Archive for 2022

CfP: “Materiality, Rituals and Senses: The Dynamic World of Lived Shi‘i Islam”, Tbilisi, Georgia, 19 – 21 October 2022
This conference explores the material, ritual and sensory forms of expression that constitute and shape the experiences of Shi‘i Muslims in diverse geographies and different time periods. It therefore seeks to uncover the dynamics of lived Shi‘i Islam and its varied temporal and spatial dimensions.
Themes: Devotion and ritual practice and its multiple sensory, material, embodied and aesthetic forms; Gendered dimensions of Shi‘i cultural production; Translocal and transnational entanglements and flows of ideas, capital, and people; Political economy of Shi‘i cultural production; Impact of regional and world politics on content and form in Shi‘i cultural production.
We welcome research on various subdivisions of Shi‘i Islam, including the Twelver, Ismaili, and Zaidi subbranches, as well as research on Alid piety and different forms of devotion to ahl al-bayt more generally. Scholars of all career levels and disciplinary and interdisciplinary backgrounds are encouraged to submit an abstract, including from Anthropology, Area Studies, Cultural Studies, History, Islamic Studies, Media Studies, Political Science, Religious Studies, Sociology, Ethnomusicology and other relevant and related disciplines and fields.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2022.
Further information:
https://www.ctr.lu.se/en/about-us/calendar/event/materiality-rituals-and-senses-dynamic-world-lived-shii-islam/

Profile in Persecution: Ali Mohsen Muhana

1.Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice

Call for Papers (Deadline 30/06/2022)

The Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice (MJTILP) is pleased to announce the call for papers for its forthcoming Volume 18, 2022.

The MJTILP is a peer reviewed journal and indexed on SCOPUS. The journal is available at the www.electronicpublications.org and can also be accessed on HeinOnline. The journal welcomes submission of articles that meet its objectives for consideration with a view to publication.

The journal comprises of three sections:(1) Articles; (2) Recent Developments; and (3) Book Reviews.

The normal word length for articles is between 5000-15000 words including footnotes. The journal also welcomes shorter contributions (between 2000 to 3000 words) for its ‘Recent Developments’ section. The MJTILP is not restricted to any specific field of law and aims to cover a wide range of subjects relevant to Islamic law and practice. Topics of particular interest include: transnational forms of Islamic law; constitutional developments, law reform and application of international lawin the Muslim world; application of Sharia in Muslim or non-Muslim States; accommodation of Muslims in non-Muslim State; comparative practices of Muslim majority States; and intersections between Islamic law and international law or other religious and secular legal systems. For detailed aims of the MJTILP, please visit the journal’s website: https://www.electronicpublications.org/catalogue/46

The journal also welcomes reviews of monographs and edited collections published recently on any of the above topics. For book review enquiries, please get in touch with our Book Review Editor Dr Khaled Bashir (khaled.bashir@abdn.ac.uk ).

All submissions must be original, unpublished works, and not under consideration elsewhere. All publications are subject to transfer of copyright to the publisher. We are happy to discuss permissions to authors on justifiable grounds.

Submissions: Editorial correspondence, including submissions to the journal should be made electronically to Editor-in-Chief of the Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice Dr Ahmad Ghouri via email: a.a.ghouri@outlook.com .For further information, including submission criteria and style guidelines please refer tothe journal website: http://www.electronicpublications.org/catalogue.php?id=46 .Advance Publications: Accepted manuscripts may be first published online as ‘Advance Publications’. All Advance Publications will be included in the subsequent Issue/Volume of the Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice.

 

 

 

2. Applications are now open for a National Endowment for the Humanities training institute on digital publishing that will be held in hybrid format at the Brown University Library in July 11-29, 2022.

This is meant for scholars interested to learn more about digital publishing, including matters such as conceptualization, design, available platforms (Manifold, Scalar, WordPress), budgeting, and funding sources. Presenters will include authors who have published digital books or are writing them now, university press editors and directors, designers, and technological specialists.

The application is open to scholars of all ranks, including university faculty and adjuncts, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars. Applicants must have a Ph.D.

