Archive for May, 2022
Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Journée d’études: “Quête des ansâb, quête des ashrâf. De l’importance des généalo-gies de descendants du Prophète à l’époque moderne et contemporaine”, Centre Jacques-Berque, Rabat, 1 juin 2022, 9h00 – 18h00
Nous chercherons à mieux comprendre comment fonctionne cette science généalogique, son rapport aux modes d’écriture de l’histoire en général, ce qu’elle peut apporter à l’histoire des ashrāf, à l’histoire de la famille et des tribus, à l’histoire territorialisée, et, finalement, pour le Maroc, à l’histoire des relations entre la monarchie chérifienne et les Marocains.
Information et insciption: https://www.cjb.ma/evenement/journee-detudes-quete-des-ansab-quete-des-ashraf/
2. Conference of the Project “TAKHAYYUL: Imaginative Landscapes of Islamist Politics Across Balkan-to-Bengal Complex”, UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, 2-3 December 2022
This conference seeks to contribute to the scholarship on contemporary forms of populist politics through a focus on the mystical, charismatic, dreams, and the affective. It will bring together scholars of sociology, political science, anthropology, social and legal history, and cultural studies. We aim to develop a discussion around various theoretical approaches on which to delineate the ways Islamist movements forge imaginative landscapes.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2022. Information: https://www.takhayyulproject.com/blog/call-for-papers-poetics-and-politics-of-imagination-causes-and-obstacles-to-prosperity
3. Two Postdoctoral Scholars in Human Geography (Political Geography of the Middle East), Institute of Geography, University of Heidelberg
Profile: PhD in Human Geography or closely related social science field; Strong background in qualitative research methods; University teaching experience; Excellent command of written and spoken English; De-sired: Fluency in German and/or an additional language (esp. Arabic); Candidates with a background in Gulf and Arabian Peninsula studies are especially encouraged to apply.
Deadline for application: 8 July 2022. Information: https://vgdh.geographie.de/stellenmarkt/2022/17472/
4. Interdisciplinary Workshop “An Introduction to Iranian Music”, Department of Iranian Studies, Philipps-University of Marburg, 6-8 July 2022
This workshop offers a first insight into the rich and diverse field of Iranian music. Through four thematically structured course units, Elshan Ghasimi, master of Persian classical music, introduces to the musicological basics, social history, artists’ biographies, and contemporary developments of Iranian music.
Deadline for registration: 22 June 2022. Information:
https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/cnms/iranistik/aktuelles/nachrichten/music-workshop
5. Intellect is pleased to announce that Performing Islam 10.1-2 is out now!
For more information about the journal and issue click here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/performing-islam
6. Indian Ocean World Archaeology Conference, 19-20 December, 2022
Following on from the very successful inaugural IOW-Arch conference held on 10th-11th January 2020, the second IOW-Arch is planned for Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th December 2022. This is being held at the Institute of Arab and Islamic studies (IAIS), University of Exeter, who are generously providing financial support.
Papers are welcome on all aspects of the archaeology, material culture and heritage of the Indian Ocean (defined as from East Africa to Japan, including Australasia) from the first millennium BC to the contemporary era, and may include reports on research in progress. Presentations should be in English (unless you are in the special session organised by Derek Kennet and Ran Zhang, which will be in Mandarin) and must not exceed 15 minutes, with a further 5 minutes allowed for questions.
The IOW-Arch 2022 conference will be a hybrid event with both in-person and Zoom options. The conference will begin on Monday 19th, with an introduction and presentations, followed by a reception. The conference will resume on Tuesday 20th with presentations followed by closing remarks and discussion. There will then be a conference dinner (at participants own expense).
Registration. Both speakers and non-speaking audience members are welcome to register. Registration costs £30 (£15 for students) for those attending the conference in person at the IAIS in Exeter and includes conference programme, refreshments and drinks reception on the 19th, and refreshments and lunch on the 20th.
For those attending online, please select the appropriate ticket through the online store. We have not set the online tickets at a fixed price, to ensure that the conference is affordable for scholars of the Indian Ocean World regardless of their geographical location. Instead, we request that you make a contribution through the appropriate page on the University Store. Suggested amounts are £15 for staff, and £5 – £10 for students and independent scholars, to contribute to the running costs of the event.
