) has launched the Dr. Ahmad Yusuf Al-Ubaydli Award for the Study of Ancient Arab Dialects and Societies. The award will help shed light on the traditional Arabic languages and dialects that are threatened and disappearing, in addition to encouraging scientific research to enhance efforts of preserving intangible cultural heritage in the Arab world.The award covers all regions of the Arab world.
Regional and international researchers are invited to participate by presenting research or literature in Arabic or English that focus on various topics and areas of interest. Studies or text presented must be in line with the scientific method of analysis.The award includes the following areas: contemporary Arab societies that speak languages such as Dhofari, Mehri, and Socotran, as well as various forms of text and writings widespread in the Arabian Peninsula.
The deadline for submission is 1 June 2021. Those wishing to apply for the award must fill out of the form provided on ARC-WH’s website and send their research proposal to ARC-WH electronically via e-mail to info@arcwh.org <mailto:info@arcwh.org>. Contestants can also send their proposal to the following address: P.O. Box 75553, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain.
8. CFP for METHODOS 22 “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
9. Call for chapters: Marriage and Forced Migration: New Understandings of Conjugal Relationships in the Middle East and North Africa
- Edited by: Yafa Shanneik, Mulki al-Sharmani and Farah Al Taji
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has experienced, since the beginning of the 21st century, large-scale forced movement of populations who fled wars in countries such as Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia. The absorption of millions of these refugees, including (un)recognised asylum seekers, in neighbouring countries creates a number of significant socio-economic and political challenges. This massive forced population movement also resulted in ruptures of traditional understandings of family structures and gender roles defined by religio-cultural norms and values of both new-comers and of receiving societies.
This edited volume seeks to analyse conjugal relationships and matrimonial practices (marriage and divorce) as they are being debated and developed in theory and practice in the MENA region. We aim to explore to what extent the conflict- and crises-induced displacement of people contribute to the emergence of new understandings of family structures and relationships and their wider religious and socio-economic context. While there is a growing body of research on gender and sexuality in the MENA region and legislative or judicial approaches towards questions of Islamic family law, fewer studies have given attention to the impact of the significant refugee flows on the emergence of new conjugal relationship norms and practices in the MENA region.
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 September 2020
Abstracts of 300-500 words need to specify the empirical research and/or methodological and conceptual discussions the chapter is based on and the broader questions addressed. We also need a short bio of up to 200 words. The abstract and the bio need to be sent as one email attachment in MS Word format to Yafa Shanneik: y.shanneik@bham.ac.uk with ‘abstract and bio’ and your last name in the subject heading.
Further information at:
10. Posts: Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh
Alwaleed Lecturer in the Globalised Muslim World: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=053049
Alwaleed Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow: Contemporary Muslim Societies in Southeast Asia: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=053050
The closing date for both posts is the 7th October.
Interviews for both posts will take place online towards the end of October.
- September 10, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – ‘Aḥkām concerning the ahl al-bayt’ – N. Husayn
Aḥkām concerning the ahl al-bayt
Abstract Although Islamic law generally identifies all free Muslim males as equal members of society, irrespective of race or ancestry, a peculiar exception is made for those who claim patrilineal descent from the Arab chieftain Hāshim b. ‘Abd Manāf, the great-grandfather of the Prophet Muḥammad.
- September 08, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1. University of Toronto – Mississauga – Assistant Professor – History of Islamic Art and Architecture
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60314
All application materials, including reference letters, must be received by September 30, 2020
2. MOON AND SUN, a bilingual edition of translations of Rumi’s rubaiyat, is now available in both hardcover and eBook formats.
You can find more information and purchase the book here: https://zarahoushmand.com/moon-and-sun/
3. Tehran Islamic Studies Monitor (TehranISM)
TehranISM is a series of conversations addressing Islamic studies across the world. The aim of conversations is to link “Western” and “non-Western” study of Islam. In particular, it aims at engaging more Iranian scholars and students with the state of the art in global Islamic studies.
Each conversation will focus on one recently published work about Islam. The structure of each conversation consists of: 5 minutes “introduction” by the host; 15 minutes “comments” by the discussant; and 20-30 minutes “response” by the author and the Q&A period.
For full information, see: https://ftis.ut.ac.ir/en/tehranism
September 3, 11 am (EDT), 16 (BST), 19:30 (Iran daylight time)
The Qur’an and the Bible: Text and Commentary.
