Archive for December 3rd, 2024
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1. IQP2025 Festival on: Qur’an Initiative Every New about Qur’an (2025 June 9-11)
IQP2025 Festival on:
Qur’an Initiative
Every New about Qur’an
(2025 June 9_11)
In 7 Themes:
1. Presenting Qur’anic Academic Paper
2. Delivering TED Qur’anic Lecture
3. Offering Qur’anic Center
4. Introducing Qur’anic Activity
5. Publishing Qur’anic Book/Magazine/Website
6. Showing Qur’anic Art
7. Creating Qur’anic Application
الرابط للتسجیل:
https://form.123formbuilder.com/6515465/conference-registration-form
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أمانة المجلس الدولي المستقل للقرآن الکریم
Ind. Int. Quranic Parliament (IQP)
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/
https://chat.whatsapp.com/IvyUpqDXcKWAtIz2yxLwu6
2. UCL: In person: ‘Politics, historiography, ideology and the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo (13th–16th centuries)’
Neale Lecture 2025: Prof. Jo Van Steenbergen
The Neale Lecture is the annual flagship lecture of the History Department at University College London. This academic year’s lecture will feature Professor Jo Van Steenbergen (Ghent University, Belgium) who will be speaking on ‘The enslavement of Middle Eastern history: Politics, historiography, ideology and the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo (13th–16th centuries)’.
Time and Venue: Wednesday, 5 February at 6.30pm in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre at University College London
For more information and the link to sign up: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/events/2025/feb/neale-lecture-2025-professor-jo-van-steenbergen
3. Digital British Islam Conference: Experiences, Responses and Impact from Britain and Beyond
5th-6th February 2025, Coventry University
Registration now open for the Digital British Islam conference.
Sessions include findings from the ESRC-funded ‘Digital British Islam’ project, panel sessions with UK and international academics, and a roundtable discussion with Nafisa Bakkar (Amaliah) and Hamza Tzortzis.
Register here for free (in-person only event): https://digitalbritishislam.com/conference-registration
Programme available here: https://digitalbritishislam.com/conference-programme/
Any questions, email laura.jones@uwtsd.ac.uk
4. Prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, jeudi 12 décembre 2024, 17h, à l’INALCO
Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du Monde iranien”, qui se tiendra le jeudi 12 décembre 2024, 17h-19h, en salle 4.15 à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 4e étage).
Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir Mme Muriel Debié (École Pratique des Hautes Études-PSL), pour une conférence intitulée: “L’acculturation d’Alexandre le Grand dans l’Antiquité tardive et les débuts de l’Islam“.
Résumé:
Les textes syriaques sur Alexandre le Grand montrent comment la figure du conquérant a été acculturée dans l’Antiquité tardive. Cette séance sera centrée d’une part sur la traduction syriaque du Roman d’Alexandre grec au ve ou vie siècle et d’autre part sur une « Histoire d’Alexandre » produite en syriaque au vie siècle et qui nous est parvenue déclinée en plusieurs textes. On y suivra le voyage ultérieur de ces textes dans les littératures arabes et persanes.
La traduction syriaque du Roman aux mille et une versions en a conservé une des versions les plus anciennes. Elle a notamment préservé des épisodes disparus des versions grecques et latines mais qui se sont frayé un chemin dans les versions arabes et persanes du Roman.
Les textes produits en syriaque au vie siècle ont ajouté une dimension eschatologique et peuvent se définir comme des apocalypses chrétiennes. Le motif de la porte de fer bâtie par Alexandre contre les peuples de Gog et Magog a pris là une nouvelle couleur eschatologique et s’est ensuite glissé dans le Coran aussi bien que dans les versions byzantines et arabo-persanes du Roman.
Orientations bibliographiques:
- Faustina Aerts, Alexander Magnus Arabicus: A Survey of the Alexander Tradition Through Seven Centuries: from Pseudo-Callisthenes to Ṣūrī, Turnhout, Peeters, 2010.
- Muriel Debié, Alexandre le Grand en syriaque. Maître des lieux, des savoirs et des temps, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2024.
- Corinne Jouanno, Naissance et métamorphoses du Roman d’Alexandre. Domaine grec, Paris, CNRS édition, 2002.
