ARMACAD offers up to 10 scholarships to eligible students interested in learning Persian in Armenia. Please have a look at the criteria below to determine if you qualify. The cost of the Persian Language course ranges from $3490 to $5490 depending on the duration, which can be between 4 to 8 weeks. The fee for 8 weeks is $5490, 7 weeks is $4990, 6 weeks is $4490, 5 weeks is $3990, and 4 weeks is $3490.

If the student is awarded the ARMACAD scholarship, they will receive a $1200 discount on the course fee, which means they will have to pay $1200 less than the original cost.

Who is eligible?

Only apply for this scholarship if you satisfy the eligibility requirements.
Students pursuing Undergraduate (BA), graduate (MA), and postgraduate (Ph.D.) programs in Iranian Studies and related fields, who are enrolled in universities or academic institutions in the countries specified below, can apply for the ARMACAD scholarship. The ideal candidates will be 19 – 39 years old by the program’s start.

This scholarship is only available to citizens of the following countries.

Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America.

If you have already received funding from other sources, please refrain from applying for this scholarship.

Deadline to apply:

Please apply for this scholarship by July 31, 2023.

Application:

To apply, please go to this scholarship announcement on ARMACAD’s webpage and fill in the online application form there.
Before applying, please make sure you have already applied to winter school for the Persian language.

Before you apply, you can check the testimonials of ASPIRANTUM language school alumni.

Contact Information

For questions and inquiries, please get in touch with khachik@aspirantum.com or WhatsApp Dr. Khachik Gevorgyan at +374-91-557978

4. Nigāristān by Mu‘īn al-Dīn Mu‘īnī Juvainī: A Facsimile Edition.

Edited by Gregory Maxwell Bruce

Mazda, 2023

http://www.mazdapublishers.com/book/nigristn-a-facsimile-edition

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July 18, 2023
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Shii News – CfP: ‘Shia Islam and Modern Society’ (Hybrid – 30.11.23-1.12.23, Indiana University)

For futher information, see the above link.
Abstracts of 150-200 words should be submitted to Dr. Carl Pearson by email, pearsonc@iu.edu, by August 1, 2023.
Accepted authors will be notified by August 31, 2023, and are expected to submit a full paper by October 30, 2023.
Papers should not exceed 6,000 words (including references) and should be formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition).

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July 17, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items

1. The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary,

Hamid Keshmirshekan

Edinburgh University Press, 2023

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-art-of-iran-in-the-twentieth-and-twenty-first-centuries.html

2. Call for Nominations: The Best Article Award in Kurdish Studies

This award, sponsored by Kurdish Political Studies Program at the University of Central Florida, recognizes the best article in Kurdish Studies by a rising scholar during the previous calendar year. For this award cycle, articles published in 2022 will be considered. All articles published in English language peer-reviewed journals addressing questions and covering issues related to Kurdish politics, broadly defined, will be considered for the award. The award is open to all disciplines under social sciences and humanities. The primary author of the article needs to be an untenured scholar (graduate student, post-doc, independent scholar, assistant professor or equivalent) at the time of the publication. The winner will be awarded $800. The awardee will be announced by November 2023.

An electronic copy of the nominated article should be sent to kurdish@ucf.edu. Self-nominations are welcome.

Deadline for nominations: Friday, September 8, 2023

Award Committee:

Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, University of Central Florida
Ekrem Karakoc. Binghamton University
Nikola Mirilovic, University of Central Florida

3. AMECYS Call for Papers: Graduate Student Paper Prize

AMECYS Call for Papers:

Graduate Student Paper Prize

Submission deadline: September 1, 2023

The Association of Middle East Children’s and Youth Studies (AMECYS) calls graduate students engaged in the study of children and youth in the region to submit papers to the AMECYS graduate student paper prize. A cash prize of $100 will be awarded to the winner at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) of North America’s annual meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November 2-5, 2023

Papers can be submitted in any capacity that aligns with AMECYS’ mission statement:

The AMECYS is a private, non-profit, international association for scholars with an interest in the study of children and youth in the Middle East, North Africa and their diasporic communities. Through interdisciplinary programs, publications, and services, AMECYS promotes innovative scholarship, facilitates global academic exchange, and enhances public understanding about Middle Eastern children and youth in diverse times and places.

