Archive for March, 2024

Surprising little has been written about exegesis of Surat Yusuf, the Qurʾan’s “greatest of narration” (ahsan al-qasas), and certainly the longest and most substantial narrative in the Qurʾan. The little that has been written about Shiʿi interpretations of the Surat Yusuf has generally taken as its starting point Sunni exegesis, Jewish exegesis of the Hebrew Bible, or both. This paper describes two interpretations in hitherto unpublished sources of esoteric literature: the Ismaili missionary Jaʾfar b. Mansur al-Yaman’s (d. c. 960) Kitab al-fara’id wa-hudud al-din (The Book of [inheritance] Allotments and the Limits of Religion”), and the second, al-Risala al-Yusufiyya (The Joseph Epistle) by Abu al-Fath al-Baghdadi (thrived late fourth/tenth century).

Call for Papers: Mapping Methods and Theories in Shiʿi Studies, Open Panel at the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) World Congress, Kraków 2025
Convenors: Mohammad Nabeel Jafri (University of Toronto), Candace Mixon (Reed College)
Abstract: The trajectory of scholarship on Shiʿism is marked by two overarching influences. First, as the early Orientalists pored over and translated myriad Arabic and Persian texts in the 19th and 20th centuries, they accepted the normative claims offered by their objects of study as fact, relegating Shiʿism outside the purview of Islam. Second, nascent attempts at a systematic study of Shiʿa traditions can be dated to the 1970’s, where much of the scholarship produced was inspired by the then current political and social contexts of Iran. Today, the dual legacies of focusing on Sunni texts and Shiʿi politics can often be arthritic, foreclosing potential and productive avenues of inquiry. Under the Congress subtheme of Mapping, we invite analyses of recent trends in the field that challenge simple binaries of Sunni/Shiʿa, Arabic/Persian, and texts/practices, opting to consider their crossways and varied intersections. We welcome papers whose archives include languages and geographies underrepresented in the field, and whose methods are sensitive to the interplay of texts, practices, and materials in Shiʿi devotion. We especially encourage papers to think through not just the limitations of the oeuvre of Orientalist textual-philological works, but also possible and potential benefits that such scholarship enables, particularly since many of the Shiʿa devotees inhabit worlds as logocentric as the ones portrayed by early European scholars.
Submission: As per the IAHR website (https://iahr2025.org/call-for-panels-papers/open-panels/), interested participants can apply directly to the conference, and choose the panel’s number (30) and title (Mapping Methods and Theories in Shiʿi Studies) in the submission system.
Deadline: The IAHR deadline for individual papers is Dec 1, 2024.
Evaluation of papers: The acceptance works at two levels. First, the IAHR congress committee accepts papers from within the submissions they’ve received. The accepted papers are then forwarded to the panel conveners who finalize the panel. Papers accepted by the IAHR committee but not by the panel conveners are still presentable at the IAHR meeting as individual papers.
For any questions, please feel free to email Mohammad Nabeel Jafri at nabeel.jafri@mail.utoronto.ca

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1.2 Postdoctoral Fellowships (2 years) for Scholars at Risk at the “Academy in Exile”, TU Dortmund University and Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Essen, Germany

Eligible are scholars from any country who have a PhD in the humanities, social sciences, or law, and who are at risk because of their academic work and/or civic engagement in human rights, democracy, and the pursuit of academic freedom. Academy in Exile fellowships give scholars the opportunity to continue their careers in Germany and to work on a research project of their own choosing in a multidisciplinary environment.

Application deadline: 15 April 2024. Information:

https://www.academy-in-exile.eu/2024/03/01/call-for-applications-12-aie-fellowships-for-scholars-at-risk/

 

 

 

 

2. Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3-4 Years) for the Research Project “Beyond Restitution: Heritage, (Dis)Possession and the Politics of Knowledge (BEYONDREST)”, Europe in the Middle East (EUME), Berlin

Requirements: Completed dissertation in anthropology, (art) history, cultural studies, sociology, archaeology or a related field. – Established research focus on critical heritage studies, cultural policy, museum studies, politics of knowledge, material culture, and/or state violence. – Experience with ethnographic research and preferably also with archival research. – Regional expertise regarding the Near and Middle East and/or North

Africa.

