Archive for 2023

At the 9th Online Conference of the Islamicate Digital Humanities Network (IDHN)

To register, click here.

1.ONLINE Lecture: “Women and the Intersection of political roles in Power, the Ilkhanate of Persia (1206 – 1335 CE), a Historical Study” (in Arabic) by Dr. Reem Soud Alrudainy (Kuwait University), University of Manchester, 10 May 2023, 17:00 BST

What are the most important political changes and the political effects that accompanied Mongol Ilkhanate women of Persia? And how were the different intersections that represented their experiences reflected in political life? The present study presents the Mongol women’s experiences and political life and tests the ways which enabled them to have power and to have a role in politics.

Information and registration: https://forms.office.com/e/CLzeCLXw7q

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Lecture “Before the Nabataeans: Arabian Traders in the Negev Highlands” by Tali Erickson-Gini and Martin David Pasternak, W.F. Albright Institute of Archaological Research, Jerusalem, 11 May 2023, 16:00 IDT

Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/aiar/erickson-gini-pasternak-lecture2023?e=4b7f78b915

 

 

 

 

3. 4th Graduate Colloquium in Middle Eastern and Ottoman Studies, Marmara University and George Mason University, Istanbul, 11-12 August 2023

The Colloquium welcomes papers related to the Middle East Islamic Studies in historical and contemporary contexts, including Ottoman Studies. It is open to all disciplines as well as multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary fields, including history, history of arts and architecture, literature, religious studies, cultural studies, political science, sociology, and anthropology.

Deadline for abstracts: 20 May 2023. Information: https://istanbulcolloquium.com

 

 

 

4. “Postclassical Philosophy in the Muslim World: A Symposium on Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210)”, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, 26-28 April 2024

Rāzī’s position as a preeminent figure of Postclassical Islam (ca. 1200-1900 CE) was influential in nearly all areas of knowledge. This symposium welcomes proposals for presentations on any of the fields to which Rāzī dedicated himself, e.g., philosophy, logic, the sciences, magic and sorcery, theology, Qurʾānic exegesis, and jurisprudence. Presentations may also focus on Rāzī’s life and legacy. Presentations with a strong phil-ological focus are encouraged.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 August 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements /12778902/cfp-symposium-fakhr-al-din-al-razi-d-6061210

 

 

 

 

5. Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought
Turkish and Egyptian Thinkers on the Disruption of Islamic Knowledge

Andrew Hammond

CUP. 2022

https://www.cambridge.org/eg/academic/subjects/history/middle-east-history/late-ottoman-origins-modern-islamic-thought-turkish-and-egyptian-thinkers-disruption-islamic-knowledge?format=HB&isbn=9781009199506

 

 

 

 

6. SCORE lecture series: “Egyptian Historiography of the First and Second fitnas” (16 May)

The second talk in the summer 2023 term of our online lecture series ‘Rethinking Social Contention’, which will take place on Tuesday, 16 May, at 4:00 pm CEST.

We’re excited to host Ed Zychowicz-Coghill (King’s College London), who will present his research on “The Historiography of the First and Second fitnas in Egypt”.

If you’d like to attend, please email score.aai@uni-hamburg.de to receive the access details. We look forward to a stimulating paper and discussion and hope to see many of you there! For more information on our project, “Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period” (SCORE), please visit our website at www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/score

 

 

 

7. The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 7th Forum Medieval Art/Forum Kunst des Mittelalters, Jena, September 25–28, 2024. The biannual colloquium is organized by the Deutsche Verein für Kunstwissenschaft e.V.

The theme for the 7th Forum Medieval Art is Light: Art, Metaphysics and Science in the Middle Ages.

The Mary Jaharis Center invites session proposals that fit within the Light theme and are relevant to Byzantine studies.

Session proposals must be submitted through the Mary Jaharis Center website. The deadline for submission is May 29, 2023.

