Archive for 2020

Police fire pellet guns on Kashmir Muharram procession: Witnesses

Government forces have fired shotgun pellets and tear gas to disperse hundreds of mainly Shia Muslims participating in a Muharram procession in Indian-administered Kashmir, injuring dozens, witnesses have said. The violence came as the disputed Himalayan region – where nearly 97 percent of residents are Muslims – observed Ashoura on Saturday, the 10th day of the Muharram month in the Islamic lunar calendar.

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1. International Conference on Gender Studies: “Mapping Gender”, Cambridge, UK, 5-6 December 2020

The conference seeks to explore the past and current status of gender identity around the world, to examine the ways in which society is shaped by gender and to situate gender in relation to the full scope of human affairs. Online participation is available. Presented papers will be published in a post-conference volume.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2020. Information: https://genderstudies.lcir.co.uk/home/

 

 

 

 

2. Doctoral Contract for Research on “History: Places and Uses of Popular Arabic Tales in the Contemporary Levant (19^th – 21^st Century)”, Université Jean Moulin, Lyon

Applicants should hold a MA in Middle Eastern studies, the humanities, or social sciences, as well art history and architecture, at the time of submission of their project. The selected candidate will have to register in doctoral studies in Modern and Contemporary History at the Université Lyon 3 before the beginning of the contract.

Deadline for applications: 15 September 2020.

Information: https://www.ifporient.org/offre-de-contrat-doctoral-anr-lipol/

 

 

 

 

3. Fellowship in Turkish Studies for Research Visit (1-3 Months) at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna

The fellowship is open to advanced doctoral candidates and postdoctoral/early stage researchers studying a specific subject in Turkish studies. We particularly welcome applications that expand the current research focus of the Department (i.e. environmental history, history of technology, digital humanities, consumption history, history of tourism, and cultural heritage).

Deadline for applications: 1 October 2020.

Information: https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/forschung/fellowships/andreas-tietze-memorial-fellowship/

 

 

 

 

4. Winter School: “The State in Flux”, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, 3-13 January 2021

This program is open to advanced graduate students/early career researchers in the social sciences and humanities in the US, UK, Canada, and Europe. The objective is to provide an in-depth and critical look at specifically selected topics in the broader study of the Middle East.

Deadline for applications: 30 September 2020. Information: https://www.dohainstitute.org/en/Events/The-Second-Graduate-Winter-School-program/Pages/index.aspx

 

 

 

 

5. Articles on “Media Reporting of COVID19 and the Challenges of the Digital Environment” for Special Issue of “Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research”

Topics include: Media representation of the COVID19 pandemic; Serious journalism versus sensational reporting; Ethics and fake news in COVID19 reporting;  Media coverage of the pandemic as ideological manipulation; Contested narratives: comparing global media’s case studies; etc.

Deadlines for abstracts:  30 August 2020.

Information: http://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arab-muslim-media-research

 

 

 

 

6. Chapters for Edited Volume on “The Gendered Arab”

Topics include: The criteria of cisheteronormative masculinity in the Arab world; the unparalleled perceptions of the Arabian male figure in comparison to the traditional Non-Arab patriarchal archetype; conceptualizing the role of the domesticated Arab mother in terms of comparative individuality with the Western notion of motherness; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2020.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6345674/gendered-arab

 

 

 

7. Call for papers: “Gather Up Fragments” – Digital Philology

We are calling for short case studies on individual fragments or dismembered manuscripts for a special issue of Digital Philology (https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital-philology-journal-medieval-cultures) for 2022. We are eager to encourage a global perspective on the dispersal, re-use, and fragmentation of non-Western manuscripts in this issue and we welcome submissions from colleagues working on global fragments, such as African, Asian, and Middle Eastern materials, and in particular from Islamic traditions.

 

We have extended the deadline of the abstract submission to 31 August 2020. Please send us your abstracts of 200-300 words.