Please register here: Indian Ocean World Archaeology Conference 19th-20th December 2022 | Exeter University.
For more information, including registration and abstract submission details, please see the conference website: www.iow-arch.com. To present, a title and 200-word abstract is required by Monday 11th July 2022, see Abstract Submission | IOW-Arch.
Contact Info:
Hannah Parsons-Morgan – conference administrator and organising committee member.
Contact Email: h.l.parsons@exeter.ac.uk
7. Jameel Scholarships 2022/2023
We are advertising a new round of Jameel Scholarships available for students this year at the Islam-UK Centre here at Cardiff University.
The scholarships can be a life changing opportunity for a student otherwise unable to pursue further studies, so please do promote and share the scholarships with your networks as widely as possible.
We can offer
- 4 x scholarships for the Islam in Contemporary Britain MA (includes fees, £15,896 stipend and £1,000 research allowance)
The MA offers a thorough grounding in qualitative research methods for anyone considering pursuing a PhD, as well as an introduction to British Muslim studies. It will appeal to those considering further studies, those working with Muslim communities or in religious professions, and those who wish to better understand Islam in the United Kingdom.
- 1 x scholarship for a three-year funded PhD (includes fees, £15,896 annual stipend and £2,500 research allowance)
The Islam-UK Centre specialises in the social scientific research study of Islam and welcomes PhD proposals on any relevant topic. Potential supervisors and research interests can be found on our website https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/centre-for-the-study-of-islam-in-the-uk/people and you’re welcome to contact any Centre staff member to discuss further.
DEADLINE = Mon 13th June 23:59 2022
Apply Here: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/funding/jameel-ma-scholarships
8. Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation
Eds., Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, Patricia J. Higgins, and Michelle Quay
Routledge, 2022
9. Open Access Database: Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions
10. CfP for workshop ‘Coexistence Theology – various methods and theoretical approaches’, Cairo, 15-16 July.
‘Coexistence Theology – various methods and theoretical approaches’ in the research program “Interdependent Relationships – Humans – Religion – Environment” organised together with the Netherlands – Flemish Institute in Cairo) to take place in Cairo on July 15th and 16th.
Abstracts are due by the 15th of June.
Religions with their norms and value systems cannot and must not be viewed in isolation because they are always within the dynamics of the relationship between humans and their environment, i.e. the environment and the social context.
Humans, religion, and environment are an interconnected triad in which they are interdependent and influence each other. The same applies to interreligious relationships in pluralistic societies.
We invite papers that investigate interdependent relationships between people, religions and the environment from the perspective of social and political science, history, theology, anthropology and comparative religion, considering the temporal and spatial contexts to study the phenomenon from a historical perspective.
In this regard, themes that can be discussed include:
- coexistence of the supporters of different religions and cultures
- various methods and theoretical approaches
- social and religious visions of living together
- marriage
- education
- conservation initiatives
For more information and registration:
- May 31, 2022
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- May 30, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Kushnameh The Persian Epic of Kush the Tusked
Iranshah ibn Abu’l-Khayr,
Hee Soo Lee, ed., Kaveh Hemmat, transl.
UC Press, 2022
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520385306/the-kushnameh
Save 30% by entering code 21W7202 at check out
2. The Foundations of Arab Linguistics V
Kitāb Sībawayhi, The Critical Theory
Eds., Manuel Sartori and Francesco Binaghi
Brill, 2022
https://brill.com/view/title/62330
3. Announcing the Winner of the Khamseen Graduate Student Presentation Award
We are delighted to announce Sylvia Wu (University of Chicago) as the winner of Khamseen’s inaugural Graduate Student Presentation Award for her submission entitled “The Ashab Mosque in Quanzhou: A Coastal Mosque in South China.”
Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online has been offering short-form presentations in Islamic art and related fields since the website’s launch in Fall 2020. The PhD has been a requirement for contributors. However, after receiving interest from advanced graduate students, Khamseen organized its first annual Graduate Student Presentation Award to extend participation to select PhD candidates.
As the Graduate Student Presentation awardee, Sylvia Wu will receive a $500 award and work with Team Khamseen to prepare her presentation for publication on the Khamseen website.Congratulations to Sylvia Wu! We look forward to seeing her work go live very soon.