Applicants based in any country are welcome, though the NEH Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) program focuses on scholars currently studying or employed at institutions in the U.S. Thus, U.S. citizens and/or U.S.-based scholars will be given priority. International applicants and/or persons without a current U.S. visa should note that, if selected and if an in-person meeting is possible, a visa cannot be guaranteed.

Closing date: 15 March, 2022

For details and the application, please visit:

https://library.brown.edu/neh-institute-born-digital-scholarly-publishing/

 

 

 

 

3. ONLINE Webinar: “Schooling Egypt’s New Elite: Class and Belonging in Cairo’s International Schools” with Noha Roushdy (CEDEJ/Boston), CEDEJ/IFAO, Cairo, 21 February 2022, 4:00 pm EET

Discussant: Daniele Cantini (University of Halle).

Information and registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScevAFGG6HDzydBlhDwZqY5UzMfBxtKBJuI4r5uS9PtmDsuFg/viewform

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Webinar on “Nursing, Empire, & Mobility: American Mission Nurses in Iran & Iranian Nurses in the U.S., 1907-1979” by Lydia Wytenbroek, Bishop`s University, Canada, 23 February 2022, 2:30 pm ET

Information and registration:

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9741591/tuan-luu-webinar-series-global-health-and-history-winter-2022

 

 

 

 

5. ONLINE Seminar on “The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism”, by Hammami, Abu-Lughod and Shalhoub-Kevorkina, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 25 February 2022, 12:00 pm – 01:30 pm ET

This seminar is based on the findings of a three-year collaborative research project between feminist scholars of the Middle East and South Asia that explored these questions across a range of intersecting local, national, and global contexts, in the process uncovering the ways in which religion and racialized ethnicity, particularly “the Muslim question,” run deeply through the international governance structures of GBVAW, even when insistently disavowed.

Information and registration: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2022/gender-violence-geopolitics-and-feminism

 

 

 

 

6. ONLINE Webinar: “Establishing Jordan’s First Online LGBTQ Magazine” by its Founder Khalid Abdel-Hadi, , Brown University, Providence, RI, 3 March 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm ET

Information and registration: https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iJlr7Wq_TSi0gYnQEwI3Wg

 

 

 

 

7. ONLINE Webinar: “The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics and Militant Femininities” by Isabel Käser, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 11 March 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm ET

Information and registration: https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LALHmlxMR6ixDBiTO8Rtzw

 

 

 

 

8. Panel on “Is an Alternative World Possible? Beyond Neoliberalism: Mapping Alternative Visions and Practices from the MENA Region”, during the 15th Conference of SeSaMO, Naples, 22-24 June 2022

The panel aims at exploring alternative practices to neoliberalism from the MENA region, with the objective to provide a space for academic reflection. It is open to alternative discourses to neoliberalism by scholars, protest movements and civil society organizations as well as concrete bottom-up local initiatives, experiments and projects that provide examples of more sustainable economies.

Deadline for abstracts: 13 March 2022

Information: http://www.sesamoitalia.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/30.-Paciello.pdf

 

 

 

 

9. Workshop: “Reckoning with God: Divine-Human Relations after the Arab Spring”, Orient-Institut Beirut, 30 June – 2 July 2022

The organizers seek contributions which foreground the figure of God and divine-human relations in the contemporary Arab world, across religious traditions and from numerous disciplines—particularly anthropology, sociology, history, and religious studies.

Deadline for abstracts: 9 March 2022. Information: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dq21g3b007sy6w6/Reckoning%20with%20God%20CFP.pdf?dl=0

 

 

 

 

10. Conference on “Contemporary Forms of Racism and Discrimination (Focus MENA Region)”, Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR), University of Ghent, PhD Pre-Conference 18-19 September 2022, Main Conference 19-21 September 2022

We strongly welcome empirical and theoretical contributions reflecting on the processes of racism, discrimi-nation and exclusion in the Global South. We also particularly welcome contributions aiming to bridge race and migration studies in Europe.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2022. Information: https://www.ugent.be/cessmir/en/conference-2022#Call-forcontributions

 

 

 

 

11. Conference: “30 Years after Richard M. Frank: Al-Ghazali and Avicenna in Post-Classical Islam”, Yale Department of Religious Studies, 7-8 April 2023

Contributions are invited on the impact of al-Ghazālī and Avicenna on post-classical Arabic and Islamicate intellectual history, especially within the domains of falsafa and kalām and their intersection with Sufism, the natural and occult sciences, and the philosophy of law (uṣūl al-fiqh).