Requirements for submission:

Papers should be original scholarship. However, papers readying for journal submission are acceptable (i.e., not yet submitted for publication or published).
No more than 7,500 words (excluding endnotes and bibliographies)
Standard font, Double-spaced, 1” margins, IJMES standards for endnotes and transliteration
AMECYS membership in good standing
Proof of registered graduate student enrolment for the 2023-2024 academic year may be requested at a later date

AMECYS graduate student representatives Atacan Atakan, Reda Rafai, and Melis Sulos will review all papers submitted by members of AMECYS that are received by the deadline of September 1.

Send submissions as a pdf or word doc to dylan.baun@uah.edu.

For any queries, email AMECYS program chair at dylan.baun@uah.edu.

4. One Year CEDEJ Fellowship to a PhD Student Working on Contemporary Egypt from a Humanities or Social Science Perspective (September 2023 – August 2024), Cairo

The fellow will reside in Egypt, participate in the academic life of CEDEJ, receive office space and be granted full access to the library. The monthly stipend is 25,000 EGP. Applications will include: A Curriculum Vitae, a cover letter, a research project (2,000 words maximum), including a note on methodology.

Please email your application in one single PDF file before 31 July 2023 to communication@cedej-eg.org

5. Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Middle East History, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

We are interested in candidates whose research and teaching focus on the history of the Middle East (broadly conceived) working in the Early Modern to Modern era. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Empire (Mediterranean), Global History of the Middle East, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Gender, Religion, Political Theory, History of Science, Economic History

Deadline for applications: 30 October 2023. Information:

https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/07/13/assistant-professor-in-middle-east-history

6. International Winter School “Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources”, Organized by the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology (IFAO), with University of Halle-Wittenberg, Ifpo, CETOBaC, IREMAM, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universität Heidelberg, ASBÜ An-kara, Orient Institut Beirut, Cairo, 18-23 February 2024

The programme will introduce young researchers (mostly MA and Ph.D. candidates, though postdocs may also apply) to reading, combining and analysing manuscript sources from various archives of the Ottoman era. Materials from the 16th through the 20th centuries will receive most of our attention, but explorations into earlier archives are welcome. No tuition fees; selected students will be offered full coverage of the winter school costs.

Deadline for application: 31 August 2023.

Information: https://www.ifao.egnet.net/recherche/manifestations/ma1542/

7. “OTSA Award for Digital Ottoman and Turkish Studies”, Ottoman & Turkish Studies Association

This award is meant to support work by promising advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and schol-ars who have completed their Ph.D. within the last three years. The award will be given to the applicant who can best demonstrate potential for a major scholarly contribution using available tools and methods of digital Ottoman and Turkish Studies.

Deadline for applications extended to 1 August 2023.

Information: https://www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/#jump06

8. Photo Contest of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association

We encourage submissions from anthropologists especially from the MENA region. Each person is limited to one submission of five photographs. We ask that those submitting be members of the Middle East Section, except for students, non-tenure track faculty or scholars in the Global South if membership imposes a signif-icant hardship.

Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2023.

Information: https://mes.americananthro.org/2023/07/04/call-for-submissions-for-mes-photo-contest/

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July 15, 2023
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Shii News – Workshop: ‘Ashura: The Life and Legacy of Imam Hussain’ (17-31, July)

The Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs at the Harvard Divinity School cordially invites you to participate in a workshop, “Ashura: The Life and Legacy of Imam Hussain.” As millions of Muslims prepare to commemorate Ashura with Muharram drawing near, we are proud to present a unique multimedia workshop taking place between July 17th to the 31st.

The workshop includes: academic lectures, philosophy of Ashura storytelling, sayings of the Imams, a special narrative rendition on the life of Imam Hussain, and more.

