Archive for September 30th, 2023
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Call for Papers: The Oneness of Being (Wahdat al-Wujūd): Interpretation, Reception, and Implications
Al-Mahdi Institute is pleased to announce the call for papers for its upcoming two-day conference on Monday 22nd April to Tuesday 23rd April 2024, titled: ‘The Oneness of Being (Wahdat al-Wujūd): Interpretation, Reception, and Implications’ convened by Dr Zoheir Esmail. The deadline for abstracts is Monday 4th December 2023.
For further information, see
2. Open Access New Publication: “The Future of Islamic Liberation Theology”
The edited volume: “The Future of Islamic Liberation Theology”.is a Special Issue of Religions, and is entirely open-access.
See this link.
3. Webinar on Ibn Abī Usaybi`a, 17 October 2023
Date & Time: Oct 17, 2023 5pm CET
Description:
Scholars have been aware of the complex manuscript and textual tradition of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa’s Uyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ since August Müller discussed it in the introduction to his edition of the work. I revised Müller’s conclusions in one of the essays accompanying Brill’s new edition and translation, demonstrating that the ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ had circulated in three different versions (Emilie Savage-Smith et al (ed.), A Literary History of Medicine, Brill, 2020, vol. 1). In this paper, I will discuss how the scribes approached the copy of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa’s work, how they dealt with the textual problems derived from the coexistence of the different versions, and how these collation practices are reflected in the codicological, textual and paratextual features that we find in the extant manuscripts.
Registration link: https://oeaw-ac-at.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jtYw9_Y_TXCkopYHFvdnCw#/registration
4. Call for Applications | Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowship Opportunities
The Newberry Library’s long-standing fellowship program provides outstanding scholars with the time, space, and community required to pursue innovative and ground-breaking scholarship.
In addition to the library’s collections, fellows are supported by a collegial interdisciplinary community of researchers, curators, and librarians. An array of scholarly and public programs also contributes to an engaging intellectual environment.
Short-Term Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars, PhD candidates, and those who hold other terminal degrees. Short-Term Fellowships are generally awarded for 1 to 2 months; unless otherwise noted the stipend is $3,000 per month. These fellowships support individual scholarly research for those who have a specific need for the Newberry’s collection. The deadline for short-term opportunities is December 15.
5. Eastern Michigan University – Assistant Professor, Middle East History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66002
6. Roshan Institute for Persian Studies Book Launch with Mojdeh Bahar
Please join us to celebrate Ms Bahar’s new translation book Song of the Ground Jay, Poems by Iranian Women (1960-2023) as she discusses her book with us.
Roshan Institute for Persian Studies
Book Launch with Mojdeh Bahar
Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023
2:30 pm Eastern Time
Zoom link:
https://umd.zoom.us/j/95589857828
7. Sunil Sharma’s talk on October 25 as part of Franklin Lewis Lecture Series 2023-2024
There will be two lectures in the Franklin Lewis Lecture Series this academic year. The first one will be on October 25 by Sunil Sharma, and the second on April 17 by Dominic Brookshaw.
Sunil Sharma’s talk will be in person, but recoded and posted online in https://nelc.uchicago.edu/news-events/franklin-lewis-lecture-series.
Abstract: Amir Khusraw of Delhi (d. 1325) was the first Persian poet to compose a quintet of poems (masnavis) in response to the one by his predecessor Nizami of Ganja (d. 1209). Khusraw’s narrative technique and style shows the influence of both Perso-Islamic and Indic storytelling traditions. I will explore this aspect of his poetry in the Hasht Bihisht (Eight Paradises) where characters use a complex variety of practical skills, logic, and sorcery, to overcome obstacles. I also suggest that the poet sought to theorize these ideas as a body of knowledge, which is often viewed as ‘aja’ib (marvels), in his later work Nuh Sipihr (Nine Spheres of Heaven).
