Archive for May, 2022
Shii News – Academic Items
1.CALL FOR PAPERS: Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Making of the Modern Middle East: Global Histories 1800–1939
25–26 May, 2023, University of Warwick, Global History and Culture Centre
This conference will explore the role played by discoveries and debates about the ancient past in the development of ideas about the Middle East in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. What competing imperial, national, and transnational narratives about the present and future of this geopolitically crucial region were fed by archaeology, philology, and history? How were these emergent disciplines themselves forged through Middle Eastern contexts they purported to study? How were temporalities of modernity and progress constructed in relation to the ruptures, continuities and heuristic challenges suggested by the excavation and exegesis of traces of ancient civilisations? Were there overlaps between how this region was simultaneously transformed by the construction of new transportation networks, the unearthing of oil in commercial qualities, transforming its present and future, and archaeological projects which dug up new dimensions to its past? How did the return of the remains of the past assist Western and Eastern empires, and new Middle Eastern countries in understanding their own national destinies?
Recent studies in intellectual history around imperial temporalities and teleologies provide a set of reference points informing this conference’s research aims. As Priya Satia has recently remarked in relation to the place in the British imperial imaginary of the Middle East in the decades around 1900, travel to the region ‘was conceived as a journey into a past that was not merely further back on the secular time scale of history but on a different scale altogether, outside secular time’. This was at once a ‘biblical region’ but also a ‘mythological landscape’, in some ways ‘outside the space of history’ and yet also one which would ‘matter deeply to the historical fulfilment of empire’, not least as a space offering ‘the chance to resurrect the cradle of civilization’ (Satia, Time’s Monster: History, Conscience and Britain’s Empire, 2020: 156–7, 174). Yet examination of the region’s ancient past could equally inspire a sense of the uncomfortable resemblances bridging empires ancient and ‘modern’, and attendant anxieties about the sustainability of contemporary empires.
If outsiders came to the Middle East to find their own origins (and perhaps their futures), various Middle Easterners themselves sought pasts that they could claim as their own: whether to consolidate new national identities, or to build over-arching and wide-ranging connections across the region. As Timothy Mitchell has written in regard to modern Egypt, a characteristic of the modern nation state was that ‘for a state to prove that it was modern, it helped if it could also prove that it was ancient’ (Mitchell, Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity, 2002: 179).
We are interested in the concept of the ancient past as a means of constructing modern identities: of ‘the Middle East’ as a region, of diverse new nations within it, and of Western nations whose colonial projects and political interests in the region became part of their own modern identities. While much valuable work has been done on archaeology, imperialism, and nation-building in the Middle East, it is rare for scholars to have a chance to consider different imperial, national, and regional contexts together, as part of a broader reshaping of historical consciousness about this region, one forged through competing visions and agendas. This conference will bring together scholars with a range of interests to examine this question at a variety of scales. We are interested in studies that examine uses of the past in specific national/imperial/regional contexts, and also in contributions that take a broad view of how the ‘Middle East’ became a region with a certain kind of past (original, imperial, monumental, liminal?). Bringing this range of papers together will allow us to discover habits of thought that were common across times and places, and those that were unique or unusual as empires, nations, and people within them sought to create their own distinctive identities through references to the past and its remains.
We invite contributions on how either/both ‘outsiders’ and ‘natives’ in the region came to identify themselves and their political projects with the pasts they discovered there. Relevant are ‘official’ projects of nation-building and imperial enterprise, and also projects by special interest groups, non-state actors, and individuals. Through taking this broad approach, we hope to find new connections and illuminate broader tendencies in the reception, interpretation, and reuse of ancient pasts in the making of the modern Middle East.
Papers might approach the conference’s themes might from a variety of different angles. Contributions might focus, for example, on one or more of the following:
- Specific objects, artefacts and sites, both ancient and modern: this might involve, for example retracing how ancient materials became valorised and commodified in the modern period by excavators, collectors and museums.
- Forms of institutional and official sponsorship (government or otherwise) for given scholarly ventures (re)collecting the ancient world, and for the fabrication of ancient histories.
- Appropriations and reinventions of ancient cultures, for example through speculative reconstructions, in textual, pictorial or architectural form, of ancient sites or styles.
- Imaginary geographies, environmental theories and political economies of nation and empire, around teleologies of translatio imperii and the modern state.
