Archive for November, 2024
Shii News – CfP: Tenth Annual Conference on Shi`i Studies (London, 10.5.25)
For further information:
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/publications/acss/cfp/
- November 14, 2024
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Shii News – Hybrid: ‘Narrative Development of a Shīʿī Hadith and Its Transmitters in the Eighth Century’ (I-Wen Su, Tokyo, 4.12.24, 18.00 JST)
Lecture Title:
‘Who I was his master, ʿAlī is his master’: the Narrative Development of a Shīʿī Hadith and Its Transmitters in the Eighth Century.
Speaker:
Dr. I-Wen Su (Professor in Islamic Studies at Department of Arabic Language and Culture, National Chengchi University; https://arabic.nccu.edu.tw/PageStaffing/Detail?fid=6949&id=2472)
Chair:
Dr. Kazuo Morimoto (Professor in Islamic and Iranian History, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo)
Date and Time:
December 4 (Wed), 2024, at 18:00-19:40 (JST)
Venue:
Conference Room No. 1, The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia 3F, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo (東京大学東洋文化研究所3階、第一会議室), and online via Zoom.
Lecture Abstract:
This lecture addresses a Prophetic tradition, ‘Who I was his master, ʿAlī is his master’ (man kuntu mawlāhu fa-ʿAlī mawlāhu). This hadith is cited by Shīʿī and Sunnī Muslims alike to articulate ʿAlī’s exclusive legitimacy to rule or his privileged standing in the first Muslim community; however, its origins remain understudied. The lecturer will present the results of an analysis of this Prophetic hadith through the isnād-cum-matn method, which not only pinpoint the time of its circulation or creation, but also identify the key transmitters responsible for the circulation of its variants. The sectarian tendencies of the pivotal figures in the dissemination of this hadith as depicted in early Arabic biography also provide valuable insights which can help to navigate the ambiguous sectarian boundaries in early Islam.
How to Participate:
Pre-registration is required for online participants. Please fill in the form at https://tinyurl.com/yphprp2h, by Dec 1, at 24:00 JST.
In-person attendance does not require registration.
Contact Person: Naoki Nishiyama (nishiyama[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
This event is organized by the JSPS Kakenhi Project “ ‘Sunnis’ and ‘Shi’is’: Historical Inquiries into Confessional Identities and Mutual Perceptions” (23H00674) based at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo.
- November 13, 2024
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.HYBRID 15th Conference of the Asian Federation of Middle East Studies Associations (AFMA), Kyoto, Japan, 7-8 December 2024
Information and programme: https://www.james1985.org/uploads/files/AFMA15_2024_Program_1.pdf
2. Sixième édition du Congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans, Strasbourg, 24-27 juin 2025
Les ateliers pourront couvrir un ou plusieurs domaines des sciences humaines et sociales (anthropologie, archéolo-gie et histoire de l’art, droit, économie, géographie, histoire, islamologie et sciences religieuses, linguistique, littéra-ture, philosophie, sociologie, sciences politiques), dans une perspective globale ou régionale, en lien avec l’étude du Moyen-Orient et/ou du Maghreb, des mondes musulmans au sens large ou de l’islam dans le monde.
Les propositions doivent être soumises avant le 8 décembre 2024.
Information: https://momm-strasbourg.sciencesconf.org/?lang=fr
3. Postgraduate Symposium on “Muslims of the UK and Europe”, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 29-30 September 2025
Current Masters and PhD candidates to present their research on issues pertaining to Muslims of the UK and Eu-rope, from any discipline. Topics vary widely, from Sufism to Salafism, from charity to burial rites, religious travel to therapy, Islamophobia, deradicalisation initiatives and more. Accommodation will be provided and economy travel expenses will be reimbursed up to £300.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2025. Information: https://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/call-for-papers/
4. Conference “59th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA)”, Washington, DC, 22-25 November 2025
Deadline for abstracts: 13 February 2025. Information: https://mesana.org/
5. 130 Fully-Funded, Four-Year Scholarships in the Doctoral Programmes in Economics, History and Civilisation, Law, Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute (EUI), San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy
Deadline for applications: 31 January 2025.
Information: https://www.eui.eu/en/services/academic-service/doctoral-programme
6. Online event: ‘Contemporising Islamic Art’ with eL Seed and Dr Zahra Kazani, Monday 18 November, 1pm GMT
You are warmly invited to a special online conversation this coming Monday celebrating UNESCO’s International Day of Islamic Art.
We are delighted to be welcoming French-Tunisian contemporary artist, el Seed, and art historian Dr Zahra Kazani (University of Cambridge) to discuss ‘Contemporising Islamic Art: Arabic Calligraphy Across Time’. The event will take place online via Zoom from 1pm-2pm GMT on Monday 18 November.
