Archive for October, 2024
Shii News – Zoom: ‘A Debate between al-Maʿarrī and the Shiite missionary al-Muʾayyad fī l-Dīn al-Shīrāzī’ – K Blankinship (11.11.24, 5pm UK time)
ONLINE MAJLIS of the Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter:
11th of November (Monday) 17:00-18:30 (UK time).
Kevin Blankinship,
‘Debating Veganism in the Medieval Islamic World: A Debate between al-Maʿarrī and the Shiite missionary al-Muʾayyad fī l-Dīn al-Shīrāzī’
Register please on this link:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlcu2oqj8sHtyy9qRR8dUpt2cjNRP95_kk
- October 18, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
- October 17, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Zoom: ‘Parallels Between the Role of Syeda Zaynab in Karbala and Social Media’ – A Hadawi (24.10.24, 6pm UK time)
The Islamic College
Monthly Talk:
Parallels Between the Role of Syeda Zaynab in Karbala and Social Media in the Modern Age
A Talk by Dr Ali Hadawi
Thursday 24 October 2024
6.00 P.M. – 7.30 P.M. (LONDON TIME)
on Zoom
Meeting ID: 815 1272 5089 Passcode: 506636
To register:
- October 16, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1. Ghand-e Parsi: Gateway to Academic Persian Language and Literature
Persian Language Courses & Persianate Studies Coaching
October – December 2024
More information and registration:
https://sites.google.com/view/persian-autumn-school/home
2. Full conference program: Translation and Multilingualism in the Premodern Islamic World(s)
The final program for our upcoming 15 -16 November 2024 conference, “Translation and Multilingualism in the Premodern Islamic World(s).”
For two days, 24 esteemed scholars will present thought-provoking papers on often-overlooked aspects of translation and multilingualism in the premodern Islamic world. This is open to the public, and no prior registration is required. All sessions will be recorded and made available on the AGYA YouTube channel for those unable to attend in person.
We have six keynote speakers with excellent papers:
*Beatrice Gründler, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany: Arabic Lingua Franca and Popular Philosophy
*Fatemeh Keshavarz, University of Maryland, USA: Wild Birds Cannot be Sold: Rumi on Translating Wordlessness and Speech
*Dimitri Gutas, Yale University, USA: Language Politics and Translation in Multilingual Near East in Early Islam
*Louise Marlow, Wellesley College, USA: Arabic-Persian Bilingualism and Translation in Ilkhanid Iran
*Ross Brann, Cornell University, USA: Islamicate Jewish Religious and Literary Intellectuals on the Status of Arabic and Hebrew
*Geert Jan van Gelder, University of Oxford, United Kingdom: The Ultimate Domesticising Translation into Arabic
A prestigious publisher will publish the conference proceedings.
You can view the full conference program here:
3. ONLINE 42nd RIMO Symposium “Recent Developments in Family Law in the MENA Region”, Netherlands, 7 November 2024, 1:00 pm CET
Various speakers from both national and international backgrounds will discuss developments in family law in several countries within the MENA region, including Egypt, Syria, and Tunisia.
Information and registration: https://www.verenigingrimo.nl/symposium
4. 5th Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist Workshop, University of Richmond, 28 February – 1 March 2025
This workshop aims to bring together scholars at all stages of their careers who are based in the Mid-Atlantic region and who are working to advance the study of Ottoman Empire and its interactions with the wider world from the 15th to the early 20th century.
Deadline for abstracts: 22 November 2024.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/attachments/call-papers-maow-2025.pdf
5. For sale: Islamic Law Library of Professor Baber Johansen (Harvard)
Professor Baber Johansen was one of the world’s leading scholars in the field. He taught at Harvard for the last 20 years after many years in Paris and Berlin. His research and teaching focus on the relationship be-tween religion and law in the classical and the modern Muslim world. His library is now for sale. It is of a manageable size (c. 1500 titles in c. 1800 volumes) and thematically focused on Islamic Law and Society.
Information: https://gerlachbooks.com/COL_177
6. Script-switching in Literary Texts
We are the LangueFlow group, which is an international research team focusing on multilingual literature. We are writing to let you know that we have published a Call for Papers on literary heterographics, script-switching and multiscriptism (https://langueflow.eu/cfp-script-switching-in-literary-texts/) for a one-day colloquium on 14 March 2025
7. Lecture – “Mongol Connections: Iran in Trans-Asian Networks”, Sussan Babaie, University of Kashan – October 20
The department of advanced studies of art at the University of Kashan organizes a series of lectures, which seeks to share the latest research in the field of art history.
