Archive for August 10th, 2024
Shii News – Academic Issues
1.Islamic Sensory History Volume 2: 600–1500
C Lange and A Bursi, eds.,
Brill, 2024
2. The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is pleased to announce 2025-2026 fellowship programs for students and scholars based in the US and Canada.
ARIT Fellowships are offered for research in ancient, medieval, historical to modern times, in any field of the humanities and social sciences. Post-doctoral and advanced doctoral fellowships may support research project tenures from one month to one academic year.
Applications must be submitted by November 1, 2024
Please see https://aritweb.org/fellowships
The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is pleased to announce 2025-2026 fellowship programs for students and scholars based in the US and Canada.
ARIT Fellowships are offered for research in ancient, medieval, historical to modern times, in any field of the humanities and social sciences. Post-doctoral and advanced doctoral fellowships may support research project tenures from one month to one academic year.
Applications must be submitted by November 1, 2024
Please see https://aritweb.org/fellowships
3. To encourage the integration of Byzantine studies within the scholarly community and medieval studies in particular, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 2024 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 7–10, 2025. We invite session proposals on any topic relevant to Byzantine studies.
The thematic strand for the 2025 IMC is “Worlds of Learning.” See the IMC Call for Papers (https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2025/) for additional information about the theme and suggested areas of discussion.
Session proposals must be submitted through the Mary Jaharis Center website (https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/imc-2025). The deadline for submission is September 9, 2024.
If the proposed session is approved, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse a maximum of 4 session participants (presenters and moderator) up to $800 maximum for participants traveling from within Europe and up to $1400 maximum for those coming from outside Europe. Funding is through reimbursement only; advance funding cannot be provided. Eligible expenses include conference registration, transportation, and food and lodging. Receipts are required for reimbursement. Participants must participate in the conference in-person to receive funding. The Mary Jaharis Center regrets that it cannot reimburse participants who have last-minute cancellations and are unable to attend the conference.
For further details and submission instructions, please visit https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/imc-2025.
Please contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.
URL
https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/imc-2025
4. WHOME Annual Best Graduate Article Awards 2024 Call for Nominations
We are pleased to announce the call for submissions for the following two prizes written by graduate students (Masters or PhD) who were identified as female at birth or who identify as female at the time of application: 1) best published or forthcoming (post-proof stage) article about Middle Eastern history and 2) best non-published (including not yet submitted, submitted, and under review) article about Middle Eastern history. For either prize, the journal article (not to exceed 8,000 words, including citations and bibliography) must be in English or translated into English; it may be about any period in Middle Eastern history and may address any subfield in the discipline of history. Submissions will be evaluated on their originality, use of primary and secondary sources, argumentation, and contribution to the field. The applicant must not have been awarded an MA or PhD prior to October 1, 2023.
Articles may be submitted by the author (self-nomination) or as nominations by academic advisors, professors, or journal editors; journal editors may nominate up to three articles. (Authors must confirm by email that they accept the nomination before the submission deadline.) Jointly published articles are accepted for submission, but both authors must be graduate students; the co-author may be male. Articles that have appeared in collections will be considered but only if the articles were published for the first time in the year prior to the application deadline; reprints will not be considered. Winners will be notified by November 1, 2024 and will be publicly acknowledged in an official announcement through WHOME. The winning authors will also receive a $250 monetary award.
Applications are due by 11:59 PST on September 15, 2024.
Questions? Please contact contactwhome@gmail.com
Contact Information
Tsolin Nalbantian, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Modern Middle East History
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
Leiden University
t.nalbantian@hum.leidenuniv.nl
department webpage
5. The Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe (ISEM) of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), in collaboration with the IN-HOPPE network (International Network–Historical and osteoarchaeological Past Populations Exploration), is organising a congress on reactions and emotions in the face of epidemics in the pre-industrial age. This will be held in Naples, 4-6 June 2025.
A flyer describing the conference’s ambitions and goals can be found here: https://www.academia.edu/122177429. The conference organizers welcome interdisciplinary approaches to the topic of epidemics before the era of modern bacteriology. Papers may be presented in English, Italian, Spanish or French.
The Scientific Committee consists of Isabella Cecchini (CNR-ISEM), Idamaria Fusco, (CNR-ISEM), Geraldine Granados Vasquez (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico), Monica Green (independent scholar), Geltrude Macrì (CNR – ISEM), Isabelle Séguy (Institut national d’études démographiques, France).
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 November 2024. Notification of acceptance will be made by 15 January 2025.
Those wishing to participate can send a title and an abstract (500-800 words) by 1 November 2024 online via the submission form or by sending to following e-mail address: epidemie.napoli2025@isem.cnr.it .
