Archive for May 15th, 2021

1.Durham University

Teaching Fellow in Arabic 

School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Grade 7: – £33,797 – £40,322 per annum

Fixed Term – Full Time

Contract Duration: 12 months

Contracted Hours per Week: 35

Closing Date: 06-Jun-2021, 11:59:00 PM

https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=21000427&lang=en

For informal enquiries please contact Professor Jonathan Long, Head of School (j.j.long@durham.ac.uk ), or Dr Adam Talib, Director of Arabic Studies (adam.talib@durham.ac.uk ).  All enquiries will be treated in the strictest confidence.

2. Webinar – Prof Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Poets and Artisans in the Mamluk Sultanate – June 2

As part of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies’ Wednesday Seminar Series for Trinity Term 2021, we’re delighted to be joined by Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif (SOAS), on Wednesday, 2 June 2021 at 5pm BST (not GMT!), who will present on ‘Poets and Artisans in the Mamluk Sultanate – Literary and Artistic Interactions’. Talks will take place via Zoom. Please register here.

3. BRAIS 2021 Online Series

We are hosting THREE panels next week as part of the BRAIS 2021 Online Series, and full details of each panel are below.

As ever, these panels are free and open to all. If you would like to attend but have not yet registered for the series, you can do so here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2021/brais-2021-online-series-registration

Islam and Society in Europe

Tuesday 18 May, 12pm BST

• Fouzia Azzouz (University of Bristol) British Muslim marriage and divorce practices: Avenues for regulation
• Fatou Sambe (Cardiff University) Muslim Convert Families and the Experiences of Convert Children
• Laiqah Osman (Cardiff University) Muslim Women in Britain and the Authority of Online Islamic Content
• Tatia Tavkhelidze (European University Viadrina) Boundaries between the living concept of Islamophobia and the term ‘being Islamophobic’

Criticality in Islamic Scholarship

Thursday 20 May, 10:30am BST

• I-Wen Su (National Chengchi University) ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī: a Critical Review and Reconstruction of His Biography
• Mostafa Movahedifar (University of Birmingham) The position of content criticism within early Shīʿī hadith scholarship: the case study of the legal punishment of committing zinā with a female slave of one’s wife
• Essam Ayyad (Qatar University) Medieval Muslim Katātīb between Independent Thinking and Learning by Rote 

Colonialism and the Empire of Law

Friday 21 May, 2pm BST

• Rozaliya Garipova (Nazarbayev University) Colonial Rule and the Legality of Marriage in the Russian Empire
• Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown University) A Subtle Imbibe: Islamic law in 19th Century Colonial Courts in India
• Alexandre Caeiro (Hamad Bin Khalifa University) Justice before Oil: Pearl Trade, Diving Courts, and the British Legal Order in the Arabian Peninsula (1860s-1950s)