Archive for 2022
Shii News – Academic Items
1. The Islamic College
Arabic Online Language Course
Beginners: Every Sunday 3:00 – 5:00 pm (London time)
15 May – 24 July 2022 (10 sessions)
Intermediate: Saturday 3:00 – 5:00 pm (London time)
14 May – 23 July 2022
Advance: Friday 6:00 – 8:00 pm (London time)
13 May – 22 July 2022
Course Fee: £50/Semester
For more information and to register:
https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/study/short-courses/learn-arabic/
2. Persia Portrayed: Envoys to the West, 1600–1842
D.T. Potts
3. The British Library
4. Aga Khan Library launches new website
Explore our growing library catalogue and digital resources, services, news, blogs and events, manage your library account, and much more on the newly refreshed Aga Khan Library website.
The Aga Khan Library is the product of a collaboration between the IIS and the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC). It houses the largest collection in Europe for the study of Ismaili communities, their history and their beliefs. It also offers a vast range of sources on Shia Islam, Quranic literature and other core issues of Islamic studies.
5. SHD Free Online Lecture “Empire and History, Maps and Discovery, 1775–1860”
Society For the History of Discoveries Lecture Series
Matthew H. Edney
Osher Professor in the History of Cartography, University of Southern Maine
Director, History of Cartography Project, University of Wisconsin–Madison
SHD Fellow
Empire and History, Maps and Discovery, 1775–1860
The systematic study of map history first emerged in Paris in the 1830s as an extension of the history of geography and discovery, a field that had itself cohered in its modern form only after 1775. This presentation explores the use of early maps by early historians of geography, such as James Playfair (1808) and Conrad Malte-Brun (1810), and how scholars such as Alexander von Humboldt, Ramón de la Sagra, Edme François Jomard, and the visconde de Santarém had by 1840 turned a sporadic interest in early maps into l’histoire de la cartographie.keel
Date: 21 April 2022
Time: 2:00 PM CST (US and Canada)
To Register for this free event please use the link below
https://discoveryhistory.org/event-4780730
6. POS: Collection Assistant for Middle Eastern and Islamic Materials (UCLA)
Closing date April 27, 2022
The complete postings, which include the position descriptions, complete qualifications and application procedures, are available on both the UCLA Career Opportunities Website at: https://hr.mycareer.ucla.edu and on the UCLA Library Employment Webpage, Jobs@UCLA Library, http://www.library.ucla.edu/about/jobs-ucla-library.
7. Call for Papers: British Muslim Studies at 50 – Retrospect and Prospect
14th & 15th September 2022
A conference organised by the Muslims in Britain Research Network
& the Islam-UK Centre, Cardiff University
Though still in its infancy as a sub-field, the academic study of British Muslims in UK institutions of higher education is now over five decades old. Since the 1960s/1970s, research and teaching about Britain’s Muslims has developed and expanded – advancing our understanding and knowledge of Britain’s diverse and dynamic Muslim population in myriad disciplines – including but not limited to sociology, history, religious studies, Islamic Studies, geography, politics, and their various intersections.
Over the past decade or so, British Muslim Studies (BMS) has seen the emergence and flourishing of successive cohorts of scholars from within Muslim communities – complicating and enriching the field by interrogating definitions, concepts and parameters of understanding. This, coupled with the long tradition of engagement and partnership with community institutions, practitioners and grassroots spaces means it is an exciting time for BMS and an apt moment to cast a retrospective glance over the past 50 years, while looking ahead towards future prospects.
This conference will examine some of the main contributions to BMS, including a specific focus on research institutes and centres. It will also pay tribute to two recently departed pioneers of BMS: Professors Mohammed Anwar and Ataullah Siddiqui.
We invite abstract submissions for papers, which showcase emergent research topics and directions in British Muslim Studies. We are keen to receive abstracts from PhD scholars and early career academics and are particularly interested in proposals corresponding to the following themes:
- Co-production/collaboration between researchers and communities
- Synergies (or tensions) between academe and practitioners
- Innovative research methods and interrogation/problematisation of extant methods
To submit a proposal:
- Please submit a title and abstract of no more than 300 words together with names and short biographies (150 words) of the presenter/s, institutional affiliation/s (if relevant), and contact details.
