Archive for 2022
- August 08, 2022
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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
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Call for Papers: Muslim Philanthropy in Latin America & the Latinx U.S.
Colloquium to be held online, December 7-8, 2022
While the literatures on Muslim philanthropy and on Latinx philanthropy are continuously expanding, they lack perspectives on how Latinx Muslims and Muslims in Latin America are part of a wider matrix of generosity, volunteering, and mutual aid within, and beyond, both constituencies. On the one hand, Muslims give to organizations and participate in philanthropic activism at local, national, and global levels, hoping to make the world a better place in accordance with Islam. On the other hand, people who identify as Latinx or who live in Latin America have historically engaged in acts of solidarity and mutual assistance among vulnerable populations, addressing issues related to poverty, education, health, and culture.
This colloquium and the resulting special edition of the Journal on Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society (Indiana University Press) will help pave the way to move research on the intersections between Muslim and Latinx philanthropy further.
Full information at:
https://www.lacisa.org/post/call-for-papers-muslim-philanthropy-in-latin-america-the-latinx-u-s
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be sent to editor@lacisa.org no later than October 1, 2022.
Those accepted will be notified by October 15, 2022, with the offer of a $250 honorarium for participation in the colloquium and for presentations delivered online between December 7-8, 2022.
Questions, comments, or other queries can be made to Dr. Ken Chitwood at editor@lacisa.org.
2. International Conference “Islamic Succession Law”, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, 30-31 March 2023
The conference addresses the intergenerational transfer of property in various historical and regional contexts by bringing together different methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives (especially from law, history, economics, anthropology, Middle Eastern/regional studies, gender studies and sociology).
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2022. Information: https://www.mpipriv.de/1543907/20220729-call-for-papers-succession-in-islamic-law?c=1013904
3. Post-Doc Resident Fellowships for 2023/24 (1-12 Months), RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies, University of Hamburg
Applicants should work on Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity with a focus but not exclusively on the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa during the first millennium CE. The theme is ‘Architecture and Materials of Prestige’, i.e. exploring the representation of political rule in material culture and architecture of the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa.
Deadline for applications: 30 November 2022.
Information: https://www.romanislam.uni-hamburg.de/documents/cfa-fellows-2023-new.pdf
4. Lecturer in Contemporary Islam (0.8fte, until 30/09/2023), University of Chester
Applicants will bring scholarly expertise in Contemporary Islam and will assist with the teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate modules as well as some administrative duties and the pastoral support of students.
Deadline for applications: 4 August 2022.
Information: https://jobs.chester.ac.uk/wrl/pages/vacancy.jsf?latest=00014804
5. Scholarships for the Italian National PhD Program in Religious Studies (Islam, Judaism etc.), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and Other Italian Universities
This program with a three-year duration is starting from 1 November 2022.
Deadline for applications: 25 August 2022.
Information: https://www.unimore.it/AZdoc/CallPhDEnglishXXXVIIIReligiousStudiesWeb.pdf
6. Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics (Tenure-Track, Focus Politics of the Middle East or Africa), Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
Qualification: Doctorate in Political Science; Specialization in one or both of the following: Politics of the Middle East or Africa; Ability to effectively teach introductory and upper division courses in Comparative Politics; Ability to develop and sustain a high quality research program.
Deadline for applications: 16 September 2022.
Information: https://hr.wwu.edu/careers-faculty?job=499957
7. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor for Eastern Mediterranean or Near East History, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Applicants should specialize in the years between 600 and 1500 and begin on 1 July 2023. We are especially interested in scholars, who work across regions, languages, cultures, and religions. We welcome applications from historians who already hold teaching positions, as well as recent PhDs and those who expect their PhD or equivalent degree by the time of appointment.
Deadline for applications: 1 October 2022. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/108402
8. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer for Politics and International Relations of the Arabic Speaking World, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (CAIS), Australian National University, Canberra
Research informed by fieldwork and close engagement with the region is highly desirable. Proficiency in Arabic is also highly desirable.
Deadline for applications: 22 August 2022.
9. EN LIGNE Cours de langues : « Arabe standard, Darija et Amazigh 2022-2023 », Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat
Consultez l’offre et les modalités d’inscription sur le lien ci-dessous: https://www.cjb.ma/evenement/offre-des-cours-darabe-standard-darija-et-amazigh-2022-2023/
10. Chapters for Edited Volume on “Memory and Historiography of the Crusades in the Middle East”
With a focus on the modern memory and historiography in the Arab World, the chapters should address: • The academic memory of the crusades as reflected in the Middle East or Arab crusade historiography; • Analysing the content, context and contextualisation of the Modern Arab scholarship on the crusades and Islamic Jihad; • The impact of the crusading memory on the Arab perception of the Modern West; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-memory-and-historiography-of-the-crusades-in-the-middle-east-volume?e=82aeb6c61d
11. Paid Research Articles on “Transformations in Authoritarianism and in Resilience Mechanisms of Human Rights in the Arab Region” for Special Issue of the Journal “Rowaq Arabi”
This issue will focus on recent transformations in authoritarianism in the Arab region in the past decade, changes in geopolitical alliances, as well as changes in the mechanisms of coping and resilience of human rights and political movements. Relevant articles (English or Arabic) from all disciplines of social sciences, humanities and law are welcome, and will be financially compensated.
