Archive for February 24th, 2024
Shii News – Academic Items
1. Milkvetch & Violets: Poems (Expanded Bilingual Edition)
Mohammad Reza Shafi’i-Kadkani
Mage, 2024
https://magepublishers.com/milkvetch-violets-poems-expanded-bilingual-edition/
2. Medieval Arab Music and Musicians (Brill, 2022) is now available in an OpenAccess edition. The volume includes complete annotated translations of three medieval texts that may be of interest to a broad audience among scholars and students of the Middle East:
1) The Biography of Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī from al-Iṣbahānī’s Kitāb al-Aghānī
2) The Biography of Ziryāb from Ibn Ḥayyān’s Kitāb al-Muqtabis
3) Ibn Sanā’ al-Mulk’s treatise on the muwashshaḥ, Dār al-Ṭirāz
Each section is available for download separately to make them easier to use as assigned readings in university courses. An additional option to download the entire work as a single PDF will be added to the website soon:
https://brill.com/display/title/61295
Additional Information:
The biography of the famous 8th-century musician and courtier Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī offers an intimate portrait of life in the ‘Abbasid court in Baghdad during the reigns of the caliphs al-Mahdī, al-Hādī, and Hārūn al-Rashīd. This translation contains an introduction, the complete text in translation, including isnāds and musical indications, along with explanatory annotations, and therefore allows readers to get a sense of how Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī gathered and organized his materials. In many ways, this single biography is a miniature version of the Kitāb al-Aghānī as a whole. Since substantive complete translations from KA into English are few in number, this text may be useful in courses on medieval Islamic history, the history of Arabic literature, and of course the history of Middle Eastern music. Passages on the purchase, selling, and training of “singing girls” (qiyān) may also be helpful in addressing issues of gender in medieval Islamic society.
The Andalusi historian Ibn Ḥayyān’s 11th-century biography of the most famous of all Andalusian singers, Ziryāb, is the longest and most detailed account of the life of a figure who has become legendary in recent centuries. The modern “mythic Ziryāb,” however, emerged entirely from the rather hyperbolic account penned by al-Maqqarī in his Nafh al-Ṭīb in the 17th century. While al-Maqqarī’s text paints an entirely laudatory portrait of Ziryāb, Ibn Ḥayyān’s much earlier text preserves conflicting versions of who Ziryāb was and how he was viewed by his contemporaries. It is also a fascinating portrayal of the 9th-century Cordoban court of the Emir ‘Abd al-Raḥmān II.
Ibn Sana’ al-Mulk’s 12th-century treatise Dār al-Ṭirāz is the single most important medieval source on the emergence and spread of Andalusi muwashshaḥ poetry and song. Although a Spanish translation was published some 60 years ago, that translator misunderstood, and therefore dismissed, the musical information contained in the text. This translation thus offers a significant re-interpretation of a very significant text in the history of Arabic literature and music.
Dwight F. Reynolds
3. Monday Majlis of the Centre for the Study of Islam, Exeter:
Austin O’Malley,
The Hoopoe on the Pulpit: Narrative Structure and Imagined Performance in ʿAṭṭār’s Manṭeq al-ṭayr
Monday Majlis Online on the 26th of February, 17: 00-18:30 (UK time)
Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter.
Register please on this link:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkfu6spjoqHNaVnyqf46nrm_nhZIkepjtD
4. A Story of Islamic Art,
Routledge, 2024
Marcus Milwright
More information about the book can be found at:
https://www.routledge.com/A-Story-of-Islamic-Art/Milwright/p/book/9781032448152
5. Lecture – 2024 Calderwood Lecture on Islamic and Asian Art, Dr. Marianna Shreve Simpson, Boston College – April 2
Paintings as Prelude and Postscript in Deluxe Persian Manuscripts of the Early Modern Period
Deluxe Persian manuscripts of the early modern period often open, and sometimes
close, with double-page paintings of court receptions, literary gatherings, hunts and
other scenes. While such ubiquitous compositions are generally thought to be
independent of specific literary texts, closer consideration suggests fascinating
thematic connections, and also points to particular centers of artistic production.
Tuesday April 2, at 5:30 pm
Hill Family Conference Room
McMullen Museum
2101 Commonwealth Avenue
Brighton, MA 02135
Reception to follow
Sponsored by the Calderwood Professorship in Islamic and Asian Art
Art, Art History and Film Department, Boston College
Contact Information
Emine Fetvaci
Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art
Boston College
Contact Email
6. Zoom- Circle for Late Antique and Medieval Studies
The Circle for Late Antique and Medieval Studies is pleased to present two events in the Spring 2024 semester:
Friday, March 1 – “The Military Origins of the Persian Language (6th-9th Cent.)” a lecture by Étienne de la Vaissière, professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris
Friday, April 5 (TBC) – Panel discussion on numismatics in late antique and medieval studies.