- We welcome proposals from postgraduate researchers, independent scholars and practitioners.
- Proposals should be sent to MuslimsinBritainRN@gmail.com
- Academic enquiries should be sent to Dr Khadijah Elshayyal, ke3@soas.ac.uk
- Deadline: 5pm on Wednesday 15th June 2022
- Successful presenters will be notified by Thursday 30th June 2022
8. The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 48th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference to be held at the University of California, Los Angeles, November 3–6, 2022. We invite session proposals on any topic relevant to Byzantine studies.
Session proposals must be submitted through the Mary Jaharis Center website (https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/48th-bsc). The deadline for submission is April 22, 2022.
If the proposed session is accepted, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse a maximum of 5 session participants (presenters and chair) up to $600 maximum for scholars based in North America and up to $1200 maximum for those coming from outside North America. Funding is through reimbursement only; advance funding cannot be provided. Eligible expenses include conference registration, transportation, and food and lodging. Receipts are required for reimbursement. For scholars participating remotely, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimbursement participants for conference registration.
For further details and submission instructions, please visit https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/48th-bsc.
Please contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.
9. BIPS Research & Travel Grants and Research Assistant Grants
The British Institute of Persian Studies invites applications for Research and Travel Grants and for Research Assistant Grants.
Funding is available to cover costs associated with developing or executing research projects in any field related to the wider Persianate world. There is funding available for travel for students based at a UK Higher Education Institution (HEI), either for research or to attend conferences. We invite applications for Research Awards and for Research Assistant Grants, in order to support scholars to develop or complete projects.
Awards of up to £1,200 will be considered for Student Travel Awards. Grants of up to £5,000 for Research Awards and Research Assistant Awards are invited, from PIs associated with a UK based HEI.
Please contact the relevant programme leader prior to submitting your application (Ancient: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Medieval: Professor Andrew Peacock, Modern: Dr Shabnam Holliday).
You must be a member of BIPS to apply.
The deadline for submitting applications is Monday 16th May 2022.
For more information and to download the application form, visit our Grants page.
10. The Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles invites applications for a one-year Farhang Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in Iranian Studies. Researchers with training in cultural studies, film, and literature are particularly encouraged to apply. This fellowship is renewable for a second year, contingent upon approval.
In addition to research, the successful candidate is expected to teach 3 courses per academic year and to participate in the intellectual life of the department and other units on campus. This person will receive a stipend of $65,000 plus benefits. Applicants must have received their Ph.D. within the last five years or at the latest by August 16, 2022, the start date of the position. In addition to the letter of application, applicants should include their curriculum vitae, a writing sample, and sample syllabi (attach all as one PDF document during the application process). Three letters of reference will be asked of finalists. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. In order to be considered for this position, all candidates must submit an electronic USC application. Review of complete applications will begin immediately.
Further information is available by contacting Professor Ramzi Rouighi (rouighi@usc.edu).
- April 16, 2022
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Shii News – Second International Symposium on Diversity and Unity in Transnational Shi’a Islam (May 9th – 13th, 2022)
- April 15, 2022
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- April 14, 2022
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Shii News – Ottoman Archives on Karbala, Najaf, and the Hejaz (1660s-1720s) – S Güngörürler
‘Ottoman Archival Documents on the Shrines of Karbala, Najaf, and the Hejaz (1660s-1720s): Endowment Wars, the Spoils System, and Iranian Pilgrims’
Selim Güngörürler
JESHO, 64/2021, 897-1032
This study introduces and publishes an array of Ottoman archival documents on the shrines of Ahl al-Bayt imams in Iraq, the endowments dedicated to these shrines, and the Shiite-Iranian pilgrims visiting these sites as well as the Kaaba and the shrine of Muhammad in the Hejaz. Focusing on the later seventeenth and the early eighteenth centuries, it discusses the political-economic function of Islamic endowments, interconfessional contacts resulting from pilgrimage by Shiites in Sunni territory, and the potential use of Ottoman archives to enrich our knowledge on trans-Ottoman themes.