4. Mohamed Zakariya, A 21st century Master Calligrapher
Editor: Nancy Micklewright
Fons Vitae, 2022
https://fonsvitae.com/product/mohamed-zakariya-a-21st-century-master-calligrapher/
5. Speculum Arabicum
I am happy to inform you that Speculum Arabicum. Intersecting Perspectives on Medieval Encyclopaedism (UCLouvain, Publications de l’Institut d’Etudes Médiévales), a collective volume I edited with my colleagues Baudouin Van den Abeele and Mattia Cavagna, has finally come out.
A short presentation of this volume and of the Speculum Arabicum project on comparative medieval encyclopaedism (UCLouvain, 2012-2017), together with the article I contributed with Liana Saif on “Astrological and Prophetical Cycles in the Pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica and Other Islamic Esoterica” is available at: https://uclouvain.academia.edu/GodefroiddeCallatay
Sincerely,
Godefroid de Callataÿ
Arabic and Islamic Studies, UCLouvain
PhilAnd ERC project (https://sites.uclouvain.be/erc-philand/)
- May 28, 2022
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Shii News – ‘Shii-Kurd Relations in Post-2003 Iraq’ – E Machlis
‘Shii-Kurd Relations in Post-2003 Iraq: Visions of Nationalism’
E. Machlis
Middle East Policy,
2021 28 (3-4), 116-132
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mepo.12572
- May 27, 2022
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- May 26, 2022
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Shii News – Ahlul Bayt Fellowship for Graduate Studies
The Ahlul Bayt Fellowship for Graduate Studies
The Ahlul Bayt Fellowship will be awarded each year by Mohsena Memorial Foundation (MMF) in the memory of our Founder, Syed-Mohsin Naquvi, to a student pursuing graduate studies with the intent to earn a doctoral degree in an Islam-related field in an academic institution in North America. In our first year, we are open to considering applicants from the humanities and social sciences, especially Islamic arts, ethics, philosophy, metaphysics, theology, law, and history, as well as Urdu language and literature, whose graduate work intersects with the teachings and elevates the influence of the Prophet Muhammad and his family, the Ahlul Bayt (peace be upon them). The Fellowship will be awarded beginning from the 2022 – 2023 Academic Year and each academic year thereafter.
About the Ahlul Bayt Fellowship Award
Monetary award: $2,000
Mentorship: Access to the MMF network of scholars in Islam-related fields
Referrals: Speaking opportunities at academic institutions and community events
Publicity: Fellows will be featured on the new MMF website (coming soon) with bio
Preference of award will be given to women & underrepresented minorities but is open to all applicants.
Eligibility
Acceptance or current enrollment in a graduate doctoral program in North America.
Each of 3 finalists will be interviewed by the Ahlul Bayt Fellowship Selection Committee virtually.
Attendance at the Annual Syed-Mohsin Naquvi Lecture, which will include the Ahlul Bayt Fellowship Award Ceremony in Fall 2022, is required for the winner. Transportation and one-night accommodation will be covered by the Foundation.
Application Information
A complete Ahlul Bayt Fellowship application consists of these required components:
• _Statement of Purpose explaining your professional path to pursuing a doctorate and specific areas of academic interest. Candidates must include an explanation of how the Ahlul Bayt (pbut) will be part of their future doctoral work (max: 750 words)
• _Short essay describing a personal experience, your spiritual philosophy, and/or a community project you led, which reflects the spirit and legacy of Syed-Mohsin Naquvi (max: 250 words)
• _Doctoral program acceptance letter
• _All college transcripts (unofficial)
• _All graduate level transcripts, including current program, if applicable (unofficial)
• _Curriculum vitae, including community work and projects
• _2 recommendation letters: 1 academic and 1 community reference sent directly to email below
Please collate all items into one PDF and submit to info@mohsena.org
Deadline: Please submit completed application by June 20th, 2022 at 11:59pm EST. Finalists will be notified by July 9th, 2022. Winner will be announced on Eid-e-Ghadeer, July 18th, 2022.