6. Call for Papers Learning of Eurasian Worlds: Chinggisid Encounters in Information, Culture and Practice, International Medieval Congress, Leeds 7-10 July 2025
The theme for IMC 2025 is ‘Worlds of Learning’. After successful sessions in 2023 and 2024 we invite paper proposals interrogating a broad conception of learning, exchange, influence and transmission (and their limits) across periods affected by Chinggisid rule across Eurasia. Imperial Mongol institutions were closely involved in the filtering, spread and transmission of information, technology and languages. This included, but extended well beyond, interaction and influence between steppe-nomadic, sedentary and mixed societies and economies, implicating numerous populations, including Uyghurs, Kitans, Eastern Christians, Rus’, Mamluks, Armenians and even the Nivkh of distant Sakhalin.
Possible themes include, but are not limited to:
- Categorisation, hybridity, selectivity and rejection
- Ornament, design and art
- Ritual in rulership, funerary and marital practices
- Resource management techniques
- Gendered patterns of activity, dress and mobility
- Translations, (mis)understandings and language movement
- Narrative memories of conquest and trauma
- Marriage, lineage and status
- Religion and cosmology; tolerance, patronage and persecution
- Chancellery practice, recording cultures, lists and libraries
- Forms of regional governance; darugha, basqaq, taishi, etc.
- Ortaq, partnership and mercantile capital
- Postal relay and imperial infrastructure
- Divination, exorcism and occult practices
- Medicine, science and technology
- Maritime technology and fleet development
- Strangenesses from biji and zhiguai to aja’ib and marvels
- Dress, fashion and fabric
- Slavery and forced migration
- Archaeology, linguistics and traces of contact
We are keen to involve PhD students and early career scholars, but senior scholars are also very welcome, and we are always seeking external moderators and round-table participants. The IMC is a hybrid event, and we welcome proposals for virtual attendance. You can find the IMC Call for Papers, with links to practical information on session submission and attendance, at https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2025/.
Contact Information
Please contact Geoff Humble with proposals (of around 100 words) by 15 August 2024.
Contact Email
7. The Finances of the Caliphate: Abbasid Fiscal Practice in Islamic Late Antiquity (2021-2026) is a five-year project funded by the European Research Council and led by Marie Legendre, Senior Lecturer in Islamic History at the University of Edinburgh.
Our blog will be your go-to source for everything related to the project, our team members, and their research. We will frequently share updates on our events, collaborations, and conversations with other researchers and research teams, along with other exciting news. Additionally, we will regularly highlight specific documents, objects, or issues we are currently exploring. We invite you to visit our blog and join us on this fascinating journey!
Contact Email
URL
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/
8. We are pleased to announce the publication of volume 54 of Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam (JSAI). This peer-reviewed academic journal covers a range of subjects related to classical Islam, Islamic religious thought, Arabic language and literature, and the interaction between Islam and other civilizations. This honorary volume is presented to Moshe Sharon of the Hebrew University and includes papers that highlight his diverse fields of academic interests.
As the flagship project of the Institute of Asian and African Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Max Schloessinger Memorial Foundation is dedicated to providing high-quality research and analysis on the subject of Islam and Arabic studies. We are proud to have published 54 volumes of JSAI to date and we are confident that the latest addition will be of great interest to academics and researchers worldwide.
We invite you to visit our website at https://jsai.huji.ac.il/publications to learn more about JSAI.
9. Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions (Ad Argumenta, Quaestio Special Issues 4), a first-of-its-kind edited volume, is now available, open access, thanks to the patient, hard work of Leone Gazziero and his fellow editors Laurent Cesalli, Charles Manekin, Shahid Rahman, Tony Street, and Michele Trizio.
Contributions to this unique volume include the following:
Sten Ebbesen, Are the Fallacies Topoi?
Costantino Marmo, The Fallacia Consequentis between Term Logic and Sentence Logic in its Medieval Reception
Leone Gazziero, “Qui imperitus est vestrum, primus calculum omittat”. Aristotelis Sophistici Elenchi 1 in the Boethian Tradition
Irene Caiazzo, Theology, Fallacious Reasoning and Heresy on the Borders of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Some Remarks on the Fallaciae in theologia and Amalricians
Melpomeni Vogiatzi, Byzantine Treatments of Fallacy: The Reception of Aristotle’s Account
Shahid Rahman & Walter Edward Young, Outside the Logic of Necessity: Deontic Puzzles and ‘Breaking’ Compound Causal Properties in Islamic Legal Theory and Dialectic
Hassan Rezakhany, A Forgotten Mereological Paradox
Charles H. Manekin, Fallacies and Biblical Exegesis – The Case of Joseph ibn Kaspi
Aviram Ravitsky, Fallacies in Rabbinical Thought, in Medieval Jewish Philosophy, and in the Treatise on Talmudic Methodology by Abraham Elijah Cohen
Yehuda Halper, Are Zeno’s Paradoxes of Motion Fallacies? Evidence from the Hebrew Aristotelian Logical Tradition
URL
https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/book/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.135309?fbclid=IwZXh…
10. Mevlevi Manuscripts, 1268–c. 1400: A Study of the Sources
Cailah Jackson
(Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
The e-book will shortly be available at the following link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-48367-7.
