Archive for April, 2021
Shii News – ‘Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires’ – C. Melville, ed.
Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires
The Idea of Iran Vol. 10
London: Bloomsbury, 2021
- April 30, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
- April 28, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Embroidery of Central Asia, Iranian Plateau and the Indian Subcontinent
I B Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2021
2. Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” organisé par le CeRMI, qui aura lieu le jeudi 6 mai 2021 de17h à19h en visioconférence (lien de connexion ci-après).
Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Maria Szuppe (directrice de recherche, CNRS, CeRMI / UMR 8041), pour une conférence intitulée :
Grandes familles locales et leurs réseaux d’influence dans le monde iranien oriental : le cas des khwājas de Barnābād (Hérat) aux XVe-XVIIIe siècles
ID de réunion : 983 2581 4324
Code secret : 854249
3. BIPS (British Institute of Persian Studies) invites applications for Research and Travel Grant Awards.
BIPS Research and Travel Grant Awards are to assist scholars wishing to pursue research in the area of arts, humanities and social science research, relating to the Persianate world, particularly Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Transcaucasia, Iraq, the Persian Gulf littoral and South Asia. Subject areas include, but are not limited to: Art, Anthropology, Archaeology, Classics, Cultural Studies, History, Language, Literature, Politics, Religious Studies, and Sociology. Scholars who apply must be attached to a UK Higher Educational Institution (university, museum or similar).
Most of the grant funds are set aside for collaborative research projects and we are currently seeking to attract applications from scholars under three “umbrella” programmes:
- Objects of Empire: Imperial Elites and Material Cultures of Ancient Iran
- Persianisation and Persianate Cosmopolises
- Iran and the International in the Modern Period
For more information and to download the application form, visit our Grants page.
Deadline for submitting applications: 14th May 2021
4. ONLINE Panel: “Digital Forays in Middle Eastern Studies: Lightning Talks from Junior Scholars”, Kevorkian Center, New York University, 29 April 2021, 12:30 pm EST
What does it look like to think, engage, and do research in this digital age? In this panel, seven PhD/MA Candidates, junior faculty, and independent scholars will present projects that are pushing the norms, boundaries, and forms of Middle Eastern Scholarship through adopting new tools, methods, and modes of dissemination.
Information and registration: https://as.nyu.edu/neareaststudies/events/spring-202011/digital-forays–lightning-talks-from-junior-scholars1.html
5. ONLINE Lecture: “Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans: Mouradgea d’Ohsson and His Masterpiece “Tableau général de l’Empire othoman” by Carter V. Findley (Ohio State University), Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative, New York University, 14 May 2021, 12:30 pm EST
This was the most authoritative work ever yet published on Islam and the Ottomans. Profusely illustrated with 233 engravings, the work also offered the century’s richest collection of visual imagery on the Ottomans and opened deep insights into the processes and politics of illustrated book production in this period.
Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqdO-vrjotHNOA4QnEdSVrmISPCIpClcMq
6. ONLINE “54th Seminar for Arabian Studies”, Organized by the International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA), 2-4 and 9-11 July 2021 BST
The seminar is in collaboration with “Casa Árabe” which will host a special session and a keynote lecture on 9 July 2021 tht are free of charge.
Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/026f5d0c9dec/54th-seminar-for-arabian-studies-programme-and-registration?e=18cf0337f7
7. 3rd International Süleymaniye Symposium: “The “Köprülü Era” (1656-1710) in Ottoman History: New Sources, New Approaches”, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 24-26 September 2021
The Köprülü family has profoundly shaped Ottoman history. Many new sources, recent articles, books, dissertations, and projects have opened new frontiers while also expanding on the existing assumptions and approaches about the period.
Abstract submission deadline: 31 May 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/7575183/call-papers-3rd-international-s%C3%BCleymaniye-symposium-24-26
8. Post-Doctorate Researcher (Arabic Poetry in the Cairo Genizah: History of Literacy and Education), University of Dublin (3 Yeaars)
Qualification: PhD in a relevant field; Proven research skills in Arabic/Islamic Literary History, Arabic literature or Medieval/Premodern Islamic History; Research skills in medieval / premodern history and / or literature; Knowledge of Arabic language and literature; Ability to translate Arabic poetry into English.
