Archive for 2021

1.International Workshop and Edited Volume on “Practices of Preaching in the Islamic Context – Text, Performativity, and Materiality of Islamic Religious Speech” by the Junior Research Group “Islamic Theology in Context: Science and Society”, Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt University of Berlin, 17-18 March 2022

Given the centrality of preaching in religious proceedings, this workshop seeks to bring together scholars who work on the performative, textual, spatial, and material aspects of Islamic religious speech in past and present.

Information: https://www.islamische-theologie.hu-berlin.de/de/forschung/nachwuchsforschungsgruppe-isla-mische-theologie-im-kontext-wissenschaft-und-gesellschaft-1/arbeit-nwg2/cfp-practices-of-preaching_bit.pdf   Contact: Dr. Ayşe Almıla Akca (almila.akca@hu-berlin.de )

 

 

 

 

2. International Symposium Series: “From Sahn-ı Seman to Darülfünun – VI: The First Ottoman University (Darülfünun) and Reformation of Higher Education in Turkey”, Istanbul, 12-13 May 2022

The main focus will be Darülfünun and its organization and departments. Thanks to this institution, many new disciplines were introduced to Ottoman and then Republican intellectual life. This symposium will scrutinize ways through which the institutional change from the medrese to the university in the late Ottoman period took place.

Information: sahniseman20yy@istanbul.edu.tr

 

 

 

 

3. Workshop: “Canon or Code? Standardizing and Transmitting Islamic law”, CanCode-Project, University of Bergen, 16-18 June 2021

The workshop will focus on the processes behind the concepts “canonization” and “codification” seeking to keep a comparative focus across the pre-modern/modern divide and using a diversity of empirical cases. Thematic panels: 1) Courts as a Locus for Standardization; 2) Standardization of fiqh; 3) Transmission of Knowledge; 4) Translation and Canonization.

Deadline for abstracts: 10 January 2022.

Information: https://www.uib.no/en/cancode/149132/canon-or-code-standardising-and-transmitting-islamic-law

 

 

 

 

4. Conference “Red Sea Project X: Red Sea Horizons, Edges and Transitions”, Rethymno, Crete, Greece, 6-9 July 2022

Conference themes will include: Movement, dependencies, and enslaved lives across geographic and temporal borders; The medieval and early modern, with an emphasis on the Ottoman, Red Sea; Traditional maritime technologies; the transition from the age of sail to the age of steam; Religion and the sea.

Extended deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2021.

Information: https://redsea10.ims.forth.gr/call-for-papers/

 

 

 

 

5. Workshop: “History and Anthropology through Literature: Approaches & Methodologies to the Study of Medieval and Modern Texts and Manuscripts”, Trinity College Dublin, July 2022

The Cairo Genizah is a treasure trove of medieval and early-modern Arabic manuscripts stored away in Egypt’s Ben Ezra Synagogue over nearly a thousand years. This one-day workshop seeks to bring together scholars of manuscript sciences, history, anthropology, literary criticism, philosophy, and sociology to chal-lenge the investigation of history, sociology, and anthropology though pre-modern literature and its manu-scripts.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2022.

Information: https://t.co/Sy28Pbzp9x

 

 

 

 

6. Assistant Professor for Middle East History, Gonzaga University in Spokane Washington

Historians focused on any aspect of the Middle East past are encouraged to apply. We are especially interested in applicants with expertise that falls between the years 500 and 1500, or in: public history, history of science, history of medicine, history of technology, economic history, cultural history.

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2022.

Information: https://gonzaga.peopleadmin.com/postings/16549

 

 

 

7. Scholarships in Religious Studies for Masters Students at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Students pursing an Advanced Certificate in Religious Studies, as part of their MA studies in participating departments and units, engage in the study of religious phenomena from a historical point of view and from a variety of interdisciplinary approaches and cross-disciplinary perspectives.

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2022.

Information: https://religion.ceu.edu/scholarships-ma-studies

 

 

 

 

8. Fellowship Opportunities 2022-2023 at the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)

ARCE offers funded fellowships and a research associate program for a wide range of scholars looking to conduct research in Egypt. Previous fellows have represented the fields of anthropology, archaeology, archi-tecture, fine art, art history, Coptic studies, economics, Egyptology, history, humanistic social sciences, Is-lamic studies, literature, political science, religious studies and even music.

Information: https://www.arce.org/fellowships-landing

 

 

 

 

9. Chapters for “Routledge Handbook of Islamic Ethics”

Chapters are invited for: Scriptural Ethics: Sunna as Moral Model – Scriptural Narrative Ethics; Theology: Moral Ontology and Epistemology (taḥsīn and taqbīḥ); Philosophy: Utopia; Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) & Legal Theory (Uṣūl): Sources of Moral Normativity; Adab: Excellent Moral Qualities (faḍāʾil & shamāʾi) and eulogies (manāqib) – Consoling the Grief-Stricken (tasliyat al-muṣāb).

Information: https://www.cilecenter.org/resources/news/call-chapters-routledge-handbook-islamic-ethics

 

 

 

10. Mediating Scripture: Judeo-Persian Tobit as Global Crossroads,” coinciding with the display of the Judeo-Persian biblical manuscripts at Louvre Abu Dhabi.   

Dec 8 and 9, 2021

You will find the program at www.tobitsymposium.com.  Here is a direct link to registration site.

Description: This symposium is occasioned by the recent recovery of the only-known Judeo-Persian copy of the apocryphal Book of Tobit, commissioned by Giambattusta Vecchietti in 1600 in the Gulf city of Lār.  The interdisciplinary and global crossroads of manuscript provides an important case study of global early modernity. A two-day symposium brings prominent scholars into conversation about the significance of the global iterations and variations of the remarkable story and iconography of the Book of Tobit. For the occasion of this symposium, the manuscript has traveled back to the region and will be exhibited at Louvre Abu Dhabi.