Deadline for applications: 15 April 2024. Information: https://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/en/news/news/details/job-postdoctoral-research-fellow-f-m-d-in-the-project-beyondrest

 

 

 

 

3. Visiting Assistant Professor (1 Year) for Comparative Politics (Focus Middle East), Department of Politics, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine

Applicants should show a strong commitment to excellence in undergraduate teaching. We strongly encourage applications from individuals with identities that have been historically marginalized in political science, and individuals who have followed non-traditional pathways to higher education due to societal, economic, or academic disadvantages.

Deadline for applications: 1 April 2024. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/142258

 

 

 

 

4. 2024 Graduate Student Paper Prize of the “Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS)”

The prize is awarded to a graduate student in any discipline in the humanities or interpretive social sciences to recognize an original work on an aspect of Middle East women’s, gender, and/or sexuality studies. The 2024 prize winner will receive a $500 award and comments to prepare the manuscript for publication as an article in JMEWS.

Deadline for submissions: 31 May 2024. Information:

https://amews.org/2024/02/29/2024-jmews-graduate-student-paper-prize-call-for-submissions/

 

 

 

 

5. Chapters for Edited Volume on “The Practice of Pilgrimage in a Global Early Modern Context”

We are seeking contributions to a volume exploring pilgrimage in a global context from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. We are seeking contributors working from the perspective of diverse disciplines (e. art history, history, literature, anthropology), religious traditions (ie. Buddhism, Shintoism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity) and regional contexts.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2024. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20026219/cfp-new-volume-practice-pilgrimage-global-early-modern-context

 

 

 

 

6. Articles for “Hamsa: Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies” (10th Issue)

Hamsa aims to create a multi-disciplinary space in the fields of Jewish and Islamic studies in which all perspectives of Social and Human sciences can converge. Articles are invited which foster a comparative analysis of historiographical, philosophical, anthropological and sociological discourses ranging from medie-vality to contemporaneity.

Deadline for papers: 31 March 2024. Information: https://journals.openedition.org/hamsa/4389

 

 

 

 

7. ‘Mādayān ī Wīrāzagān: a newly discovered Middle Persian text: transliteration, transcription, and translation’

BSOAS

Ruben Nikoghosyan

 

 

 

8. “All the world at the palm of the hand”: imagining history through the life of an early Afghan saint

BSOAS

T Ahmed

 

 

 

 

9. Philipp Bruckmayr

Islamic Reform as a Family Affair: The Tariq Shah Wali Ullah in Modern Malaysia

Monday Majlis Online on the 18^th of March, 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/tJUuce6gpzktHd1X7Yh_4lcbROZVV4U0x7ug

 

 

 

10. UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Arabic Dialogues: Phrasebooks and the learning of colloquial Arabic, 1798-1945, by Rachel Mairs.

Download it free: https://bit.ly/3T07Fik

 

SEMINAR

TO COMMEMORATE THE MARTYRDOM OF

IMAM ALI (a.s.)

SUNDAY 31st MARCH 2024 – 2:30 PM

VENUE – RUDOLF STEINER HOUSE

35 PARK ROAD, LONDON NW1 6XT

Opposite Mumtaz Restaurant

Tube station: Baker Street

Chair: Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi

Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi is an author in the fields of Islamic Studies and Comparative Religion; Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies; and Managing Editor of Encyclopaedia Islamica. He studied International Relations and Politics at Sussex and Exeter Universities before obtaining his PhD in Comparative Religion from the University of Kent.

Gulamabbas Lakha

Imām ʿAlī (as) on self-sabotage and its remedies

Gulamabbas Lakha takes a multi-disciplinary approach to research and teaching at Oxford. His doctorate in Psychiatry investigates mental health applications of Islamic concepts and practices, including empirical work on depression in the UK Muslim population. He serves as a tutor in Psychology of Religion and leads seminars on Neuroscience of Religious Experience, including supervising medical students and postgraduates. In addition, he also lectures on Christian-Muslim relations, co-founded the Oxford Interfaith Forum, and led Bodleian Library public workshops on psychotherapy in Old Testament and Islamic psalms, having previously undertaken research on comparative neuroimaging of dhikr and secular mindfulness practices. His passion for academic research that has practical applications stems from two decades of business and community work. His first degree in Economics and Econometrics was followed by the Chartered Financial Analyst designation while working in the City, subsequently founding an investment firm at which he serves as CEO. He later completed four master’s degrees, spanning Psychology and Neuroscience, Theology, Islamic Studies, History and Arabic. Following religious training over a number of years, he was accredited as a Shaykh and has been lecturing on contemporary Islam at mosques across the UK and on Muslim TV channels over the last decade.

