Archive for March, 2023
- March 31, 2023
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Shii News – ‘A Shi`i Lebanese reading of Sunni Hadith’ – E Machlis
‘A Shi`i Lebanese reading of Sunni Hadith: progress, inclusivity, and an empowered contestation of narratives’
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2023
Access here
- March 29, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE “EHESS Spring Talks”: International Scholars and Students will Engage Directly with 30 EHESS Professors, Paris, 27 March – 21 April 2023, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Paris Time
The 15 talks will offer space for EHESS researchers to engage in one-hour live discussions with a moderator on the topic of their research seminar, in English or in French. The speakers will also be able to present their books or the scientific journals they supervise. The format of the talks envisages some discussion time to which the audience online will be warmly invited to participate.
Information, program, and registration: https://www.ehess.fr/fr/ehess-spring-talks#eng
2. HYBRID Roundtable “Intimate and Family Histories”, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative, New York University, 31 March 2023, 12:30 pm EST
Historians working on family/intimate histories in the Balkans, West Africa, and the Middle East, will discuss their methodology and goals in adopting this approach to research and writing, and how it can help bright to light histories that have, so far, been written out of conventional historical narratives.
Information and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/12526483/roundtable-intimate-family-histories-march-31-1230-est-person
3. ONLINE Seminar “Exportability and Context: Reading Arabic Literature in the West” by Hosam Aboul-Ela (University of Houston) in Conversation with Mona Kareem, Crown Center for International Studies, Brandeis University, 19 April 2023, 11:00 am – 12:15 pm EDT
The “exportability” of Arabic literature will be discussed by looking at the work of Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim in its Arabic, French, and English versions. Aboul-Ela argues the term “exportability” speaks to the challenges of understanding the novels of Ibrahim in their original context and reimagining them in the different contexts into which they are translated.
Information and registration: https://www.brandeis.edu/crown/events/2023/apr-19.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Exportability%20and%20Context%3A%20Reading%20Arabic%20Literature%20in%20the%20West&utm_campaign=test%20new%20template
4. Mediterranean Seminar Spring 2023 Workshop: “Diasporic Legacies of the Mediterranean”, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 27-28 April 2023
This seminar aims to bring together scholars interested in diasporas in the Mediterranean context and their impact on and representation in history, historiography, political writing, literature, and the arts. We will ex-plore how diaspora and diasporic communities and their cultural production can be read from the perspective of Mediterranean Studies.
Information, program, and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/diasporic-legacies-mediterranean-seminar-2023-spring-workshop-27-28-april-minnesota?e=82aeb6c61d
5. Conference: “Collaborations and Contestations: Interfaith Architectural Encounters in Egyptian Society”, American University in Cairo (AUC), 25 July 2023
We seek papers particularly with regard to architecture from all periods (up to the present) regarding Christian, Jewish and Muslim (including Sunni and Shi’a) interactions. Topics might include: mutual influence of Coptic and Islamic architecture; heritage preservation (especially perceived biases); shared sacred spaces; shared practices of worship; contestation of sites; use of spolia, architectural rivalry of churches and mos-ques.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2023.
Information: https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/trt-conference-auc/
6. Symposium “Toward a Social History of Ottoman Languages”, University of Chicago, 10-11 May 2024
Papers are invited which demonstrate socio-linguistic realities and transformations between the 15th century and the beginning of the 19th century. We seek contributions that explore the languages spoken in and around the Ottoman domains, exploring the relationship of Ottoman languages with their particular social and cultural environment and the social connections or tensions between spoken languages, jargons, and accents.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2023. Information:
7. Assistant/Associated Professor in Islamic History or Islamic Studies, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
The successful candidates will be able to teach a broad range of undergraduate and graduate-level courses covering Islamic histories, cultures, societies and Islamic humanism. A Ph.D. in History, Islamic Studies or a closely related field is required.
Review of applications started on 25 March 2023. Information: https://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=178325485&utm_source=03_20_23&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JobAgentEmail
8. Visiting Assistant Professor in the Arabic Language (1 Year), Middle East and South Asia Studies (MESAS) Program, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
We seek a candidate with native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English, and experience in teaching Arabic language courses of all levels as well as for specific purposes at the university level. The candidate will be expected to teach six courses per year or the equivalent.