- The development of ‘the Middle East’ as a unique place of origin, and as a political, historical, or geographical region with a distinct identity.
- The ongoing legacy of archaeological, collecting, and display practices of 1800–1939 in the contemporary world.
CONFERENCE PARTICULARS
The two-day conference will be held at the University of Warwick 25–26 May 2023. Keynotes will be given by Professor Lynn Meskell (University of Pennsylvania) and Professor Zeynep Çelik (Columbia University, New Jersey Institute of Technology). Participants will submit papers of 6000-8000 words one month in advance of the meeting for pre-circulation, and will present a 15-minute condensed version of the paper at the workshop. This format will ensure productive discussions among participants and speed the process of publishing all papers from the conference in an edited volume, a process we will begin soon after the conference takes place.
Proposals for papers should include author name and affiliation, 300–400 word abstract, and a short CV. We invite proposals from scholars at all levels from early career onwards. Papers will be selected on the quality of the proposal and with the aim of ensuring a broad spread of topics for the conference. These should be sent to GHCCconference2023@gmail.com by the deadline of Monday, 20 June, 2022. Stipends for travel of up to £500 for scholars based in countries in the Middle East and North Africa will be available. To apply for these stipends, simply indicate in your email to the organisers that you wish to be considered and state the country you will be travelling from.
Looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Dr Guillemette Crouzet (Marie Curie Sklodowska Research Fellow, History, University of Warwick)
Dr Eva Miller (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, History, UCL)
2. Séminaire « Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien »
Séminaire mensuel du CeRMI
Séance du 12 mai 2022, 17h00-19h00
Exclusivement en visioconférence sur Zoom
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 12 février 2022 de 17h à 19h. Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Matteo De Chiara (maître de conférences HDR, INaLCO/CeRMI), pour une conférence intitulée :
La langue en évolution : la frontière verbale en pashto
Résumé
La langue pashto appartient à la famille des langues iraniennes. En dehors d’une large diaspora, elle est principalement parlée dans deux grands territoires : en Afghanistan oriental (de Kabul à Qandahar), où elle est depuis 1937 la langue officielle au même titre que le dari, et au Pakistan occidental (dans toute la zone qui s’étend entre Swat, Peshawar, Kalat et Quetta), où elle est l’une des langues régionales de la province de Khyber Pukhtunxwa (KPK) – l’ancienne North West Frontier Province (NWFP), incluant les FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) –, et du Baloutchistan.
Les deux publications récentes sur le verbe pashto par Daniel Septfonds et moi-même (Le verbe pashto : parcours d’un territoire du verbe simple à la locution verbale, 2019, et Le verbe simple en pashto. État des lieux, 2022, les deux publiées chez Reichert, Wiesbaden) analysent le système verbal du pashto en profondeur. La conjugaison du verbe pashto repose sur un schéma commun aux langues iraniennes – ou du moins largement partagé par elles –, qui distingue, aux formes finies du verbe, le radical de présent et le radical de passé.
Morphologiquement les verbes pashto se répartissent en trois groupes : les verbes simples, les verbes composés et les verbes mixtes. Cette intervention aura pour objet de mettre en lumière une catégorie spécifique de verbes, celle des « verbes simples nus » (« nus » signifiant ici « non-suffixés »), et les transformations en cours à l’intérieur de cette classe verbale fermée : un territoire à explorer en détail et avec systématicité pour pouvoir observer les changements et les mouvements des lignes de « frontière ». Une observation complète de la situation synchronique permettra de dégager les principales dynamiques diachroniques, au bénéfice des études pashto, mais aussi des autres langues iraniennes.
Indications bibliographiques
– Anne Boyle David, Descriptive Grammar of Pashto and Its Dialects, ed. Claudia M. Brugman, Göttingen, 2014.
– Matteo De Chiara & Daniel Septfonds, Le verbe pashto : parcours d’un territoire du verbe simple à la locution verbale, Wiesbaden, 2019.
– Matteo De Chiara & Daniel Septfonds, Le verbe simple en pashto. État des lieux, Wiesbaden, 2022.
– Gilbert Lazard, Grammaire du persan contemporain, Téhéran, 2006 [Paris 1957].
