Archive for May, 2021

‘Hurufism: The Faḍlallāh Family, Children, and Testament’
F. Usluer
Iranian Studies, 54 (2021), 3/4, pp 605-631.

Sound and Voice in Contemporary Twelver Shi’i Islam

Description: Thursday 27th – Friday 28th May 2021 – 14:00 – 17:00 (GMT+1)
To register and attend please email: s.j.williamsonfa@bham.ac.uk

This international workshop held online brings together new scholarship within anthropology, ethnomusicology and religious studies on sound and voice in Twelver Shi’i Islam.

Despite the growing body of work on sound and Islam, little attention so far has been paid to sound in Shi’i Islam. Within Shi’i communities, the central and shared sounds of the recitation of the Quran and the adhan exist amongst additional forms of vocalised sonic expression. A vast range of supplications, laments and chants of praise and celebratory poetry are central to Shi’i devotion to Ahl al-Bayt, the Family of the Prophet. Within Twelver Shi’ism there is a surprising consistency in content and form of these genres worldwide. Yet, a huge diversity in style correlates with the wide geographic distributions of these communities.

Bringing together ethnographically-grounded contributions from the Middle East and South Asia, this workshop aims to consolidate current research on sound and voice in contemporary Twelver Shi’i Islam. In thinking about the politics and aesthetics of sound in these diverse settings we ask the question, how does Shi’ism sound? What parallels and divergences exist between the way sound is mobilised and engaged with in Shi’ism and in other Islamic pathways? How does sound mediate across social, political and conceptual boundaries- between communal groups in the public sphere, the secular and sacred, ‘this-world’ and the ‘other-worldly’? What are the distinct aesthetic qualities of Shi’i devotion and how do they relate to poetics, theology, politics and society? Approaching the study of Shi’ism from a sonic perspective presents new ways of thinking about key issues such as transnationalism, cultural production and socio-political activism whilst further contributing to wider efforts to understand religion materially and sensorially.

Speakers:
Epsita Halder, Jadavpur University
Nabeel Jafri, University of Toronto
Timothy Cooper, University of Cambridge
Joseph Alagha, Haigazian University
Hamidreza Salehyar, University of Toronto
Maryam Aras, University of Bonn
Stefan Williamson-Fa, University of Birmingham

Organized by: The Alterumma project at the University of Birmingham

The Prophet’s Heir: the life of Ali ibn Abi Talib (Yale University Press, 2021) Online Launch
Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies
26 May 2021 – 03:00 pm (BST)

Ali ibn Abi Talib is arguably the single most important spiritual and intellectual authority in Islam after Prophet Muhammad. Through his teachings and leadership, the fourth caliph nourished Islam. But Muslims are divided on whether Muhammad wanted Ali to become his political successor.

Hassan Abbas, Distinguished Professor of International Relations at the National Defense University’s Near East South Asia Centre for Strategic Studies in Washington, argues in his latest book that Ali’s message and legacy remains a powerful one of peace and tolerance.

In this CIWAS online book launch, Professor Abbas will discuss his book with Nicole Correri (M.A., M.Ed.), PhD Student Islamic Studies at Boston University, and Dr Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, Lecturer in Islamic and Middle East Studies at University of Freiburg.

To register your place for this online event visit: https://ciwas1.eventbrite.com

1.Online Lecture – “Ablution Rooms of Mosques in Medieval Near East“, by Marie-Odile Rousset (CNRS UMR 5133 Archéorient)

May, 20th (3h-4h PM CET, 4h-5h PM in Amman & Beirut)

https://www.ifporient.org/archaeology-mena/

Join next conference of Ifpo’s webinar “ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TO THE OTTOMAN PERIOD. FIRST SERIES: LEBANON AND JORDAN”

 

 

 

 

2. Travelling the Silk Road from East to West:
How a 14th century Mongol pilgrim became the leader of the church in Iraq

Philip Wood

9 June 2021 | 12 noon BST | Online

For further info and to register, see:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8916207323702/WN_JTgARheWQ6-d7Vrs7GguEA?mc_cid=ea3bc2f692&mc_eid=UNIQID

 

 

 

 

3. ONLINE Lecture: “Sharia Transformations: Cultural Politics and the Rebranding of an Islamic Judiciary” by Michael G. Peletz, Leiden University, 20 May 2021, 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm CET

The auther discusses his new ethnographic, historical, and theoretical study of the practice and lived entailments of sharia in Malaysia, arguably the most economically successful Muslim-majority nation in the world. The book focuses on the routine, everyday practices of Malaysia’s sharia courts and examines how these court practices and discourses have changed.

