Archive for July, 2021

‘Taliban surge in north Afghanistan sends thousands fleeing’
Associated Press, 13.7.21

It is with deep sadness that the Institute for Ismaili Studies (IIS) announces the untimely loss of Dr Janis Esots, colleague and esteemed scholar.

An obituary can be found here:

https://www.iis.ac.uk/news/in-memoriam-janis-esots

1.ONLINE Conference: “Studying Islam and Muslims: Trajectories and Futures of South African Scholarship”, University of Cape Town, 13-15 July 2021

The aim of this conference is to trace past and potential trajectories of Islamic studies scholarship in Southern Africa. It also seeks to honour the associated scholarly legacies that have developed in the last 40 years.

For information and program contact rafudma@unisa.ac.za. Registration: https://forms.office.com/pages/re-sponsepage.aspx?id=jIuayqM-mUekPlUQOY56O3ILwTEa18pPlyQUTiom31BUR-jNHRDA0MjFSNkE3Nk5KUFFHR1ZTNVdSMC4u

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Lecture: “From Neighbors to Foreigners: Iranians in Bahrain in the Early 20th Cen-tury”, Arab Center Washington DC, 15 July 2021, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

This talk by Lindsey Stephenson will discuss some of the ways that economic and political transformations of the early 20th century changed the meaning of itinerancy in the Gulf. It will look specifically at the position of Iranians in Bahrain to explore the unfolding of new conceptions of space, identity, and belonging.

Information and registration: https://dohainstitute-org.zoom.us/webinar/regis-ter/WN_VSv53shtQ0WjtTTiGLnFvw

 

 

 

 

3. International Colloquium: “Rewritings, Appropriations and Metamorphoses of Prophetic Figures in the Religious, Literary and Historiographical Texts of Pre-modern Islam”, Paris, 16-18 September 2021

This colloquium (in French, English and Arabic) will seek to grasp these itinerant figures, from the spaces in-between: the prophets of the pre-modern Arab world, between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, between sacred model and familiar figure of popular literature, between mythical authority and historical hero.

Information: prophetes.itinerants@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE and In-Person: International Conference on “Hermeneutics of Quranic Norm Change”, Department of Islamic-Religious Studies, Erlangen, 14-15 October 2021

Information and program: https://www.dirs.phil.fau.eu/2021/07/07/international-conference-on-the-herme-neutics-of-quranic-norm-change-14th-15th-october-2021/

 

 

 

 

5. Professorship for Islamic Studies (Open Rank), Institute for Islamic and Middle Eastern Stud-ies, University of Bern

Qualification: Ability to cover in German the entire field in teaching. A research profile situated within the fields of history, cultural or social studies with a temporal focus on the 20th and 21st centuries. The geographical focus should lie on the Arab world. Required are excellent knowledge of Arabic, familiarity with current theo-retical approaches and research stays in the region.

Deadline for applications: 19 September 2021. Information: https://www.phil-hist.unibe.ch/about_us/now_happening/call_for_applications_islamic_studies/index_eng.html

 

 

 

 

6. Arabic Course Program by the “Département des Études Arabes, Médiévales et Modernes”, l’Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) in Amman, Beirut or Online, October 2021 – June 2022

The program offers in-depth language and cultural training to trainees (students or non-students) who have already completed Modern Standard Arabic (MSA/fuṣḥā). The classes are taught in Arabic by Lebanese, Syrian and Jordanian professors.

Deadline for applications: 10 September 2021. Information: https://www.ifporient.org/stage-annuel-2021-2022-a-beyrouth-amman/

 

 

 

 

7. Chapters for: The making of contemporary Oman: The Sultan, the People and the Legacy of Peace

The book will capture the unique identity of the existing state, and the state-society dynamics through a group of critical chapters, each representing a piece of the puzzle. The book chapters will be covering issues of history, governance, foreign policy, political economy, energy, society and gender issues and more.