Deadline for applications: 20 April 2023. Information:
9. Articles on “Sufism in the Modern World” for a Special Issue of the Journal “Religions” (Editor: Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh)
This issue analyzes various aspects of the presence of Sufism in the modern world. Scholars from different fields are invited to approach the topic from their own specialism or from an interdisciplinary perspective. The journal is indexed in the ATLA Religion Database and Web of Science. All articles are published online soon after their acceptance.
Deadline for manuscript: 30 June 2023. Information: www.mdpi.com/si/97594
10. New Book Series on “Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa”, Edited by Dina Matar and Zahera Harb (Bloomsbury Academic)
This is the first scholarly series that engages with a de-colonial, non-Euro centric approach to addressing the relationship between politics, communication and culture in the Middle East and North Africa from the per-spective of key actors and states in the region, and its peoples.
11. CfP: “Law and Society in Saudi Arabia”, Berlin, June 19-21, 2024, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
Legislation, jurisprudence, and legal mobilization have undergone epochal alterations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Historically, Saudi law has been identified predominantly with uncodified Islamic law, although legal realities on the ground have been much more complex but often little understood. With the publication of court judgments and the introduction of specialized courts, King ‘Abdallah initiated a process of legal transformation which has gained momentum since King Salman ascended the throne in 2015. One of the most recent developments is the codification of Islamic law, which many regard as a pivotal moment in the evolution of law in Saudi Arabia. How does this intersect with, impact on, and influence earlier understandings of law and legality? In this conference, we would like to take stock and reflect on the radical changes that law and society have undergone in recent years and in historic perspective.
The two-day conference addresses the role of the law in Saudi society both in the past and the present. We adopt a broad understanding of law, one encompassing both Islamic normativity as well as state-issued codes. This includes the law as it is conceptualized and applied by state institutions and legal professionals (religious scholars, lawyers, judges). It also encompasses the various ways in which people interact with the law and legal institutions in their everyday lives and how they express themselves through legal language. We believe that a better understanding of these practices can provide us with important insights into past and ongoing processes of social and political transformation in the kingdom.
With this “law and society” approach, we seek to bridge the gap between the study of social, political, and historical phenomena on the one hand, and research on the Saudi legal system on the other hand. In other words, we seek to discuss law in its social context from various perspectives: How is law socially and historically constructed in Saudi Arabia? How does law impact Saudi culture and politics? How are inequalities reinforced through differential access to and familiarity with legal procedures and institutions?
The conference aims to bring together different disciplinary perspectives. We especially welcome contributions from the fields of law, sociology/anthropology, political science, history, Islamic/Middle Eastern studies, and gender studies.
We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in the following topics:
- Law in history: law and state-building; constitutional movement; historical case studies,
- Law and equality: courts, litigation, and access to justice; legal mobilization; human rights,
- Law and Islam: morality, public decency, and Islamic law; waqf; finance and banking; fatwas and legal language,
- Law and gender: divorce and custody; women’s rights and mobilization; domestic violence, sexual harassment,
- Law and governance: constitution/the Basic Law of Governance; citizenship/nationality; laws affecting associations and civil society; law-making and state institutions,
- Law in action: legal language and its use in society; navigating the law: lawyers and legal procedures, digital technology and the law; the experience of courts; the effects of globalization on the law.
Paper Submission: Please send the title and an abstract of your proposed paper (up to 300 words) as well as a short CV as a PDF document by 15 May 2023 to Conference.Law.Society.KSA@gmail.com. For questions and queries, please contact nora.derbal@mail.huji.ac.il. Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by 15 June 2023.
Organization: The conference Law and Society in Saudi Arabia is being organized by Nora Derbal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Ulrike Freitag (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin), and Dominik Krell (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law/University of Oxford). The conference will take place in Berlin at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient on 19-21 June 2024. The conference language is English.
Publication Plans: The conference papers will be published as an edited volume. We expect participants to submit a 7,500-word contribution in advance of the conference (preliminary deadline: 1 May 2024). The contributions should be based on original research and must be unpublished work.
Funding: We are seeking funding to cover some of the costs of the conference. Participants are, however, invited to use their own travel funds wherever possible.
