Archive for 2023

1.Articles of interest in the 50th volume of The Textile Museum Journal, now available through https://museum.gwu.edu/subscribe-journal.

‘Two Velvet Letter Pouches and Their Role in Safavid Diplomacy’ by Anna Jolly and Corinne Mühlemann

‘Professor Wace’s Turkish Sampler: Ottoman Women Embroiderers and Continental Collectors of Woven Archaeologies’ by Deniz Türker

‘Yusuf and Zulaikha in Sufi Poetry and Safavid Silks’ by Nazanin Hedayat Munroe

For subscriptions to The Textile Museum Journal 50 and access to earlier issues, please visit https://museum.gwu.edu/subscribe-journal. For submissions, more information or questions, please contact The Textile Museum Journal editorial team at tmjournal@gwu.edu  or check https://museum.gwu.edu/textile-museum-journal.

 

 

 

2. British Library Endangered Archives Project:

Iranian Performance Arts Journals Pre-1979 (EAP1200)

The journals scanned in Tehran as part of the British Library Endangered Archives Project are now accessible on the British Library Endangered Archives Project  site at: https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP1200.

We have also begun uploading these journals in an indexed fashion on the Golistan Project site in the printed matter section at: https://www.golistan.org/collection/?type=Read&sub_type=Journals.

 

 

 

 

3. Thijl Sunier, author of the recently published Making Islam Work, is giving a lecture at Leiden University on Islamic authority among Muslims in Western Europe.

The lecture is part of the ‘What’s New?!’ lecture series, organized by LUCIS and the department of Middle Eastern Studies to focus on current research on Islam and the Middle East. Sunier will present his new book and discuss how Islamic authority plays a role in public debates about (sometimes) controversial issues related to the presence of Muslims in Europe.

Thursday 14 December 2023; 17:15 – 18:15; Lipsius Building

Find out more and register here.

 

 

 

 

4. Governing the Frontiers in the Ottoman Empire
Notables, Tribes and Peasants of Muş (1820s-1880s)
Gülseren Duman Koç

Brill, 2023

 

 

 

 

5. The Book of the Cow
An Early Qur’ānic Codex on Papyrus (P. Hamb. Arab. 68)
Mathieu Tillier and Naïm Vanthieghem

Brill, 2023

 

 

 

6. Qur’anic Scientific Cultural Tourism (QSCT) 2024 Spring Program

http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/p/62//
QSCT program welcomes those interested in Qur’anic Academic tourism in QSCT network of Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, India, and Turkey
Notes:
1. IQP (Int. Qur’anic Parliament) members can join QSCT 2024 program and receive exclusive member benefits. To become IQP member you can join us via:
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.domainuser.ir/c/main.php
2.Applicants can apply for the 7-day 2024 Spring period
3.Applicants can send their application attached with a short cv to: ahmadi_mh@ut.ac.ir
4.The results of approval of applications will be announced by the end of February 2024
For more information
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/
Program type (A, B, C, D)
A) Visiting of Qur’anic Scholars
B) Visiting of Qur’anic Academic centers
C) Candidate delivering Academic Lectures in Qur’anic Academic centers
D) IQP special Program for IQP members
Candidates:
1) Full professor in Qur’anic / Islamic studies
2) Assistant/associate professor Qur’anic / Islamic studies
3) PhD students in Qur’anic / Islamic studies
4) Hafiz (Memorizer) / reciter of the Holy Quran
5) Qur’anic activists

أمانة تأسيس المجلس الدولي المستقل للقرآن الکریم
Ind. Int. Quranic Parliament (IQP)

 

 

 

7. Online Event ~ TRANSNATIONAL PERSIAN HISTORY AND LITERATURE

13.12.23

The MESA Global Academy
and
The History Department of the
University of Pennsylvania
present
Dr. Nasir Ahmad Arian
Penn State University
and
Dr. Khalilullah Afzali
UCLA
Moderated by Dr. Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, December 13
Noon Eastern
Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/mrfjc96h
Please email mimi@mesana.org  to receive the Zoom passcode for the event

 

 

8. 5th Spatial Humanities conference will be held in

Bamberg on September 25th to 27th 2024.

Abstract submission deadline: 15th Feb 2024

Spatial Humanities 2024 welcomes submissions on all aspects of using geospatial
technologies in humanities research, methodological innovations, and applied research that
develops our understanding of the geographies of the past. We welcome contributions from
anyone working on computational approaches to spatial questions in the humanities and
arts. These disciplines include, but are not limited to, history (including fields from social
history such as historical demography and environmental history), archaeology, heritage and
conservation studies, literary studies, classics, linguistics, art history, anthropology and
religious studies, as well as from interdisciplinary and/or technical fields including GIS, digital
humanities, computational linguistics and computer science. Abstracts should be between
750–1000 words for full papers and 500–750 words for posters.

This year the conference will take place in Bamberg, Germany, a UNESCO World Heritage
Site. Accordingly, the conference will feature a special session with a focus on Spatial
Humanities and Heritage. Heritage has spatial dimensions and heritage processes are
linked to place: architecture and urban conservation, the listing of historic buildings, sites,
cultural landscapes or heritage districts. Maps of heritage ‘assets’ and archaeological sites
shape the way we perceive and understand places, as well as their cultural identity. How can
these be studied to reveal cultural boundaries and exclusivity in heritage discourses? How can
innovative multi-layered maps show alternative and diverse aspects of heritage?

We are delighted to announce that this year’s keynote speakers will be Francesca Ammon
(University of Pennsylvania) and Ross Purves (University of Zurich).

Themes

Proposals are welcomed on, but not limited to, the following themes:
– Gazetteers, e.g. urban, regional, national and international
– Artificial intelligence, e.g. computer vision, NLP, deep learning, etc.
– Spatial explorations of narratives, literary and imaginary places
– GIS and spatial analysis including 3D modeling and spatial statistics
– Deep mapping, experiences of places
– Territorial representations, transgressions, subalternity and boundaries
– Mapping mobility, spatial connections and networks
– Linking the map and the text: mixed-method approaches
– Geospatial ‘collections as data’, enrichment and annotation
– Historical maps and georeferencing
– Environmental humanities: landscapes, waterscapes and the blue humanities
– Linked Open (Geo)Data
– IIIF applications for maps and spatial data
– Labs notebooks, workflows and infrastructure
– Data mining, visualisation and the challenges of geolocation
– Building, mapping and spatially analysing heritage inventories

Venue
:Bamberg University, Markusstraße 8a, D-96047 Bamberg, Germany. The conference will be
held in person.

Early Bird Rates
Full registration costs 170 €, reduced to 120 € for students including teas & coffees and
lunches days. The conference dinner can be booked in addition.