Deadline for full manuscripts: 2 October 2022.
12. To celebrate the inaugural issue of Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (GNCS), a journal published by Liverpool University Press (https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/id/111/), the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (SGNCS) will host a two-day symposium on oceanic approaches to nineteenth-century culture, ecology, economics, history, and politics in a range of global contexts. Intentionally broad in scope, the symposium seeks to cross-map nineteenth-century studies with key currents of the blue humanities, the Black and circum-Atlantic, Indian Ocean studies, oceanic ecologies, post- and decolonialism, maritime globalization, and beyond. We welcome participants from any discipline and at any stage of their scholarly career.
The majority of the panels and events will be held in Los Angeles at the Doheny campus of Mount Saint Mary’s University. To facilitate global connections and conversations, the symposium will also feature live panels and audience participants in several sites around the world, including Australia, China, and South Africa.
PANELS AND POSSIBLE TOPICS
The symposium will feature three thematic panels and several open panels. The three thematic panels take inspiration from a trio of articles in the first issue of GNCS.
Panel 1: “Hydrographies: (Re)writing Oceanic Spaces”
inspired by Charne Lavery’s article, “The Southern Indian Ocean and the Oceanic South”
Possible topics include…
— the blue humanities
— Indian Ocean studies
— the global / oceanic South
— navigation, exploration, and “discovery”
— naval geopolitics and hydrocolonialism
— living “in the wake” of empire
— oceanic ecologies and the nonhuman sea
— oceanic zones; the littoral and the submarine; surface and depth
— shorelines and seascapes
Panel 2: “Maritime Mercantilism: Oceanic Exchanges and Microhistories”
inspired by Boyd Cothran and Adrian Shubert’s article, “Maritime History, Microhistory, and the Global Nineteenth Century: The Edwin Fox”
Possible topics include…
— globalization and maritime circulations and exchanges
— shipping, infrastructure, and logistics
— maps, charts, and logbooks
— DH approaches to global / oceanic / nineteenth-century history
— maritime materialisms and object histories
— micro / macro scales of oceanic history
— labor and leisure at sea
— maritime economies (including piracy)
Panel 3: “Home and Away: Oceanic Circulations and Travellers”
inspired by Humberto Garcia’s article, “The Strangers’ Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders: Inaugurating a Hospitable World Order in Mid-Victorian Britain”
Possible topics include…
— maritime mobility and immobility
— lascars on land and at sea
— the Black and circum-Atlantics
— enslavement and diaspora
— immigration and emigration
— Indigenous / subaltern knowledge of the ocean
— dockside geopolitics
— oceanic imperialism, patriotism, and xenophobia
Panels 4 and beyond: “Cross-Currents: The Global / Oceanic / Nineteenth Century”
inspired by all three articles, but opening space for new topics and debates
Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the listings above, as well as…
— feminist oceanic studies
— women sailors and sailors’ women
— queering maritime history
— philosophy / theology and the sea
— oceanic forms
— shipwreck and salvage
— pollution and waste
— floods and tides
— pedagogy and teaching oceanic texts
Each session will feature 3-4 panelists and 1-2 respondents. (Papers will be sent to the respondents in advance.) Panelists will have 15 minutes to present their work. Afterward, the respondents will reflect upon and synthesize common threads before opening up discussion to a wider audience.
WORKSHOP AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
As we celebrate the first issue of GNCS, the Society for the Global Nineteenth-Century Studies also looks ahead to future publications. Selected symposium participants will be invited to a collaborative online writing workshop in 2023. Across several structured rounds of peer and self-review, each participant will give and receive feedback, ask questions, and make further connections.Afterward, revised papers may be considered for publication in GNCS or in the Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century book series by Liverpool University Press.
HOW TO APPLY
To apply to the symposium, please submit a 300-word abstract and 1-page CV to globaloceanic19c@gmail.com by September 1.
Contact Email:
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- August 02, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The latest Latin America & Caribbean Islamic Studies newsletter (vol 2, number 4, July 2022) can be found on the LACISA website, https://www.lacisa.org/
‘Greetings from the Southwest U.S.! As I write this letter, I am staring out into the Sonoran desert. Just back from California, I am in Arizona conducting research on themes related to immigration, dialogue across difference, and Latinx Muslim philanthropy.