The event is free to attend but registration is essential. For further information and registration visit the Alwaleed Cultural Network website here: https://www.alwaleedculturalnetwork.org/en/events/contemporising-islamic-art/
7. We are inviting you to our 11th IDHN Conference on November 21, 2024.
We will hear five exciting presentations:
Rahmi Oruç: Introducing MunazaraGPT v.01
Fateme Najjarzadehgan: A Digital Exploration of Narrations on Women
Covadonga Baratech Soriano: Authorship attribution of a premodern Arabic work through stylo
Jehad Mohammed Oumer: Modeling Hadith Narrations Using Property Graphs
Yıldırım Leman: Decline and Science According to Kâtib Çelebi (1609 – 1657)
In order to attend the conference please register at: https://georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYucu2hrDkqGdf4jpuue6nP2-GEyvv8zdbm
- November 12, 2024
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence
Call for Papers
27 – 28 March 2025
Hochhauser Auditorium, V&A South Kensington, London
This conference is organised in conjunction with the V&A exhibition The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence (9 November 2024 – 5 May 2025). This major exhibition celebrates the extraordinary creative output and internationalist culture of the ‘Golden Age’ of the Mughal Court (c. 1560–1660) during the reigns of its most famous emperors: Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan. Continuing the V&A’s long history of fostering advanced research in the field of South Asian art history, this conference will provide an opportunity to share impactful, innovative and emerging research on Mughal art and design.
Participation in the two-day conference will be both in person at V&A South Kensington and online. Keynote speakers will include Rajeev Kinra, Associate Professor of South Asian history and comparative literature at Northwestern University, and Susan Stronge, Senior Curator in the Asia Department at the V&A and curator of The Great Mughals exhibition.
We welcome proposals from researchers at all stages of their careers, including academics, curators, conservators and scientists, especially those which respond to the Mughal collections of the V&A or place them in their wider context. We particularly welcome proposals from early career scholars. Topics of particular interest include:
• Mughal patronage and collecting
• Mughal workshops and regional production
• The impact of Iran on Mughal art and design
• Hindus at the Mughal court
• The Mughals and Europe
• Mughal architecture and gardens
• Technology, especially relating to Mughal warfare
• Museum practice in displaying, conserving, and interpreting Mughal collections
Conference papers will be 20 minutes each.
Proposals for papers, comprising a 250-word abstract and 150-word biography, should be
sent to greatmughals.conference@vam.ac.uk by Friday 6th December 2024.
Deadline: 6th December 2024
Notification to speakers: 20th December 2022
Please send all enquiries to greatmughals.conference@vam.ac.uk
2. CFP – “The image in Muslim religious contexts”, Congress of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies – deadline: December 8
Dear colleagues,
I am writing to share the CfP for a panel I am organizing at the 6th Congress of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in France, Strasbourg, 24-27 June 2025. I hope you will consider submitting a proposal.
The CfP for the panel is below.
The full congress CfP can be found here: https://momm-strasbourg.sciencesconf.org/
To offer a paper:
- You need to provide your name and institutional affiliation (if any), a title and an abstract (up to 2000 characters) for a 20-minute paper.
- Please upload your paper proposal directly via this link: https://framaforms.org/proposition-de-contribution-individuelle-a-un-atelier-du-6e-congres-du-gis-momm-strasbourg-24-27
- Deadline for submissions: 8 December 2024
Contact Information : benazzouna@unistra.fr
CfP: The image in Muslim religious contexts
The “Bilderverbot“, the ban on images of living creatures in Islam, and its circumventions, have been the subject of constant debate for several centuries. As far as we know, the first traces of such debates, or more accurately accusations, date back to the Council of Nicaea II in 787. The first “Critical Dissertation” devoted to “this question, whether the figures of men and animals are banned in the Alcoran” was published in 1789 (Toderini 1789). There are still many publications on the topic today. These debates themselves have been the subject of historiographical analyses, for example by Christiane Gruber (Gruber 2019) or Finbarr Barry Flood (Flood 2022). The longevity and passionate nature of the discussion can be explained, among other things, by the fact that it is marked by the radical paradigms of incoherence and even contradiction. As Islam is generally considered to be “a fiercely trancendent and iconoclastic doctrine” (Moin 2015), the image is often confined to the limbo of anomaly, from “irregularity” (Toderini 1789) to “implausibility” (Papadopoulo 1976).
The aim of this workshop is to contribute to the debate precisely by reconsidering the supposed fundamental contradiction between the Muslim religion and the representational image, by crossing the testimony of Muslim normative texts and Islamic representational images. While the Qur’ān contains no passage comparable to the second commandment, it is the Ḥadīth, the Traditions of Prophet Muḥammad, and Muslim law that are considered the reference sources on the status of the representational image in Islam. Yet neither of these two corpora has yet been the subject of an in-depth study from this perspective. What might the “isnād-cum-matn” or “matn-cum-isnād” method (Motzki 2005; Natif 2019) contribute to our knowledge of the history of the status of the image in the traditionalist milieu? Similarly, what would a systematic analysis of the legal corpora, from fiqh manuals to collections of fatwās, reveal? And more importantly, how to evaluate the impact of the ulamāʾ on the conception and practice of the image and, more generally, of the visual arts in the Islamic world?