 

 

 

 

11. Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series

University of Manchester

Online Women and Gender Forum titled:

Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature and the Arts

Exploring the imagination and representation of women in history and today is a fully-fledged ambition that this series of lectures would like to explore through MENA women’s work in art, literature, history, archaeology, and social sciences, along with their representation and perception in the works of non-MENA academics.

The series includes speakers from the MENA region as well as from other parts of the globe. The meeting point of these speakers is their research on the women of this region. Through their multi- and interdisciplinary distinctive, innovative, and creative approaches to their fields, they deconstruct the stereotypes of Muslim women and emphasize their diversity. This region, which comprises the Arab World and a large part of the Islamic World, is considered today as one of the hottest spots in world politics and economy, but as usual, women are the least visible participants in and yet the most affected by the consequences of political and economic crises. More positively, they are central to the waves of social changes taking place in this region at a dizzying speed.

The series, which is envisaged as a platform for debate among academics, students and the general public, with interest in the broader theme of Women and Gender in MENA, will start on 1 December 2021 and will run through to the end of the academic year in 2022 on the zoom platform.

The organizers of this lecture series are two women and gender specialists. Professor Zahia Smail Salhi is Chair of Modern Arabic Studies and Dr Hatoon Alfassi is visiting Senior Research Fellow of the University of Manchester, Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies. Dr Alfassi was formerly a faculty at the International Affairs Department of Qatar University, and the History Department of King Saud University.  Both are very happy to invite you to engage in a Women and Gender Discussion forum which defeats geographical boundaries and extends the opportunity to participants from everywhere in the world.

Lecture 2: The Hijab: Between Empowerment and Disempowerment

By Dr Lloyd Ridgeon

School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow

Wednesday 08 Dec 2021, 17:00 GMT on Zoom:
 https://zoom.us/j/94322283750

 

 

 

12. AKU-ISMC

Dialogue Series 2021/2022

Population Surveillance, the Body, and Mobility

Policing and Prisons

Date and Time

9 December 2021, 17:00-18:30  (London).
Registration

Join us online via Zoom by registering here
Lecture 4: Policing and Prisons
Join us in a celebration and pre-launch of Deniz Yonucu’s new book,  Police, Provocation, and Politics (Cornell University Press, 2022). The book is a counterintuitive analysis of contemporary policing practices, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence, perpetual conflict, and ethno-sectarian discord by the state security apparatus. Situating Turkish policing within a global context and combining archival work and oral history narratives with ethnographic research, Yonucu demonstrates how Cold War and decolonial era counterinsurgency strategies continue to inform contemporary urban policing in Istanbul. Her work will be discussed in detail by two experts on policing, Zoha Waseem (UCL, London) and Michael Farquhar (KCL). Join us for an important conversation on policing and politics in Turkey today and its links to the past.

Speaker
Deniz Yonucu received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Cornell University and is currently a Lecturer at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University. She is the author of Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul (Cornell University Press, Forthcoming in March 2022) and co-founder and co-convenor of the Anthropology of Surveillance Network (ANSUR). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in prestigious journals, including Current Anthropology, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Social & Legal Studies, and the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, among others.

 

 

 

 

13. Open Access Manuscripts Collection: Manuscripta Islamica Rossica

http://manuscriptaislamica.ru/en

The manuscripts are kindly provided by:

• The Museum of Rare Book, MGIMO(University) of the MFA of the Russian Federation (Moscow)
• All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature named after M.I. Rudomino (Moscow)
• Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)
• The State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian branch of the RAS (Novosibirsk)
• Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)
• The Mardjani Foundation (Moscow)
• The Don State Public Library (Rostov-on-Don)
• Astrakhan Regional Scientific Library named after N.K. Krupskaya (Astrakhan)
• The State Universal Scientific Library of Krasnoyarsk region (Krasnoyarsk)
• Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Dagestan scientific center of RAS (Makhachkala)
• Institute of Experimental Medicine (St. Petersburg)

The official website of “Manuscripta Islamica Rossica” is the part of the Federal historical and documentary educational portal.

 

 

14.   Friday, December 10, at 1:00 PM (ET): Ervand Abrahamian will discuss his /Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d’Etat /with Nahid Mozaffari

Registration via Zoom is required. Register here: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwod-qoqz0qGN2p1Eh2DBI1_rgnaRCNZ1t6 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__gc-2Dcuny-2Dedu.zoom.us_meeting_register_tZwod-2Dqoqz0qGN2p1Eh2DBI1-5FrgnaRCNZ1t6&d=DwMFaQ&c=mRWFL96tuqj9V0Jjj4h40ddo0XsmttALwKjAEOCyUjY&r=9LDhFNh4Ud7vHuJs1eQRbLpCD_nPLEsJ8tSuGmEGre0&m=kp583W_vXcfc8E7GptfIRRgaiGal3K5Tn9nsQazw3xk&s=0KYKrsc_sIO5OefgrOOxXNA0_0nwUdBbvG7mMIyo8lM&e=>

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1.Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies has released a call for papers for a special issue titled “Race, Race-Thinking, and Identity in the Global Middle Ages.” 

Proposals are due January 31, 2022 and should be submitted to Cord J. Whitaker (Wellesley College) at cord.whitaker@wellesley.edu.

For further details, please see the post on the Medieval Academy of America’s blog: http://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-papers-speculum-themed-issue-race-race-thinking-and-identity-in-the-global-middle-ages/.

 

 

 

 

2. Assistant/Associate Professor of Classical/Premodern Arabic Literature

American University of Cairo

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62583

Dec 31 2021 closing date.