The workshop provides attendees with resources to study Ashura and the life of Imam Hussain at their own pace within the timeframe of the workshop. There is no daily set time or limited viewing hours for the lectures.

Lectures include:

– An Overview of the Scholarly Study of Ashura and the Life of Imam Hussain
– Life of Imam Hussain (4/626 – 54/680)
– The Legacy of Karbala: Social and Political Reverberances after Ashura in Pre-Modern Islamic History
– Symbolism of Iconic Ashura Rituals in South Asia
– New content available!

Register by July 15, 11:59PM EST.

Register here: http://bit.ly/ashura-harvard.

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July 14, 2023
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Shii News – Online/In person – In Memoriam: Prof. Madelung – 18 July

The Institute of Ismaili Studies is hosting an event In Memory of Professor Wilferd Madelung (1930-2023). Various scholars will contribute to a discussion on Prof. Madelung’s legacy and contribution to the field.

ALL WELCOME in person and online.

Date: Tuesday 18th July
Time: 14:00 (London Time) [for those attending in person there is a small reception at 13:30]

Registration: https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/in-memoriam-professor-wilferd-madelung/

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July 12, 2023
by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items

1.The Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics

January 2024 Meeting, Call for Papers

Submission Deadline August 4

(Re-)imagining Muslim Ethics in Times of Transformation

We welcome paper, panel, or roundtable proposals dealing with all aspects of Muslim/Islamic ethics broadly defined. Areas of interest include but are not limited to Islamic/Muslim ethics of science, politics, gender and sexuality, economics, race, bioethics, medicine, animals and the environment, and recently published books on any of these topics.

Information: www.SSMEthics.org

Graduate students and early career scholars are encouraged to submit proposals.

2. 4th Biennial Conference for Arabic Teaching & Learning in Higher Education: “Linguistic Diversity & Translanguaging in Arabic Language Teaching”, University of Cambridge, 18 April 2024

We are inviting the submission of evidence-based abstracts for papers, panels and workshops relating to the conference theme, but not limited to the following sub-themes: Perceptions of Translanguaging – The varieties we teach – Approaches to assessment.

Deadline for abstracts: 14 July 2023. Information: https://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/call-for-papers-4th-biennial-conference-for-arabic-teaching-learning-in-higher-education/

3. Researcher in Middle East Politics (18 Months), Middle East Studies Programme, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, Oxford

We welcome applications from early career researchers who have completed a first degree and/or a PhD/DPhil in a relevant subject area, with experience of collecting data from the MENA region. The ideal candidate will use the data collected to advance their own research agenda. Knowledge of Arabic-language OCR engines and the R/Python programming languages is desirable, although training can be provided.

Deadline for applications: 31 July 2023.

Information: https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=10&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=165199

4. Fully Funded COSIMENA Summer School “Cross-cultural Communication: How Can We Understand Each Other?” Organized by DAAD Egypt, Freie Universität Berlin and Ahram Canadian University, Cairo, 10-17 September 2023

Junior researchers from the MENA region as well as from Germany are invited to apply, with the aim of achieving regional diversity and fostering intercultural cooperation between the two regions. Disciplines include: Mass communication – Cultural Studies – History – Political sciences and economics – Sociology – Film Studies – Middle East Studies – Information technology, and other fields related to the topic.

Deadline for applications: 20 July 2023. Information and applications: https://www.daad.eg/en/2023/07/03/c osimena-summer-school-2023-on-cross-cultural-communication-how-can-we-understand-each-other/

5. Online Program “Master of Arts in Kurdish Studies” (2 Years), Zahra Institute, Chicago

The program highlights: A unique focus on the humanities aspects of Kurdish Studies including literature, music, visual arts, and cinema. – Covers a topic area long overlooked by traditional Middle Eastern Studies programs. – Gain access to the language and culture of approximately forty million people. – Flexibility of an on-line program with the highest American academic standards.