- April 13, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Symposium – Living Line, Living Legacy: Arabic-script Calligraphy Symposium – May 7
Please join us for a symposium on Arabic-script calligraphy taking place at the Qatar America Institute for Culture in Washington DC on Saturday, May 7 from 10am to 2pm.
Organized by the Reed Society for the Sacred Arts, internationally renowned calligraphers Mohamed Zakariya (USA), Davut Bektaş (Turkey), and Nuria Garcia Masip (France) among others, will be in conversation with Islamic art curators and scholars.
Inscribed by UNESCO onto its list of intangible cultural heritage in December, 2021, Arabic-script calligraphy has a centuries-old tradition as the preeminent art form in Islamicate societies, yet contemporary work of traditionally trained calligraphers does not fit easily into present day conceptions of global art. Symposium speakers will discuss their journeys to calligraphy, how calligraphy is supported and collected globally and the manner in which their work is bridging binaries between the contemporary and traditional.
This is an on-site event which will be recorded for viewing later. Symposium space is limited; please register early at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/living-line-living-legacy-symposium-tickets-271262522507. (The ticket price includes lunch.)
The symposium is held in conjunction with the calligraphy exhibition titled Living Line, Living Legacy which opens April 11 and runs through June 17, 2022 at the Qatar America Institute for Culture, 1319 18th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036. The exhibition highlights the work of Mohamed Zakariya and seven of his students and colleagues. You may schedule a visit at the QAIC’s website.
2. A Scholar for our Times: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Shahrokh Meskoob
Abbas Milani & C. Ryan Perkins., eds.
3. Film Screening and Panel Discussion “A Moment of Bliss: The Story of Love and Hate Between a Country and Its People”, FES, Berlin, 21 April 2022, 5:30 pm
The film, which is written and produced by the FES in Beirut, highlights different facets of social and political injustice in the lives of people in Lebanon through four personal stories. It also shows the relevance of civil society engagement for democratic change and the importance of electoral participation for a better future. Arabic version with German subtitles.
Deadline for registration: 15 April 2022. Information: https://www.fes.de/newsletter/newsletter-referat-naher/mittlerer-osten-und-nordafrika/newsticker-01/20-2-4-1
4. ONLINE Lecture “An Impossible Promise? Sociology of Religion in Arab Countries” by Florian Zemmin (Freie Universität Berlin), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 28 April 2022, 5:00 pm CET
Sociological approaches to religion in Arabic do have a longer history and feature more widely than is often assumed. This talk will provide glimpses into the history and presence of these approaches and their charac-teristics, addressing both structural and theoretical questions.
Information and registration: https://tinyurl.com/mr29m9mp
5. 21st Beirut Exchange Conference (in Person), 5-12 June 2022
The Beirut Exchange is an immersive research conference that offers participants a unique exposure to lead-ing scholars, politicians and activists representing a range of different points of view on Lebanon. It is aimed at NGO practitioners, foreign diplomats, researchers, journalists and professionals in general who are inter-ested in gaining a deeper understanding of Lebanon.
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2022. Deadline II: 10 May 2022 (20 slots ony; rolling acceptance).
Information: https://www.globalpoliticalexchange.org/beirut
6. American Political Science Association (APSA) Conference: “New Landscapes in MENA Politics”, Amman, 28-30 July 2022
This conference aspires to identify new research landscapes and build conscious research agendas for the coming years that can align our discipline with the contemporary realities and challenges that citizens of the region are experiencing. Looking back at the Arab Spring, through wars in Libya, Yemen, and Syria and massive human displacement, considering regime change and resiliency, advancements in women’s rights, and current implications of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2022. Information: https://web.apsanet.org/mena/2022-conference/
7. Workshop on “Social Contracts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) – Drivers of Change”, German Development Institute, Bonn, 24-26 August 2022
Papers should identify drivers of contemporary transformations of social contracts in the MENA-region, as-sess the drivers’ respective contribution to change – both in ‘objective’ terms and in the perception of the social contract stakeholders, gauge the options of less powerful actors (e.g. vulnerable groups in society) to bring about change in social contracts.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2022.