Student Bursaries
To help support PhD students attend the conference we will be offering fee waivers to the
three abstracts judged by the organisers to be the best. If you would like to be considered for
this please mark this in the appropriate place on your submission. Note that we may require
proof that when the abstract was submitted that you were registered as a PhD student.
We plan to offer a childcare service.

For further information see https://spathum.uni-bamberg.de/
Email of the conference: spathum@uni-bamberg.de

Organisers
The Spatial Humanities Conference Association
Institutions organizing: Bamberg University, Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and
Technologies (KDWT), Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Lancaster University Centre for
Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities Lab, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Northumbria
University Architecture & Built Environment and the UrbanMetaMapping consortium.

 

 

 

 

9. Call for Proposals

‘Women in Religious and Civic Leadership’

AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies Annual Conference

George Mason University

April 25-26 | Fairfax, VA

Recent decades have witnessed the increasing presence and prominence of Muslim women in a variety of civic and professional contexts, as well as in charitable, educatonal, and culturalorganizations. At the same time, explicitly religious roles for Muslim women, as religious scholars, mosque leaders, chaplains, and legal authorities also continue to expand in number, scope, and influence.

This year, the AbuSulayman Center’s annual conference will bring together both scholars and practitioners for an extended discussion of the many ways in which Muslim

women are leading, shaping, and supporting their communities. It will examine the challenges they face in these leadership roles in a world where Muslim women continue to struggle against both patriarchal and Islamophobic assumptions about their agency and influence. What are the structural and cultural obstacles they navigate in these roles, and how do these obstacles vary across different Muslim contexts? What are the religious, intellectual, ideological, or practical developments that have encouraged or facilitated the expansion of women’s engagement in public leadership roles? How has women’s leadership changed the communal dynamics, social expectations, and cultural landscape of different Muslim contexts? Are there important historical precedents for women’s leadership in premodern Muslim communities, and what is the importance of those precedents in contemporary Muslim contexts?

We invite proposals from scholars and advanced graduate students that explore the leadership

roles of women in either majority or minority Muslim communities, engaging the questions and issues raised above. We also invite presenta=ons from Muslim women community leaders, activists, and practitioners currently serving in either religious or civic roles.

Those interested should submit:

• a 300-word abstract describing their proposed presenta=on
• a brief CV/Resume (2 pages max)

Please submit your abstract to avacgis@gmu.edu by January 9, 2024.

Selected proposals will be announced by January 30, 2024.

The AbuSulayman Center will cover travel and accommodation expenses for all selected conference presenters.

 

 

 

10. CSMBR Winter School – early bird deadline is 12^thof December.

Studiolo: Digital Humanities Lab

12-15 February 2024

Organised by

Fabrizio Bigotti and Manuel Huth

Studiolo Digital Humanities Lab is a new Winter School format designed to meet the needs of those who, both inside and outside of academia, are faced with the digital revolution and want to make the most of it.

Its interdisciplinary format allows participants to get a feel for the potential of new media, while acquiring basic coding skills, knowledge of 3D modelling, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and key concepts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLM), as well as tools for communicating with experts in the field.

INFO AND REGISTRATION AT
https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/studiolo-digital-lab-2024/

Should you have any queries as to the registration process or the organisation of the event do not hesitate to make them known.

Kindest regards,

Andreas Hylla

Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) – Assistant Coordinator

Domus Comeliana, Via Cardinale Maffi 48, 56126 Pisa, Italy

Tel.: +39.02.006.20.51 – Mobile: +39.333.13.12.203

Email: ah@csmbr.fondazionecomel.org 

 

 

 

11. Reading visual devices in early books

International conference in Turku, Finland / 15-17 May 2025
Visual or graphic devices, such as images, diagrams, charts and tables, often operate between visual and verbal modes to convey information. In books these devices may be used, for example, to illustrate and expand upon the text, to support or distract from the message conveyed by the text, or to aid in the comprehension of complex concepts which would be difficult to express through words alone. Although graphic devices may also communicate through textual elements, their main communicative tools are structure, symbolism, and cultural imagery.
How are graphic devices used, framed and understood? How were innovations and conventions of data visualization transmitted across texts and languages? How did the diachronic or geographical spread of graphic devices progress in different parts of the world?
The Early Modern Graphic Literacies (EModGraL) project organises an international conference on the study of visual/graphic devices in late medieval and early modern books in May 2025. We invite contributions from book studies, philology and historical linguistics, textual scholarship, literary studies, history of science, art history, and other related fields, including interdisciplinary approaches.
Relevant topics and themes include:
* Graphic devices (e.g. images, tables, and diagrams) and their design and use (as part of text/supplementing text)
* Emerging practices and changing conventions: aesthetics, design, technologies
* Paratext and metatext: linguistic framing and presentation of graphic devices
* Visualising knowledge and information
* Different audiences, readers, and literacies: lay/professional, learned/vernacular
* Use of graphic devices in different domains and genres: instructional and technical writing, literature, scientific writing, popular texts, religion
* Late medieval and early modern manuscripts and printed books, including various physical formats (also broadsheets, pamphlets, scrolls, letters), also early books from non-European regions and languages
* Theoretical and methodological approaches to visual devices: opportunities and challenges (including digital humanities approaches)
Early Modern Graphic Literacies (EModGraL) is a four-year research project funded by the Research Council of Finland (2021-25) and based at the Department of English, University of Turku, Finland. The project maps the use of graphic devices in early English printed books (1473-1800) to study the development of vernacular graphic literacies and early strategies of data visualization.
Stay tuned for the Call for Papers, which will be circulated in Spring 2024.
For more information, please email us at VisualBookConf@utu.fi .
Best wishes,
Early Modern Graphic Literacies Project
Matti Peikola, Mari-Liisa Varila, Aino Liira & Sirkku Ruokkeinen

 

 

 

12. Exhibition – Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting, LACMA – Dec. 17, 2023-Aug. 4, 2024

Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), is on view from December 17, 2023 to August 4, 2024. The exhibition then travels to the Detroit Institute of Art, where it will be on view from September 22, 2024 to January 5, 2025.

This is the first exhibition to explore Islamic art in the context of its associated culinary traditions. Featuring some 250 works from 30 public and private collections across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East, the exhibition celebrates how gustatory discernment was a fundamental activity at the great Islamic courts. We are also unveiling for the first time in the United States our 18th-century reception room from Damascus. The exhibition features as well a newly commissioned multimedia installation by Sadik Kwaish Alfraji recalling his mother’s homemade bread.

The multi-author exhibition catalogue is available here. More information about the exhibition can be found on the exhibition webpage or contact ame@lacma.org.

Contact Email

ame@lacma.org

URL

https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/dining-sultan-fine-art-feasting-0

 

Political Prisoners Released in Bahrain: Deprived of Their Freedom Even Outside Bars

For ADHRB Weekly Newsletter 441, click here.