8. CFP: Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea, Journal of Historical Geography
The Journal of Historical Geography is planning a special issue on “Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea.” It is being edited by Frederico Ferretti. The deadline for submissions is 5 January 2024.
The cfp:
… this special issue aims at addressing critical historical geographies of seas, oceans and liquid spaces as well as histories of geography and cartography related to these geographical objects, understood both as metaphors and as material places. We are additionally interested in seeing more on the relationship between historical cases and current debates on seas and oceans that are cognizant of critical geopolitics, the material turn and relational ontologies. We especially value critical contributions that question traditional and colonial understandings of the sea as a vehicle for colonisation and ‘civilisation’. Likewise, we appreciate critical views on the sea understood as a frontier, which can seek dialogues with current scholarship on critical geopolitics, critical map histories, internationalism, anti-racism and decoloniality.
For more information: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/about/call-for-papers#liquid-worlds-historical-geographies-and-cartographies-of-the-sea
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9. Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge, ed. P. Bouras-Vallianatos and D. Stathakopoulos, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
10. Television and the Afghan culture wars brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and activists
Wazhmah Osman
Univ of Illinois Press, 2020
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p085451
11. Online events at Centre for the Study of Islam (CSI, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter) this term
Monday 9 October, 17:00-18:30 (UK time): Monday Majlis, Parvaneh Pourshariati, Sharing Wives and Drinking Wine: The Mazdakites, the Ayyārs, and the Mithraists: Accusations & Realities
Please register in advance at https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpdu-sqDsoG9VhwMHgx_xbOUzGFJJdh2dc
Wednesday 11 October, 17:30-19:00, Visiting Speaker Lecture (Monday Majlis Format), Hafsa Kanjwal, Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian occupation
Please register in advance at https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtdOqtrj4qGdDGXD4PmKN9tSJmGS5vLAX9
Monday 16 October, 17:00-18:30 (UK time), Monday Majlis, Youshaa Patel, How to think about Muslim difference?
Please register in advance at https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pfu2grTIpGtZzfCt5L23MhLjcdcGRXVbj
Monday 30 October, 17:00-18:30 (UK time), Monday Majlis, Carl Ernst and Mbaye Lo, Islam, Arabic, and slavery in Omar ibn Said’s America
Please register in advance at https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcuf-uoqz8rGdUDlVeU95vA0fC3rOlCAuZ1
Monday 13 November, 17:00-18:30 (UK time), Monday Majlis, Olga Merck Davidson, Ferdowsi’s ecumenism in the Shahnama
Please register in advance at https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvfu6tqjIuGtFJdwdSjkbT6KWiTPCSwaA-
Monday 20 17:00-18:30 (UK time) November, Monday Majlis, Francesca Bellino, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen and Luca Patrizi, The adventures of Adab
Please register in advance at https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkf-yprDouGNPYoljbVMrGJWOd4Wkl0qmV
Monday 27 November, 17:00-18:30 (UK time), Monday Majlis, Usaama al-Azami, Islamist Sufism: How Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s spirituality resembles mainstream Neotraditionalism
Please register in advance at https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElfu-hrj0iEtRaSX2jX-ZjibxkJXR0dfa2
Monday 4 December, 17:00-18:30 (UK time), Monday Majlis, Michael Bednar, Amir Khusrau and the narrative of history
Please register in advance at https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkdOqqrzspGdO3jM02oOblvPhiyEhUVdxH
Monday 11 December, 17:00-18:30 (UK time), Ferenc Csikés, Turkic martyrologies in Safavid Iran
Please register in advance at https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtf-uvrDkrHtacUFSU2H0H-uSWicJIAz9J
12. Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora
Claudia Yaghoobi
Edinburgh, 2023
Find out more: https://ddlnk.net/CEQ-8F59P-MWI2D5-59OACQ-0/c.aspx
13. Nükhet Varlık, “Plague in the Mediterranean and Islamicate World,” Isis 114, Issue S1: Bibliographic Essays on the History of Pandemics: An IsisCB Special Issue (September 2023), pp. S313–S362.