Deadline for applications: 12 August 2023. Information: www.zahrainstitute.org

6. Articles for “Afkaruna: Indonesian Interdisciplinary Journal of Islamic Studies”, Issue De-cember 2023

Afkaruna aims to promote excellent articles on Islam that present original findings, new ideas or concepts that result from contemporary research projects in Islamic studies, area studies (especially Southeast Asia and the Middle East), social sciences, and humanities.

Deadline for articles: 15 October 2023. Information: https://journal.umy.ac.id/index.php/afkaruna

7. CfP: Great Lakes Adiban Society Workshop, Oct 2023

The Great Lakes Adiban Society (GLAS) invites submissions for its seventh annual workshop, scheduled to take place in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on October 7-8, 2023. We welcome works in progress that would benefit from extensive discussion and feedback, and especially encourage graduate students to participate.

The Society aims to provide a regional forum for scholars of Islamicate adab, particularly of the medieval and early modern periods, to meet and share their work. We leave our parameters of language and genre intentionally open in order to invite as wide a collaboration as can be useful, but as a group we are generally interested in the literary production of the broad complex of premodern Muslim societies across the Eastern Hemisphere. This naturally includes the major Islamicate languages of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu, as well as many others (Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Hebrew, Spanish, etc.) that participate in similar literary conventions.

Those who wish to participate can apply by filling out our online application by August 30, 2023. Please note that each accepted participant will be given 45 minutes to present and discuss their work; because of this, we have limited space and may have to turn down some submissions if we receive too many. In such an event, preference will generally be given to graduate students, junior scholars based in the Great Lakes region, and works in progress. All participants should plan to cover their own costs.

All applicants can expect to hear back from us by early September.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at greatlakesadibansociety@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

8. WHOME (Women Historians of the Middle East) 2023 Graduate Student Article Prize Call for Nominations

2023 Call for Nominations

We are pleased to announce the call for submissions for our annual prize for the best article about Middle Eastern history written by a female-identifying or gender non-conforming graduate student (Masters or PhD). The award aims to highlight the innovative scholarship women and gender non-conforming students are producing in the field. The journal article (not to exceed 8,000 words, including citations and bibliography) can be published, under review, or submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. The article must be published in English or translated into English; it may be about any period in Middle Eastern history and may address any subfield in the discipline of history. Submissions will be evaluated on their originality, use of primary and secondary sources, argumentation, and contribution to the field. The applicant must not have been awarded a doctorate prior to October 1, 2022.

Articles may be submitted by the author (self-nomination) or as nominations by academic advisors, professors, or journal editors; journal editors may nominate up to three articles. (Authors must confirm by email that they accept the nomination before the submission deadline.) Jointly published articles are accepted for submission, but both authors must be graduate students; the co-author may be male. Articles that have appeared in collections will be considered but only if the articles were published for the first time in the year prior to the application deadline; reprints will not be considered. Winners will be notified by October 26, 2023 and will be publicly acknowledged in an official announcement at the WHOME meeting at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting. The winning author will also receive a $250 monetary award.

Applications are due by 11:59 PST on August 31, 2023. To apply, please follow the following link:

Questions? Please contact contactwhome@gmail.com

9. SCORE lecture series: “Christian Rebels in Syriac Sources, 750-850”

11 July, 4 pm CEST, Philip Wood (Aga Khan University) will discuss “Christian Rebels in Syriac Sources, 750-850”.

To join via Zoom, simply send an email to score.aai@uni-hamburg.de and you’ll receive the access details.

10. An Afterlife for the Khan: Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia

Jonathan Brack

University of California Press, 2023

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520392908/an-afterlife-for-the-khan

Discount flyer (30%): https://www.academia.edu/98957250/An_Afterlife_for_the_Khan_Muslims_Buddhists_and_Sacred_Kingship_in_Mongol_Iran_and_Eurasia_30_discount_

11. CfP: Online Conference and Special Issue on Isnad-cum-Matn analysis (ICMA)

This is a call for papers for an online conference (hosted by Charles Sturt University and Georgetown University) followed by a journal special issue (in Comparative Islamic Studies) on Isnad-cum-Matn analysis (ICMA) as a Method in Contemporary Hadith Studies.