1.HYBRID Seminar “Crossing Ancient Sacred Landscapes: Contacts and Continuities in the Ancient Desert Cults and Beliefs of Northern Arabia and the Arid Southern Levant”, University of Oxford, 5-6 December 2023

This seminar aims to study the sacred landscapes of northern Arabia and the southern arid margins of the Levant in ancient times throughout the longue durée, adopting an interdisciplinary approach at the intersec-tion between archaeology, history, epigraphy, rock art research, and digital humanities. Scholars will present several case-studies with synchronic and diachronic analyses of the cultic and mortuary traditions of the region from the Neolithic to the Early Islamic period.

Information, program and registration: https://www.ames.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/crossing-sacred-landscapes-1.pdf-0

 

 

 

 

2. HYBRID Lecture “What Language Tells Us about Communal Interactions in Medieval Egypt” by Dr Miriam Wagner (St Edmund’s, Cambridge), Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Exeter, 6 December 2023, 6:00 pm GMT

Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-what-language-tells-us-about-communal-interactions-in-medieval-egypt-6-december-exeter-zoom?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

3. Journée d’études : “Rituels en islam/Islam”, Institut d’islamologie de l’Université de Stras-bourg, 8 decembre 2023, 8h30 – 18h00 CET

Information et programme : https://evenements.unistra.fr/agenda-unistra/detail-evenement/22301-journee-detudes-rituels-en-islam-islam

 

 

 

 

4. Winter Workshop “Intermediaries, Middle Grounds, Middle Sea”, Mediterranean Seminar and UCLA Center for Early Global Studies, 9-10 February 2024

Information and program: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-intermediaries-middle-grounds-middle-sea-mediterranean-seminar-2024-winter-workshop-9-10-february-ucla?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

5. Islamic Studies Conference: “Muslim Debates and Contestations”, Princeton University, 5-6 April 2024

Proposals covering different time periods and employing a variety of disciplinary and methodological per-spectives are welcome from graduate students and early-career scholars. Proposals approaching the cate-gory of debate in an expansive way and across its social, historical, religious, political, and other registers are encouraged to apply. We are also particularly interested in proposals that contribute more broadly to methods and approaches in the study of Islam and Muslim societies.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2023. Information:

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20013964/princeton-islamic-studies-conference

 

 

 

 

6. ONLINE Event “Erasures in Iraq”, Institute for Middle East, Central and Caucasus Studies, University of St Andrews, 15 April 2024

The objective is to highlight under-researched, under-assisted, and under-recognised communities in con-temporary Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan. We are open to presentations or discussions surrounding any communities and any themes. ‘Communities’ and ‘erasure’ can be broadly defined.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2023.

Information: https://cmr.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/call-for-papers-and-contributions-erasures-in-iraq/

 

 

 

 

7. International Conference “Creating Holiness: Books, Scrolls and Icons as Carriers of Sacredness (in Muslim Cultures)”, Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, Germany, 17-20 June 2024

This conference will address the questions of what turns a book – or an icon of the Eastern churches – into a sacred object in Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist cultures, and how is sacredness connected to the material.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2023. Information: https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/materialisierte-heiligkeit/News/CfP_-Creating-Holiness_-Books_-Scrolls-and-Icons-as-Carriers-of-Sacredness.html

 

 

 

 

8. “3rd Annual Critical Muslim Studies Conference: ReOrienting the (Global) South”, University of Leeds, 24-26 June 2024

This conference seeks to explore the intricate intersections between anti-colonialism, ethno-nationalism, and the emergence of Muslim political identities following the de facto abolition of the Caliphate in 1924. The conference seeks to investigate the processes that have firmly positioned Muslimness and the Muslim Ques-tion as a critical aspect of the global South.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2024. Information: https://criticalmuslimstudies.co.uk/project/3rd-interna-tional-conference-on-critical-muslim-studies/

 

 

 

 

9. Conference of Early Modern Ottoman Studies (EMOS): “Institutions, Networks, and Economic Change in the Early Modern Ottoman World”, Sabancı University, Istanbul, 27-28 June 2024

Scholars, historians, and researchers are invited to contribute papers that shed light on the economic dy-namics from the 16th to the 19th century. This conference aims to gather a diverse range of perspectives, methodologies, and scholarly research to foster a comprehensive understanding of the Ottoman economic landscape during this period.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2024. Information: https://historiansnet.com/call-for-papers-emos-2024/

 

 

 

 

10. 2nd International Conference on “Digital Archiving in the Arab World (DAAW)”, Sorbonne University in Abu Dhabi, 29-31 October 2024

We aspire to address the suject through the more focused standpoint of the digital management and preser-vation of data and documents, without foregoing a broader reflection, concerning both historical and future documents and data in danger whether physical or natively digital.

Deadline for abstracts: 18 February 2024.

Information: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TwMxdXGdz5eumFI6yS-4KWyUI1EpJLY4/view

 

 

 

 

11. Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowships (6-12 Months) at the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)

The visiting fellowships are beginning no later than 1 March 2024 for junior scholars in the early stages of the postdoctoral research, in support of excellent projects in the humanities and social sciences. Proposals are encouraged to articulate the contemporary stakes of the research project, encompassing historiographical, cultural, religious and/or political dimensions. Applicants must demonstrate how their projects will benefit from an extended stay in the region and contribute to the institute’s overall research environment.

Deadline for applications: 10 December 2023.

Information: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/fellowships/doctoralfellowships.html

 

 

 

12. 2 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellowships in Armenian Studies (2024-25) at the Center for Armenian Studies, University of Michigan

Eligibility: PhD required. Research and proposed courses should be related to Armenian Studies (literature, culture, visual arts, and politics).

Deadline for applications: 15 January 2023.

Information: https://ii.umich.edu/armenian/manoogian-fellowships.html

 

 

 

13. University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point – Assistant Professor of History

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66554

Including Middle East

Closing date: Jan 4, 2024

 

 

 

14. CfP for a special edition of Religions entitled Muslim women in the 21^st Century: Agency, influence, lived experience. 

Religions is a Q1-ranked, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, and we feel your contribution to the series would be particularly beneficial.

Muslim women are often portrayed monolithically in popular as well as political discourse. Even the academe has, at times, been dominated by an Orientalist gaze that exoticises the “Muslimwoman” to use miriam cooke’s neologism. This special edition aims to challenge this homogenizing discourse by featuring a range of diverse voices and perspectives.

Eager to move beyond the dichotomy of the pitiably oppressed or apologetically elevated “Muslimwoman”, this special edition explores the lived realities of Muslim women in majority or minority contexts, and the intersection of faith, culture, and agency (or lack thereof) that Muslim women negotiate in myriad ways.