Farhana Mayer

Qur’anic Principles of Integral Ecology

Farhana Mayer is a published author in her field of Qur’anic Hermeneutics. Her latest publication An Introduction to Qur’anic Ecology and Resonances with Laudato Si’ compares Qur’anic principles applicable to integral ecology with the themes of Pope Francis’ ecological epistle Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home. Her earlier publications include: Spiritual Gems: The Mystical Qur’an Commentary Ascribed to Ja`far al-Sadiq and Anthology of Qur’anic Commentaries: On the Nature of the Divine with F. Hamza and S. Rizvi. Her recent research at Oxford University explores a Qur’anic perspective on the qualitative and ontological relationship between God and humankind. Farhana was formerly a lecturer in Sufism at SOAS and also at the Institute of Ismaili Studies (in Sufism and Qur’anic Exegesis), where she headed the Graduate Programme in Islamic Studies and Humanities. She is currently a Research Affiliate at the Laudato Si’ Research Institute, Campion Hall, University of Oxford.

AN OPEN INVITATION

PLEASE BE SEATED BY 2:30 PM

ORGANISER & SPONSOR: THE AHMED FAMILY – C/O MUHAMMADI TRUST (020 8452 1739)

1.Arabic Literary Culture in Southeast Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

A.C.S. Peacock Brill, 2024

 

 

 

2. The Invisible East programme in Oxford is looking for a new Postdoctoral Researcher and for a Programme Co-ordinator to join the team!

We are looking for driven and organised individuals who can help us grow an exciting academic project with direct links to the wider public.
The job descriptions for the two positions can be seen at this link. The deadline to apply is 25 March 2024. We look forward to receiving your application!

 

 

 

 

3. In-person symposium on Literature and Religion in Modern Iran, sponsored by the Program for the Study of Religion and co-hosted by the UC San Diego Library and Middle East Studies program at UCSD, on March 12th.

Commencing at 2:30 p.m., the symposium kicks off with a compelling keynote address by Professor Nasrin Rahimieh from UC Irvine. Professor Rahimieh’s speech, Fictions of Self in Contemporary Iranian Women’s Writing, promises to offer intriguing insights into the literary landscape of Iran.

The symposium continues with a series of illuminating presentations by esteemed scholars. Dr. Domenico Ingenito (UCLA) will explore the intriguing relationship between mysticism and sexuality in the literary and critical works of Forugh Farrokhzad. Dr. Aria Fani (University of Washington) will present his recent publication, “Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism,” which offers fresh perspectives on literary nationalism within the region. Additionally, Dr. Farshad Sonboldel (UC San Diego Library) will examine the profound impact of religious poetic forms on the process of literary modernization in Iran. Throughout the event, discussions will be expertly moderated by Dr. Babak Rahimi (UC San Diego).

Registration is not required.

Geisel Meeting Room

University of California San Diego, Geisel Library

9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla

Contact:

Jen Cormier

ucsdlibrary@ucsd.edu

 

 

 

4. King’s College London and the University of Kent are jointly offering up to fifteen fully-funded PhD studentships in medieval history, literatures and other disciplines (including up to three studentships for international students, and up to three Master’s Plus studentships available for low-income and/or ethnic minority applicants) through the new £2M Leverhulme doctoral training centre Knowledge Orders before Modernity.

Applicants can submit their own project through an open call, provided it falls broadly within the themes of the project (transmission, selection, production, reproduction and/or technologies of knowledge); or they can apply for particular projects proposed by potential supervisors at King’s and Kent.

For more information and on how to apply: https://www.komldsp.org.uk/about-us/ . The deadline this year will be 8 May 2024.