Information and registration: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2021/05/sharia-transformations-cultural-politics-and-the-rebranding-of-an-islamic-judiciary

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Lecture: “Al-Muḥāsibī and the Essence of Reason: A Note on Authorship” by Prof. Hussein Abdulsater (University of Notre Dame, USA), Göttinger Orient-Symposium, 20 May 2021, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm CET

This talk studies the theory of reason by al-Ḥārith al-Muḥāsibī (d. 243/857) through his major work on the subject, Māʾiyyat al-ʿaql. The talk attempts to verify the authorship of this critical section of Muḥāsibī’s work, therefore casting light on other contributions to the study of reason in Islam that were eclipsed by the scholarly concentration on Muḥāsibī’s output.

Information: sekretariat.guenther@uni-goettingen.de. Access Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/95643369638?pwd=aWZoVWRMMFo5RUs4NDF1TWVzVUcvUT09

 

 

 

 

5. ONLINE Discussion of the Book “Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920-1958” by Dr. Dylan Baun (University of Alabama), Association of Middle East Children’s and Youth Studies (AMECYS), 21 May 2021, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm CDT

The author traces the political and cultural history of a diverse set of youth-centric organizations to reveal how these youth movements played significant roles in the making of the modern Middle East. These groups both encouraged the political socialization of different types of youth, and, helped produce sectarian violence.

Information and registration: https://www.facebook.com/events/306585637515104/

 

 

 

 

6. ONLINE Panel: “Women, Patronage, and Agency in the Ottoman Empire”, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at New York University, 21 May 2021, 12:30 pm EST

This panel will present a diverse and nuanced set of studies that seek to expand, question, and resituate our understandings of gender and women’s agency in the Ottoman Empire.

Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYodumrrzMtG9HiS8KctilgiWZuKg4VTEyF

 

 

 

 

7. HYBRID International Interdisciplinary Colloquium: “Umayyad Syria: A Context for the Qur’an?”, University of Strasbourg, 2-4 June 2021

This conference intends to investigate the evolution and place of the Qur’anic text in early Islam within a specific spatial and temporal context: the central region of Syria and Palestine (Bilād al-Shām) under the Umayyad caliphate dynasty (661-750). The colloquium will be in French and English.

Information and registration: http://archimede.unistra.fr/fr/activites-de-recherche/programmes-de-recherche/equipes/equipe-i-territoires-et-empires-dorient-teo/la-syrie-omeyyade-un-contexte-pour-le-coran/

 

 

 

 

8. ONLINE Workshop: “What Does Decolonizing Kurdish Studies Mean?”, Centre for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 11 June 2021, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST

The initiative is committed to the project of decolonizing epistemologies and methodologies in the field of Kurdish Studies. It aims to contribute to the understanding of this understudied field, at a time when Kurds have been the subject of academic, public, and political debates in the Middle East, Europe, the USA and beyond.

Information and registration: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2021/what-does-decolonizing-kurdish-studies-mean

 

 

 

 

9. ONLINE Workshop: “Anthropology, Economy, and Anti-Colonialism?”, Centre for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 23-24 June 2021, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm EST

The workshop will revolve around three basic questions. How might we think about decolonization with the tools of critical political economy, economic anthropology? What historical resources are valuable for understanding economy and coloniality in the present? How might we translate theory and critique into teachable moments in the classroom?

Information and registration: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2021/anthropology-economy-and-anti-colonialism

 

 

 

 

10. ONLINE Panel: “Is there a Middle Eastern Body?”, Orient Institute Istanbul, 7-9 August 2021

Drawing on anthropological research on aesthetic body modification (Liebelt 2019) and neuroscientific cyborg studies (Şahinol 2016), in this panel we wish to reflect on the role of cultural, historical and political constellations and peculiarities for bodily practices and beings from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2021. Information: sahinol@oiist.org  and claudia.liebelt@uni-bayreuth.de

 

 

 

 

11. Workshop: “Enshrining the Past: Religion and Heritage-Making in a Secular Age”, Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities”, Leipzig University, 27-29 October 2021

This workshop seeks to explore the contours of the politics around cultural heritage and the ways it is enmeshed with the religious-secular dynamics in societies past and present. We suggest that these concerns manifest in three substantive ways, each provoking suggestive research questions: legal frames, immaterial values, and material patrimony.