Possible themes include, but are not limited to, the experiences of Muslim women in education and the workplace; women’s leadership roles in business, community, faith, politics and more; negotiating religious and cultural expectations—be it in national, ethnic, faith, or family contexts; Muslim women’s spirituality; contending with patriarchal interpretations of sharia and fiqh in either majority or minority contexts; addressing stereotypes, discrimination and Islamophobia; issues for Muslim women of colour within the ummah; and the complexity around hybrid and transnational identities.

We are committed to publishing an edition that amplifies the diverse voices of Muslim women and showcases the richness and complexity of their experiences. We welcome research paper submissions from the humanities and social sciences, law, medicine, education, economics, business, technology, and beyond.

If you are interested in submitting a paper to this special edition, please let us know by emailing us.  Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind, peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page.

If, after peer-review, your paper is approved for publication, there is an open-access publishing fee payable to Religions journal, however, we are able to waive the fee for some ECRs and contributors from lower-income countries at our discretion.

Prof Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Coventry University, Email Website

Dr Susan Carland, Monash University, Australia, E-Mail  Website

Dr Rachel Woodlock, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Email Website

 

 

 

15. Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Research Scholar in International Relations

The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at the School of International and
Public Affairs, Columbia University, will fund one postdoctoral research scholar position in
international relations during the 2024-25 academic year. Preference will be given to
backgrounds in national security, intelligence studies, or cyber and conflict studies. We
encourage applications from historically underrepresented groups including women, BIPOC, and first generation scholars.
The position will be based in New York City, within the Saltzman Institute at Columbia
University, for a 12-month term from September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025,
encompassing the 2024-2025 academic year. To be eligible, applicants must have received and
be able to document their Ph.D. degree prior to August 31, 2024.
The position is funded by the Saltzman Institute’s Emerging Voices in National Security and
Intelligence Program, which is directed by Senior Research Scholar Peter Clement. The
postdoctoral research scholar will be expected to dedicate the majority of their time to the
completion of substantive work such as a book, article(s), or other significant publication while in residence; and to assist the Director with proposal preparation and other research projects.
They will teach one undergraduate level course in the areas of national security, intelligence
studies, or cyber and conflict studies; and will be expected to attend and participate in
Institute-sponsored events including public and private seminars, panels, conferences, research
colloquia, and meetings.
Applications from both U.S. and foreign students will be considered. The position will be
compensated at an annual salary of $76,000 plus benefits.
Application materials should include a cover letter, research statement, CV, one letter of
recommendation sent directly to us by your recommender, and a list of two additional academic references whom we will contact. Please list the name and email address of your recommender in your cover letter. Application materials may be sent via email to siwps.apply@gmail.com.
Questions may be directed to Assistant Director Ingrid Gerstmann at ig79@columbia.edu.
Review of applications will begin Monday, January 8, 2024; the posting will remain open
until filled.

1.University of Kansas – Assistant Professor, Islamic Studies in Africa
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66536

Closing date: Jan 15, 2024

 

 

 

2. HIAA ONLINE WORKSHOPS

Researching and Publishing Provenance Information for Islamic Art
January 5, 2024

8–9:30 PST / 11–12:30 EST / 16–17:30 GMT / 17–18:30 CET

To register: https://temple.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAscu2upzkjG9Fmb4rPQIMC4VumEC_rXNGA

Moderator: Elizabeth Dospěl Williams (Dumbarton Oaks)

Panelists: Inês Fialho Brandão (Museu Calouste Gulbenkian), Martina Rugiadi and Anne Dunn-Vaturi (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Amanda Phillips (UVA), and Eiren Shea (Grinnell College)
Provenance research is a specialized skill usually gained through firsthand experience in museum collections and archives, yet its findings have legal, ethical, and scholarly implications well beyond the institutions where such work is generally carried out, including topics related to teaching, art historical research, and cultural property. Provenance research and publishing is, furthermore, a rapidly developing field, meaning that its contours can be intimidating to those not regularly working in this discipline.
This workshop is envisioned as an introduction to researching and publishing the provenance histories of art from the Middle East and Central Asia. While it is intended as a basic account of resources and best practices for those not in museum settings, its focus on future directions means it can also serve as a point of discussion for those already specialized in these fields.
After a brief overall introduction, the workshop will offer three concurrent Zoom Room panels addressing topics including the state of the field for provenance research on Islamic art, important resources for Islamic art provenance research, and emerging best practices for publishing provenance research.

 

 

 

 

3. Note Date: Post-doctorant (24 mois) dans le champ aréal “Sociétés et cultures de l’Afghanistan”, Campus CNRS Ile-de-France, Villejuif

Compétences: Diplôme de doctorat dans une discipline des sciences humaines et sociales, avec une compétence sur l’aire culturelle de référence. – Productions scientifiques régulières (communications et publications, autres que la thèse). Compétences linguistiques : maîtrise indispensable d’au moins une des langues de l’aire culturelle de référence ; maîtrise de l’anglais; pour les candidats étrangers, compréhension du français souhaitée (B1); Qualités rédactionnelles, capacité à formuler un projet scientifique, à publier et valoriser ses recherches; etc.

Closing date 2 December 2023

Date d’embauche prévue : 5 décembre 2023. Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/92309

 

 

 

 

4. Teti, A., & Abbott, P. (2023). Scholarship on the Middle East in Political Science and International Relations: A Reassessment. PS: Political Science & Politics,56(2): 259-264. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1049096522001378(free online)

 

 

 

5. New Podcast

Dr. Claudia Yaghoobi – Women’s Rights in Iran: Challenges, Achievements, and Misconceptions

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This episode marks the second part of a two part conversation with Dr. Claudia Yaghoobi delving into the evolving landscape of sexuality in contemporary Iran. Dr. Yaghoobi discusses the Family Protection Law, dispels common misconceptions within Iran, such as the assumption that all women share identical viewpoints, and examines the perceptions of veiling during the Pahlavi era. Furthermore, she assesses the progress made by women during the Pahlavi era, emphasizing the significant role played by women themselves, not just the government. The conversation ends on a discussion of the Islamic Republic’s views on “morality” and women’s rights in present-day Iran.
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In this episode, Dr. Yaghoobi explores the shifting dynamics of sexuality in Iran across a span of nearly two centuries. She examines the intersectionality of gender and sexuality, discussing how gender rights have fared better than sexual rights. She discusses sexual mores in Iran and the non-linear trajectory of Iran towards modernization. Furthermore, she delves into the notion of “acceptable” sexuality and draws comparisons between Iranian and Western sexual norms.
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6. Volume 4 of  Scenes from the 16th-Century Ottoman Empire 

This is a facsimile of an album in the Austrian National Library Codex Vindobonensis nr. 8615

Illuminierte Turkenbuch [Illuminated Turks Book] (1573-1578)by David Ungnad von Sonnegg (gest. 1600) andHieronymus Beck Von Leopoldsdorf’sBildnisse Orientalischer Herrscher Und WürdenträgerI

formerly attributed to Johannes Lewenklau:[Bilder Türkischer Herrscher, Soldaten, Hoffleute staedte u.a.]