 

 

 

5. The Center for Research on the Iranian World (CeRMI, UMR8041 CNRS) is pleased to invite you to the XXV Iranian World Day, which will be held on Friday, March 22, 2024 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Auditorium of the INaLCO Languages and Civilizations Center, 65 rue des Grands-Moulins, 75013 Paris (Reception-café from 9:30 a.m.).

You will find information online on the CeRMI website: https://cermi.cnrs.fr/xxve-journee-monde-iranien/

 

 

 

6. Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier à laprochaine séancedu séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, qui se tiendra le jeudi 14 mars 2024, 17h-19h, en salle 3.15 à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 3^e étage).

Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir M. Yury Karev, spécialiste de l’histoire politique et sociale de l’Asie Centrale à l’époque pré-mongole et de la culture matérielle, Chargé de recherches au CNRS (UMR 8546 AOROC – CNRS PSL), pour une conférence intitulée: “Les Qarakhanides au Māwarā’annahr: traits identitaires de la dynastie centre-asiatique à travers leur art et les textes de l’époque (fin X^e – début XIII^e s.)“.

 

 

 

7. UCLA – Legacies of Ancient Persia: New Episode Available

https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/legacies-of-ancient-persia/

https://linktr.ee/legaciesofancientpersia

 

 

 

8. IIS: Applications for the Farhad Daftary Doctoral Scholarship Programme are now open

Closing date: 31 March, 2024

https://www.iis.ac.uk/news/2024/february/iis-doctoral-scholarship-programme-2024/

 

 

 

9. IIS: The Central Asian Studies Unit is pleased to invite you to register in-person to attend “Historical and Contemporary Migrations of Central Asian Muslims: History, Culture and Identity”, which will take place 3-4 April 2024 at Aga Khan Centre (London).

The conference will bring together scholars from various disciplines to discuss and exchange ideas on a wide range of topics related to the historical and contemporary regional and transnational migrations of Central Asian Muslims. There are limited spots available to attend in-person, so register soon.

https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/migrations-of-central-asian-muslims/

 

 

 

10. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Egyptian History

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-modern-egyptian-history-9780190072742?cc=us&lang=en&#

 

 

 

11. Interreligious Interactions in South Asia: Second Colloquium, April 3–12, 2024

We are delighted to announce our second colloquium on “Interreligious Interactions in South Asia,” which will take place over Zoom from April 3 to April 12, 2024. The speakers for our colloquium are as follows:

Afsar Mohammad | Vernacular Sufi Texts and Hindu-Muslim Contexts

April 3, 2024 | 16:00–17:30 BST / 11:00–12:30 EDT / 20:30–22:00 IST

Purnima Dhavan | Resisting Religious Labels in Early Modern Punjab: Why Place Matters

April 4, 2024 | 18:00–19:30 BST / 13:00–14:00 EDT / 22:30–00:00 IST

Abdul Manan Bhat | Postures of Tradition: Corporeality and Islamic Ethics in Modern Urdu & Persian Poetry

April 5, 2024 |  16:00–17:30 BST / 11:00–12:30 EDT / 20:30–22:00 IST

Kashshaf Ghani | Sufism and Religious Interactions from South Asia

April 8, 2024 | 15:00–16:30 BST / 10:00–11:30 EDT / 19:30–21:00 IST

Tilak Parekh | Religious Leadership in Interfaith Interactions

April 9, 2024 | 16:00–17:30 BST / 11:00–12:30 EDT / 20:30–22:00 IST

Sumaira Nawaz | Reform Unbound: Afghanistan’s Sirāj-ul Aḳhbār (1911-19) and its Global Publics

April 10, 2024 | 16:00–17:30 BST / 11:00–12:30 EDT / 20:30–22:00 IST

Supriya Gandhi | Persianate Hinduism in Colonial India: Revisiting Rammohun Roy’s Tuhfat al-muwahhidin

April 12, 2024 | 16:00–17:30 BST / 11:00–12:30 EDT / 20:30–22:00 IST

Website: www.interfaith.cam.ac.uk/south-asia-24

Registration Link: https://forms.office.com/e/Z4kN3ahf1i

We envision our colloquium to be brainstorming sessions for examining how interreligious interactions are analysed and theorised in diverse disciplines today, and in what ways do historical sources and ethnographic data from South Asia elaborate such interactions. Some of our presenters have pre-circulated reading materials that would be helpful in understanding their arguments. If you would like to consult these reading materials, please email: trinbarua@gmail.com.