Cross-referencing textual and visual sources is also possible at the level of material culture. In fact, many Islamic works bear both texts and images in dialogue. While the text-image relationship is beginning to be studied in scientific and narrative illustrated manuscripts, this is not yet the case in other forms of material culture, from architecture to art objects. There are many cases where not only a text, but also a religious text such as an excerpt from the Qur’ān, a reference or an invocation to God, the Prophet or another holy figure, is displayed alongside an image. The best-known case is that of the coins predating the reforms of Umayyad caliph ʿAbd al-Malik in 77 H / 696-7, but many other examples can be cited. In this respect, pre-Islamic spolia reused in Muslim monuments deserve particular attention. For example, are there convergences between Byzantine capitals and reliefs incorporated into mosques such as al-Aqṣā or al-Azhar? How do Qurʾānic quotations and iconographic spolia interact in public buildings, from Seljuk Anatolia to Mamluk Egypt? How do Muslim texts and images created ex nihilo fit together in Andalusi and Fatimid textiles, Iranian and Iraqi inlaid metalworks or lustre tiles from Kashan…?
In attempting to address some of these questions, the contributions will take a fresh look at both well-known and lesser-known works, with particular attention to the relationship between religious texts and representational images. The aim is to move beyond the paradigm of anomaly towards an analysis of the image as a language in its own right in Islamic societies.
References cited :
Flood, Finbarr Barry, “Islam and image: Paradoxical histories», in Axel Langer (ed.), In the name of the image. Figurative representation in Islamic and Christian cultures, Berlin, 2022, p. 301-318.
Gruber, Christiane (ed.), The Image debate: Figural representation in Islam and across the world, Londres : Gingko, 2019.
Moin, A. Azfar, 2015, “Sovereign violence: Temple destruction in India and shrine desecration in Iran and Central Asia”, Comparative Studies in Society and History 57/2, pp. 467-496.
Motzki, Harald, 2005, “Dating Muslim Traditions: A survey”, Arabica 52/2, pp. 204-253.
Natif, Mika, 2019, “‘Painters will be punished’ – The politics of figural representation amongst the Umayyads”, in Gruber, Christiane (ed.), The Image debate: Figural representation in Islam and across the world, Londres : Gingko, 2019, pp. 33-45.
Papadopoulo, Alexandre, 1976, L’Islam et l’art musulman, Paris : Editions d’Art Lucien Mazenod.
Toderini, 1789, « Dissertation critique sur cette question, si les figures d’hommes et d’animaux sont défendues dans l’Alcoran », in De la littérature des Turcs, trad. de l’italien par M. l’abbé de Cournand, Paris : Poinçot, vol. 3, pp. 47-78 (le texte original est daté de 1785).
Key words
Art history, image, figurative representation, Islam, Muslim religion, religious space, text-image relationship
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https://momm-strasbourg.sciencesconf.org/
3. Persian cultural heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina
SOAS Centre for Iranian Studies,
5.00pm, Monday 18 November 2024
Dr. Haverić will present the Bosniaks’ Literary Legacy in Persian, highlighting valuable manuscripts of Persian works preserved in libraries in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Her talk will explore the Influence of Persian Classics on the literary heritage of Bosniaks written in Persian, Turkish, and Arabic. Bosnian writers have drawn inspiration from prominent writers and poets of Arab, Turkish, and Persian literature, resulting in a significant body of works in these oriental languages. Her book, “Words of Persian Origin in Bosnian Language,” co-authored with Amela Šehović, contains a comprehensive list of 1,808 words of Persian origin
Registration is necessary.
4. SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies
Book Launch: Zoroastrianism in India and Iran by Alexandra Buhler
6.30pm, Thursday 21 November 2024
This book examines the cultural, religious, and political ties between the Zoroastrian communities of Iran and the Zoroastrian communities of India during the late Qajar and early Pahlavi periods.
A major theme is the increase in philanthropy directed to the Zoroastrians of Iran by the Parsis and the involvement of the British in encouraging Parsi feelings of patriotism towards Iran. Not only were Parsis affected by events taking place in Iran, they also contributed to the broader change in attitudes towards Zoroastrians in that country.
Registration is necessary.
5. SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies
Film screening: Derbent: What Persia Left Behind
7.00pm, Tuesday 26 November 2024
“Derbent: What Persia Left Behind” is a comprehensive documentary that explores the unique history and archaeology of this UNESCO World Heritage Site. The documentary features exclusive footage shot in Derbent just before the Russo-Ukrainian war, along with interviews with renowned scholars who illuminate the rich yet often overlooked history of the fortifications. Funded by the Persian Heritage Foundation and the Soudavar Memorial Foundation, the film also highlights the critical condition of the Middle Persian (Pahlavi) inscriptions found in the region, the northernmost of their kind in the world.
6. School of Arts, SOAS
2025 Yarshater Lectures in Persian Art
16 – 21 January 2025
This four-part series looks at both familiar and overlooked aspects of deluxe Persian manuscript production during the early modern period, roughly the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries.
Individual lecture topics include paintings as frontispieces and finispieces, the presence of page markers, manuscript illuminators and their graphic styles, and the image of the book in illustrated manuscripts. The overall aim is to explore some of the material and artistic features, forms and functions that shaped the making of Persian manuscripts in the past and that contribute to the continuing appeal of this celebrated tradition in the present.