Deadline for abstracts: 8 August 2021. Information: GSPublications@qu.edu.qa

 

 

 

 

8. Chapters for Transnational Generations in the GCC Countries and Beyond

The project elaborates how migrants’ multiple belonging, orientations, and strategies give birth to today’s migration phenomenon in the Gulf. This project intends to understand and explicate the phenomenon of migration in the Gulf from the Gulf perspective with its probable complexities and varieties.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2021. Information: Contact Kyoko Matsukawa (kyoko@konan-u.ac.jp)

 

 

 

 

9. CFP, UPDATED – Monsters, Hexes, Nightmares: An Exploration into the Dark Side of Islamic Art, RSA 2022 Sponsored Session – Deadline August 5

This panel invites papers that investigate the visualizations of horrors, terrors, and malevolence in early-modern Islamic art (c. 1400-1800). From individual depictions of various “monsters” (jinns, divs, Iblis, etc.) to narrative cycles, from treatises on the occult to astronomical texts, a darker realm lurked in the arts of the Islamic world. Although not necessarily produced to evoke fear, nor defined and understood as dark, images of this invisible and other dimension had a potent presence that operated at the juncture of religion, science & medicine, superstition, and fantasy. Rather than descriptive accounts, the panel seeks papers that employ theoretical lenses (monster theory, affect theory, philosophy of horror, posthuman / inhuman studies, etc.) and innovative methodologies, addressing questions beyond style, genre, taxonomy, and representation. If a jinn from pre-Islamic Arab mythology could find its way simultaneously into the Quran, and into a constellation drawn from Greek mythology, all normative categories and modes of analyses fail. Hence, the primary aim of the panel is to highlight how images from / of the “dark side” performed in their individual contexts, what affects they activated, what boundaries they crossed, and what worlds they connected. Particularly welcome are comparative (within and beyond the Islamic world) and/or multidisciplinary studies, and papers that work across media.

Please submit a title, a 150-word abstract, a current CV, PhD or other terminal degree completion date (past or expected), and primary discipline (as listed at https://www.rsa.org/page/DisciplineReps) to Saygin Salgirli (saygin.salgirli@ubc.ca), by August 5, 2021.

 

 

 

 

10. The British Library

The art of small things (2): Text frames in Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia

 

 

 

 

11. The Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity to support public-facing historical projects related to the theme of “Turning Points” in history.

The Center will fund up to 5 projects that creatively engage with how the study of past turning points have affected the course of history, and how historical study can further public understanding of the present times.
We welcome applications that are original and imaginative in content and form. Proposals can include (but are not limited to) a series of blog posts, a series of podcast conversations, digital and in-person exhibits, an oral history project, an initiative with a local newspaper to write a series of op-eds, a mapping project, a multimedia resource, and other creative ideas.
Each grantee will receive up to $5,000 depending on the scope, size, and need of the proposal. The deadline for submissions is August 31, 2021, at 11:59 pm (EST).
Visit our website for more information about eligibility and requirements. https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/lepage/resources/turning-poi…

 

 

 

12. AMECYS Early Career Article Award Call for Submissions 2021

The Association for Middle East Children and Youth Studies

invites nominations for the 2021 AMECYS Early Career Article Award

 

The AMECYS is a private, non-profit, international association for scholars with an interest in the study of children and youth in the Middle East, North Africa and their diasporic communities. Through interdisciplinary programs, publications, and services, AMECYS promotes innovative scholarship, facilitates global academic exchange, and enhances public understanding about Middle Eastern children and youth in diverse times and places.

The recently established AMECYS Early Career Article Award recognizes and promotes good scholarship of young researchers for their exceptional contribution to the study of children and youth in the Middle East, North Africa and their diasporic communities.

Both self-nominations and nominations of others will be accepted. Each candidate should submit only one article that should meet the following criteria:

1. By August 2021, the recipient must be within six years of having earned the doctoral degree (i.e., must have received his/her degree in 2015 or later).
2. The articles (either in a periodical or a chapter in an edited book) must be scholarly, non-fiction, based on original research and published in English.
3. Articles must have been published in the last three years (date of, 2019, 2020 2021).
4. The subject matter must deal with the study of children or youth – broadly defined – in the Middle East, North Africa and their diasporic communities.
5. Works not eligibleinclude multiple-author papers, proceedings of symposia, encyclopedic entries, bibliographies, dictionaries, textbooks, fiction, translated papers, and surveys.
6. Nominations must be made by August 1st, 2021 for articles to be eligible for the competition.