 

Many thanks,

and best wishes,

 

Shiva Mihan

 

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Shiva Mihan

Schroeder Curatorial Fellow of Islamic Art

617-495-9250

shiva_mihan@harvard.edu

 

 

 

 

8. The UNC-Chapel Hill Persian Studies Program Presents:

Revisiting Discourses of Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Iran and Diaspora: A Symposium in a Series of Virtual Panels

September 5 – October 3, 2020

For more information:

https://claudiayaghoobi.com/symposium-revisiting-discourses-of-love-sex-and-desire-in-modern-iran-and-diaspora/

 

 

 

9. University of Edinburgh – Persian post

The department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, part of School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, seeks to appoint a Persian language assistant. This is a part time (17.5 hpw), fixed-term post available from September 2020 to August 2021. Closing date: 5 September, 2020.

Further details can be found here:

 

https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=052871

The Growing Influence of Salafism in Muslim Mindanao | Insurgencies | Types of Conflict | IPAC

Marawi Muslims rallied against the 2016 shooting of a Saudi cleric in Zamboanga. The Growing Influence of Salafism in Muslim Mindanao (Jakarta, 8 January 2020) The puritanical stream of Islam known as Salafism is making major inroads in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in the southern Philippines, in a way that could foster greater social conservatism in areas such as education, freedom of religion and women’s rights.

1.Call for Proposals, CAA 2021

The Classical is Political

109TH CAA (College Art Association of America, Inc.) ANNUAL CONFERENCE

New York City, February 10–13, 2021

‪Since the rise of nationalism in the 19th century, the modern nation has defined state identity in the present by redefining its ties to the distant past. No longer an historical—or art historical—given, the temporal, geographic, and ethnic construction of “the classical” became a function of the particular geo-political ambitions of the nation state. Throughout the late modern period, the territorial claims of imperialist nations were motivated by notions of ethnic and cultural lineage connecting occupying powers to the classical pasts of occupied lands. Meanwhile, some countries looked to notions of local classical history to define their distinct cultural identities as defense against the incursions of imperialist powers. The classical remains the subject of contestation in the contemporary. Whereas the right mobilizes classical aesthetics as the language of reactionary nostalgia, the left appropriates these forms as a vehicle for staging progressive positions on discourses on race, gender, religion and disability.

‪We solicit papers, focusing on a range of geographic and cultural localities, which examine the conflicts surrounding the construction of the classical. How and when did definitions of “the classical” take hold? How are claims on the classical past mobilized and what role has art and architecture played in these claims? What types of trans-cultural influences and hybrid cultural forms do definitions of the classical aim to distill or purify? How has the rise of post-colonial theory de-centered hegemonic constructs of the classical?

Please send your proposal, including the completed proposal form, title, 250 words (max.) abstract, 2-page CV, as well as a short statement explaining why your proposal would be a good fit for this panel: titrand@buffalo.edu and beringol@buffalo.edu. We encourage early submissions, and we can only consider proposals received on or before Sept. 16, 2020. Please note that panel participants must be active CAA members at the time of selection.

https://caa.confex.com/caa/2021/webprogrampreliminary/Session7906.html?fbclid=IwAR2yo-Biu-WgKsefszlpjBkHrVqzb2DMpvBfd8wIuf_4tRmhEDGw_WCKQC4

 

 

 

 

2. Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum, 1270s-1370s: Production, Patronage and the Arts of the Book (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) – C. Jackson

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-islamic-manuscripts-of-late-medieval-rum-1270s-1370s-hb.html

 

 

 

3. The Armenian School of Languages and Cultures – ASPIRANTUM is inviting you to apply and participate in the “Learn Persian through the Shahname” online course.

You may find the details about this course and apply through this link: https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-shahname

The syllabus of the course is available here: https://aspirantum.com/curriculum/learning-persian-through-shahname-syllabus

 

 

 

 

4. Association for Iranian Studies 2020 awardees:

AIS Lifetime Achievement Award:

Emerita Professor Erika Friedl, Western Michigan University

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Mehrdad Mashayekhi Dissertation Award

Winner:   Dr. Peyman Jafari.
Thesis: “Oil, Labor and Revolution in Iran; A Social History of Labor in the Iranian Oil Industry, 1973-83.” University of Leiden, October 2018

Advisors: Prof. Touraj Atabaki and Prof. Marcel van der Linden

Honorable Mention: Dr. Sheida Dayani.
Thesis: “Juggling Revolutionaries: A Theatrical History of Indigenous Theatre and Early Playwriting in Iran.” New York University, 2018
Advisors: Prof. Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami and Prof. Arnold Aronson

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Parviz Shahriari Book Award:

Keiji Yamamoto (ed) and Charles Burnett (ed), The Great Introduction to Astrology by Abu Ma’sar (2 vols.), Volume 106 Herausgeber: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2019.

