Archive for 2022

 

1. International Symposium on “The Politicization of Islam in East Asia, 1850-1950”, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich, 18-20 August 2022

This symposium brings together scholars working on different aspects related to the politicization of Islam in East Asia to discuss research results and address open questions.

Program and registration: https://www.aoi.uzh.ch/de/institut/events/conferences/islameastasia.html

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Webinar Series “Voices of Emerging Scholars (in Ottoman-Turkish Studies)”, Columbia Global Center in Istanbul, Fall 2022 and Spring 2023

Advanced Ph.D. students and early-career researchers who have received their Ph.D. degrees after January 2018 are invited to present their Ottoman-Turkish studies on Wars, Diplomacy, and Empires; Legal History; Ethnicity and Identity Politics; Immigration; Intellectual History; Manuscript Studies; Visual Culture; History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Occult; Life at Home; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2022.

Information: https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/news/voices-emerging-scholars-call-proposals-2022

 

 

 

3. CFP Online Symposium: “Turkish-German Relations in Literary History from the Fifteenth Through the Twenty-First Century“, 28.11.22

Contributions are invited on the long-term contacts and intensive cultural exchanges between the two cultures as well as on the specific stereotypes which developed and became the subject of German and Turkish literature, films, and media throughout the ages. We welcome papers in German and English.

Deadline for abstracts: 18 October 2022. Information: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/cfp-online-symposium-turkish-german-relations-literary-history-fifteenth-through-twenty-first

 

 

 

 4. International Conference on the “Typologies of Western Islam in European Encyclopaedias, Dictionaries and Lexicons in the 18th and 19th Centuries”, University of La Réunion and Université de Lorraine, 16-17 March 2023

This conference will explore the conceptual and methodological modalities adopted in these scholarly books to describe Islam according to types determined by the choice of certain criteria and symbols.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2022.

Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2022/08/CFP_Conference_Nancy.pdf

 

 

 

5. Student Assistant (35 Hours/Month) for Research Project on “Dynamics of Climate Governance” (Transcription of Arabic Interviews), University of Hamburg

Profile: Completed the second year in a Bachelor studies program in Political Science, Geography or a related discipline in the Social Sciences; interest in climate governance, social movements, and climate research; excellent command of written and spoken English; Desired but not required: Knowledge of an additional language (esp. Arabic).

Deadline for applications: 22 August 2022.

Information: https://attachment.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/8c8af471/Call-Student-Assistant.pdf

 

 

 

6. Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (4 Years) in the History and Culture of the Countries of the Silk Roads 2023, King`s College Cambridge

The fellowship is for those who intend to pursue a research project on some aspect of the Silk Road countries, societies, and cultures. The research project may address Environmental History, Religion, Art, Maritime History, China before 1911, Ottoman Empire, and Russian Central Asia, etc.

Deadline for application: 19 September 2022.

Information: https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/research/research-fellowships

 

 

 

7. Poste de chercheur·e chargé·e de mission à l’Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contem-porain (IRMC), Tunis

Date limite: 23 août 2022.

Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/69130

 

 

 

8. The Islamic College: Postgraduate Studies Certificate in Exegesis and Quranic Sciences
Three Semesters (full-time) & Six Semesters (part-time)
In-house
Venue: The Islamic College 133 High Road London NW102SW
18:00 -20:30 (London Time)

Fees: £1500 (All students are eligible for a scholarship of up to 50%)
*Free for Islamic college graduates, staff, and students*
Starting: 14 November 2022
Application Deadline: 15 October 2022

For more information:

https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/study/psc/exegesis-and-quranic-sciences/

Call for Papers – Islamic Perspectives on God and (Other) Monotheism(s)

The deadline for abstracts is Monday, 3 October 2022.

