Archive for June, 2024
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Hajar Hussaini Wins Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Poetry
M Marsden
Afghanistan, 7.1, 2024
3. Journal of Cultural Analytics
Mohamed, Eid. “The Potential and Limits of Arabic Digital Humanities.” Journal of Cultural Analytics, vol. 9, no. 3, June 2024, https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.116818.
4. ASPS/JPS Graduate Student Prize
The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies announces the inauguration of a biennial Graduate Student Prize in order to encourage and reward scholarship about the broader Persianate world by promising graduate student members of ASPS. Interested applicants are invited to submit original and unpublished work to the Journal of Persianate Studies by 09 September 2024.
Based on creativity of topic and source materials, originality of analysis, and overall scholastic contributions, an ASPS prize committee will select a winner, who will be announced at the upcoming ASPS virtual graduate student conference (23 October 2024). The winning paper will be published in the Journal of Persianate Studies after any revision that may be required by the editorial office. In addition, the winner will be invited to present their paper at our biennial conference to be held in Tashkent in August 2025 and will receive funding from ASPS for some of the cost of attending that conference. Runners-up may also be considered for publication in JPS.
The Journal of Persianate Studies is a peer-reviewed publication of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies. The journal publishes articles on the culture and civilization of the geographical area where Persian has historically been the dominant language or a major cultural force, encompassing Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, as well as the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, and parts of the former Ottoman Empire.
Eligibility: graduate students who, at time of submission, are members of ASPS and have not received their doctorate at the time of submission, and have also submitted an abstract to the 2024 ASPS online graduate conference.
Application procedure: Paper submissions must fall within the purview of JPS and must be original and previously unpublished; they must also follow all regular JPS style and citation guidelines, found online at: https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/Author_Instructions/JPS.pdf. Prize applicants should submit their papers online through Editorial Manager (https://www.editorialmanager.com/JPSBRILL), selecting ‘Graduate Student Prize’ as the article type. By submitting a paper, applicants acknowledge intent to participate in the ASPS/JPS Graduate Student Prize and waive the right to withdraw their paper from publication, if selected.
5. Sugar and the Indian Ocean World
Trade and Consumption in the Eighteenth-Century Persian Gulf
N Daito
Bloomsbury, 2024
6. BRISMES Student Prize
From Monday 1 July, we will be inviting submissions for the 2024 BRISMES Conference Student Paper Prize. Established in 2021, this prize aims to support BRISMES student members in the development of peer-reviewed work. If you registered as a student and are presenting a paper at the conference, please do consider submitting your paper and if you are chairing or attending a panel with student presenters, please encourage them to apply for this prize!
The prize winner will receive £300 and will be mentored through a review process at the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BJMES) by a senior member of the BRISMES academic community. Such a mentor will be identified on the basis of the disciplinary field and topic of the awarded conference paper. In addition, the desk review process will be skipped and the journal will commit to sending the paper directly to external reviewers for the final decision about publication. The deadline for submissions will be 5pm on Monday, 22 July 2024.
https://www.brismes.ac.uk/awards/brismes-conference-student-paper-prize
7. The second and third issues of Volume 51 of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BJMES) are now available online on the Taylor & Francis website.
Volume 51, Issue 2 is a special issue on Propagandas, cultural production, and negotiating ideology in Iran (Guest editors: Goulia Ghardashkhani, Olmo Gölz and Kevin L. Schwartz).
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cbjm20/51/2
8. Departmental Lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture
University of Oxford
The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies aims to appoint a Departmental Lecturer (DL) in Islamic Art and Architecture, for twelve months to cover the teaching and certain other duties of a permanent post-holder during a period of research leave. (You must be able to start by 1st January 2025) This position is a great opportunity for a suitably qualified scholar to develop their career through research, teaching and collaborative work in Islamic Art and Architecture at Oxford.
Deadline | 10 July 2024
More information
9. Lecturer (Teaching) in Political Theory
SOAS University of London
The Department of Politics and International Studies is pleased to invite applications for a Lectureship (Teaching) focused on Political Theory for the academic year 2024-2025 (0.5FTE). The Department is known for its combination of both academic and professional training in politics and international relations with a focus on the politics and international relations of the Global South (Asia, Africa, and the Middle East).
Deadline | 15 July 2024
More information
10. Learn Kurdish for free with the Institute for Middle East Studies at GW
The Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University invites you to participate in our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Sorani Kurdish. This free beginner online course, led by Dr. Benjamin Priest, is designed to build fundamental conversational skills, and provide an introduction to the Kurdish writing system, culture and history. Starting in August 2024, classes will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
11. Reinterpreting History and Memory: Contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Conference | British Academy | 12-13 October 2024
This British Academy international conference will explore how history and memory is reflected through contemporary art in the MENA region, and art’s association with broader social and intellectual practices.
12. Hudood: Rethinking Boundaries
Symposium | SOAS Middle East Institute | 12 July 2024
Hudood: Rethinking Boundaries introduces contemporary art from the Barjeel Art Foundation, with a focus on the overarching theme of ‘boundaries’ as both a subject and a tool for meaningfully accessing a diverse array of art from the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region.
13. Foreign Policy Working Group (FPWG) Third Annual Conference
Conference | BISA FPWG | Gulf Research Centre Cambridge | 8 July 2024
The Foreign Policy Working Group’s mini-conference is titled ‘Critical Reflections on Contemporary Foreign Policy Analysis’ and is hosted by the Gulf Research Centre Cambridge. The conference is coordinated and led by FPWG’s co-convenors, Dr Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln) and Dr Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institution of International Studies).
14. “Sex in Translation” International Conference, 4th-5th July 2024, QMUL
The programme for an international conference on “Sex in Translation” on 4th-5th July 2024, hosted by Queen Mary University of London and supported by the BCLA, is available on the conference page here,* where those interested in attending can also register.
The conference is free, but exclusively in-person, and only registered attendees will be admitted onto campus.