The Yarshater Lectures in Persian Art at SOAS are sponsored by the Persian Heritage Foundation.
7. Inperson only: AKU-ISMC Studying State Muftis: The Case of Egypt,
Lecture by Professor Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen
4 December, 2024
London, 5.30
8. Call for Submissions to Oxford Middle East Review
OMER is currently accepting submissions that reflect on the position of the MENA’s people, civil societies, organisations, and governments, within a broader context of hegemonic and subaltern powers, with a broad temporal theme (though typically the contemporary MENA world, from the mid-1800s onwards).
Papers will be considered for the journal’s two sections: a policy section (shorter pieces up to 2,000 words in length) and a research section (in-depth articles from 7,500-10,000 words).
They are also welcoming interest in individuals who would like to review some of the latest books on the MENA region.
Students can enquire about the book review at omerjournal@gmail.com, and can submit to editors@omerjournal.com.
Further information about the theme and this call are in the attached document.
Deadline for Submissions: January 3, 2025
Full Submission Guidelines: https://omerjournal.com/submit/
To submit, please email: submissions@omerjournal.com
For general queries, please email: editors@omerjournal.com
9. Call for Papers: Muslims of the UK and Europe Postgraduate Symposium
Organised by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge
The Centre of Islamic Studies invites applications from current Masters and PhD candidates to present their research on issues pertaining to Muslims of the UK and Europe, from any discipline. This postgraduate symposium, taking place on 29th/30th September 2025 at the Moller Centre in Cambridge, will be a platform for students to present and exchange current research on any topic in this field in a dynamic forum. Papers should present, analyse or interpret research findings, data or material. Participants are expected to attend all sessions. Accommodation will be provided and economy travel expenses will be reimbursed up to £300.
To apply please submit a 500-word abstract, with curriculum vitae outlining current research interests, to admin@cis.cam.ac.uk by 15 January 2025.
Successful candidates will be notified at the start of March 2025 and invited to submit draft papers of no more than 3000 words by 1 Sept 2025.
Click here to read about the bi-annual ‘Muslims of the UK and Europe’ Postgraduate Symposium.
10. IQP Series of Meetings (15th):
Partners in Sacred History
(The Animals in the Qur’an and hadith and early Islamic history)
Prof. Sarra Tlili, University of Florida
Nov. 13, 2024
11:30 AM – 13:30 PM (UTC)
For Registration and to receive the meeting link, send your name and affiliate to:
11. The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and
Literary History between Iran and India
A Jabbari
Cambridge University Press, 2023
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/making-of-persianate-modernity/A796FA74ABF9B0B6FAE1C81F60D75891
12. ONLINE Conference “58th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA)”, 11-16 November 2024
Information, final programme and registration: https://mesana.org/pdf/MESA2024_Nov4_sm.pdf
13. ONLINE Lecture “Re-Imagining Jerusalem: The Ritual Recreation of Pilgrimage between Syria and Georgia” by Prof. Emma Loosley Leeming, University of Exeter, 15 November 2024, 6:00 pm CET
This lecture will introduce some of the ways that believers recreated the rituals of Jerusalem pilgrimage without leaving their hometowns and villages. It will introduce examples from Syria and Georgia in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and encourage future research in this widely under-studied area of ritual practice.
Information and registration:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vWTAIvvFQPiKXEjgPRFszA#/registration
14. PhD Fellowships in the Arabic, Islamic, and Middle East Studies Program, University of Ghent
PhD candidates are invited for studies on: The history of Egypt, historical Syria, and the Ottoman Empire (focus on state formation, knowledge practices, historical consciousness, etc.). – The anthropology of the Middle East (focus on love, sexuality, materiality, identity, gender and modernity). – The analysis and preservation of source materials relevant to the study of epigraphy, historiography, and documents in various languages.
Deadline for applications: 1 December 2024.
Information: https://www.middleeast.ugent.be/en/research/research-fellowships/
15. Junior and Senior Postdoctoral Fellowships via the Research Foundation Flanders (3 Years) in the Arabic, Islamic, and Middle East Studies Program, University of Ghent
The Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) funds postdoctoral fellowships at junior and senior levels for excep-tional researchers to pursue independent research projects for three years. If you are interested in pursuing one of these fellowships, please contact the professor in the program whose research interests most closely align with the project you would like to pursue.
Deadline for applications: 2 December 2024.
Information: https://www.middleeast.ugent.be/en/research/research-fellowships/
16. Lecturer or Assistant Teaching Professor of Arabic, Pennsylvania State University
Requirements include native or near-native fluency in English and Arabic, a Master’s degree or its equiva-lent in Arabic or a related field (Ph.D. preferred) by the appointment date, and relevant teaching experience. Candidates who have experience with communicative and standards-based methodologies, program-building experience such as supervision or curriculum development, etc.
Deadline for applications: 18 November 2024. Information: https://apptrkr.com/5740511
- November 09, 2024
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- November 06, 2024
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.BRAIS Prize 2024 Winner Annoucement + 2025 Call now open!