Pour suivre la séance :
– exclusivement en visioconférence sur Zoom :
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/73327022868?pwd=t9PNPtQgvMl0fwE86yuS7hH2hXt_wQ.1
Centre de Recherche sur le Monde iranien (CeRMI), CNRS UMR 8041
27 rue Paul Bert – 94204 Ivry-sur-Seine
3. National Iranian American Council
The Cook You Want To Be: Virtual Book Talk with Andy Baraghani, hosted by NIAC New York
Join us for a special virtual book talk on Thursday, May 26 at 5pm PT/8pm ET with beloved Iranian-American chef, recipe developer, and food personality Andy Baraghani. He will be sharing with us his highly anticipated debut cookbook, The Cook You Want To Be: Everyday Recipes to Impress. In this book talk, Andy will share with us how he blends the home cooking of his Iranian upbringing, his professional training in restaurants such as Chez Panisse and Estela, editorial experience at Bon Appetit and Saveur, and his travels from around the globe, to produce an exquisite book that bring home cooks over 120 exquisite everyday recipes. This virtual book talk will be moderated by NIAC New York Leadership Council members.
A random selection of 25 attendees will receive a FREE COPY of Andy’s book. So RSVP for the Zoom link for a chance to receive your free copy!
4. Wael Hallaq Book Seminar at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, 21 May
Join us for an opportunity to discuss the central ideas of Professor Wael Hallaq’s most recent works, Restating Orientalism (2018) and Reforming Modernity (2019), with the author himself. The seminar will start with a short presentation by Professor Hallaq, analysing the subjective formation and psycho-epistemology that had enabled the pathologies of Orientalism, and proposing the formation of a new subjectivity and an ethicized philology as a solution. A series of open discussions will follow
The seminar will begin at 1pm and finish at 5pm.
Participants are strongly recommended to prepare by reading: Restating Orientalism (Columbia University Press, 2018), especially chapters 3–5; and Reforming Modernity (Columbia University Press, 2019), especially chapters 2, 6, and the Epilogue.
Due to limited capacity, please register for this seminar here.
5. Call for Papers SAH 2023 Montréal: “Reinventing Islamic Architecture in the 20thand 21stCenturies (Montréal)”
This panel investigates the phenomenon of 20th- and 21st-century architects and patrons who make references to premodern Islamic monuments and built environments. The modern and contemporary resurrection or reinvention of “classical” Islamic forms can serve diverse functions and contexts. It can proclaim connections to a glorious imperial past; craft new national identities through architectural revivals; recall a nostalgic homeland for diasporic communities; or incorporate Orientalist tropes to convey luxurious consumption or cosmopolitan sophistication. Within the discipline of Islamic art history, scholars have debated the logical terminus for the field’s timeline, with traditional narratives ending before the rise of European colonialism. Recent studies have expanded the consideration of art and architecture beyond this limited framework, but scholars are only beginning to question how pre-colonial Islamic art history informs post-colonial architectural practice. Papers for this panel will be drawn from transnational, cross-cultural contexts and can feature examples from a wide range of geographies. The panel is open to a variety of topics and themes, but we welcome papers that investigate, for example, the reimagining of imperial Ottoman forms in Erdoğan’s Turkey; anachronistic Orientalization in American Shriner architecture; the emergence of the neo-Mudéjar style in Latin America; representations of Islamic spaces in theme parks and video games; or the use of historical forms in restoration and cultural heritage projects in the Middle East. We are particularly interested in examining how scholarly narratives of pre-colonial Islamic art history have shaped these architectural projects and welcome papers that explore how the built form references visual representations of historic monuments that are reproduced in academic publications and mass media. In doing so, we seek to offer new insights into the connection between modern/contemporary architecture and the historiography of Islamic art.