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Saidi-Sirjani Book Award:

Dominic Brookshaw (Associate Professor of Persian Literature, and Senior Research
Fellow in Persian at Wadham College, Oxford University), Hafiz and His
Contemporaries – Poetry, Performance and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Iran. London: I.B. Tauris / Bloomsbury, 2019).

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Latifeh Yarshater Book Award:

Nazanin Shahrokni (Assistant Professor of Gender and Globalization at the London School of Economics and Political Science), Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran. University of California Press, 2019.

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Ehsan Yarshater Book Award:

Winner:  Rika Gyselen (Directrice de Recherche émérite, CNRS: Histoire ancienne – Iran), La géograghie administrative de l’Émpire Sassanide. Les témoignages épigraphiques en moyen-perse.  Res Orientales XXV, Groupe pour l’Étude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient, 2019.

Honorable Mention:  Matthew Canepa (University of California-Irvine), The Iranian Expanse: Transforming Royal Identity through Architecture, Landscape, and the Built Environment, 550 BCE-642 CE.University of California Press, 2020.

 

Normally, we would celebrate them in person at a lovely reception at our conference.  And we will certainly do that at the next available opportunity.  This year, however, the award committee chairs have agreed to share proper appreciations of their awardees in the 2020 Virtual Workshop on August 22nd .  If you are looking for another reason to visit the Virtual Workshop, you now have it!  In the interim, I am sure you will join me congratulating these fine scholars who inspire us to do our best, as they have done their best, for the field.

My thanks also to our colleagues serving on the award committees (Please follow the links above to learn more about the awards and the committees).  Let me add an additional presidential “thank you” to Dr. Canepa, Dr. Jafari, and Dr. Brookshaw for their service on AIS Council, AIS Nominating Committee and the Iranian Studies Editorial Board, respectively.  We need scholarship and service both.

All best,

Camron Michael Amin
AIS President

 

 

 

 

5. Appended below is the Call for Papers for the next volume (32) of the Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (RSSSR) which I co-edit with Professor Ralph Hood – https://brill.com/view/serial/RSSR . RSSSR 32 will have special section on Cultural Blindness in Psychology and Religion of Belief in HE. It will also have its regular open section for papers on any subject within the socio-scientific study of religion. We welcome your proposals .

 

Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (RSSSR) is an interdisciplinary, international peer-viewed annual series, which publishes new and innovative research within the social scientific study of religion or belief. Contributions span a range of theoretical orientations, geographic contexts and research methods, though most articles are reports of original quantitative or qualitative research related mainly to the sociology and/or psychology of religion.

 

RSSR usually includes one or more guest-edited special sections that allows networks of researchers to report studies in areas that are or current interest or which are innovative and expanding the discipline into new areas.  For 2021, RSSR will include the following special sections

 

Special section 1: Cultural Blindness in Psychology. Guest Editor Dr. Louise Sundararajan, has collected several papers documenting cultural blindness in psychology beginning with her own paper, “Cultural blindness in psychology: Implications for studies of religion.”

 

Special section 2: Religion or Belief in Higher Education. In this section, we will explore religious and non-religious identities on university campuses anywhere in the world. Chapter may interrogate how these identities are ‘lived’ on campus and how these are dealt with in university policy, practice, management and curricula.  This section will explore the diversity of ways in which religious and non-religious identities are experienced, encountered and catered for on higher education campuses. We invite proposals for papers that explore any dimension of religion or non-religion on campuses in any geographical context, focussing on a particular tradition, group or movement or on the interactions between different parties, or on broader cultural or political changes impacting upon how religion is expressed within campus contexts. We hope that the special section will attract a range of epistemological positions and disciplinary standpoints.