The British Association for Islamic Studies is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is:
Dr Raashid S. Goyal (Cornell University) for his thesis entitled ‘War and Law in the First Islamic Polity: Arabness, Emigration, and the Dhimma of God and His Messenger’.
Very many congratulations to Dr Goyal who has kindly provided an abstract of his thesis which you can read here: https://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/brais-prize-2024
We are also excited to announce that the 2025 BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions. The submission deadline is 5pm GMT on Friday 24 January 2025. Full details about the submission process, including all rules and regulations, can be found here: https://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/brais-prise-2025-call-for-submissions
This international prize is awarded annually to one outstanding doctoral thesis. English-language submissions on any aspect of the academic study of Islam and the Muslim world, past and present, including Muslim-minority societies are accepted.
2. Zoom: Dr. Joanna Bocheńska will present, “Between Whisper and Revolution: Kurdish Heritage, Art and Literature”. 6.11.24.
Dr. Bocheńska is an Associate Professor and Director of the Section of Kurdish Studies at the Department of Iranian Studies at Jagiellonian University. Between 2020 to 2024, she was the principal investigator of two research projects entitled Citizens of the World: Modern Kurdish Literature and Heritagisation as a Means for Transforming and Revitalising the Kurdish Language and the Oral Tradition, and Activism and Its Moral and Cultural Foundation: Alternative Citizenship and Women’s Roles in Kurdistan and the Diaspora.
𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: Between Whisper and Revolution: Kurdish Heritage, Art and Literature
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧: 12:00 pm Central /1 pm Eastern, Wednesday, 6 November
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: Zoom, https://zoom.us/j/92336051781?pwd=OL4HZsu8SBexwIg46ezoEmfL4qynGW.1
See also: https://www.zahrainstitute.org/.
3. Postdoctoral Research Associate (Mapping Connections)
University of Exeter
The successful applicant will be part of the “Mapping Connections: China and Contemporary Development in the Middle East” project, funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and led by Professor Adam Hanieh at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS).
Deadline | 7 November 2024
4. Call for Submissions | Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Paper Prize for Early Career Scholars
Prize | British International Studies Association (BISA)
The prize is aimed at supporting CPD’s early career members in the development of peer-reviewed work, while at the same time carving out space in International Studies to engage with the question of empire and coloniality as fundamental to the discipline.
Deadline | 18 November 2024
5. Call for Papers | From Past and Present to Future: Finding a Positive Path between Ideals and Possibilities in Yemen
Workshop | LSE Middle East Centre
What does Yemen’s political, economic and social history and experience, since unification and before, tell us about what is realistic for the coming decade and beyond? This workshop will provide an opportunity to develop answers to this question through exploring topics within four main themes: peace, governance, economy and society.
Deadline | 2 December 2024
6. Inperson: “AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS IN MEDIEVAL ASIA: DEBATES AND CIRCULATIONS ACROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN”
Mahmood Kooria, University of Edinburgh
Silsila NYU Lecture, Wednesday, November 6th, 6:30pm-8:30pm
In person only, Room 222, 20 Cooper Square, NY 10003
Registration for all attendees is essential. Due to current university security restrictions those who have not pre-registered will not be admitted.
In accordance with university regulations, visitors must show a valid government-issued photo ID (children under 18 can provide non-government identification).
Please use the following link to rsvp as an in-person attendee:
https://forms.gle/9gLpFDsTZX8ZhexD7
For full details please visit the Silsila website:
7. Assistant Professor in Global Architecture and/or Urbanism Post 1700 CE
New York University: NYU – NY: Arts and Science (A&S): Art History
Deadline: Nov 29, 2024 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=68101
The Department of Art History and its Urban Design and Architectural Studies program (URDS) at New York University seeks applications for a full-time, tenure-track, Assistant Professor in Global Architecture and/or Urbanism Post 1700 CE.
We hope to attract candidates who can contribute to our program’s interdisciplinary, analytic approach to urban design and architecture and our emphasis on student development. We invite applications from candidates working in any of the following geographical areas: Africa, Australasia, Central and South America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia.
We encourage applications from candidates with enthusiasm and proven success or demonstrated potential for research, teaching, student mentoring, and program development. Candidates should be prepared to teach four courses each academic year: three undergraduate courses in the Department of Art History, consisting of a mix of core curriculum courses, departmental surveys, advanced courses, and seminars in the candidate’s area(s) of expertise and research; and one graduate course at the Institute of Fine Arts. The candidate will supervise undergraduate independent studies and honors theses, and master’s and doctoral theses.
Candidates must have completed the Ph.D. by September 1, 2025. Successful candidates will demonstrate excellence in scholarship and teaching.
The appointment will begin on September 1, 2025, subject to budgetary and administrative approval.
Full details are available on Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/157032
8. British Institute of Persian Studies Hybrid Event:
‘Examining the origins of Iran’s political and cultural ties with Africa under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’
21 November 2024, 5:45PM UK time
with Robert Steele
BIPS AGM Lecture and Ann Lambton Lecture 2024
This talk explores the development of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s Africa policy in the final three decades of his reign, examining both geopolitical developments in the Middle East that compelled Iran to look to Africa, and the specific Iranian context.