Deadline for submissions: 15 April 2022. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/02/17/call-for-papers-30-years-after-richard-m.-frank-al-ghazali-and-avicenna-in-post-classical-islam

 

 

 

 

12. International Conference: “Religious Renewal in Times of Crisis” (Focus Middle East and Islamic History), University of Nebraska Omaha and Tantur Ecumenical Institute, Jerusalem, Postponed until 24-28 April 2023

The scope of this academic event is the study of religious renewal movements and their emergence in times of crisis across the world and history – with a special focus on how they have impacted the three Abrahamic religions and the city of Jerusalem.

Deadline for abstract: Fall 2022. Information: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-arts-and-sciences/religion/research/religious-renewal-in-times-of-crisis-conference.php

 

 

 

13. Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Culture Studies, Trinity College, Hartford, CT

Candidates must have native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English and will have a record of excellence in language instruction. They must hold a Ph.D. in Arabic language and literature, translation, media studies, applied linguistics, second language acquisition, language education, or another related field.

Deadline for applications: 14 March 2022. Information: https://trincoll.peopleadmin.com/postings/2533

 

 

 

14. Lecturer of Arabic at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Qualifications: MA degree and a minimum of one year of teaching experience; a native or near-native lan-guage fluency, demonstrate excellence and experience in language instruction at the college level and be familiar with effective application of current technologies to foreign language learning.

Deadline for applications: 1 March 2022. Information: https://careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Lafayette-Arabic-Lecturer-IN-47906/844426800/

 

 

 

 

15. CALL FOR PAPERS

Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, one of the leading figures of the renewal period, is a scholar renowned for his works in the fields of kalam, mathematics, astronomy, and logic.

On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Samarqandī’s passing we are inviting researchers to submit articles on Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, one of the leading figures of the renewal period and a scholar renowned for his works in the fields of kalam, mathematics, astronomy, and logic.

Deadline for contributions: 31 May 2022. Information:

https://nazariyat.org/en/special-issues/semseddin-es-semerkandi-ozel-sayisi

 

 

 

16. Proposals for New Book Series “South-South Migration” (Springer Nature)

The book series encompasses distinct fields such as international migration, internal migration, remittances, migrant entrepreneurship, diaspora philanthropy, social cost of migration, political and environmental refu-gees, gender and migration, labor migration, migration policy, the political economy of migration, migrants’ rights, and other migration-related issues in the global South.

Information: https://www.springer.com/series/16846

 

 

 

17. 1 year Visiting Assistant Position: Asian Islam (Hamilton College)

Hamilton College: Hamilton College Faculty

Location

Clinton, NY

Open Date

Jan 21, 2022

Deadline

Mar 05, 2022 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time

Description

The Asian Studies program of Hamilton College invites applications for a one-year visiting position in any discipline on Islam in Asia, including Iran/Persia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, to begin on July 1, 2022. Mastery of a relevant Asian language is expected. Teaching expertise should include an introductory course on Islam, a survey on the history of Islam in Asia, and an upper-level course based on the successful candidate’s area of specialization. Ph.D. by the time of appointment is preferred, but ABDs nearing completion of the dissertation will be considered. Teaching load is five courses for the year, including an introductory course on Islam, a survey of Islam in Asia, and courses in the candidate’s discipline and area of specialization.

Candidates should submit a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, and two course syllabi to Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/101756. The applicant’s cover letter should address the ways in which they would further the College’s goal of building a diverse educational environment. Candidates should address correspondence to Professor Thomas Wilson, Director of Asian Studies, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 13323.

Application deadline is March 5, 2022.

Hamilton (www.hamilton.edu) is a residential liberal arts college located in upstate New York. Applicants with dual-career considerations can find other Hamilton and nearby academic job listings at https://www.hercjobs.org/regions/higher-ed-careers-upstate-new-york/, as well as additional information at https://www.hamilton.edu/dof/faculty-development/resources-for-prospective-or-new-faculty/opportunities-for-spouses-or-partners (Opportunities for Spouses or Partners). Hamilton College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity in all areas of the campus community. Hamilton provides domestic partner benefits. Candidates from underrepresented groups in higher education are especially encouraged to apply.