 

 

 

 

3. Middle East Library Association(MELA,) Education Committee welcomes all to attend:

Careers in Middle East Librarianship

Friday, Dec 10, 2021 at 12:00pm EST

Are you graduating soon with an M.A. or Ph.D. degree in Middle East studies, and curious about librarianship as a professional option for using your academic research skills? Have you been adjunct instructing for a while and wondering how to turn your experience and subject knowledge to a rewarding alternative academic career? You may have been wondering, What exactly does a subject-specialist librarian do? Do you need to have an MLIS to get a job as a subject librarian? How do you gain experience in cataloging? Will you get to read books all day?

This workshop, sponsored by the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA), will consist of three parts: part one will feature brief presentations by professional librarians who have come to the profession via different pathways, and working at public or private institutions. Participants will learn more about the work librarians do, how they participate in the intellectual work of the institutions they are associated with–in fact as partners contributing to research and teaching–and how the profession of Middle East librarianship is moving to address profound changes in technology, publishing, and society.  In part two, the workshop will offer practical tips on applying to library school, how to gain related experience, and how previous experience can be highlighted on your c.v. The third part of the workshop will be reserved for your questions and discussion.  https://www.mela.us/

Please register for the virtual workshop:   https://tinyurl.com/MELALibrary

Panelist and Chair:

• Dale Correa, University of Texas, Austin, Chair
• Sarah DeMott, Harvard University , Head of Education Committee
• Emily Witsell, Wofford College
• Mohamed Hamed, University of California, Berkeley
• Salma Abumeeiz, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg, Harvard University
• William Kopycki, Library of Congress, Cairo Overseas Office

Please contact me directly if you have any questions regarding registration or accessibility needs.

This event will be conducted in English and recorded with an edited version available on the MELA YouTube Channel.

Sincerest regards,
Sarah

Sarah DeMott, PhD, MLS
Middle East Library Association
MELA, Education Committee, head
MELA, Mentorship Program, head
https://www.mela.us/committees/education/

https://www.mela.us/2021/11/30/careers-in-middle-east-librarianship-workshop/

 

Sarah DeMott, PhD, MLS

Faculty Librarian for Freshman Seminars
Library Liaison for Judaica, Near East, and Middle East Studies
Harvard College Library

sarah_demott@harvard.edu

https://library.harvard.edu/staff/sarah-demott

pronouns: she, her, hers

 

 

 

 

4. We are happy to share the recording of our 6th IDHN conference that took place on November 17, 2021: https://youtu.be/PnQFIrnUUzY. The recording is also posted on the IDHN forum.

Please note that the presentation of Wafa Fatima Isfahani is not included in the recording upon her request.

Below, we are also providing links to the DH projects of our presenters. We are immensely grateful to our presenters for their generosity in sharing their research with the IDHN community. Thank you so much!Best wishes to all,

Irene Kirchner (Georgetown University)

 

Presenters’ names: Metin M. Coşgel, Emre Özer, and Sadullah Yıldırım

Title of the presentation: Gender and Justice: A Quantitative Analysis of Women’s Participation and Victory in Ottoman CourtsLink to paper:   https://www.dropbox.com/s/dlsdrp66izj5tbr/Gender%20and%20Justice%20%28IDHN%29.pdf?dl=0

Presenter’s name: Wafa Fatima Isfahani

Title of the presentation: Tracing Genealogies: Using Network Analysis to Model the Spatiotemporal Distribution of Sufi OrdersLinks to tools: Gephi: https://gephi.org/     Palladio: https://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/

Presenter’s name: Noëmie Lucas, Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Clément Salah
Title of the presentation: RASAM – A Dataset for the Recognition and Analysis of Scripts in Arabic Maghrebi
Link to project: https://calfa.fr/blog/26 and https://philaranum.hypotheses.org/219
Link to corpus: Full dataset with layout annotations and transcriptions,  https://github.com/calfa-co/rasam-dataset
Link to tools: Calfa Vision, a web-based annotation tool for documents and images, https://vision.calfa.fr
Further recommendations:
– About RASAM, specifications and evaluations, see:
Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Noëmie Lucas, Clément Salah, Aliénor Decours-Perez, and Boris Dupin, RASAM – A Dataset for the Recognition and Analysis of Scripts in Arabic Maghrebi, In: Barney Smith E.H., Pal U. (eds) Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021 Workshops. ICDAR 2021, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12916. Springer, Cham, p. 265-281.
– About Calfa Vision and fine-tuning impact, see:
Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Aliénor Decours-Perez, Boris Dupin, and Thomas Riccioli, A Modular and Automated Annotation Platform for Handwritings, Evaluation on Under-Resourced Languages, In: Lladós J., Lopresti D., Uchida S. (eds) Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021. ICDAR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12823. Springer, Cham, p. 507-522.

Presenter’s name: Sohaib Saeed
Title of the presentation: “Al-Rāzī’s Great Exegesis: Can text reuse detection solve a longstanding debate over his sole authorship?”
Link to publications: https://independent.academia.edu/SohaibSaeed

 

 

 

 

5. SULTANS OF THE SEA: PIECING TOGETHER SOVEREIGNTY AND MARITIMITY IN THE RED SEA (10^th-16^th CENTURIES)
Roxani Eleni Margariti, Emory University
Wednesday, December 8th, 12:30pm EST
[Webinar]Silsila Fall 2021 Lecture Series A corpus of funerary inscriptions from the Dahlak Archipelago in present-day Eritrea constitute the strongest evidence for the existence of a long-lived island principality controlling a land-and-sea realm in the Southern Red Sea. Published and unpublished Cairo Geniza documents shed light on commodities traded, services rendered and conditions prevailing across the archipelago in the 11^th and 12^th centuries; they also refer directly to local rulers that can be cross-referenced with the epigraphic record. Additional if less coherent sets of sources—narrative, visual, environmental, and archaeological—illuminate the nature of a polity at the margins of better-known states, and historicize various aspects of its island culture, from maritime toponymy to the range of locally procured marine goods that entered regional and transregional circuits of exchange.