To register for inperson/online:
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/political-ties-with-africa/
9. Please join us in person or online for the symposium “Reinventing Islamic Architecture in the 20th and 21st Centuries,” hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 7-8 November, 2024
The symposium investigates the phenomenon of 20th- and 21st-century architecture making references to premodern Islamic monuments and built environments. The modern and contemporary resurrection or reinvention of “classical” Islamic form can serve diverse functions and contexts. It can proclaim connections to a glorious imperial past; craft new national identities through architectural revivals; recall a nostalgic homeland for diasporic communities; or even incorporate Orientalist tropes to convey luxurious consumption or cosmopolitan sophistication. Within the discipline of Islamic art history, scholars have debated the logical terminus for the field’s timeline, with traditional narratives ending before the rise of European colonialism. Recent studies have expanded the consideration of art and architecture beyond this limited framework, but scholars are only beginning to question how the forms and narratives of pre-colonial Islamic art history inform post-colonial architectural practice.
In this symposium, UW-Madison welcomes 11 scholars from the U.S. and abroad. The talks and papers are drawn from transnational, cross-cultural contexts and feature examples from a wide range of geographies such as the Middle East, North Africa, the Americas, Europe, and South Asia. The topics are wide ranging but are united in exploring how scholarly narratives of pre-colonial Islamic art history have shaped these kinds of projects. In doing so, we seek to offer new insights into the connection between modern/contemporary architecture and the historiography of Islamic art.
Online registration is here: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUuceyorjkrH9C34sdOpVvx_qJI-VBNi1TC#/registration
10. Honoring the great Palestinian Female Commentator:
Nāʾila Hāshim Ṣabrī And her Qurʾanic Exegesis:
Tafsīr al-mubṣir li-nūr al-Qurʾan
Qom, University of Tehran, I.R.Iran
Nov. 27, 2024 – In person and Virtual
For Registration: info@zabanshenasitarikhi.ir
11. Upcoming online course, “Introduction to Early Judeo-Persian: Jewish Letters from Dandan Uiliq to the Cairo Genizah.”This 2-week course will introduce participants to Early Judeo-Persian (EJP), a formative variety of Early New Persian that offers valuable insights into the development of New Persian.
Course Details:
- Dates: December 9 – December 19
- Schedule: Monday to Thursday, with 2-hour sessions each day (including a short break)
- Format: Online, with interactive classes and time for discussion
Course Overview: The course will focus on selected EJP texts, including commercial letters, legal records, and religious arguments, providing a close view into historical development of Persian in its earlier stages, as it was used by Jewish communities in regions from Xinjiang to Egypt. Participants will learn to read the EJP script and orthographic conventions, while exploring the dialectal history of Early New Persian through these unique manuscripts.
For more details or to register, please follow the link: https://ferdowsi.org/introduction-to-early-judeo-persian/
12. Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaineséance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du Monde iranien”, qui se tiendrale jeudi 14 novembre 2024, 17h-19h, en salle 4.15 à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 4e étage).
Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir M. Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi (EPHE-PSL, LEM), pour une conférence intitulée: “Poésie mystique persane et exercices spirituels“.
Résumé:
La poésie mystique de langue persane à l’âge classique (Xe-XVe siècle) se caractérise, on le sait, par l’extrême richesse de ses lexiques symboliques : de l’évocation de l’érotisme et des beautés de la nature à la beuverie, à la débauche et à l’immoralité. Le présent examen ne concerne pas ces technicités qui ont été, depuis longtemps, abondamment étudiées ; il s’attachera plutôt à recouvrer une couche de sens méconnue, cachée sous ces lexiques, qui a rapport avec les pratiques ascétiques et les exercices spirituels. Les allusions éparses dans la littérature mystique en prose ou les fables philosophiques symboliques permettent en effet de découvrir des grilles herméneutiques où « la brise du matin » peut désigner des exercices respiratoires matinaux, où « la rosée » peut évoquer la transpiration de l’ascète, et « les pétales de rose », les joues empourprées. De cette manière, chez le grand Ḥāfeẓ par exemple, une description lyrique de la nature ou la complainte du chagrin d’amour peuvent renvoyer, outre leur sens obvie exprimé dans un sublime langage poétique, à des pratiques mystiques spécifiques et à des expériences intérieures.
Orientations bibliographiques:
– Naṣrallāh Pūrjavādī, Zabān-e ḥāl dar ‘erfān va adabiyyāt-e fārsī, Téhéran, Hermes, 1385 solaire/2006.
– Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, « Chanter la douceur de la prière. De quelques aspects méconnus du vocabulaire technique de la poésie mystique persane », Journal des Savants, Janvier-Juin 2014, p. 121-141.
– Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, « Provocation, amour, liberté intérieure. De quelques aspects spirituels de l’islam iranien », Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques 101.2 (avril-juin 2017), p. 187-200.