 

 

 

18. ZOOM – ‘All World Is My Home: The Depiction of Migration in Modern Iranian Media’ – B Tabarraee (Chicago, 5pm, 24.2.22)

The Persian Circle at the University of Chicago

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/persiancircle/

You can join on zoom at the following URL: https://tinyurl.com/persiancircle.

 

 

 

19. Wagner College – Visiting Assistant Professor – History of Africa, the Middle East or South Asia and the History of Islam

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63043

Closing date : June 1, 2022

 

 

 

 

20. Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Three Postdoctoral Researchers – Islam & Vision
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63029

Deadline for application is March 15, 2022.

 

 

 

21. Harvard Art Museums – Norma Jean Calderwood Associate Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63065

Closing date: 19.3.22

Al-Mahdi Institute is now enrolling for courses in Islamic Studies starting on the 28th February 2022. Courses available for enrollment are Hadith & Rijal Studies, Arabic Level One and Islamic Ethics which can be studied virtually live on-demand at anytime and place.

Deadline for applications is Thursday 24th February 2022.

Find out more or apply now: https://mailchi.mp/almahdi.edu/islamicfeb2022semester

1.2022 Spring Meeting: Travel, Mobility, and Cultural Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa

University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
April 9-10, 2022 

For more information and to register, click “REGISTER HERE” through the following link, then pay a 15$ fee via Paypal at the bottom of the page: 

https://sites.google.com/su.edu/sermeiss/meetings_1/spring-meetings?authuser=0

 

The Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS) Spring 2022 workshop is being held April 9-10, 2022 at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL. The workshop will focus on “Travel, Mobility, and Cultural Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa” and is being organized by a committee chaired by Dr. Waleed Hazbun (University of Alabama). Papers presented at the 2022 workshop will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Tourism History.

We are planning an in-person workshop and will follow CDC safety guidance and the University of Alabama policy which requires masks inside all academic buildings. We recommend that all attendees be fully vaccinated and boosted.

 

 

 

2.Call for Applications: Harvard University AKPIA 2022-23 Fellowships and Associateships

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63028

Deadline: 1 April, 2022

 

 

 

3. Doctoral Scholarship in Islamic Art, University of Oxford

The Khalili Research Centre is offering a scholarship for a student of exceptional promise to undertake a DPhil in Islamic Art and/or Architecture at the University of Oxford. The scholarship will cover fees and maintenance for 3 years starting in October 2022. The successful candidate will have a fully-formed project with the requisite language and research skills already in place. Preference may be given to students working on one of the following fields: Umayyad art and architecture; Abbasid art and architecture; early Qur’ans; Ottoman art and architecture; the history of Islamic calligraphy before 1900.

How to apply

All candidates who apply for the DPhil at the University of Oxford with a supervisor at the Khalili Research Centre by 12 noon on 1 March 2022 will be considered for this scholarship:

https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/dphil-oriental-studies

There are no restrictions of nationality. Candidates are advised to contact a prospective supervisor before applying.

The Khalili Research Centre

The Khalili Research Centre (KRC) is the University of Oxford’s centre for research into the art and material culture of the Islamic societies of the Middle East and of their non-Muslim members and neighbours. It brings together staff, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students specialising in Islamic art and architecture in a dedicated building at the heart of Oxford. The Centre benefits from the exceptional concentration of expertise in related fields at the University of Oxford, as well as the world-class library resources and object collections of the Bodleian Library, Ashmolean Museum, and further institutions in Oxford. For more information, please visit: https://krc.web.ox.ac.uk/homekrc

Contact:

Prof. Alain George (alain.george@orinst.ox.ac.uk)

 

 

 

4. University of Michigan – Ann Arbor – The Humanities Collaboratory at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor invites applicants to a one-year postdoctoral fellowship dedicated to the study of the Mongol empire and its northern frontiers.

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62969

Deadline: 25.2.22

 

 

 

5. HIAA Writing Groups – Sign up by February 21

HIAA Writing Groups

The HIAA board is pleased to announce a new matching service that will connect members seeking peer-review. Participants in HIAA Writing Groups will share, read, discuss, and gain productive feedback on their works in progress.