11. CFP – “Everyday and the Expression of Modernity: 19th-century Architecture and Urbanism in the Islamic World”, CAA 2025
Call for Papers for CAA 2025 Session (sponsored by the Historians of Islamic Art Association)
Chairs: Samira Fathi and Maryam Heydarkhani
The entanglement between everyday life and Islamic architecture and urbanism has long been established, yet the 19th-century transformations of this phenomenon remain understudied. Following Westernization and reforms that changed the appearance of cities in the Islamic world, monumental and royal architecture, as the backbone of early modern architecture, was replaced with traces of the mundane and ordinary. This drastic shift has generated divergent narratives linked to the notion of modernity during this period. However, one narrative that holds sway in scholarship is grounded in the civilizational paradigm and overlooks the everyday and the local in favor of the monumental.
This session aims to respond to the recent interest of emerging scholars in offering alternative narratives that shed light on the possibilities of everyday life. It considers the everyday as an analytical framework to trace substantial transformations in the social and political order and their implications on the built environment. This investigation offers an opportunity to delve into the transition of Islamic architecture and urbanism to the modern era by looking at everyday practices beyond Orientalist and essentialist perspectives.
Through interdisciplinary research and examination of rituals, practices, and social dynamics within Islamic architecture, this session aims to deepen our understanding of the lived experiences of individuals and communities across time and space. Session organizers welcome papers that explore the profound connection between everyday life and Islamic architecture through case studies and theoretical analyses.
Proposals for this session and accompanying materials should be submitted by August 29 via this link: https://caa.confex.com/caa/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Session14845.html
Before submitting, please read CAA’s submission and conference participation guidelines: https://caa.confex.com/caa/2025/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html
12. International Workshop on “Women’s Knowledge Production in Qur’anic Exegesis”, Berlin
Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10-11 October 2024
The international workshop, organized by the Chair for Islamic Textual Studies (Qur’an and Hadith), aims to illuminate the often overlooked contributions of women to the field of Qur’anic exegesis. It seeks to delve into the role of women in generating exegetical knowledge, both historically and in contemporary contexts.
Information: www.islamische-theologie.hu-berlin.de/de/workshop-womens-knowledge-production-in-quranic-exegesis
13. Conference “The East – Near and Far: Texts, Societies and Cultures”, Department of Arabic and Semitic Studies, Sofia University, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 28-30 November 2024
Focusing on the Arab world, the conference seeks to analyze the wider MENA region against the backdrop of Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia as well as South, East and Southeast Asia in the following thematic Scopes: 1) Centers and Peripheries. 2) Religion and Culture; Religion and Politics. 3) Normative Text and Socio-Cultural Context; Norm and Practice. 4) Language and Literary Traditions; Literature and Fiction. 5) Spiritual and Material Culture. Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2024.
Information: Asst. Prof. Dr. Stoyan Doklev doklev@uni-sofia.bg
14. Postdoctoral Researcher (E 13 TV-H) in Political Science, Project “Extractivism in Latin America and the Maghreb”, Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Marburg
Your profile: Above-average doctorate in political science or a related social science discipline; very good active knowledge of German, French and English; ability to work in a team and presence in Marburg; interest in German and European raw materials policy is an advantage.
Deadline for applications: 25 August 2024.
Information: https://extractivism.de/en/activities/calls-en/job-position-postdoctoral-researcher-at-the-university-of-marburg/
15. Visiting Fellowship in the History of Islam in South Asia, 13th-18th Century, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
The successful candidate will normally be at a post-doctoral level. The Visiting Fellowship would be tenable for eight months from January 2025. It will carry a stipend of £8,000.
Deadline for applications: 2 September 2024.
Information: https://www.oxcis.ac.uk/sites/default/files/inline-files/Visiting%20Fellowships%20Atlas%20Poster%202024-v2.pdf
16. Assistant Professor for a Full-Time Teaching Stream Position in Turkish Language, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
Applicants must have earned a PhD in Linguistics, Modern Turkish Language and Literature, or a related field by the time of appointment, or shortly thereafter. We seek candidates whose teaching interests complement our existing departmental strengths. Candidates must possess a demonstrated commitment to excellent pedagogical practices.
Deadline for applications: 1 October 2024. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2024/08/05/assistant-professor-teaching-stream-turkish-language
17. Assistant Professor in Assyriology (3 Years), Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
Candidates must have earned a PhD degree in Assyriology by the time of the appointment. We are seeking a candidate who specializes in the Akkadian language and written culture, with a focus on the later periods of Mesopotamian civilization (late second and first millennium BCE). We seek candidates whose research and teaching interests complement and advance our existing departmental strengths.
Deadline for applications:1 October 2024.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2024/08/06/assistant-professor-assyriology
- August 10, 2024
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