Ahlul Bayt Fellowship Selection Committee
The Fellowship Selection Committee is comprised of highly qualified professionals, academics, authors, and friends of Syed-Mohsin Naquvi who are proponents of his legacy and the mission of Mohsena Memorial Foundation.
About Syed-Mohsin Naquvi
During his life, Syed-Mohsin Naquvi was a humanitarian, reformer, talented orator, and self-taught scholar committed to educating the public, both Muslims and non-Muslims, about the Prophet Muhammad and his Holy Family, referred to collectively as the Ahlul Bayt (pbut). Mr. Naquvi lectured in Urdu and English, in which he was a pioneer in Europe and North America, where he spent most of his adult life. He wrote hundreds of articles and booklets on numerous topics from religion to history to politics and social issues, as well as the following nine books during his lifetime:
The Tragedy of Karbala (1986, 1992, 2015)
Understanding Karbala (2006)
The House of Love: The Importance of Love for the Prophet and his Holy Family (2007)
Defending the Shi’a Faith Without Being Defensive (2008)
Nawa Ha-e-Raaz, an Urdu commentary on poet Mirza Ghalib (2017)
An Anthology of Shi’a Intellectual History [expected late 2022]
The Effect of Karbala on the Urdu Language (Urdu) [expected 2023]
The Qur’an and Our Way of Life [unpublished]
The Life and Times of Ali Ibn Abi Talib [unpublished]
Mr. Naquvi spoke often of the need for young Muslims to pursue graduate study, especially terminal PhDs, in Islamic Studies and other fields to elevate the intellectual status and academic prowess of the American Muslim community. And leading by example, at the age of 63 he completed his Master’s Degree in Islamic Studies from the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences (GSISS) at Córdoba University in Virginia in 2006. And although he had produced enough original material related to Islam in English for an academic’s lifetime, he was unable to gain admission to a PhD program in his later life, citing ageism and anti-Shi’ism.
Mr. Naquvi was a father of 3 daughters and a son, a grandfather to 3 boys and 1 girl, a devoted and loving husband and brother, and admired by all the members of his extended family and a mentor to many in the Muslim community from India and Pakistan to Europe and the United States. Mr. Naquvi founded Mohsena Memorial Foundation to honor his mother, a poet and zakira, who instilled in him and his 5 younger siblings the love of the Ahlul Bayt (pbut) from a very early age, and tragically passed away at the age of 54 as she prepared to recite a majalis in their honor.
- May 25, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Online program: Cinema in India and Iran, joint project of the Iranian journal Mardom-nameh and Ahmedabad University, India
Online series organized by the Persian Journal Mardom-name (People’s History Journal) and the Center for Inter-Asian Research, Ahmedabad University, India. All are welcome to join the talks next week via Zoom (see below) This week’s program is on cinema in India and Iran by Indian scholar Ashsish Rajadhayaksha, and Claire Cooley – at Tufts university.
26 MAY
2022 | 6 pm IST | 5 pm IRDT
Zoom ID:946 0475 8003
Passcode: 330514
2. ONLINE Conference “From the Divine to the Human: New Perspectives on Evil, Suffering, and the Global Pandemic” (Focus Islamic Philosophy), University of Cincinnati, 28-30 June 2022
This conference seeks to reinvigorate the study of the global philosophy of religion by utilizing the rich and unique resources of the Islamic intellectual tradition as well as contemporary Muslim philosophers’ creative engagements with these materials.
Information and registration: https://www.sufferingpandemicconference.org/
3. Inaugural Conference of the International Islamophobia Studies Research Association (IISRA) on “States of Islamophobia (Studies)”, Istanbul, 14-16 July 2022
The conference seeks papers that examine how the Muslim subject is constructed in public discourses, the distinct periods (historical or contemporary), and the regional specificity of such framings.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2022.
Information: https://irdp.submittable.com/submit/225879/cfp-states-of-islamophobia-studies
4. International Research Seminar “Wilāya and Islamic Ethics”, Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), Doha, 20-23 February 2023
The Seminar will be convened by Dr. Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto. The proceedings of the Seminar will be published as a special issue in the peer-reviewed and open-access “Journal of Islamic Ethics” or as an edited volume in the book-series “Studies in Islamic Ethics”, both published by Brill.