12. Posts:
Saint Olaf College – Visiting Assistant Professor
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65246
University of Virginia – Howell Postdoctoral Research Associate in Arabian Peninsula and Gulf Studies
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65257
13. Hybrid Lecture – “MARHABA TO THE FUTURE,” Mounir Ayache (NYU, Silsila) – March 29
“MARHABA TO THE FUTURE”
Mounir Ayache, Independent Artist
Wednesday, March 29th, 6:30pm EDT
Silsila Spring 2023 Program
Online and in person at New York University, Room 222, 20 Cooper Square, New York, 10003
By envisioning alternate futures, Ayache proposes an image of the Arab world radically different from those circulated in the West. His sci-fi approach weaves together family histories, fictionalised re-appropriations of experiences and Arab identities. These traits situate Ayache within the unofficial movement of Arabfuturism, which derives its name from the Afrofuturism movement in the 90s. Both Afro and Arabfuturism are characterised by a turn to fiction that allows us to imagine vastly different realities.
Ayache will discuss the progress of his research at the Villa Medici in Rome where he is currently in residence: he is developing a fictional project in which Hassan al Wazzan (known as Leo the African) travels into the future in 2500.
This event will take place as a live webinar at 6:30pm EDT (New York time). To register as an online attendee, please use the following link:
https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6-XRukm9QW6MbtdII4qYlQ
This event will also be held in person at NYU in room 222, 20 Cooper Square, NY 10003. In accordance with university regulations, visitors must show a valid government-issued photo ID (children under 18 can provide non-government identification).
Please use the following link to rsvp as an in-person attendee:
https://forms.gle/9iEUgoNqY66Ht7VJ8
Only registered attendees will be able to access this event online or attend in person.
14. University of Cambridge, p/t post.
A new part-time job opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant to work with our Research Associate, Dr Vivek Gupta. The post (based in the Fitzwilliam Museum) is to prepare full catalogue descriptions of one of the most significant manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum collection, the Plowden album.
Made in Lucknow in 1787-88 for an Englishwoman, Sophia Elizabeth Plowden, the album contains 77 songs in Persian, Urdu and Classical Hindi, and high quality illustrations of performers, dancers, singers, courtesans, and other entertainers within the courtly or nawabi society of late eighteenth-century Lucknow. The assignment holder will describe its contents, assemble bibliographies, research objects, and liaise with external scholars.
For more details and to apply click here. Note that the closing date is 2nd April.
Regards
Neil Cunningham
Programmes Manager
Centre of Islamic Studies
University of Cambridge
- March 28, 2023
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Shii News – Imam Ali Seminar (London, 9.4.23)
SEMINAR
TO COMMEMORATE THE MARTYRDOM OF
IMAM ALI (a.s.)
SUNDAY 9th APRIL 2023 – 2:00 PM
RUDOLF STEINER HOUSE
35 PARK ROAD, LONDON NW1 6XT
Opposite Mumtaz Restaurant
Tube station: Baker Street
Chair: Aliya Jafri Azam, MBE
Mrs Azam’s current and past positions have been Secondary Head of Science in Al Sadiq School and Al Zahra School for thirty years. Her responsibilities also include representing the Al Khoei Foundation at the Religious Education Council of England and Wales (REC) as well as organising inter-faith projects and community cohesion. Mrs Azam has been a Board Member and Trustee of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales from 2012 to 2021; Trustee of Al Ayn Social Care Foundation UK since 2006; Muslim representative of the ‘Faith and Football’ programme organised by the Football Association; and Trustee of the Christian Muslim Forum (CMF) from March 2020. She was honoured with an MBE for community cohesion with the Al Khoei Foundation in 2015. Mrs Azam is a graduate from UCL, BSc (Hons) in Psychology, postgraduate from SOAS, MA in Islamic Societies and Cultures, PGCE in science from the Institute of Education. Graduate in traditional Islamic Seminary Studies, BA in Islamic Studies and currently studying Advanced Hawza Islamic Seminary Studies.
Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi
Slain by Love: Imam Ali and the Embracing of Death
Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi is a writer and lecturer in the fields of Comparative Religion and Islamic Studies; and the Managing Editor of Encyclopaedia Islamica. Among his works are Justice and Remembrance: Introducing the Spirituality of Imam Ali (London, 2006) and Common Ground between Islam and Buddhism (with a Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama; Louisville, 2010). He studied International Relations and Politics at Sussex and Exeter Universities before obtaining his PhD in Comparative Religion from the University of Kent in 1994.