*If the link doesn’t work, please copy and paste the following: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-in-translation-tickets-925804314627?aff=oddtdtcreator
15. Hajj Across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture after the Mughals, 1739–1857
R Choudhury
Cambridge, 2024
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/hajj-across-empires/8D3901BC94DD6D26BB34B7DFC8E5FDF0
16. Hybrid event: July 9-10 – International Workshop “Judaeo-Iranian Intellectual Landscapes and Beyond”
International Workshop “Judaeo-Iranian Intellectual Landscapes and Beyond: Cultural History of Jewish Communities Across the Centuries”.
The Workshop will take place on July 9-10, 2024, at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, both in person and via Zoom.
To join, please register for either in person or online attendance via the link in the attached announcement or here: https://iias.huji.ac.il/RG_Conference_Jud%C3%A6o-Iranian_Registration
Tuesday, July 9
10:30 | Gathering
10:45 | Greetings
Prof. Yitzhak Hen, Director, IIAS
Dr. Julia Rubanovich (Hebrew University and IIAS) Prof. Ludwig Paul (University of Hamburg and IIAS)
Session I | 11:00-12:30
Chair: Dennis Halft (University of Trier and IIAS) Shai Secunda (Bard College)
One Who Sold his Slave to a Frahang (b. Gittin 44a) Simcha Gross (University of Pennsylvania and IIAS)
Shapur’s Serpent: The Shifting Cultural Contexts of a Rabbinic Tale
Session II | 13:45 – 16:00
Chair: Donna Shalev (Hebrew University) Ali B. Langroudi (University of Trier)
Judæo-Persian Torah Scribes: An Introduction
*Zoom
Dennis Halft (University of Trier and IIAS)
Persian Bible Translations Leaving the “Literary Ghetto” (W. Fischel) of Judæo-Persian
Jason Sion Mokhtarian (Cornell University) *Zoom
Judæo-Persian Translations of the Bible in the Vecchietti Collection at the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Wednesday, July 10
Session III | 9:30 – 11:00
Chair: Simcha Gross (University of Pennsylvania and IIAS) Avigail Manekin-Bamberger (Hebrew University)
Demons and Jewish Society in Sasanian Babylonia
Yakir Paz (Hebrew University) and Ofir Haim (Mandel Scholion Research Center, Hebrew University)
The Reception of Midrashic Literature among Iranian Jews in the First Centuries of Islam
Coffee
Session IV | 11:15 – 12:45
Chair: Vera B. Moreen (Independent Scholar and IIAS)
Julia Rubanovich (Hebrew University and IIAS)
The Tale of Rebecca and the Servant of Abraham in Shāhīn’s Epic Rendition of the Book of Genesis
Ludwig Paul (University of Hamburg and IIAS)
Understanding the Sefer ha-Melitza, a Hebrew-Persian Dictionary of the 14th Century, in its Various Contexts
Lunch
Session V | 14:00 – 16:15
Chair: Ofir Haim (Mandel Scholion Research Center, Hebrew University) David Gilinsky (University of Hamburg) *Zoom
Manuscripts of Shāhīn’s Mūsā-nāma and their Reception
Oded Zinger (Hebrew University)
Schmoozing Outside of Court? Informal Relations between Jews and Qadis in Medieval Egypt
Vera B. Moreen (Independent Scholar and IIAS)
The Muslim and Sufi Vocabulary of Darvīsh-i Sabzavārī (16th century)
Coffee
Session VI | 16:30 – 18:00
Chair: David Yeroushalmi (Tel Aviv University)
Ariane Sadjed (Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences) The Everyday Lives of Judæo-Persian: Locality and Interconnection between Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia
Shir Kochavi (Bar-Ilan University) Collecting Memories of North African Jewish Life
Concluding Remarks
17. Conference “First European Round Table on Modern Persian Literature”, Iranian Studies, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 4-7 July 2024
The First European Round Table on Modern Persian Literature is jointly organised by the Iranian Studies Department in Bamberg and CERMOM/INALCO in Paris. This is also the 2024 Mid-Term Conference of the Societas Iranologica Europaea. We aim to address the study and reception of modern and contemporary Persian literature across all genres from a European perspective.
Information and program: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/iranistik/aktuelles/artikel/first-european-round-table-of-modern-persian-literature/
- June 29, 2024
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Shii News – Registration Open for 12th annual AMI Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop (Birmingham, 4-5 July)
Al-Mahdi Institute is pleased to announce that registration for its 12th annual AMI Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop titled ‘Language and Meaning in Islamic Legal Theory’ running from 4th – 5th July 2024 is now open!
The workshop aims to bring together scholars knowledgeable in Islamic legal theory, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of language to explore nuanced aspects of language and meaning discussed in Islamic legal theory.
Click here to find out more or register now.
(Link for More Information on the Conference: https://www.almahdi.edu/fw24)
- June 26, 2024
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.International Conference “Law, Empire, and Gender in Muslim Societies”, University of Amsterdam, 19-20 December 2024
Academics who work in the field of legal history, gender history and/or social history (or a combination of these) are invited to share their research on the laws that were introduced in the Muslim territories during (French, Dutch, British, Russian, …) colonial rule that touch upon gender. Proposals may concern various periods and topics, ranging from property law and land tenure to criminal law and family law.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 July 2024. Information: https://ash.uva.nl/content/news/2024/06/call-for-papers-international-conference-on-law-empire-and-gender-in-muslim-societies.html?origin=KOq8zc9JRa%2BM7NabIsyXHg
2. Workshop “Knowledge in the Islamic Court: Evidence, Proof, Procedure Symposium”,
Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR), Rabat, 14-15 May 2025
Themes: How do qadis evaluate various evidentiary forms, and to what extent does this relate to discursive Islamic legal traditions? How are evidentiary forms produced and made probative before the qadi? What is the role of sensory perception? Etc. – Co-organizers: Dr. Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif (University of Bergen) and Dr. Ari Schriber (Utrecht University).
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2024.