 

1. Review of Middle East Studies

‘Special Focus: MERIP and the Politics of Knowledge Production in MENA Studies’

Volume 55 – Issue 2 – December 2021

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-middle-east-studies/issue/9684EB807040D1B7DF95680C84A40028

 

 

 

2.  Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests

Editors: Josephine van den Bent, Floris van den Eijnde, and Johan Weststeijn

Brill, 2022

 

 

 

3. Persian Literature, A Bio-Bibliographical Survey
Volume VI: Index
Francois de Blois

Brill, 2022

 

 

 

4. ReOrienting Histories of Medicine, Encounters along the Silk Roads

Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim

I B Tauris, 2022

 

 

 

5. New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures,

Interpretive essays on Islamic artifacts, texts, and phenomena entwining over fourteen centuries.

S Bashir,

MIT Press, 2022

Now available on the web freely.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/publications/new-vision-islamic-pasts-futures/

 

 

 

 

6. Research Associate position for the Project “The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History”

Dear friends and colleagues,

We would like to share with you a very exciting position for a research associate advertised by the research project “The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History” (EIS1600) in Hamburg University.

The project looks for a researcher with proven computer science expertise. The position is for 1,5 + 1,5 years. The deadline for applications is August 30, 2022. The successful candidate will work on computational analyses, the development of online interfaces, and data management. The successful candidate will also conduct research at the intersection of their areas of expertise and the research subjects of the project as well as will contribute to the project research, teaching, and publication activities.

Requirements: A university degree in a relevant field. Applicants must have a degree (M.A.) in Computer Science and/or Middle Eastern Studies. Candidates with Ph.D. degrees are most welcome to apply. The ideal applicant must have skills in some or, preferably, all of the following areas: Arabic NLP, machine learning/ deep learning, front-end and back-end development, and continuous integration. Additionally, ideal candidates will have excellent classical Arabic skills. Prior experience of work in digital projects on Arab language, culture, and history will be considered an added advantage, but not strictly required. Applicants must have an excellent command of English (both spoken and written); knowledge of German is preferred, but not required. As this is a collaborative team project, strong communication and interpersonal skills are a prerequisite.

The job advertisement is available on the Universität Hamburg website: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=109697a3e3f6e8e3f342713dee0c0b95371f05ab . Applications must be submitted through the link given on the page. Feel free to email Maxim Romanov (maxim.romanov@uni-hamburg.de ), if you have any questions.

Best wishes,
Dr. Alicia González Martínez
Research Associate | Computational Linguist
DFG/AHRC project InterSaME
www.intersame.uni-hamburg.de
Universität Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut

 

 

 

 

7. CFP: Leeds 2023 session on Disease in the Medieval Islamicate World (deadline: 15 Sept 2022)

Disease in the Medieval

Islamicate World

Sessions proposed for:

Leeds International Medieval Congress

3-6 July 2023/2023 Theme: “Networks & Entanglements”.

 

Topics may include, but are not limited to,

any of the following:

• Newly discovered or edited texts on plague or

other infectious diseases

• Commentaries and paratexts of plague

treatises, showing their continued uses

• Networks of discourse within and beyond the

Islamicate world that shared information about

medicine or disease events

• Biographical approaches that set the medical

writings or practices of individuals into larger

intellectual frameworks

• Routes and roads: networks of trade that

contributed to infectious disease proliferation

• Social impacts of epidemics

• Infectious diseases in medical historiography:

why we tell the stories that we tell

Joint presentations are welcome, even

encouraged, as a way to expand our comparative

understanding of disease networks.

IMC 2023 is currently planning to offer hybrid

options; please indicate on your abstract whether

you plan to attend in person or virtually.

 

For further details on the setup of the Leeds conference, see the organizer’s website: https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2023/. The conference will take place 3-6 July 2023; at the present time, organizers are planning to do a hybrid option, allowing presenters to attend in-person or remotely. Please indicate on your abstract which option you prefer.

 

Questions? Need bibliographical suggestions on

the latest work in the field? Feel free to write.

Contact either me (monica.h.green@gmail.com) or my co-organizer, Nahyan Fancy (nahyanfancy@depauw.edu). We need to receive abstracts (250 words) by 15 September 2022 to finalize organization of the panels. If you are interested, it would be ideal if you could write as soon as possible to signal your interest.