Gulamabbas Lakha
Imam Ali (A.S.): Managing Addictions
Shaykh Gulamabbas Lakha takes a multi-disciplinary approach to research and teaching at Oxford. His doctorate in Psychiatry investigates mental health applications of key Islamic concepts and practices, including empirical work on depression in the UK Muslim population. He is a tutor in Psychology of Religion and also leads seminars on Neuroscience of Religious Experience, including supervising medical students with special interests in this field. In addition, he lectures on Christian-Muslim relations and co-founded the Oxford Interfaith Forum, bringing together over 1,500 scholars, policy-makers and faith community leaders globally. His original training was in financial economics and founded an investment firm in 2004. He subsequently completed four master’s degrees, spanning Psychology and Neuroscience, Theology, Islamic Studies, History and Arabic. Following training over a number of years, he was accredited as a Shaykh and has been lecturing on contemporary Islam across the UK and on Muslim TV channels.
AN OPEN INVITATION
ORGANISER & SPONSOR: THE AHMED FAMILY
- March 27, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.EuQu (The European Qur’an) Spring Newsletter
https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?e=__test_email__&u=c4d88e3337f7b738eb748d56a&id=d68b304790
2. Online Teaching Material – Berlin Museum for Islamic Art
Online Teaching Material in English and Arabic
Report on the Berlin Museum for Islamic Art’s new online portal that presents Islamic cultures in an innovative and entertaining way:
https://en.qantara.de/content/berlin-museum-of-islamic-art-islamic-art-goes-digital
3. Lecture – What Can a Mosque Tell Us About History?, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri – April 18, Columbia University
Lecture by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Reed College
Date: April 18th, 2023, 6:15 to 8:00 pm
Place: Columbia University, 612 Schermerhorn Hall
What Can a Mosque Tell Us About History?
Monumental religious architecture is generally presumed to carry meaning relevant to its historical contexts. Such buildings are thus interpreted as architectural expressions of the structuring concepts of their times (e.g. modernity or nationalism), reflecting the identities of their respective makers and communities in relation to changing historical circumstances. But what if a space that is being monumentalized through architecture has its own structuring principles that carries meaning outside of its time and place? This talk explores the mosque—a central institution of Islam that is as old as the religion and can be found wherever its practitioners have settled—as an example of such structuring spaces. It aims to answer the question of what the mosque can tell us about the role of Islamic beliefs and practices in history by analyzing the monumental Alabaster Mosque built in the Citadel of Cairo by the influential nineteenth-century ruler of Egypt Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha.
4. Hybrid Lecture – Book Talk: The Wolf King, Abigail Balbale – March 30
Book Talk: The Wolf King: Reflections on Religion and Power in al-Andalus
Abigail Balbale
New York University
March 30 @ 2:30-4:00pm
Rutgers University-Newark
110 Warren Street, Room 312
and on zoom
5. Lecture – “Polychromie et polysémie dans les arts de l’Islam” (in French), Alain Fouad George – April 4
We are pleased to welcome Alain Fouad George for a lecture, which will take place on April 04th, 2023, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (Paris), salle Vasari :
Polychromie et polysémie dans les arts de l’Islam
Alain Fouad George (université d’Oxford)
Abstract :
Des études éparses sur les arts de l’Islam ont révélé, dans différents contextes, une prédilection pour la polychromie, qui n’est pas sans rappeler celles de Rome et de la Grèce antiques, mieux connues. Mêlant souvent une déstabilisation des sens à une polysémie des ornements, cette sensibilité artistique met l’accent sur le sujet en mouvement. Son étude fait également ressortir en filigrane une tendance plus ou moins consciente, à l’époque moderne, à « blanchir » les arts de l’Islam.
6. NZ Waikato Islamic Studies Review new issue published
The 2023 March Issue of Waikato Islamic Studies Review published by New Zealand University of Waikato Islamic Studies Group is now available at the following link:
https://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/UWISG/review
7. Christian-Muslim Relations, Primary Sources 600 – 1914
David Thomas (Anthology Editor)
September 2023
8. Missions and Preaching, Connected and Decompartmentalised Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa (19th-21st Century)
Edited by Norig Neveu,
Karène Sanchez Summerer and Annalaura Turiano
Brill, 2022
https://brill.com/display/title/59712
9. The 2023 BRISMES Early Development Scholarship aims to support activities geared toward strengthening the academic profile and CV of an early career scholar.
Deadline: 30.4.23
10. Departmental Lecturer in Islamic Studies
University of Oxford
The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and well qualified scholar to teach Islamic Studies, with a primary specialisation either in Qur’anic studies or in pre-modern (i.e., pre-1800) Islamic intellectual history (e.g., rational theology or Arabic philosophy).