Full details of the event and a link to register as an attendee can be found at:

https://as.nyu.edu/silsila/events/2021-2022/sultans-of-the-sea–roxani-margariti.html

Only registered attendees will be able to access this event.

1.ONLINE Book Talk: “The Better Story: Queer Affects from the Middle East” by Dina Georgis (University of Toronto), Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1 December 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:00pm ET

Georgis turns to story as a method for thinking about how those affected by colonial traumas and losses narrate their survival. Her method in the concept of the “better story” offers an emotional lens through which to think about how the past is narrated and how collective histories and identities are shaped by and are a response to difficult and traumatic experiences.

Information and registration: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2021/dina-georgis-better-story

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Introduction of the “Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures Open Access Series” and Launch of “A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic”, Open Book Publishers, 1 December 2021, 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm GMT

This volume is the first linguistic work to focus exclusively on varieties of Christian, Jewish and Muslim Arabic in the Ottoman Empire of the 15th to the 20th centuries, and present Ottoman Arabic material in a didactic and easily accessible way. Split into a Handbook and a Reader section, the book provides a historical introduction to Ottoman literacy, translation studies, vernacularisation processes, language policy and linguistic pluralism.

Information and registration: https://theofed-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4KlVCw4oQ3W4-JC2XjlyyQ

 

 

 

 

3. ONLINE Symposium: “From Representation to Inspiration: The Ottoman Empire in the 18th Century”, Ankara, 1-2 December 2021

Inspired by the painting “View of Ankara”, academic lectures will enlighten the different aspects of the painting (social life, women, trade and transportation) and give a general insight on the illustrated historical time period. The symposium will pave the way for the new discussions, studies and collaborations.

Information and registration: https://vekam.ku.edu.tr/en/events/fromrepresentationtoinspiration/

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Book Launch: “A Companion to Early Modern Istanbul”, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at NYU, 10 December 2021, 12:00 pm EST

This edited book (Brill, 2021) is the first collective effort to explore Istanbul, capital of the vast polyglot, multiethnic, and multireligious Ottoman Empire and home to one of the world’s largest and most diverse urban populations, as an early modern metropolis. This event brings together the editors, as well as a number of contributors, of the volume to discuss also the field of urban studies within Ottoman history.

Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpd-6vqToqHNbAfK8D5pKY8SSht99dPKx-

 

 

 

 

5. Conference: “What Makes a Pilgrim a Pilgrim? Conceptualising Pilgrims and Pilgrimage, c. 300-1600?” (Focus Muslim Pilgrims), Manchester Metropolitan University, 13-14 July 2022

Conference themes: Varieties and definitions of Medieval Pilgrimage; All ‘pilgrimage’ traditions including Buddhist, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, and Pagan; Terminologies (past and present) used to describe Medieval Pilgrims; Comparative approaches to Medieval pilgrimage; Anthropological and interdisciplinary approaches to Medieval pilgrimage.

Deadline for abstracts: 17 December 2021.

Information: https://adterramsanctam.files.word-press.com/2021/11/pilgrimage-conference-cfp.pdf

 

 

 

6. Assistant/Associate Professor of Middle East History before 1800, The American University in Cairo

Applicants must have a PhD in Islamic History, Middle East History, Arabic Studies, or a related discipline from a reputable university by 1 September 2022, preferably with a record of an active research agenda and teaching experience.

Deadline for applications: 31 December 2021.

Information: https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/412799/assistantassociate-professor-of-middle-east-history?fbclid=IwAR2vQNzbDCe192l_XJXeTF-3ZvKim-GLR2o9dupxJic5-V5l-UTqfYUHLjwc

 

 

 

7. Postdoctoral Research Associate in Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI

Applications are open to candidates from across the social sciences, who are conducting research related to the Middle East and its diasporas on issues that can be understood in a comparative global context.

Deadline for application: 24 January 2022.

Information. https://apply.interfolio.com/98927

 

 

 

8. Islamic Studies MA and Dual Degree MA in Islamic Studies and Muslim Cultures at Columbia University (New York) and Aga Khan University (London)

The Islamic Studies Master’s Program focuses on the diverse regional histories, cultures, and social formations of Muslim communities around the world.

Information: https://www.mei.columbia.edu/ma-program.

Information on the Dual Degree Program:  https://www.mei.columbia.edu/dual-masters-degree .

Application deadline: 17 February 2022.

 

 

 

9. New Publication –

The Louvre Museum and the Institut français d’Archéologie orientale are pleased to announce the publication of the book :

GASTON WIET ET LES ARTS DE L’ISLAM (GASTON WIET AND ISLAMIC ART)

edited by Carine Juvin – Louvre Museum

(IFAO/ Musée du Louvre, 2021, ISBN: 9782724708028, 1 vol. 248 p.)