ISBN 978-90-6921-050-6

Edited by / : Mehmet Tütüncü & Ömer Erdem

with contributions: Rudolf H. W. Stichel and decipherment of German captions by Paul Brood and Jan van den Broek

Graphic Designer: Omer Erdem: omerdem@me.com

CORPUS OF TURKISH ISLAMIC INSCRIPTIONS nr: 47

TÜRK İSLAM KİTABELERİ DİZİSİ no:

This book is a convolut with 3 parts that have been assembled.

The first part consists of 18 portraits of Ottoman sultans and viziers and other notables.

This part is part of a greater Portraitsbook so called Lamberger portraetbuch consisting of 240 portraits. This book which the owner was Hieronymus Beck von Leopoldsdorf (1525-1596) and is in 1973 obtained by KunsthistorischesMuseum of Vienna. This portraits were long time considered as work of Johannes Löwenklau (1541-1596). But as prof. Stichel has shown in the article this part of the codex with Portraits belonged to Beck on Leopoldsdorfs album.

Second part 9fo. 32-121) of scenes and dressings of  Ottoman citizens, soldiers, officers  and other personalities and•

third part (fol. 122-143) gives an insight in the architecture of the Palace and the etiquette and hierarchy which is depicted with careful drawings and inscriptions.

The album It was long time considered as an album that belonged to Lowenklau. the main part of the album 8615 is a copy of the lost Illumnierte Turkenbuch von David Ungnad vonSonnegg (gest. 1600), because it follows mainly the illustration of Dresden book of Zacharias Wehmr for the Kurfurst August von Sachsen. Ungnad was between 1573 and 1578 an envoy in Istanbul.

Of all Habsburg the albums, this one is the most prestigious and professionally prepared.

For sample pages, more information and how to order please follow the next link.

https://www.academia.edu/108874909/SCENES_from_the_16th_Century_Ottoman_Empire_Vol_4_Cod_Vindobonensis_8615

 

 

 

7. Ordering Imperial Worlds: From Late Medieval Spain to the Modern Middle East,

edited by Susan Slyomovics, Edinburgh University Press, November 2023. See https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-ordering-imperial-worlds.html

This volume of original essays invites 10 preeminent scholars to think through a rich corpus on cities, empires, images and archaeological sites produced by the distinguished architectural historian Zeynep Çelik. Awarded the prestigious 2019 Giorgio Della Vida medal for excellence in Islamic studies by the University of California, the occasion allowed researchers from various universities, countries and disciplines to reflect on her rich body of work. Inspired by Çelik’s works, chapters travel between Muslim and Christian Spain, the Ottoman Empire and France, Europe and its overseas empire in North Africa, and more.

 

 

 

8. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC is now accepting applications for the Ebrahimi Fellowship for Persian Art.

The Ebrahimi Fellowship promotes excellence in research and publication on Persian art from the ancient to the contemporary period. Research proposals are evaluated in terms of merit, originality, methodology, and potential for significant publication that will advance scholarly and public understanding of Persian visual arts. Interdisciplinary proposals with a primary focus on Iranian visual arts will be considered.

The Ebrahimi Fellowship is intended to provide an environment conducive to research, writing, and collegial discourse. Fellows are expected to devote themselves full-time to the proposed project, to participate in the museum’s scholarly community and programs, and to present a research-in-progress seminar during the period of the appointment.

Scholars of all nationalities are welcome to apply. Meeting the requirements and obtaining the required visas for residence and research in the United States are the responsibilities of the applicant. If necessary, the Smithsonian will review the individual for participation in an Exchange Visitor Program and will support the individual, if eligible, in their application for a J-1 Visa. This fellowship is offered in partnership with the American Institute for Iranian Studies.

Doctoral candidates, early career scholars, and senior scholars are all encouraged to apply.

Term

Awards will be made for a period of up to three months and are not renewable. Appointments must take place in 2024-2025.

Stipend

The maximum stipend is $15,000. It will be prorated for shorter terms (approximately $5,000 per month). Additional support not to exceed $4,000 may be provided for approved research and travel expenses.

Application Deadline

The application deadline is February 1, 2024. Notification of awards will be sent by early March.

How to Apply

Applications must be submitted in English and must include:

• Curriculum vitae with contact information and complete list of publications
• Research proposal consisting of a précis (150 words) and a narrative (maximum length 1,500 words). The proposal should address previous relevant research and published results, the significance and originality of the current project to the study of the arts of Iran (from ancient to contemporary) or related disciplines, methodology, bibliography, and the projected schedule of research and writing.
• List of up to 5 objects you would like to view at NMAA, including an explanation of why they are important to your research and the links from https://asia.si.edu/explore-art-culture/collections/search/. If you are interested in the Archives, please list particular areas of focus with justification.
• Detailed budget and justification for projected research expenses not to exceed $4,000.
• Two letters of recommendation emailed to AsiaScholarlyProgram@si.edu. Reviewers should comment on the merits of the proposal and the feasibility of the research plan as well as the candidate’s potential for original contribution to the field of art history.

The finalists may be invited to participate in Zoom interviews.

View the fellowship page on our website: https://asia.si.edu/about/jobs-opportunities/ebrahimi-fellowship-for-persian-art/

For more information or to submit application materials, please email our Scholarly Programs and Publications Department: AsiaScholarlyProgram@si.edu

Contact Information

Lizzie Stein, Scholarly Programs and Publications

National Museum of Asian Art

 

 

 

9. The next VIAHSS lecture will take place on Friday, December 1, 2023, at 12:00 NYC/17:00 London/18:00 Vienna/20:00 Istanbul.

Veronika Poier (University of Vienna) will present “Mediation between Architecture, Word, and Image: The Inscriptions of the Green Complex (1419-1424) for Sultan Mehmed I in Bursa.”

To attend, please make sure to register in advance here: https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwuc-GurDMsE9QGxI29-SUoscofbiCUKGpX

Upon registration, you’ll receive the link to access the lecture.

As always, you can find a full schedule of upcoming talks and register for our list-serv on our website at viahss.org. Although not every talk is recorded, we also have recordings of several recent talks available on the VIAHSS Vimeo page at vimeo.com/viahss. Lastly, you can follow us on X at @viahss and on Instagram at @theviahss to stay up to date on upcoming events!