Deadline for applications: 14 May 2021. Information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CFJ702/research-fellow-post-doctorate-researcher-arabic-poetry-in-the-cairo-genizah-history-of-literacy-and-education?uuid=da54c787-a184-11eb-a3a3-064da8edb92a&campaign=jbew20210420&source=jbe
9. Coordinator for “Anti-Muslim Racism Working Group”, European Coalition of Cities against Racism (ECCAR)
Candidate requirements: Experience of working across multiple departments and teams; Degree in Social Science / Political Science; Academic writing skills in English; Fluent proficiency in written and spoken English. Duration: 8 months (starting date: as soon as possible). Part time 30% based on TV-L 11 (German public service salary scale).
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2021. Information: https://www.eccar.info/en/news/eccar-hiring-new-coordinator-anti-muslim-racism-working-group
10. ONLINE or IN-CLASS: “Ottoman Turkish Summer School”: Intensive Instruction in Ottoman Turkish for International Students and Professionals, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 5 July – 27 August 2021
The summer school is designed to comprise co-curricular and extra-curricular activities such as seminars by top scholars on Turkish history, politics, literature, and art; cultural events, and, field trips to historical sites and archives.
Deadline for applications: 29 May 2021. Information: https://oss.ihu.edu.tr/languages-program/
11. ONLINE Summer School “In Search of the Reader: New Approaches to Practices, Functions and Histories of Reading in Arabic Literature, Arts, Media and Culture”, Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA), 16-20 August 2021
The summer school provides PhD students and postdocs of Arabic literary studies from European and Arab universities the opportunity to present their own research in an international academic context, to discuss innovative approaches readers and reading pracices, and to practice the respective foreign language (Eng-lish or Arabic).
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2021. Information: http://arabic-philologies.de/en/online2021.html
12. ONLINE Summer Language Program in Arabic and Persian, University of Maryland
Classes are available for all levels, from complete beginners up to advanced speakers. The program is open to all.
Information: http://www.globalprofessionals.umd.edu/summer-language-institute
13. Articles on “Public Space, Publicness and Social Transformations” for Special Issue of “Egypte Monde Arabe”
This call for papers argues that public spaces and publicness are engines for a better understanding of current socio-spatial and multifaceted overall transformations, namely questioning how both the massive protest events that occurred in the region between 2011 and 2018 and their aftermath but also the growin g commodification and privatization of spaces have modified the understanding, practices, and politics of public spaces?
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2021. Information: http://cedej-eg.org/index.php/2021/03/10/call-for-papers-egypte-monde-arabe-30th-of-april-2021/
14. Articles on “Public Space, Publicness and Social Transformations” for Special Issue of “Egypte Monde Arabe”
This call for papers argues that public spaces and publicness are engines for a better understanding of current socio-spatial and multifaceted overall transformations, namely questioning how both the massive protest events that occurred in the region between 2011 and 2018 and their aftermath but also the growin g commodification and privatization of spaces have modified the understanding, practices, and politics of public spaces?
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2021. Information: http://cedej-eg.org/index.php/2021/03/10/call-for-papers-egypte-monde-arabe-30th-of-april-2021/
15. Articles for “Nazhruna: Islamic Education Journal”
Editors invite academicians to contribute his thoughts either in the form of research results, in-depth study, and book reviews in accordance with the discipline owned. The script is original, has not been published in other media. The manuscripts are preferably from research results and written in either English or Arabic.
Information: https://e-journal.ikhac.ac.id/index.php/NAZHRUNA
16. Chapters for Edited Book on “South Asian Migration to Gulf: Issues, Perspectives and Opportunities”
The focus of the book will be on fixing the gap between the best possible policies for migrants, after understanding the ground realities and challenges of migrants.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2021. Information: https://grfdt.com/Upload/Event/7176_Invitation_to_contribute_a_chapter_to_th.pdf
17. Events on Islam and the Middle East this week in and around Cambridge (all times are UK time):
Tue 27 Apr
5:00pm – 6:30pm – “Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire”
( SherAli Tareen (Franklin & Marshall College))
Wed 28 Apr
2:00pm – 3:00pm – Music and Islamic Literary Heritage
(Davesh Soneji (University of Pennsylvania) and Richard Williams (SOAS))
Thu 29 Apr
6:00pm – 7:00pm – The power of geography. Ten maps that reveal the future of our world
(Tim Marshall)
Fri 30 Apr
1:00pm – 2:00pm – “Jaina Temple Architecture of Coastal Karnataka: Climatic Dependencies and Artistic Freedoms”
(Julia A. B. Hegewald,)
5:00pm – 6:30pm – The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad
(Hamid Dabashi)
- April 27, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Webinar: Imam Ali Seminar (2.5.21)
WEBINAR
TO COMMEMORATE THE MARTYRDOM OF
IMAM ALI (a.s.)