Gaston Wiet (1887-1971), an outstanding historian of medieval Islam, was also a prominent figure of the French scientific presence in Egypt. A perfect Arabist, he was interested in many aspects of Egyptian history and culture. His work  at the head of the Arab Museum in Cairo (now the Museum of Islamic Art) between 1926 and 1951 was decisive for the enrichment, publication and outreach of its collections, and led him to become one of the best connoisseurs of Islamic art of the first half of the 20th century. Moreover, his membership of the Comité de conservation des monuments de l’art arabe further enhanced his interest in the architecture from the Islamic period. This book, copublished with the Louvre Museum, and the support of the Museum of Islamic Art (Cairo), focuses on Gaston Wiet’s decisive contribution to the study of Islamic art by addressing, beyond his career and his personality, his work  at the Arab Museum and the Comité, as well as the wide extent of his research and curiosity, from Persian art and textiles to the productions of modern Egypt, while also underlining his particular passion for epigraphy. This volume brings together the contributions of French and Egyptian specialists and intends to recall, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his passing, the essential contribution of this eminent scholar and friend of Egypt.

Table of contents :

– Gaston Wiet (18 décembre 1887 – 20 avril 1971), d’Égypte et de France

Carine Juvin

-Le Musée arabe : un directeur, une collection

Mohamed Ahmed Abd el-Salam, Étienne Blondeau

 – L’engagement d’un savant dans la politique de « conservation des monuments de l’art arabe »

Dina Ishak Bakhoum

– Gaston Wiet et l’art du monde iranien

Judith Henon-Raynaud

– Les arts de l’Islam par l’épigraphie

Carine Juvin

– Des Fatimides à la dynastie khédiviale, une histoire de l’Égypte islamique incarnée par ses monuments, ses objets, ses images

Mercedes Volait

 

 

 

 

10. International Symposium: “Cappadocia through Time: From Byzantium to the Ottoman Empire”

Conveners: P. Androudis, P. Papadopoulou, A. Tantsis

Program: Eastern European Time (EET)

Saturday 4 December 

14:45 Welcome

16: 50 Pagona Papadopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Cappadocia through Time: An Introduction

Cappadocia, A Byzantine Province

17:00 Robert Ousterhout (University of Pennsylvania)

Imagining a Cappadocian Future

17:30 Anastasios Tansis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Architectural Planning in the Built and Rock-cut Churches of Cappadocia: Construction and De-construction

17:50 Break

18.10 Andrea De Pascale, Andrea Bixio, Roberto Bixio (Centro Studi Sotterranei di Genoa)

Hypogeal Works of Defence Among the Rock-cut Churches of Göreme

18.30 Andrea De Pascale, Andrea Bixio, Roberto Bixio (Centro Studi Sotterranei di Genoa)

Updated Report on Hydric Facilities in the Rocky Cappadocia

18.50 Sophia Germanidou (Newcastle University)

Covering Subsistence Needs in Byzantine Cappadocia: Comments on Its Agro-pastoral Products

19.10 Discussion

Sunday 5 December

Medieval Cappadocia: Between Two Worlds

17.00 Scott Redford (SOAS University of London)

The Human Geography of Medieval Cappadocia

17.30 Oya Pancaroğlu (Boğaziçi University)

New Institutions for Ancient Topographies: Danishmendid Architectural Ventures in Twelfth-Century Caesarea/Kayseri

17.50 Suzan Yalman (Koç University)

Of Saints and Fairies: A Seljuk Queen Mother’s Patronage in Cappadocia

18.10 Paschalis Androudis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

In Search of Greek and Greek-Origin Patrons, Painters and Craftsmen in Thirteenth-Century Seljuk Cappadocia

18.30 Sara Nur Yıldız (Università degli studi di Firenze)

Mongol Qishlaqs in the Cappadocian Steppe

18.50 Discussion

Zoom link: https://authgr.zoom.us/j/97406174472

Profile in Persecution: Khalil Ebrahim AlQassab

For ADHRB Weekly Newsletter #424, click here.

1.The Seventh Round of the BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions.

The British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) and De Gruyter are delighted to announce the seventh round of the BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World. This international prize will be awarded annually to the best doctoral thesis or unpublished first monograph based on a doctoral thesis. English-language submissions on any aspect of the academic study of Islam and the Muslim world, past and present, including Muslim-minority societies are accepted. Applicants can be based in any country, and manuscripts will be assessed on the basis of scholarly quality and originality.

The award includes publication of the winning manuscript and a prize of £1,000, and it will be officially presented at the Annual Conference of BRAIS. The selection process will be undertaken by a nine-member prize committee comprising established academics from across the field. The winning candidate will be notified by July 2022.

*Deadline 5pm GMT on the Friday 7th January 2022*

For more details including past prize winners, visit: http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize

 

 

 

2. Call for Papers: International Journal of Latin American Religions

Special Issue: Islam and Muslim Socialities of Latin America

**Submission Deadline: January 15, 2022**

In recent decades, global Islamic studies expanded to include geographies and cultures beyond a conventional Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) core. Research in South Asia, Europe, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa widened the field’s scope, introducing fresh, critical understandings into scholarly discourses about Islam and Muslims’ lived realities across the world. Nonetheless, global Islamic studies’ scope still fails to fully incorporate marginal geographies and the study of Islam beyond the MENA remains underrepresented. This is particularly evident when it comes to Latin America.
Likewise, research on religion in Latin America has grown to appreciate the changeability and variety of religious expression in the region over the last several decades. Studies on various traditions thickened scholarly understanding of the region’s religious diversity and introduced new ways of understanding transformations in culture, society, and politics across the Americas. Still, the study of Islam and Muslim socialities in relation to this evolution remains negligible when compared to that of other traditions.
This thematic issue invites articles presenting research results from various disciplines, geographies, and historical periods — from the “long” 16th century to today — dealing with the broad theme of “Islam and Muslim socialities of Latin America.” Through case studies and original research, articles should move beyond population surveys, overviews of immigrant communities, and questions of conversion to address theoretical and methodological gaps in the respective fields of global Islam and/or Latin American religion. Especially welcome are submissions dealing with questions of (post)coloniality, gender, race, interreligious encounter, precarity, resilience, transregionalism, materiality, and/or affect.
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2022
Please direct questions to guest editor: Dr. Ken Chitwood (mailto:k.chitwood@fu-berlin.de?subject=IJLAR%20Special%20Issue)
Read more about the submission guidelines (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=93f11104a4&e=f70992245e)

 

 

3. CfP: Theory and Practice of Rebellion (Hamburg, 22-24 Sep 2022)

The Hamburg-based research group, ‘Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (SCORE)’, is thrilled to announce the CfP for our team’s first conference on themes of rebellion in the early Islamicate world. The conference will take place at Hamburg (pandemic permitting) on 22-24 September 2022. Papers will be pre-circulated; the deadline for abstracts (300 words) is 1 February 2022. Travel and four nights’ accommodation will be covered for accepted speakers.