Information: https://www.die-gdi.de/en/events/details/social-contracts-in-the-mena-drivers-of-change/
8. International Conference “Timely Histories: A Social History of Time in South Asia”, Organised by ZMO and CSDS, New Delhi, 12-14 October 2022
Contributions are invited on the history of temporality in early modern and modern South Asia. We are inter-ested in going beyond the conception of time as a homogeneous substratum of all being and re-conceiving it more as a dynamic object and medium of historical processes, practically entangled with varying modes of time reckoning and temporal cultures, techniques and epistemes.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2022. Information: https://www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Karri-ere/Ausschreibungen_2022/CfP_Timely_Histories_10-22.pdf
9. International Workshop: “Religion and Secularism as Problem Space in Postcolonial Occidentalist Discourses within the MENA Region.” Leipzig University, 3-4 November 2022
The workshop aims to discuss the question of religion and secularity/secularism in (postcolonial) Occidentalist discourses and their critiques in the MENA region. The workshop intents to explore the trajectories of post-colonial Occidentalist discourses in the MENA region. It aims to reflect on their various genealogies, forms, and contents.
Extended deadline for abstract: 15 April 2022.
10. Symposium “Historiography in the Ottoman Empire: Scholars, Works, and Problems”, ISAR, Istanbul, 16-17 December 2022
The symposium intends to illuminate the lives of these historians, their traditions, sources, methods, and objectives. In addition, it also welcomes rereading attempts of Ottoman historical texts guided by newly developing approaches, such as conceptual history, the history of emotions, environmental history, and so on.
The languages of presentations will be Turkish, Arabic, or English. Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2022. Information: https://www.isar.org.tr/en/sempozyum-calistaylar/historiography-in-the-ottoman-empire-scholars-works-and-problems/call-for-papers-9
11. Scientific Staff (Prae-Doc, 3 Years), Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna
To join the research project “Grocers of Istanbul: Tracing Food Consumption through the Inheritance Inven-tories of Grocers (Bakkals) in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”. Qualificaton: MA with focus on the history of the Ottoman Empire; solid philological training in reading Ottoman texts, palaeographical know-
ledge, excellent research skills, as well as good communication skills. Deadline for applications: 25 April 2022. Information:
12. Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022/23, Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)
The OIB awards a number of visiting fellowships of 6 and 9 months for the academic year 2022/23 to junior scholars during the early stages of the postdoc period in support of excellent research projects in the human-ities and social sciences. We are particularly interested in research projects that fit our annual topic of “hu mans in their relations to the divine and humans in their relation to their productions”. Deadline for applications: 6 June 2022. Information: https: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/scholarships/postdoctoral-fellowships/
13. Doctoral Fellowships 2022/23, Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)
The OIB awards a number of visiting fellowships of up to 12 months for the academic year beginning in September 2022 to doctoral candidates in support of excellent research projects in the humanities and social sciences. We are particularly interested in research projects that fit our annual topic of “humans in their relations to the divine and humans in their relation to their productions”. Deadline for applications: 6 June 2022. Information: https: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/scholarships/doctoral-fellowships/
14. Post-Doc Fellowship (1 Year) for Research on “Islamophobia in Health Professions Education”, University of Toronto
Applicants must have defended their doctoral dissertation by June 1, 2022 on a topic related to contemporary experience as a North American Muslim, cross-cultural dialogue on Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate, and/or using education to address Islamophobia. Deadline for application extended: 5 May 2022. Information: https://mobile.twitter.com/UofTMed_OID/status/1512152023772323840 Contact: medicine.inclusiondiversity@utoronto.ca
15. Postdoctoral Associate Position in Arabic Cultural Studies (1 Year), Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC
The successful candidate will have completed a Ph.D. within the past two years and will have a strong record of research and solid preparation for (or experience in) teaching at the undergraduate level in Arabic cultures,