Contact Information

Dr. Alexander Brey and Rachel Winter

Contact Email

winterr6@msu.edu

URL

https://viahss.org

 

 

 

10. Online: Join the National Museum of Asian Art on Tuesday, December 5, 12–1 p.m. EST for the online lecture Crafting Luxury: Dress in Ancient Persia with Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, professor of ancient history at Cardiff University, Wales.

In conjunction with the British Museum’s recent exhibition Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece, it was decided to attempt to create the types of garments worn by the elite of the Persian court in the Achaemenid period (559–330 BCE). Dress played a role in the Persian concept of luxury, and although textiles have not survived in the archaeological record, careful research into the representations of clothes in Achaemenid art and the traditional dress styles in the Iranian world has made recreations of court clothing possible. This talk explores the design and symbolism of Achaemenid dress and highlights the methods undertaken to recreate Persian costumes for the British Museum exhibition.

A leading expert in ancient Persian history and culture, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones has served as the director of the ancient Iran research program for the British Institute of Persian Studies and is the author of many books, including Persians: The Age of the Great Kings, which has been translated into fifteen languages.

This lecture is generously supported by the Tina and Hamid Moghadam Fund.

Register here: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Nf5Jhr0HQXu-RCl60dNxOg#/registration

Visit the event page here: https://asia.si.edu/whats-on/events/search/event:169639739/

Contact Information

Lizzie Stein, Scholarly Programs and Publications

National Museum of Asian Art

Contact Email

AsiaScholarlyProgram@si.edu

URL

https://asia.si.edu/whats-on/events/search/event:169639739/

 

 

 

 

11. Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies

Edited by David S. Powers & Eric Tagliacozzo

https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781501772399/islamic-ecumene/

Receive a 20% discount online*: LLF23

*Valid until 11:59 GMT, 30^th June 2024. Discount only applies to the CAP website.

 

 

 

12. AKU ISMC

‘Celestial & Maritime Grids & Circles: Digitising Cosmographical Manuscripts’

Monday 4 December 2023, 17:30- 19:30 (London).

Venue

Aga Khan Centre ,
10 Handyside Street,
London N1C 4DN

Booking
The event is free, but booking is essential. Book your ticket now to join us in person.

 

 

 

 

13. Call for Submissions | 2024 BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World

The British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) is delighted to announce the 2024 round of the BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World. This international prize is awarded annually to the best doctoral thesis or unpublished first monograph based on a doctoral thesis. English-language submissions on any aspect of the academic study of Islam and the Muslim world, past and present, including Muslim-minority societies are accepted. Applicants can be based in any country, and manuscripts will be assessed on the basis of scholarly quality and originality.

Deadline | 12 January 2024

More information

 

 

 

14. Webinar | Persian Qutbshahi Documents from India

With Eva Orthmann
In this talk, Eva Orthmann discusses bilingual and trilingual inscriptions from India and the Qutbshahi dynasty.
Event organised by the Invisible East Programme.
14 December 2023, 5PM GMT. On Zoom. Information and registrations at this link.

 

 

 

 

15. Instructional professor (open rank) in Urdu language

 The University of Chicago: Humanities Division: Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Location

Chicago IL

Open Date

Dec 01, 2023

Deadline

Jan 04, 2024 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time

Description

The Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College of the University of Chicago seek an experienced teacher of Urdu language to help grow its existing offerings in South Asian languages. We invite applications for a position as an Instructional Professor (open rank) in Urdu language. The position begins in academic year 2024-25, with a start date of September 1, 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. The selected candidate will be appointed at the rank of Assistant Instructional Professor, Associate Instructional Professor, or Instructional Professor, depending on qualifications and educational background. The initial appointment will be for a minimum of two years, with longer initial terms possible depending on previous experience and initial rank, with review and progression schedule determined by a collective bargaining agreement between the University and the Service Employees International Union.

Responsibilities include both teaching and service duties. Teaching normally consists of seven courses across three quarters, at least 6 of which are Urdu language courses, at all levels of the language. One additional course may include non-language offerings in the College Core or in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, to be determined in consultation with the Department and College. Service duties may include advising undergraduate theses, creating and overseeing Urdu placement exams and graduate language exams, teaching independent studies, and engaging in outreach, or other program-specific duties. Instructional Professors of all ranks are required to engage in regular professional development.

Qualifications

Applicants are required to have at least one year of previous experience teaching Urdu at the college or post-secondary level, preferably at a North American institution. An M.A. degree or equivalent is required. A Ph.D. in a related field is desirable. Applicants must demonstrate sufficient language ability for teaching Urdu in a university context. Preferred qualifications include:

• Experience teaching students with differing experience and goals, e.g., heritage and non-heritage learners, undergraduate and graduate students
• specialized training in second language acquisition, second language pedagogy, and/or assessment
• proficiency with digital pedagogical tools and methods.

Application Instructions

To apply for this position, please submit your application through the University of Chicago’s Academic Recruitment website at http://apply.interfolio.com/137341. An application must include:

• a cover letter
• curriculum vitae
• a teaching statement
• one sample syllabus for Introductory Urdu
• a second sample syllabus for a non-language course
• the names and contact information for three recommenders.

Application deadline: All applicant materials must be received through the application system by 11pm Central Time/Midnight Eastern Time on Jan 4, 2024. Candidates may be asked to submit additional material following the initial review of applications.

This position is contingent upon budgetary approval. The terms and conditions of employment for this position are covered by a collective bargaining agreement between the University and the Service Employees International Union. For information on the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, please go to https://salc.uchicago.edu/.

For questions about the position, please contact Isaac Rainey at idr@uchicago.edu.

1.HYBRID “Fifth Annual Islamic Philosophy Conference” of the American Society of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Harvard University, 1-3 December 2023

Panels will include presentations on Islam and AI, Postclassical Islamic Philosophical Debates, Kalām Jadīd from the Indian Context, the Divide between Shaykh Musṭafā Ṣabrī and the Akbarī School, Marjānī’s (1818-1889) Synthesis of Kalam and Falsafa, Ethics as Islamic Philosophy, and more.

Information and registration:

https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/11/22/fifth-annual-islamic-philosophy-conference

 

 

 

 

2. HYBRID Workshop “Muslim Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Western Countries: Obstacles and Regulation”, European University Institute, Florence, 15 December, 9:45 am – 14:30 pm CET

In some European and Western countries, religious concerns about interest-based financing prevent Muslim populations from engaging in business activities and restrict their ability to seek formal funding for their pro-jects. This workshop aims to explore the Shariah-compliant products available in Western countries and their regulations, with a particular focus on the Norwegian case.