Nominations must include an up-to-date CV and a one-page summary of the contribution written by the nominee. The summary of the contribution would ideally address the following areas: (1) quality of research; (2) relevance / contributions of research to child and youth studies in the Middle East, North Africa and their diasporic communities. All materials should be sent in one email to the committee chair Fruma Zachs (fzachs@research.haifa.ac.il ).   The articles and submitted materials will be reviewed by three scholars. Materials must be received by August 1st, 2021.

The author of the AMECYS Early Career Article Award will receive $150 and a certificate of award. In the event of co-winners, prize money will be divided evenly among the winners. Honorable mentions also receive a certificate of award. Winners will be announced at the 55th MESA Annual Meeting. The results will also be posted on the AMECYS and MESA website and in other publications, as deemed appropriate by AMECYS.  

 

*** No additional materials will be considered as part of the submission.

 

Reviewers

1. Fruma Zachs (University of Haifa)
2. Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford)
3. Kathryn Libal (University of Connecticut)

 

 

 

13. CERAMICS FROM ISLAMIC LANDS CONFERENCE

Hosted by the Victoria and Albert Museum – taking place online!

19-23 JULY

https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/ZXZZjyXo/islamic-ceramics-online-conference-july-2021

The conference is free to attend.

Conference papers will be available to view to conference attendees from two weeks before and two weeks after the conference. The conference will then take the form of live online panel discussions, in the mornings and afternoons of 20th-23rd July, with the keynote lecture a live event on the evening of 19th July. All times are in BST.

 

 

 

14. The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies Presents:

The Unsung Poetry of Kurdish Women

Dr. Farangis Ghaderi, University of Exeter

Friday July 16, 4:00 P.M. EDT

Zoom Registration: https://bit.ly/3hjVoEo

 

1. Call for Paper Proposals: The 5th Great Lakes Adiban Workshop in Ann Arbor, Michigan

The Great Lakes Adiban Society (GLAS) invites submissions for its fifth annual workshop, scheduled to take place at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on October 9–10, 2021. We welcome works in progress that would benefit from extensive discussion and feedback, and especially encourage graduate students to participate. This workshop might also prove beneficial for those planning to present at the MESA conference on October 28–31.

The Society aims to provide a regional forum for scholars of Islamicate adab, particularly of the medieval and early modern periods, to meet and share their work. We leave our parameters of language and genre intentionally open in order to invite as wide a collaboration as can be useful, but as a group we are generally interested in the literary production of the broad complex of premodern Muslim societies across the Eastern Hemisphere. This naturally includes the major Islamicate languages of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu, as well as many others (Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew, Spanish, etc.) that participate in similar literary conventions.

In light of the continued travel restrictions imposed by the pandemic, the Workshop will take place in a hybrid format: scholars who can make the trip to Ann Arbor are encouraged to do so, but those who cannot may participate remotely via Zoom. Applicants may indicate their preference on the application below.

Those who wish to participate can apply by filling out our online application by August 16, 2021. Please note that each accepted participant will be given 45 minutes to present and discuss their work; because of this, we have limited space and may have to turn down some submissions if we get too many. In such an event, preference will generally be given to graduate students, regional scholars, and works in progress. All in-person participants should plan to cover the costs of travel and lodging, but graduate students should note that we may (funding permitting) be able to offer small grants to help offset these expenses.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at greatlakesadibansociety@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

 

 

 

2. International Conference on Literature and Humor: The Trickster and His Subversive Tales

We are pleased to invite you to attend the online International Conference on “Literature and Humor: The Trickster and His Subversive Tales,” on November 4-7, 2021. The conference is organized by the Journal of Arabic and World Literature: Comparative and Multidisciplinary Perspectives (AWL), published at Andromeda Publishing and Academic Services, UK (http://journals.andromedapublisher.com/index.php/AWL).