- Richard Stoneman, Erickson Kyle (dir.), The Alexander Romance in Persia and the East, Groningen, Barkhuis, 2012
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 :
https://cermi.cnrs.fr/seminaires-de-recherche/societes
5. Conferences “Serious Laughter: Beyond the Jest-Earnest Binary in Classical Arabic-Islamic Texts”, King`s College London, 18-20 June 2025 and Cornell University, New York, 16-17 October 2025
Themes: Humour and comedy in classical Arabic poetry and prose of all periods and genres. – Performativity and humour on and off the page: comedy in the social world, the musical and visual arts, and material culture. – Moments of humour in texts from the various Islamic ‘ulūm. – The role of the humourous in the making of life stories (bio-graphical and historiographical texts
Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2025. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20051481/cfp-serious-laughter-beyond-jest-earnest-binary-classical-arabic
6. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (Focus Middle East Studies) in Pafos, Cyprus, American University of Beirut-Mediterraneo
Applicants should hold a PhD in Politics, Economics, International Relations, International Development Studies, or other closely related fields such as Gender Studies, Middle East Studies, Anthropology or Sociology, for example. Candidates with relevant teaching experience in political economy-related courses, post-doctoral appointments, and a record of grant funding as well as scholarly publications are especially encouraged to apply.
Deadline for applications: 1 January 2025. Information: https://www.aubmed.ac.cy/Documents/PPE-AD-OCT24.pdf
7. Assistant Professor on Socio-legal Aspects of the Contemporary MENA Diasporas, University of Illinois at Chicago
The area of specialization, methodology, and discipline are open. In addition to having a robust research profile, the successful candidate will demonstrate their ability to contribute to the interdisciplinary minor in Global Middle East Studies. We welcome a focus on repression, human rights, international law, militarism, securitization, and state violence. Interest in or commitment to community engagement, broadly defined, is encouraged.
Deadline for applications: 30 December 2024.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2024/11/26/assistant-professor25
8. New “MA Islamic Humanities” and “MA Islamic Humanities and Intensive Language” at SOAS University of London in 2025
This new programme covers the social, cultural and intellectual history, religion, philosophy, literature and arts of the Islamic world, past and present. The programme is also available with a language pathway which enables students to study one of a number of languages, including Arabic (beginners, intermediate or advanced), Persian, Turkish, Chinese, Indonesian and Swahili.
Information: https://www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-course/ma-islamic-humanities
and https://www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-course/ma-islamic-humanities-and-intensive-language
9. Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic, An Introductory Textbook
UCL Press, 2024
Assaf Bar-Moshe
Free download: https://ow.ly/e4jy50UhkY2
10. Hybrid: Arabic Studies Seminars w Timothy Mitchell on The Invention of Famine
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SEMINAR IN ARABIC STUDIES
The Invention of Famine
Thursday, December 5, 2024
7 pm EST at Faculty House
Timothy Mitchell
Abstract:
In the nineteenth century, French orientalists began to refer to a work of the Mamluk scholar al-Maqrizi as “Le traité des famines”. Maqrizi’s text, Ighāthat al-umma bi kashf al-ghumma, written in 1405, was not a treatise on famine but a study of the causes of monetary crisis. In fact, famine may have been virtually unknown in medieval and early modern Egypt. But from the nineteenth century, European scholars, engineers, and colonial administrators began to portray Egypt as a place of great ecological precarity, utterly dependent on the Nile inundation and subject to the occurrence of devastating floods and episodic famines. This view misunderstood how Egyptians used the Nile, a misunderstanding that persists in most scholarship today. But the idea of precarity helped to justify a re-engineering of the Nile valley and the ecocide of the river.
Please note that due to new regulations, non CUID holders will not be allowed into Faculty House without prior notice. If you intend to be present in-person and are not a CUID holder, please RSVP ASAP. If we don’t receive your RSVP we will not be able to let you in. This meeting will also be live streamed here on ZOOM for those guests who can’t make it in person.
11. ‘Melody and Metaphor: Integrating Music and Literature in Persian Language Pedagogy’
Aqsa Ijaz, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, University of Toronto Mississauga
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies in collaboration with the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
Saturday, 7 December 2024, 11:00 a.m. Central Time/12:00 p.m. EST (Canada and US)
Zoom Meeting Registration:
https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdO2qpjMuGNwq5LZUoaVQ1W2expF2RC-0
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
12. Arab World English Journal for Translation and Literary Studies welcomes the submission of papers for the February Issue 2025.
Due to requests from many colleagues, the submission deadline has been extended to December 21. 2024. The issue publication date is February Issue 2025. For more details: https://awej-tls.org/call-for-papers-awej-for-translation-literary-studies-februry-issue-2025/
Please send your submission as an attachment to TLS@awej.org
13. Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg – Postdoctoral position, salary scale according to TV-L 13, 100%, Start date: 1 May 2025
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=68269 \
Application deadline: 31 December 2024
14. Muhammad in the Seminary
Protestant Teaching about Islam in the Nineteenth Century
2024
David D. Grafton
Receive a 20% discount online*:
LLF24
*Valid until 11:59 GMT, 30th June 2025. Discount only applies to the CAP website
https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781479831463/muhammad-in-the-seminary/
- December 03, 2024
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