Author: Gabriel Said Reynolds (University of Notre Dame)
Discussant: Mohsen Goudarzi (University of Minnesota)
September 10, 10 am (EDT), 15 (BST), 18:30 (Iran daylight time)
Teaching and learning the sciences in Islamicate societies (800-1700)
Author: Sonja Brentjes (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
Discussant: Amir Mohammad Gamini (University of Tehran)
September 17, 10 am (EDT), 15 (BST), 18:30 (Iran daylight time)
A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī
Author: Konrad Hirschler (Freie Universität Berlin)
Discussant: TBA
September 24, 10 am (EDT), 15 (BST), 17:30 (Iran standard time)
Qur’anic Hermeneutics: Between Science, History, and the Bible
Author: Abdulla Galadari (Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi)
Discussant: Kurt Andres Richardson (University of Toronto)
October 1, 10 am (EDT), 15 (BST), 17:30 (Iran standard time)
Author: Marijn van Putten (Leiden University)
Discussant: Ala Vahidnia (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran)
Further inquiries: feyzbakhsh@ut.ac.ir
4. Monash University is starting an open-to-public online seminar series on the medieval Sufi master Ibn Arabi (d.1240), titled “The Hidden Treasure.”
It will meet on the first Saturday of every month, and the inaugural seminar will be delivered by Dr. Stephen Hirtenstein (Ibn Arabi Society, UK) on Sept.5 (at 10am in London time). The seminars will be composed of 30-minute presentations by the speaker followed by 30 minutes of question and answer with the audience. See the link and the attachment for more info and for free registration: https://www.monash.edu/arts/Ibn-Arabi-Interreligious-Research-Initiative/news-and-events/events/events/the-hidden-treasure-ibn-arabi-seminar-series2 The following talk will be delivered by Prof. Pablo Beneito (Uni. Murcia, Spain) on Oct.3, and the series will feature other distinguished experts on Ibn Arabi.
5. Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II: Live and Afterlives of an Iconic Image
Elizabeth Rodini
IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2020
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gentile-bellinis-portrait-of-sultan-mehmed-ii-9781838604813/
6. Le judaïsme persique
Le double sens de l’assimilation
de Reza ROKOEE
Editions du Cygne, 2020
http://www.editionsducygne.com/editions-du-cygne-judaisme-persique.html
- September 07, 2020
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Shii News – The role of Imam Hussein (as) in Human Upbringing – 9 September, 2020
11th G.S.G.V.H. Imam Hussain (AS) Traditional Meeting:
The role of Imam Hussein (as) in Human Upbringing (By: Hojjatoleslam Dr. S.M. Daryabari)
Exclusive Conversation with our Italian Guest: Prof. Giampiero Khaled Paladini, the Islamic University of Italy on Wednesday, Sep. 9, 2020 07:30 pm (CEST)
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- September 04, 2020
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- September 01, 2020
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Modern Hadith Studies
Continuing Debates and New Approaches
Edited by Belal Abu-Alabbas, Christopher Melchert, Michael Dann
Edinburgh University Press, 2020
2. The Department of History and the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at Amherst College invite applications for a joint tenure-track appointment at the rank of assistant professor in South Asian history, broadly defined.
Amherst College is one of the most diverse liberal arts colleges in the country. Forty-five percent of our students identify as domestic students of color, and another 9 percent are international, with non-U.S. citizenship; 14 percent are the first members of their families to attend college. Amherst is committed to providing financial aid that meets 100 percent of every student’s demonstrated need, and 57 percent of our students receive financial aid. Our expectation is that the successful candidate will excel at teaching and mentoring students who are broadly diverse with regard to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and religion.
We welcome applications from candidates in any specialization who are prepared to teach courses in both pre-modern and modern South Asian history, and who have strong commitments to scholarship and to teaching a diverse undergraduate student body. The teaching load is two courses per semester. The successful candidate will also be expected to advise senior thesis projects in both departments and to participate in the life of the college. Candidates must have the Ph.D. in history or a related field in hand, or all requirements for the degree must be fulfilled by the start of the appointment on July 1, 2021.
See: https://apply.interfolio.com/77685
Candidates who progress beyond the initial review will be asked to submit three letters of recommendation, a writing sample, and syllabi for two proposed courses. Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2020, and continue until the position is filled. Questions may be directed to Professor Trent Maxey, chair of the Asian Languages and Civilizations Department, at tmaxey@amherst.edu.
Amherst College is an equal opportunity employer and encourages persons of all genders, persons of color, and persons with disabilities to apply. The college is committed to enriching its educational experience and its culture through the diversity of its faculty, administration, and staff.
3. Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University
Fall 2020 Series
Islam in Africa: Material Histories
Dear colleagues and friends,
We are delighted to announce below the lineup for our fall lecture series Islam in Africa: Material Histories. Due to the ongoing restrictions imposed by the pandemic, this will be an online series in the form of Webinars. We are extremely grateful to our speakers for agreeing to participate in this format.
To accommodate audiences in the US and abroad, for this semester we are changing the timing of our lectures to 12.30-2.30 ET (New York time).
Each event will take place as a live Webinar at 12.30 ET New York (equivalent to 17.30 Abuja & London; 18.30 Berlin & Cape Town; 19.30 Addis & Beirut; 21.30 Islamabad; 22.00 Delhi; 23.30 Jakarta). Links to register are posted on the web pages for each event (https://as.nyu.edu/silsila/events.html). You will then receive a link enabling you to access the event as an attendee. Only registered attendees will be able to access the event.
We look forward to welcoming you back to Silsila, virtually.
Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, “Islam in Africa: Material Histories”
Sep 9th “THE LOST ARCHIVE – TRACES OF A CALIPHATE IN A CAIRO SYNAGOGUE” Marina Rustow, Princeton University
Sep 16th “SWAHILI MOSQUES BETWEEN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN” Stéphane Pradines, Aga Khan University, London
Sep 23rd “CONTINUITIES AND CROSSINGS – EAST AFRICAN ILLUMINATED QUR’ANS FROM FAZA AND SIYU” Zulfikar Hirji, York University, Toronto
Sep 30th “ITEMS OF VALUE IN THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN” Stephanie Wynne-Jones, University of York
Oct 7th “BROKER STATES & THE ARTICULATION OF MEDIEVAL AFRICA WITH THE ISLAMIC WORLD” François-Xavier Fauvelle, Collège de France
Oct 14th “THE PALACE OF KING NJOYA – COLONIALISM, MODERNITY, AND ISLAM” Mark DeLancey, DePaul University
Oct 20th “RELATIONS BETWEEN THE MAGHREB AND THE BILAD AL-SUDAN AT THE TIME OF THE BERBER EMPIRES” Mehdi Ghouirgate, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne
Oct 22nd “TRANS-SAHARAN SLAVERY AND GNAWA GUINBRI – FROM CONCEALMENT TO EXHIBITION” Cynthia Becker, Boston University
Oct 28th “THE TARIKH AL-FATTASH AND THE MAKING OF THE CALIPHATE OF HAMDALLAHI” Mauro Nobili, University of Illinois
Nov 4th “BECOMING MUSLIM. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ISLAMISATION AND TRADE IN EASTERN ETHIOPIA” Timothy Insoll, University of Exeter
Nov 11th “DETERMINANT INDETERMINACIES – ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF A SENEGALESE SUFI SAINT” Allen F. Roberts, UCLA
Nov 18th “PAPERS OF ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS AS GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATORS” Anne Regourd, CNRS, Paris
Nov 24th “TIMBUKTU, THE SCHOLARS, AND RULERS: AHMAD BABA TINBUKTI’s Jalb al–ni‘ma wa daf‘ al-niqma bi mujānabat al-wulāt al-ẓalama (How to obtain blessing and avoid divine anger by avoiding unjust rulers)” Shamil Jeppie, University of Cape Town
Dec 2nd “GOLD WORK: TECHNIQUES AND EXCHANGE ACROSS THE SAHARA” Sarah Guérin, University of Pennsylvania
Dec 9th “AFRICA IN THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD – THE PROBLEM OF MARGINS IN ART HISTORY” Prita Meier, NYU
4. “Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online” is an emerging platform of digital resources to aid the teaching of the history of Islamic art and architecture. In its initial stage, the platform provides original multimedia content developed by scholars from across the field of Islamic art, which is intended to aid educators in the creation of an interactive learning environment and to contribute to new ways of teaching in general, bringing new voices, perspectives, and materials into our classrooms. The project is spearheaded by Prof. Christiane Gruber at the University of Michigan and a team of six collaborators. Team Khamseen will make this material available to public audiences, with the aim to establish and expand a website with additional resources over the coming months.
Currently available mini-multimedia files include the following presentations, which were kindly (and very swiftly) provided by international experts. We hope these will prove useful to those teaching remotely this fall semester:
Water and Sound in Islamic Architecture
The Egyptian Tentmakers and the Art of Khayamiya
Islamic Art at the Walters Art Museum
İbrahim Müteferrika and the First Printed Books of the Islamic World
Touching Mecca & Medina: The Dalā’il al-Khayrāt and Devotional Practices
Gruber, Christiane and Paroma Chaterjee.
