Archive for 2023
Shii News – ‘Authority of Knowledge in Early Shī‘īsm’ – S Mohammad Hadi Gerami
- April 17, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop’s Door
A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World
Rudi Matthee
Hurst, 2023
https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/angels-tapping-at-the-wine-shops-door/
2. Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages
Un/suitable for Divine Service?
Ninon Dubourg
Amsterdam Univ Press, 2023
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463721561/disabled-clerics-in-the-late-middle-ages
(This is a study focusing on Europe)
3. The Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University of Edinburgh is looking to appoint a Fellow in Contemporary Indonesia as a Global Muslim Society.
This is a full time, two year post and further details can be found here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CYQ884/fellow-in-contemporary-indonesia-as-a-global-muslim-society
Closing date: 19 April, 2023
4. COLLOQUE
Qu’est-ce que le Qur’ān européen?
Définitions, descriptions, représentations (XIIe-XIXe s.)/
Conference “What is the European Qur’ān?”
11 – 12 Mai 2023
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme
Nantes – France
5. Brill – Bibliography of Arabic Books Online
https://bibliographies.brill.com/BABO/
6. Brill – Index Islamicus Online
https://bibliographies.brill.com/IIO/
7. Workshop “al-Sirat al-Mustaqim: Methods of Perfection in Akbari Thought” | UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, April 29, 2023
With Claude Addas, Pablo Beneito, Denis Gril, Alexander Knysh, James W. Morris
(in French and English)
More info and registration here:
https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/isp/cdwm/evenements/al-sirat-al-mustaqim-methods-of-perfection-in-akbari-thought.html
8. Vacancy for Managing Editor for the Review of Middle East Studies
https://www.academia.edu/100139155/Managing_Editor_for_the_Review_of_Middle_East_Studies_RoMES_
9. Edinburgh University Press: Free access to issue 1 of Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics
https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/arabic/1/1
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10. Hybrid Conference – “Taking the Past into the Future: Studying, Preserving, and Understanding Islamicate Manuscripts”(CRC+IASH) – May 11-12, University of Edinburgh
Event date: Thursday 11 May, 10am-5pm and Friday 12 May 10am-4.30pm (UK time)
This two-day symposium hosted between the Centre for Research Collections (CRC) and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) will feature presentations and discussions on topics including:
- Curating and Preserving Islamic Manuscripts Today
- Colonial Contexts: Questions of Provenance and Related Material Evidence
- Buying, Selling and Dismembering Islamicate Manuscripts
- The Texts and Subtexts of Early Islamicate Manuscripts
- Creating and Reading Manuscripts as Devotional Materials
With contributions from specialist guests both local and international.
Please join us online. You will find the full programme, including Zoom registration links here (opens as PDF).
Event information: https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/event/taking-past-future-studying-preserving-and-understanding-islamicate-manuscripts
11. Hybrid: The Circle for Late Antique and Medieval Studies presents a discussion with Professors Almut Hintze, Martin Schwartz and Peter Jackson Rova on the oral traditions in Zoroastrianism.
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
12:00 pm — 1:30 pm (EST)
For information and to register on Zoom:
12. The British Association for Islamic Studies is delighted to circulate the final programme for its 2023 Annual Conference taking place at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London, on Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 May.
With keynotes from Professor Sarah Bowen-Savant and the KITAB Project Team (ISMC), and Professor Ousmane Kane (Harvard University), our two-day programme features a wide variety of papers reflecting the rich diversity of Islamic Studies sub-disciplines.
You can view the full programme here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2023
You can register for the conference online here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2023/brais-2023-registration
13. Scholarship on the Middle East in Political Science and International Relations: A Reassessment
Andrea Teti and Pamela Abbott
This article maps and analyses publication patterns of Middle East Studies-related scholarship in 13 ‘top’ Political Science & IR journals, providing a more precise analysis of the marginality of ‘regional’ scholarship in Political Science. This marginalisation particularly stark at three different levels: 1. the use of qualitative evidence, 2. the use of qualitative methods and 3. the use of non-positivist or Marxian theoretical frameworks, all of which are rare-to-non-existent. Read more
14. Research Associate in Kurdish Language and the History of Northern Mesopotamia (Fixed Term)
University of Cambridge
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the field of Kurdish Language and History of Northern Mesopotamia. The Postdoctoral Research Associate would work in the research team of the ERC-funded project ‘Echoes of Vanishing Voices in the Mountains: A Linguistic History of Minorities in the Near East’ (ALHOME) supervised by Professor Geoffrey Khan.