Deadline for abstracts: 25 June 2022. Information: https://www.cilecenter.org/resources/news/call-research-papers-cile-international-seminar-wilaya-and-islamic-ethics#
5. 3 German and 3 Egyptian Internships for “Cultural Heritage in Cyberspace: Education, Preservation, and Access” (1 Month), Germany and Egypt
The German-Egyptian DAAD-funded project seeks interns for the year 2022. We encourage students in Islamic Studies, Arabic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Heritage Studies, and Digital Humanities to apply for one of the internships. By augmenting their technical and professional abilities, prospective interns can enhance their qualifications for academic careers and other professions relating to manuscripts and cultural heritage. Grants for flights and other expenses.
Deadline for applications: 31 May 2022.
6. Visiting Full-Time Faculty Position (1 Year) in Modern Middle Eastern History, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Candidates must demonstrate commitment to, and excellence in, undergraduate teaching as informed by current practice and scholarship in the field. The successful candidate will be expected to teach the modern Middle East surveys (19th-21st centuries) and two to three courses of their choice,
Deadline for applications: 30 June 2022. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/107175
7. Grants for the Translation of Arabic Books into World Languages from the Sheikh Zayed Book Award
A maximum of approximately US$ 38,000 per title is available for the translation plus specific promotion and production costs. The applicant must be a publisher in a country other than the Middle East.
Applications are accepted all year round.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/05/20/translation-grant
8. Chapters for Edited Volume “Becoming Ottoman. Converts, Renegades and Identity in Early Modern and Modern Context”, I.B. Tauris
The volume examines the role of Europeans who settled in the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries and assumed “Ottoman identity”, be it by way of conversion to Islam and assimilating to the host society or by becoming citizens/loyal servants of the Ottoman state, identifying themselves as Ottomans, but retaining their faith.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10262004/cfp-edited-volume-becoming-ottoman-16th-18th-century
9. Articles on “Islamophobia in the Aftermath of Christchurch & the Covid-19 Era” for Special Issue of the “Australian Journal for Islamic Studies”
This special issue will explore: Islamophobia in the aftermath of Christchurch attacks; Islamophobia and Covid 19 pandemic (and lockdowns); Interaction between online and offline (physical) Islamophobia; Far-right populism and Islamophobia; Islamophobia on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2022. Information: s.poynting@gmail.com
10. Islamicate Digital Humanities Network
Recording of 7th IDHN Conference
The recording of the 7th IDHN Conference on May 5, 2022 is online: https://youtu.be/t67NVO9nz9M
It is also posted on the IDHN forum:
https://idhn.org/forums/topic/7th-idhn-conference-recording/
11. New Publication – The Khalili Collection: Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage
Nasser David Khalili, Qaisra M. Khan
Assouline, 2022
https://eu.assouline.com/products/hajj-and-the-arts-of-pilgrimage
12. The full programme for the Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS), in Edinburgh, is available to view HERE.
Even if you are not planning to attend the whole conference, the keynotes maybe of interest. See below on registering for these, and for the special evening performance bringing together the Sufi traditions of North Africa and Turkey which has been organised by Ezgi Guner and which will bring the conference to an end.
Opening Keynote: Professor Salman Sayyid (University of Leeds) ‘Critical Muslim Studies: Decolonizing the Islamicate?’