[available online with closed captions here]
A Safavid Painting of the Prophet Muhammad’s Mi‘raj
[available online with closed captions here]
Persian Painting in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century: Farangi Sâzi Safavid Paintings
Dome of the Rock: Original Mosaics
The Paintings of Osman Hamdi Bey
The Khanqah of Baybar al-Jashinkir, 1306-1310
Islamic Arms and Armor: A Look at Dhu’l Fiqar, ‘Ali’s Miraculous Sword
Mahmoud Mukhtar’s Khamasin: Scuplture in Modern Egypt
The Stuart Cary Welch Islamic & South Asian Photograph Collection
Contextualizing the Hünername (Book of Talents)
Monumental Mosques in Latin America
Khamseen is an ongoing project and more material will be included on a rolling basis. For any questions, or if you are interested in contributing a mini multi-media file, please contact Sandy Williams (University of Michigan) at sswill@umich.edu.
5. ONLINE: International eConference on Interreligious Dialogue, Global Center for Religious Research (GCRR), 4-6 December 2020
The conference will bring together religion scholars, specialists, and practitioners of different faith traditions (from all over the world) to discuss the various complexities, problems, and solutions resulting from interreligious dialogue.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2020. Information: https://www.gcrr.org/2020interreligiousdialogue
6. 3rd ANU Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian National University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2020 – POSTPONED to 8-10 December 2021
The aim of this conference is to explore the various phenomena related to religion and migration; the political and social transitions impacting upon the transnational religiosity of contemporary communities.
Deadline for abstracts: 21 May 2021. Information: https://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/events/religion-and-migration-culture-and-policy-0#acton-tabs-link–tabs-0-middle-1
7. British Academy Postdoc Fellowships (3 Years) for Outstanding Early Career Researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Any nationals from the European Economic Area are eligible, regardless of where their doctorate was obtained. Eligible applicants are expected to be at an early stage of their career. This is defined as being within three years from the date of your successful Viva Voce examination.
Deadline for application: 14 October 2020.
Information: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/postdoctoral-fellowships/
8. Postdoctoral Fellowship (11 Months) for Research on Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and Persian Sources on Religion in the Ottoman Empire (15th -18th Centuries), Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
Application requirements: PhD degree in history, Islamic Studies, or a related field; near-native fluency in English and an excellent command of Ottoman Turkish, Persian and Arabic; experience in translating primary sources.
Deadline for applications: 4 September 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/6348878/cfa-postdoc-opportunity-bogazici-university-early-modern-ottoman
9. Up to 40 Scholarships (3 or 6 Months) for Historical Research on Near Eastern Civilizations and the Islamic World, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton University
Requirements: Substantial record of publications and a PhD awarded by no later than 31 December 2019.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2020. Information: https://www.hs.ias.edu/mem_announcement
10. Up to 40 Residential Fellowships at the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Dakota
Mid-career and senior scholars from all over the world are encouraged to apply. Emerging scholars with a strong record of peer-reviewed work may also apply. In addition to scholars from all fields of the humanities, the Center accepts individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects.
Deadline for applications: 8 October 2020.
Information: https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/become-a-fellow/
11. Articles on “Islamic Theologies of Disasters: Between Science, Religion and Messianism” for Special Issue of “MIDEO” 38 (2023)
This issue of MIDEO is devoted to the Islamic theology of catastrophes at different periods of history, in ancient, modern and contemporary theological thought.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2021.
Information: https://www.ideo-cairo.org/en/2020/07/call-for-papers-islamic-theologies-of-disasters/
12. Articles on “Historizing Islamophobia” for Special Issue of “Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam”
We seek articles that present counter-hegemonic analyses, approaches and concepts, examining Islamophobia as a longer and more complex phenomenon. We are especially interested in papers which examine how settler-colonial projects against Indigenous communities and colonized communities have informed Islamophobia formations across varying national, social and political contexts.
Deadline for submissions: 20 February 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6142269/special-issue-%E2%80%9Chistorizing-islamophobia%E2%80%9D
13. Editors and Contributors on Middle Eastern, Persian and Iranian Studies for “The Digital Orientalist”
This is the digital magazine and arm the “American Oriental Society”. Editors will be expected to contribute 5-6 posts between September 2020 and June 2021. We are also looking for people who contribute guest posts or series of guests posts on the Digital Humanities in General, Islamic Studies, Syriac Studies etc.
Information: https://digitalorientalist.com/2020/06/30/open-call-for-editors-and-contributiors/
- August 31, 2020
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