Information: https://forms.gle/jk6unUFnTtEeVCNn8
3. Assistant Professor of Modern (post-1750) Social and/or Political History of the Middle East and North Africa, Indiana University, Bloomington
Postdoctoral candidates must be able to train graduate students and advanced undergraduates in the critical use of Arabic-language historical and cultural sources, including but not limited to oral histories, archival sources, and material culture; as well as in Arabic-language historiography. Additional professional competence in one or more modern Middle Eastern languages other than Arabic is also highly desirable, but not required.
Deadline for applications: 30 September 2024.
Information: https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/24648
4. 2025 Sir William Luce fellowship: call for applications
This residential fellowship (Apr-June 2025) carries a grant, accommodation and meals, and is a valuable research and publication opportunity for post-doctoral scholars, diplomats, politicians, or business executives, working on regional issues that particularly affect the Sudans, Gulf States, Yemen or Iran: more details are provided in the notice. The application deadline is Tuesday 1 October 2024.
For more information:
The Sir William Luce Papers series can be found at:
5. Summer 2024 funding: Laura Bassi Scholarship
The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed. The scholarships are open to every discipline and the next round of funding will be awarded in Summer 2024:
Summer 2024
Application deadline: 24 July 2024
Results: 10 August 2024
All currently enrolled master’s and doctoral candidates are eligible to apply, as are academics in the first five years of full-time employment. Applicants are required to submit a completed application form along with their CV through the application portal by the relevant deadline. Further details, including previous winners, and the application portal can be found at: https://editing.press/bassi
6. Scholarship to learn Persian in Yerevan with ASPIRANTUM – Winter school 2024
Deadline: August 5, 2024
For more details, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/scholarships/scholarships-for-persian-language-courses-from-armacad
You can see the profiles of our previous scholarship recipients here: https://www.instagram.com/aspirantumcom/
Students pursuing Undergraduate (BA), graduate (MA), and postgraduate (Ph.D.) programs, as well as researchers in Iranian Studies and related fields who are enrolled in universities or academic institutions in the countries specified below, can apply for the ARMACAD scholarship. The ideal candidates will be 19 – 39 years old by the program’s start.
This scholarship is only available to citizens of the following countries.
Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America.
For more details, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/scholarships/scholarships-for-persian-language-courses-from-armacad
7. The Khalili Collection ‘The Tale and the Image’ in three volumes
Volume One. History and epic paintings from Iran and Turkey (2022) and The Tale and the Image Volume Two. Illustrated manuscripts and album paintings from Iran and Turkey (2024).
Volume One. History and epic paintings from Iran and Turkey
Eleanor Sims with contributions by Manijeh Bayani and Tim Stanley
This volume is devoted to the Collection’s illustrated manuscripts and detached folios with historical and heroic epic subjects. Produced in Iran, India and Turkey, they date from the early 14th to the 20th centuries; many are of major artistic importance. A number of folios in the Collection come from manuscripts of Firdawsi’s Shāhnāmah. Among them are a single folio from the Ilkhanid ‘Great Mongol’ Shāhnāmah and 10 from the Shāhnāmah executed for Shah Tahmasp. Complete illustrated manuscripts of Firdawsi’s epic include a splendid copy, with 62 paintings, dated AH 1011 (AD 1602). The Collection also has illustrated folios from several dispersed but significant works of universal and dynastic history, including two from the earliest surviving illustrated copy of the Ẓafarnāmah of Sharaf al-Din Yazdi. One especially important painting is a later 15th-century vision of the Prophet Muhammad and his companions in the company of Moses and the Virgin and Child. The entries on 93 manuscripts and detached folios are accompanied by essays, including one reconstructing the Safavid Tārīkh-i Jahān-gushā-yi Khāqān-i Ṣāḥib-Qirān and its illustrations; on early copies of the Shāhnāmah; on Shāhnāmahs illustrated by Mu‛in Musavvir; and on two complete copies once in the Mughal royal library.
422 pages; fully illustrated in colour; section on inscriptions with translations; hardback with dust jacket (slipcased); 36 x 26cm; 2022; ISBN 978-1-874780-80-9
Volume Two. Illustrated manuscripts and album paintings from Iran and Turkey
Volume Two. Part One
J.M. Rogers with contributions by Manijeh Bayani and Emily Shovelton
Volume Two. Part Two
J.M. Rogers with contributions by Manijeh Bayan, Emily Shovelton, Behnaz Atighi Moghaddam and Tim Stanley
This volume, which is in two parts, is mainly devoted to the Collection’s illustrated manuscripts and detached folios with painted illustrations – primarily romantic poetry and anthologies – and single page compositions – mostly portraiture and genre painting – from Iran and Turkey, dating from the 14th to the mid-19th centuries. Many items are of major artistic importance.
Illustrated Persian manuscripts include several copies of the Khamsah of Nizami and a Divan of Hafiz dated AH 975 (AD 1567–8) with superbly illuminated margins and two exquisite paintings, one by Muhammadi and the other by ‘Abdallah al-Mudhahhib al-Shirazi.
The large group of detached folios from Iran includes several of the late 15th century in the style of Muhammad Siyah Qalam (otherwise best represented in albums in the Topkapı Palace Library). Particularly strong in drawings from 17th-century Isfahan, it includes works by its most famous painters, Riza-yi ‘Abbasi, Muhammad Qasim, Mu’in Musavvir, and the eclectic artists Muhammad Zaman, ‘Ali Quli Jubbah-dar and Shaykh ‘Abbasi.
Ottoman paintings include two folios from the Siyer-i Nebi (‘Life of the Prophet’) made for Sultan Murad III, and an exquisite 16th-century drawing of a dragon in foliage in the style of Süleyman the Magnificent’s court painter, Shah Quli.
