Archive for December 20th, 2022
Shii News – Academic Items
1. Turkologentag 2023 – “4th European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies” organised by the Chair of Ottoman and Turkish Studies, University of Vienna, 21-23 September 2023
Researchers are invited who work in the fields of history, linguistics, philology, literary studies, social sciences, anthropology, and political sciences in Turkey and the Turkic world.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2022.
Information: https://turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/
2. Five Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Program “Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME)”, Academic Year 2023/2024, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin
Main themes: Travelling Traditions: Comparative Perspectives on Near Eastern Literatures; Cities Com-pared: Governance, Consultative Mechanisms, and Plurality; Tradition and the Critique of Modernity: Secu-larism, Fundamentalism and Religion from Middle Eastern Perspectives; Politics and Processes of Change, Archaeologies of the Present, and Imaginations of the Future.
Deadline for applications: 25 January 2023. Information: https://application.trafo-berlin.de/proce-dure/b14743f7-dad8-4b09-9054-749dd9f3991e
3. Two Research Assistants (Praedoc or Postdoc, 50 %, 13 TV-L, 12 Months), Department of Iranian Studies, University of Bamberg, Germany
Qualification: terminated or ongoing doctoral studies in the field of Iranian Studies; experience in the field of modern Persian/Iranian literature; strong skills in textual analysis and theoretical engagement with literary texts; very good knowledge of Persian and English; working knowledge of German is an advantage.
Deadline for applications: 25 January 2023.
Download further information (Eng and German) from:
4. Fellowships at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem 2023-2024
The research base includes all aspects of Near Eastern studies, especially biblical studies as well as cultural, historical, philological, archaeological, and art-historical research in Israel and Palestine, including the pre-historic periods, Greco-Roman, Byzantine, early Islamic, and Medieval periods.
Extended deadline for applications: 10 January 2023. Information: https://aiar.org/available-fellowships/
5. Travel Awards for Scholars Interested in Research in the Arab Heritage and Gulf Crossroads Collections, Ney York University of Abu Dhabi, 1 March – 15 June 2023
These travel grants may be used for research for Ph.D. dissertations, MA and undergraduate theses, publications, and other projects.
Deadline for applications: 31 January 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/12/14/nyuad-humanities-research-fellowships-for-the-study-of-the-arab-world
6. Articles on “A Critique of the Modern Discourse of Maqāṣid” for Special Issue of the Journal “Religions”
This issue will critically examine, first, several modern discourses of maqāṣid in a variety of fields, such as politics, economics, health, family, etc., and second, the Šāṭibī’s concept of maqāṣid in its traditional textual, legal, and social contexts. The issue will raise some critical questions that concern several contradictions within the modern discourses of maqāṣid.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2022.
Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/CDRV61514K
7. The Religious Studies Program at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities seeks a Lecturer for the spring 2023 semester to teach RELS 3704: Exploring the Qur’an, An Intellectual Odyssey with Islam’s Holy Scriptures.
This is a three credit, upper division undergraduate course. In addition to teaching, other duties include 1) holding office hours to assist and advise students, and 2) participation in department meetings and service to the department. This course may be taught in person or remotely (through zoom). The salary for this course is $10,000 and does not include benefits.
Course description:
This course explores the contents of the Quran and probes its place in the history of human civilization. Students will learn about, and critically reflect on, the following subjects: 1) the Quran’s core ideas, stories, laws, parables, and arguments, 2) the historical context in which the Quran was first promulgated and codified, 3) the relationship between the Quran and the preceding literary traditions of the ancient world, in particular, the Bible and post-biblical Jewish and Christian writings, 4) Muslim utilization of the Quran towards intellectual, social, religious, cultural, and political ends, and 5) the pre-modern and modern scholarly traditions of interpreting the Quran.
For details and to apply, see Job ID number 352001 in the University of Minnesota’s employment system: https://hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/352001
Inquiries can be directed to Jeanne Kilde at jkilde@umn.edu
8. Save the dates for Scholarly Correspondences Among Orientalists during the Early and Late Modern Period as a Historical Source: A Series of Lectures. Spring 2023
The object of this lecture series is to bring together scholars and librarians engaged with collections of correspondences and/or include related projects that use appropriate digital tools to map and analyze such corpora. It is hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (NES@IAS) and María Mercedes Tuya (Digital Scholarship@IAS).
January 20 – Sabine Schmidtke, Scholarly Correspondence: The Case of Oriental Studies During the Late 19th and Early 20th Century. Pre-register: bit.ly/3Fnabbw.
January 27 – Rukayyah Reichling and Kotoz Abdelhafiz Ahmed, Goldziher between European Orientalism and the Arab Nahda: Digitally Mapping a Far-Reaching Network. Pre-register: bit.ly/3URpvmL.
February 17 – Stefan Dumont, CorrespSearch–Connect and Search Scholarly Editions of Correspondence. Pre-register: bit.ly/3YfkiI8.
March 3 – Kinga Dévényi, “So far away, yet so close”: The correspondence of Ignaz Goldziher between 1863 and 1922. Pre-register: bit.ly/3Hy66nE.
March 10 – Paul Babinski, A Taste for the Difficult and Abstruse: A Seventeenth-Century Paris Librarian and His Orientalist Network. Pre-register: bit.ly/3hcUFqY.
March 17 – Isolde Lehnert, The Life of Max Meyerhof through his correspondence. Pre-register: bit.ly/OrXJB.
March 31 – Gianni Celeste, A library lost in translation: Paul Sbath’s correspondence with Eugène Tisserant. Pre-register: bit.ly/3FKurFt.
April 7 – Garrett A. Davidson, The Correspondence between the orientalist and manuscript dealer Abraham Shalom Yahuda (d. 1951) and the Cairo-based publisher and manuscript dealer Mohammad Amin Khanji (d. 1938). Pre-register: bit.ly/3iP5WxP.
April 14 – Ahmed Khan, Orientalists and ‘Ulama’ in Egypt in the 20th Century. Pre-register: bit.ly/3YtrOPZ.
Additional information: https://albert.ias.edu/20.500.12111/8044
Sabine Schmidtke scs@ias.edu
María Mercedes Tuya ds@ias.edu
9. Women in the Ottoman Empire
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- December 20, 2022
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