As part of my research, I am finding once again how race, religion, colonial legacies, and overlapping transnational trajectories form a complex core for our research on Islam and Muslim communities in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Latinx U.S.
This edition of the LACISA Newsletter, which rounds out our second full year of publication, reflects these themes as well.
Before sharing more about what you will find on these themes in the newsletter below, I’d first like to welcome our new Associate Editor, Rahma Maccarone. Rahma is a Ph.D. candidate at Georgetown University where her research examines questions of race, identity and agency in the history and literature surrounding the narratives of enslaved Muslims in North America, South America and the Caribbean. We are immensely excited to welcome Rahma to the team. I hope you enjoy getting to know about Rahma in her letter below and in her interview with Habeeb Akande, author of Illuminating the Blackness. Her contributions to the newsletter have already been immense.
In addition to Rahma’s letter and interview with Akande, you will also find other exciting content in this edition of the LACISA Newsletter:
* a podcast episode from The Maydan (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=6b20521049&e=f70992245e) discussing how the story of “global Islam” is part and parcel to the story of Latin America and the Caribbean;
* a call for contributions (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=a2e1a7a116&e=f70992245e) to a special edition of the International Journal of Latin American Religions;
* and a call for paid presentations (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=4fc4bcb482&e=f70992245e) at a colloquium on Muslim philanthropy in Latin America and the Latinx U.S., to be held December 7-8, 2022.
In addition, we present a round-up of several news headlines relevant to our community’s research, including stories from the U.S./Mexico border, Saudi Arabia, and beyond.
I invite you to enjoy and explore all of this content and look forward to featuring some of your own contributions in the near future. Thank you, as always, for your time, consideration, and growing commitment to our network.’
Kind Regards,
Ken Chitwood
Editor-in-Chief, LACISA Newsletter
2. Iran Namag Special Issue on Sohrab Sepehri
Editor-in-chief: Professor Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
Special issue editors: Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi and Behrooz Mahmoodi Bakhtiari
Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980) was a prominent modern poet and painter of Iran, who has had an influence on many a writer, poet, and artist after him. His main work is The Eight Books, translated into English as The Eight Books: A Complete English Translation (Brill, 2021). He has also written three essays, which his sister published posthumously in one book, entitled, The Blue Room. Sepehri is said to be a modernist poet and painter. His painting can be visualized in his poetry, and his poetry flows in his painting.
This special issue of Iran Namag is a tribute to Sohrab Sepehri, as a poet, writer, and artist. The editors seek scholarly articles on any topic related to Sohrab Sepehri’s poetry, essays, and art.
Please send your proposed title and abstracts, in Persian or English, of no more than 500 words, along with a short bio, by September 1, 2022, to Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi at pshabanijadidi@uchicago.edu and Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari at mbakhtiari@ut.ac.ir.
As a bilingual quarterly, Iran Namag accepts articles for review in Persian and English; please indicate whether your final contribution will be in English or Persian in your abstract. Authors of the chosen abstracts will be asked to submit their articles (between 4000 to 6000 words) by January 1, 2023.
Please feel free to address any inquiries you may have to the editors of this special issue, Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi at pshabanijadidi@uchicago.edu and Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari at mbakhtiari@ut.ac.ir or to the Editor-in-Chief of Iran Namag, Professor Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi at editor@irannamag.com.
3. In Memoriam – Toh Sugimura
It is with great regret that we note the passing of Prof. Toh Sugimura at the age of 88 on July 10, 2022. He was the first East Asian scholar of Islamic art and the first to discuss the cultural exchanges between Persia and China from an East Asian point of view.
He was born in Dalian, China in 1934. At the time his father Yuzo, a historian of Chinese art, was conducting research on Manchurian sites. Prof. Sugimura’s interest in Asian art and archaeology was probably nurtured by his father, who later worked for the Tokyo National Museum and Daito Bunka University and published many books on Chinese art.
After graduating from Sophia University in Tokyo, he was awarded a scholarship from the Iraqi government and studied Islamic art and archaeology at the University of Baghdad from 1959 to 1965 under the guidance of John Shapley, an art historian specializing in early Christian and Byzantine art. He obtained his MA at the University of Michigan in 1968 and continued his doctorate studies there with Oleg Grabar. His Ph.D. dissertation titled “The Chinese Impact on Certain Fifteenth-Century Persian Miniature Paintings from the Albums (Hazine Library Nos. 2153, 2154, 2160) in the Topkapi Sarayi Museum, Istanbul” was completed in 1981.