SUNDAY 2nd MAY 2021
2:00 PM UK / 9.00 AM EST / 6.00 PM PAKISTAN / 6.30 PM MUMBAI
TO BE HOSTED ON ZOOM
MEETING ID: 850 7431 9311
Chair: Dr Husam Al-Mallak
Dr Husam al-Mallak is a Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS where he lectures on ‘Modern Trends in Islam’. He completed his PhD thesis in January 2016, on how the mystical thought of Ibn al-‘Arabi can be considered as an Islamic overcoming of Nietzschean nihilism. His MA dissertation at Birkbeck was ‘Beyond Postmodernism and the Crisis of Truth: Re-Reading Ibn Al-‘Arabi’s Qur’anic Hermeneutics’ and he has given public lectures on this subject at The Islamic College, the Royal Asiatic Society and the Oriental Institute in Oxford. He has published book reviews in the Journal for Shi’a Islamic Studies.
Gulamabbas Lakha
Imām ʿAlī’s (AS) psychology reflected in ṣalāh and ṣawm
Shaykh Gulamabbas Murtaza Lakha was accredited by a leading Ayatullah in Europe after years of private training. He teaches and researches Psychology of Religion and Neuroscience of Religious Experience at the University of Oxford. His doctorate in Psychiatry at Oxford investigates the psychology of key Islamic concepts and practices, focussing on depression in the UK Muslim population. Previous research in neuroscience focussed on neuro imaging of dhikr practice. He is currently translating the earliest Arabic biographical dictionaries (ṭabaqāt) relating to Imām Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq (as) and Shaykh al-Kulaynī. He holds four master’s degrees, spanning psychology and neuroscience, theology, Islamic studies, history and Arabic from Oxford and the Islamic College in London. His professional training was in financial economics and has twenty years of experience in the investment industry. His community work over the last decade includes lecturing on contemporary Islam across the UK and on Muslim TV channels, having also served as founding principal of the Oxford Madrasa.
Dr Ali-Reza Bhojani
Reconciling our relationships in light of Imam Ali (AS)
Dr Ali-Reza Bhojani is a lecturer at the Al-Mahdi Institute (Birmingham), co-director of the Centre for Intra-Muslim Studies and a research affiliate at the University of Oxford. A graduate of the Al-Mahdi Institute, his research, teaching and writing focuses on intersections between Islamic legal theory, theology and ethics. His doctoral study, conducted at Durham University, was published as Moral Rationalism and Shari’a (Routledge, 2015) and he has held academic posts at the University of Nottingham, the University of Oxford and the Markfield Institute of Higher Education. His recent publications include the co-edited volume Visions of Sharīʿa (Brill, 2020). Dr Bhojani is an elected council member of the British Association of Islamic Studies and also regularly contributes to a range of knowledge exchange activities within Muslim communities, inter-faith settings and beyond. This work was recognised in 2016 when he was honoured as the Religious Advocate of the Year at the British Muslim Awards. Beyond his scholarly work, Ali-Reza is a practicing Optometrist.
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- April 26, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.5th IDHN Conference on Thursday, May 6, 2021. Please find the full program of the conference as a pdf attachment here. Our program also contains information about the conference’s schedule in different time zones.
Session 1 (10:00 am to 12:00 noon EDT)
Sofya A. Ragozina (Russian Academy of Sciences): Virtual Space of Russian Muslims During Pandemics: What Can We Learn on Building Muslim Identity through Digital Ethnography?