 

 

 

12. Call for Papers: National, Transnational, and Antinational Circuits in Literature

Our special issue aims to investigate the multifaceted developments of approaches to and accounts of the national concept as well as its inter-, trans-, and antinational inverses as they are manifested in literary texts across diverse geographies and cultures from the 19^th century to the present. We invite contributors who engage with questions of the national, the international, transnational, and antinational, exploring their intricacies, challenges, and transformative potential within the broad field of literary studies.

We are interested in canonical works of internationalism, connected to Soviet ideology as well as to the non-aligned movement. But we are most interested in those works that explicitly speak to global capitalist exploitation on the conjuncture of other forms of violence, such as colonialism, racism, sexism, xenophobia, white supremacy, environmental exploitation, queer- and transphobia, and ableism. Importantly, we encourage authors to focus on those aspects, that are often ignored within analysis of internationalisms for example by Indigenous movements and individuals, or people with disabilities.

Papers may focus on, but are not limited to, the following themes:

1. Literary representations of transnational, international, and antinational solidarity movements, and activism.
2. Comparative analysis of literary texts exploring and theorizing different forms and concepts of nationalisms, nationhood, and belonging.
3. Critical approaches of national narratives in literature, as well as ethical considerations and dilemmas.
4. International solidarity in postcolonial and decolonial literature.
5. Intersectional perspectives on antinational discourses.
6. Transnational and/or antinational feminist alliances and solidarities in literature.
7. The role of literature in fostering empathy and cross-cultural understanding.
8. Literary responses to global capitalist exploitation on the conjuncture of other forms of violence, such as colonialism, racism, sexism, xenophobia, anti-migrantism, white supremacy, environmental exploitation, queer- and transphobia, and ableism.
9. Literary engagements with global justice and human and non-human rights issues.
10. International solidarities that are often ignored within analysis of internationalisms for example by Indigenous movements and individuals, or people with disabilities.

Submission Instructions:

Interested authors should submit a 250-word abstract and a short bio (250 words) by e-mail to the guest editors of this special issue of Comparative Literature (contact below). We aim for a special issue of 5-7 original articles, preceded by an introduction by the editors. Selected authors are expected to submit an original article of 6,000-8,000 words (likely early 2025). The deadline for abstract submissions is April 20th, 2024. Decisions will be communicated shortly thereafter. Accepted papers will still go through the regular peer-review process of the journal, therefore a selection doesn’t necessarily guarantee the publication of your article.

Guest editors:

Dr. Viktoria Pötzl at poetzlvi@grinnell.edu

Dr. Katharina Wiedlack katharina.wiedlack@univie.ac.at

 

 

 

13. Publication – Corinne Mühlemann, Complex Weaves: Technique, Text, and Cultural History of Striped Silks. Affalterbach: Didymos-Verlag, 2023.

https://www.didymos-verlag.de/produkt/complex-weaves-technique-text-and-cultural-history-of-striped-silks/

Silk fabrics in the form of wearables and soft furnishings were omnipresent in medieval Islamic society, yet their presence has not always been acknowledged within the field of art history. Complex Weaves considers the interwoven historiography of textile studies and Islamic art history through focusing on lampas fabrics produced in the Mongol (Ilkhanate, Chagatai Khanate) and Mamluk territories during the 13th and 14th centuries. Attending to these complex striped silks offers new perspectives on the production, consumption, and intended use of medieval textiles. By analyzing the different weaving techniques, the Arabic inscriptions in the patterns of the striped silks as well as their representation in pictorial and written sources, Complex Weaves critically examines the technological knowledge and divisions of labour required to produce lampas fabrics. The iconography, materiality, and inscriptions of striped silks are placed in conversation with 13th century metal vessels and contextualized through the varied uses of wearable silks. From robes of honour (khilʿa, tashrīf) for the Sāqī (cup-bearer) to the textile propaganda of the Abū Saʿīd silk, the incorporation of specific silks was instrumental in constructing talismanic power and political messages. Silks affected both those who wore them, and those who observed them, offering researchers insight into Islamic art history.