Deadline | 19 April 2023
15. Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Middle Eastern and Islamic History, c. 600-1700
University of St Andrews
We wish to appoint an Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) within the School of History. The position will be full-time (36.25 hrs per week), on a fixed term contract held from 1 September 2023 to 31 December 2024. You will be a scholar with a growing international reputation in the Islamic history of the Middle East (c. 600-1700) and a commitment to delivering high-quality teaching.
Deadline | 24 April 2023
16. Research Associate “Gender, Family, Life-writing: Narratives of Religious Identity in the Global Middle East”
University of Oxford
The Faculty of History proposes to appoint four postdoctoral researchers for the fixed-term period of thirty-six months, starting from 01 June 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter, to work on the ERC Consolidator Grant ‘Moving Stories – Sectarianisms in the global Middle East’. The project aims to explore a number of new approaches in the examination of this topic under the leadership of the Principal Investigator (PI), Professor John-Paul Ghobrial.
Deadline | 1 May 2023
17. Call for Applications – Middle East Mediterranean Summer Summit
Seminar & Forum | 17-26 August 2023 | Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland)
The Middle East Mediterranean (MEM) Summer Summit, ogranized by Università della Svizzera italiana, offers the opportunity to bring together young people from the MEM region, who do not usually have opportunities to meet, by providing them with a safe space to imagine and experiment with common projects, to develop new narratives and to transform challenges into opportunities.
Deadline | 30 April 2023
18. The History and Development of Kurdish Studies
Keynote Lecture & Reception | 24 April 2023, 16:00 | LSE Middle East Centre
Professor Martin van Bruinessen will deliver a keynote lecture on the history and development of Kurdish Studies followed by a drinks reception with live music. This event is part of a series of activities surrounding the LSE Middle East Centre’s inaugural Kurdish Studies Conference.
19. Language and Ecology in Southern and Eastern Arabia
Zoom Lecture | 26 April 2023, 17:30 | IASA, the British Yemeni Society and the MBI Al Jaber Foundation
Professor Janet Watson, Professor Dawn Chatty and Dr Jack Wilson will speak on their contributions to the recently published book Language and Ecology in Southern and Eastern Arabia (eds: Janet Watson, Jon Lovett and Roberta Morano) which explores the way in which indigenous languages reflect the close relationship between people and their environment.
20. The 2023 Giulio Regeni Memorial Lecture
Lecture | 3 May 2023, 18:00 | Cambridge University Italian Society
To honour the memory of Giulio Regeni 7 years after his kidnap and murder in Cairo, the Cambridge University Italian Society invites Prof. John Chalcraft – Professor of Middle East History and Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) – to deliver the annual Giulio Regeni Memorial Lecture.
The topic of the lecture will be ‘Popular Mobilisation in Gramscian Perspective’.
- April 15, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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- April 14, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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- April 13, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – ‘Nader Shah in European and Iranian historiography’ – R Matthee
- April 12, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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- April 11, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Online/Inperson Book Launch: ‘ The Emergence of Shi‘i Sufism’ (London, 19.4.23, 4pm UK time)
- April 10, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Islamic College (London)
Cities in the Premodern Islamic World: The Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society
A Talk by Professor Amira K. Bennison
Wednesday 26 April 2023
6 pm – 8 pm (London time)
Venue: The Islamic College London 133 High Road London NW102SW
2. HYBRID Seminar “How Not to Read the Earliest Latin Life of Muhammad” by Professor Kenneth Wolf (Pomona College), Seminar on Religion & Writing, Columbia University, New York, 25 April 2023, 5:00 pm EST
The “Istoria de Mahometh” is arguably the earliest Latin “biography” of Muhammad, written in Iberia sometime between the end of the eighth and the beginning of the ninth centuries. In 857 Eulogius of Córdoba copied the “Istoria” into his “Liber apologeticus martyrum”, In 857 Eulogius of Córdoba copied the “Istoria” into his “Liber apologeticus martyrum”.
Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-how-not-to-read-the-earliest-latin-life-of-muhammad-25-april-new-yorkzoom?e=82aeb6c61d
3. Meeting of the “European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism (ENSIE)” in Conjunction with the “European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE)”, Univer-sity of Copenhagen, 25-28 June 2023
The ENSIE meeting will feature panels on “Reviving Muḥyiddīn: The contemporary uses of Ibn ʿArabī’s thought and the reinventions of Islam” and on “Spiritism and Esotericism from Nahḍa Egypt to the USSR,” and the ESSWE panels will be on “Practical Esotericism in Islam, Ancient and Modern, West and East, and In Between” and “Core Esoteric Practices of the Sufis”.
