Archive for May 29th, 2021
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Online – EuQu Copenhagen Seminar of Work in Progress
Thursday, 3 June, from 4pm to 5.30pm (CET).
By Dr Paul M. Babinski, University of Copenhagen
‘Reading the Arabic Qur’an in Early Modern Europe’
With comments by Theodor Dunkelgrün, Universitt of Cambridge
Register at :
https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/register/u50qfuurqTMoGt0Br5e8OXiaTI7RY-ZreUVG
2. On-line Lecture: Earthly Beauty, Heavenly Art: Carpets for Prayer
by Sumru Belger Krody, Senior Curator, The Textile Museum Collection at The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum
Saturday, June 12, 2021, 1 pm EDT / 10 am PDT
Admission is free, with registration
Registration: https://tinyurl.com/PryrCarpetSKlsrv
Hosted by Textile Museum Associates of Southern California, Colorado Textile Group, Portland Area Rug Society, San Francisco Bay Area Rug Society, and Seattle Textile and Rug Society
3. 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
4. Whose Islam?
The Western University and Modern Islamic Thought in Indonesia
Megan Brankley Abbas
Stanford, 2021
https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781503627932/whose-islam/
5. Open Access E-Book: The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi, Sufism through the Eyes of ʿImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī (d. 711/1311)
Brill, 2020
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42527
6. Dr. Mahroo Moosavi “DE-TERRITORIALISING ISLAMIC ART HISTORY”, held at the Powerhouse Museum (15 May 2021) in the occasion of Iranzamin Exhibition, can now be watched online by following this link:
7. The Society of Architectural Historians is now accepting abstracts for its 75th Annual International Conferencein Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 27–May 1, 2022. If you are interested in the panel below, please submit an abstract no later than 11:59 p.m. CDT on June 2, 2021.
Interconnecting West and East Asia: A Transcultural Study of the Architecture of the Dead
In the wake of a growing interest in the global approach to architectural history, this session seeks to widen the scope of current research by conducting a transcultural and comparative analysis of the funerary construction practices in West and East Asia from the turn of the Common Era to the Early Modern Period. With the aim to open up a dialogue between scholars of the ancient and early modern period, and the area studies of West Asia (Islamic, Middle East, Mediterranean) and East Asia (China, Korea, Japan), we propose to investigate the connectivity between West and East Asian architecture through the lens of the “architecture of the dead,” including burial structures, tomb decorations, construction techniques, and the role funerary architecture played in negotiating the social relations.
Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts must be under 300 words.
The title cannot exceed 65 characters, including spaces and punctuation.
Abstracts and titles must follow the Chicago Manual of Style.
Only one abstract per conference by an author or co-author may be submitted.
A maximum of three (3) authors per abstract will be accepted.
Please attach a two-page CV in PDF format.
Abstracts are to be submitted online using the link below.
https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/login?redirect=/stages/2562/submitter
8. Séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, 3 juin 2021, Conférence de Alexandre Papas
Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à la dernière séance de la saison 2020-21 du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” organisé par le CeRMI, qui aura lieu le jeudi 3 juin 2021 de 17h à 19h en visioconférence (lien de connexion ci-après)
Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Alexandre Papas (directeur de recherche, CNRS), pour une conférence intitulée :
Aspects du soufisme en Iran d’aujourd’hui
Lien zoom : https://zoom.us/j/94218926456
9. Online Talk – Freer and Sackler: Iran, Then and Now: A Conversation with Author Dalia Sofer – June 2, at 6 pm.
This program is part of Talk Series: Tea and Conversation with the Freer and Sackler.
Register here: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PWn3zuqLSEuHnjx3k1Rpyg
10. The British Library:
Fragments of Abbasid Sciences: From Desert Monastery to Digital Reunion
11. John Greaves’s Marginalia Workshop
Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Friday 4 June 2021, 17:00-21:00 (BST) – Online with Zoom (registration required)
Please join us virtually on Friday 4 June 2021, for the first workshop of the project: Arabic Books and Astronomy in Seventeenth Century Oxford. This project is a short-term pilot survey sponsored by St John’s College, University of Oxford, to analyse the Arabic and Persian MSS on astronomical topics held in two Oxford libraries, St John’s College, and the Bodleian. Its focus is notes written on the MSS by the seventeenth-century Oxford scholars who used them, in this case multilingual marginalia and interlinear notes by John Greaves, which we will annotate and digitize.
Further info and registration at :
https://www.hsmt.ox.ac.uk/event/john-greavess-marginalia-workshop
12. Contemporary Levant Best Article Prize 2021
Call for Submissions | Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)
Submissions for the 2021 Best Article Prize for CBRL’s international peer-reviewed journal Contemporary Levant are now open. The award recognises excellent research and scholarship that engages with current and emerging issues in the Levant to advance our understanding of the region. A committee from CBRL and the editorial board of Contemporary Levant will select the best article from submissions which will be published in Contemporary Levant in autumn 2021. The prize winner will receive a one-year membership to CBRL and online access to Contemporary Levant for one year. They will also be presented with a certificate of recognition at the CBRL annual general meeting.
Deadline for Submissions | 18 June 2021
Further information
13. Lecturer in Modern Islam (Part-time)
Modern Languages and Cultures | The Univeristy of Manchester
Applications are invited for the part-time (0.5 FTE), fixed-term, teaching-focused post of Lecturer in Modern Islam which is tenable from 1 September 2021 for a period of 10 months. You must have a PhD (or equivalent) in a relevant field, submitted or very near completion, and demonstrable university-level teaching experience in modern Islamic cultural studies and/or history with a focus on the Middle East.
Closing date for applications | 1 June 2021
Further information
14. On-line seminar :
Trade, Heritage and Landscape along the Silk Roads
16 June 2021 | 12 noon BST
With
Professor Michael Jansen, GuTech, Muscat
Professor Roland Lin, UNESCO / EPHE, Paris
Professor Stephane Pradines, AKU-ISMC, London
For more information/registration, see
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1516215118143/WN_KbXAQH3JQVS0p2ZW_Zy9Nw
‘The Silk Road: A Living History’ talks are a collaboration between Aga Khan Foundation UK, Aga Khan University – Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and The Institute of Ismaili Studies.
15. After Avicenna
Online conference on post-Avicennian Islamic philosophy and theology
University of Jyväskylä, June 2–3 2021
Organised by the project Epistemic Transitions in Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science and funded by the European Research Council
The conference is open to all interested parties. The Zoom links and possible updates will be announced at the conference website, http://islamicepistemology.com/2021/05/18/after-avicenna. For all further information, please contact Mr Kutlu Okan (kutluokan@gmail.com).
- May 29, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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