Deadline | 30 March 2023
11. Lecturer in International Political Economy
University of Edinburgh
Applications are invited for a Lecturer in International Political Economy with experience in teaching at UG and PG levels, and in undertaking high quality research, to join Politics and International Relations. We invite applications in any area of IPE, but applications from high quality candidates with expertise in trade and/or an area focus on one of Africa, the Middle East or Asia would be appreciated.
Deadline | 31 March 2023
12. Margaret Anstee Research Fellowship 2023-2027
Newnham College, University of Cambridge
Applications are invited from outstanding women graduates whose doctoral degrees are complete or very near completion two Research Fellowships in subjects related to economic and social development and/or international relations. The Fellowships attract a generous stipend, and an additional award of £10,000 is available to run an event to promote the research, such as a conference, workshop or seminar series.
Deadline | 3 April 2023
13. Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Exeter
The Faculty wishes to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow as part of the ‘Mapping Connections: China and Contemporary Development in the Middle East” project, funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and led by Professor Adam Hanieh at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS).
Deadline | 10 April 2023
14. Lecturer in Arabic Translation Studies
University of Liverpool
The Department of Languages, Cultures & Film wishes to appoint to a permanent Lectureship in Arabic Translation Studies. You will maintain and enhance our growing research expertise in translation and interpreting, and contribute to the design, development and delivery of our new MA in Translation Studies.
Deadline | 14 April 2023
15. Lecturer in the History of the Middle East
King’s College London
The Department of History seeks to appoint a Lecturer specialising in the history of the Middle East before 1918. Applications are welcome from candidates with expertise in any aspect of the history of the Middle East or North Africa in the Ottoman period (c. 1500-1918).
Deadline | 17 April 2023
16. Associate Professorship of International Relations
University of Oxford
The Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), in association with St Catherine’s College, is seeking to appoint an Associate Professor of International Relations. The Department has particular needs in the international relations of the Middle East, China, Russia, Africa; international political economy (IPE); and international organization.
Deadline | 26 April 2023
17. Call for Applications – Book Proposal Workshop
Workshop | 6 March 2023 | The Arab Political Science Network and the Center for Lebanese Studies
The workshop is aimed at recent PhD graduates and early career scholars in social science from the Arab world who are working on their first book project focusing on the region. The book workshop welcomes research and proposals focusing on the politics of the Middle East and North Africa. The workshop is divided into two parts and will be in English.
Deadline | 8 April 2023
18. Where Are We Now? The Location of Modern Languages and Cultures
Conference | 19-21 April 2023 | Durham University
The School of Modern Languages’ 2023 conference will explore the current debate around student uptake of Modern Languages, and our identity as a discipline. Modern Languages as an interdisciplinary field of study brings a spectrum of insights to urgent international challenges, such as debates around space, access, mobility, justice, and how the global and the local perspective are crucial to inform ongoing and new research in Modern Languages studies.
- March 25, 2023
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- March 24, 2023
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Shii News – Online: ‘Formation of Muslim viewpoints regarding ‘Ali b. Abi Talib’ – Dr N Husayn (26.3.23, 2pm EST) An inform
- March 23, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.BA in Hawzah Studies Admission
Mufid Academic Seminary is now welcoming passionate seekers of knowledge to register for its B.A. in Hawzah Studies for the Fall of 2023. Our Hawzah Studies program is equivalent to a BA in Islamic Studies and is a hybrid (online and in-person) three-years program.
- In the course of each semester,the students meet with their instructors for 16 weeks online. At the end of each semester, MAS will conduct a 10 day in-person course in different cities. The previous batches have met in Dearborn, MI, Maryland, IL, Washington, DC, and Najaf al-Ashraf, Iraq.
- Graduates of the program will have the opportunity to study at advanced levels in seminaries abroad and also serve the community as clergy and religious leaders.
- Those who wish to excel in academia will be given preference to receive funding for an M.A. in Islamic Studies at different high-ranking universities.
For more information and to schedule a one-on-one meeting with our admissions advisors, please email: admission@mufidseminary.org.
To apply:
https://www.mufidseminary.org/application-for-certificate-courses/
2. HYBRID Lecture “The Local Agents of French Diplomacy in the 16th- and 17th-Century Eastern Mediterranean” by Prof. Mathieu Grenet (Centre universitaire Jean-Francois Champollion), Haifa, 21 March 2023, 14:00 h
New interest has led to a broader reassessment of the role of ambassadors and other high-ranking diplomats in both the implementation of early modern trading policies, the social and political life of foreign “nations” abroad, and the process of “bureaucratization” of Ancien Régime state institutions.
Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-the-local-agents-of-french-diplomacy-in-the-16th-and-17th-century-eastern-mediterranean-21-march-haifahybrid?e=82aeb6c61d
3. ONLINE Lecture “What is the Premodern?” by Professor Shahzad Bashir, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University, 30 March 2023, 12:00 pm – 13:00 pm EST
Using Persian works written under the aegis of the East India Company in India, Shahzad Bashir will reflect on the implications of our use of the qualifier “premodern” for certain Islamic and other contexts. Is premodern a quantitative marker on the straight line of time as it flows from the past to the future? Or is it a qualitative signifier pertaining to literary genres and presumed sociointellectual characteristics?
Information and registration: https://bit.ly/PIW33023
4. Colloque “Qu’est-ce que le Qur’ān européen ? Définitions, descriptions, représentations (XIIe-XIXe s.)”, Nantes Université, 11-12 mai 2023
Comment les Européens du Moyen âge et de la Modernité ont-ils perçu ce qu’est le Qur’ān ? Quelles définitions ont-ils données, et lesquelles sont sous-jacentes aux représentations qu’ils ont élaborées ? Comment l’ont-ils conçu par rapport à ce qui leur était familier et à leurs préoccupations ? De quelles manières ont-ils saisi, défini et représenté ses différentes facettes au cours des siècles ?
Programme et information : https://www.univ-nantes.fr/exceller-par-la-recherche/laboratoires/colloque-quest-ce-que-le-qur%C4%81n-europeen-definitions-descriptions-representations-xiie-xixe-s
5. “21st International Conference on Turkic Linguistics”, University of Mainz, 2-4 August 2023
We are inviting proposals for papers on all fields of Turkic linguistics, including but not limited to historical and comparative linguistics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, language contact, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, etc. Conference languages are English and Turkish.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2023. Information: https://ictl.uni-mainz.de
6. International Conference on “Muslim Women’s Popular and Genre Fiction and Film across all Languages, Forms and Periods”, Muslim Women’s Popular Fiction AHRC Research Network, Birmingham, UK, 5-9 September 2023
Indicative topics: Studies of individual authors or works of popular and genre fiction. – Translation of popular and genre works by Muslim authors. – Visual culture (graphic novels, comics, film, TV) Digital culture (Instagram, YouTube, BookTok). – Decoloniality and popular fiction. – Teaching Muslim women’s popular fiction. – Publishing and production.
Deadline for abstracts: 16 April 2023. Information:
https://more.bham.ac.uk/mwpf-network/muslim-womens-popular-fiction-international-conference/
7. HYBRID Graduate Student Workshop “Muslim Qur’an Translation: History, Society, Culture, Exegesis“, GloQur: The Global Qur’an, University of Freiburg (Germany), 4-5 October 2023
This workshop will bring together graduate students who are preparing a doctoral thesis on social, historical, cultural or exegetical aspects of Qur’an translations in Muslim contexts and would like to present and discuss their thesis projects with an international group of like-minded emerging and advanced scholars.
Deadline for Application: 20 March 2023. Information and registration:
https://gloqur.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/CfP_Workshop_Grad_students_QT.pdf
8. Workshop “Sensory Aspects of Muslim Preaching”, University of Copenhagen, 25-27 October 2023
This workshop will explore a broad variety of sensory aspects of Muslim preaching, for example related to preaching practices, various forms of mediation, preaching content, bodily expressions, and reception.
Deadline for abstracts: 7 April 2023. Information:
https://modernity.ku.dk/calendar/sensory-aspects-of-muslim-preaching/
9. Postdoctoral Researcher (Focus Jewish-Arab Interaction in 20th and 21th Century Israel/ Palestine), Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies
The research project “Beyond Conflict and Coexistence” links the universities of Heidelberg, Munich, and Halle. The research project brings together a variety of postdoctoral fellows who explore Jewish-Arab trans-culturation from the Middle Ages until today, with a focus on cultural, intellectual and political entanglements.
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2023. Information:
https://adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FDB$.startup?MODUL=LS&M1=1&M2=0&M3=0&PRO=33074
10. 2 Phd Positions, (part-time, 30h per week) in the FWF-funded QhoD-project “GraViz”. The start is scheduled for September 1st, 2023.