Information, program and registration: https://www.eui.eu/events?id=559353

 

 

 

 

3. Workshop “Caricatures as a Sphere of Communication in the Late- and Post-Ottoman Context”, Istanbul, 25 March 2024

Organized by Dr. Veruschka Wagner (University of Bonn / Bilgi University Istanbul) and Prof. Dr. Anna Kollatz (University of Heidelberg). We believe that caricatures published in journals of different languages and from different parts of the region are a valuable source for gaining insights into different aspects of daily life. We are interested in the meaning of discourses on political, historical, and social questions, and also in national stereotypes and dealing with the “other”.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 December 2023. Information: https://www.ori.uni-heidelberg.de/md/ori/islamwissenschaft/veranstaltungen/cfp_caricatures_workshop_istanbul_2024_final.pdf

 

 

 

 

4. Assistant Professor / Associate / Professor open Rank-in the History of the Gulf, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar

Candidates specializing in the history of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, and the broader Indian Ocean region are invited. Priority will be given to candidates who are proficient in the Arabic language and/or have a specific interest in research and practice in the Arab region.

Deadline for applications: 15 January 2024. Information:

https://www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/en/Careers/Pages/Job-Application.aspx?JobID=DIAC_2023_016

 

 

 

 

5. Assistant Professor / Associate / Professor Open Rank in the Medieval Islamic History, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar

Candidates specializing in medieval Islamic history are invited. Priority will be given to candidates who are proficient in the Arabic language and/or have a specific interest in research and practice in the Arab region.

Deadline for applications: 15 January 2024. Information:

https://www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/en/Careers/Pages/Job-Application.aspx?JobID=DIAC_2023_015

 

 

 

 

6. Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor and Endowed Chair in Kurdish Political Studies (9 Months), University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

The ideal candidate will have an established research program in Kurdish political studies with broader inter-ests in Middle Eastern and comparative politics or international relations. They will demonstrate strong po-tential for excellence in research with a focus on Kurdish politics, as well as a demonstrated record of teaching excellence, and leadership experience.

Deadline for applications: Open until filled.

Information: https://ucf.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/careers/details/Assistant-Professor–Associate-Professor–or-Professor-and-Endowed-Chair-in-Kurdish-Political-Studies_R106415?jobFamily=5bcda454ef2601011b9b1e81185f0000

 

 

 

 

7. Postdoctoral and Visiting Fellowship Program in Regional Political Economy, Princeton University

The program was created with the goal of developing a new generation of scholars able to analyze and make policy recommendations about the regional political economy in the Middle East, East, South or Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

– Postdoctoral Fellowship Program https://www.princeton.edu/acad-positions/position/30944

– Visiting Fellowship Program: https://www.princeton.edu/acad-positions/position/31262

Deadline for applications: 5 December 2023.

 

 

 

 

8. “Summer Seminars on Religion and Global Politics”, University of Notre Dame, Rome, 2-15 June 2024

This is a two-week program for graduate students, scholars and practitioners working at the crossroads of religion and global politics which is designed to draw on the unique religious and geopolitical resources of the city of Rome. The Seminars will begin with a 2-day policy dialogue for senior scholars and practitioners followed by a 10-day writing workshop for students. A limited number of scholarships is available.

Deadline for abstracts: 13 February 2024. Information:

https://rome.nd.edu/research/projects-activities/rome-summer-seminars-on-religion-and-global-politics/

 

 

1.‘Marshall Hodgson’s ideas on cores and modernity in Islam: a critique’

R M Eaton,

JRAS, Series 3 (2023), 33, 1029–1039

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-royal-asiatic-society/article/marshall-hodgsons-ideas-on-cores-and-modernity-in-islam-a-critique/03160B9B3AD9D07EDDF78DA8B678D258?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Issues&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Issues

 

 

 

2. UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series:

Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran

Azadeh Kian

Monday, December 4, 2023, 2:00pm Pacific via Zoom

Registration Required

 

 

 

3. Online/Inperson:

THE HISTORY OF ISLAMIC COLLECTIONS IN THE GEORGIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM, Irina Koshoridze, Silsila, NYU – November 29, 6.30 pm EST

This lecture will focus on the history of collecting Islamic art in Georgia, which started in 1852 when the first museum institution, the Caucasian Museum, was established in Tbilisi. Important collections from almost all periods of Islamic art between the seventh to the twentieth centuries, and from various artistic schools, are preserved in Georgian museums. Their abundance is largely due to Georgia’s centuries-old political and cultural relations with the Islamic world. Among the highlights of the Georgian collections are one of the most extensive collections of Persian oil paintings of the Qajar period, along with unique examples of medieval Islamic ceramics, metalwork, and textiles. The lecture will introduce some of these materials, the circumstances in which they were collected, and discuss a forthcoming new catalogue, which will show highlights of Islamic materials in the collections of the Georgian National Museum.

For full details, including forms to register to attend online or in person, please visit the Silsila  website:

https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/silsila/events/2022-2023/from-the-history-of-islamic-collections-of-georgian-national-mus.html

Contact Email

silsilanyu@gmail.com

URL

https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/silsila/events/2022-2023/from-the-history-o…

 

 

 

4. Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalism,

Beate Fricke, Finbarr Barry Flood

Princeton University Press, 2023

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691215150/tales-things-tell

PUP have offered a 30% discount for a limited time – to obtain the discount, enter code P325 on the Princeton UP site at checkout.

 

 

 

 

5. Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier aux séances du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, qui se tiendront le jeudi 14 décembre 2023, 17h-19h, à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 5^e étage).

Le jeudi 14 décembre 2023 à 17h (INaLCO, salle 5.28, 5e étage), nous sommes heureux d’accueillir Mme Mélisande Bizoirre, Docteure en histoire des arts de l’Islam, agrégée d’histoire et chargée de cours à l’INaLCO, pour une conférence intitulée: “Le manuscrit MS 363.2007 du musée d’art islamique de Doha : un exceptionnel exemple de Coran illustré”.

Résumé

Le Coran MS 363.2007 du musée de Doha pourrait être un exemple typique de production qājāre du milieu du XIXe siècle : un beau manuscrit richement enluminé, doté d’une reliure laquée, probablement fabriqué à Shirāz entre 1830 et 1860. Il présente pourtant une caractéristique très inhabituelle : cinq doubles pages sur lesquelles ont été ajoutées, à une date ultérieure à sa réalisation, des peintures en rapport avec le texte coranique. Cela en fait l’un des très rares exemples de Coran illustrés connus jusqu’ici.

Mais là n’est pas la seule spécificité de ce manuscrit illustré. Aux peintures en pleine page répondent des marges elles aussi figuratives, créant une disposition quasi unique dans les manuscrits du monde islamique. Un dialogue se noue donc entre plusieurs types d’images, créant des cycles iconographiques inhabituels.