Pour rappel, vous retrouverez le programme 2024-2025 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du Monde iranien” sur le site du CeRMI :
13. Jobs: Georgetown University – American Druze Foundation Fellowship
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=68135
University of Arizona – Assistant Professor of Persian and Iranian History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=68133
University of California Los Angeles – Call for Applications: Two Postdoc positions (early modern China and early modern Islamicate world) Ahmanson-Getty Core Program Fellowships, 2025–2026
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=68123
- November 05, 2024
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.BRAIS Prize 2024 Winner Announcement + 2025 Call now open!
The British Association for Islamic Studies is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is:
Dr Raashid S. Goyal (Cornell University) for his thesis entitled ‘War and Law in the First Islamic Polity: Arabness, Emigration, and the Dhimma of God and His Messenger’.
Very many congratulations to Dr Goyal who has kindly provided an abstract of his thesis which you can read here: https://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/brais-prize-2024
We are also excited to announce that the 2025 BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions. The submission deadline is 5pm GMT on Friday 24 January 2025. Full details about the submission process, including all rules and regulations, can be found here: https://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/brais-prise-2025-call-for-submissions
This international prize is awarded annually to one outstanding doctoral thesis. English-language submissions on any aspect of the academic study of Islam and the Muslim world, past and present, including Muslim-minority societies are accepted.
2. Zoom: Dr. Joanna Bocheńska will present, “Between Whisper and Revolution: Kurdish Heritage, Art and Literature”. 6.11.24.
Dr. Bocheńska is an Associate Professor and Director of the Section of Kurdish Studies at the Department of Iranian Studies at Jagiellonian University. Between 2020 to 2024, she was the principal investigator of two research projects entitled Citizens of the World: Modern Kurdish Literature and Heritagisation as a Means for Transforming and Revitalising the Kurdish Language and the Oral Tradition, and Activism and Its Moral and Cultural Foundation: Alternative Citizenship and Women’s Roles in Kurdistan and the Diaspora.
𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: Between Whisper and Revolution: Kurdish Heritage, Art and Literature
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧: 12:00 pm Central /1 pm Eastern, Wednesday, 6 November
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: Zoom, https://zoom.us/j/92336051781?pwd=OL4HZsu8SBexwIg46ezoEmfL4qynGW.1
See also: https://www.zahrainstitute.org/.
3. Postdoctoral Research Associate (Mapping Connections)
University of Exeter
The successful applicant will be part of the “Mapping Connections: China and Contemporary Development in the Middle East” project, funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and led by Professor Adam Hanieh at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS).
Deadline | 7 November 2024
4. Call for Submissions | Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Paper Prize for Early Career Scholars
Prize | British International Studies Association (BISA)
The prize is aimed at supporting CPD’s early career members in the development of peer-reviewed work, while at the same time carving out space in International Studies to engage with the question of empire and coloniality as fundamental to the discipline.
Deadline | 18 November 2024
5. Call for Papers | From Past and Present to Future: Finding a Positive Path between Ideals and Possibilities in Yemen
Workshop | LSE Middle East Centre
What does Yemen’s political, economic and social history and experience, since unification and before, tell us about what is realistic for the coming decade and beyond? This workshop will provide an opportunity to develop answers to this question through exploring topics within four main themes: peace, governance, economy and society.
Deadline | 2 December 2024
6. Inperson: “AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS IN MEDIEVAL ASIA: DEBATES AND CIRCULATIONS ACROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN”
Mahmood Kooria, University of Edinburgh
Silsila NYU Lecture, Wednesday, November 6th, 6:30pm-8:30pm
In person only, Room 222, 20 Cooper Square, NY 10003
Registration for all attendees is essential. Due to current university security restrictions those who have not pre-registered will not be admitted.
In accordance with university regulations, visitors must show a valid government-issued photo ID (children under 18 can provide non-government identification).
Please use the following link to rsvp as an in-person attendee:
https://forms.gle/9gLpFDsTZX8ZhexD7
For full details please visit the Silsila website:
7. Assistant Professor in Global Architecture and/or Urbanism Post 1700 CE
New York University: NYU – NY: Arts and Science (A&S): Art History
Deadline: Nov 29, 2024 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=68101
The Department of Art History and its Urban Design and Architectural Studies program (URDS) at New York University seeks applications for a full-time, tenure-track, Assistant Professor in Global Architecture and/or Urbanism Post 1700 CE.
We hope to attract candidates who can contribute to our program’s interdisciplinary, analytic approach to urban design and architecture and our emphasis on student development. We invite applications from candidates working in any of the following geographical areas: Africa, Australasia, Central and South America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia.
We encourage applications from candidates with enthusiasm and proven success or demonstrated potential for research, teaching, student mentoring, and program development. Candidates should be prepared to teach four courses each academic year: three undergraduate courses in the Department of Art History, consisting of a mix of core curriculum courses, departmental surveys, advanced courses, and seminars in the candidate’s area(s) of expertise and research; and one graduate course at the Institute of Fine Arts. The candidate will supervise undergraduate independent studies and honors theses, and master’s and doctoral theses.
Candidates must have completed the Ph.D. by September 1, 2025. Successful candidates will demonstrate excellence in scholarship and teaching.