Monday 6 June, 10am-11:15am, 50 George Square
Follow the link for further information and tickets: https://salman-sayyid-brais.eventbrite.co.uk
Closing Keynote: Journalist and Author Fatima Manji: ‘Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain’s Lost Love of the Orient’
Tuesday 7 June, 4:30pm-6pm, 50 George Square
Follow the link for further information and tickets: https://fatimamanji.eventbrite.co.uk
Sema: Movements of the Soul and Sound
Tuesday 7 June, 7pm-9pm, University of Edinburgh Chaplaincy, Bristo Square
Follow the link for further information and tickets: https://souldandsound.eventbrite.co.uk
13. EuQu International Summer School
The Qur’an in inter-Christian polemic
14-17 June 2022
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Ange Guépin
5 allée Jacques Berque
Nantes France
Theme:
How have Christian authors in Europe used and appropriated the Qur’an? We are interested in how the Qur’an was used as a historical and linguistic archive, as a mine of heretical ideas and as a tool used in confessional rivalries. Our focus will not be restricted to the main confessional camps, Roman Catholic and Protestant, but will also include the many ways in which groups of the so called radical Reformation (Socianians and other anti-Trinitarian movements), different groups inside the Roman Catholic world, as well as Deist, Muslim and Jewish authors in Europe, used the Qur’an in their polemical writings. We will also study how translations of the Qur’an were deployed as argumentative weapons for preaching the superiority of Christianity to Mudejars and Moriscos in Spain. Additionally, the question of nationalist motivations in the collecting and translating of the Qur’an will also be taken into consideration: beginning in the late 17th century, various European countries vied with one another to produce the best translation of the Qur’an made directly from the Arabic. We will further investigate if and how polemical and historical uses of the Qur’an changed in the late 17th and 18th century and early 19th century. The Qur’an continues to play an important role in polemical writings, in political as well as religious domains.
Programme available at:
https://euqu.eu/2022/05/18/summer-school-the-quran-in-inter-christian-polemic-june-2022/
Organized by ERC project “The European Qur’an” (https://euqu.eu).
- May 24, 2022
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- May 23, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Call for Contributors: History of the Qur’ān
The Qur’ān represents the focal point of Islam. Many studies have looked at its text, meanings, and interpretation. Yet, its transmission and historical development remain hitherto understudied. Recent studies have examined the relationship between the Qur’ān and its multiple modes of recitation, critically examining the notions of aḥruf and qiraʿāt. Other works have focussed on the question of tawātur in relation to these variances. There has also been a sustained interest in understanding the history of the Qur’ān through its manuscript tradition.
The aim of this edited volume is to bring together scholars working on these various approaches. We welcome any original article that contributes to our understanding of the Qur’ān’s transmission and history. Topics may include but are not limited to:
- Qur’ānic manuscripts
- Compilation and codification of the Qur’ān
- Non-Uthmānic codices
- Aḥruf
- Qiraʿāt
- The Qur’ān and the question of tawātur
- Pre-modern Muslim understanding of the Qur’ān’s transmission and history
- Contemporary approaches to the Qur’ān’s transmission and history
Scholars interested in contributing should send via email:
- An extended abstract (approximately 900 words) stating the main argument and a brief overview of the article.
- A short bio (150 words).
After acceptance, full articles are expected to be approximately 7,000-9,000 words. A roundtable for the authors of the accepted articles is planned prior to publication at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education.
The proposal submission deadline is 29th July 2022.
Final Papers are due 13th January 2023. Submissions and any enquires are to be sent to Dr F. Redhwan Karim at: redhwan.karim@mihe.ac.uk.
2. Live-Online: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Upcoming Event from Carnegie – Wahhabism and the World
Monday, May 23, 2022 | 10:00 am EDT
Register here.
Saudi religious affairs have long had implications beyond the kingdom’s borders. Over decades and throughout the Muslim world, religious leaders have promoted a specific Saudi version of Islam that has become known as Wahhabism. Now that the Saudi government is overhauling religious affairs at home, how will contemporary changes inside the kingdom reverberate in its network beyond its borders?
Join the Carnegie Middle East Program to discuss an in-depth study of how Saudi Arabia’s religious sector continues to influence Islam across the globe. The event will feature Peter Mandaville, editor of Wahhabism and the World and contributing author Stéphane Lacroix, for a critical discussion of the book’s main findings and potential policy recommendations.
Yasmine Farouk will moderate the discussion.
3. Oxford Interfaith Forum: Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts
Sacred Literature in Interfaith Contexts Reading Group
Topic: The Qur’an and Kafka: The Trial of Jesus and Josef K
Speaker: Professor Ismail Lala, Gulf University, Kuwait
Chair: Professor Emerita Glenda Abramson, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford, UK
Date: 25 May, 2022
Time: 18:00-19:00 BST| 19:00-20:00 CET | 10:00-11:00 PT | 13:00-14:00 ET
Venue: Online
Please register here for this session:
Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts Reading Group
Topic: Moral and Spiritual Courage: A Muslim Perspective.