If the proposed session is approved, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse a maximum of 4 session participants (presenters and session chair) up to $500 maximum for participants traveling from locations in Germany, up to $800 maximum for participants traveling from the EU, and up to $1400 maximum for participants traveling from outside Europe. Funding is through reimbursement only; advance funding cannot be provided. Eligible expenses include conference registration, transportation, and food and lodging. Receipts are required for reimbursement. The Mary Jaharis Center regrets that it cannot reimburse participants who have last-minute cancellations and are unable to attend the conference.

For a complete description of the theme, further details, and submission instructions, please visit https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/7th-forum-medieval-art.

Please contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, with any questions.

 

 

 

8. Call for Middle-East Paper/Session Proposals for Medieval Academy Meeting, March 2024

Jack Tannous will be one of three plenary speakers at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, March 14-16, 2024 at University of Notre Dame.

We’d love to have a strong showing of Middle-Eastern/Islamic content to complement him.  Please consider proposing a paper or session.  CfP is just below:

Updated Call for Papers
2024 Annual Meeting of
The Medieval Academy of America
Hosted by the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
MARCH 14–16, 2024

The 99th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Indiana).  The meeting is hosted by The Medieval Institute, St. Mary’s College, Holy Cross College, and Indiana University, South Bend.  The conference will be entirely in person, though the plenary lectures and some other events will also be live-streamed.
The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. Exceptions can be given to individuals whose specialty would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy.
Location: The Medieval Institute has one of the preeminent library collections for medieval studies in North America. Notre Dame is located about two hours’ drive from Chicago, with commuter train service available. Scholars may wish to extend their visit and take advantage of opportunities for research or sightseeing.

Plenary Speakers:  Robin Fleming (Boston College), Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford), and Jack Tannous (Princeton).
Themes:
Mapping the Middle Ages: Under this theme we invite explorations of how medieval people mapped their world and of how we, as modern scholars, have mapped or might map that world.  For example, sessions or individual presentations could focus on medieval cartography or the distortions of modern maps of the medieval world, but also on other kinds of medieval and modern mappings:  the creation of medieval cosmologies and cosmographies; the construction of boundaries, edges, peripheries, authorities, and jurisdictions; the positioning of marginal groups, of insiders and outsiders, of friends and enemies; the conjuring of frontiers between ‘civilizations’ across Eurasia; the figuring of past, present, and future, of ancient, medieval, and modern; the making of archives and libraries.
Bodies in Motion: This strand thematizes bodies (for example, animate bodies, celestial bodies, or material objects) as they move, whether through displacement or through movement within a space. Papers might consider celestial motion, mathematical models, music, and concepts of time; travel (e.g. for trade, pilgrimage, or war), migration and resettlement (voluntary or forced); the transmission of food, goods, art objects and diseases through patterns of human contact; bodies that transform or transcend categories; textual corpora, their material transmissions, and their transformations through translation and reception; habit, gesture, ritual, and the lived use of domestic, urban, political, or religious architectural spaces.
Communities of Knowledge: We invite papers exploring communities formed around the creation, dissemination, exchange, and preservation of knowledge in the medieval world. Papers might treat centers of learning and their students and teachers, including but not limited to the universities; virtual communities formed by epistolary networks, narrative traditions, dissident theologies, or political ideologies; communities defined in terms of medical knowledge; apocalyptic or prophetic or messianic communities bound by foreknowledge of things to come; the peripheries of knowledge, including the limits of literacy or belief; material supports for the transmission of knowledge, from shipping routes or urban spaces to fresco cycles or manuscript glosses; and the formation of political and legal knowledge in the Middle Ages and their impact on the constitution of authority.
The Medieval Academy welcomes innovative panels that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries or that use various disciplinary approaches to examine an individual topic. We encourage papers on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, or Eastern Europe and the networks and exchanges between East and West.
Proposals: Individuals may propose to offer a paper or propose a full panel of papers and speakers to fit one of the themes above.  Panels usually consist of three 25-minute papers, and proposals should be geared to that length. The Program Committee may choose a different format for some panels after the proposals have been reviewed. Panel organizers may wish to propose different formats for their panels, subject to Program Committee approval.
In order to be considered, proposals must be complete and sent in via the Submittable platform at this link:

https://bit.ly/MAA2024-ND-MI

Paper proposals will need to include the proposer’s information (name; a statement of Medieval Academy membership, or statement that the individual’s specialty would not normally involve membership in the Academy; professional status; email address; postal address; home or cell and office telephone numbers) and paper information (title, abstract of no more than 250 words, session theme for which it should be considered, and audio-visual needs).
Session proposals: If a full panel is being proposed, the above information will be required for each paper, as well as for the session as a whole.  Session proposals may also include the name of the chair (with the relevant contact information) or ask that a chair be appointed.

If the proposer will be at a different address when decisions are announced in September 2023, that address should be included.
Submissions:
The deadline is 15 June 2023.
Please do not send proposals to the Medieval Academy office or to the conference organizers. Contact MAA2024@TheMedievalAcademy.org with questions.
Selection Procedure: The Committee will review paper and panel proposals for their quality, the significance of their topics, and their relevance to the conference themes. The Program Committee will evaluate proposals during the summer of 2023 and the Committee will inform all successful and unsuccessful proposers and announce the program in September of 2023.

 

 

 

9. IDHN 9th online conference on May 31 2023

We have the great pleasure of inviting you to our 9th IDHN online conference on May 31 2023. You will find below and attached to this email the program of the conference together with the registration link. We have as always great speakers who will share their groundbreaking research with us. Do join us for these four exciting talks and share our invitation within your networks.

Ursula Hammed (Munich University): EGIPTOS – Establishing Groups, Identifying Patterns in Texts from Original Sources

Estrella Samba-Campos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Access to Knowledge: The kutub al-ʿilm and muṣannaf collections as aural databases

Julio César Cárdenas Arenas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Islamic University of Madinah): A Computational Linguistics Analysis of “Christians” and “Jews”  in Ibn Taymīyah’s Legal Verdicts

Tynan Kelly (University of Chicago): The Digital Takhrīj: Tracing the Transmission of `Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib’s Orations (khuṭub) with Text-Comparison and Algorithm-Assisted Network Graphing

In order to attend the conference please register at: https://georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkfuChqD0iGdb63d_MzZq9ge9IKCrP3BPg

https://idhn.org/

 

1.In person: Rumi and the Masnavi: Talk and Recitation Annual Bruce Wannell Memorial Lecture 2023
Co-sponsored by the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) and the University of York and it is part of the York Festival of Ideas.
with Alan Williams and Seyed Ali Jaberi & the Hamdel Ensemble
Rumi is one of the best loved and most influential poets in Islamic culture, and today is fame is global. Join Prof Alan Williams for a fascinating talk including a recitation and performance by Seyed Ali Jaberi and the Hamdel Ensemble, centring on the enigmatic story of an old musician, from the first book of Rumi’s Masnavi, a work of couplet verses in Persian and Arabic.
8 June 2023, 7:30PM. In person; registration required. National Centre for Early Music, Walmgate, York.

 

 

 

 

2. Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: Romantic and Didactic Genres

A History of Persian Literature, Vol III

Mohsen Ashtiany (Anthology Editor)

I B Tauris, 2023

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/persian-narrative-poetry-in-the-classical-era-8001500-romantic-and-didactic-genres-9781845119041/

 

 

 

 

3. CMES Harvard is hosting the exhibit of Qajar era archives and objects covering 30 years in the life of an Assyrian-Irish family from Urmia that settled in Santa Clara County, CA: Assyrians from Persia (Iran) to the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries, and the Search for a Home 

The exhibit website is https://qarajalutosantaclara.com

The next speaker (ZOOM) in the accompanying series is Dr. Mira X Schwerda who will speak about the key Ali Khan Vali photo album at Harvard’s Fine Arts library. 