Title: Mongol Connections: Iran in Trans-Asian Networks
Speaker: Dr. Sussan Babaie (Professor of Art History, Arts of Iran and Islam, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London)
A Brief description of the Lecture:
This talk situates Iran and its arts during the Ilkhanate within the larger cultural network created by the Mongols across Asia. Unlike such models of analysis as ‘Silk Road’ exchange and trade, or of influence from one culture to another, from one artistic model on to another, this project advocates for looking at the arts of Ilkhanid period ion Iran as intersecting and competing histories of objects, artists, and technologies, informed by the newly forged connections across the Eurasian expanse of the Great Mongol State. The emphasis is on the connected histories of art as the methodological approach rather than on a national history of art.
About the speaker:
Dr. Sussan Babaie is Professor of the Arts of Iran and Islam at The Courtauld, University of London. She was trained as a graphic designer at Tehran University before she went on to study Art History and receive her PhD from Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
She writes on a range of subjects and periods, from the early modern Persianate arts with Isfahan and Its Palaces and Persian Kingship and Architecture (2008), Persian Kingship and Architecture (2015), The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World (2017), and Iran after The Mongols (2019), to modern and contemporary arts such as Shirin Neshat, Honar: The Afkhami Collection of Modern and Contemporary Iranian Art, and Geometry and Art in the Modern Middle East. Sussan is currently working collaboratively on a number of projects that focus on the arts across trans-Asian networks: co-editor and author of Cultural History of Asian Art, six volumes series; co-curator of the Royal Academy of Art exhibition on arts of the Great Mongol State (Spring 2027); and as the principal investigator and lead scholar on Mongol Connections, a traveling seminar supported by a generous Connecting Art Histories grant from Getty.
Date: Sunday, October20
Time: 15PM, London time
Online Lecture in Persian
Register: please send a message to this Gmail Account: advancedstudies.art.association@gmail.com
Contact Email
advancedstudies.art.association@gmail.com
8. On-line Event on Islam and the Middle East around Cambridge this week
18.10.24
2:00pm – 3:00pm (UK time)
(Said Reza Huseini)
- October 15, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
- October 14, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Transforming Empire: The Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean
Essays in Honor of Linda Darling
Edited by Serpil Atamaz, Onur İnal and Alexander Schweig
Brill, 2024
2. Exhibition – “The Art of Dining: Food Culture in the Islamic World”, Detroit Institute of Arts
I am delighted to share with you the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Fall exhibition, The Art of Dining: Food Culture in the Islamic World, running Sept. 22, 2024 through Jan. 5, 2025. Bringing together 230 works from a broad geographical expanse, the exhibition explores connections between art and cuisine from antiquity to the present, and invites visitors to consider the personal and cultural connections we make through the preparation, sharing, and enjoyment of food.
You can find more information on the exhibition website:
https://dia.org/events/exhibitions/art-dining
The exhibition was originally organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and curated by Linda Komaroff as Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting. To find the beautiful exhibition catalogue, look for this title!
All my best,
Katherine Kasdorf
Associate Curator, Arts of Asia and the Islamic World, Detroit Institute of Arts
Contact Information
Katherine Kasdorf
Contact Email
URL
https://dia.org/events/exhibitions/art-dining
3. Mehrdad Alipour, author of Negotiating Homosexuality in Islamwillbe giving two lectures to discuss his new book.
First lecture: October 25th at the College of Liberal Arts at University of Texas Austin.
Second lecture: November 6th at Princeton University.
More information can be found on the event page of UT at Austin and the event page at Princeton.
4. Call for Papers: Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies
Monday 30 June – Tuesday 1 July 2025
Old Divinity School, St John’s College, University of Cambridge
https://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2025-call-for-papers
4. ANNA CHRYSOSTOMIDES
WOMEN FIGHTING THE ENEMIES OF MUḤAMMAD AND CONVERTING TO ISLAM BEFORE THEIR HUSBANDS: THE ABBASID-ERA STORIES OF UMM FAḌL AND UMM HAKĪM
Monday Majlis Online on the 14th of October, 17:00-18:30 (UK time)
Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
Register please on this link:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUodOGorzssGtzlnl8LB3SiJKWmPZtUecfD
6. Call for applications – Bahari Visiting Fellowship in the Persian Arts of the Book at the Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Libraries are now accepting applications for Visiting Fellowships to be taken up during academic year 2025/26. Fellowships support periods of research in the Special Collections of the Bodleian Libraries, across a range of different subjects. Of particular interest might be the Bahari Visiting Fellowship in the Persian Arts of the Book
Details of the Fellowship terms and application process can be found on our Fellowships webpage: Bodleian Visiting Fellowships | Bodleian Libraries (ox.ac.uk).