 

 

 

The possible sectarian dimensions to the recent killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, NM, have not been universally noticed in the media.

See, for example, Reuters, but also local media and CNN. See also alJazeera.

But, see Vice News and a recent statement by the American Muslim Bar Association (AMBA). See also the AP.

This very tragic story is fast moving, however.

August 17, 2022: See The New York Times

August 23, 2022: See alJazeera

1.In memoriam: Rifa‘at ‘Ali Abou-El-Haj (1933-2022)

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-middle-east-studies/article/rifaat-ali-abouelhaj-19332022/3B6D535003C5BDA7CAE49BF9D9141767

 

 

 

2. Brill’s Middle East and Islamic Studies Book Archive, 2000-2006

is the electronic version of the book publication program of Brill in the field of Middle East and Islamic Studies from 2000-2006, which contains many publications by renowned authors. For a full overview, go to their dedicated web page.

 

 

 

 

3.  Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire

P Blessing

Cambridge, 2022

 

 

 

 

4. The Great Lakes Adiban Society seeks abstracts for two sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 11-13, 2023. Abstracts are due before Sept. 15, 2022, via the ICMS website.

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Panel One: Translation in Islamicate Contexts: Portals, Frames, and Epistemes, ID# 3707

When—and when not—to translate? Historically, many of the landmark texts of Islamic knowledge and tradition, notably the Qur’an and Sa’di’s Gulistan, were studied in the original language. Other influential cycles, like fables, stories of the Prophets, romances, and narratives of travel and history, were repeatedly translated and adapted into new forms and genres. In the past, translation was part of the everyday processes of literary production and circulation, and today translation strategies continue to open meaning among texts geared for both specialists and the wider public, from monographs to comics or films. This panel intends to explore these complex dynamics by posing the notion of translation as the transmutation of epistemological, corporeal, and literary frames between worlds and ways of knowing.

The Great Lakes Adiban Society seeks papers that consider translation in and translation of the pre-modern Islamicate world. Multilingual writers working across traditions were constantly “moving” topics, ideas, and motifs from one context to another, bridging time, space, materials, and even the senses themselves. Through this approach, we aim to host a variety of scholars studying Islamicate literary, visual, historical, and material traditions of the pre-modern world for a discussion on how translation both broadens and creates epistemological and artistic frames.

The format for this panel is blended: both in-person and virtual. If you cannot visit Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2023 we encourage you to apply. 

Before September 15, 2022, apply here for Translation: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2023/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=3707

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Panel Two: Prosimetrum in Islamicate Literatures: Bridges, Representations, and Dialogues, ID#3711 

Islamicate prosimetra constructed productive and complex links between poetics and politics and across visual and textual registers to structure memory, community, and civic life. The admixture of prose and poetry in Islamicate writing is so widespread that it often becomes invisible — a textual feature we simply take for granted. Says the poet,

From salons to serais, both base and sublime

the bounds of genre blurred.

As speech both measured and unrhymed

built bridges with the word.

Within these contexts, scholarly boundaries of genre often blurred, as history, lyric, prose, and panegyric easily inhabited the same textual, auditory, and visual registers among authors composing for the court, the Sufi hospice, or the literary marketplace. 

This panel seeks papers that both unpack the interaction of prose and poetry and consider the broader uses of prosimetrum among single works, scribal traditions, and performative settings. By exploring these aspects of prosimetra as a form of conceptual bridge-building, we hope to generate a discussion that will help scholars approach the use of this textual form with newfound insight and appreciation. To facilitate a broad engagement with Islamicate prosimetra from the pre-modern world, this panel has an interdisciplinary focus, seeking scholars with backgrounds in languages, literature, music, history, art, religions, and philosophy.

This panel will be in-person.