Information: http://ensie.site/conferences.html
4. 10es Journées d’étude de la “Association des jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses en sciences sociales sur les mondes musulmans modernes et contemporains (Halqa)” : « Au-delà des frontières : circulations, échanges et transferts dans les mondes musulmans contemporains (XIXe – XXIe siècles) », Campus Condorcet, Paris-Aubervilliers, 29 et 30 juin 2023
L’appel à communications est ouvert aux jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses de
toutes universités et institutions, spécialistes de l’islam et des mondes musulmans contemporains, quels que soient leur discipline (sciences humaines et sociales, art et littérature, islamologie…) et leur terrain de recherche.
Elles doivent être adressées avant le 23 avril 2023 à l’adresse halqadesdoctorants@gmail.com. Les propositions seront ensuite examinées par le comité d’organisation, et les réponses seront données début mai. La Halqa couvrira les éventuels frais de voyage (jusqu’à 150 euros), de restauration et d’hébergement.
More at:
https://halqa.hypotheses.org/5936
5. 4th Mid-Atlantic Ottomanists Workshop (MAOW): “Networks and Networking in the Ottoman Empire”, Princeton University, New Jersey, 27-28 October 2023
From Sufi-guild networks in early-modern Istanbul, to the army-civilian networks in the early twentieth century, a dense matrix of relations linked the Ottoman state to its subjects and connected the Ottoman world with people, ideas, and commodities from other geographic regions. This workshop will seek to understand how social, cultural/cross-cultural, diplomatic, entrepreneurial, and geo-spatial networks, influenced the course of Ottoman history.
Deadline for applications: 1 June 2023.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12682617/cfp-4th-mid-atlantic-ottomanists-workshop-maow-princeton
6. Conference “Religion in Motion: Between Borders and Belonging”, Dutch Association for the Study of Religion, Nijmegen, 1-3 November 2023
This conference aims to broaden the theoretical and methodological repertoires for future studies of religion in motion whereby mobility and religion are analyzed not as separate themes, but as critical axes of people’s religious experiences across traditions, times, and spaces, with mobility and religion acting as co-constitutive of beliefs, practices and socialities.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2023.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/04/04/cfp-religion-in-motion-between-borders-and-belonging
7. Symposium: “Ethics in the Ottoman Empire: Scholars, Works, and Problems”, Istanbul Center for Research and Education (ISAR), 15-16 December 2023
The symposium aims to illuminate the works, sources, methods, tendencies, aims, and theories of individual scholars who dealt with ethics on one hand, and to illuminate the principles, various aspects, and stages of the contemplation on ethics in the Ottoman Empire on the other. The languages of the symposium are Tur-kish, Arabic, and English.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2023.
Information: symposium@isar.org.tr
8. Colloque sur “Circulation des normes et altération des identités : ouverture à la modernité ou repli sur soi ?” Université de Lyon 2, etc., Université d’Al-Azhar, Le Caire, 9-11 janvier 2024
L’idée première de ce colloque est de permettre à des enseignants et chercheurs occidentaux de rencontrer leurs homologues égyptiens et arabes, puis d’échanger sur un thème à la fois général et précis. Thèmes glo-bales : 1) Les évolutions du Droit dans un monde interconnecté 2) Normes et variations : langues, usages, sociétés 3) La littérature, entre normes esthétiques et créativité 4) Sacré et profane, ordre social et con-testation.
Envoi des résumés : 1 juin 2023.
Information : https://cerla.univ-lyon2.fr/activites/colloques-et-journees-detude-2
9. Kamran Djam Scholarships for Iranian Studies, SOAS, London
The scholarships are available for “MA Iranian Studies” (https://www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-course/ma-iranian-studies), “MA Iranian Studies and Intensive Persian” (https://www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-course/ma-iranian-studies-and-intensive-persian) and MPhil/PhD in Persian Language, Persian Literature, Iranian History, all starting in September 2023.
Deadline for application: 28 April 2023. Information:
https://www.soas.ac.uk/study/student-life/finance/scholarships/kamran-djam-scholarships
10. Book Prize ($1000) of “The Ottoman and Turkish Studies (OTSA)”
This annual prize is awarded to the most outstanding book in the field of Ottoman and Turkish studies published in the previous year (copyright date of 2022). Nominations may be made by the author, colleagues, publisher, or friends.