Abdullah al-Saleh (University of Leeds): Quranic Verses Semantic Relatedness Using AraBERT
Yusuf Celik (Utrecht University): Footprinter: an online environment for comparatively tracing Qur’an citations in fifty-five works of substantial law
Session 2 (12:30 pm to 2:30 pm EDT)
Ashley Sanders Garcia (University of California, Los Angeles): Uncovering Women’s Socio-Political Roles in Ottoman Algeria: Mining, Mapping, and Measuring the Relationships of Named and Unnamed Entities
Richard Nielson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): The Rise and Impact of Muslim Women Preaching Online
Yasmin Amin (University of Exeter): Waving the Mantle of the Prophet: The Journey of Umm Salama’s Narration of Ḥadīth al-kisāʾ over Six Centuries
To attend this online conference, please register as a member at https://idhn.org/contact/, or email registration@idhn.org to request guest access. We look forward to your attendance at our conference.
2. Introduction to Arabo-Islamic Manuscript Culture is an Intensive Course organized by Qatar National Library and the Chair of Islamic History and Culture, University of Tübingen, Germany. 21-23.6.2021
https://events.qnl.qa/event/jeB91/EN
At the heart of this introductory course are manuscripts and the knowledge they contain. The course consists of six open lectures and three closed practical sessions, taking students on an exploration of Islamic intellectual heritage from its origins to the modern era.
The lectures begin by tracing fundamental perspectives of heritage, along with related terms, concepts and disciplines dealing with manuscripts. After a survey of writing materials and formats, we will focus on the Arabo-Islamic manuscript tradition, outlining its textual and physical aspects. We will also discuss the cultural history of the Qur’an and Hadith documentation and authorship, as well as issues in the history of reading, learning and the transmission of knowledge, the role of libraries, the book trade, and the preparation of editions.
In this course, we follow the dynamic life cycle of the manuscript and the text, starting from the origin of the work (authorship) and its manifestations and textual relations, through the production of the manuscript(s), until the reception of both in the past and present, considering the social and cultural contexts.
By the end of the course, you will have the basic knowledge and context to better understand the intellectual and social contexts of Arabo-Islamic books and deal with manuscripts in Arabic language and script.
The course will be delivered by Mahmoud Zaki, Manuscript Librarian at Qatar National Library, and Regula Forster, Professor of Islamic History and Culture at the University of Tübingen, with Juliane Müller, Research Associate at the Department of Oriental and Islamic Studies of the University of Tübingen, as a guest lecturer.
The course is taught in both Arabic and English, with simultaneous interpretation. Q&As and participation in sessions can be in either Arabic or English.registration and more information : https://events.qnl.qa/event/jeB91/EN
- April 24, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – ‘Towards a Social History of Early Imāmī Shiʿism’ – E. Hayes
- April 22, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Armenian School of Languages and Cultures – ASPIRANTUM organizes an “Introduction to the Iranian languages” online course. The 2 weeks online school will start on June 21, 2021, and will last till July 2, 2021.
This 2 weeks online school will be organized on working days each week (5 days each week, 10 days during two weeks) and will include 25 hours of intensive teaching (2.5 hours during each day).
To apply and for more details please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/introduction-to-iranian-languages
2. Teaching with Manuscripts: Material, Digital, and Collaborative Pedagogies
A 40-minute presentation followed by 50 minutes of Q&A scheduled for Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 4:30–6:00 p.m. ET, via Zoom.
Owing to Zoom’s restrictions, this event is limited to the first 300 people who register. The event will be recorded and made available for later viewing on the RBS YouTube channel.
This panel, sponsored by Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB), brings together four short, practical papers about teaching medieval, early modern, and eighteenth-century European and Islamic manuscripts through hands-on, digital, and collaborative approaches. Panelists will address issues related to teaching manuscript studies in graduate and undergraduate literature and art history courses, including paleography, editing, computational methods, and the physical analysis of manuscripts. Some of the hands-on and digital methods presented in these papers respond to COVID-19 disruptions of in-person teaching, while others reflect projects that were specifically designed for collaboration at a distance. All papers address the needs of students or curricula at the institutions where panelists teach. Some speakers are also participating in collaborative projects that involve faculty, librarian, undergraduate student, and graduate student researchers at multiple institutions. Together, these papers speak to the work of teaching with manuscripts in the classroom, on the screen, and through collaborative projects that share the work of humanities research and critical bibliography beyond the university.
Everyone is welcome to attend. To ensure the security of the event, advance registration is required; to register, click here.