with a focus on the modern and/or contemporary period. Deadline for applications: 23 May 2022. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/21566
16. Chapters on “Turkish Cultural Syndromes and Their Representations in Popular Culture” for Edited Collection “Culture-bound Syndromes in Popular Culture” (Routledge)
The volume aims to provide in-depth and analytical insight into the representations of cultural imagery and narratives of various culture-bound syndromes through the lens of global and national popular culture, cov-ering movies, television, literature, visual arts, fashion, festivals, popular music, and graphic novels. Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/10075052/culture-bound-syndromes-popular-culturecall-chaptersroutledge
17. 9th Edition of the Summer School “Understanding the Middle East: The Politics of Gender in the Middle East and North Africa”, University of Turin, 4-8 July 2021
The summer school critically unpacks gender studies to explore the role they have in re-defining regional trajectories. It also aspires to analyse new debates to better grasp the impact these studies have on the
Middle East and North African region in historical perspective. Deadline for applications: 31 May 2022. Information: https://www.tomideast.com/
18. Course “Decolonising European Modernity: Text, Paratext, Urtext”, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London, 11-14 July 2022, 10:00 am – 12:30 pm GMT Information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decolonising-european-modernity-text-paratext-urtext-short-course-tickets-243473765587
19. Summer School: “Religion, Mobility & Economy”, University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp (UCSIA), 28 August – 3 September 2022, Antwerp, Belgium
The interdisciplinary mentoring programme for doctoral and postdoctoral students will focus on the diversity of religions on the move and economic transformation. We welcome papers based on original research that explore these themes from a variety of disciplines including anthropology, history, sociology, political science, and theology. Faculty includes two assistant professors with focus on Islam.
Deadline for applications: 17 April 2022.
Information: https://www.ucsia-summerschool.org/
20. Contributions à « Discours et pouvoir dans et sur les religions » pour un numéro thématique de Revue “Religiologique”
Ce numéro veut réfléchir aux discours sur les religions, d’un point de vue politique ou juridique, et les façons dont les sociétés entendent gérer le religieux. Il peut aussi être l’occasion de réfléchir aux façons dont les religions adaptent, ou non, leur discours, confrontés aux nouveaux impératifs sociaux, ainsi qu’à l’émergence
de discours critiques des religions et les influences de ceux-ci sur les structures religieuses. Les manuscrits sont à soumettre avant la fin du mois de décembre 2022.
Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2022/04/Appel_discours_pouvoir.pdf
21. Deadline extended:
The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) will offer two seven-week intensive summer Arabic programs on AUB campus between June 22 and August 10, 2022.
The Arabic Language and Culture program is designed for students interested in developing overall proficiency in Arabic in both its Standard and Lebanese varieties. Emphasis is placed on the development of the various skills within a communicative, proficiency-based framework that perceives Arabic in all its varieties as “one language” and thus integrates standard Arabic and Lebanese colloquial within the same course, and that gives special attention to the development of intercultural competence in Arabic. The program provides instruction at different levels of proficiency from elementary to high advanced.
The Lebanese Arabic program offers intensive instruction at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. The program is designed for learners who want to devote their attention to the development of proficiency in Lebanese Arabic and thus places heavy emphasis on the speaking and listening skills and on building/enhancing intercultural competence.
Both programs provide intensive instruction and immersion in the language and culture through a rigorous academic program that is complemented by an integrated series of films, lectures, clubs, and community service activities. Students receive 9 credit hours that they can transfer to their home institutions.
The application deadline has been extended to May 6, 2022.
For detailed information about the academic content of the programs, application, cost, and financial support, please visit our website: http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cames/sap/ or contact us on cames@aub.edu.lb.
22. Fellowships & Grants in Iranian Studies
April 29, 2022 – 5 PM GMT
(9 AM PST, 12 PM EST)
What fellowships and grants exist out there?
What are the different options for students & postgraduates?
What do students or postgraduates need to secure one?