We invite scholars to explore interdisciplinary themes related to multiple humorous and satirical narratives, presenting the various sets of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish treatment of the trickster character in order to identify cross-temporal and trans-local conceptualizations of the comic manifestation in samples of high literature as well as in folk narratives. Applying a comparative approach the conference aspires to facilitate a dialogue between classical and modern conceptualizations of the comic while questioning their boundaries.

Topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Modern Theories of Humor and Laughter.
• Humor in Middle Eastern Popular Culture: Juha in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Narratives.
• Juha and tricksters in European Oral Tradition and Literature.
• Puns and Word-Play: Linguistic Ambiguity in Humorous Narratives.
• Political Satire  in Classical Arabic Literature and the Modern-day Satirical Works related to Juha.
• Juha, Our Contemporary: Juha and the Social Media.
• Humorous Narratives as Resistance to and Subversion of Social Norms.
• Gendered Approaches to Humor.
• The Challenges of Translating Humor

For more information, please visit:

 

http://conferences.andromedapublisher.com/Literature-and-Humor-AIC

We look forward to meeting you in the conference.

Best regards,

The Organizing Committee

 

 

 

 

3. Autofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile

 

Seminar

8 September 2021

12:00-13:30 BST

 

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24520

 

Speakers:
Antonia Wimbush (Liverpool)
Leslie Barnes (Australian National University)
Amaleena Damlé (Durham)
Natalie Edwards (Adelaide)

Chair: Joseph Ford (IMLR)

All are welcome to attend this free conference, which will be held online via Zoom at 12:00 BST. You will need to register in advance to receive the online joining link: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24520

 

 

Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing

Institute of Modern Languages Research

School of Advanced Study | University of London
Room 239 | Senate House | Malet Street | London WC1E 7HU | UK

http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk | modernlanguages@sas.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

4. Grabar Travel Grant

Deadline: August 15, 2021

This competition is open to graduate students (doctoral candidates) who have been invited or accepted as participants in a scholarly conference or other professional meeting for the purpose of presenting papers, chairing sessions or moderating discussions.

The maximum amount of the award is $700 US.

Applicants must be HIAA members in good standing at the time of application. Grabar Travel Grants must be used within 12 months of the award date.

Applications must include the following five components and be submitted in a single pdf to the Grabar Travel Committee Chair, Matthew Saba (grabar.hiaa@gmail.com) by August 15, 2021:

• Application cover sheet, available here
• A cover letter explaining the applicant’s purpose in participating in the conference, the expected benefits of participation, and an itemized travel budget
• Curriculum vitae
• Letter of acceptance from the conference/session organizer(s).
• Abstract of the paper to be presented.

In addition, a letter of recommendation from the applicant’s primary supervisor should be sent directly to the Grabar Travel Committee Chair, Matthew Saba (grabar.hiaa@gmail.com) by the deadline.

Applicants from outside the United States are responsible for meeting the requirements for and obtaining any visas necessary for visits to or residence and research in the United States. Upon request, HIAA will supply documentation of the grant and/or fellowship award, the dates of the award, and financial support.

 

For further details and to apply, please visit: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/grabar-grants-and-fellowships

 

 

 

 

5. Queens, Eunuchs and Concubines in Islamic History, 661–1257

Taef El-Azhari

Edinburgh, 2021

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queens-eunuchs-and-concubines-in-islamic-history-661-1257.html?utm_source=Edinburgh%20University%20Press&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=12514332_Copy%20of%20History%20Update%20July%202021&utm_content=Queens&dm_i=CEQ,7G84C,MWI2D5,U9ZPF,0

 

 

 

 

6. Between Sea & Sky

Blue and White Ceramics from Persia and Beyond

Fine Arts Museum, Houston (TX)

BBC Persian TV’s Pejman Akbarzadeh reviews the exhibition (+ Interview with Gary Tinterow, director of the Fine Arts Museum, Houston and Aimée Froom, curator)

https://youtu.be/CH0CDX5X6KY (in Persian)

 

 

 

 

7. Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth Century Morocco

Justin Stearns

Cambridge, 2021

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/revealed-sciences/097BF5B0D6CA2E83366034868638ECFD

 

1. ONLINE Book Talk: “Saudi Arabia and Indonesian Networks: Migration, Education and Islam”, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 8 July 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm SGT

Based on in-depth interviews, Dr Sumanto Al Qurtuby identifies the “Indonesian legacy” in Saudi Arabia and examines how the host country’s influential Islamic scholars have impacted Indonesian Muslims. The re-search sheds light on the dynamic history of Saudi Arabian-Indonesian relations and the intellectual impact of Indonesian migrants in Saudi Arabia.