The organising committee invites papers from a range of scholarly perspectives to address this significant and contested area of study. The overall aim is to provide a ‘state of the art’ appraisal of ICMA within hadith studies and related academic disciplines.

Papers are requested on topics addressing questions such as:

How has ICMA been received in hadith studies in the past three decades?
What is the epistemic status of ICMA analysis?
What does ICMA reveal about the common links of hadith?
What are the advantages and limitations of the technique, and the scope of its application?
Are there similar techniques to the ICMA in classical Muslim scholarship and have they yielded the same results?
What are the challenges of conducting ICMA and can technology, such as electronic databases and AI generated tools, contribute to the development of reliable tools?
How does ICMA relate to the historiographical reception of hadith in academic circles and the hadith canon in Islamic religious tradition?

The full background to the conference and how to submit an abstract can be found at: https://arts-ed.csu.edu.au/centres/cisac/research/icma-conference. Details about attendance will be publicised at a later date.

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July 11, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items

1.Ben-Gurion University of the Negev – Iranian studies or Gulf studies

The position will begin on 1 October 2024. The deadline for application is 8 October 2023.
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65522

2. Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests
Edited by Josephine van den Bent,
Floris van den Eijnde and
Johan Weststeijn

Brill, 2022

3. A Bibliography of Islamic Criminal Law
Olaf Köndgen

Brill, 2021

4. CfP: Al-Karmil

Editor-in-Chief: Roy Vilozny,

Editors: Arin Salamah-Qudsi, Reuven Snir,
and Yehudit Dror,

Managing Editor: Rawand Sliman-Baraky

A forum for the study of Arabic language and literature as well as Islamic civilization in general, from the pre-Islamic period to the present. Al-Karmil: Studies in Arabic Language and Literature welcomes contributions in Arabic or in English.

5. New Brill series: Iran and the Caucasus Monographs is a double-anonymous peer-reviewed book series that covers recent findings in Irano-Indian, Caucasian, Near-Eastern, Armenian, and Turkic studies. The focus will be on linguistics and philology, history, archaeology, anthropology, history of religions, art history, as well as ethnopolitical and security issues concerning the said regions.

6. New Methodological Perspectives in Islamic Studies

Volume Editors: Aaron W. Hughes and Abbas Aghdassi

Brill, 2023

https://brill.com/display/title/64129

7. Sufis and Their Lodges in the Ottoman Ḥijāz

Ḥasan b. `Alī al-`Ujaymī’s (d. 1113/1702) Khabāyā al-zawāyā “Secrets of the Lodges” & Risāla fī ṭuruq al-ṣūfiyya “Treatise on Sufi Orders”

Naser Dumairieh

Brill, 2023

https://brill.com/display/title/63423

8. Chaire Professeur Junior “Arts et patrimoine de l’Afghanistan”, recrutement INaLCO

Information: Recrutement Chaire Professeur Junior “Arts et patrimoine de l’Afghanistan”, INaLCO

Appel aux candidatures: clôture le 27/08/2023

Mise en place par la loi de programmation pour la recherche, la chaire de professeur junior (CPJ) constitue une nouvelle voie de recrutement permettant d’accéder à un emploi de titulaire dans le corps des professeurs de universités et assimilés ou de directeurs de recherche. Le recrutement s’effectue sur un projet de recherche et d’enseignement porté par un titulaire de doctorat ou de diplôme équivalent.