Set two parts; 583 pages plus bibliography and index (the set); fully illustrated in colour, section on documentary inscriptions with translations; hardback with dust jackets (slipcased); 36 × 26 cm; ISBN: 978-1-874780-81-6
Available to purchase here:
For more information on Khalili Publications:
https://www.khalilicollections.org/publications/
8. Omar T. Nasr and Tim Corbett, PaRDeS: Diversifying Modern Austrian History: Exploring Parallels and Intersections between Jewish and Muslim Histories in Austria, in: Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany 29 (2023): 137-148
Open access here:
https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62207
9. Iran through maps 20. The Lar Valley (Central Alborz)
Les nomades de la vallée du Lâr (Alborz central)
The Nomads of Lâr (Central Alborz)
عشایر کوچ نشین لار (البرز مرکزی)
Depuis les Seljoukides jusqu’en 1978, la vallée du Lâr, fut la capitale (d’été) de l’Iran.
From the Saljuks until 1357, the Lâr valley was the (summer) capital of Iran.
از سلجوقیان تا سال ١٣٥٧ دره لار پایتخت (تابستانی) ایران بود.
Source et analyse en Français : Bernard Hourcade. La vallée du Lâr (Alborz central), capitale de la Perse/ Iran (1046-1978). CNRS, CeRMI, 2019. (Power point, d’une conférence) https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04605445
Source and summary in English : Bernard Hourcade. The Lâr valley (central Alborz), capital of Persia/Iran (1046-1978). CNRS, CeRMI, 2019. (Pdf of the Power Point of a lecture) La vallée du Lâr (Alborz central), capitale de la Perse/ Iran (1046-1979)
منبع : دره لار (البرز مرکزی)، پایتخت ایران (١٣٥٧ ٤٢٥.( CNRS، CerMI2019
.(پاور پوینت، یک سخنرانی(.
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04605445
IRANCARTO.CNRS.FR CARTORIENT.CNRS.FR
CeRMI Centre de Recherche sur le Monde iranien. https://cermi.cnrs.fr
- June 25, 2024
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Shii News – NISIS Autumn School ’24: ‘Shiism and Sectarian Identities from Pre-Modern to Modern Islam’
NISIS Autumn School ’24: “Shiism and Sectarian Identities from Pre-Modern to Modern Islam”, Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies, Leiden University, 29-31 October 2024
Papers are invited on all the diverse aspects of Shiism and sectarian relations, ranging from pre-modern to modern Islam and from the majority-Shiʿi regions in the Persian Gulf to Shiʿi minority communities elsewhere (including in the West). Papers may take a text-based approach, have their roots in ethnographic fieldwork, be based on political theory, or take another academic approach toward the overarching subject of the Autumn School.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2024.
Information: https://nisis.sites.uu.nl/2024/06/04/call-for-papers-shiism-and-sectarian-identities-from-pre-modern-to-modern-islam/
- June 24, 2024
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Exhibition – Beyond Words: Calligraphy from the World of Islam, The David Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark
Explore the history of calligraphy and calligraphy as an artform in the exhibition Beyond Words: Calligraphy from the World of Islam at The David Collection in Copenhagen, Denmark. The title is meant literally because the words and the beautiful letters may assume several different meanings.
Calligraphy means the art of writing beautifully. Over time, writing has been developed and refined to a point where it has become an art form in its own right. Calligraphy is frequently used in almost every kind of media within the Islamic world – and hence has become a unique testimony to Islamic culture. The most skilled calligraphers have gone on to become famous artists, and several have formed schools within their respective fields.
After the rise of Islam in the seventh century and its initial spread, the Arabic script took on a very special significance becoming a unifying factor – an identity marker – across geography and ethnicity. The use of imagery of living beings was not practiced in religious contexts – even in early Islam – and therefore beautifully conducted handwriting took on a notable role in Islamic culture.
In the Islamic world, inscriptions appear in far more contexts than in most other cultures. We see calligraphy on everything from parchment and paper to everyday objects and buildings. The calligraphic quotations also range from poetic extracts written by famous poets to passages honouring the rulers or owners of the commissioned works as well as texts about the artists themselves. Very often, however, we find Koranic quotations. The Koran is written in Arabic, and therefore the writing alone – when beautifully performed – is considered a tribute to God.
The exhibition presents 128 individual works, all of which exemplify the importance and role of calligraphy. The audience is introduced to different types of writing and the different usages from official documents to metal work, ceramics, textiles and architecture.
The exhibition design was created in collaboration with the design studio Mentze Ottenstein.
Alongside the exhibition, a publication, sharing the same title as the exhibition, will be published and available in both Danish and English at the museum shop.
Beyond Words: Calligraphy from the World of Islam is open to the public from 24 May until the 26 January 2025.
Here you can find one of the most comprehensive collections of Islamic art in the Western world, a fine selection of European eighteenth-century art and a small but exquisite representation of modern painting and sculpture.
For more information: www.davidmus.dk
2. The New York Public Library is pleased to announce its first Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Fellowship to support advanced research on Library’s holdings of materials from the Arab world, Africa, Turkey, Iran, South Asia, Central Asia, and their diasporas in the United States.
Fellowships are open to Ph.D. candidates, post-doctoral scholars, and independent researchers with projects that would significantly benefit from research drawing on collections accessible at The New York Public Library. Projects requiring access to original materials including manuscripts, archives, books, photographs, prints, maps, newspapers, and journals will be given preference, but all worthy projects will be considered. Applicants studying the humanities as well as those working in the visual, auditory/performing, and literary arts are welcome to apply.
The Fellowship Program will support one fellow annually for three months with a stipend of $25,000. The annual fellow will have full access to the Library’s collections and staff, as well as a dedicated place to work in the Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities at NYPL’s flagship building in Midtown Manhattan.
The Library will also explore how to support international scholars with visa requirements.
Deadline for application is August 5, 2024 and recipients will be announced in November, 2024.
To apply, please complete the electronic form in the NYPL Fellowship Portal and upload an updated C.V., a project proposal of no more than five pages, and two professional letters of recommendation.
For assistance with the application process, email fellowships@nypl.org. Library staff cannot provide feedback on individual applications or project proposals (see below). Applicants are encouraged to contact the Curator for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Dr. Hiba Abid (hibaabid@nypl.org) with any questions regarding collections or additional holdings.
Read the full announcement on The New York Public Library’s website.