Comment expliquer la présence de ces décors ? Quand, où et par qui ont-ils été réalisés ? Quelles étaient les intentions de l’artiste ? Faut-il y voir un simple faux destiné à en augmenter le prix, ou une réalisation artistique à part entière ? Quel lien avec des manuscrits comportant des images à caractère religieux, comme les Qisas al-Anbiya, ou les Falnama ? Autant de questions auxquelles l’histoire de l’art ne peut répondre qu’en partie, par l’observation de la stratigraphie des interventions, le décryptage de l’iconographie et l’analyse stylistique. .

Orientations bibliographiques

– Richard GOTTHEIL, « An illustrated copy of the Koran », Revue des études islamiques, 5, 1931, p. 21-24 et pl. I-VI.

– Manijeh BAYANI, Anna CONTADINI, Tim STANLEY, The Decorated Word : Qur’ans of the 17th to 19th centuries, London/Oxford: The Nour Foundation, Azimuth, Oxford University Press, 1999.

– Axel LANGER, « Safavid Revival in Persian Miniature Painting. Renewal, Imitation and Source of Inspiration », À l’Orientale. Collecting, Displaying and Appropriating Islamic Art and Architecture in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2020, p. 15-27.

– Rachel MILSTEIN, La Bible dans l’art islamique, Paris : PUF, 2005.

– Nabil SAFWAT, Golden pages: Qur’ans and other manuscripts from the collection of Ghassan I. Shaker, Oxford University Press pour Azimuth éditions, 2000.

Pour rappel, vous retrouverez le programme 2023-2024 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” sur le site du CeRMI :

https://cermi.cnrs.fr/seminaires-de-recherche/societes-politiques-et-cultures-du-monde-iranien-2023-2024/

 

 

 

6. DEADLINE EXTENDED – In the Burrow: Critical Approaches to Infrastructure Studies [Announcement]

Do you study the premodern world? Do you consider subaltern perspectives, labor, the environment, ecology, or non-human life? Is infrastructure the object and method that you work with – perhaps in conjunction with ecocritical approaches? If the answer to any two of these questions is ‘yes,’ then this in-person conference would benefit from hearing about your work! The deadline to submit abstracts to In the Burrow: Critical Approaches to Infrastructure Studies has been extended to December 1, 2023, and scholars of the premodern (ancient, medieval) and early modern world are specially invited!

In the Burrow: Critical Approaches to Infrastructure Studies
Dates: March 8th & 9th 2024
Place: University of California—Irvine (IN PERSON)
Keynote Speakers: Dr. John Hopkins (NYU: IFA+ISAW) & Dr. Lisa Parks (UCSB: FMS)

This work is a rhizome, a burrow…We will enter, then, by any point whatsoever; none matters more than another, and no entrance is more privileged even if it seems an impasse, a tight passage, a siphon.
— Deleuze & Guattari, Toward a Minor Literature

This conference seeks to bring together early career scholars (graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are particularly encouraged) to encounter one another’s infrastructural interests and perspectives. Papers which take an infrastructural approach to the ancient and premodern technologies are especially welcome, alongside those on modern and contemporary material. Authors who take up infrastructure as object, method, both, or otherwise in their work on archaeology or media archeology, art history, classics, anthropology, and literary studies, as well as other fields in the humanities and social sciences are all encouraged to participate.

Burrowing describes a laborious process of moving through a dense medium — a somatic confrontation with the world rooted in mundane materiality. The burrow maps the void left by an organism through time within a subterranean, subaltern, or otherwise subliminal environment. Burrowing requires the adoption of an infrastructural disposition towards the world. It is a point of entry into the subaltern lived experience.

From a desertified minor literature to the phatic labor of human speech acts to water conduits and digital media, the study of infrastructure has drawn upon, brought together, and absorbed a wide variety of discourses across the humanities and social sciences. Infrastructure encourages perspectives ‘from below,’ it excavates subsumed and alternative landscapes; it sublimates parallel biological and material worlds, giving breath to their underlying possibilities for life. As aqueducts, drains, roads, fiber optic cables, and the labor attendant upon these — as minor literatures, artifacts, and temporalities — infrastructures offer us conceptual burrows with which to overhaul and undermine scholarly perspectives and methods which are often rooted in the nodes and networks articulated from positions of power and historical privilege.

Papers might address topics ranging from (but not limited to):
– Premodern economies, gift exchange
– Premodern archaeologies: beyond empires and networks
– Subaltern studies and critical approaches ‘from below’
– The living body as landscape; the urban landscape as body; body politic
– Sublimated material relations, labor
– Word of mouth, gossip, and hubbub
– Practices of minor mapping
– Making and growing: living infrastructures
– Environmental time in the premodern cultural landscape
Send 250-500 word abstracts to uciinfrastructure2024@gmail.com  by 12/01/2023. Please direct any questions to the above email as well. We hope to return decisions by 12/15/2023. Written papers (20 minute presentations) will be due a week prior to the conference. Panels will be assembled by theme rather than by discipline, and will be chaired by UCI faculty respondents who will facilitate discussion across talks within a panel. Organizers have a preliminary agreement with the editors of AfterImage: the Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism to construct a special issue based on the presentations made at this conference.

Contact Information

Nastasya Kosygina, nkosygin@uci.edu , PhD Candidate in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine; she/her/hers

Alexander Rudenshiold, PhD Candidate in Film and Media Studies, University of California, Irvine; he/him/his

Contact Email

uciinfrastructure2024@gmail.com

 

 

 

7. Join Georgetown’s Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies for our ongoing Theology in Arabic seminars. These seminars are intended to foster a deeper understanding of theology directly from works in Classical Arabic:

• “Epistemology and Theology in a Later Work of Ibn al-ʿArabī (1165-1240): Kitāb al-Ifāda.”

Dr. Aydogan Kars, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies, Monash University .

Zoom seminar: Monday Nov. 27 4PM EST / 9PM GMT  ( = Tuesday Nov. 28 8AM AEDT):

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8. Hybrid:  ‘Persian Tales of Love and Friendship’

‘Persian Tales of Love and Friendship’ is the Leicester Lit and Phil’s Arthur and Jean Humphreys Lecture on Monday 4th December.

Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, the Ali Reza and Mohamed Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies, University of Cambridge will tell of how the medieval Persian authors and their patrons described the dangers of love and the lure of friendship by spinning attractive, magical tales that concealed grim warnings.

Christine van Ruymbeke is Professor of Persian Literature and Culture at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge, and is a literary critic of Persian literature specialising in non mystical narratives of prose or verse written during the long medieval period.

The lecture is at 7.30 pm at the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, New Walk.

Non-members may attend either on Zoom or in-person on payment of £5 (student non-members £3) by booking through EventBrite:

Zoom: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/675994145687

In-person: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/676003493647

For Further Information: www.leicesterlitandphil.org.uk