After starting his career as a curator at the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, he became an assistant professor at the National Museum of Ethnology, Suita in 1976 and a professor in 1987, soon after which the School of Cultural and Social Studies at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies was attached to the museum. Prof. Sugimura became its deputy director-general in 1996 and professor emeritus in 1997. From this year to 2005, he was a professor at Ryukoku University, Otsu.
Prof. Sugimura’s research was not limited to his famous works on Persian and Chinese paintings in the Topkapi Sarayi Museum but also included Islamic crafts such as pottery and carpets. All of his work was based on his profound understanding of the cultures of both East and West Asia. He played a central role in reaching out to the Japanese public with his knowledge of Islamic art and crafts by publishing many art books and catalogues and leading research projects. In particular, his curation of the carpet exhibition at the National Museum of Ethnology in 1994 is highly rated, and its catalogue is still regarded in Japan as the textbook of carpets even after thirty years. His enthusiasm for Islamic art, his pioneering insight into the cultural exchanges in Eurasia, as well as his kind guidance of younger Japanese scholars interested in Islamic art, will always be remembered.
(Tomoko Masuya, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo)
Selected works by Prof. Toh Sugimura:
Toh Sugimura, “Albums in the Topkapı Sarayı Museum, Istanbul,” Oriento (Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan) 14-2 (1971), pp. 93–107 [in Japanese].
Toh Sugimura, “The Kuan-yin with a Fish Creel (Yü-lan Kuan-yin) in the Topkapu Sarayi Museum, Istanbul,” Studies Dedicated to Professor Namio Egami on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday: Archaeology and Art History, Yamakawa Shuppansha, Tokyo, 1976, pp. 377–97 [in Japanese].
Toh Sugimura tr., Ernst J. Grube, Filiz Çağman, and Zeren Akalay (with photos by Banri Namikawa), Islamic Painting: Topkapı Sarayı Collection, Heibonsha, Tokyo, 1978.
Seiichi Masuda and Toh Sugimura eds., National Museums of Syria (Wonders of the World’s Museums, vol. 18), Kodansha, Tokyo, 1979 [in Japanese].
Toh Sugimura (with photos by Banri Namikawa), Persian Pottery in the Iran Bastan Museum, Tehran, Heibonsha, Tokyo, 1980 [in Japanese].
Toh Sugimura, The Encounter of Persia with China: Research into Cultural Contacts Based on Fifteenth Century Persian Pictorial Materials (Senri Ethnological Studies 18), National Museum of Ethnology, Suita, 1986.
Toh Sugimura, “Islamic Pottery in Syria, Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia,” Tsugio Mikami ed. Islamic Pottery (Ceramic Art of the World, vol. 21), Shogakukan, Tokyo, 1986, pp. 138–73 [in Japanese].
Toh Sugimura tr., The Islamic World (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 10), Fukutake Shoten, Tokyo, 1987.
Toh Sugimura, “Westward Development of Taoist Paintings: ‘Four Sleepers’ in Persia,” Histories and Cultures of Asian Peoples: Studies Dedicated to Professor Yoshiro Shiratori on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, Rokko Shuppan, Tokyo, 1990, pp. 205–22 [in Japanese].
Toh Sugimura, “Chinese Influence on Persian Paintings of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries,” in Tadao Umesao and Toh Sugimura eds., Significance of Silk Roads in the History of Human Civilizations (Senri Ethnological Studies 32), National Museum of Ethnology, Suita, 1992, pp. 135–46.
Toh Sugimura, Woven Flowers of the Silk Roads: An Introduction to the Carpet Heritage of West Asia and Central Asia, Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, 1994 [in Japanese].
Toh Sugimura, “East Meets West,” Minpaku Tsushin 78 (1997), pp. 5–36 [in Japanese].
Toh Sugimura, “Islamic Art,” Toh Sugimura editorial supervision, MIHO MUSEUM South Wing, Miho Museum, Koka, 1997, pp. 287–311, 356–59 [in Japanese].
Toh Sugimura ed., Islam (New History of World Art, vol. 17 of Asian Art), Shogakukan, Tokyo, 1999 [in Japanese].
Toh Sugimura, “Islamic and Chinese Ceramics of Central Asia,” “Central Asian Historical Sites and Ceramics” (with Tatsuo Sasaki), “Ceramics Excavated at Otrar, Kazakhstan” (with Tatsuo Sasaki), “Timurid Architecture and Decorative Tiles in Central Asia,” Islamic and Chinese Ceramics of Central Asia (Silk Roadology 7), Research Center for Silk Roadology, Nara, 1999, pp. 1–18, 46–75 [in Japanese], 151–54 [in English].