Who is in each Writing Group?

Each writing group will have 3–4 members. Participants will be matched based on their career stage. For example, doctoral students who have just begun their dissertation will be matched with other doctoral students who are in the same stage of their research. And, junior scholars working on their first book will be matched with other junior scholars who are working on their first books. To ensure diverse feedback and to avoid overlap, participants may have different research languages, different geographies of focus, and different time periods of expertise.

What do Writing Groups entail?

Participants will commit to meeting at least once every other week for a single two-hour meeting on Zoom (the precise schedule to be arranged between members). The first 90 minutes of each meeting will be a discussion of one participant’s in-progress writing (to be circulated and read before the meeting). The last 30 minutes of the meeting will be reserved to discuss each participant’s weekly writing plan and goals.

How do I participate in HIAA’s Writing Groups?

If you are interested in participating in a HIAA Writing Group, please fill out this form by February 21, 2022. Group assignments will be announced on February 28th.

 

 

 

6. The HIAA-Sponsored panel at CAA will be held virtually on Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 3:30 pm (EST). For full details of how to register and access the recording (available till April 14, 2022), please visit the CAA website. Details of the panel below:

 

The Racialized Figure in Islamic Art & Culture

Organized by Holley Ledbetter (chair) and Christiane Gruber (discussant), University of Michigan

* Holley Ledbetter (University of Michigan), “Making Race Visible: Racialized Automata at the Fatimid Court”

* Negar Habibi (University of Geneva), “Moon-Faced Idols and Slim-Waisted Women: Racialized Gender in Safavid Painting”

* Mira Xenia Schwerda (University of Edinburgh), “Ma’sumah Nizam Mafi and Her Unnamed Ladies-in-Waiting: Photography and the Politics of race in Qajar Iran”

* Sascha Crasnow (University of Michigan), “Can the Master’s Tools be Remade?: Nour Ballout’s Queer Muslim Archive”

 

The HIAA Majlis will be held virtually on Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm (EST). Please register at: https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqf-mtrzgrHtPVW2NX0b0U0w4JfoAvfg0C

The Majlis will feature the following papers:

* Srinanda Ganguly (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Gender and Patronage at the Tombs of Khusrau Bagh, Allahabad”

* Sylvia Houghteling (Bryn Mawr College), “Figures Rendered in Dyes: Representations of the Deccan on Painted Cotton Textiles from Seventeenth-Century South Asia”

* Atri Hatef Naiemi (University of Victoria), “In Search of Blessing: The Veneration of the Tomb of Ghazan Khan from the Ilkhanid Period to the Present”

* Sylvia Wu (University of Chicago), “Domes and Minarets: The Self-Destructive Portrayal of China’s Recent Mosques

* Meredyth Winter (Colgate University), “Mixed Messages” Mapping Class and Ethnicity within the Medieval Mosques of Qazwin”

 

 

 

 

7. Intellect is pleased to announce that Performing Islam 9.1-2 is out now!

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/performing-islam

Aims and Scope

Emerging from an international network project funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Economics and Social Research Council, and research collaboration between academics and practitioners, Performing Islam is the first peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal about Islam and performance and their related aesthetics. It focuses on the socio-cultural as well as historical and political contexts of artistic practices in the Muslim world. The journal covers dance, ritual, theatre, performing arts, visual arts and cultures, and popular entertainment in Islam-influenced societies and their diasporas. It promotes insightful research about performative expressions of Islam by performers and publics, and encompasses theoretical debates, empirical studies, postgraduate research, interviews with performers, research notes and queries, and reviews of books, conferences, festivals, events and performances.

This journal, which is rigorously peer-reviewed, pursues the methods and methodologies by which we attempt to approach original research in Islam in performance studies, and the study of the performativity inherent in Islam-related cultural production. Contributions that share research interests and experiences in interrelated areas of performative, homeland and diasporic negotiations, and the complexities of contemporary Islam are particularly welcomed.