Chaque lauréat signera une convention de recherche et d’enseignement avec l’établissement ainsi qu’un contrat de pré-titularisation dont la durée ne peut être inférieure à trois ans et ne peut être supérieure à six ans.

https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/cand_CPJ.htm

Profil du poste CPJ “Arts et patrimoine de l’Afghanistan” (réf. Galaxie 4225):

https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/ListesPostesPublies/FIDIS/0753488J/FOPC_0753488J_4225.pdf

=>Contrat de pré-titularisation de 5 ans (procédure de titularisation selon les conditions spécifiées dans le profil du poste)

=>Prise de fonction: le 01/12/2023

Détails (FR/ENG):

http://www.inalco.fr/concours-recrutement/chaire-professeur-junior-arts-patrimoine-afghanistan

Attention:

! Le dépôt de candidature se fait uniquement par voie électronique sur la plateforme Galaxie des personnels du supérieur:

https://galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/antares/can/index.jsp

9. Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visual Symbols Draw from the Same Well

Oxford Interfaith Forum

We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Ori Soltes from the Center for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University, USA, to lead a session of the International Interfaith Reading Group on ART in Interfaith Contexts.

Topic: Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visual Symbols Draw from the Same Well

Abstract: This image-rich talk will introduce some of the many examples of how symbols in the visual art of the Abrahamic traditions draw from a pagan vocabulary that precedes all of them as well as from each other; how they converge and diverge across history and geography; and how they continue to appear in the modern and contemporary art of a world that often defines itself to be secular.

Speaker: Professor Ori Soltes, Centre for Jewish Civilization, Georgetown University, USA.

Chair: Revd Canon Dr Joanna Collicutt, King’s College London, UK. Revd Canon Dr Joanna Collicutt is a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, an associate lecturer at Ripon College Cuddesdon, and an associate priest in an Oxfordshire parish.

Date: 10 July, 2023

Time: 18:00-19:00 BST | 19:00-20:00 CEST | 10:00-11:00 PDT | 13:00-14:00 EDT

Venue: Online

For registration, please, go to: https://www.oxfordinterfaithforum.org/thematic-international-interfaith-reading-groups/art-in-interfaith-contexts/sacred-signs-how-jewish-christian-and-muslim-visual-symbols-draw-from-the-same-well/

10. Cartography in the European Enlightenment — NOW ONLINE FOR FREE ACCESS

The History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Chicago Press are pleased to announce the online publication of Cartography in the European Enlightenment, edited by Matthew H. Edney and Mary S. Pedley, volume 4 of The History of Cartography (Chicago, 2019). The Press has added the volume — all 1,764 pages with 1,000,000 words and 984 full-color illustrations, in 479 entries written by 214 experts — to the other volumes of the series already online for free public access (1–3 and 6).

Goto https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html to access all the volumes; the links to each volume, with volume 4 newly added, are at left.

Cartography in the European Enlightenment explores all aspects of mapping in the long eighteenth century, approximately between 1650 and 1800, give or take a decade as necessary, in Europe, Europe’s overseas empires and trading companies, in Russia, and in the Ottoman Empire. It is arranged by major mapping practices (geographical mapping, property mapping, marine charting, etc.) and by major communities of map consumers (military, civil government, the emergent public). It is the starting point for anyone seeking to learn more about mapping at a time when maps served as a foundational metaphor for the organization of knowledge.

Enjoy! And please share this FREE resource across other intellectual and social media!

Contact Information

Matthew Edney

Director, History of Cartography Project

Contact Email

edney@wisc.edu

URL

https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html

11. The Islamic College – Open Evening

https://islamic-college.ac.uk/study/open-evening/

Date: 14th July 2023

Time: 6:30 pm – 9 pm

Venue: The Islamic College, 133 High Road, Willesden, London, NW10 2SW

12. With Brush and Qalam; Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin – July 2023 to October 2023

With Brush and Qalam
Chinese Arabic Calligraphy by Haji Noor Deen

06.07.2023 to 22.10.2023
Pergamonmuseum

With the solo exhibition of the most important contemporary representative of Sini calligraphy, the Museum für Islamische Kunst (Museum for Islamic Art) is showing selected works by Haji Noor Deen in Berlin for the first time.

Sini calligraphy is the artistic script used by the Muslim minority in China. Its history reaches back to the 14th century. The distinctive feature of Sini calligraphy is the melding of techniques and styles from the Arabic and Chinese lettering traditions.