 

Submitting Proposals

We invite proposals for the next edition of the RSSSR – RSSSR 32. This will be published by autumn 2021. We welcome proposals from academics at all levels of their career, including early career researchers and final year PhD students.

 

For Book Chapters

Please submit a title and abstract of no more than 300 words together with names and short biographies (150 words), institutional affiliation/s (if relevant), and contact details.

• Deadline for abstracts: 5pm on Friday 30th October 2020
• Notification of acceptance of paper: 5pm on Friday 13th November 2020
• If accepted full papers will be due by 5pm Friday 12th March 2021

 

Proposals for both the main and special sections should be send to the editors, Ralph Hood (ralph-hood@utc.edu) and Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor (ac0967@coventry.ac.uk).

 

For Special Section Proposals

We welcome enquiries for guest edited special sections for RSSSR 32 and also for future editions. Special section proposals can emerge from conference proceedings or from other forms of academic collaboration around a specific subject area. To suggest a special proposal please contact the editors Ralph Hood (ralph-hood@utc.edu) and Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor (ac0967@coventry.ac.uk) in the first instance, with the following information:

• Theme / Title of the special section
• Short rationale of the special section (no more than 500 words)
• Guest editor/s name and short bio (150 words) for each editor
• List of potential contributors
• If accepted timelines for special sections will be discussed with editors

 

For more information and submission guidelines please check the author guidelines (https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/RSSR_Author%20Guidelines.pdf) or contact the editors.

 

We look forward to receiving your work.

Professor Ralph Hood and Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor

 

Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor

Assistant Professor | Research Group Lead | Faith and Peaceful Relations

Series Editor | Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion

Chair (2020-2023) | Muslims in Britain Research Network

Principal Investigator | AHRC GCRF Minorities on Campus in India (2020-2022)

 

Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University

 

Muharram 2020: Individual and Community Guides Against Covid-19 – Shia Rights Watch

While millions of dollars have been spent on COVID-19 vaccinations, not much has been done to address mental health dilemmas related to the pandemic. As necessary as public health actions such as social distancing are, they leave people feeling isolated and alone. The lack of face-to-face communication and reduced social interactions add on financial and …

Taliban reaches out to Shias

The Taliban insurgency seems to be pulling all the stops it can to gain political legitimacy in Afghanistan ahead of the intra-Afghan peace talks. In a new video message from the Taliban, released on April 22, the group seeks the support of the Hazara Shias and wants to recruit from the long persecuted minority.

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1.The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London, is organising online short course on “Decolonisation: Knowledge, Power, and Politics” by Dr Sanaa Alimia.

Decolonisation: Knowledge, Power, and Politics (Short Course)

In the twentieth century, anti-colonial and anti-racist movements in Asia, Africa, and the Americas appeared to be radically remaking the modern world. Yet the creation of new and politically independent nation-states was only one stage of decolonisation. The configuration of global power is still unequal. The ways in which we think and engage in the world continue to be marked by a colonial past and present. Yet alternative possibilities have been and are being imagined and practiced.

Situated across the disciplines of Politics, History, and Sociology this introductory course examines the unfinished business of decolonisation. The course will:

1. Introduce students to key ideas in decoloniality, post-colonialism, Marxism, gender, and ecological studies.
2. Analyse the historic contexts of political decolonisation.
3. Ask how are our everyday lives impacted by colonial legacies using the example of race, gender, and desire?

Download the Course Structure.

Learning Outcome

To understand how the current world system has developed over a period of 500 years of colonialism, slavery, and exploitation, making modernity and coloniality two sides of the same coin.

Course Convenor

Dr Sanaa Alimia is interested in analysing structures of power and how they play out in our everyday lives. Her first manuscript reconstructs microhistories of refugees, undocumented migrants, and low-income groups in Pakistan. An Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Sanaa Alimia holds a PhD from the Department of Politics and International Relations at SOAS, London where she also taught (2011-2014). She was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Peshawar (2013-2017) and a Research Fellow at the Berlin Graduate School for Muslim Societies, Freie Universität, Berlin (2014-2016) and Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin (2014-2019).