Mark your calendars for our next Presidential Session on “Fellowships and Grants in Iranian Studies” with AIS President, Naghmeh Sohrabi, AIS Council Member, Dr. Hosna Sheikholeslami, and Dr. Stella Morgana.
The online event will be held on Friday, April 29 at 12pm EST and will be moderated by AIS Student Representatives Dr. Rowena Abdul Razak and Layah Ziaii-Bigdeli.
To register, visit: https://tinyurl.com/AISPresidentialSessions
23. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“African Slaves in Qajar Photographs (1840s – 1920s): Curation and Interpretation in the 21st century”
Speaker: Professor Pedram Khosronejad (Curator of Persian Arts, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney)
Thursday, April 14th at 11 AM NYC
Email Helen Goldenberg if you like to have access to this online talk (Helen.Goldenberg@metmuseum.org )
24. The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies(BBQ+) is an independent Center dedicated to interdisciplinary research, pedagogy, and mentorship in critical race, Indigenous, postcolonial, and queer studies. Our fellowshipis a year-long program that brings together a diverse group of scholars from undergraduates to postgraduates working across these fields in a collaborative and supportive environment. The fellowship meets once a week for two hours and meetings alternate between writing clinics, theory clinics, fellows circles focussed on demystifying academia for BIPOC, queer, trans, and/or first generation scholars, and a monthly colloquium with senior scholars in BBQ+ related fields.
The fellowship is open to:
- College students (including students in community colleges) and recent (3 years post-degree) BA and BSc holders
- Masters students and recent MA holders (3 years post-degree)
- PhD students
- Recent Postdoctoral scholars (not exceeding 8 years after earning a doctoral degree)
Open to undocumented and international applicants.
In all cases, parental leaves, family leaves, sick leaves and any similar circumstances will not be counted within years-post-degree. For circumstances or other related considerations that are not documented, applicants are encouraged to write to fellowships@bbqplus.org
The fellowship offers:
1. Research Stipend: Fellows are offered a $3000 research stipend. They can also apply to reimburse other research or professionalization expenses. If you have another source of funding and can waive the $5000 research stipend, please indicate so in your application.
- Mentorship and Professionalization: Each cohort of fellows works closely with a member of the Center’s leadership to develop their research project (see expectations below) and prepare for a professional career through sessions dedicated to various aspects of professionalization. Fellows also have access to the broader network of the Center and the Senior Fellowswho can offer advice and comment on work in progress.
- Community: The Center aims to foster a tightly-knit and supportive intergenerational and interdisciplinary community of scholars around shared academic interests. Regular meetings and opportunities for socializing provide both structure and support.
All applications received by May 1 will receive full consideration. For more information and to apply, go to https://www.bbqplus.org/fellowship-application
25. Kenyon College – Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Historyhttps://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63234
Closing date: 23.6.22
- April 12, 2022
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Shii News – DFDS (Qom) 2022 Fellowship
Discussion Forum on Divine Scriptures invites applications in three levels for a one-year fellowship in Islamic historical Theology beginning in August 2022.
DFDS 1 fellowship (Eligibility: The fellowship is open to 5 PhD students in the Biblical or Islamic Studies)
DFDS 2 fellowship (Eligibility: The fellowship is open to 3 scholars who have competed their PhD within the past three years in the Biblical or Islamic Studies.)
DFDS 3 fellowship (Eligibility: The fellowship is open to 2 Assistant Professors in the Biblical or Islamic Studies.)
Teaching load is six courses for the academic year, three per semester. Course units includes Historical methodology; Method of analyzing the history of Islam; Comparative History of the Divine Scriptures; History of Islamic thought; The structure of the transmission of Islamic heritage civilization and Historical analysis of religious texts (TPET)
The fellow will be expected to participate in the activities of the DFDS Programs one semester-long course. A complete application includes: a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, and a letter of recommendation. Please send your application for review by May 20, 2022 to ahmadi_mh@ut.ac.ir (Dr. Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi, Asso. Prof. University of Tehran and Executive Director of Discussion Forum on divine Scriptures (DFDS).
The applications will be considered by DFDS steering committee and the Approval applications will be sent out by June 17.