3. ONLINE Seminar: “Christian-Muslim Diplomacy – Gestures and Words: European Ambassadors and the Mamluk Sultanate” by Dr Alessandro Rizzo (University of Liège) and Prof. Jo Van Steenbergen (Ghent University), Society for the Medieval Maditerranean, 20 April 2021, 7 pm CET
The webinar will focus on the letter of instructions delivered to the first Florentine ambassadors sent to Cairo in 1422, which will be examined in a comparative perspective in relation to other analogous documents.
Information and registration: https://www.societymedievalmediterranean.com/news/2021/4/9/christian-muslim-diplomacy-gestures-and-words-european-ambassadors-and-the-mamluk-sultanate
4. ONLINE Seminar: “The Erotics of Revolution: An Outline of Emotions in the 2011 and 2019 Uprisings” by Mohammed Bamyeh (University of Pittsburgh), Chair: Cilja Harders (Freie Universität Berlin), Europe in the Middle East (EUME) Forum Transregional Studies, 21 April 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm CET
The large amount of record now available on the movements of 2011 and 2019 demonstrate that one aspect of that mobilization involved pleasure,This talk presents an outline of an evolving project on the role of pleasure in revolutionary movements, and proposes to situate the question of pleasure at the center of studies of revolutionary processes.
Information and registration https://www.eume-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/kalender/details/the-erotics-of-revolution-an-outline-of-emotions-in-the-2011-and-2019-uprisings.html
5. ONLINE Vernissage: “Annemarie Schimmel: Woman Scholar, Linguistic Genius, Poetess and Genial Friend to Many”, Museum of Religions, Marburg, 21 April 2021, 6:00 pm CET
This special exhibition will honor the life of the internationally renowned Islamic and religious studies scholar Annemarie Schimmel (1922-2003).
Information and registration: https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/relsamm/sammlung/sonderausstellungen/annamarie-schimmel/annemarie-schimmel-wissenschaftlerin-sprachgenie-dichterin-und-freundesammlerin
6. ONLINE Workshop: “Ottoman Empire and Global Modernism(s)”, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at NYU (OTS-NYU), 23 April 2021, 12:30 pm EST
This panel will explore key figures and works that prompt new ways of understanding the status of the Ottoman state and society within the discussion of globalism and its renderings in the last two centuries of the empire.
Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvf–gqTopHdW94kk5Hg-B1WpNzySrvZ2p
7. ONLINE Seminar: “Politics, Energy, and Opposition in the Gulf: What You Need to Know” by Dr Jessie Moritz (Australian National University), Webinar Series “Bridging the Gulf”, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 23 April 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm SGT
The Gulf is changing. Oil prices are low and that is placing fiscal pressure on Gulf governments. A new generation of royals have come to power, disrupting the status quo. Islamist movements have been more active since the Arab Spring protests in 2011 and Gulf governments are deeply divided over how to respond.
Information and registraton: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/bridging-the-gulf/
8. ONLINE Workshop: “Religious Minorities, Sacred Space and Heritage in Transition in the Middle East”, Central European University and Institute for the Study of Religions, Leipzig University, 23-24 April 2021, 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm CET
Sacred space contributed to the formation and preservation of group identity and communal memory, especially among religious minorities who may have had only limited capacity of publicly expressing/affirming their religious heritage. Some sacred space may be shared between different religious groups, often leading to syncretic practices and creating an intricate network of social ties.
Information and registration: https://events.ceu.edu/2021-04-23/religious-minorities-sacred-space-and-heritage-transition-middle-east
9. ONLINE Seminar: “Religious Responses to Covid-19 in Media and Politics: Muslim, Jewish and Christian Experiences”, University of Copenhagen, 26 and 27 April 2021, 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm CET
The seminar’s ten papers provide an insight and highlight the role of religious communities and authorities in the interpretation and handling of Covid-19. The papers cover different religions around the world, such as Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism. The seminar contributes with perspectives on how states and faith communities have approached, mediated, and tried to control the linking of religious and health science issues.