Date & Time
Mar 1, 2024 05:00 PM
Apr 5, 2024 05:00 PM
London times
Register at:
https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vc-2hrT0oH9HkUY0X__Me1Rlc3wlzB_Yl#/registration
7. INTENSIVE English-Arabic TRANSLATION COURSE
This in-depth program caters to students and colleagues interested in developing expertise in translation theories, techniques and cultural nuances.
Course Content: This course aims at training students of translation and translators on the translation of journalistic, political, commercial, legal, and scientific texts from Arabic into English and vice versa. The course includes the presentation of linguistic and cultural issues affecting meaning transfer from the original text into target language. Personalised one-on-one guidance and practical exercises ensure skillful navigation of cultural and linguistic nuances, empowering participants to excel in this dynamic field.
Course Dates & Duration: Two weeks 21st April – 2 May 2024 (5 hours a day, total of 50 hours).
Tuition: 1520 USDS
For more information please contact us at: info@jordanla.com
We look Forward to welcoming your students to this unique learning experience.
Sincerely,
JLA team
Jordan Language Academy
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8. Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World 18.1 is out now!
Special Issue: ‘Interventions in Film Studies’
For more information about the journal and issue click here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-contemporary-iraq-the-arab-world
9. CfP Cross-Points: A Cambridge–Stanford Graduate Conference in Arabic Literature
We are looking for papers for a conference on Arabic Literature to be held at the University of Cambridge, UK on 12th and 13th September 2024
This two-day conference, hosted jointly by the PATH+ Research Unit at Stanford University and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge, will bring together doctoral students of Arabic literature, with the aim of building an inter-institutional community, fostering collaboration, and imagining new directions and methodologies for research. Conscious of the limitations imposed by adherence to temporal, geographical, and generic boundaries, we shall arrange our panels thematically. This approach will allow us to tease out connections between customarily diverse subfields. As such, we encourage applicants to engage with the broader implications of their research when submitting abstracts. Potential themes include but are not limited to:
- Textual ecologies
- Formulaic transgressions
- Canon (trans)formation
- Con-, sub-, and inter-textualities
- DisOrienting theory
We invite submissions for ten-minute papers on any aspect of Arabic literature. Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words and brief biographical information to camstan.arablit@gmail.com by 31st March 2024. Participation is restricted to doctoral students. Funding will be available to offset travel and visa costs, and accommodation will be provided. Further information on travel reimbursements will be sent to participants upon acceptance of their proposal.
10. Symposium: Challenging Empire: Women, Art, and the Global Early Modern World
March 1-2, 2024, Online and in Person
- Symposium title: “Challenging Empire: Women, Art, and the Global Early Modern World”
- Conference dates: March 1 – 2, 2024
- Venues: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
The symposium “Challenging Empire: Women, Art, and the Global Early Modern World,” part of the project Global Makers: Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe and Asia, is intended to extend and expand knowledge of cultural production by and for early modern women – particularly those associated with the courts – on a global scale. While numerous conferences, symposia and resulting publications in the past several decades have addressed women as producers, consumers and subjects of European art during the early modern period (c. 1400-1750), less consideration has been given to women’s roles in the courts – particularly as informed by the steadily increasing cross-cultural interactions (i.e. between Europe and Asia, the Americas, Africa, etc.) that characterized the period. This symposium aims to address this lacuna while de-centering the traditional Euro-centric model of study in the analysis of women’s cultural production, presentation and consumption surrounding courts and empires (institutions associated with ruling power). The goal is to encourage a more equitable view of early modern women’s experiences of and with art globally, across traditionally held national and continental boundaries.
For information and registration, please visit: https://art.ua.edu/challenging-empire-symposium/
11. MLA 2025 LLC West Asia Call for Papers
Between Land and Sea: Literatures in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula
Literary cultures of the Arabian Peninsula / Persian Gulf beyond citizenship and monolingualism. Topics may include petrofiction and ecocriticism; Gulf futurism; Indian ocean; diasporic writing; race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality; neoliberal cultural industries.
~ 250 word abstracts to alon@umn.edu by March 15, 2023
- February 24, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
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