Applications for these Fellowships should be made by the deadline of Friday 29 November 2024, 5pm GMT.
For further information, please email: fellowships@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
7. ONLINE MAJLISES of the Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, 2024 autumn term
6thof November (Wednesday) CIS Majlis/Visiting Speaker. 17:00-18:30 (UK time).
Tahera Qutbuddin
Is Oration Literature? Establishing the Khutbah of the Pre- and Early Islamic Oral Period as the Foundational Genre of Classical Arabic Prose
Register please on this link:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvduqppz8iEt1ZdHVYHRhR4iC3UBgEvsB3
11th of November (Monday) 17:00-18:30 (UK time).
Kevin Blankinship,
Debating Veganism in the Medieval Islamic World: A Debate between al-Maʿarrī and the Shiite missionary al-Muʾayyad fī l-Dīn al-Shīrāzī
Register please on this link:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlcu2oqj8sHtyy9qRR8dUpt2cjNRP95_kk
18th of November (Monday) 17:00-18:30 (UK time). Robert Hoyland
Robert G. Hoyland
Christian and Muslim Papyri from Khirbet Mird, Palestine: An Archive from the 7th and 8th Centuries
Register please on this link:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsdu6prT8qEtcuNk-156YHonlo8qYCMRlB
25th of November (Monday) 17:00-18:30 (UK time).
Fozia Bora
A Somali Village in Colonial Bradford (1904) – A (Counter) Archival Study
Register please on this link:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsdO2grDwvG9zhY8VHexgzl7azheKxyx_V
2nd of December (Monday) 17:00-18:30 (UK time).
Jonathan AC Brown
What Happens When God’s Law Gives You Unjust Results?
Register please on this link:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrdOuvpjouG9XCAE3_xuDKhxrJYlBaZyzO
9th of December (Monday) 17:00-18:30 (UK time).
Jan-Peter Hartung
Approaching Taliban Ideology through Layers of Time
Register please on this link:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rdu2srjgrGNVDIoeptFzTR__cmUbdwYS2
11th of December (Wednesday) CIS Majlis/Visiting Speaker. 17:00-18:30 (UK time).
Amira K. Bennison
Power and the City: Marrakesh under the Almoravids and Almohads (1070-1269)
Register please on this link:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpfuqorDgsG9WLRGacBbRXWZGow3cAEYIR
In the spirit of the label ‘Majlis’ and also to make the talks even more interesting, our speakers present the topic discussed as embedded in their own journey. You can watch the previous Majlises here, but we don’t record the Q&A in order to keep the discussion free. Please come and enjoy the talks and the discussions : )
If you’d like to be included in the CSI (Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter) mailing list, please write to I.T.Kristo-Nagy@ex.ac.uk.
8. CFP: The Roshangar Undergraduate Persian Studies Journal
The Roshangar Undergraduate Persian Studies Journal invites submissions for its Fall 2024 edition! We are seeking written or visual works relevant to Persian studies, such as essays on
Iranian society and culture, reviews of Persian literature, films, and theatre, creative works inspired by coursework in Persian studies, and more. Written submissions in English (1500-2000 words) should be in docx format, double-spaced, and adhere to MLA format citations. The word count for written submission in Persian is 500-800 words. Poetry submissions should be between 1-3 pages in length.
The students don’t have to be a Persian studies major or minor, or a UMD student to submit their work! Submissions are open to all undergraduate students. Submissions from UMD students will be considered for the Amouzegar Undergraduate Scholarship as well as Roshangar.
We will accept submissions for our Fall 2024 issue from Tuesday, October 1 – Tuesday, October 22th. The final revision of accepted submissions will be due Monday, November 25. Please submit your work by email to our director & editor-in-chief, Marjan Moosavi, at moosavi@umd.edu, and our assistant editors at roshan@umd.edu by that date. For inquiries, contact our assistant editor at the same email address.
9. Call For Applications – Two Ahmanson-Getty Postdoc Fellowships at UCLA (AY2025-26)
[DEADLINE February 1 2025]
UCLA Center for 17th-&18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles
We invite applications for two postdoc fellowship positions: one focusing on early modern China (with a preference for the Qing period) and the other focusing on the early modern Islamicate world (with a preference for the Ottoman lands). The Islamicate world fellow is invited to make use of UCLA Islamic Collections in Ottoman Turkish, Persian, or Arabic language(s) and incorporate them in their research.