Before September 15, 2022, apply here for Prosimetra: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2023/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=3711

 

 

 

5. Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), Denver, Colorado, 1-4 December 2022

The full program, all sessions, and abstracts of the paper are available at https://my-mesa.org/program

 

 

 

6. ONLINE Inaugural International Conference of the “Qurʾanic Linguistics Research Group”, Swansea University and SOAS University of London, 14-15 March 2023

Topics: 1. Application of linguistic theories and approaches to analyzing the Qurʾānic text. – 2. Linguistic analysis of Qurʾānic discourse types such as narratives, dialogues, polemics, and hymns. – 3. Linguistic analysis of Qurʾānic themes and textual structures. – 4. Qurʾānic grammar and syntax. – 5. Analyses of phonology and morphology in the Qur’an. – 6. Time and aspect issues (e.g. gnomic present). – Etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 3 October 2022.

Information: https://swanseauniversity-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/s_m_a_s_el-awa_swansea_ac_uk/EfSyh5XbctpOkxo0OdRAho4BvzvXhpLVf9eRfIXb3H8z6Q?e=FaqtEL

 

 

 

 

7. Graduate Student Paper Prize of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA)

MESA invites submissions of unpublished graduate student research papers on any aspect of Middle East studies since 600 CE for this Prize. The author of the winning paper receives a certificate and $250.

Deadline for submission: 15 August 2022.

Information: https://mesana.org/awards/category/mesa-graduate-student-paper-prize

 

 

 

 

8. Chapters on “History of the Qur’ān: Critical Concepts” for Edited Volume (Kube Publishing and the Markfield Institute of Higher Education)

Topics may include but are not limited to: Qur’ānic manuscripts, compilation an,d codification of the Qur’an, Non-Uthmānic codices, Aḥruf, Qiraʿāt, the question of tawātur, Pre-modern and contemporary Muslim understanding of the Qur’ān’s transmission and history.

Extended deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2022.

Information and submissions: https://www.mihe.ac.uk/index.php/news-events/4593-2/

 

 

 

9. Articles for the “Syrian Studies Association Bulletin”, Fall 2022 Issue

The Bulletin invites feature, news, and research article proposals, as well as book reviews, for this issue, covering issues of contemporary or historic interest in Bilad al-Sham and modern Syria from scholars and practitioners who work in or on Syria and related issues, including sociology, religion, journalism, history, anthropology, international relations, archeology, media studies, environmental studies, music/art studies, etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 August 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10580697/cfp-2nd-call-syrian-studies-association-bulletin-fall-2022

 

 

 

 

10. Brown University – The Adrienne Minassian Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63639

Review of applications will begin October 1, 2022.

 

 

 

 

11. Call for a postdoctoral position with a focus on Arabic pharmacology

(in particular, the Kitāb al-ḫawāṣṣ by Abū al-ʿAlā ibn Zuhr) has opened at the University of Bologna, in the frame of the ERC Project UseFool – Knowledge and manipulation of nature between usefulness and deception in the Arabo-Islamic tradition (9th–15th century)  (G.A. 101043939).

https://bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/assegni-ricerca?id_bando=65404

The dead line for the call is on September 15, the position will start from December 1, 2022. 

 

 

 

12. Registration for ONLINE participation: Ecologies of Healing in the Premodern World (600-1350 CE)

Ecologies of Healing in the Premodern World (600-1350 CE)

Organised by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Zubin Mistry 

Funded by the Wellcome Trust 

9-10 September 2022, University of Edinburgh 

Conference programme and abstracts

This conference is a face-to-face event for speakers and chairs only.

All further participants may only attend via Zoom.

Washington Post, 8 August, 2022

‘…In the capital, Kabul, Taliban authorities have been struggling to contain a rash of terrorist attacks on the Shiite Muslim community over the past week. The attacks, mostly claimed by Islamic State militants, have sown panic in the Shiite Muslim community as it observes a period of religious mourning for a revered figure: Imam Hussein, a grandson of the prophet Muhammad slain in battle in the 7th century.’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/08/pakistan-taliban-leader-strike-afghanistan-shiite/