Information and registration: https://mei.nus .

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Conference: “Conflict on Crusade”, California State University, East Bay, 3-9 August 2021

Hostile encounters were a fundamental component of the crusades and life in the Latin East. Combatants strategized, confronted, and defended against their opponents, often recording their military endeavours in writing or, occasionally, within the landscape itself. This virtual conference will investigate some of these elements.

Information and registration: https://csueb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SQJkeqgGTPufZN1dH_P74A

 

 

 

3. Conference on “Translation and Transfer” of the Network “Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics”, University of Marburg, 6–9 October 2021

The conference will stress the pragmatic implications of the translation of texts in its narrower sense and the translators involved in activities across or within the Transottoman focus region. For a closer look at this and the multiple projects within this framework, please visit our website at www.transottomanica.de

For further information, contact florian.riedler@uni-leipzig.de .

 

 

 

4. International Symposium: “Yavuz Sultan Selim and His Era”, Turkish Historical Society, Istanbul University, 4-6 November 2021 Sultan Selim I was son of Sultan Bayezid II. He ruled the Ottoman Empire until 1520 when he died. During his reign, the territories of the empire expanded; and Yavuz became the leader of Islamic world. In addition to military-political affairs throughout his rule, public works, architecture, cultural-literate activities developed, too. Deadline for abstracts: 19 July 2021. Information: https://tamga.gov.tr/UluslararasiYavuzSultanSelimVe-DonemiSempozyumu2021

 

 

 

 

5. Colloquium: “What Does It Mean to Be Nomadic in the Past, Present and Future?”, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, 25-27 November 2021

Nomadism is one of the rare ways of life that can question and link pre-history to current societal and global crises (environmental, health, governmental, economic). How are nomads defined, and defining themselves? Howhave these populations adapted and still adapting to their natural, cultural and political environments? What future can they envision?

Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2021/06/CollNomade_CallCommunication_juin2021.pdf

 

 

 

 

6. “4th European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (Turkologentag 2023)”, Vienna, 21-23 September 2023

The conference is orgnanized by the Society for Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (GTOT) and the Chair of Ottoman and Turkish Studies, University of Vienna.

Mind this date.

Information: https://turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at/

 

 

 

 

7. Trois post-doctorants, Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans (GIS MOMM), CNRS Pour une durée de quatre mois renouvelable une fois pour six mois, pour un recrutement au 1er septembre 2021 :

– Post-doctorant en appui à la préfiguration et à l’animation d’un consortium en humanités numériques aréales. Pour postuler : https://bit.ly/2UaFfHH

– Post-doctorant en appui à la structuration des études turques et centre-asiatiques en France. Pour postuler : https://bit.ly/3h9euwf

– Post-doctorat en appui à la coordination scientifique du programme HoRÉA (Horizons de Renouvellement des Études Arabes). Pour postuler : https://bit.ly/364oFf8

Date Limite Candidature : 22 juillet 2021

 

 

 

 

8. Teaching Fellow in Islamic Theology and Ethics, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham

Qualification: Higher degree relevant to research or teaching area or equivalent qualifications; High level analytical capability; Ability to design and deliver module materials successfully; Ability to design and deliver effective undergraduate and taught postgraduate module materials successfully.

Deadline for applications: 11 July 2021. Information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CHA475/teaching-fellow-is-lamic-theology-and-ethics?uuid=6cd8da94-d886-11eb-949d-064da8edb92a&cam-paign=jbew20210629&source=jbe

 

 

 

 

9. Visiting Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, Department of Religion and Classics, University of Rochester

Ph.D. in Religion or a related field is required. Preference will be given to candidates with demonstrated excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level and with demonstrated potential and/or excellence in research and publications in the candidate’s field.