Toh Sugimura, “Dogan ve Dogancilik-Sarayi Albumlerinde Kus Resimleri,” Portakal Sanat ve Kultur Evi 23 (2001), pp. 112–23
Toh Sugimura, “Islamic and Chinese Ceramics of Central Asia in the 15th Century,” “Blue of Samarkand,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Revitalization of Traditional Ceramic Techniques in Central Asia, UNESCO. Tashkent, 2001, pp. 38–46.
Toh Sugimura, “Whence the Birds of Prey in the Imperial Ottoman Albums?,” Portakal Art and Culture Magazine (Spring–Summer 2002, issue 6), pp. 102–113.
Toh Sugimura, “Islamic Ideas of Paradise and Their Representation,” The Exchange of East-West Motifs –Invocation of Paradise– (Silk Roadology 18), Research Center for Silk Roadology, Nara, 2003, pp. 1–41 [in Japanese].
Toh Sugimura, “Ceramics in Islamic Art,” Toyo Toji (Oriental Ceramics) 34 (2004–2005), pp. 5–12 [in Japanese].
Toh Sugimura and Xu Guanghui eds., Roads of Buddha: Cultural Materials of the Silk Roads, Toho Shuppan, Osaka, 2005.
Toh Sugimura, “Introduction,” Toh Sugimura editorial supervision, The Brilliant World of Persian Carpet, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima, 2006, pp. 6–30.
Toh Sugimura, “Sanguszko Medallion-Animal Carpet,” Kokka 1363 (2009), pp. 52––55 [in Japanese with English summary].
Toh Sugimura, “Luster Bowl with Figural Design,” Kokka 1368 (2009), pp. 5–14 [in Japanese with English summary].
Toh Sugimura, “Venuses and Goddesses of the Ancient Orient,” “Female Representations in Islamic Art,” in Tadanori Yuba ed., Women and the Silk Roads: History of Artistic Exchange between the East and the West, Heibonsha, Tokyo, 2010, pp. 43–72, 125–52 [in Japanese].
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Call for Abstracts – Neglected Voices in Premodern Sciences
from Persia to Iceland
(Routledge, “Global Perspectives on the History of Natural Philosophy”)
Most of the studies about Pre-modern European sciences have been dedicated to the role
played by a relatively small number of primary characters (Avicenna, Albert the Great,
Roger Bacon, Nicole Oresme, Nicholas of Cusa, to name but a few) who had a significant
impact on knowledge, culture and modi pensandi of the Latin West throughout and
beyond the Middle Ages. However, this presentation has led to two closely related
consequences. The first consequence is that while the works of the “main” authors tend to
be thoroughly studied and thus their ideas continuously observed and reinforced, those of
other, less known characters, have received little, if any, attention, or have simply been
forgotten, primarily when they evolved on the fringe of the mainstream. The second
consequence is that Pre-modern and Medieval science is often perceived as a monolith,
one composed, and shaped, only by a few inspired authors.
In response to this observation, this book aims to shed light on these neglected voices in
Pre-modern sciences and to give a voice even to those ‘underrated’ actors (authors,
scribes, compilers, copyists, readers, users…) who nevertheless have somehow
contributed to the formation of Medieval science. Within this perspective, the volume
addresses these issues from the point of view of both ideas and practices, which are
particularly delicate to interrogate when dealing mainly with textual material.
For this purpose, several axes (not exhaustive) have been defined:
1) Authors against the tide: This section is particularly interested in authors who, in
various ways, went against the major scientific tendencies of their time and developed
their science as “free electrons” by contrast to their contemporaries. Several cases are to
be considered: (1) authors whose scientific involvement goes against the traditional ways
of thinking by exploring original and even daring theories and practices in opposition to
what was in vogue at their time; (2) authors who evolved outside the main intellectual
centers and networks of the time. This can be due either to their geographical situation on
the periphery of the traditional radiating places in the development of sciences or because
they did not belong to any organization, institutional group or religious order promoting
the diffusion and assimilation of knowledge.
2) Actors in the “physical” margins: This point focuses on those who added scientific
contents into the “broader margins” of a Late Medieval work, i.e. in the actual margins, at
the beginning or end of a manuscript or of a codicological unit. The contributions can
analyze the authors’ identities, if they can be reconstructed, as well as the new contents
which were added (ideas, sources, relationships with the main texts, reasons for which
they were inserted, circulation…). Moreover, the texts considered can be both paratextual
additions (comments, glosses, scholia…) or actual “guest texts”.
3) Unknown actors: This point questions the role of discrete authors, almost invisible and
unknown, in the development and diffusion of Medieval knowledge. It aims to bring to
light unpreserved authors who are known only through other posterior works. Within this
perspective, one could consider both characters who left no written traces and authors
whose works have been lost and are only known by later quotes. Papers focusing on
figures evolving in an “oral culture” (for instance in the pre-Islamic context), who
provided a basis for further scientific developments, will be particularly welcome.