Deadline for abstracts: 13 June 2021. Information: https://multiple-secularities.de/events/event/enshrining-the-past-religion-and-heritage-making-in-a-secular-age/

 

 

 

 

12. Conference: “Esotericism and the Qur’an / L’ésoterisme et le Coran”, Unversity of Lausanne & University of Geneva, Lausanne, 5-7 May 2022

The objective of this conference is to take stock of these esoteric uses of the Qur’an and to examine how they relate to each other and to non-esoteric traditions and methods, to set them in the broader context of Muslim uses and interpretations of the Qur’an.

Deadline for abstracts: 25 June 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7672230/call-papersesoterism-and-quran

 

 

 

 

13. 4 Three-year PhD Positions (65 %), Graduate School “Empires: Dynamic Transformation, Temporality and Postimperial Orders (Focus Islamic Studies)”, University Freiburg, Germany

The Research Training Group, comprising the historical disciplines of Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, Modern and Contemporary, Eastern European and Eastern Asian History and the disciplines of Sociology, Political Science, as well as Islamic Studies, and investigates imperial transformations leading up to the emergence of post-imperial orders. Deadline for applications: 7 July 2021. Information: https://uni-freiburg.de/university/jobs/00001586/

 

 

 

 

14. Lecturer in Iranian Islamic Art History (651-1725), University of St Andrews

Candidates should already have, or be close to completing, a Ph.D. Evidence of breadth of interest within the field of Iranian Islamic art and/or architecture is highly desirable, and a firm grounding in Iranian studies generally (e.g. in the fields of language, history, literature, religion) will be an advantage.

Deadline for applications: 31 May 2021. Information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CFV870/lectureship-in-iranian-islamic-art-history-ac1929nb?uuid=4ff016f9-b205-11eb-a3a3-064da8edb92a&campaign=jbew20210511&source=jbe

 

 

 

 

15. Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021/22, Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)

Visiting fellowships of 6 and 9 months for the academic year 2021/22 are awarded to junior scholars during the early stages of the postdoc period in support of excellent research projects in the humanities and social sciences. We are particularly interested in research projects that fit our annual topic of “humans in their relation to the divine and humans in their relation to their productions”.

Deadline for applications: 6 June 2021. Information: https: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/scholarships/postdoctoral-fellowships/

 

 

 

 

16. Doctoral Fellowships 2021/22, Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)

The OIB awards a number of visiting fellowships of up to 12 months for the academic year 2021/22 to doctoral candidates in support of excellent research projects in the humanities and social sciences. We are particularly interested in research projects that fit our annual topic of “humans in their relations to the divine and humans in their relation to their productions”.

Deadline for applications: 6 June 2021. Information: https: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/scholarships/doctoral-fellowships/

 

 

 

 

17. Assistant Professor in Modern World History (Regional Specialization Open), University of Northern British Columbia

Applicants should have a completed PhD, an established program of research, and a record of teaching excellence. Research strength in non-Western history will be an asset.

Deadline for applications: 1 July 2021. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61250

 

 

 

 

18. Chapters for Edited Book on “Islam and Politics in the 21st Century: Competitive Discourses and Future Uncertainties” by Ayfer Erdogan

This book will address different perspectives on the future of political Islam in light of its failure to develop a genuine political ideology that reflect their criticism of nation-state and its secular foundations. Articles will focus on conceptual debates and/or country-specific studies presenting single or comparative analyses of different experiences across the MENA region. Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2021. For further information, please contact Dr. Ayfer Erdogan at aerdogan@yildiz.edu.tr and Dr. Shaimaa Magued at shaimaamagued@feps.edu.eg

 

 

 

 

19. Proposals for a New Book Series: “The Gulf States in International Affairs” (Rowman & Littlefield)

The scope of the series encompasses members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar, as well as Iraq, Iran and Yemen. Volumes which refer substantially to the Gulf region, states or related foreign actors (which might typically involve the US, European powers, Russia and East Asian partners) will also be considered from across the social sciences and humanities.

Information: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/LEX/LEXGIA

 

 

 

 

20. Online Book Launch – Joint Islamic Art Circle and Royal Asiatic Society, Amanda Phillips – 20th May at 6.30pm BST

Please join us at 6.30pm on Thursday 20th May for the joint Royal Asiatic Society and Islamic Art Circle virtual book launch of Amanda Phillips’ Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles Between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean.
If you would like to attend, please contact Matty Bradley by e-mail:  mb@royalasiaticsociety.org and the Zoom link and password will be provided. Please note the number of attendees is limited so early registration is advised. Please register by the 19^th May.   