Program and registration: https://ccrs.ku.dk/calendar/2021/religious-responses-to-covid-19-in-media-and-politics/
10. ONLINE Workshop: “Discoursing Sectarianism: Patterns, Trajectories and Identities from 1979 Onwards”, SEPAD, Lancaster University, 30 June 2021, 12:00 pm GMT
We welcome contributions that trace discourse/s of sectarianism by their own and explore the process of their production and articulation irrespective of their end-goals or final functionality. More specifically, we are interested in the ‘global meanings’ such as topics, themes and perspectives under which sectarianism is framed as an ‘interpretive schemata’ or ‘organizing principle’ where we can relate, compare and contrast meanings of the concept in different contexts.
Deadline for abstracts: 7 May 2021. Information and registration: https://www.sepad.org.uk/event/call-for-papers-discoursing-sectarianism-patterns-trajectories-and-identities-from-1979-onwards
11. ONLINE Workshop: “Sects and the City II”, SEPAD, Lancaster University, 26 July 2021, 12:00 pm GMT
The workshop reflects on the urban and spatial dimensions of the protesters in the re-imagining of identities across the contemporary Middle East. We are particularly interested in papers that reflect on sectarianism and urban politics in Kuwait, Syria, Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Deadline for abstracts extended until 30 April 2021.
Information and registration: https://www.sepad.org.uk/event/call-for-papers-sects-and-the-city-ii
12. Seven Panels at the “27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO)”, Institute for Islamic Theology, University of Osnabrück, 16-18 September 2021
1) Online Databases Instead of History Books? Potentials of Digital Humanities Data-bases in Historical Research on the MENA Region and Ottoman World
2) The Formation of the Concepts of Secularity/Secularism in the Arab/Islamicate Worlds
3) New Perspectives on Sufism, Modern Sunni Reform Thinking and Activism
4) Methodological Approaches to the Study of Muslim Traditions
5) The Qurʾān and its Cultural and Religious Context in Late Antiquity
6) Authoritarianisms in Search of Consolidation and Challenges to the Liberal Order: Remilitarisations, Dynamics of Adaptations and Political Phobias
7) Palestine in Post- and Decolonial Contexts
Please send your paper proposals with title and abstract (about 250 words) to the organiser of the of the specific panel until 15 May 2021. Abstracts of the panels and further information:
13. Annual Conference: “The Age of Populism”, Arab American University in Palestine Ramallah, 23-24 October 2021
Scholars are invited to engage, theorize and contextualize the different ways to understand “populism” in Arab countries and other parts of the world as a concept of analysis and reexamine the term itself and evaluate whether the use of the term should be revisited.
Deadline for abstracts in English or Arabic: 2 May 2021. Information: https://pcrsc.aaup.edu/Conferences/2021-Annual-Conference
14. Panel on “American Muslims” at the Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SMALA 93), Atlanta, 4-6 November 2021
This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, jazz musicians, punks, hip hop artists, filmmakers, and visual artists. Papers are invited that explore the diverse compositions of Muslim American identities in cultural texts as they challenge and engage with the canonical codes and sociopolitical norms of national, theoretical, literary, and aesthetic spaces.
Deadline for abstracts: 18 June 2021. Information: https://samla.memberclicks.net/callsforpapers#americanstudies
15. Associate Professorship in the History and Politics of Iran, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
You should have received a doctorate in the modern history and/or politics of Iran, by 1 September 2021. The successful candidate will demonstrate: research achievement at an international level appropriate to the stage of their career, the skills and commitment to contribute effectively to teaching, supervision and academic administration in the School, and fluency in the Persian language.
Deadline for applications: 21 May 2021. Information: https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=10&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=150478
16. Joint International Master Program (2 Years) on “Comparative and Middle East Politics and Society (CMEPS)”, University of Tübingen and American University in Cairo
Due to its unique profile, the program provides in-depth knowledge of the political and societal developments in the Middle East as well as analytical tools for understanding this region’s complex dynamics and challenges.
Deadline for applications: 15 May 2021. Information: https://cmeps.eu
- April 20, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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- April 19, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Research and Training Workshop / Atelier de recherche et de formation
Reading Sources in Area Studies
Contribution of biographical data for the social and cultural history
of Turko-Iranian societies (9th-18th c.)
Lire les sources en études aréales
L’apport des données biographiques pour l’histoire sociale et culturelle
du monde turko-iranien (IXe-XVIIIe s.)