The theme-based resident fellowship program, established with the support of the Ahmanson Foundation and the J. Paul Getty Trust, is designed to promote the participation of junior scholars in the Center’s yearlong core program. Awards are for three consecutive quarters in residence at the Clark Library. Scholars must have received their doctorates in the last six years (2019–2025), and their research should pertain to the announced theme. Fellows are expected to make a substantive contribution to the Center’s workshops and seminars.
Application Requirements: Applications should include a research proposal (less than 1000 words), a writing sample (less than 10,000 words), and a CV. Applicants should identify relevant resources from the Clark Library at the end of their research proposal.
Award Amount: $69, 073 fellowship for three consecutive quarters in residence at the Clark Library.
Eligibility: Open to U.S. applicants, as well as international applicants who are eligible for a visa. Applicants must have formal documentation of Ph.D. being awarded by August 1. Fellows are expected to have full-time involvement in scholarly pursuits during the period of the fellowship.
Academic Level Requirements: Ph.D. awarded in the last six years.
This fellowship is required to be taken onsite.
Further details and a link to our online application can be found on our website: https://www.1718.ucla.edu/research/fellowships/
The deadline for fellowship applications for the 2025–2026 year is February 1, 2025.
An extended description of the program is available here: http://www.1718.ucla.edu/core/
10. The CeRMI is pleased to invite you to the first session of the seminar “Societies, Politics and Cultures of the Iranian World”, which will be held on Thursday, October 24, 2024, 5pm-7pm, in room 4.15 at the INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII,3rdfloor).
We are pleased to welcome Mr. Marc Toutant, Research Fellow at the CNRS (CETOBaC), for a conference entitled: The Tuḥfat al-ṭālibīn, a Mughal grammar of Eastern Turkish. Philological, cultural and political teaching.
Summary:
The Tuḥfat al-ṭālibīn is a grammar of Eastern Turkish (or “chaghatay”) written in Persian at the end of theeighteenth century by a certain Ḥayāt ‘Alī Dihlawī for a Mughal dignitary. Preserved only in manuscript form in several libraries on the subcontinent, the work has not yet been the subject of any study. Sometimes mentioned briefly in manuscript catalogues, this grammar is nevertheless one of the few direct testimonies that can tell us about the relationship that the descendants of Babur (1483-1530), the founder of the Great Mughals, had with their mother tongue. Although Persian had definitively established itself since the reign of Akbar (1556-1605), there is a whole set of grammatical and lexical treatises that show that Turkish retained a certain importance for these Indian Timurids (Babur was descended from the lineage of Tamerlane), which it is now necessary to specify. The other interest of the Tuḥfat al-ṭālibīn is that it includes many quotations from Central Asian poets and as such is considered a cultural repertoire.
Based on the examination of three papers from Hyderabad, Rampur and Islamabad, this presentation will aim to answer the following questions : how do we write a grammae of Turkish in Persian during the Mongol period ?What do the many poetic illustrations of the Tuḥfat al-ṭālibīn tell us about the reception of Central Asian culture in India at the end of the eighteenth century? In what way does the treatise of Ḥayāt ‘Alī Dihlawī recall the link of the Mughals with the dynasty of Tamerlane?
Bibliographical orientations:
-Alam (M.). 2015. “Mughal Philology and Rūmī’s Mathnavī”. World Philology, dir. par S. Pollock, B. A. Elman, K. Chang. Cambridge : Harvard University Press. 178-200.
-Guizzo (D.) 2002. The three classics of Persian lexicography of the Mughal era: Farhang-i Ğahāngīrī, Burhān-i Qāṭiʿ and Farhang-i Rašīdī. Venise : Ca’ Foscarine.
-Péri (B.) 2020. “Turki Language and Literature in Late Mughal India as Reflected in a Unique Collection of Texts”. Turkish History and Culture in India. Identity, Art and Transregional Connections, dir. par A. C.S. Peacock & R. P. McClary. Leyde : Brill. 367-387.
-Siddiqi (W.H). 1997.Fihrist Nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī fārsī,Kitābkhāna-yi rażā – rāmpūr, delhi: diamond printers.
-Turan (F.). 2009. “Turkic grammar books written in Mughal India during the 18th and 19th centuries”. Turkic Languages 13. 163-171.
You will find the 2024-2025 program of the monthly research seminar “Societies, Politics and Cultures of the Iranian World” attached, and on the CeRMI website:
11. Cardiff University Jameel Scholarship/ Ysgoloriaeth Jameel Prifysgol Caerdydd
Founded in 2005, the Islam-UK Centre works towards the promotion of better understanding of Islam and the life of Muslims in Britain, through high quality teaching and research. Its activities address issues which are central to the situation of Muslims in contemporary Britain. / Oed Canolfan Islam y DU a sefydlwyd yn 2005 yw gweithio tuag at hyrwyddo gwell deallttwriaeth o Islam a bywyd Mwslimiaid ym Mhrydain drwy gynnig addysgu ac ymchwil o’r radd flaenaf. Mae ei gweithgareddau’n mynd i’r afael a materion sy’n ganolog i sefyllfa Mwslimiaid ym Mhrydain ar hyn o bryd.