Session Chairs: Jennifer Pruitt, University of Wisconsin – Madison, and Emily Neumeier, Temple University
For submission details, please visit https://www.sah.org/2023/call-for-papers?_zs=WJQLd&_zl=75O43#32
6. Workshop Reading Sources in Area Studies …: 17 May 2022, Maison de la Recherche Sorbonne nouvelle, 9h30-17h30
Discovering and collecting information on Turko-Iranian societies in travel context, 10th-19th centuries
Découverte et collecte d’informations sur les sociétés turco-iraniennes en contexte de voyage, Xe-XIXe siècles
Tuesday 17 May 2022 / Mardi 17 mai 2022
Maison de la Recherche de la Sorbonne nouvelle
4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris
Salle Athéna, 9h30 – 17h30
PhD candidate students and advanced MA students are invited to participate
Doctorants et étudiants de master sont encouragés à participer
The 2022 edition of the workshop focuses on discussing historical source material from the relevant areas (texts, images, objects) in the medieval and modern periods. It also addresses the methodological and epistemological aspects related to the exploitation of these materials, with an interest in historical context of the sources analysed. The sessions are concerned with the diversity of source material pertaining to the Turko-Persianate world produced in the context of travel, regardeless of the origin of the traveller, their social or professional profile (merchant, pilgrim, scholar, spy…) or their motivations for travelling. The focal issue of the present workshop is the methods of acquisition of knowledge about “elsewhere”, the process of the construction and the practices of preserving and transmitting this knowledge.
Talks are given in English, while discussions also leave room for exchanges in French. Knowledge of Persian is an asset, but not a prerequisite.
Le workshop du 17 mai 2022 a pour objectif de présenter les matériaux de l’historien des mondes turco-iraniens (textes, images, objets) aux périodes médiévale et moderne. Il s’agira aussi d’aborder les aspects méthodologiques et épistémologiques liés à l’exploitation de ces matériaux. Les intervenants veilleront également à fournir une remise en contexte historique des sources présentées. Le workshop s’intéresse à l’acquisition des savoirs dans le cadre du voyage, quelles que soient les motivations de celui qui l’accomplit (marchand, pèlerin, espion, etc.). Ces acteurs sont des personnes originaires du monde turco-iranien ou extérieures à ce monde. Il s’agira de s’interroger sur les modalités d’acquisition et de construction des connaissances, ainsi que les supports utilisés pour les conserver et les transmettre.
Les communications sont en anglais. La discussion peut être menée en français ou en anglais. La connaissance du persan n’est pas obligatoire mais elle est un plus.
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Convenors/Responsables : Maria Szuppe (CNRS / CeRMI), Camille Rhoné-Quer (Université Aix-Marseille / IREMAM), Sacha Alsancakli (INALCO / CeRMI)
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Register to participate online: https://webquest.fr/?m=118608_reading-sources-in-area-studies-2-lire-les-sources-en-etudes-areales-2-17052022
Contacts: maria.szuppe@cnrs.fr / camille.rhone@univ-amu.fr / sacha.alsancakli@protonmail.com
CeRMI – CNRS UMR 8041
Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien
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27 rue Paul Bert – 94204 Ivry-sur-Seine – France
cermi@cnrs.fr – https://www.cermi.cnrs.fr
7. Fully funded PhD on Domestic Slaves in Early Islamic Conceptions of the Past
DoSSE Project has created a fully funded, 3-year doctoral post on the subject of ‘Domestic Slaves in Early Islamic Conceptions of the Past’.
Application deadline: 17 June 2022
Interviews: 1 July 2022
Start date: 26 September 2022
DoSSE Project – Domestic Slavery and Sexual Exploitation in the Households of Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, from Constantine I to c. AD 900 / AH 287 – is a large-scale comparative research project that investigates a crucial aspect of how late Roman society transformed into its early medieval heirs. Those enslaved within the home, and their vulnerability to sexual exploitation, represent a subject that has only begun to receive due attention. DoSSE Project addresses this need by exploring how the societies of the greater Mediterranean world took their shape from the relationships established within the household – how social hierarchies and practices emerged from the dynamics of domestic space – with a view to offering a new model for interpreting the social transformations that ended the ancient world. For more information, please visit the project website.
This doctoral post will form an essential part of DoSSE Project and will be conducted at the project’s host institution, the University of Leicester, under the supervision of its Principal Investigator, Erin Thomas Dailey.
The funding will cover fees at the UK domestic rate and includes an additional annual stipend of £16,062.
The completion of the PhD and the career success of the doctoral candidate will be prioritised as part of the project’s outcomes.
To apply for this position, visit the University of Leicester’s application page.
For more information about DoSSE Project, please visit the project website.