Key Dates:
Applications open: May 20, 2024
Application deadline: August 5, 2024
Recommendation letters due: August 12, 2024
Applicant notification: November 2024
Award period: January 2, 2025 – June 30, 2025
Project Proposal:
Successful project proposals will include a thorough explanation of how in-person access to collections accessible at The New York Public Library is essential to the progress and completion of the research project. Proposals should also include:
Abstract of the project’s major themes, questions, and arguments
Significance of the project
Specific Library collections and holdings to be consulted during the fellowship
Project plan, including a timeline of your work with the Library’s collections during the fellowship term and a description of the proposed methodological approach
Expected project outcomes
Suggested topic for public presentation
Desired dates of residence
Contact Information
Hiba Abid | The New York Public Library
Curator for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
The New York Public Library
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018
Tel: (212) 930-9297 / Email: hibaabid@nypl.org
NYPL Fellowships | The New York Public Library
The New York Public Library
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018
Email: fellowships@nypl.org
Contact Email
URL
https://www.nypl.org/fellowships/middle-eastern-islamic-studies#:~:text=The%20N…
3. CFP – Call for Submissions for Pedagogy Files in Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā
Is there a primary source from the medieval Middle East that you particularly enjoy teaching? If so, we encourage you to submit a “pedagogy file” to Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā. Our new pedagogy section, launched in 2023 with a file entitled “Textiles across Medieval Eurasia,” is focused on primary sources—images, objects, buildings, poems, inscriptions, or prose passages—contextualized for the undergraduate classroom. Submissions should briefly introduce the primary source, provide basic background and explanatory notes in the form of bullet points, and suggest discussion questions or overall takeaways. Images and short bibliographies are encouraged. Submissions should be between 1000 and 4000 words and will be subject to editorial, but not peer, review. For the 2024 issue, pedagogy files should be received by September 1.
Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā is the only open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the medieval Middle East, expansively defined to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social presences between the rough parameters of 500-1500 CE. The open-access publication of al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā is made possible by Middle East Medievalists (MEM), an international, non-profit association of scholars. To support the journal, please consider joining MEM or renewing your MEMbership today!
4. Publication – Collecting Asian Art: Cultural Politics and Transregional Networks in Twentieth-Century Central Europe
Edited by Markéta Hánová, Yuka Kadoi, and Simone Wille
Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024
272 pp., 31 pls.,
ISBN: 978 94 6270 378 0
(Europe) https://lup.be/book/collecting-asian-art/
(US) https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9789462703780/collecting-asian-art/
Open Access ebook available for downloading:
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87367
5. The Islamic College’s Monthly Talk: What’s “Islamic” about Islamic Art?
A Talk by Professor Stephennie Mulder
Thursday 27 June 2024
6.00 P.M. – 7.30 P.M. (LONDON TIME)
on Zoom
Meeting ID: 942 5652 0577 Passcode: 328975
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/event-registration/
6. Hybrid talk: “Time for Atoms”
5 pm (London time), Wednesday 26 June as a session of the Islamic History and Thought Lecture Series organised by the Institute of Ismaili Studies.
By Dr David Bennett, with Professor Peter Adamson as discussant.
To join please register for either online or in person attendance at https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/time-for-atoms/
In turbulent times, 9th-century practitioners of kalām devised a cosmology of jawāhir (discrete, primary entities) and accidents (natural properties) that accounted for all of God’s creation. Influences from all directions infused this physical theory with a syncretic, ever-shifting vibe; for generations, the struggle to articulate the workings of the natural world evolved. A cosmology suited to explain divine creation thrashed against conceptions of psychology and time, however; what worked in an immovable field of concrete particulars still had to account for the vagaries of experience and spiritual imperatives.
In this discussion, we will examine three key problems that illustrate kalām reckoning with developments in theories of time and causality:
- volition and the temporal process of thought;
- the so-called “ceasing instant” problem (when did “now” end?);
- and the notorious Muʿtazilite theory of secondary causality (the efficacy of intermediate, generated states).
By focusing on the adaptation of the jawāhir model to these challenges, we can better appreciate the viability of kalām and demonstrate the genius of early Islamic thought.
7. ONLINE Webinar: ‘The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages’
with Cameron Cross
British Institute of Persian Studies, 17 July 2024, 5PM (UK time).
On Zoom.
In the early tenth century CE, a remarkable literary event took place, in which well-known stories of lovers were recast by court-affiliated poets as independent versified works in the emergent New Persian language.
With a focus on the remarkable story of Vis & Ramin, this talk seeks to situate that event in the broader context of the entangled literary histories of southwestern Afro-Eurasia from late antiquity to the medieval period, showing how the Persian corpus plays a crucial role in the history of romance writing at large.
8. The Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Boğaziçi University invites applications for a full-time position at the rank of Assistant Professor in modern Turkish literature.
The application deadline is 1 August 2024.
Full-time Assistant Professor position in modern Turkish literature/Yeni Türk edebiyatı
alanında Dr. Öğretim Üyesi Pozisyonu
The Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
invites applications for a full-time position at the rank of Assistant Professor in modern
Turkish literature. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in modern Turkish literature or a related field
with a focus on modern Turkish literature and contemporary literary theory. Applicants should
possess native or near-native proficiency in Turkish and English. They will demonstrate
evidence of advanced teaching and research at an international level and an ability to teach
courses on modern Turkish literature (poetry, fiction, and theatre), comparative literature,
and literary theory at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition, applicants
should have the necessary skills to supervise M.A. and Ph.D. theses and lead national and
international research projects. The department’s teaching load for Assistant Professors is
generally two to three undergraduate and/or graduate courses per semester. Promising
young scholars who have recently completed or are about to finish their doctoral degrees are
especially encouraged to apply. Successful applicants will be required to teach in both
English and Turkish.
Applicants should upload their CV, at least one article published in an AHCI, SSCI, or
SCOPUS-indexed journal and a book chapter in a volume published by an internationally
acclaimed publisher, a sample syllabus, and a statement of research interests to
https://academicjobapplications.bogazici.edu.tr/. Three letters of recommendation should
also be sent to halim@bogazici.edu .tr directly by the referees. The application deadline is 1
August 2024.