Panel 2: Tuesday 20 April 2021 / mardi 20 avril 2021:
Epigraphy and craftsmanship in the Iranian world / L’épigraphie et l’artisanat du monde iranien
PhD candidate students and advanced MA students are invited to apply for participation
Doctorants et étudiants de Master sont encouragés à participer
To register to get the Zoom link / inscription à la visioconférence
http://www.inalco.fr/webform/ateliers-sources-etudes-areales
Full details and program: https://cermi.cnrs.fr/reading-sources-in-area-studies-contribution-of-biographical-data-for-the-social-and-cultural-history-of-turko-iranian-societies-9th-18th-c/
Contacts: maria.szuppe@cnrs.fr / camille.rhone@univ-amu.fr
2. Arabic with Jordan Language Academy – Summer 2021
Jordan Language Academy (JLA) is pleased to offer its full Arabic courses this summer 2021 in person (in campus) or virtually depending on the student’s choice. You can learn Arabic online or in person with our flexible and engaging programs to help you improve your Arabic and reach your language goals.
Students can join our group classes or have personal tutoring. JLA is also ready to work with the institutes/students on designing a tailor-made program that fits students’ needs and the current circumstances.
For registration and more info please contact us at:
Email: info@jordanla.com
Mobile: +962-779502220
www.youtube.com/user/JordanLangAcademy
3. Open Access Books:
Open Access E-Book: Sufi Masters and the Creation of Saintly Spheres in Medieval Syria
Author: Ephrat, Daphna
Publisher: Arc Humanities Press, 2021
URL: https://globalcommentary.utoronto.ca/?p=654. Direct download of the book: https://globalcommentary.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Practices-of-Commentary-Zeitspru%CC%88nge-Forschungen-zur-Fru%CC%88hen-Neuzeit.pdf.
Stefanie Brinkmann, “Marginal Commentaries in Ḥadīṯ Manuscripts.”
Walid Saleh, “The Place of the Medieval in Qur’an Commentary: A Survey of Recent Editions.”
Jeannie Miller, “Commentary and Text Organization in al-Jāḥiẓ’s Book of Animals.”
Suzanne Akbari, “Ekphrasis and Commentary in Walter of Chatillon’s Alexandreis.”
Jennifer Gerber, “About Form and Function of German Vernacular Commentaries.”
Christina Lechtermann, “Commentary as Literature: The Medieval ‘Glossenlied.’”
Philip Stockbrugger, “Mirroring Authorization in Torquato Tasso’s Rime Amorose.”
New Open Access Journal: Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World
Open Access Journal: Journal of Islamic Ethics
Open Access E-book: Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire
Edited by: Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Stefan Heidemann
De Gruyter | 2020
ISBN 9783110669800 (ebook)/ 9783110666489 (hardcover)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110669800
Open Access E-Book: The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire
Editor: Umar Ryad
Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2014]
Series: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, Volume: 5
4. PhD position in research project on social contexts of rebellion in the early Islamic period based at Universität Hamburg.
The successful applicant will work on early ‘Alid/proto-Shī‘ī revolts. It’s 2+2 years, deadline for applications is 1 May and preferred start date is 1 August. For more information, please go to https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=ada1df62a39c324fa8a1e9c61ccef7abce0d0616.
You can also email hannah-lena.hagemann@uni-hamburg.de.
5. Book Launch: Fada’il-i Balkh
Tuesday, 20 April 5-6pm (British Summer Time (UTC+1)
This book is a critical edition and translation of the medieval local history of Balkh, known as Faḍāʾil-i Balkh (“The Merits of Balkh”), which was completed in 610 Hijrī (1214 CE) in Arabic by Shaykh al-Islām Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh al-Wāʿiẓ and translated into Persian by ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusaynī in 676 Hijri (1278 CE). It is the Persian version which survives today and forms the source text for this book.
Balkh is one of the most illustrious cities of the Islamicate East, and yet we know very little about life in the city during the first five centuries of Islam (8th-13th centuries CE). The Faḍāʾil-i Balkh, the oldest surviving local history of Balkh, changes that. You can find out more about the book on the Oxbow Books website, and register for the book launch here.
https://www.ongc.ox.ac.uk/event/book-of-launch-merits-of-balkh
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pYPZO_zrSyeZNvDai8tO1w
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