Issue 9.1-2

In Memoriam

Extended Article

The sonic performance of Islamic congregational prayer: Ṣalāh in mainstream Egyptian practice

MICHAEL FRISHKOPF

Article

Domestic Tension: Representation of Muslim artist’s body in online performance

SEYED JAFAR HEJAZ

 

 

 

 

8. Upcoming Event: Getting Published in an Academic Journal

BRISMES and CBRL are pleased to announce their second joint mentoring webinar for members. Targeting postgraduate students and early career researchers, these on-line events offer practical advice and support from specialists, equipping the next generation of Middle East scholars with the insights needed to get ahead in their research and careers.
This event brings together editors from the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BJMES); Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME); Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS); and Contemporary Levant (CL). Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions specific to these journals and their respective processes.

Date: Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Time: 4:00PM (UK time)
Location: Zoom

https://www.brismes.ac.uk/events/graduate-section/getting-published

 

 

 

 

9. Kuwait Project Coordinator
LSE Middle East Centre
The LSE Middle East Centre seeks to hire an enthusiastic and proactive professional to coordinate the work of the Kuwait Programme, a major research programme involving multiple activities. The post holder will provide comprehensive administration for all Kuwait Programme activities, including projects, finances, HR, and communications. The Programme Coordinator will manage the completion of research commitments and expand networks among the Kuwait research community.

Deadline | 27 February 2022

More information

 

 

 

 

10. Research Associate (Fixed Term)
University of Cambridge
The Centre for Geopolitics (CfG), a research centre within the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, invites applications for three two-year, fixed-term post-doctoral Research Associates. The successful candidates will be responsible for conducting research on any area of geopolitics, past and present. Preference may be given to candidates researching peace-making in Middle East, the Indo-Pacific and the formation of the United Kingdom.

Deadline | 28 February 2022

More information

 

 

 

 

11. Associate Professor
University of Warwick
The Institute for Global Sustainable Development (IGSD) is looking for an enthusiastic, committed and collegial individual who will develop their own research portfolio in the area of global sustainable development and complement the institute’s existing research streams. IGSD is seeking candidates with a research interest that is geographically focused in the Global South, and in particular in Africa, South America or the Middle East.

Deadline | 28 February 2022

More information

 

 

 

 

12. Fellowship Opportunity x2
Sectarianism, Proxies and De-Sectarianization (SEPAD)
SEPAD is looking for two fellows to join their team for 6 months. Candidates must hold a PhD or be close to completion, be able to work collaboratively and have a robust research agenda in Middle East Studies. Please note that this is a non-resident and unpaid fellowship to be undertaken remotely, designed to help with professional development and networking.

Deadline | 28 February 2022

More information

 

 

13. Call for Papers – XV Conference of SeSaMO
Conference | University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’ | 22-24 of June 2022
Papers are invited for the annual conference of the Italian Society for Midde Eastern Studies (SeSaMO), “Explaining Crisis, Beyond Chaos. The Middle East and North Africa in Global Change”. Please click on the link below for a list and brief description of the selected open panels.

Deadline | 13 March 2022
More information

 

 

 

 

14. Mohammed Al Fahim Scholarship
LSE Middle East Centre

LSE Middle East Centre has recently announced a new scholarship opportunity for applicants from the Middle East or North Africa who are interested in pursuing postgraduate education at the London School of Economics. Three scholarships will be awarded, one per academic year, from 2022/23 entry onwards. The scholarship will support the costs for any taught master’s programme.

Deadline | 28 April 2022
More information

 

 

 

 

15. AIS Conference to Journal Paper Award
Association for Iranian Studies (AIS)

The AIS Conference to Journal Paper aims to recognize AIS members who are either PhD students or early career scholars and support them in the development of peer-reviewed work. The award winner will receive $300 and will be mentored through the review process at the Iranian Studies journal by a senior member of the AIS academic community. The applicant must be a current AIS member, have registered for Salamanca 2022, and have a paper accepted to the conference, although they do not need to be present at the time of the award announcement.

Deadline | 1 May 2022
More information

 

 

 

16. Call for Proposals – The Global Qur’an
Book Series | Open Book Publishers
The Global Qur’an is a new book series that looks at Muslim engagement with the Qur’an in a global perspective. The editors particularly encourage comparative studies, investigations of transregional dynamics, and interactions between local and global contexts. Contributions from scholars outside Western Europe and North America are especially welcome.