An Archive of Fragmented Memories: The Concept of Time in the ‘Ali Khan Vali Album

Mira Xenia Schwerda
Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art, 2023-2024; Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 2022-2023.
Monday, May 8, 2023
12:00 to 1:30pm ET
Online; register in advance on Zoom: https://bit.ly/3L90xMO.

 

 

 

4. From Konkan to Coromandel: Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture

The University of Cambridge’s Centre of Islamic Studies has partnered with Art, Resources and Teaching Trust, Bangalore to deliver an exciting program this season.

Gangaram Tambat: A Deccan Artist and a British Archive

Holly Shaffer (Brown University) on May 12th at 2 PM London (9 AM New York, and

6:30 PM Mumbai)

Sea a Boiling Vessel: Oceanic Imaginations of Kerala’s History

Aazhi Archives on June 9th at 2 PM London (9 AM New York, and 6:30 PM Mumbai)

Shantaladevi: The History and Mythos of an “Exceptional” Hoysala Queen

Samana Gururaja (Humboldt Universität) on July 21st 2 PM London (9 AM New York, and 6:30 PM Mumbai)

Painted Chests and Sculpted Beds: Tracing Artistic Connections Between the Malabar Coast and the Broader Indian Ocean World

Deepthi Murali (George Mason University) on August 11th 2 PM London (9 AM New York, and 6:30 PM Mumbai)

All webinars will take place on Zoom. Free and open to the public. Prior registration is mandatory. Please visit https://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/activities/lectures-workshops/from-malabar-to-coromandel/ to register and receive the Zoom link.

 

 

 

5. Online: Intratextuality in the Bible and the Qur’an

DFDS2023 (3rd) International Conference

Organized by the Discussion Forum on Divine Scriptures and the World Religions World Church Program (Notre Dame)
May 17 2023, 8-11 am (Eastern Time – New  York)
Registration : ahmadi_mh@ut.ac.ir
Speakers:
– Gabriel Said Reynolds , Notre Dame University
– Mun’im Sirry , Notre Dame University
– Hussein Abdulsater , Notre Dame University
– Gary Anderson , Notre Dame University
– Jennifer Grillo , Notre Dame University
– Nathan Eubank , Notre Dame University
– Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi , University of Tehran
– Abdulkader Tayob , University of Cape Town
– Ghassan Elmasri , Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourses
– Mohammad Kazem Shaker , Allameh Tabataba’i University
– Mehrab Sadegh Nia , University of Religions and Denominations
– Mahmoud Sadeghi Tajar , Independent Scholar
For more information:
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/p/53

https://chat.whatsapp.com/GSaHZjoRnZ5JNHRh18O2AV
—

Dr. Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi
Assoc. Prof. University of Tehran
Islamic Historical Philology
Executive Director of Discussion Forum on Divine Scriptures(DFDS)
Website: http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/
Phone : +98 (0)9127580228 (ٌWhatsApp)
Email: ahmadi_mh@ut.ac.ir

 

 

 

6. Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research 16.1 is out now!

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

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arab-muslim-media-research

 

 

 

7. Intellect is pleased to announce that International Journal of Islamic Architecture 12.2 is out now.

Special Issue: ‘Rupture and Response’

The theme for this special issue was inspired by the early months of the pandemic in 2020, when it was just beginning to disrupt and fracture lives, systems, economies, social fabrics, and many other facets of daily life around the globe.

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

https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture

 

 

 

 

8. Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz, Director of Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, will be delivering a virtual lecture hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara on Saturday, May 6 at 11 a.m. PST.

“The presentation will focus on medieval Persian writers’ perception of the Other and their level of tolerance for diversity using the example of ‘Aziz al-Din Nasafi, Jalal al-Din Rumi, and Sa’di of Shiraz. We will examine these writers’ perception of the Other imagined to be residing in unfamiliar/hostile political, cultural, and religious geographies. The examples will include poetry and prose.”