Similarly, the scientific contribution of teachers, whose ideas and practices were kept
through the writings of their students, deserves to be taken into account. Finally, papers
highlighting the role of oral witnesses, practitioners and merchants, who might contribute
to the transmission of knowledge by bringing empirical data taken from their daily
practice, will be highly appreciated.
4) Authors between traditions: Another line of research will be dedicated to the study of
the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge in areas outside the scientific field (art,
literature…). In the first case, this volume is interested as much in the depictions of the
figure of the experimenter or the scholar as in the artistic exploitation of the scientific
disciplines. In the second case, a particular attention will also be paid to the integration of
scientific knowledge into the literary domain. The sciences, as well as some scientific
figures, become motifs and themes with specific narrative functions. Conversely, one
might also consider the way in which scientific discourse is fed and expressed through a
literary medium.
5) Authors on the fringes of historiography: Finally, this book also wants to give a voice
to authors who received less attention despite their actual importance and significant
contribution to premodern sciences. In particular, the historiographical readings and the
appreciation of an author’s significance have been oriented, among other criteria, by their
impact on European thought. Nevertheless, this attitude tends to exclude certain
important characters from our usual research horizons. This is notably the case of authors
who were not translated into Latin during the Middle Ages and who hardly reached
European Latin scholars at that time. From this point of view, this book gives the
opportunity to reassess the original contribution of such authorities and even to reevaluate
their possible influence on later works in more indirect ways, outside the scope of the
translations.
Abstracts (250/300 words) should be sent to:
Meyssa Ben Saad (mbs.bsaad@gmail.com ), Mattia Cipriani
(mattia.cipriani80@gmail.com), Grégory Clesse (gregory.clesse@uclouvain.be ), or
Florence Ninitte (Florence.Ninitte@univ-nantes.fr ).
Contributions will be written in English.
Abstracts submission deadline: on the 30th of September 2022.
Submission deadline for the completed articles: on the 30th of April 2023.
2. Brown University – The Adrienne Minassian Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63639
Closing date: Oct 19, 2022
3. HYBRID Journée d’étude du CCMO « Être chercheur.e sur le Moyen-Orient : mission impossible ? », Collège de France, Paris, 15 septembre 2022, 9h-18h
Le CCMO réunit des enseignant.e.s-chercheur.e.s issu.e.s de différentes générations et appartenant à diverses disciplines (anthropologie, histoire, géographie, sociologie et science politique), qui ont tou.tes en commun la pratique de l’enquête de terrain comme mode principal de recueil des données et de production d’informations inédites sur et dans les sociétés du Moyen-Orient.
Information, programme et inscription: https://cerclechercheursmoyenorient.wordpress.com/2022/07/13/etre-chercheur-e-sur-le-moyen-orient-mission-impossible/
4. Panels on “Death in the Mediterranean” during the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamzoo MI, 11-13 May 2023
Papers are sought that explore how people of various classes, genders, and religious traditions grappled with death, memorialized it, sanctified it or vilified it across the Mediterranean world, and to see how Christians, Muslims, and Jews from Europe, North Africa and West Asia commemorated, avenged, feared or forestalled death, and how they imagined it in art, literature and song.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-death-in-the-mediterranean-i-ii-1113-may-kalamazoo?e=82aeb6c61d
5. International Conference “Sociohistorical and Cultural Relations in Premodern Mediterranean Societies through Literature and Folklore between the 11th and 17th Centuries”, University of Dublin, 15-16 June 2023
Themes: Relationships between Jews, Christians, and Muslims through literature (especially poetry), culture, and languages; prominent myths and prophecies of the relationships and communications between Jews, Christians, Muslims and other Mediterranean communities; popular images of interactions between minority and majority communities, particularly through literature, fragments, travels and folklore; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 September 2022.
6. Syrian Nationals in Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan as External Collaborators for Research on Wartime and Post-Conflict Syria, Syria Initiative of the European University Institute, Florence
Desired qualifications: • Experience in field-based research on Syria. • A track record of publications, with a focus on themes at the sub-national level. • Strong analytical skills. • Proficiency in English and Arabic.
7. Two Tenure-Track Positions “Islam in South Asia” and “Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies – The Late Medieval and Early Modern Islamicate World (ca. 1000-1700)”, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The position is open to all candidates who have attained a Ph.D. degree; and to advanced doctoral students who expect to be granted their Ph.D. no later than 30 June 2023. Candidates whose Hebrew proficiency is such that they would not be comfortable teaching in Hebrew will be encouraged to sufficiently master the language during the initial years following their appointment.