More information

💯 World-class line-up of over 60 panelists and world-renowned presenters, in the world’s largest virtual conference, with over 110 global collaborations.

https://conferenceimamali.com/?mc_cid=9ff1f768cd&mc_eid=745ddc2b63

IMES Research Seminar Series
University of Edinburgh, Spring 2022
“De-centring (the study of) Shiʿism”

Note the rescheduling of the IMES research seminar of 21 February, which will offer two fascinating presentations by IMES PhD candidates Lucy Deacon and Carlos Mendez.

The new date for this seminar is Monday 28 March at 17:15. Those who had already registered for the talk should not need to register again. Here is the registration link, both just in case and also to review the full list of presentations https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcuyvqjgvHdaSodYsuXt5D9W4T3lim0DW

Lucy Deacon (UoE)
Karbala from Canvas to Stage: The Influence of Traditional Storytelling on the Iranian Taʿziyeh
Carlos Mendez (UoE)
Exploring the Intra-Shiʿi Moral Panic behind the Controversial Film “The Lady of Heaven”

‘To be God’s Sign in the Age of Globalisation: MarjaꜤiyya between Crisis and Progress’
Contacts: Minoo Mirshahvalad, Bianka Speidl // mmirshahvalad2@gmail.com
More information at:
http://www.sesamoitalia.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25.-Mirshahvalad-and-Speidl.pdf

The XV Conference of SeSaMO, Explaining Crisis, Beyond Chaos. The Middle East and North Africa in Global Change will take place in presence at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Naples – Italy the 22-24 of June 2022.

The Psycho-Architectonics of the Imżā Inscriptions: Denotations and Connotations of Text in the Arts of the Safavids

The Courtauld, University of London
March 3, 2022, 18:00-19:30 (London)

By Dr. Mahroo Moosavi

By working between the two media of art and literature, this paper challenges some manners by which the textually infused arts of the early modern Iran have been conventionally perceived. While through the inherited discourse of Western art history, the inscription or epigraph is an appurtenance of the object’s visual and thematic language or is, on some occasions, reduced to a purely scientific and palaeographic element, this paper suggests an alternate discourse that extends the significance of such texts, especially the imżā [signature] inscriptions, beyond the normative, emphasising their particular agency as possible strategic ‘interventions’ envisioned and adopted by the artist, architect, or the patron.

Tracing its earlier roots in the increasing use and thematic specificities of text in the artistic productions of the Persianate societies from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries onwards, this paper aims to open the current methodologies and understandings of the arts of the Safavids (1501-1722 AD) to a rereading. It does so by engaging with the ‘signature inscriptions’ as systematic architectonic design strategies that constantly de and re construct the object/space and the inter-woven micro politico-cultural context around it through activating the emotive-cognitive recipients of the user. By focusing on a number of cases such as the early seventeenth century mosque of Luṭfullāh in Isfahan and the mid-sixteenth century Sultan Ibrāhīm Mīrzā’s manuscript of Haft Awrang of Jāmī, this study shows how the application of text in the arts of early modern Iran operates as a mechanism through which the boundaries between different branches of art and knowledge may blur, making space for the reception and perception of art as an abstruse apparatus that functions through the layers of connotations of Persian psyche, language and literature.

Dr Mahroo Moosavi is Bahari Fellow in the Persian Arts of the Book at University of Oxford, Oliver Smithies Lecturer at Balliol College, University of Oxford, and Lecturer in architectural history, theory, and design at the University of Sydney. Her research is concerned with the intertext of art/architecture and poetry/prose, with a particular focus on the early modern Iran, through an interdisciplinary study of art/architectural history, literature, and post-structuralist philosophy. Her current project analyses the interpretations of form and structure of rhetorical devices in the chancellery writings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Iran to discern possible resonances within the artistic and urban system of the new city of Isfahan.

Please register at: https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/imza/

1. ONLINE Webinar: “Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon” with Maya Mikdashi and Attiya Ahmad, Institute for Middle East Studies, Washington, DC, 28 April 2022, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Maya Mikdashi offers a new way to understand state power, theorizing how sex, sexuality, and sect shape and are shaped by law, secularism, and sovereignty. Drawing on court archives, public records, and ethnog-raphy of the Court of Cassation, the highest civil court in Lebanon, Mikdashi shows how political difference is entangled with religious, secular, and sexual difference.