Abstract:
This essay surveys the evolution of historical scholarship on epidemic diseases in the Mediterranean/Islamicate world with a particular focus on plague. Temporally, it covers the scholarship on plague epidemics during the last 1,500 years, surveyed in three major pandemics: first, second, and third pandemics of plague. Geographically, it addresses the Mediterranean basin and its hinterland, including the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the Anatolian peninsula, the Balkans, and occasionally drawing on adjacent areas such as the Black Sea region and the Persian plateau. It outlines major trends and turning points in the modern historiography; reviews prevailing paradigms, contested issues, and emergent consensuses; and identifies methodologies, sources, and approaches. Whenever possible, it highlights contributions from paleogenetic and other scientific studies, with special reference to the diversity of opinions, actors, and materials in this highly controversial but vigorous field of study. The major goal of this essay is to reunite the divided historiographies of the Mediterranean world, which are typically studied separately in the case of Europe and the Islamicate world, with a view to underscoring their shared epidemiological experiences.
14. ONLINE Book Talk “Heroes to Hostages, America and Iran 1800-1988” by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet (University of Pennsylvania), Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 2 October 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
This book narrates the history of America and Iran, and its diplomacy, by shifting attention to social and cultural concerns. As Iranians observed global crises such as apartheid and race riots unfold in South Africa and the United States, they sharpened their understanding of racial politics. At the same time, Iran tried to assume a prominent role in these debates by hosting the UN Human Rights Conference in 1968 at a time when the US was mired in an unpopular war in Vietnam.
Information and registration:
https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2023/firoozeh-kashani-sabet-heroes-hostages
15. HYBRID International Conference “Scriptural Readings and Reasonings. Philology and Religious Encounter in Medieval and Early Modern Times”, NYUAD Humanities Research Fellow-ship for the Study of the Arab World, University of Copenhagen”, 9-11 October 2023
The premise of this conference is that philological practices, as essentially comparative, inform complicated identities, and are an important tool of religious differentiation. Embedded in philological practices we find shared origins, methods, and values that cross religious divides.
Information, program, and registration:
16. Minoritaires en Iran. Perspectives académiques et luttes politiques
par Ifpo · Publié 28/09/2023 · Mis à jour 22/09/2023
12 octobre 2023 | 9h – 18h
https://www.ifporient.org/minoritaires-en-iran/
17. Assistant Professor of Modern Languages & Literatures (Arabic Studies), College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Successful applicants must possess the skills to teach compelling courses in both Arabic language courses (all levels) and other lecture and seminar-style courses in English.
Deadline for applications:15 October 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/09/28/assistant-professor-of-modern-languages-literatures-arabic-studies
18. ESCWA “Digital Arabic Content (DAC) Award for Sustainable Development” in Collaboration with the World Summit Awards (WSA)
Applications are open to institutions and young entrepreneurs from Arab countries who have created digital Arabic content applications or products with a clear impact on society. Eligible institutions can either be public, private, academic or non-governmental, and young entrepreneurs can be start-up founders, teams of young people or individuals where at least one of the founders and the majority of the team are younger than 35 years old.
Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2023.
Information: https://mailchi.mp/un/escwa-weekly-news-218en?e=e439a54ec4
19. Articles on “Iran’s Women Life Freedom Protests” for a Special Issue of the “Digest for Middle East Studies”
Issues: The role of regional /ethnic movements, especially in Kurdistan and in Baluchistan. – The role of the labor movement in the Women Life Freedom protests. – Consequences of the protests for Iran’s regional alliances and geopolitical standing. – Security services’ response to the protests (in terms of internal restruc-turing, procurement, training, recruitment, repressive techniques). Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20006627/cfp-special-issue-digest-middle-east-studies-woman-life-freedom
- September 30, 2023
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