Deadline for applications: 11 September 2022. Information: https://en-hum.huji.ac.il/tenure-track-positions# and https://en-hum.huji.ac.il/tenure-track-positions#
8. Chapters for Edited Book on “Art and Politics between the Arab World and Latin America, 1920s – 1970s”
Three issues should be addressed: 1. Art and nationalist narratives between Latin America and the Arab World. – 2. Rethinking transnational solidarity between Latin America and the Arab World. –
- Artistic practices and the formation of alternative political communities?
Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2022. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2022/06/Call-for-contributions-%E2%80%93-Art-and-politics-Arab-World-%E2%80%93-Latin-America.pdf
9. Articles on “The Future of Islamic Liberation Theology” for Special Issue of the Open-Access Journal “Religions”
This Issue is to chart out new directions in ILT. What is the current state of the field? Hitherto, what are the key contexts, problems, and thematic areas that ILT has focused on and why? How has ILT challenged dominant hermeneutical approaches and offered more inclusive reading methods? Which areas of human experience (class? race and ethnicity? disabilities? ecology?) have received less attention in ILT? Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2022.
Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/354W74T405
- July 26, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.AKU-ISMC: 14 and 21 October 2022 Short Course – Religious Cultural Heritage: Concepts and Issues in the Modern Middle East
This is a two-day introductory course on the theme of religious cultural heritage (RCH) in the Middle East. It aims to contextualise RCH as the living cultural heritage of its community of users. In addition, the course attempts to present RCH as a contemporary construct of its socio-political and religious context through its connections to ethnicity, gender, nationalism, as much as religion.
Read and download course structure.
Learning Objectives
– To identify religious cultural heritage as one constituent of the community’s broader cultural heritage;
– To address the challenges that religious cultural heritage faces in its cultural, religious and socio-political context;
– To examine the process of constructing relationship between people and their religious cultural heritage and its changes over time;
– To appreciate religious cultural heritage through the community’s values and their various processes of meaning making rather than the intrinsic values of the religious cultural heritage site itself.
Course Convenors
Professor Dick Douwes holds the chair of Global History at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He studied Languages and Cultures of the Middle East at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. From 1994 to 1998 he was coordinator of the programme Indonesian-Netherlands’ Cooperation in Islamic Studies (INIS) at Leiden University. From 1998 onwards, he was academic coordinator – later executive director – of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) and editor of the ISIM Newsletter/Review and ISIM Paper Series. He has published on late Ottoman history in Syria and on religious plurality in the Middle East, as well as on Muslims in Western Europe. Currently, he researches changes in shrine culture and politics in Syria and Lebanon, including the destruction of shrines.
Mohamad Meqdad is a PhD student at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His main research focuses on religious cultural heritage at times of crisis. In 2006, Mohamad received his BA in Archaeology and Museum Studies from Aleppo University, Syria. He also took part in several national and international archaeological expeditions in Syria (2002-2008), where he worked on discovering its rich cultural heritage and preserving it for future generations. In 2010, Mohamad received an MA in Muslim Cultures from the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), London, with focus on researching the display of Muslim material culture in international museums, specifically at the British Museum’s John Addis Islamic Gallery. Between 2011-2019, he was the Arabic editor, and later the acting manager, of the Muslim Civilisations Abstracts Project (MCA) at AKU-ISMC.
Date and Time
14 October (13:15 – 16:00) and 21 October (13:30 – 16:00) 2022, London Time.
Tickets and Booking
£75 professionals | £45 students, AKU alumni and staff. Book as soon as possible.
*The course will be delivered via Zoom. Readings and further details will be provided later upon registration.
*The course will not be recorded.
2. The Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies is pleased to announce that fascicle 2 of Volume XVII of the Encyclopaedia Iranica has been printed and is available to order.This installment (pp. 113-224) of Volume XVII of the EIr continues the development of letter “K” topics and covers titles starting with the entry “Khotan iii. History in the Islamic Period” and ends with “King of the Benighted.” These 112 new pages of the Encyclopædia Iranica include the conclusion of a major series of entries on Khotan and its history, language, literature, and art that began in fascicle 1 of Volume XVII. The fascicle also contains significant and up-to-date biographical entries on Moḥammad Ḵiābāni, Nur-al-Din Kiānuri, and Abbas Kiarostami; a detailed study of Ḡazāli’s Kimiā-ye Saʿādat; and reports on the archeological sites of Kilizu, Kindyktepa, and Kinet Höyük.
For the complete list of entries, please visit the Yarshater Center website at https://cfis.columbia.edu/research-projects/encyclopaedia-iranica.
For ordering information, please contact Brill Publishers.