Corinne Mühlemann is the Assistant Professor for the History of Textile Arts (Abegg-Stiftung professorship) at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She has been a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the Centre for Textile Research at the University of Copenhagen. Her research contributes to the fields of textile studies and Islamic art history.

URL

https://www.didymos-verlag.de/produkt/complex-weaves-technique-text-and-cultura…

 

 

 

14. ITS Ramadan Discount 2024

In celebration of the holy month of Ramadan and the Eid, the Islamic Texts Society is offering a 15% discount on all titles.

Books from the ITS are an aid to deepening one’s worship in this holy month, and also make an ideal Ramadan and Eid gift for family, friends and loved ones.

In order to take advantage of this offer, please visit our website https://its.org.uk and enter the coupon code RAMADAN24 on the purchase page. This offer is valid from 9 March to 14 April 2024.

 

This new, meticulously researched critical edition based on the earliest 5th/11th-century manuscripts, with a lucid, annotated facing-page translation, brings to the modern reader the power and beauty of this influential text, and confirms the aptness of Raḍī’s title, “The Way of Eloquence.” The new edition will be published in Open Access and is planned for March 28th.

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1.Hybrid: Making it Count: Women’s Rights and Suffrage in Iran with Dr. Kashani-Sabet (U Penn)

Sunday, March 10, 2024, 3-4:45 PM EDT, St. Mary’s Hall, UMD, Multipurpose Room

 Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Speaker Series.

https://go.umd.edu/3OUdRaA

 

 

 

2. Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: the Journal of Middle East Medievalists announces a thematic dossier entitled “From the Margins, From Below: Theoretical and Analytical Interventions in Premodern Middle Eastern Studies,” guest edited by Kristina Richardson and Matthew Thomas Miller, to be published in 2026.

We are soliciting original research articles from any discipline that challenge dominant scholarly narratives in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies through the application of particular theoretical schools of thought (e.g., feminist, affect theory, ecocriticism, narratology), analytical categories (e.g., race, gender, disability), or perspectives (e.g., history from below, literature of the margins) that have not been typically privileged as objects of study. We also welcome articles that interrogate the disciplinary formation of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies in the non-Islamic world and how these enduring institutional arrangements have centered certain languages, regions, and modes of analysis as worthy of study and relegated others to the margins. We are committed to assembling a diverse slate of scholars for this dossier, representing a wide range of topical, geographical, and theoretical/analytical perspectives.

Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists is the only open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the medieval Middle East. To be considered, please submit a title and abstract of no more than 500 words to mtmiller@umd.edu by April 15, 2024. The dossier’s guest editors will invite selected authors to an online workshop in May 2025 where they will present drafts of their articles. The workshop will be an opportunity for all to receive constructive feedback. Complete articles will be due by August 1, 2025. All submissions will be subject to the journal’s peer review process.

 

 

 

 

3. Workshop “Ibn Khaldun: Universal Thougt and Shared Heritage”, Tunis, 27-28 May 2024

This workshop aims to contribute to deeper research on the life and thoughts of this eminent figure. Its aim is to understand how political and intellectual circles, both in the East and in the West, have received Khaldunian thought since the Middle Ages, but especially after its “rediscovery” in the contemporary era. A particular focus will be placed on ‘The Muqaddimah’ and the work of Ibn Khaldun as shared and contested heritage.

Deadline for abstracts: 10 March 2024. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-ibn-khaldun-universal-thought-and-shared-heritage-tunis-may-27-28?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

4. International Conference: “Musical Heritage Across Borders – Materiality as an Indication of Distribution Channels”, Hamburg, 28-30 May 2024

The conference explores the materiality of manuscripts on music in Latin, Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and Chinese languages. By tracing the routes of distribution of musical and music-theoretical manuscripts, we gradually come closer to an overview of cultural exchange relations, even beyond the dependence on political conditions. We are looking for a total of five early stage researchers (Master, Phd) to add further impulses to the presentations of the Scientific Board.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2024.