8. TREASURES OF HERAT, Two Manuscripts of the Khamsah of Nizami in the British Library
by Barbara Brend
Edited by Melanie Gibson
Co-published with the British Library
GINGKO LIBRARY ART SERIES , 2022
https://www.gingko.org.uk/title/treasures-of-herat/
9. UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series – Nahid Pirnazar
‘The Intellectual Heritage of Iranian Jews in Judeo-Persian’
Sunday, June 5, 2022 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom
Lecture in Persian
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Shii News – Papers at 2022 Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS)
BRAIS 2022: Provisional Programme
Papers of potential interest to Shii News readers:
(for fuller information, see the above link to the programme)
Torsten Hylen (Dalarna University) Three times Karbalāʾ: comparing early accounts of the death of al-Ḥusayn
Siti Sarah Muwahidah (University of Edinburgh) Shi’i Women’s Digital Da’wa in Indonesia: Nurturing New Female Authorities And Bridging Sectarian Divides
Oliver Scharbrodt (Lund University) Contesting Ritual Practices in Twelver Shiism: Modernism, Sectarianism and the Politics of Self-Flagellation (taṭbīr)
Faezeh Izadi (University of Calgary) Religion in the face of the modern world: A case study of Radical Life Extension and Shia Islam
Murtaza Shakir (Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah) The Beseeched Burial: Reflections on the Historical Events Associated with the Shrine of Al-Sayyida Nafīsa in Cairo
Muhammad Tajri (Al-Mahdi Institute) Evolution of Shīʿī Taqlīd on UK University Campuses
Olav Elgvin (University of Bergen) For the Greater Good: Common Goals and Institutional Sunni-Shi‘a Cooperation in Norway
Teemu Pauha (University of Helsinki) Mut‘a marriage, online boundary-work, and the social psychology of Sunni-Shi‘a relations
Elvire Corboz (University of Edinburgh) and Emanuelle Degli-Esposti (University of Cambridge) From the margins to the centre: Shi‘a-led grassroots organisations and the shaping of an inclusive Muslim identity in Britain
Jesper Petersen (Copenhagen University) Observing the Sunni-Shia divide in fieldwork
Lucy Deaon (University of Edinburgh) Karbala on Stage: Retelling the Martyrdom of Imam Husain in the Iranian Taʿziyeh
- May 04, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Centre for the Study of Islam at Exeter’s Summer Monday Majlis Programme
Monday 9th May, 1600-1730: Professors Yasmin Amin and Nevin Reda (Cairo and Toronto) will talk about their new book: Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice: Processes of Canonization Subversion
Registration link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpduqprzsjHdyhJnu6QAjW7pxOEnn8MgMr
Monday 16th May, 1600-1730: Professor Anna Bigelow (Stanford University) will talk about her research around “Islam through Objects”
Registration Link:
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrfu2hrTMoHNDzetH1TwEPrUJPEv77OEYb
Monday 23rd May, 1600-1730: Professor Konrad Hirschler (University of Hamburg) will present on “’Material turn and Islamic Studies: Manuscript studies as an example”
Registration link:
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtdOurrjouH9Yhd1LIHbsS4ZeC_tAlgC_z
Monday 30th May, 1600-1730: Dr Usaama Al-Azami (University of Oxford) will talk about his latest research and his recent book: Islam and the Arab Revolutions (OUP, 2021).
Registration Link:
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlduiqqDotH9HXXB_YvnRc4nSZ_9PZNnwu
Monday 6th June, 1600-1730: Professor Sean Anthony (Ohio State University) will talk about his recent research including his most recent book, Muhammad and the Empires of Faith
Registration Link:
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/97925220332?pwd=L2F3TmhQbU5TR0FzZ25QTkNTVzNsdz09
Monday 13th June, 1600-1730: Professor Nada Moumtaz (University of Toronto) will present on “Gucci and the Waqf” looking at the post-war reconstruction of Beirut, and the role played by Islamic endowments (waqfs)
Registration Link:
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqde2qrDIiH9ZIh_peJ7O0PXaCVBWU3xTo
2. CfP: Muslims in the Uk and Europe 2022
The University of Cambridge Centre of Islamic Studies invites applications from current Masters and PhD candidates to present their research on issues pertaining to Muslims in the UK and Europe, from any discipline. This postgraduate symposium, taking place on Tuesday 5 July 2022 at the Moller Centre in Cambridge, will be a platform for students to present and exchange current research on any topic in this field in a dynamic forum. While historical or theoretical context is valuable, we invite papers also to present, analyse or interpret research findings, data or material. Participants are expected to attend the keynote speech and all sessions.