Speaker: Professor Abdullah Antepli, Associate Professor of the Practice of Interfaith Relations at Duke Divinity School and Associate Professor of the Practice at Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, NC, USA.
Chair: Professor Clemence Boulouque, Carl and Bernice Witten Associate Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies, Columbia University, NY, USA.
Date: 2 June, 2022
Time: 18:00-19:00 BST | 10:00-11:00 PT | 13:00-14:00 ET
Venue: Online
Please register here for this session:
https://www.oxfordinterfaithforum.org/programs/thematic-international-interfaith-reading-groups/philosophy-in-interfaith-contexts/moral-and-spiritual-courage-a-muslim-perspective/
4. Open Access E-Book: Empires and Communities in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, C. 400-1000 CE
Rutger Kramer and Walter Pohl
Oxford, 2021
5. International Journal of Islamic Architecture 11.2 is out now! Special Issue
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture
Issue 11.2
Editorial
Hinterland Forces: Architectural Responses at the Margins
ANGELA ANDERSEN
Design in Theory Articles
Hinterland of a Hinterland: The Changing Capital Cities of Sultanate and Mughal Bengal
JAMES L. WESCOAT JR. AND RIO FISCHER
‘A Place of Our Own’: Puerto Rican Muslims and Their Architectural Responses as Quadruple Minorities
KEN CHITWOOD
NICOLE KANÇAL-FERRARI
BİRGÜL AÇIKYILDIZ
The Right to the Suburb: The ‘American Dream’ of Palestinian Citizens of Israel
GABRIEL SCHWAKE
ALVARO VELASCO PEREZ
Design in Practice Article
Ibb’s Grand Mosque: Heritage at Risk in Yemen’s Hinterland
MOHAMED SALEH AL-HAJ AND LILY FILSON
Book Reviews
Iran and the Deccan: Persianate Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation, Ed. Keelan Overton (2020)
LAURA E. PARODI
CHRISTINE WOODHEAD
Mediating Museums: Exhibiting Material Culture in Tunisia (1881–2016), Virginie Rey (2019)
TINA BAROUTI
Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul Ünver Rüstem, (2019)
GEORGE MANGINIS
What Is ‘Islamic’ Art? Between Religion and Perception, Wendy M. K. Shaw (2019)
ANNEKA LENSSEN
Exhibition and Film Festival Reviews
Fourteenth Annual Boston Palestine Film Festival, Online, October 16–25, 2020
REZA DAFTARIAN
JULIE TIMTE
Conference Précis
Regime Change, Historians of Islamic Art Association Biennial Symposium, Online, April 15–18, 2021
ALEXANDER BREY
6. CFP – Ars Orientalis vol. 54 – Deadline Nov. 1, 2022
Ars Orientalis, a peer-reviewed annual journal published jointly by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art and the Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, invites submissions of original, innovative articles on the arts of the broad geographic area of Asia, from the ancient period to the contemporary.
Manuscripts should be 8,000 to 12,000 words (including endnotes). Ars Orientalis is a digital publication with a print-on-demand option. The digital volume also allows for the incorporation of other media, such as video, sound, and 3D models. Visual material must include permissions for print and online reproduction.
We are currently accepting submissions for volume 54 to be published in Fall 2024. Articles must be received by November 1, 2022 to be considered.
For more information, please visit: https://asia.si.edu/research/ars-orientalis/submit/. To submit or request more information, please email managing editor Sana Mirza at ArsOrientalis@si.edu.
7. Consolidating Empire: Power and Elites in Jahangir’s India (1605-1627)
Corinne Lefèvre,
Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2022.
https://www.orientblackswan.com/details?id=9788178246499
8. Webinar – Black Muslim Portraiture in the Modern Atlantic – May 28
Please join us for a Zoom discussion on Sat, May 28th, 10am-3:30pm EST for Art & the Black Muslim Image.
A Zoom discussion on the essays from
“Black Muslim Portraiture in the Modern Atlantic”
The Muslim World Journal – Special Issue (Summer 2020)
These conversations focus on five Black art figures of Muslim heritage: (1) Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (2) Yarrow Mamout (3) Joseph Cinqué (4) Omar Ibn Sayyid and (5) The Bashi-Bazouk. They offer various interpretations, and this is precisely the reason this discussion is so vital. Then there’s the fact that these images are all men and Black, forcing us to question the male bias and racial assumptions in modern visual culture.