More Information: https://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir
- April 11, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.OpenITI Teleconference on April 19
We welcome all to join the Open Islamicate Texts Initiative Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project (OpenITI AOCP) team for a public teleconference on Tuesday, April 19 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST. Please register for this event here.
The conference, led by OpenITI AOCP co-PIs Matthew Thomas Miller and Sarah Bowen Savant, will present OpenITI’s latest work on optical character recognition (OCR) for Persian and Arabic and the user-friendly digital text production pipeline, eScriptorium.
We particularly encourage those individuals and projects teams who are interested in making use of our OCR system for their own research and project development to attend. We will discuss the formation of user testing groups at this event and discuss OpenITI’s planned next phase of development.
We will prepare a report of the conference proceedings as well as record the presentations and discussion for those unable to attend.
For more on OpenITI AOCP, a project generously funded by The Mellon Foundation, please visit this webpage. For more on eScriptorium and the eScripta team, please visit https://gitlab.com/scripta/escriptorium.
2. CfP: Invitation to Pacifism and Nonviolence in Contemporary Islam conference at the University of Manchester
We would like to cordially invite you to present at the upcoming international conference “Pacifism and Nonviolence in Contemporary Islam” at the University of Manchester.
The conference will take place on May 17, 2022. The format of the conference will be hybrid – with talks presented simultaneously at the University and online via Zoom. A plenary roundtable discussion will offer a further opportunity for these interventions to be discussed collectively, and contributions from online participants are very welcome.
This conference brings together academics, civil society members, and activists from around the world. It explores Muslim experiences of pacifism and nonviolence while exploring prospects for their theorization. It moves past popular tropes of Islam as (or other than) ‘a religion of peace’ to offer a space to constructively and critically examine neglected literature, differing perspectives, and substantive initiatives – from scriptural interpretation to practical peacebuilding. Its approach is inclusive, inter-disciplinary, and flexible. It seeks first and foremost to ground its discussions in their own contexts: theoretical and embodied, historical and political, theological and hermeneutic.
The conference provides a welcoming space for scholars and practitioners to engage with one another. Panellists from a wide range of professional, cultural, and geographic backgrounds are invited to apply to present their research and offer their reflections on pacifism and nonviolence in contemporary Islam. By bringing together leading scholars, civil society members, and activists from around the world, a more comprehensive understanding can be achieved. The results of this conversation will benefit both participants and the wider world.
For more information on the conference please see: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/pacifism-in-islam/
Please send your abstract or an outline of your talk by May 1, 2022 to this email walaa.quisay@manchester.ac.uk
3. Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies welcomes the submission of papers for May Issue 2022.The deadline for the manuscript submissions has been extended until April 15, 2022. The issue publication date is May Issue 2022. For more information, visit the Submission page. The papers can address but are not limited to the following … Read More
- It is our pleasure to send the full issue of AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies, Volume 6, Number1. February 2022
For individual papers, please click here
Regards,
Arab World English Journal
for Translation & Literary Studies
https://awej-tls.org/
4. Iranian Armenian Transnational Poetry:
We at Roshan Institute for Persian Studies are pleased to announce the Spring 2022 Mir-Djalali Speaker Series Lecture. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Claudia Yaghoobi, Roshan Institute Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Yaghoobi has also recently been named Director of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at UNC. Join us here on Sunday, April 17 from 2 to 4 p.m. EST.
5. Decades of Fire: New Writing from the Middle East and North Africa
Special issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review, Decades of Fire: New Writing from the Middle East and North Africa.
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/the-journal/current-issue-spring-2022/
6. Dust-Ali Khan, “Mo`ayyer al-Mamalek”, The Artist and the Shah: Memoirs of Life at the Persian Court
including 280 photos of the Persian Court
Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar (translator
- April 09, 2022
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Shii News – Register for Seventh Annual Conference on Shi‘i Studies
https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/publications/shiistudies/seventh-shii-conference-2/
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https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/publications/shiistudies/seventh-shii-conference/
- April 08, 2022
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