 

If you would like to attend, please follow this link to the event page and click ‘REGISTER’ 

 

 

 

9. CfP: Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam

Special issue of our journal on the theme of Islam and the Discourse of the Enlightenment

We welcome articles on the following themes:

Islamic conception of Subjectivity and Maturity

Islam and Reason

Islam and Political Sovereignty

Islam and Secularism

Islam and Development

and any other related themes

Book reviews on the aforementioned subjects are also appreciated.

JCSI is a peer-viewed academic journal publishing in London.

The length of the article should be between 5000 and 7000 words, and it should be submitted via the journal’s website: https://contemporarystudyofislam.org/

If there are any issues with submission, writers can email their paper directly to the journal’s editor at dr.emad-bazzi@contemporarystudyofislam.org  or emadbazzi@hotmail.com

Before submission, authors are urged to review the paper criteria listed on the journal’s website. We also respectfully request that authors refrain from raising any topics that can be acrimonious or offensive to Muslim or other religious communities.

The submission deadline for this special issue is 30th June 2023

Contributors are asked to include a three-line profile about themselves containing their academic affiliation and major publications

Al-Mahdi Institute Research Seminars

All seminars are hybrid with instructions for joining online and in-person provided on each of the links below. All times are UK times.

Wednesday 10^th May, 15:00 – 16:30

Before “After Virtue”: The Philosophy of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr

Mehdi Ali, University of Southern California

 

Wednesday 31^st May, 15:00 – 16:30

A letter from ʿAlī on the history of the caliphate: A key source text

Nebil Husayn, University of Miami

 

Wednesday 14^th June, 15:00 – 16:30

Counter-securitization among Shia Muslims in Birmingham

Guillermo Martín-Sáiz, Durham University

1. HYBRID Annual Research Workshop “Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies”, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London, 6-7 October 2023

The workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies for investigating history writing in Arabic in the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond in any period from the seventh century to the present. Contributions are invited from scholars at all career levels, addressing any period and any part of the Middle East and North Africa, broadly defined.

Extended deadline: 12 May 2023. Information:

https://www.aku.edu/ismc/events/pages/event-detail.aspx?EventID=2321&Title=Arabic%20Pasts:%20Histories%20and%20Historiographies6-7%20October%202023

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Lecture “Between Stigma and Necessity – Paradigm Shift Among Muslims in the West” by Rania Awaad (Stanford Muslim Mental Health & Islamic Psychology Lab, Stanford University), Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität Vienna, 2 May 2023, 17:30-19:00 h CET

Information and registration: https://www.sfu.ac.at/de/event/ifime-ringvorlesung-muslimische-patientinnen-ganz-anders-und-doch-so-gleich/

 

 

 

 

3. HYBRID Colloquium of the Mediterranean Platform: “Translating Arabic Crusade Chronicles in 19th Century France” by James Wilson, University of Konstanz, Germany, 3 May 2023, 15:15-16:45 h CET

The colloquium serves to discuss new and ongoing MA, PhD and postdoctoral research projects on Mediter-ranean Studies across the ages and disciplines. Interested persons are invited to join the colloquium at the University of Konstanz, within which both pre- and postgraduate students (MA Students, Doctoral and Post-doctoral fellows) and scholars could partake.

Information and program: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-mediterranean-platform-colloqui um-konstanz-summer-2023?e=82aeb6c61d. Contact for link: jovo.miladinovic@uni-konstanz.de

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Book Launch “Islamophobia in Lebanon: Visibly Muslim Women and Global” by Ali Kassem (Nation University of Singapore), MENACS and BRISMES, University of Sussex, 3 May 2023, 16:00 -17:30 BST

The author offers rare and important insights into the lives of hijabi women in the ex-French colony of Lebanon. Through listening to everyday experiences of Islamophobia, this book masterfully engages the decolo-nial lens to articulate a principled and urgent account of coloniality in the Muslim World.