The CfP and further details can be found here: https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/…/news/2021-11-23-cfp.html. Abstracts should be sent to hannah-lena.hagemann@uni-hamburg.de. You can also follow us on Twitter to stay up-to-date on our events and activities: https://twitter.com/rebellionUHH.

 

 

 

4. Corrected weblink:

From 6-8 December the Embedding Conquest team (Leiden) will organize an online conference on the language of kinship in Islamic(ate) societies before the modern period (622–1500 CE). We have been investigating the social, political, administrative, religious, and economic ties that sustained strategies and mechanics of protection and dependency in the early Islamic empire, contributing to shaping imperial rule under the Umayyads and the Abbasids. As part of our project, we study how writers and document producers expressed vertical and horizontal relationships, including the use of family terms.

To find out more about the conference go to: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2021/12/ties-of-kinship-and-the-early-islamic-empire

Keynote: Hugh Kennedy

Speakers: Sobhi Bouderbala; Ana Echevarría Arsuaga; Shounak Ghosh; Matthew Gordon; Ahmad Khan; Pia Maria Malik; Karen Moukheiber; Shirin Naef; Cecilia Palombo; Leone Pecorini-Goodall; Ekaterina Pukhovaia; Janina Safran; Eline Scheerlinck; Petra Sijpesteijn; Josef Ženka.

To register and receive the ZOOM-link mail to: emco@hum.leidenuniv.nl

 

 

 

5. Central Connecticut State University – Assistant Professor, History of the Islamic World
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62483

Dec 1, 2021 closing date.

 

 

 

 

6. Research Project – Historian/Researcher – Tudor Period/Elizabethan
Era, AND the Ottoman Empire during the Suleiman the Magnificent Period
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62547

Feb 17, 2022 closing date.

 

 

7. HIAA-Sponsored Panel at MESA – Islamic Art and the Politics of Museum Display – November 30

Virtual panel at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association
Sponsored by the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA)

Organized by Philip Geisler and Constance Jame

Chair & Discussant: Dr. Fahmida Suleman, Curator, Islamic World, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto & Assistant Professor (status only cross-appointments), Departments of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations and Art History, University of Toronto

Online – November 30, 2021 – 11:30 AM (EST), registration required

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Since the early 2000s, many Islamic art museums and galleries around the world have reorganized their displays. During the same period, methodological interventions building on post-structuralist and post-colonial theory began to challenge long-standing formal and regional categories defining the field of Islamic art history. These new developments have impacted the display strategies of new museums and exhibitions of Islamic art. As a central interface between the academic study of the Middle East, its global representation, and the general public, the approaches these museums use to mediate between art, material culture, and Islamic/regional cultures play a central role in shaping discussions about the region. This includes its designation through religious and/or cultural, national, ethnic, and geographic parameters. At the same time, Islamic art displays are also embedded in heterogeneous local politics and social discourses. This particularly concerns how museum making is entangled with cultural diplomacy and the production of alterity, diversity, and collective identity that serve regional or national agendas and negotiate the recognition of local diasporas as well as minority and/or majority communities.

Based on museum case studies from Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, Turkey, Western Europe, and Canada, this panel of doctoral students examines the politics of museum display and art discourses from 2000 until today. Rather than interpreting Islamic art displays as passive and neutral representations of the past, this panel theorizes them as a contemporary cultural practice that stages spatialized and immersive, ideological narrations of culture. Through bridging the gap between the often-separated realms of art historical research, curatorial practice, and critical museology, this panel aims to examine the new ways, in which museums of Islamic art communicate broader ideas about the region in various global contexts. For this, the panel assesses curatorial practices and displays in both public and private museums including the Malek National Library and Museum (Tehran), the National Museum and the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts (Istanbul), the Louvre Museum (Paris), the Alhambra Museum (Granada), and the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. Grounded in these accounts, the panel illuminates the politics of these displays and narrations vis-à-vis their local environments and shifted forms of national and/or religious self-fashioning. Through fostering an interdisciplinary and critical discussion, this panel ultimately argues that Islam has become a decisive global marker that enables states across the world to pursue local needs and actualize constitutive socio-political paradigms through cultural institutions and art displays.