To apply please submit a 500-word abstract, with curriculum vitae outlining current research interests, to cis@cis.cam.ac.uk by 2 June 2022.
Successful candidates will be notified by 8 June 2022 and invited to submit draft papers of no more than 3000 words by 29 June 2022.
Click here to read about the Annual Muslims in the UK and Europe Postgraduate Symposium.
3. Reconstructing the Earliest Islamic History Writing from the 2nd Hijrī Century: The Case of the First Arabic Annals
Speaker: Edward Zychowicz-Coghill
Date/time: 5th May at 5.15pm UK time
Description
Study of the historical origins of Islam and the caliphate has been dogged by one major problem. The earliest Arabic texts which produce our most detailed descriptions of these events were compiled in the 3rd hijrī century, some 200 or more years after the events they describe. Sceptics have argued that these texts are unreliable, reflecting later political and religious debates rather than genuine historical memory.
One key to unlocking this problem is understanding the nature of the sources used by these 3rd century historians. This talk argues that we can identify one genre of texts, brief annalistic histories, which were being compiled as early as the first half of the 2th hijrī century (c. 710-760 CE) and which were then incorporated into the great later compilations like al-Ṭabarī’s (d. 310 AH/923 CE) History of Prophets and Kings. It proposes a method for reconstructing one of these, a history written by the Egyptian jurist al-Layth b. Saʿd in the 120s AH/740s CE. By inspecting the kind of information al-Layth’s recorded and assessing it alongside al-Layth’s connections, we can identify the political and intellectual contexts in which the earliest formal collection of Islamic historical record was cultivated. This reveals an origin for Islamic annalistic history writing tied to the development of the Islamic state, likely produced in conversation with Christian officials who worked in the state administration and the models of Greek and Syriac historical recording which they transmitted from the late antique world.
All talks are free to attend and start at 5.15 (Zoom open at 5.00)
In-person at the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA
On Zoom: https://bit.ly/3qFSBXi
4. ONLINE Conference “The Turk-o-Tajik World: Coalescence of Turkic, Arabic, and Persian Spheres c. 900–1900”, SOAS, University of London, 4-5 May 2022
This conference will explore the symbiosis of Turkic, Arabic, and Persian cultures across the Islamicate world, from the medieval to the modern period. Our contributors will discuss various aspects of these cultural symbioses, and continuums, which formed the bedrock of a flourishing ‘Turk-o-Tajik’ civilisation. This cultural coalescence is explored in a variety of settings, including sufism, sexuality, literature, religious discourse, and politics.
Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/history/conferences/the-turk-o-tajik-world/
5. ONLINE Annual Lecture of the Zahra Institute “Ziya Gökalp’s Turkism and the Kurdish Question” by Fuat Dündar (TOBB-ETU University, Ankara), Chicago, 5 May 2022, 2:00 pm EST
Popularly known as the theorist of Turkish nationalism, Mehemed Ziya (Gökalp) was also the first Ottoman-Turkish Kurdologist. This lecture explores the intellectual transformations of Ziya Gökalp with respect to the Kurdish question.
Information and registration: https://www.zahrainstitute.org/news_and_events.html
6. HYBRID Webinar “Recognizing Sacred Scriptures – the Qur’an and the Bible”, New York University at Abu Dhabi, 5 May 2022, 10:00 am – 5:30 pm, and 6 May 2022, 10:00 am – 5:30 pm
The project aims to further a conversation about intellectual, legal, theological, and spiritual processes and concepts at work when members of religious communities interact with each other.
In this event, we will explore how Christians, Muslims, and Jews engage with each other’s ‘Sacred Scriptures’ – from philosophical and historical perspectives.
Information and registration: https://www.hrf-arabworld.org/events/2022/recognizing-sacred-scriptures-the-quran-and-the-bible
7. ONLINE “Virtual Coffee Meeting of Early Career Researchers (ECH), London, 11 May 2022, 10:00 am GMT
Interested in social policy in the MENA? Working as an early career researcher or practitioner and wanting to meet like-minded people? Join us for a relaxing moment to network and to discuss interesting books and recent developments with regard to social policy in the region. We would love to hear your thoughts and ideas, and take a moment to get to know each other.