Registration: https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/98982730778 , Meeting ID: 989 8273 0778.

 

 

 

 

5. HYBRIDE Conférence Publique de l´IISMM : « L’exploitation des références eschatologiques dans la propagande du groupe État islamique » avec Othman El Kachtoul (Docteur en islamo-logie, Université de Strasbourg. GEO), BULAC, Paris, 9 mai 2023, 18h30 – 20h CET

Information : http://iismm.ehess.fr/index.php?2388

Inscription : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvnGy-LrSdA

 

 

 

 

6. HYBRIDE Atelier IISMM “Normativité en islam : enjeux politiques de la déconstruction du sacré” avec Stéphane Valter (Professeur en langue et civilisation arabes, Université de Lyon 2), 25 mai 2023, 10h – 12h

L’ouvrage de Ma‘rûf al-Rusâfî (1875-1945), poète iraqien arabophone d’origine kurde, „La personnalité muhammadienne“ n’est nullement un pamphlet anticlérical. Pour un philosophe athée, il n’y a en fait dans ce livre rien d’extraordinaire, si ce n’est l’intérêt provenant de la description de croyances et pratiques à une période donnée. Mais pour des pratiquants un peu étriqués, il est probable que le livre, comme la traduction, soient considérés comme ineptes, ou pire, blasphématoire.

Information: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=WroeienWoEWqj7IoDFlyCpW03jsjCalL-psIgf0J8WalURDlNOEdSMU03MTNZQ0FaSDY5TjZSOVlKTy4u . Inscription: https://bbb.ehess.fr/b/fra-lzk-hvs-wue

 

 

 

 

7. Symposium “Islamic Ethics & Living in Ethnic and Cultural Diversity”, Ghent University, Belgium, 21 June 2023

The goal is to reflect on current approaches in the anthropology of Islam, particularly by foregrounding Islamic faith, spirituality and ethics, and the conditions of life in super diverse contexts. How can anthropologists study everyday life but also the role of Islamic ethics in environments marked by multiple forms of cultural and religious difference? More generally, how can both disciplines – Islamic theology/ethics and anthropology – be brought into a productive dialogue and conversation?

Deadline for abstracts: 7 May 2023, send to an.vanraemdonck@ugent.be

Information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-islamic-ethics-living-in-ethnic-and-cultural-diversity-tickets-623489492857?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&keep_tld=1

 

 

 

 

8. International Conference “Women and Leadership in the Middle East and Africa”, CLAS LAB, Ibn Zohr University, Ait Melloul, Morocco, 12-13 October 2023

The conference aims to provide an intellectual venue for scholars (from various disciplines), practitioners, feminists, activists and policy makers working on women’s rights and gender studies to explore the factors behind the gender leadership gap in so many public life sectors and cultural contexts and investigate the harm it does to societies.

Deadline for abstracts: 20 June 2023.

Information: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/international-conference-gender-politics-icgp-2023-women-darhour

 

 

 

 

9. Postdoctoral Position in the Research Project “Constructing the Indian Ocean” (Focus Muslim Communities, Dubai), School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark

We are looking for an innovative scholar with an academic background in either Anthropology, Global Stud-ies, the Sociology of Religion or similar, preferably with a specialization in the Indian Ocean world and/or the study of Islam and Muslim communities.

Deadline for applications: 9 May 2023.

Information: https://www.au.dk/om/stillinger/job/postdoctoral-position-within-the-research-project-constructing-the-ocean-at-the-school-of-culture-and-society-1

 

 

 

 

10. 2 Research Associates for “Ottoman Auralities and the Eastern Mediterranean: Sound, Media and Power, 1789-1922”, University of Cambridge

Candidates should propose a research project that foreground especially marginalized communities in Ana-tolia (e.g., Kurds, Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians) or the Arab regions of the Ottoman Empire (e.g., the Syrian Provinces). Applicants must hold (or show evidence of nearing completion of) a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline (e.g., music, history, history of science, anthropology, Middle Eastern studies), and show a devel-oping profile of publications.