Research interests:
modern Turkish literature, comparative literature, literary theory
Department of Turkish Language and Literature: https://turkishliterature.bogazici.edu.tr/en
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey: https://bogazici.edu.tr/en-US/Index
Adayların yeni Türk edebiyatı, karşılaştırmalı edebiyat veya benzeri bir alanda doktora
derecesine sahip olmaları, doktora ve araştırma alanlarının odağında yeni Türk edebiyatı ve
çağdaş edebiyat kuramlarının yer alması gerekmektedir. Başvuracak adayların Türkçe ve
İngilizce olarak ders vermeleri, eğitim ve öğretim deneyimine sahip olmaları, öğretim ve
araştırma faaliyetlerinde ileri düzeyde ve uluslararası çalışmalar yapmış olduklarını
kanıtlamaları beklenmektedir. Adayların ayrıca yeni Türk edebiyatı (şiir, kurmaca, tiyatro),
karşılaştırmalı edebiyat ve edebiyat kuramları alanlarında lisans ve lisansüstü ders
verebilecek, yüksek lisans ve doktora tezi danışmanlığı yapabilecek, ulusal ve uluslararası
araştırma projeleri yürütebilecek yetkinlikte olmaları gerekir. Bölümümüzde doktor öğretim
üyelerinin bir eğitim-öğretim yılında dönem başına genellikle iki-üç lisans ve/veya lisansüstü
ders yükü vardır. Doktorasını yeni bitirmiş veya bitirmek üzere olan genç akademisyen
adaylarının başvurusu özellikle teşvik edilmektedir.
Adayların özgeçmişleri, en az bir AHCI/SSCI/SCOPUS’ta taranan uluslararası dergilerde
yayımlanmış özgün makale ve saygın uluslararası yayınevleri tarafından yayımlanan kitap
bölümü, bir ders izlencesi (syllabus) örneği, araştırma ve eğitim alanlarındaki hedeflerini
içeren bir amaç sunum mektubu ile https://academicjobapplications.bogazici.edu.tr/ adresine
başvurmaları gerekmektedir. Üç adet referans mektubunun referansı yazan kişiler tarafından
halim@bogazici.edu.tr gönderilmesi beklenmektedir. Başvuru için son tarih 1 August
2024’tür.
Araştırma alanları: yeni Türk edebiyatı, karşılaştırmalı edebiyat, edebiyat kuramları
Boğaziçi Üniversitesi: https://www.bogazici.edu.tr/
Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü: https://turkishliterature.bogazici.edu.tr/tr
9. Open Access – ‘Archiving Resistance: A Conversation with Omar Sheikhmous’
F Ghaderi,
Kurdish Studies Journal
Brill, 2024
Kurdish scholars have lamented the loss of a sizeable portion of Kurdish manuscripts and documents, particularly in the twentieth century. Stories of loss and destruction of Kurdish collections and archives are prevalent in Kurdish historiographical and biographical accounts, as well as in literature. Besides tragic accounts of loss, however, there are untold stories of determination to uncover, collect, and preserve Kurdish records. Over recent decades, significant archival initiatives have been founded in Kurdistan and in the diaspora, promising a new era of Kurdish knowledge production, and driving new ways of thinking about Kurds and Kurdistan. Archives, fonds, and collections are found in Kurdistan and the diaspora and testify to the vision and dedication of unsung guardians of a nation’s heritage and memory. One of the most significant Kurdish private archives in Europe is the Omar Sheikhmous Archive hosted at the University of Exeter (EUL MS 403), which records his lifetime’s involvement in Kurdish political and academic activities. This conversation covers his involvement with and contributions to Kurdish political and academic activities, his archive, challenges of archiving resistance movements, and the intersection of activism and archival practice.
https://brill.com/view/journals/ksj/2/1/article-p91_5.xml
10. Researcher for the “Middle East Forum’s Islamist Watch Project”, Remote Anywhere in the USA
The Research Associate is a critical position focused on tracking and analyzing the networks, activities, and financing of radical Islamist organizations and individuals. Qualification: Knowledge of open-source research tools and techniques; experience parsing and analyzing large datasets; some knowledge of Python or JavaScript; proficiency in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, or Urdu; Legal work experience, including familiarity with drafting FOIA requests.
Deadline for applications: 1 July 2024. Information:
https://us12.campaign-archive.com/?e=1a855d214f&u=b7aa7eddb0f2bb74bfa4f6cb5&id=f8f165497b
- June 22, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – BRISMES 2024: Papers of interest
At the BRISMES 2024 Conference panels with papers of potential interest to Shii News include:
(2A) Historical Perspectives on Lebanese Politics
(3L) Intellectual Histories and Debates in the Islamic World
(5A) (Anti-)Sectarian Tensions and Discourses in the Middle East
(5C) Religion, Materiality and Aesthetics
(5E) Scholarly Figures Across the Indo- Iranian World
(7C) The Role of Religious Institutions, Platforms and Leaders in MENA Politics
(8H) Afghanistan’s Hazaras: History, Politics and Culture Locally and Beyond
The Conference Programme for the 2024 BRISMES annual conference (1-3 July) can be found at:
- June 21, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.HYBRID Annual Conference of the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 25 June 2024, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm SGT
This conference aims to examine the pivotal role of education in driving social reforms across the Gulf region.
By delving into the root causes of the education-labor market mismatch and exploring lessons learned from both Gulf countries and Singapore, we seek to foster dialogue and identify actionable strategies for harnessing the potential of the region’s burgeoning youth population.
Information, programme and registration: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/mei-annual-conference-2024/
2. ONLINE Research Seminar “French Colonial Psychiatry`s Views on North African Women” by Nina S. Studer (University of Geneva), CEDEJ, Cairo, 26 June 2024, 5:00 pm CET
In this presentation, the speaker will provide an introduction into how Orientalist theories about non-patient Muslim women influenced psychiatric theories and practices in the first half of the 20th century, and how this differed from the treatment of Muslim men in colonial institutions.