The Centre provides unique training and research opportunities. / Mae’r Ganolfan yn cynnig cyfleoedd hyfforddi ac ymchwil unigryw.
One Fully Funded PhD Scholarship for a UK student. Scholarship includes a stipend (circa £19,237 per year for three years) plus £2,500 annually towards research costs. / Un Ysgoloriaeth PhD wedi’i hariannu’n llawn ar gyfer myfyriwr o’r DU. Ar gael ar gyfer dechrau ym mis Ionawr 2025. Mae’r ysgloriaeth yn cynnwys cyflog (tua £19,237 y flwyddyn am dair blynedd) ynghyd a £2,500 bob blwyddyn tuag at gostau ymchwil.
Apply Today!
Closing date for Jameel Scholarship applications 23:59 on 2nd December 2024.
#Cflywynch gais heddiw!
Y dyddiad cau ar gyfer cyflwyno cais ar gyfer Ysgloriaeth Jameel yw 23:59 ar 2 Rhagfyr 2024.
Link to Apply / Ffurflen Gais
https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/cardiff/jameel-scholarship-application-form-phd-uk
12. Workshop “Aesthetic, Rituals, and Narratives in Islamic Mobilisation
St Antony’s College, Oxford, Thursday 24 October, 9am-7pm
Booking required by Tuesday 15 October.
Please email mec@sant.ox.ac.uk to register.
The finalized programme will be shared with all registered participants.
13. Indiana University’s Summer 2025 Language Workshop is now accepting applications for its intensive online Pashto program!
- Learn 1 year of language in 2 months
- Enjoy 18 hours of live instruction per week, plus cultural activities
- Combine the effectiveness of intensive study with the convenience of an online class
- Speed your learning by studying alongside enthusiastic and talented language learners
Funding Opportunities
- Explore available funding options here: https://languageworkshop.iu.edu/funding
Priority Application Deadline
- December 6, 2024
Learn more and apply here: https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/pashto
Questions? Email the Language Workshop at languageworkshop@iu.edu or join virtual office hours.
Contact Information
Kathleen Evans, Director, Indiana University Language Workshop
Contact Email
URL
https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/summer-language-workshop/overview/online/p…
14. Lecture – “Can Pre-Islamic Architecture be Islamic Architecture? The Rock-Cut Tombs at Hegra”, Martin J. Devecka, Columbia University – November 19
Date: November 19th, 6:10 pm to 8:00 pm
Place: Columbia University, 612 Schermerhorn
Can Pre-Islamic Architecture be Islamic Architecture? The Rock-Cut Tombs at Hegra
From an early date, Islamic writers connected the Qur’anic Thamud with Hegra, an abandoned Nabatean-Roman site in the Northern Hijaz now known, by reason of that association, as Mada’in Salih. The site itself thus forms a kind of bridge across the historical rupture separating Islam from Jahiliyya. What exactly happens to such a site when it becomes “Islamic?” This talk explores how the idea of constructing Islam works as a monumentalizing lens that changes the way we look at pre-Islamic architecture by blurring some features even as it makes others stand out in sharp relief. At Hegra, it will be argued, the effect of this reinterpretation produces rupture where it might have been possible to see continuity in a way that turns Nabatean ruins into an infrastructure for producing Islam.
To be able to access the Columbia campus, we kindly ask you to register at this Google form by November 15th if you plan on attending: https://forms.gle/VrnvtubqgZCAaLxKA
15. Workshop – Summer 2025 Arabic Language Study, Indiana University
Indiana University’s Summer 2025 Language Workshop is now accepting applications for its intensive immersion programs in Arabic, Chinese, and Russian!
- Learn 1 year of language in 2 months and earn college credit
- Accelerate your learning with daily 1-on-1 skills training
- Live the language in immersion housing and classes
- Speed your learning by studying alongside enthusiastic and talented language learners
Funding Opportunities
- Explore available funding options here: https://languageworkshop.iu.edu/funding
Priority Application Deadline
- December 6, 2024
Learn more and apply here: https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/overview
Questions? Email the Language Workshop at languageworkshop@iu.edu or join virtual office hours.