Arabic calligraphy follows a centuries-old tradition involving strict rules with precisely defined proportions for the letters. Sini calligraphy, on the other hand, is completely free of rules. The top priority is the perceived beauty and balance of the composition. Even the direction of the writing can be freely chosen, either from top to bottom, as in Chinese, or from right to left, as in Arabic.

Haji Noor Deen is a master of Sini calligraphy. Inspired by calligraphic traditions from China to Istanbul, the artist creates works with expressive lines that at first glance appear Chinese, but on closer inspection go far beyond that.

The artist’s painting tools reflect this diversity. Haji Noor Deen paints the Arabic letters with a brush that is characteristically used for Chinese calligraphy. He equally appreciates the qalam, the reed pen of Arabic calligraphy. He also uses completely new tools, such as cloth-covered wooden spatulas that he produces himself. With masterly skill, he creates artworks of great aesthetic power that surprise and affect the viewer.

A special exhibition of the Museum für Islamische Kunst – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Link tot the exhibition https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/with-brush-and-qalam/

13. CFP – The Materiality of Pious Texts: The Qur’an and Devotional Manuscripts, CIHA, Lyon, France – June 23 – 28, 2024

We invite paper proposals for the session “The Materiality of Pious Texts: The Qur’an and Devotional Manuscripts” at the 36th Congress of the Comité international d’histoire de l’art (CIHA), June 23 – 28, 2024, in Lyon, France.

Both the Qur’an and Islamic devotional manuscripts have traditionally been studied as texts and artistic achievements, but rarely as material objects. Concerns about how to handle and dispose of Qur’anic matter – how to use the manuscript, where to place it, when to touch it – or whether it is permissible to perfume it, ingest it or sell it, were among the anxieties of the first centuries of Islam. Formative to the Qur’an’s physical manifestation as codices, scrolls or inscribed artefacts, these debates shaped its sacrality in the material realm and affected the use of Islamic devotional manuscripts in which passages of the Qur’an appear next to other pious texts, prayers or illustrations of holy places. Art history has been rarely concerned with such phenomena, or with the corporeality of sacred and pious texts in general.

This session aims to interrogate the materiality of pious texts and the roles they played in shaping artistic forms embedded in a diverse range of practices, at the time of their production or in their afterlives: Qur’anic calligraphy, calligrams, and emblematic inscriptions in books and scrolls, but also on tablets and panels of various materials, interspersed or combined with devotional texts and images presented in diagrammatic or iconified forms. By moving away from archaeological taxonomies and the study of styles and repertoires, we hope to create space for approaching pious texts through their materiality, their use, and the range of physical reactions they elicited. Meanings – whether religious, political, or aesthetic – can be found not just in how texts looked, but also in how they functioned, and it is through the lens of materiality that previously neglected ideas and behaviors can be examined.

With that in mind, we call for papers that explore the materiality of pious texts of any kind, focusing on how they were shaped, what aesthetic ideas were embedded in them, and what kind of engagement their forms triggered, be it at the time of their making, consumption, alteration, or reuse. As their meanings shifted throughout their spatial and temporal circulation, within and beyond Muslim communities, these texts projected multifaceted statements of faith and efficacy that are yet to be unpacked. Later interventions such as manipulations of their constitutive elements, amendments to their illustrations, or smudging and erasures, also reflect practices and beliefs, often echoing ideologies. In no way limited to these aspects, this session seeks papers that re-instate the role of makers, beholders and users of texts within art history. As such, it encourages cross-disciplinary research – bridging religious studies, anthropology and visual culture – to re-establish the relation between art history, material culture and religion.

Submission:

Please submit your proposal by 15 September 2023 via this link: https://livebyglevents.key4register.com/key4register/AbstractList.aspx?e=148

Title of the proposed paper (concise and reflecting the contents of the paper).
Paper Proposal: An abstract of 350 to 500 words, in English or French, including 4 to 6 key words and a possible short bibliography.
CV of 500 characters with first name, last name, title, status, institution of affiliation and the link to the personal or professional page.

Funding:

Applicants are responsible to secure their own funding. Please consult this page regularly: https://www.cihalyon2024.fr/en/call-for-grants

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