Information and registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pceyprzosGdHiUEs0Q35CM0344uYMIqCX
8. ONLINE Book Launch and Discussion “Governance and Domestic Policymaking in Saudi Arabia”, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 8 June 2022, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Singapore Time
This public discussion examines the progress made in Saudi Arabia’s economic transformation efforts, their implications for state-society relations, and the economics of the rentier social contract, among other issues.
Information and registration: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/book-launch-governance-and-domestic-policymaking-in-saudi-arabia/
9. CEST Symposium 2022, “Limits of Autocratisation: Actors and Institutions of Democratic Resilience (Focus Turkey)”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 18 – 20 November 2022
The Symposium seeks to discuss challenges to authoritarian structures in Turkey with a comparative lens on inter alia Eastern Europe, Latin America and South Asia. We seek to understand the potential of political parties, trade unions, bureaucracies, civil society and social movements in challenging the authoritarian incumbent.
Deadline for abstracts: 23 May 2022. Information: http://cest-turkey.org/cest-symposium-2022/?fbclid=IwAR3dRjJPO9SPWPJUYSxOqAUU49mon-m5ekgxzB8v73srhw_WUnc413mrPEM
10. International Conference “The Qurʾān and Syriac Christianity: Recurring Themes and Motifs”, ERC Project “The Qurʾān as a Source for Late Antiquity” (QaSLA), University of Tuebingen, Germany, 5-7 December 2022
The event will bring together an international group of specialists in Syriac Christianity as well as scholars of the Qurʾān to explore how the Qurʾān reacts to Syrian Christian traditions and the extent of which it serves as a historical witness to Syriac Christianity in Arabia.
Deadline for abstracts: 6 May 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9908397/call-papers-early-career-scholars-%E2%80%9C-qur%CA%BEa%CC%84n-and-syriac
11. Research Award for Islamic Studies by the Annemarie Schimmel-Foundation
Eligible for the award are outstanding research contributions (usually in the form of a dissertation) in the field of Islamic Studies which were published after 31 May 2017. The awardee will be received for ceremony at the Deutscher Orientalistentag 2022 in Berlin and will be issued with a 5000 Euro prize.
Deadline for applications: 31 May 2022.
Information: https://www.menalib.de/files/2021/10/annemarie-schimmel-foundation-award-2022.pdf
12. ONLINE CICW Graduate Student Institute “Islam in the Contemporary World”, Shenandoah University, Virginia, 1-13 August 2022
The objective is (1) to provide graduate students with foundational instructions in Islamic studies with a focus on contemporary issues, and (2) to have discussions about the lived experiences of Muslim graduate students, especially as they pertain to issues of wellness, equity, and belonging. By combining academic and mentoring sessions, we aim to provide a rounded approach to Islam in the contemporary world. There is no tuition fee.
Deadline for application: 31 May 2022. Information: https://www.contemporaryislam.org/graduate-student-institute-2022.html
13. Master of Arts in Middle Eastern Studies (2 Years), Lund University
The English programme trains students in critical thinking and gives them the ability to apply this to current events and debates in and about the region. The programme also aims to educate students in social sciences theories and various research methodologies, as well as provide opportunities for the application of methodological skills.
Deadline for applications extended to 31 May 2022. Information: https://www.graduateschool.sam.lu.se/academics/interested-pursuing-masters-programme-graduate-school/master-arts-middle-eastern-studies ; registration: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-SAMES/18435#apply
14. Articles on “Learning from Asian Islam: Perspectives for the Wider Field of Islamic Studies” for Special Issue of a Journal Specializing in Islamic and Asian Studies
Co-editors: Jaclyn Michael (University of Tennessee) and Verena Meyer (Columbia University).
Questions of inquiry include: What approaches to the study of Islam have been developed in the Asian context and are relevant for Islamic Studies more broadly? How can Asian case studies help to shed light on questions that are currently debated in the wider field? How does material from Asian Muslim communities extend scholarly conceptions of the scope, character, and conclusions of Islamic studies as a field?
Deadline for abstracts: 25 May 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10171693/cfp-learning-asian-islam-perspectives-wider-field-islamic
15. Arab World English Journal for Translation & LiteraryStudies(AWEJTLS) welcomes the submission of papers Special Issue on Literature and Medicine. We have the honor to announce that the guest editor for this issue is Dr. Shadi S. Neimnehfrom Hashemite University, Jordan. The issue publication date is November 2022. The deadline for the manuscript submissions is July 31, 2022.