 

 

 

 

21. Revealed Sciences
The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco

Justin Stearns,

Cambridge, 2021

https://www.cambridge.org/br/academic/subjects/history/middle-east-history/revealed-sciences-natural-sciences-islam-seventeenth-century-morocco?format=HB

 

 

 

 

22. Discussion Forum on Divine Scriptures(DFDS)
Series of meetings (Spring 2021)

Presenter:
Dr. Ghassan El Masri, Bavarian Research Center for Inter-religious Discourses (BaFID)

Meeting manager:
Dr. Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi, University of Tehran

The Subject:
The semantics of Qur’anic Language: al-Akhira,

Wednesday May 19th, 4 pm(Tehran zone)

More information about DFDS via:

zabanshenasitarikhi.ir

https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jdwlm06JIjOKMMvK3ppPzn

Meeting Link:

Mohamadhasan Ahmadi is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: DFDS Spring 2021 First meeting
Time: May 19, 2021 04:00 PM Tehran

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/78224713099?pwd=ZTdhVGlSMWxpR3I3N2pnL0lhVllWQT09

Meeting ID: 782 2471 3099
Passcode: L8e9QE

23. University of Oxford – Professorship in Arabic (Abdulaziz Saud
AlBabtain Laudian Professorship)

The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Friday 27 August 2021.
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61384

“Baraka Bodies: Thinking with and Through Devotional Image-Objects in Everyday Shiʿism in South Asia”

Karen Ruffle (University of Toronto)

Karen Ruffle is Associate Professor in the Department of Historical Studies and Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, where she specializes in South Asian Shiʿism and Sufism. Her research focuses on devotional texts, ritual practice, and Shiʿi material practices in South Asia. Her first book was Gender, Sainthood, and Everyday Practice in South Asian Shiʿism (University of North Carolina Press, 2011). Her second monograph, Everyday Shiʿism in South Asia was recently published (Wiley, 2021). She is currently working on a new book project, Building the City of Haidar: Kingship, Urban Space, and Shiʿi Ritual in Qutb Shahi Hyderabad.

Time: May 19, 2021
11:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

JoinZoomMeeting
https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/98480377079?pwd=dXRWVG5rNStqMTZobXEzOFFJVGJ1Zz09

Meeting ID: 984 8037 7079
Password: 803160

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)

 

‘Teaching Ethics in Early Ibadism: A Preliminary Study’
Jana Newiger,
In: Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam: Religious Learning between Continuity and Change (2 vols)
Leiden, 2020
Editor: Sebastian Günther
https://brill.com/view/title/56045

The ‘Ulama in Contemporary Pakistan
Contesting and Cultivating an Islamic Republic
Mashal Saif
Cambridge, 2020
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ulama-in-contemporary-pakistan/3749EB0360E0355D8A9A702FF8ADB1E8

Falling Out of Love with the Franks: The Life and Writings of an Armenian Catholic Diplomat in the Service of Late Safavid Persia
Henry R. Shapiro

Iranian Studies
Volume 54, 2021 – Issue 3-4

1.ONLINE Talk: “Kings and Heroes, Lovers and Poets: the Shahnameh’s Continuous Appeal” by Prof. Charles Melville (British Institute of Persian Studies), Iran Heritage Foundation, London, 12 May 2021, 5:30 pm GMT

The Shahnameh, or Book of Kings, is arguably Iran’s most famous work of literature and one of the world’s greatest epic poems. It recounts tales of legendary kings and heroes, compiled from more ancient legends and was completed by Ferdowsi (d.1020) over a thousand years ago, yet it still has an enduring appeal to Iranians, and non-Iranians, around the world.

Information and registration: www.iranheritage.org/12052021

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Seminar: “Answering the Five “W”s of Kuwaiti Democracy” by Dr Tahani Al Terkait (Kuwait), Webinar Series “Bridging the Gulf”, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 14 May 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm SGT

From the reign of a shrewd desert warrior to the Iraqi invasion in 1990, how has the nature of Kuwaiti leadership changed? How harmonious have the cabinet and the parliament been since the beginning of their coex-istence? This webinar will also provide an overview of Kuwait’s balanced foreign policy.

Information and registraton: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/bridging-the-gulf/

 

 

 

3. ONLINE ASTENE Postgraduate Research Competition of the “Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East”, 15 May 2021, 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm CET

This competition is intended to reward the most promising and engaging research in the interdisciplinary and cross-period fields of Near Eastern studies and travel history. Nine finalists will present a 20-minute paper at this virtual day of research, debate and networking.

Information, program and registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/astene-postgraduate-research-competition-tickets-145051596229

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE International Conference: “New Political Generations in the Arab World”, Working Group “Monde arabe en mouvement” of the “Association internationale des sociologues de langue française”, 16 May 2021

The conference will gather academics working on new political generation(s) in the Arab world. Its aim is to critically assess the construction of “political generation” in studies related to the Arab world. The conference is trilingual (Arabic, English and French).