Information and registration:
3. HYBRID International Symposium “Phanariot Materialities: Domestic Architecture, Urban Culture, and Social Mobility”, ANAMED, Koç University, Istanbul, 29-30 June 2024
The Symposium focuses on the material and social history of the Greek-speaking, Orthodox Christian, Istanbul-based Ottoman mercantile elites who served in the Ottoman administration as imperial dragomans and rulers of Moldavia (Boğdan) and Wallachia (Eflak) under Ottoman suzerainty, the Phanariots. The symposium, will host Christine Philliou, Shirine Hamadeh and Constanta Vintilă as keynote speakers.
Information and registration:
4. Workshop “Philosophie und Ethik in der Islamischen Welt”, Department Islamisch-Religiöse Studien, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, 19. Juli 2024
In Verbindung mit der Abschiedsvorlesung von Prof. Dr. Reza Hajatpour „Abschied vom islamischen Theozentrismus – Plädoyer für einen ethischen Selbstentwurf“.
Anmeldung bis 10. Juli 2024.
Einladung und Programm:
https://www.dirs.phil.fau.de/2024/06/12/workshop-philosophie-und-ethik-in-der-islamischen-welt/
5. Workshop “Cooperations Across Religious and Ethnic Boundaries in the Study of the Qurʾan”, ERC Synergy Project the European Qur’an (EuQ), University of Amsterdam, 6-7 March 2025
This workshop examines how the Qur’an was studied between different religious groups and individuals. How did such encounters come about? Who determined places and times? What was voluntary collaboration and what was done under duress? Who decided in such settings about the process, which sorts of texts were used (e.g. tafsīr, asbāb al-nuzūl, polemical sources)? What were the social and political fields in which these encounters took place? Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2024.
6. Postdoctoral Researcher (80 %) for the Project “Participation in Islamic-social-ethical Reflections”, Swiss Centre for Islam and Society (SCIS), University of Fribourg/Switzerland
Requirements: Doctorate in Islamic Studies, Islamic Theological Studies, Religious Studies, Sociology or anothersocial/cultural science discipline; • Research interest in the topic of the project; • In-depth knowledge of relevant research methods; • Knowledge of German and/or French.
Deadline for applications: 30 August 2024.
Information: https://www.unifr.ch/webnews/content/159/attach/12508.pdf
7. Membership at the School of Historical Studies 2025-26 (Focus Islamic World), Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton
Scholars (with a Ph.D.) are invited who are concerned with research on the history of western, near eastern and Asian civilizations, with particular emphasis upon the Greek and Roman world, the history of Europe (medieval, early modern, and modern), the Islamic world, East Asian studies, art history, history of science, and musicology.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2024.
8. Invitation to Join the “Global Turkology Academic Network” Hosted by Virginia Tech University
This network facilitates academic interaction, exchange, and cooperation among students and scholars working on any aspect of global Turkic communities. It provides an interdisciplinary academic venue for a non-Orientalist, critical, and nuanced understanding of the Turkic world’s histories, cultures, politics, languages, and societies.
If you would like to share your new book or article, conference or panel information, or other academic activities, contact Tugrul Keskin: global-turkology-g@vt.edu
9. Exhibition “TYPARABIC. Les premières imprimeries arabes chrétiennes en Orient”, BULAC, Paris
This ERC-funded project has been developed in Bucharest. The exhibition presents Arabic books printed in the 17th-19th centuries in Western European presses and those of Aleppo and Khenshara (Mount Lebanon), in the Ottoman epoch. Free entry.
Information on the exhibition and a virtual tour on the BULAC website: https://www.bulac.fr/typarabic-les-premieres-imprimeries-arabes-chretiennes-en-orient
10. HYBRID Lecture Series “Humanity, Sufi Thought, and Healing”, Institute for Sufi Studies, Üsküdar University, Istanbul, 10-14 July 2024
It is a paid certificate program organised by the Institute of Sufi Studies. Participants will receive a program certificate from Üsküdar University. The program includes 20 lectures by 15 scholars. Participants will have the opportunity to meet the scholars in person and raise questions. All conferences will be simultaneously translated into Turkish and English.
Deadline for applications: 3 July 2024.
Information:
https://tasavvuf.uskudar.edu.tr/en/announcement/588/humanity-sufi-thought-and-healing-lecture-series
11. Great Lakes Adiban Workshop CfP
The Great Lakes Adiban Society (GLAS) invites submissions for its seventh annual workshop, scheduled to take place in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on October 19–20, 2024. We welcome works in progress that would benefit from extensive discussion and feedback, and especially encourage graduate students to participate.
The Society aims to provide a regional forum for scholars of Islamicate adab, particularly of the medieval and early modern periods, to meet and share their work. We leave our parameters of language and genre intentionally open in order to invite as wide a collaboration as can be useful, but as a group we are generally interested in the literary production of the broad complex of premodern Muslim societies across the Eastern Hemisphere. This naturally includes the major Islamicate languages of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu, as well as many others (Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Hebrew, Spanish, etc.) that participate in similar literary conventions.
Those who wish to participate can apply by filling out our online application by August 19, 2024. Please note that each accepted participant will be given 45 minutes to present and discuss their work; because of this, we have limited space and may have to turn down some submissions if we receive too many. In such an event, preference will generally be given to graduate students, junior scholars based in the Great Lakes region, and works in progress. By default, all participants should plan to cover their own costs; however, graduate students may apply for financial support to cover travel and lodging expenses.
All applicants can expect to hear back from us by late August, and we plan to have the schedule finalized by mid September.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at greatlakesadibansociety@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
- June 18, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. SOAS: Bahman Maghsoudlou Film Festival
Daryush Mehrjui: Making The Cow
4.00pm, Sunday 16 June 2024
This is the eighth session in the Bahman Maghsoudlou Film Festival at SOAS.