Deadline for applications: 15 July 2021. Information: https://www.rochester.edu/faculty-recruiting/posi-tions/show/11942

 

 

 

 

10. ONLINE ENIS/MIDA Summer School 2021: “Spoken Images of/in Islam: Languages and Trans-lations in Texts and Images”, 5-9 July 2021

This is organized by the Innovative Training Network “Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” (MIDA) and the European Network for Islamic Studies (ENIS). It will bring together advanced academics and lecturers from different disciplines with doctoral and MA students to explore how the transfer of texts and images move from one culture to another in Muslim societies and beyond; and in what ways language functions as a me-diator in this process.

Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2021/06/ENIS_MIDA2021Booklet.pdf

 

 

 

 

11. Summer Course: “Glocal Ummas: Content Creation and New Media in the Arab-Islamic Sphere”, Casa Árabe, Madrid, 2-4 September 2021

Casa Árabe, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid and the IEXCUL research group are organizing this summer course which will allow participants to delve into issues such as digital creation, new media, freedom of expression and feminism, among others.

Information and registration: https://www.casaarabe.es/eventos-arabes/show/curso-de-verano-ummas-glo-cales-la-creacion-de-contenidos-y-nuevos-medios-en-la-esfera-araboislamica

 

 

 

12. Articles on “Producing the Middle East” for Special Issue of the “Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication”, Edited by Hatim El-Hibri and William Lafi Youmans

We are particularly interested in papers that will be in dialog with media industries studies, production studies, and current theoretical debates in critically-oriented cultural and communication studies. Studies of any in-dustry, cross-industry formation, or scale of analysis are welcome.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 August 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announce-ments/7882834/call-papers-producing-middle-east

 

 

 

 

13. The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC):

Online Short Course

Music in Islamic Contexts 

Read and Download Course Structure
Date and Time

20, 21, 27 and 28th September 2021
13:00 PM till 15:30 PM BST each day – 4 x 2.5 hour sessions
Tickets and Booking

£75 professionals | £45 students, AKU alumni and staff.

Book here
*The course will be delivered via Zoom. Readings and further details will be provided later upon registration.

*The course will not be recorded.

 

 

 

14. Online Lecture – “Archaeological Research in Bustan Nassif (Baalbek): A Glimpse into Urban History from Late Antique to Mamluk Period”, by Heike Lehmann (Technische Universität Berlin) and Valentina Vezzoli (Ifpo)

July 8th at 3 pm CET / 4pm in Amman and Beirut

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

New issue of Turkish Journal of Shiite Studies (Volume: 3 Issue:1 June 2021) has been published. Our journal is open access and a non-profit academic organization. You can access the articles from the link.
The article submitting of new issue (Volume:3 Issue: 2 December 2021) has been started.

1. New Book Series Announcement:

‘Critiquing Gender & Islam: Transnational, Intersectional and Queer Perspectives’,

edited by Nadje Al-Ali & Kathryn Spellman Poots

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-critiquing-gender-islam

 

 

 

 

2. CALL FOR PAPERS ON IRANIAN HISTORY (SEPTEMBER 15, 2021)

The quarterly Journal of Iranian History of the Islamic Period is an academic journal recognized by the Ministry of Science of Iran. It is affiliated with the Department of History of Tabriz University and has appeared since 1945.  Until 2020, the journal was published only in Persian. Since then, we have added a quarterly bilingual issue in English.  Our third English quarterly is scheduled for Fall 2022. We are hereby inviting scholars whose work focuses on the post-Islamic era of Iran and the Persianate world (including modern Iran and up to 1953) to submit English-language articles for consideration. The articles many be in any related field addressing historic, political, social, economic, and cultural issues of Iran and the Persianate world. As our journal is a peer-reviewed publication, there will be no charge for the authors.