Information: https://sites.google.com/view/newarabpoliticalgeneration/home

 

 

 

 

5. 5^th Conference of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS): “Interrogating the Social Sciences in the Vortex of Crises: Waves of Discontent and Demands for Change”, Beirut, 3-5 September 2021

The conference is organized around the following four major axes: Inequality and Resistance; The State and Risk Society; Infrastructure and Survival; Global, Regional and National Ecologies.

Information: http://www.theacss.org/pages/fifth-conference

 

 

 

 

6. Workshop for Young Scholars: “DAVO-Werkstattgespräche” during the “27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO)”, University of Osnabrück, 16−18 September 2021

Young scholars have the opportunity to present their research studies in progress (Master thesis or PhD)  in German or English. Since the general idea of the workshop is not to present finished works, young scholars are explicitly invited to contribute their projects in an early conception or implementation stage.

Deadline for applications: 15 June 2021.

Information: https://www.iit.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/events/27th_international_davo_congress/workshop_for_young_scholars.html

 

 

 

 

7. ONLINE & HYBRID Conference: “21th Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS 2021)”, Ohio State University, Columbus, 14-17 October 2021; Pre-Conference Workshops 13-14 October 2021

We invite submissions relating to all aspects of humanities and social science scholarship. The geographic domain of Central Eurasia encompasses Central Asia, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, the Black Sea region etc.

Deadline for abstracts extended until 17 May 2021.

Information: https://www.centraleurasia.org/conferences/annual/

 

 

 

 

8. Articles on “Constituting Archives in the Middle East Yesterday and Today: Legitimacy, Materiality, Temporality” for Special Issue of the Journal “Bulletin d’études orientales” (BEO 69)

In this issue the editors Pauline Koetschet, Falestin Naïli, Najla Nakhlé-Cerruti and Candice Raymond would like to bring together contributions from various disciplines (history, literature, anthropology, etc.) and from different periods.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2021.

Information: https://www.ifporient.org/beo-69-call-en/

 

 

 

 

9. 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 under-standing 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

 

 

 

 

10. Publications for Book Series “Critical, Connected Histories (Focus Middle East)” from Leiden University Press

The series seeks to explore unfamiliar social, cultural, and political issues that connect people of Asia, the Middle-East, Africa, Americas, and Europe in the modern age (since 1700). In addition to manuscripts we also accept edited volumes.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/7671999/call-publications-book-series-%E2%80%9Ccritical-connected-histories%E2%80%9D

 

 

 

 

11. Proposals for a New Academic Book Series: “I.B.Tauris Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Persian Literature”

The temporal scope of the series is circa 850-1850. The geographical range is the full expanse of the Persianate world, from Anatolia and the Caucasus in the west, through Iran and Afghanistan, to Central and South Asia in the east.

Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/05/04/call-for-manuscripts-i.b.tauris-studies-in-medieval-and-early-modern-persian-literature

 

 

 

12. The British Library :

The many names of the General Treaty with the Arab Tribes of the Persian Gulf

 

 

 

13. Online – Workshop: European Visions of the Qur’ān in the Middle Ages (9th-15th centuries)

20-21 May 2021
Nantes, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Ange Guépin
5 allée Jacques Berque, 44021 Nantes Cedex 1
Simone Veil Amphitheatre

For the programme and to register for Zoom, see:

https://euqu.eu/2021/03/29/workshop-european-visions-of-the-quran-in-the-middle-ages-9th-15th-centuries/

 

 

 

 

14. Iranzamin Exhibition Talk Series – DE-TERRITORIALISING ISLAMIC ART HISTORY

Speaker: Dr. Mahroo Moosavi

In this talk Dr Mahroo Moosavi will speak about de-territorialising Islamic art history. The talk will question the habits of thought in the study of Islamic art history, especially in Persianate arts, by working between different forms of artistic production. It proposes an alternate way of discussing art history, allowing the encounter, rather than the effect of the modern act of ‘labelling’ of art, to guide the analysis and produce nuanced understandings that are informed by socio-cultural and religious discourses. This new type of engagement between different forms of art addresses a particular inadequacy in contemporary accounts of Islamic Persianate art, that is evident in the way that most Islamic art museums work, which are reductive of the complexities of this art.

Date: 15 May 2021

Time: 2.30pm – 3.30pm (Sydney Time)

Duration: 60 minutes

Zoom link:

https://zoom.us/j/94170635964…

Passcode: 335207