Contact Information
Kathleen Evans, Director, Indiana University Language Workshop
Contact Email
URL
https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/summer-language-workshop/overview/immersio…
16. Extended Deadline for IDHN Conference Submission
We are extending the deadline for abstract submission for the upcoming IDHN conference to October 27, 2024. To submit, please send an email to team@idhn.org with a preliminary title, abstract (150-300 words), and your academic affiliation.
Please note that the conference date has not changed; it will continue to be on Thursday, November 21, 2024.
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
17. ONLINE Webinar “Global Islamophobia and the Rise of Populism” by Ivan Kalmar & Audrey Truschke, „Democracy and Ethnonationalism Lecture Series”, Rutgers Law School, 15 October 2024, 12:00 pm EDT
Information and registration:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ThhPNVrQSO2SPM9NIcXkUA#/registration
- October 12, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
- October 11, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Online: ‘What is Shi’ism? Factionalism and Universalism in Islamic Studies’ – O Mir-Kasimov (28.10.24, 5pm UK time)
Register here:
- October 10, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – CfP: Global Shi’ism: Migrations, Diasporas and the Islamic Revival in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’ (Oxford, 3-4 April, 2025)
CfP deadline: 31 October, 2024
- October 09, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Conference and Public Talks: “Law and Society in Saudi Arabia”, Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 8-10 October 2024
The conference, organised by Ulrike Freitag, Nora Derbal, and Dominik Krell, addresses the role of the law in Saudi society both in the past and the present. With this “law and society” approach, the conference seeks to bridge the gap between the study of social, political, and historical phenomena on the one hand, and research on the Saudi legal system on the other hand.
Information and programme: https://www.saudi-law-society.net/
2. HYBRIDE Présentation-débat autour de l’ouvrage “Islam, autoritarisme et sous développe-ment” d’Ahmet T. Kuru, IISMM/IREL/GSRL, Paris, 9 octobre 2024, 18h00 CET
Pourquoi les pays à majorité musulmane affichent-ils des niveaux élevés d’autoritarisme et de faibles niveaux de développement socio-économique par rapport aux moyennes mondiales ? Ahmet T. Kuru critique les explications qui pointent du doigt l’islam comme la cause de cette disparité, puisque les pays à majorité musulmane ont affiché des niveaux de développement philosophique et socio-économique plus élevés que les pays occidentaux entre le 9e et le 12e siècle.
Information : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_nD1tDF3w8&list=PLtoVEQO2iwNtOymVhfS9pMeP5z7 WrYTFz&index=2;
Inscription : https://framaforms.org/presentation-debat-autour-de-louvrage-islam-autoritarisme-et-sous-de-veloppement-dahmet-t-kuru
3. Conference “Historicizing the Muslim Sensorium: Toward a Sensory History of Islam in the Early Modern World”, Utrecht University, 17-18 October 2024
This conference brings together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars to advance the history of the senses in the early modern Islamic world (c. 1500-1900). We will explore how Muslims across different historical, geo-graphical, social, and intellectual contexts experienced sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. What does Islamic sensory history teach us about the “gunpowder empires” of the Ottomans, the Safavids, and the Mughals that conventional history does not?
Information and programme:
https://sensis.wp.hum.uu.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/456/2024/09/Conference_Program_2024.pdf
4. ONLINE Workshop “Critical Conversations on Islam and Asia”, Washington University, 18 October 2024, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm ET
Although Islam originated and remains vibrant in the Middle East, the three largest national populations of Muslims are in Asia, with Indonesia being the largest in the world. This online workshop will explore the contemporary dynamics of Islam in Asia, focusing on Southeast Asia, and its relation to global Islam.
Information, abstracts, and registration:
https://www.eastwestcenter.org/events/critical-conversations-islam-and-asia
5. Colloque international « Définition de l’humain en islam : approches plurielles », Sorbonne, Paris, 24-25 octobre 2024
Ce colloque réunira pendant deux jours douze spécialistes des quatre grandes disciplines rationnelles de l’époque classique : la philosophie péripatéticienne, la théologie du kalām, la mystique et le droit, avec comme objectif de croiser, dans une approche transdisciplinaire, différentes perspectives sur ce sujet.
Information et programme :
https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2024/10/colloque_definition_de_l_humain_programme.pdf
6. “Travellers in Ottoman Lands Seminar Three (TIOL3): Places Forgotten, Places Remembered”, Istanbul, 9-12 April 2025
Topics: 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; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2024.
Information: https://www.travellersinottomanlands.com/call-for-papers
7. Conference “The Ottomans and Diplomacy”, Skilliter Centre for Ottomans Studies, University of Cambridge, 10-12 July 2025
Taking diplomacy in its widest sense including public, cultural, personal, military and economic diplomacy, the conference will explore the Ottoman empire’s relations with the outside world. Topics to be covered will in include, for example, material culture, the construction of diplomatic texts including diplomatic ego documents and diplomatic social interactions.