Deadline for applications: 14 May 2023 Information: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/40476/

 

 

 

11. Articles for Journal “Revue Egypte Soudan Mondes Arabes (ESMA)” in French or English

ESMA is a journal that promotes empirically grounded social science research on contemporary Egypt, Su-dan, and other MENA countries. The journal welcomes articles from sociology, anthropology, political sci-ence, geography, urban studies, history, political economy, legal studies, development studies, etc. and en-courages new theoretical contributions.

Information: http://cedej-eg.org/index.php/revue-egyptemonde-arabe/

 

 

 

12. American University in Cairo: Scanlon Award & Keynote Lecture

You are cordially invited to attend this year’s George T. Scanlon Graduate Student Award Ceremony on Saturday 6 May, 2023, 6.00-8.00pm, Oriental Hall, Tahrir Square Campus, American University in Cairo. This year’s awardee will be announced at the ceremony.

If you’re not in Cairo you can also attend online. Please register here:

https://aucegypt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_raIWxG4nREOzqMsDxxCBig

We are honored that this year’s keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr Tarek Swelim ’86, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, under the title: “Al-Mu’ayyad: From Mamluk to Sultan.”

Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/2TPlHvbS0

The George T. Scanlon Graduate Student Award in Arab and Islamic Civilizations is given to the most distinguished graduate thesis produced by a student of the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations (ARIC) at the American University in Cairo (AUC). The prize recognizes Scanlon’s 50-year teaching career at the University, which made an immense impact on all his students, scholars, fellow colleagues, and researchers, and even many of those who encountered him only briefly.

 

 

 

13. University of Oxford – Departmental Lecturer, Persian Studies

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65365

This is a part-time, fixed-term position until 31 August 2024.

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 10 May 2023.

 

 

 

 

14. Webinar – British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)

‘Feeling Mission Hospitals in Persia and British India’

with Sara Honarmand

31 May 2023, 5PM UK time

For more information and to register, see:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7516801746030/WN_5Am9d6aET8m2taAqTcwCmQ#/registration

 

 

 

15. In Person Lecture | “You are fired”: A Comparison of Roman and Sasanian Military Careers

Event co-organised by the Iran Society and the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS).
Sean Strong, winner of last year’s Iran Society study grants, discusses some critical aspects of the lives of military men in Late Antique Roman and Sasanian armies.
18 May 2023, 7PM. In person.

Army & Navy Club 36-39 Pall Mall London, SW1Y 5JN.
Register on Eventbrite.

 

 

 

16. ONLINE Webinar ‘Presence and Silence: The Iran Archives in the German Foreign Office’

with Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto

18 May 2023, 5PM, on Zoom.

This is part of the monthly seminar Series “Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents” convened by Arezou Azad & Mohamad Tavakoli

Information and registration:

https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocuuhpz8iEtZ-L4819TcSD47Uh7mRt8tK#/registration

 

 

 

17. The Islamic College: Arabic Online Language Course

Beginner (Friday), Intermediate (Sunday)
12th May – 16th July (10 sessions)
Registration Deadline: 5th May 2023

https://islamic-college.ac.uk/study/short-courses/learn-arabic/

 

Submission of articles for the new issue (June 30, 2022, Volume:5, Issue:1) continues to May 30.
Turkish Journal of Shiite Studies is double-blind peer reviewed and no fee is requested from the author before or after publication.

Cornell H. Fleischer (Kanuni Süleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies in the Departments of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and History, University of Chicago) passed away on April 25, 2023.

Please click here for an obituary by his colleagues and friends Holly Shissler and John E. Woods.