Please, before sending your paper, please read the submission and Manuscript Guidelines for AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies. Please submit your paper online or send it as an attachment to: Info@awej.org
Kind regards,
Arab World English Journal
for Translation & Literary Studies
https://awej-tls.org/
16. The Mediterranean Review issued by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies at Busan University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea, is calling for papers.
The journal addresses Mediterranean regional affairs and discusses crucial
developments in culture and politics. It addresses global issues such as the
Mediterranean influence on international affairs and its multi-cultural
dimensions. We welcome the submission of manuscripts dealing with the fields
of History & Humanities as well as Social Sciences.
Subjects for paper: politics, economics, history, archaeology, literature,
languages, arts, society etc. regarding the Mediterranean
* Date of Submission : May 15th, 2022 (Sunday)
* Address to submit : imsmr@ims.or.kr
* Date of publication
No.1) 30th of June
No.2) 31st of December
Before submitting your paper, please refer to our code of research ethics as
well as to the text formatting and citation rules on our website:
http://www.imsmr.or.kr.
– Published Articles :
http://imsmr.cafe24.com/go/bbs/board.php?bo_table=Articles (click to move)
– Submission Guide : http://imsmr.or.kr/go/bbs/content.php?co_id=Guidelines
(click to move)
– Code of Ethics :
http://imsmr.cafe24.com/go/bbs/content.php?co_id=Code_of_Ethics (click to
move)
Please notice that we only accept manuscripts in the English language.
All submitted papers will be evaluated under a strict and fair peer review
process. Please notice that there is no guarantee for a submitted article to
be published.
The Editorial Board, Mediterranean Review
Institute for Mediterranean Studies,
Busan University of Foreign Studies
65, Geumsaemro 485 beon-gil, Geumjeong-gu, Busan, Republic of Korea.
(46234)
Tel) +82-51-509-6695 / +82-51-509-6670
E-mail) imsmr@ims.or.kr / imsmr@bufs.ac.kr
Website) www.imsmr.or.kr
17. Zoom – British Institute of Persian Studies
Persianate Aspects of the Malay-Indonesian World: Rare Manuscripts
with Dr Majid Daneshgar
| 25 May 2022, 5PM BST |
This presentation addresses the question of whether Persian was a part of the lingua franca in Thailand, Arakan, Burma, Aceh and Malacca from the 15th to the 19th century and discusses to what extent Malays were familiar with the Persian language, literature and even music. This presentation will focus on the Malay-Indonesian manuscripts which have not been examined [thoroughly] so far.
Register here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6316498583210/WN_JEbQha8bT7eA0vZq4aLhvw
18. Postdoc opportunity in Islamic history and culture
Postdoctoral Research Fellow position
The Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies, and Religion
invites applications for a 3-year postdoctoral position in the field of
Islamic history and culture, relating to the topic of Islamic text
circulation and usage in the Swahili coastal region. The position is
part of the research project «MPrinT@East_AFRICA. Islamic Manuscript,
Print and Practice: Textual adaptation in East Africa» financed by the
Norwegian Research Council.
The MPrinT project (2021-2025) will explore a core hypothesis that
reforms in Islamic textual tradition and ritual practice during the 19th
and 20th centuries took place within existing authority structures and
led to a series of adaptations rather than breaks from tradition. To
this end, the project will document, catalogue, and analyze Islamic
textual material from the manuscript-to-print transition period in
coastal East Africa (the Swahili coastal region). The project will also
investigate how these texts have been used in ritual practice and
education from ca. 1950 to the present, and how this usage has varied
across locations, generations, and gender. This part of the project will
be based on interviews and studies of ritual practice.
For further details,
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/224988/postdoctoral-position-in-islamic-history-and-culture
- May 03, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Zoom: ‘Safavid Textiles from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha’ – 6 May, 12pm EST
“Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha”
Conversation with the Curator
Join us for a conversation between HIAA President, Prof. Kishwar Rizvi (Professor in the History of Art, Islamic Art and Architecture, Yale University) and Dr. Massumeh Farhad (Senior Associate Director for Research, Chief Curator and The Ebrahimi Family Curator of Persian, Arab, and Turkish Art, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art) about the ongoing exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, (December 18, 2021 – May 15, 2022).
Friday, May 6, 2022
12 pm EST on Zoom
Register here
- May 02, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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