Papers

“Between the Transnational and the Local: Assessing the Changing Profile of the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art, Istanbul”
Beyza Uzun, Doctoral Student, Scuola IMT Alti Studi, Lucca

“The Cultural Diplomacy and Contested Modernity of Museological Development in Qatar: A Case Study on the Museum of Islamic Art and the Qatar National Museum”
Abdelrahman Kamel, Doctoral Student, Queen’s University, Kingston

“Hybrid Objects in the Louvre: Witness of French Transcultural Identity”
Constance Jame, Doctoral Student, Universität Heidelberg

“Islamic Art as a Multicultural Mythology in Spain and Canada”
Philip Geisler, Doctoral Student, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies

“The Malek National Library and Museum: Negotiating Curatorial Agency in an Iranian waqf”
Leila Moslemi Mehni, Doctoral Student, University of Toronto

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Panel link and abstracts: https://mesana.org/mymesa/meeting_program_session.php?sid=346cfbc1467051348469531b5e172c0d

Registration:
This panel is part of the virtual program of the Middle East Studies Association’s Annual Meeting. The panel takes place online on November 30, 2021 at 11:30 AM (EST). For information about the registration, please visit MESA’s website: https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/registration

 

 

 

 8. Call for application to Afghan Scholar Programme and call for nominations to “Afghanistan regime change (2021) and the international response web archive collection”

Call for application to Afghan Scholar Programme (deadline: 2 Dec 2021) 

Please can you reach out to your Afghan colleagues — whether they live inside Afghanistan or outside — to let us know whether they would like to suggest a project to work with us in the Invisible East team that they would like to submit in response to the Bodleian Library’s Afghan Scholars Fellowship call. The incumbent does not need to hold a PhD. The project should be in line with our Invisible East activities and goals, which our website describes: https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk. They can contact our director, Dr Arezou Azad at arezou.azad@orinst.ox.ac.uk.

 

The call details and simple application requirements are here: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/afghan-scholars-programme

 

2. Afghanistan regime change (2021) and the international response web archive collection

We’d also like to draw your attention to a UK-wide library initiative seeking nominations for Afghan websites to be preserved and archived. Please do send your suggestions to them!

Details are provided in this blog:

https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2021/11/24/call-for-contributions-afghanistan-regime-change-2021-and-the-international-response-web-archive-collection/

 

 

 

 

9. Unfreedom in the Premodern World: Comparative Perspectives on Slavery, Servitude & Captivity.

Dublin, 23rd-24th June 2022

The global history of slavery and dependency has flourished in recent years, as scholars have deployed new theories and methodologies to explore the varieties of unfreedom across a range of regions and societies. Studies of the premodern period have been part of this expansion, revealing nuanced analyses of how unfreedom intersected with gender roles, labour patterns, economic networks and religious values before the growth of the early modern trans-Atlantic slave trade. In spite of this work, the periods prior to European colonial expansion remain comparatively understudied, but present enormous opportunities to explore key questions and to push the boundaries of the wider history of slavery and dependency. Unfreedom in the Premodern World: Slavery, Servitude and Captivity in Comparative Perspectives seeks to bring together scholars studying a wide range of regions and periods to address common themes and questions in the history of slavery, and to build towards a comparative and collaborative global approach.

Unfreedom in the Premodern World will be held over two days (June 23rd & June 24th, 2022) at the Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin’s Arts and Humanities research centre. Keynote lectures will be delivered by Prof. Hannah Barker (Arizona State University) and Prof. Stefan Brink (University of Cambridge/University of the Highlands & Islands). Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers which explore any aspect of the history of unfreedom, slavery, servitude or captivity in the period before 1492. Papers are welcome from any academic discipline and with any geographical focus. Interdisciplinary papers and studies of regions outside of Western Europe are particularly encouraged. Potential topics could include (but are not limited to):

• Definitions and parameters of unfreedom
• Methodologies for histories of unfreedom (source interpretation; archival erasure; theoretical perspectives)
• Unfree labour and the economics of unfreedom
• Unfree mobilities, forced migrations and slave trades
• Manumission and life after unfreedom
• Representations of unfreedom in literature, arts and culture
• Religious reactions to unfreedom (prohibitions; justifications; complicity)
• The histories of unfree women and children
• Resistance to unfreedom (rebellions, escapes, sabotage)

Proposals, consisting of a title, an abstract (max. 250 words) and a short academic biography, should be sent to nosuille@tcd.ie by Friday, 17th December 2021. It is expected that this conference will be held in-person in Dublin, subject to the global public health situation. Limited funding will be available to assist early-career, precariously-employed and independent researchers with travel and accommodation costs.

For any queries and further information, please contact the conference organiser, Dr. Niall Ó Súilleabháin (nosuille@tcd.ie).

 

 

 

10. The Aziz Foundation is awarding 100% tuition fee Masters scholarships to five exceptional British Muslims lacking the financial means to complete postgraduate degrees, at the University of Sussex for the 2022/23 academic year.

These scholarships aim to empower British Muslims to bring positive change to their communities and beyond. For further information, please visit the university website: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-funding/masters-scholarships/view/1349-Aziz-Foundation-Scholarship.

 

 

 

 

11. Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature and the Arts

Exploring the imagination and representation of women in history and today is a fully-fledged ambition that this series of lectures would like to explore through MENA women’s work in art, literature, history, archaeology, and social sciences, along with their representation and perception in the works of non-MENA academics.

The series includes speakers from the MENA region as well as from other parts of the globe. The meeting point of these speakers is their research on the women of this region. Through their multi- and interdisciplinary distinctive, innovative, and creative approaches to their fields, they deconstruct the stereotypes of Muslim women and emphasize their diversity. This region, which comprises the Arab World and a large part of the Islamic World, is considered today as one of the hottest spots in world politics and economy, but as usual, women are the least visible participants in and yet the most affected by the consequences of political and economic crises. More positively, they are central to the waves of social changes taking place in this region at a dizzying speed.

The series, which is envisaged as a platform for debate among academics, students and the general public, with interest in the broader theme of Women and Gender in MENA, will start on 1 December 2021 and will run through to the end of the academic year in 2022 on the zoom platform.