Some of the courses she has taught include:

• Understanding Frantz Fanon
• Global Racialised Migration in the 20th-to-21st Centuries
• The Politics of Modern Muslim Mobility
• Social Movements and Political Protest
• Urban Housing in the Global South
• Comparative Politics
• International Relations

  One-on-one Sessions

Interested participants are invited to arrange two individual one-on-one online sessions (each for 45 minutes). These can be used up to 8 weeks after the course has been delivered. They can discuss key texts, pieces of writing, or reflections in those sessions. These sessions must be booked in advance.

Course Preparation

Participants will be asked to listen to a 10-minute pre-recorded lecture before attending each session. They will also be asked to read a mixture of academic texts, poetry, political speeches, and news articles, and to listen to and/or watch songs, performances, and short visual clips.

Time 

28, 29 and 30 September 2020, 9.00-11.30

Tickets and Booking

£75.00 for professionals | £45.00 for students, AKU alumni, and AKU staff. Register as soon as possible.

*The course will be delivered via Zoom. Further details will be provided later upon registration. 

 

 

 

 

2. The HIAA-sponsored discussion of online resources for the teaching of Islamic art is now freely available at this URL:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FSpDdDx7kmGgOEJy8WaNyv7LHI-zm-CA/view?usp=sharing

The discussion includes a synthesis of online resources by Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan), an exploration of museum online collections of Islamic art by Ruba Kana’an (University of Toronto, Mississauga), and an overview of Archnet by Michael Toler and Matt Saba (Archnet/MIT).

 

 

 

 

3. International Conference “Mapping South-South Connections: Networks, Alliances and New Actors on the International Scene during the Decolonization Process and Cold War in Latin America, Asia and Africa (1810–1990)”, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, 21–22 November 2020

This conference is organized in collaboration with the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and aims to explore historical, political and cultural South-South connections from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Deadline for abstracts: 10 September 2020. Information: https://southsouthconnections.atu.ac.ir

 

 

 

 

4. Three Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in Art and Humanities, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (2021-2023)

These fellowships foster the academic careers of scholars who have recently (since January 2020) received their Ph.D. degrees by permitting them to pursue their research while gaining mentored experience as teachers and members of the departments and/or programs in which they are housed, including Middle Eastern Studies, Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies.

Deadline for applications: 15 September 2020.

Information: https://leslie.dartmouth.edu/opportunities/post-docs/mellon-postdoctoral-fellowships

 

 

 

 

 

5. Research Papers and Project Demos on “Jews, Christians, and Muslims as Colleagues and Collaborators in the Abbasid Near East” for Special Issue of “Medieval Worlds: Comparative & Interdisciplinary Studies”

Relevant topics: Surveys of trends in dynamics between scholars of different religious communities, illustrated by case studies or by quantitative approaches; Comparative studies of attitudes among different linguistic or religious communities (Arabic, Syriac, Greek; Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Samaritan); Network analysis involving relationships among people, places, or books; etc.

Abstract Deadline: 28 August 2020– Information: http://t.usaybia.net/forum2020/index.html

 

 

 

 

6. Resource: Academic Search-Engine of Free eJournals: JURN

JURN is a curated academic search-engine, which helps you find free academic articles and books. JURN harnesses all the power of Google, but focusses your search through a hand-crafted and curated index covering Social Sciences and Humanities, including Middle East Studies and selected university fulltext repositories as well as many additional ejournals in science, business and law.

Search millions of free academic articles, chapters and theses at www.jurn.org

 

 

 

 

7. New Methods in the Study of Islam

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Methods play a notable role in the scholarly cognition of available data and shape (and even direct) scholarly productions. In the study of religions, methods also highlight possible connections between various traditions by utilizing a multitude of socio-cultural, anthropological, legal, textual and other disciplinary approaches. When it comes to disclosing methods and methodologies, the study of Islam remains no exception. However, many in Islamic studies tend to employ established or classic methods that seemingly echo (neo-)orientalist and political inclinations. This volume seeks to offer an alternative, and we welcome new, innovative, and inter-/multi-disciplinary approaches. Framed boldly, we want to encourage new ways to think about and study Islam.