3. Summer School of Persian Language and Iranology
PLUS Special Tour of Tehran, Kashan, Abyaneh, and Isfahan
15 August – 9 September 2022
https://avestak.com/summer-school-of-persian-language-and-iranian-studies/
4. The 3rd Intensive Academic Tour and Course in Iranian studies
University of Religions and Denominations, Qom
2 to 12 September 2022
For more information:
https://iranianstudies.urd.ac.ir/#join-us
5. Call for Applications – BJMES Assistant Editor
The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BJMES) is seeking an assistant editor who can help with the refereeing process for articles relating to the Arab world, and in particular Palestine/Israel. The successful candidate will be fluent in Arabic (knowledge of Hebrew too, is an advantage) and have a PhD. Preference will be given to applications from scholars who reside in the UK, and who are thus able to attend editorial meetings when necessary.
Please contact Lloyd Ridgeon to express interest: lloyd.ridgeon@glasgow.ac.uk. Please also send a brief CV (no more than 2 pages in length). The position comes with an annual honorarium and the successful candidate can serve for a maximum of eight years. The journal is looking to have someone in the position by the beginning of August 2022.
6. BRISMES awards:
The Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize was established jointly in 1986 by the Leigh Douglas Memorial Fund and BRISMES in memory of Dr Leigh Douglas who was killed in Beirut in 1986. The prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University in the previous calendar year.
- Joint winner: Nader Andrawos (LSE)
Righting Dissent: Intellectual Critique and Human Rights in Egypt - Joint winner: Nora Jaber (Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London)
Women, International Law, and the State: A Critical Analysis of Saudi Women’s Petitions for Reform - Runner Up: Joshua Rigg (SOAS, University of London)
A Resounding No: Contentious Politics in Tunisia 2015-2019 - Honourable Mention: Dena Qaddumi (University of Cambridge)
Post-Arab Spring Tunis: Materializing Revolution in the City
Congratulations to the prize winners and thank you to everyone who submitted their dissertations for consideration. Read more about the prize and the winning dissertations on the BRISMES website.
The BRISMES Early Career Development Prize was established in 2021 to support activities geared toward strengthening the academic profile and CV of an early career scholar. This year, the prize was awarded to Narges Ansari and Nur Arafeh.
- Narges Ansari
From the Prize Committee: The applicant’s proposal has the potential to contribute to novel findings in both the sub-field of Iranian Studies and the larger field of political anthropology. The applicant’s research theorises subjectivity in revolutionary Iran going beyond well-established epistemological binaries such as obedience and resistance, coercion and subversion, secular and religious politics. Read more
From the Prize Committee: The prize will sustain the applicant through one of the most arduous processes for an early career scholar: the transformation of their PhD into a book. Dr. Arafeh will expand on their doctoral thesis and conduct further interviews in Hebron on the role of local elites in the broader Palestinian business class, and wider class structures. Read more
7. Research Associate
University of Leicester
In this role you will undertake research and related administration and other activities supporting the work of a project entitled ‘Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa’ which is funded by the Arcadia Fund. Reporting to the PI (Professor D. Mattingly) and the Senior Researcher (Dr N. Sheldrick), you will be a member of a University of Leicester project group of the Endangered Archaeology project, collaborating with archaeologists at the University of Oxford and University of Durham.
Deadline | 24 July 2022
8. Assistant Professor in Modern Arabic Studies (Fixed Term)
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Modern Arabic Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies to begin on 1 October 2022. The appointment is for 12 months in the first instance. Applicants will have the opportunity to contribute to the delivery of a stimulating programme for bright and highly-motivated students taking Arabic, Persian, Hebrew often in conjunction with a modern European language.
Deadline | 7 August 2022
9. Research Fellow in Human Geography
University of Leeds
You will work with a team of researchers on emerging trends in refugee governance in relation to cash assistance and biometrics. Under the supervision of Co-Investigator Dr. Glenda Garelli, you will be researching cash assistance and / or digital technology and humanitarian assistance in Jordan (examples may include digital and e-wallets, debit cards, Iris scan technologies used in the provision of humanitarian aid).
Deadline | 2 September 2022
10. Call for Papers – War, Gender and Displacement: The Impact of Forced Migration on Families in the Middle East and North Africa
Conference | German-Jordanian University | 9 October 2022
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to demonstrate to what extent the emergence of new understandings of gender socialisation, informed by grassroots and top-down approaches, can contribute to securing sustainable societal well-being. Exploring the changing demographics of host societies through the spread, speed and scale of refugees, this conference examines the different socio-religious, economic and legal challenges host societies in various countries in the Middle East have faced since the beginning of the 21st century. The focus of the conference lies in the changing nature of family structures and their relationships as well as gender roles influenced through and by migration processes.
Deadline | 1 September 2022
11. ASPIRANTUM is organizing a Persian language winter school in Yerevan, Armenia, from December 5 till December 30, 2022.
For more details and to apply, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/persian-language-winter-school
- July 23, 2022
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