Information and registration: https://imes.elliott.gwu.edu/events/sextarianism-sovereignty-secularism-and-the-state-in-lebanon-with-maya-mikdashi-and-attiya-ahmad/

 

 

 

 

2. Summer School on “Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World”, Leiden University, 23 August – 2 September 2022

This course includes lectures by experts, hands-on classes and much practice with manuscripts from Lei-den`s famous collection of oriental manuscripts. The course is meant for graduate students (MA and PhD) and researchers.

Deadline for abstracts: 17 June 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9711267/lucis-summer-school-philology-and-manuscripts-muslim-world-aug

 

 

 

 

3. Kashf Al-Zunūn ‘An Asāmī Al-Kutub Wa Al-Funūn

(The removal of Doubt from the Names of Books and the Sciences)

By Muṣṭafa ibn ʿAbd Allāh
(known as Kātip Çelebī and Ḥājjī Khalīfa)
Critical edition by:
Ekmeleddin ihsanoğlu and Bashar Awad Ma’rouf

Al-Furqan, 2022

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4. AKU-ISMC 12-13 May Short Course – Manuscripts in Arabic Script: Introduction to Codicology (Online)

This online course aims to introduce key concepts in the field of Arabic manuscripts and codicology. It is designed to attract participants who want to learn basic knowledge about Arabic manuscripts. The first day will provide an overview of the field of codicology and its role in the manuscript field in general and in identifying key features of manuscripts in particular. The second session will be dedicated to writing supports, the structure of quires, ruling and page layout, bookbinding, ornamentation, tools and materials used in bookmaking, and the palaeography of book hands. Some practical examples will be given based on the lecturers’ long experiences. The second day will focus on the importance of manuscripts in research. While the first session will cover the paratextual features in the Arabic manuscripts, the second session will demonstrate the different approaches in editing manuscripts.
This introductory course is intended for students, researchers, and librarians who wish to increase their knowledge in the manuscript field. 
Learning Outcomes

– Basic understanding of the field of Arabic manuscript studies.

– Identify the role of manuscripts in knowledge production in different areas of studies in Muslim cultures.

Download course structure.

Course Convenors

Dr Walid Ghali is the Head of the Aga Khan Library, London, Associate Professor of Islamic and Arabic studies at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and a Chartered Librarian of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). Dr Ghali received his PhD in Islamic Manuscript Studies from the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University (2012). Dr Ghali’s current research projects focus on Islamic manuscript traditions, particularly in Arabic script and book history. He has published on Arabic literature, Sufi traditions and Islamic manuscripts cultures.

Dr Anne Regourd is researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, France. She has published extensively in the fields of history and philology dealing with codicology, paper studies, and papyrology. She is the editor of book, The Trade in Papers Marked with Non-Latin Characters, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2018, and heads the free access online journal, Nouvelles Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen.

Dr Eléonore Cellard is a specialist in Qurʾānic manuscripts. She started her research activities in 2008 under the supervision of Professor François Déroche. In 2015, she submitted her dissertation entitled The Written Transmission of the Qur’an: Study of a Corpus of Manuscripts from the 2nd Century AH/ 8th Century CE (INALCO/EPHE). She has collaborated on several international projects about Qurʾānic manuscripts, and recently carried out a research project on one of the Qurʾān copies attributed to the caliph ʿUthman ibn Affan’. She has also authored several monographs and articles on Qurʾānic manuscripts.

Date and Time 

12-13 May 2022, 11:00-15:00 (London Time).

Tickets and Booking

Tickets: £80 professionals | £50 students, AKU alumni and staff. Book as soon as possible

 

 

 

 

5. The 13th Annual International Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Conference (IRTP) will be held on 29th June – 2nd July 2022 in Vilnius, Lithuania. 

Abstract submission extended till 28^th February 2022.

All detailed information about the Conference can be found at this website:  https://irtp.co.uk/the-13th-annual-international-religious-tourism-and-pilgrimage-irtp-conference-2021/

 

 

 

6. The British Library:

The art of small things (5): Recitation markers in Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia

 

 

 

7. Qur’an Gateway, a tool for critical study of the text, construction, and language of the Qur’an which used to require subscription is now available as open source under the name Qur’an Tools.