The organizers of this lecture series are two women and gender specialist. Professor Zahia Smail Salhi is Chair of Modern Arabic Studies and Dr Hatoon Alfassi is visiting Senior Research Fellow of the University of Manchester, Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies. Dr Alfassi was formerly a faculty at the International Affairs Department of Qatar University, and the History Department of King Saud University.  Both are very happy to invite you to engage in a Women and Gender Discussion which defeats geographical boundaries and extends the opportunity to participants for everywhere in the world.  

Lecture 1: Women of the Arabian Gulf: Tokens of modernity, symbols of piety, or victims of patriarchy?

By Dr Hasnaa Mokhtar

Rutgers University’s Center for Women’s Global Leadership

Wednesday 01 Dec 2021, 17:00 GMT on Zoom:
 https://zoom.us/j/94322283750

 

 

 

12. The British Association for Islamic Studies is delighted to announce that it will be hosting its 2022 Annual Conference at the University of Edinburgh on Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th June 2022.

The Call for Papers is now live and can be viewed here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2022/brais-2022-call-for-papers. Please note, the deadline for submissions is Monday 31st January.

After two years without an in-person BRAIS conference, we are really looking forward to reconnecting with colleagues working across the disciplines and we hope many of you will consider submitting a paper or panel.

Further information about the conference will be circulated in due course, including delgate fees and packages. In the meantime, if you have any questions at all, please contact us directly on: brais2022@ed.ac.uk .

 

 

 

 

13. The Market in Poetry in the Persian World

Shahzad Bashir,

Cambridge, 2021

 

 

 

 

14. Graduate Fellowship in Iranian Diaspora Studies at SF State

The Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies is pleased to announce the third year of the Azar Hatefi Graduate Fellowship in Iranian Diaspora Studies. San Francisco State University will be awarding two graduate  fellowships ($10,000) to admitted students pursuing a Master’s degree at San Francisco State University in 2022-2023. The goal of this fellowship, named in honor of Azar Hatefi, mother of SF State alumna and donor, Neda Nobari, is to support two graduate students for the academic year in the College or Liberal & Creative Arts or the College of Ethnic Studies pursuing a research project in Iranian Diaspora Studies.

 

The fellowship (awarded to two students) to develop research that engages and fosters new directions in Iranian diaspora topics (everything from art, film, anthropology, sociology, race and resistance studies, history, ethnic studies, etc.). The student must be admitted to an SFSU graduate program and have a stated project that they will pursue for a thesis. The fellowship is renewable for a second year, pending progress on the student’s studies and the culminating project as they advance to candidacy.

Please see the fellowship application requirements and criteria  here:https://sfsu.academicworks.com/opportunities/12839

Deadline: 03/30/2022

 

 

 

15. Séminaire « Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien » (2 décembre 2021 – 17h15-19h)

Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” organisé par le CeRMI, qui aura lieu le jeudi 2 décembre 2021 de 17h15 à 19h. Vous pourrez suivre la séance :

– en présentiel : Salle 5.05, INaLCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris, [Attention : le “Pass sanitaire” sera demandé]

– ou en  visioconférence (lien de connexion ci-après).
Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Éloïse Brac de la Perrière (professeur d’histoire de l’art et d’archéologie islamiques, Sorbonne Université), pour une conférence intitulée :

Vers une nouvelle histoire de la calligraphie en caractères arabe. Enjeux et perspectives.

 

Résumé

La calligraphie en caractères arabes est un art fondateur, et fédérateur, dans l’histoire de la civilisation islamique. Omniprésente dans le paysage visuel depuis les débuts de l’Islam jusqu’à la période contemporaine, la calligraphie a été très tôt soumise à des règles précises, un canon défini par des textes, transmis jusqu’à nos jours par des générations de calligraphes. Mais elle a également connu des développements inédits, notamment dans les régions les plus éloignées des centres historiques du monde islamique, où elle s’est développée en un extraordinaire foisonnement de formes, comme un langage à part entière, témoignant de liens historiques complexes entre des zones parfois très éloignées.

Orientations bibliographiques

• Blair, S. (2006). Islamic Calligraphy. Edinburgh: Edinburg University Press.
• George, A. F. (2010). The Rise of Islamic Calligraphy. London, Berkeley: Saqi.
• Schimmel, A. (1984). Calligraphy and Islamic Culture. New York, London: New York University Press.

 

Participer à la réunion Zoom :

https://zoom.us/j/91304904337?pwd=UytNZUVhOUZWZ3NIWFNQaTF6V1RtUT09

 

 

 

16. Association for Iranian Studies – Awards

Two NEW AWARDS are open for your online nominations on the AIS website. The deadline for both awards is Feb. 15, 2022.

 

Hamid Naficy Book Award https://associationforiranianstudies.org/awards/hamid-naficy-book-award

Neda Nobari Dissertation Award https://associationforiranianstudies.org/awards/neda-nobari-dissertation

 

Please go to the AIS website awards pages https://associationforiranianstudies.org/awards for the existing awards listed below. The deadline for your nominations unless stated otherwise on the award description page is December 8^th.

 

The Saidi-Sirjani Book Award

The Lifetime Achievement Award

The Ehsan Yarshater Book Award

The Latifeh Yarshater Award

The Mehrdad Mashayekhi Dissertation Award

The Parviz Shahriari Book Award

Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies Book Award

La première séance du séminaire « Medieval Kâshi Online » aura lieu ce mardi 30 novembre à 15h00-17h00.

Yves Porter (Aix Marseille Université/CNRS-LA3M/Institut Universitaire de France) y donnera une conférence intitulée :

Pour s’inscrire à la séance en ligne : Agenda de l’INHA : https://agenda.inha.fr/events/les-potiers-de-kashan-et-la-chiite-connexion-reseaux-dapprovisionnement-et-de-distribution?nc=eyJpbmRleCI6NiwidG90YWwiOjIzfQ%3D%3D