Archive for August 6th, 2022
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Imagining Antiquity in Islamic Societies
S Mulder, ed.
2. The British Association for Islamic Studies and De Gruyter are delighted to announce that Dr Elizabeth Grace Price has been awarded the 2022 BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize.
Dr Price’s thesis ‘The Barāhima’s Dilemma: Ibn al-Rāwandī’s Kitāb al-Zumurrud and the Epistemological Turn in the Debate on Prophecy’ was praised by the Prize committee and reviewers as a truly pioneering study, and we are full of anticipation for her monograph which will follow in due course.
You can read more about Dr Price’s submission here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/2022
We would also like to congratulate Dr Aziza Shanazarova (Indiana University-Bloomington) who received this year’s Honorable Mention for her submission ‘A Female Saint in Muslim Polemics: Agha-yi Buzurg and her Legacy in Early Modern Central Asia’.
The 2023 Prize will be open for submissions in September, and we will be in touch again soon with further details.
Many congratulations again to Dr Price and Dr Shanazarova, and very best wishes from us all at BRAIS.
Tom Lea
Secretary
British Association for Islamic Studies
The Alwaleed Centre
University of Edinburgh
16 George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LD
07776146944
3. Islam and the State in Ibn Taymiyya: Translation and Analysis
Jaan Islam, Adem Eryiğit
Routledge, 2022
4. Brown University – Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
The Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in modern Arabic literature at the rank of Assistant Professor. The Ph.D. must be completed by the time of employment, and native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English is required. The field of specialization within modern Arabic literature is open, though we especially encourage applications from candidates whose work is comparative in nature, engaging with literary texts and traditions in addition to Arabic.
Demonstrated excellence in scholarship and teaching is essential, as is a commitment to fostering an academic community based on the principles of diversity and inclusion. Interested candidates should address these three areas in a letter of application, submitted alongside a curriculum vitae, a dissertation abstract, an article-length sample of scholarly writing, and three letters of recommendation.
All materials should be submitted via Interfolio. Review of applications will begin on November 1st, 2022, and will continue until the position is filled. The Department is keenly interested in diversifying its faculty and encourages candidates from historically underrepresented groups in higher education to apply.
Apply via Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/110013
5. Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y HebraicosSección Árabe-Islam(MEAH-AI) is one of the oldest journals on Arabic and Islamic Studies in Spain. A multilingual and interdisciplinary journal, it welcomes scholarship on all subjects pertaining to Arabic and Islamic Studies, from the Middle Ages to the present.
Languages: You may submit your contributions in English, Spanish French or Arabic.
Peer Review: Implementing a double-blind peer review process all submissions will be sent to at least two external scientific referees.
Committed to facilitating research and promoting the exchange of knowledge MEAH-AI is an open-access journal (see most recent volume here) and indexed in relevant scientific databases, directories and evaluation platforms such as ESCI, ERIHPlus, EBSCO.
MEAH-AI is published annually. It accepts articles about very diverse topics in the field of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the broadest sense, whether the classical period (al-Andalus and the Orient) or the Modern and Contemporary periods.
Deadlines: Articles and miscellanea may be submitted throughout the year. The deadline for the issue of the following year is May 31st (e.g. for 2023 this would have been May 31, 2022).
6. The Islamic College
Arabic Online Language Course
Beginner (Saturday), Intermediate (Sunday), Advanced (Friday)
Starting: 4th October 2022
Registration Deadline: 15th September 2022
For further information and to register:
https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/study/short-courses/learn-arabic/
7. Once a year the Max Weber Foundation (MWS) confers Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants to internationally oriented researchers in the humanities and social sciences who are in the qualification phase.
The scientists conduct a self-chosen research project in at least two and at most three host countries which are home to MWS institutes and branches (please note the current reference below) or at the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History. Placements (at most one month per host country, shorter stays are possible) are to be used for research, especially in libraries and archives. Academics are expected to produce transnational and transregional studies, providing research with new and original ideas.