DISCUSSION PANELISTS
Zain Abdullah
Carl W. Ernst
Georgia Haseldine
Richard Brent Turner
James H. Johnston
Carol Eaton Soltis
Rebecca Hankins
Laura Macaluso
Timur Yuskaev
Nicolas Mumejian
Ellen McLarney
More info and register: https://islamicstudies.duke.edu/art-and-black-muslim-image
9. Islamochristiana is the annual scientific journal of PISAI (Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica) dedicated to Muslim-Christian dialogue. The journal publishes articles, documents and book reviews concerned with the theoretical and practical aspects of Christian-Muslim dialogue, both past and present. Members of BRISMES are able to access articles published in Islamochristiana Volume 47 (2021). If you are interested in receiving a copy of any of the articles listed here, please email office@brismes.org.
10. Student members of BRISMES presenting at the annual conference are encouraged to apply for the 2022 Conference Student Paper Prize. The aim of this prize is to support BRISMES student members in the development of peer-reviewed work. The prize winner will receive £300 and will be mentored through a review process at the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BJMES) by a senior member of the BRISMES academic community. Such a mentor will be identified on the basis of the disciplinary field and topic of the awarded conference paper. In addition, the desk review process will be skipped and the journal will commit to sending the paper directly to external reviewers for the final decision about publication.
11. Project Coordinator (Part Time, Fixed Term)
University of Cambridge
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies invites applications for a Project Co-ordinator to work with the research team of the ERC-funded project ‘Echoes of Vanishing Voices in the Mountains: A Linguistic History of Minorities in the Near East’ (ALHOME) under the direction of Professor Geoffrey Khan. The project aims to reconstruct the complex, socio-religious past of Aramaic-speaking and Kurdish-speaking communities in Western Asia through a study of the history and interrelationship of their languages.
Deadline | 29 May 2022
12. 32nd BATAS Spring Symposium
Symposium | 28 May 2022 | Emmanuel College Cambridge
Registration is open for the 32nd Spring Symposium of the British Association for Turkish Area Studies (BATAS) which will be held in-person in Cambridge.
More information
13. From ‘the Last Great War of Antiquity’ to ‘Futuhat’:
Eastern Mediterranean Between the Sasanians and Byzantium
Online Lecture | 31 May 2022 | London Society for Medieval Studies
Speaker: Khodadad Rezakhani (Leiden)
Founded in 1970/1, the London Society for Medieval Studies seeks to foster knowledge of, and dialogue about, the Middle Ages (c.500–c.1500 CE). Our fortnightly seminars showcase the latest advances in all areas of medieval studies, including history, art, politics, economics, literature and archaeology. All are welcome.
More information
14. Les webinaires de l’IFRI / IFRI Webinar SERIES
Regards sur les arts du monde iranien [période islamique]. Dialogues franco-iraniens
Insights into the art of the Persianate societies [Islamic period]. French-Iranian dialogues
Mardi 31 mai 2022 / Tuesday 31st May 2022
3.00 pm (Paris time) / 5.30 pm (Tehran time)
on Skyroom
Regards sur les arts du livre / In sights into the arts of the Book
Nomad artists, manuscripts and paintings: the circulation of pictorial models in Iran
by Nourane Ben Azzouna (associate professor, University of Strasbourg)
The transmission of models in illustrated Arabic manuscripts of Kalila wa Dimna
by Annie Vernay-Nouri (honorary chief curator, Bibliothèque nationale de France) and Aïda El Khiari (PhD candidate, Sorbonne-University)
Language: English
To participate, please register before May 30th:
https://webquest.fr/?m=131529_regards-sur-les-arts-du-livre
contact: sandra.aube@cnrs.fr
15. University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series
The final lecture for this season of the Women and Gender Forum titled:
‘Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature and the Arts’
Lecture 10: Qaisra Shahraz, The Muslim Women’s Arts Foundation: ‘Celebrating and Exploring the Lives of Women’
Date/time: Tuesday 24 May 2022, 17:00 London-UK time on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95182647227
- May 21, 2022
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