 

Deadline for submission of abstracts is September 15, 2021. Authors who are invited to submit their articles should do so by November 15, 2021.  For guidelines on submission, including length and formatting, please see:   https://tuhistory.tabrizu.ac.ir/journal/authors.note?lang=en  ).

 

Please send abstracts to:

 

Professor Alireza Karimi

Associate Professor of Iranian History

Department of History

Faculty of Laws and Social Sciences

University of Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, Iran
Editor-in-Chief: Journal of Iranian History of the Islamic Period
https://lnkd.in/daryXdF
Email: ali_karimi@tabrizu.ac.ir

 

 

 

3. CfP: Oriental Manuscripts in Germany – Collection History Between the Academic Thirst for Knowledge, Antique Trade Across the Globe, and Imperial Claims to Power

International Conference at the Berlin State Library, 29 June – 1 July 2022

 

International scholarship has recently intensified its focus on collection history, as current debates about Orientalism, colonial pasts, and provenance demand a more nuanced view on the processes that led to the transfer of knowledge contained in manuscripts from Asia and Africa to European libraries. The importance of the study of the development of collections in libraries and research institutions for understanding the history of the “Oriental disciplines” and intercultural relations is slowly beginning to be acknowledged.

During the past few years, digital databases have made Oriental manuscripts in Germany increasingly accessible while also bringing into focus collections of medium and small size. This enhanced visibility enables new perspectives on the historical development of these collections as well as on potential cross-connections.

 

Topic area 1: Collection history

We welcome contributions that approach collection history from different perspectives. Not only institutions, but also agents, objects, a collection’s reception, or its cataloguing process can serve as starting points for an investigation of the subject. Questions such as whether clear objectives or coincidences played a role in building a collection, handling the acquisition of scholars’ libraries, or accepting donations will be of interest.

Closely related to collection research are matters of acquisition records, provenance documentation, and the accessibility of such information in catalogues and databases, as well as their survey and analysis for research on collection and provenance.

The call covers the entire range of African and Asian script cultures and also allows for contextualising European manuscript culture. All time periods of collection will be considered. The focus is on developments in Germany in a broad international context.

Topic area 2: Contexts

This area takes as its starting point social- and cultural-historical questions that go beyond the focus on actual historical collections. This includes market development on a global and local scale and its political and economic catalysts. The differentiation of the Oriental disciplines, scholarly networks, and development of scientific methods (including technological developments such as photography) present further factors that merit study as regards their impact on the development of collections and the market situation. To afford an objective assessment of the mechanisms of transfer of cultural assets from Asia and Africa, it seems worthwhile to also consider antique trade in general and the dynamics of the European art market in particular.

We welcome contributions on networks or individual agents of manuscript trade, different forms of manuscript translocation, and on the (virtual) reconstruction of historical collections.

 

SUBMISSIONS

Interested participants are invited to submit a proposal (email only) including a title, a brief abstract and a short CV by 10 August 2021 to christoph.rauch@sbb.spk-berlin.de.

Pending funding agreement, the participants’ travel expenses will be covered.

Successful applicants will be notified by September 2021.

 

Torsten Wollina and Christoph Rauch (Berlin State Library, Oriental Department / DFG Project „Orient-Digital“)

Ute Pietruschka and Tilman Seidensticker (Cataloging Oriental Manuscripts in Germany, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities)

 

 

 

 

4. Online Lecture – Storytelling in the Great Mongol “Shahnama,” Robert Hillenbrand – Freer and Sackler July 13
Register here: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F6hiOem5RuKLtdbYRIXZEQ

 

 

 

 

5. You Can Crush the Flowers, A Visual Memoir of the Egyptian Revolution

A panel discussion on the art of revolution with

Bahia Shehab and Mark LeVine

Chair, Jonas Otterbeck 

Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London
21 July 2021 | 18:00-19:30 (London time) | Online

 

 

 

 

6. OAJournal: Medieval Worlds

http://www.medievalworlds.net/medieval_worlds?frames=yes

‘Ṣadrā’s Use of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s al-Mabāḥith al-mashriqiyya in the Asfār‘
C. Bonmariage
Oriens, 2020