Information: https://www.kulturwissenschaften.uni-hamburg.de/hm/uber-das-institut/aktuelles/2024-02-12-conference-musical-heritage/cfp-musical-heritage.pdf

 

 

 

 

5. Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA): “Mediterranean Sexualities”, New Orleans, 9-12 January 2025

How do Mediterranean sexual epistemologies challenge common approaches to the history of sexuality? Especially encouraged are papers considering queer sexuality and erotics with (in)visibility of/in archives, empire, slavery, race, migration, and nation.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2024. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-mediterranean-sexualities-mla-912-january-new-orleans?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

6. Conference “Travellers in Ottoman Lands”, Sabancı University, Istanbul, 9-12 April 2025

The speakers will explore many fascinating subjects relevant to travel in the region during the Ottoman period, including: . Horticulture and botany; Memorials, cemeteries, places of worship of various faiths; Women travellers; Cuisine; Art and Culture; Travel and exile; Archaeology; Explorers and photographers; Modes of travel; Famous travellers; Architecture.

Deadline for abstacts: 15 November 2024. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20025364/travellers-ottoman-lands-tiol-conference-announcement

 

 

 

 

7. Research Software Engineer (Digital Humanities; V-L 13, part-time 50% or 75%) at “Bibliotheca Arabica – Towards a New History of Arabic Literature”, Leipzig

Candidate Profile: University degree (Master’s/Diploma, PhD) in Computer Science or Digital Humanities; Proficiency in at least one programming language; Experience in developing and implementing complex applications; Experience in Digital Humanities projects or interdisciplinary communication with domain ex-perts; Proficiency in English.

Deadline for applications: 15 April 2024. Information:

https://www.saw-leipzig.de/de/projekte/bibliotheca-arabica/bibarab_stellenausschreibung_it_2024_en.pdf

 

 

 

8. Postdoctoral Fellowship (5 Months), CEDEJ, Cairo

CEDEJ offers a fellowship (April-August 2024) to a recent Ph.D. graduate working on contemporary Egypt from a humanities or social science perspective. The fellow will reside in Egypt and participate in the academic life of the center. He will receive office space and be granted full access to the library. The monthly stipend is 41,000 EGP.

Deadline for applications: 15 March 2024. Information: http://cedej-eg.org/index.php/join-us/?lang=en

 

 

 

 

9. Visiting Assistant Professor (1-2 Years) in Any Aspect of the Contemporary Middle East (Except Egypt), Colgate University

The candidate will be expected to teach an introductory course in the Core Communities component that is part of Colgate’s Liberal Arts Core Curriculum, a course on “The War on Terror,” and a course of their own design. There is a preference for geographical focus on Palestine, Iran, or Yemen. A Ph.D. is required at the time of hire or shortly after hire.

Deadline for applications: 31 March 2024. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/141922

 

 

 

 

10. Fellowships of the “Max van Berchem Foundation” (Genève) to Promote the Study of Islamic and Arabic Archaeology, History, Geography, Art History, Epigraphy, Religion and Literature

The Foundation awards grants for research carried out in these areas by scholars who have already received their doctorate.

Deadline for applications: 31 March 2024. Information:

https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/max-van-berchem-foundation-fellowships?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

11. ONLINE Hebrew, Arabic, Pashto, and Iranian Cinema Summer Courses, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas, Austin, 6 June – 19 August 2024

 

– Hebrew Summer Institute:

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/summer-language-institutes/hebrew-summer-institute.html

– Arabic Summer Institute:

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/summer-language-institutes/arabic-summer-institute/

– Pashto Summer Institute:

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/summer-language-institutes/pashto-summer-institute.html

– Iranian Cinema Course:

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/languages/persian/iranian-cinema-summer-course-prs-329.html

Deadline for registration: 15 April 2024

 

 

12. Bi-annual Book Award of the Association for Middle East Anthropology (AMEA)

This award is given to an anthropological work (single- or co-authored, but not edited volumes) that features creative ethnographic writing, innovative data collection strategies, and sophisticated analysis. We solicit books that make significant contributions to anthropological knowledge and that advance our understanding of the complex forces that shape life in the Middle East. Books submitted for the 2024 award must have a publication date in 2022 or 2023.

Deadline for submissions: 15 May 2024. Information: Contact Anne Meneley: ameneley@trentu.ca

 

 

 

13. Yaron Klein

The Poetry of the One Thousand and One Nights

Monday Majlis Online on the 11^th of March, 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/tJ0rdOCgrTIoGdSN0tFJuZ2SqYtdec6d8gde