This call asks a set of broad questions: What are (the) new methods in the study of Islam? Can newer approaches to methods and methodologies provide different lenses to examine Islam and Islamic Studies? Can technology revolutionize our method and methodological preferences? Can textuality, once the dominant method, be replaced by non-textual methods to understand Islam and its relations with other religions? Can one theorize the ethics of method application in the study of Islam?

New Methods in the Study of Islam offers a modest proposal to discover new methods, methodologies and approaches that can be applied, utilized and conceived in the study of Islam and Islamic Studies. The volume also seeks to show how such methods and approaches help us understand Islam’s relationship to other religious traditions.

Potential themes in the volume include (but are not limited to) the following,

• The concept of New Method in the Study of Islam
• Method vs. Methodology in the Study of Islam
• Existing Paradigms in Methodological Study of Islam
• Decolonizing Methods/Methodologies in Islamic Studies
• Easternism, Westernism and Centrality in Methods
• Historicizing and Universalizing Methods in Islamic Studies
• Ethics of method production and application in the Study of Islam
• Evaluating and Assessing Established or Emerging Methods
• New Methods for Comparative Study of Islam and Other Religions

Scholars, researchers, and instructors are invited to send an abstract of their proposed chapters (max. 200 words) and a short bio-note to the editors, Abbas Aghdassi and Aaron W. Hughes before November 30, 2020.

Abstracts and subsequent chapters should be submitted in English.

Notification of abstract acceptance will be communicated by January 15, 2021. Following the notification, authors will be invited to submit their full chapter by April 30, 2021. Chapters would then undergo a review by the editors, at which point authors will be notified if revisions are required.

We plan to publish the volume in Brill’s Supplements to Theory and Method in the Study of Religion (SMTR).

Please, circulate this call. For any general queries, feel free to contact us at (aghdassi@um.ac.ir).

 

Editors                            Abbas Aghdassi, Ed., (aghdassi@um.ac.ir)

Aaron W. Hughes, Ed. (aaron.hughes@rochester.edu)

 

Abstract submission       Nov 30, 2020

Acceptance note            Jan 15, 2021

Chapter submission       Apr 30, 2021

Initial reviews                May 30, 2021

Revised chapter             June 30, 2021

 

CHAPTER FORMAT

The following format will help ensure coherence. A full chapter should be 6000-8000 words (approx.) including, reference, tables, figures etc.

 

TITLE	Clearly defined and relevant to the text
ABSTRACT	200 words
INTRODUCTION	750 words (approx.)
LITERATURE (context, concepts, methods)	1500 words (approx.)
DISCUSSION	3000 words (approx.)
CONCLUSION	500 words (approx.)
REFERENCES/CITATIONS	CHICAGO 17TH ed. (notes and bibliography***)
KEYWORDS	3-6 (required for indexing)
LANGUAGE	English U.S.

 

*** See this for some examples: https://libguides.library.usyd.edu.au/c.php?g=508212&p=5426978

 

 

 

 

8. What’s wrong with talking about maps that we want to consider historically as “historical maps”?

https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2020/8/13/rehabilitating-historica…

 

 

 

9. The Great Lakes Adiban Workshop will take place on Zoom on September 5-6, 2020. The workshop will feature two roundtable discussions and eight presentations by both veterans of our workshops and newcomers, ranging across Arabic, Persian, and Urdu literature, from the 3rd/9th century to the 14th/20th. The schedule is available on our website (https://greatlakesadiban.github.io/), along with further information about GLAS.

 

Attendance is free and open, but we do ask that all participants register through this link: https://forms.gle/pDV2V59N1Mn9nHmG9. Please register by Friday, August 21st so that we can ensure full participation, and please contact the organizers if you require accommodations or have further questions.

 

Sufis and Their Opponents in the Persianate World

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New Trends in Qur’ānic Studies: Text, Context, and Interpretation | Mysite

The essays in this volume discuss recent trends and issues in the scholarly study of the Qur’ān and its exegesis. The last few years have witnessed an unprecedented development in qur’anic studies in terms of both the number of volumes that have been produced and the wide range of issues covered.