The appointment will begin on September 1, 2025, subject to budgetary and administrative approval.
Full details are available on Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/157032
8. British Institute of Persian Studies Hybrid Event:
‘Examining the origins of Iran’s political and cultural ties with Africa under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’
21 November 2024, 5:45PM UK time
with Robert Steele
BIPS AGM Lecture and Ann Lambton Lecture 2024
This talk explores the development of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s Africa policy in the final three decades of his reign, examining both geopolitical developments in the Middle East that compelled Iran to look to Africa, and the specific Iranian context.
To register for inperson/online:
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/political-ties-with-africa/
9. Please join us in person or online for the symposium “Reinventing Islamic Architecture in the 20th and 21st Centuries,” hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 7-8 November, 2024
The symposium investigates the phenomenon of 20th- and 21st-century architecture making references to premodern Islamic monuments and built environments. The modern and contemporary resurrection or reinvention of “classical” Islamic form can serve diverse functions and contexts. It can proclaim connections to a glorious imperial past; craft new national identities through architectural revivals; recall a nostalgic homeland for diasporic communities; or even incorporate Orientalist tropes to convey luxurious consumption or cosmopolitan sophistication. Within the discipline of Islamic art history, scholars have debated the logical terminus for the field’s timeline, with traditional narratives ending before the rise of European colonialism. Recent studies have expanded the consideration of art and architecture beyond this limited framework, but scholars are only beginning to question how the forms and narratives of pre-colonial Islamic art history inform post-colonial architectural practice.
In this symposium, UW-Madison welcomes 11 scholars from the U.S. and abroad. The talks and papers are drawn from transnational, cross-cultural contexts and feature examples from a wide range of geographies such as the Middle East, North Africa, the Americas, Europe, and South Asia. The topics are wide ranging but are united in exploring how scholarly narratives of pre-colonial Islamic art history have shaped these kinds of projects. In doing so, we seek to offer new insights into the connection between modern/contemporary architecture and the historiography of Islamic art.
Online registration is here: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUuceyorjkrH9C34sdOpVvx_qJI-VBNi1TC#/registration
10. HYBRID Lecture “Listening to the Qur’an” by Kristina Nelson (University of California), Centre d’études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (CEDEJ), Cairo, 3 November 2024, 10:30 am CET
Reciters of the Egyptian melodic tradition of recitation, mujawwad, aim to use their artistry to emotionally and spirit-ually engage listeners in the sonic experience, and they draw on elements of the Arabic music system. Islamic scholars are careful to eschew the term “music” in connection with the Qur’anic text precisely because the text itself is unique, sui generis.
Information and registration:
https://cedej-eg.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Music-and-sound-seminar-series-1-Kristina-Nelson.pdf
11. HYBRID Book Introduction “Why Islamists Go Green: Politics, Religion, and the Environment” by Dr Emmanuel Karagiannis, Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, King’s College London, 4 November 2024, 18:00 – 19:30 GMT
The environmental policies and approaches of Islamist groups have received scant scholarly attention. In the era of globalisation, however, more and more Islamists talk about planting trees, protecting water supplies, and reducing pollution. The presentation focuses on the emergence of Islamist environmentalism as a new phenomenon that requires a scientific investigation.
Information and registration: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/why-and-how-islamists-want-to-protect-the-environment
12. HYBRID Lecture “The Emirates’ Efforts to Promote Religious Tolerance, and Moderate Islam Within and Beyond the Middle East” by Dr Ali Al Nuaimi (Chairman of the International Steering Board of Hedayah, Doha), National University of Singapore, 7 November 2024, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm SGT
Information and registration:
https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2024/10/28/s-r-nathan-distinguished-lecture-2024
13. International Conference “Perspectives on the Development of Islamic Law: Philosophy of Law & Islamic Medical Ethics”, Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 8. – 9. November 2024
Information and programme:
14. Conference “Metempsychosis in Islam II: Community Constructions”, Aix-Marseille Université, 14-16 November 2024
Programme and abstracts:
https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2024/10/2024-11-14_16_LIVRET-METEMPSYCOSE-LAUSANNE-AIX-vl.pdf (pages 21-31)
15. University Assistant Predoctoral in Turkish Studies (4 Years), University of Vienna
Qualification: MA or Diploma in Turkish Studies (Ottoman History and Culture) or a related discipline. – Interest in DH and Ottoman Studies, Armeno-Turkish Texts, Cultural Heritage, Environmental History. – Excellent knowledge of Turkish and knowledge of Ottoman Turkish. – Excellent command of written and spoken English (C1).
Deadline for application: 29 November 2024.
Information: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University-assistant-predoctoral/1137021301/
16. Lecturer or Assistant Teaching Professor of Arabic, Pennsylvania State University
Requirements include native or near-native fluency in English and Arabic, a Master’s degree or its equivalent in Arabic or a related field (Ph.D. preferred) by the appointment date, and relevant teaching experience. Candidates who have experience with communicative and standards-based methodologies, program-building experience such as supervision or curriculum development, etc.
Deadline for application: 18 November 2024. Information: https://apptrkr.com/5740511
- November 02, 2024
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