Postmark deadline: 15 May 2023.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/12657712/2023-otsa-awards-and-prizes
11. Article Prize ($300) of “The Ottoman and Turkish Studies (OTSA)”
The biennial prize is awarded for an outstanding article in the field of Ottoman and Turkish Studies. The prize is awarded in odd‐numbered years to articles published in the period Jan. 2021 – Dec. 2022.
Deadline for receipt of materials: 15 May 2023.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/12657712/2023-otsa-awards-and-prizes
12. Prix Michel Seurat de thèse Islam Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans
D’un montant de 15 000 € en 2022, le Prix est ouvert aux titulaires d’un master 2 ou d’un diplôme équivalent, âgés de moins de 35 ans révolus et sans condition de nationalité, de toutes disciplines, dont la recherche doctorale en cours porte sur les sociétés contemporaines du monde arabe, domaine envisagé comme ouvert et en interaction avec d’autres contextes et traditions intellectuels
Date limite de dépôt des candidatures : 15 avril 2023. Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/75362
13. Summer Graduate Student`s Program “Islam in the Contemporary World”, Center for Islam in the Contemporary World, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 30 May – 13 June 2023
The objective is twofold: (1) to provide graduate students with foundational instructions in Islamic studies with a focus on contemporary issues and (2) to have discussions about the lived experiences of Muslim graduate students, especially as they pertain to issues of wellness, equity, and belonging. By combining academic and mentoring sessions, we aim to provide a rounded approach to Islam in the contemporary world.
Deadline for applications: 24 April 2023.
Information: https://www.contemporaryislam.org/graduate-student-institute-2023.html
14. Summer School “Understanding Muslim Societies in Past and Present”, NOVA Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH) and Aga Khan University, Lisbon, 27-30 June 2023
The summer school will address the study of Islam and Muslims in both historical and contemporary times and will include these topics, among others: History of Islam and Muslims through Digital Humanities. – Histo-riography. – Sufism. – Gender in social science and in religious studies. – Political Configurations and Islam Popular Culture. Apart from lectures, the summer course will include film screenings with discussions, panel discussions and study visits.
Information:
15. International Summer School: “Business Courses and Language/Cultural Studies”, Rabat Business School, 3-21 July 2023
The curriculum includes the following Courses: • Cross Cultural Management in International Management • Doing Business in North Africa • Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation • International Politics of the Medi-terranean and the Maghreb • Islamic Civilization & Sufism • Standard Arabic (from beginning and advanced levels).
Deadline for applications: 30 May 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/04/04/international-summer-school-program-at-rabat-business-school
16. LinguArc Language Education Program: “Ottoman Paleography”, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, Istanbul, 10 July – 4 August 2023
LinguArc Education Program aims to teach archival languages needed in Social Sciences and especially research in the field of History and to improve existing language knowledge. Students participating in this program will be able to use the archival language they learned at the end of the program for academic or personal purposes. In addition, students who complete the program will be entitled to receive a certificate.
Deadline for applications: 8 May 2023. Information: https://linguarc.fsm.edu.tr/
17. Summer School “Sea of Absence? Globalisation, the Mediterranean and Beyond”, Global Dis:connect Research Centre, Munich, 24-27 July 2023
MA, doctoral students and creative professionals in all stages of their careers are invited to a summer school on the absences produced by globalisation processes, focusing on the Mediterranean, particularly on the aspects of migration, tourism and (post)coloniality, in the past, present and future. There are no participation fees. The Centre will cover accommodation and travel costs for all participants.
Deadline for applications: 15 May 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-sea-of-absence-globalisation-the-mediterranean-and-beyond-munich-24-27-july-2023?e=82aeb6c61d
18. Interdisciplinary Course “Mediterranean War Cultures in the Pre-Modern Era”, German Study Center, Venice, 1-8 October 2023
The course will focus on the interface between medieval and early modern history, Byzantine studies and Ottoman studies, but will also selectively include overarching topics of cultural and entangled history as well as approaches from material sciences and art history. students and doctoral candidates from Byzantine studies, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Ottoman studies and related subjects can participate in the course.
Deadline for applications: 31 May 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12640539/mediterranean-war-cultures-pre-modern-era
- April 08, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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- April 07, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – SRW: Incidents of Anti-Shiism, March 2023
- April 06, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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