This feature documentary examines the making of The Cow (1968) and how it became regarded as one of the most important films of the Iranian New Wave, and its impact on Iranian films before and after Iran’s 1979 revolution. The film was smuggled to Venice and won FIPRESCI Prize (1971).
This documentary was shot by twelve different cinematographers in eight cities (Tehran, Rome, London, Paris, Toronto, New York, Denver, Washington DC) in six countries from 2002 to 2022. s
2. SOAS: Abbas Kiarostami: A report
4.00pm, Saturday 22 June 2024
For the penultimate screening in the Bahman Maghsoudlou Film Festival director, writer and executive producer Dr Maghsoudlou himself will join us. Following the film, there will be a Q&A session and an opportunity to engage in a conversation with him.
An analysis of the style and vision of Abbas Kiarostami, the world’s most iconic Iranian filmmaker, through the lens of his earliest work, including his first short film (Bread & Alley, 1970) and, particularly, his first feature, The Report. This early example of Kiarostami’s work gives insight into his poetic, humanistic tendencies, combining allegorical storytelling with a documentary, neo-realist sensibility, and often exploring the very nature of film as fiction, that have pervaded his work ever since, including such recent international sensations as A Taste of Cherry and Certified Copy.
3. SOAS: Razor’s Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses
3.00pm, Sunday 23 June 2024
In the final session of this Film Festival Dr Bahman Maghsoudlou, the director, writer and executive producer will join us for this screening. Following the film, there will be a Q&A session and an opportunity to engage in a conversation with him.
The culture and art of Iran, like those of nations throughout history, have always been inextricably tied to its societal problems, including its attitudes and treatment of women. Its cinema was not an exception.
In a traditional, religious and male-dominated society, actresses dared to assert themselves within the relatively new art form, sacrificing to force acceptance of their presence in the cinema and subsequently bring modernity to the culture.
This documentary approaches its subject on four levels: the biographical, the historical, the socio-political and the theoretical. Through interviews with many leading actresses of the time and unprecedented access to rare film clips of their work, filmmaker Bahman Maghsoudlou sheds a light on the important and controversial role women played in the development of Iranian cinema during the secular period from the 1930s right up to the Islamic revolution of 1979, examining the evolution of women’s roles, the difficulty of making films that broke from the patriarchal mode and the darkness that descended upon the arts when a new fanaticism began to take hold of the nation.
4. SOAS : Book Launch
Translating Ulysses into Persian: Pleasure or pain, is it?
6.30pm, Friday 21 June 2024
Launching the fourth volume of Ulysses in Persian, Chapters 13-14. This edition of Ulysses is translated by Akram Pedramnia into Persian and published by Nogaam publishing in London. This project is a combination of research and translation presented in six volumes supported by Literature Ireland. The first volume was released in May 2019, the second volume was published in November 2020 and the third volume in June 2022. This project will be completed by the end of 2026.
Please note that this event’s proceedings will be held in Persian language.
5. Treasure of Persian Ceramics | The Hague Municipal Museum
(Photo & Video):
https://persiandutch.com/2018/12/12/persian-ceramics-treasure-of-the-hague-municipal-museum/
6. AKU-ISMC: 19 June 2024 Virtual Open Day
Join AKU-ISMC students, staff and academics online for a Virtual Open Day at 12:00 -13:00 (London Time) to explore educational study options at AKU-ISMC (Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations) and discover the various opportunities we have to offer.
Any queries should be directed to: ismc.marketing@aku.edu
The Aga Khan University Institute’s for the Study of Muslim Civilisations
Handyside Street
London, | N1C 4DN United Kingdom
7. New article on the classification of the sciences in the Islamicate world
“Classification of the sciences in Islamic cultures” is now available online at
https://www.isko.org/cyclo/islamic (ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization). It currently includes the description of about 50 Arabic, Persian and Turkish classifications.
This article is a sort of companion to M-Classi, the digital tool recently created to store, catalogue, search, and visualize the classifications of science in the Islamicate world. M-Classi is freely available at: https://www.m-classi.eu/.
To get access, send an email to:
gdecallataycontacts@listes.uclouvain.be
8. The Materiality of Pious Texts: The Qur’an and Devotional Manuscripts
EuQu: The European Qur’an
Alya KARAME, Umberto BONGIANINO
24 June 2024
Part 1 at 9am
Part 2 at 11am
Information at:
https://euqu.eu/2024/05/14/the-materiality-of-pious-texts-the-quran-and-devotional-manuscripts/
9. Sanabel Abdelrahman: Palestinian Magical Realism as Resistance Literature, Monday, 17 June, 6:15 pm (CEST)
Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft, Universität Münster
Schlaunstr. 2, 2nd floor, RS 225
For online attendance via Zoom, please contact Barbara Winckler (barbara.winckler@uni-muenster.de).
[https://www.uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIslam/aktuelles/aktuelles.html]
10. HYBRID “Three Mohamed Ali Foundation Fellowship Lectures”, Durham University, 20 June 2024, 13:00 – 16:00 BST
Lectures: “Finance, Technology, and Politics in Egyptian Railways during the Reign of Abbas Hilmi II” by Dr Xiaoyue Li. – “Egypt’s Borders and Their Crossers, 1875-1937: A History of Mobility, State, and Society” by Prof. Lucia Carminati. – “Mohamed Ali Pasha’s Waqfiyyah and His Endowment as a Testimony to His Indissoluble Bond with His Motherland Kavala” by Dr Dimitrios Lamprakis.
Information and registration:
https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EXldlUPjTUqxQLSJ6hEZ8g#/registration
11. Articles for the Journal “YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 6 (2024)”
The Journal is accepting submissions of original research articles, opinion pieces and visual essays (Meclis), book and exhibition reviews in Turkish or English, by researchers working on any period of the city through the lens of history, history of art and architecture, archaeology, sociology, anthropology, geography, urban planning, urban studies, and other related disciplines in humanities or social sciences.
Deadline for submissions: 24 June 2024.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20032371/yillik-annual-istanbul-studies-6-2024-and-7-2025-call-papers
- June 15, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
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