Deadline for abstracts: 9 December 2024.
Information: https://newn.cam.ac.uk/research/skilliter-centre-ottoman-studies/conferences-and-workshops
8. Two Stipends for Doctoral Students (4 Years) at the “Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies”
We are interested in attracting outstanding doctoral students who will contribute to and write their PhD theses in the framework of our project “The socio-cultural life of sociological concepts: Arab contributions to global theory”, funded by the Einstein Foundation Berlin.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2024.
Information: https://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/announcements/2024_cfa_Einstein_stipends_2024.html
9. Professorship in the Study of Religion, Focus on Contemporary Religious Developments, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (SACS), University of Bern
The successful candidate will have an internationally recognized record in research and teaching. They should have experience in securing external funding, particularly if appointed as an associate or full professor.
For the hiring of an assistant professor an outstanding dissertation and an advanced new research project preparing the habilitation is expected (at least four peer-reviewed journal articles independent of the dissertation). The teaching languages are German and English.
Deadline for applications: 14 October 2024.
Information: https://ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobs/eae237d9-106a-47a1-8ddf-ca66becc3cd9
10. Digital Humanities Research Associate (65-70 %) to Join the Unit “Middle East and Muslim Societies”, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (SACS), University of Bern
Candidates must have at least an MA or a comparable track record in Digital Humanities or Data Science (with proven ability to work with historical Arabic sources), or in Islamic, Arab, and/or Mediterranean Studies (with demonstrated expertise in Digital Humanities).
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2024. Information: https://shorturl.at/CI6Gp
11. Post-doctoral Fellowship (4 Years) for the Project “Global Capitalism and Rurality: Agency, Commodification and Socio-Ecological Transformation of the Middle Eastern Countryside, 1870-1945”, University College Dublin
The Project compares the Middle Eastern tribes of diverse origins (Syria, Iraq, Southern Turkey and Northern Arabia) examining the ‘capitalization’ of their agriculture and the commercialization of their livestock. It examines intertwined processes such as commodification, the scientification of cultivation etc. among the tribal communities of the Middle East.
Deadline for applications: 29 October 2024.
Information: https://my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal_ucdp/apply?id=017715
12. Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World (Postdoctoral Fellowship), NYU Abu Dhabi
We welcome applications from recent PhD graduates (PhD in hand between September 2020 and September 2025) working in all areas of the Humanities related to the study of the Arab world, its rich literature and history, its cultural and artistic heritage, and its manifold connections with other cultures. This includes, among others, Islamic Intellectual History and Culture.
Deadline for applications: 1 November 2024. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/126632
13. Assistant Professor (Tenure-track) in the Field of Postcolonial Literature, University of California
We are especially interested in applicants with expertise in literature from Africa, South Asia, and the Arab world. We seek outstanding candidates with the potential for exceptional research, excellence in teaching, and a clear commitment to enhancing the diversity of the faculty, and majors and minors in English.We wel-come applicants who pursue postcolonial studies via a broad range of methodological frameworks.
Deadline for applications: 1 November 2024. Information: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09851
14. Fellowships for Historical Research on the Islamic World, School for Historical Studies, Princeton University, NJ
The School embraces a historical approach to research throughout the humanistic disciplines, from socioec-onomic developments, political theory, and modern international relations, to the history of art, science, phi-losophy, music, and literature. Accepted Members receive access to the extensive resources of the Institute. The only obligation is to pursue one’s research.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2024. Information:
15. Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Richmond
We seek a teacher-scholar with research and teaching interests in modern Arabic literatures and Arab world cultures. We welcome expertise in at least two of the following areas: Arabic Literature, Cinema, and Culture; Mediterranean and Transcultural Studies; Ethnic and/or Minority studies; Colonialism and Post-Colonialism; Environmental Humanities and Ecocriticism; Arabic Language and Translation Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies. Native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English is required.
Review of applications will commence on 1 October 2024 until position is filled.
Information: https://richmond.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/3326?c=richmond
16. Assistant Professor of Arabic, University of Utah
Candidates must have a Ph.D. in hand by the start date in Arabic Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, Middle/Near Eastern Studies, Second Language Acquisition, Linguistics, or a related field. Demonstrated experience in teaching Arabic as a foreign language at the college level in North America and native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English are required.