“Digital Edition of Sources on Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomacy (1500-1918)” (qhod.net)
The position is limited to 36 months. This position requires advanced linguistic and palaeographical skills: Excellent command of Ottoman Turkish and Persian; knowledge of modern Turkish and/or Arabic and/or Urdu is an advantage. Deadline for applications: 31 March 2023. Information: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ihb/detail/news/2-phd-student-positions-f-m-x
11. Intensive Ottoman and Modern Turkish Summer School (IOTSS), Ottoman Studies Foundation, Cunda, Turkey, 10 July – 18 August 2023
Application deadline: 31 March 2023 at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12wn6clzTTJly3ZJu-LCIcyE2FGHi At26CJen3S-0Les/edit?ts=63fe14d8. Information: ottomanstudiesfoundation@gmail.com
12. Articles on “Hyper-securitisation of Islam and Muslims in Australia, Asia and Beyond” for Special Issue of the “Melbourne Asia Review”
I welcome research on any jurisdiction that provides a case study of how Islam and Muslims have been securitised in the post-9/11 environment. This is a peer reviewed magazine style journal with short articles of between 1500 and 3000 words and the special issue will be published both online and in print.
Deadline for abstracts: 24 April 2023. Information: dtittensor@unimelb.edu.au
13. Articles on “Asceticism, Mysticism, and the Affirmation of the World in Christianity and Islam” for Special Issue of the Journal “Religions”
We welcome 400-600 word abstracts on a rolling basis, and depending on submissions, we would expect full drafts by 31 August 2023.
Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/religions_mysticism
14. Invitation to Join the International Research Working Groups (Focus Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel) of the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA), Stockholm, Sweden
In order to strengthen its evidence-based work on peace, security and development, FBA is currently looking for scholars from around the globe who want to leverage their knowledge to inform the programming and policy work of FBA and its partners as members of FBA’s international research working groups.
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2023. Information: https://fba.se/en/newspress/nyhetsarkiv/2023/call-for-members-for-fbas-international-research-working-groups/
15. Zoom – Colloquium on “Interreligious Interactions in South Asia,” April 3–12, 2023
“Interreligious Interactions in South Asia” that will take place over Zoom from April 3 to April 12, 2023 (15:00–16:30 GMT / 10:00–11:30 EST / 20:30–22:00 IST).
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94189387595?pwd=Q0hvNDZvYjhDUVZOTHkxSWxNVGIyQT09
April 3, 2023
Speaker: Samia Khatun (SOAS, University of London)
Title: Nur, Darshan & Enlightenment: Three Approaches to Connecting Texts and Textiles in 18th century Bengal
April 4, 2023
Speaker: Sohini Sarah Pillai (Kalamazoo College)
Title: A Bhakti Mahabharata for Aurangzeb? Sabalsingh Chauhan’s Bhasha Retelling of the Epic
April 5, 2023
Speaker: Kashshaf Ghani (Nalanda University)
Title: Seeking Allah and Krishna: Sufism and Religious Interactions from South Asia
April 6, 2023
Speaker: SherAli Tareen
Title: Contests over the Boundaries of Hindu-Muslim Friendship
April 7, 2023
Speaker: Jyoti Gulati Balachandran (Penn State University)
Title: Socio-Political Dimensions of Spiritual Practice in Gujarat: Notes from Two 15th century Sufi silsilahs
April 12, 2023
Speaker: Shankar Ayillath Nair
Title: Rāma and Sītā as Adam and Eve: The Rāmāyaṇa through the Prism of the Persian Romance
Ankur Barua (University of Cambridge)
Hina Khalid (University of Cambridge)
Pranav Prakash (University of Oxford)
16. National University of Singapore – Associate Professor/Professor (with Tenure) on Malay-Indonesian Region
Research accomplishments and linguistic mastery on a wider plane of studies to include Malay world connections with the Arabic-Persian, Mediterranean, East Asian and Indian Ocean worlds, including the global Malay diaspora, would be an added strength.
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65237
- March 21, 2023
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Shii News – ‘The Beginnings of Shi’i Studies in Germany’ – S Schmidtke
http://www.dianepublishing.net
http://www.dianepublishing.net/The_Beginnings_of_Shi_i_Studies_in_Germany_p/9781606181218.htm
- March 20, 2023
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