Funding
Funding covers:
- travel costs for travel to the foreign institute and back;
- daily rates between € 28.00 and € 62.00 depending on the host country;
- lodging in one of the institute’s inexpensive guest rooms depending on the host country chosen and on
availability.
Countries and regions
Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Poland, Singapore, Turkey, USA
When planning the travel, the continuously updated information from the authorities, in particular from the Robert Koch Institute, and the relevant travel information from the Federal Foreign Office must be observed. The travels are at the recipients of Feldman travel grants own responsibility. Depending on the situation, the start of the travel can be postponed.
Please note: Due to the current situation, it is not possible to apply for travel grants for Russia and China this year.
Conditions for application
Applications may be filed by highly qualified humanities and social science academics of any nationality (highest degree must be at least a Master, M.A., state examination or German Diplom) who have already published and can present a research plan. Applications for projects related to research priorities pursued by the Foundation’s institutes/branches will take precedence.
A re-application is only possible if this has been explicitly stated in the rejection letter.
Employees and scholarship holders of the MWS are excluded from the application process.
Application papers
All application papers must be submitted in German or English. A complete application will comprise the following information:
- completed application form;
- a detailed presentation (max. 3–5 pages) of the intended research project, stating the sources which
justify the stay in the specific host countries or at the institutes;
- copies of certificates (examinations, PhD certificate);
- list of publications;
- a reference opinion from an expert which should provide information on the applicant’s status and the
progress of work and be sent from the reviewer by e-mail (feldman@maxweberstiftung.de) directly to
the Max Weber Foundation’s central office;
a letter confirming supervision by the host institution in Germany, if applicable.
Selection criteria
- Academic excellence
- Transnational and/or comparative topic
Submitted project contributes to further academic qualification
Further information and contact:
www.maxweberstiftung.de/travel-grants
The next deadline for applications is 7 October 2022.
The selection committee is expected to meet at the beginning of December 2022. The grants can be called forward from January 2023.
8. Iran and Persianate Culture in the Indian Ocean World
British Institute of Persian Studies Mediaeval Research Programme Conference
7-8 September 2022, University of St Andrews
Registrations are open to attend the conference of the BIPS Mediaeval Research Programme, on the 7th and 8th September 2022 at St Andrews University. The conference is organised with additional support from the Honeyman Trust and the Institute of Iranian Studies, University of St Andrews.
If you wish to attend, please contact Professor Andrew Peacock.
The deadline for registrations is 1st September 2022.
For more information, including the programme:
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/medieval-programme-conference/
9. We would like to make an announcement regarding to the academic journal ‘Mediterranean Review’, issued by the IMS.
Mediterranean Review (MR) is an official journal of Asian Federation of
Mediterranean Studies Institutes (AFOMEDI), and the Association of History,
Literature, Science and Technology (AHLiST).
Concluding long consideration of academic concentration of the institute, we
would like to announce that the MR aims to widen the scope of Mediterranean
Studies by publishing academic articles on the diverse ‘mediterraneans’
distributed all around the world where civilization exchange occurs including
the Baltic Sea, the Yellow Sea, or the Caribbean Sea area.
We welcome the submission of articles that covers all fields of the
Humanities, Social Sciences as well as Science and Technology Studies in
relation to a Mediterranean setting. A special emphasis is on the past and
present modes of interactions and exchange in one of the global
mediterraneans.
We look forward your submission.
Thank you. We hope you all the best.
Sincerely,
Institute for Mediterranean Studies Busan
Busan University of Foreign Studies,
Republic of Korea.
65, Geumsaemro 485 beon-gil, Geumjeong-gu, Busan, Republic of Korea. (46234)
Tel) +82-51-509-6695
E-mail) imsmr@ims.or.kr / imsmr@bufs.ac.kr
- August 06, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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