Deadline for applications: 1 November 2024.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2024/10/01/assistant-professor-of-arabic24
17. Research Associate, Global Kurdish Initiative for Peace, American University, Washington, DC
Qualification: M.A. in the political sciences or a liberal arts discipline such as Middle Eastern Studies. – Experience in a higher educational setting. – 3-5 years of relevant experience. – Knowledge of Kurds and the Middle East, Kurdish and Arabic language.
Deadline: Until position is filled. Information: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/research-associate-global-kurdish-initiative-for-peace-at-american-university-4036486693/
18. Mediterranean Seminar Prize for the Best Source Edition, Book Translation, or Essay Collection, 2025
The Prize is open to books published from 2022 to 2024 inclusive. The committee is most interested in collections of essay that break new ground conceptually or methodologically, are comparative and/or interdisci-plinary, that emphasize the intercultural/interregional/inter-religious contact, that are “of” rather than merely “in” the Mediterranean, and that are both internally coherent and comprehensive.
Deadline for applications: 31 December 2024.
Information: https://mediterraneanseminar.squarespace.com/book-prize-2025
19. 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
20. Articles sur « Aspects pluriels de l’écriture de soi dans l’adab prémoderne (IIIe/IXe-XIIe/XVIIIe siècles) » pour Revue Annales Islamologiques 61, 2027
Les articles concerneront des textes d’adab au sens large de ce terme (incluant aussi bien les textes histori-ographiques que littéraires), qui comportent une composante autobiographique et/ou qui relèvent de l’ego-document et qui ont été produits en langue arabe dans l’aire culturelle arabo-musulmane, quelle que soit leur nature générique (chroniques historiques, textes religieux et spirituels, récits de voyage, mémoires, journaux intimes, etc.).
Les propositions doivent être envoyées avant le 31 octobre 2024.
Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/104325
21. Articles for the Journal “Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG)”
The ideal article has a historical orientation and is written on a strong philological basis. It deals with pre-modern Muslim societies (up to ca. 1800) and tackles one of the following broader themes: history, religion, culture, law, literature, societal issues. The ZDMG publishes articles in English, German or French.
Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2024. Information: https://www.dmg-web.de/page/zdmg_en
22. 4th North American Conference on Iranian Linguistics
(NACIL 4)
University of Toronto Mississauga
May 23–25, 2025
Call for Papers
Conference Description
Abstracts are invited for 30-minute talks (20 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A) and/or poster presentations on any aspect of Iranian linguistics. We welcome abstracts from all areas of linguistics, including but not limited to morphology, syntax, semantics and their interfaces, phonetics, phonology, language pedagogy, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, historical linguistics and language documentation.
NACIL 4 is honoured to host a special session to celebrate Professor Simin Karimi’s career on the occasion of her recent retirement.
Keynote Speakers
Professor Faruk Akkuş (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Professor Simin Karimi (University of Arizona)
Professor Naomi Nagy (University of Toronto)
Abstract Guidelines
Abstracts should meet the following requirements:
Abstracts, including references and data, must not exceed two A4 pages in length, with 2.5 cm (1 inch) margins on all sides. The font size should not be smaller than 11pt.
- Examples, tables, graphs, etc. must be included into the text of the abstract, and not at the end.
- Abstracts should be anonymized: please do not include your name or affiliation in the abstract.
- Submissions are limited to two per author, with at most one single-authored paper.
- Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format through Oxford Abstracts.
Submission link: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76660/submitter
Abstract submission deadline: 06-Dec-2024, 11:59pm Eastern Time
Notification of Acceptance: Late January 2025
Questions can be directed to: nacil4conference@gmail.com
23. Conference – Reinterpreting History and Memory: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
12-13 October, 2025
SOAS, The University of London
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.
It will examine the possibility of challenging the present through the reinterpretation of history, exploring the enduring and collective impact of recent traumatic memories. The focus will be on art closely linked with activism, both within the region and among the global diaspora, examining the strategies used by artists to critically reimagine both the distant and recent past; a past that no longer exists but continues to haunt the present.
The conference also explores how these artworks challenge and address current affairs in the context of historical narratives. By bringing together academics and professionals from diverse disciplines, the conference will provide an interdisciplinary framework for studying contemporary art, shedding light on the connection between art discourse, politics, and culture in the MENA region today.
Contact Information
conferences@thebritishacademy.ac.uk
Contact Email
URL
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/british-academy-conferences/reinterp…
24. University of Edinburgh lecture
Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land,
by Dr Tamar Novick from Humboldt University, Berlin
Date, time and location: Monday 14 October, 17:15,
in 1.06 — Project Room in 50 George Square.
For zoom access please email Ines.Asceric-Todd@ed.ac.uk.
The talk is followed by a reception.
- October 08, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
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