Archive for February 1st, 2025
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Postmedieval : ‘Beyond Arabic: Multilingual poetics in premodern Islamic worlds’
Volume 15, Issue 3, September 2024
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/41280/volumes-issues/latest-issue
2. The 1924 Cairo Edition of the Quran: Text, History, and Perspectives / Le Coran du Caire, 1924 : texte, histoires et perspectives / مصحف الملك فؤاد ١٩٢٤م. النصّ والتأريخ والتحدّيات (MIDEO Special Issue)
MIDEO 39 (2024). This special issue, edited by Asma Helali (Lille), focuses on The 1924 Cairo Edition of the Quran: Text, History, and Perspectives / Le Coran du Caire, 1924 : texte, histoires et perspectives / مصحف الملك فؤاد ١٩٢٤م. النصّ والتأريخ والتحدّيات. All papers are freely available online on OpenEdition Journals.
3. Tawātur in Islamic Thought
Transmission, Certitude and Orthodoxy
Suheil Laher
EUP, 2024
4. Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity (Open Access),
Eds., Hannah-Lena Hagemann & Alasdair C. Grant.
EUP, 2024
5. Empires in Friction, Egypt in the Sixteenth Century
N Hanna
Syracuse Univ Press, 2025
https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/6632/empires-in-friction/
6. ‘Persian Lithographic Seminar- Sani‘ ol-Molk’s The Thousand and One Nights: A Study of Image Content and Visual Adaptation’
Prof. Elham Etemadi
Arkin University of Creative Arts and Design
Thursday, 6 February 2025, 12:00 p.m. EST
Zoom Registration Link:
https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkf-6srDwrEty7aBW5UGhhlXXUl2xYssvr
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
7. Middle East Librarians’ Association
8. UChicago’s Academic and Professional Reading Institute for Academic Persian online seminar
https://academicreading.uchicago.edu/
University of Chicago’s newly launched APRI, i.e. Academic and Professional Reading Institute’s seminars have been specifically designed to teach the skills needed to read scholarly resources, in just a few weeks online.
Participants with limited or no knowledge of a language can take Foundational Reading seminars to prepare themselves for Reading for Research seminars.
Seminar participants will be able to:
- Build on foundational knowledge of a given language
- Become successful readers of research by working intensively with academic texts in their own disciplines
- Analytically read texts and synthesize their key points, arguments, and evidence, then utilize this information in their own work
- Become familiar with journals and other key resources in their field
Registration is now open for summer 2025 here:
https://academicreading.uchicago.edu/apply/
9. February 5, 12:00-1:00 pm
Near Eastern Studies, Digital Scholarship @IAS and Beth Mardutho virtual event:
Simtho Unveiled: Launch of the World’s Most Comprehensive Syriac Corpus.
Join us for the official launch of the next version Simtho, the most comprehensive digital corpus of Syriac texts ever assembled. This landmark release represents over five years of dedicated work, from its initial beta version of 6 million words to its current size of over 25 million words. Leveraging cutting-edge OCR technology, artificial intelligence, and the meticulous efforts of the MelthoLab, this first formal release offers unprecedented access to Syriac literary heritage.
Attendees will learn how Simtho’s vast collection of Syriac texts—spanning printed books and manuscripts—has been curated, corrected, and expanded. Discover how natural language processing (NLP) advances have enabled part-of-speech tagging and integration with the Sedra lexical resources, enhancing the corpus’s functionality for scholars, students, and linguists alike. This session will also highlight the scholarly, educational, and technological significance of Simtho for the fields of Syriac studies, linguistics, and digital humanities.
Join us to celebrate this major achievement and explore the future possibilities it unlocks for research and education. Don’t miss this opportunity to witness the unveiling of a transformative resource for Syriac studies.
Registration is required: https://bit.ly/SimthoUnveiled.
10. ONLINE Lecture “Establishing Authenticity: Language, Style, and Theorizing the Qurʾānic Miracle” by Prof. Rachel Friedman (Arabic & Muslim Cultures, U. Calgary), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 7 February 2025, 1:30 pm CT
The Qurʾān being the direct word of God was crucial to its status as an authoritative source of knowledge. Indeed, the status of the Qurʾān as the first source of Islamic law and theology meant that a lot rested on its authenticity. This talk examines this under-studied link between the idea of Qurʾānic authority and the linguistic ‘proof’ of its divine source.
Information and registration: https://african.wisc.edu/event/friedman/
11. Workshop “Histories of Death and Disease in Anatolia”, Koç University, Istanbul, 12-13 June 2025
Themes: • How do we approach questions about death and disease in different disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and health sciences? • How is the study of death and disease related to each other? • Death and disease in spatial and material context. • What are the different types of sources that can help us explore death and disease in Anatolia’s longue-durée history? Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2025. Information: https://sites.rutgers.edu/shifa-ana/695-2/
12. Conference “Libraries of the Ottoman World”, Trinity College Dublin, 6-8 November 2025
Themes:• The organisation, growth, and transformation of libraries across the Ottoman empire. • Libraries as instruments of imperial, political, and cultural authority or identity. • Libraries as social environments: salon culture, intellectual activity, self-projection. • The impact of political transition on personal libraries and their owners . • Case studies of particular collections, their patrons, and their afterlives. • Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2025. Information:
https://www.saw-leipzig.de/de/projekte/bibliotheca-arabica/news/cfp-libraries-of-the-ottoman-world
13. Two University Assistants (Predoctoral, 50%) in Turkish/Ottoman Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich
Required are: • M.A in Turkish / Ottoman Studies or a closely related field. • Very good knowledge of German and/or English. • Relevant university experience is preferred. We welcome: • Research interests and previous experience in research on Ottoman history. • Commitment and ability to work in a team. • Motivation for further academic qualification
Deadline for applications: 28 February 2025.
Information: https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/9672cb9644b171649ccd64cffc29b82e4139508e0?ref=homepage
14. Three Research Associates (3-5 Years) in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Orient Institut Beirut (OIB)
Requirements: • PhD in a humanities or social science discipline with specialisation in Arabic Studies, Islamic Studies or MENA Studies. • Excellent knowledge of Arabic, English and/or German and research experience with Arabic-language sources. • Outstanding publications (German, Arabic or English) in scientific journals and a monograph.
Deadline for applications: 1 April 2025. Information: https://www.orient-institut.org/fileadmin/user_upload/OI_Beirut/20252801-Ausschreibung_WiMi_HUmSoc_2025_de_en_4_.pdf
15. Chapters for Edited Volume on “Cultures of Good Legislation / Good Administration (Focus Middle East)”, Yale University
Welcome are both traditional and postcolonial perspectives. We in particular seek for papers that inquire how colonial legal or administrative concepts, institutions or practices embedded in the legislative or administrative frameworks of former colonies create challenges nowadays due to the cultural differences of the colliding legislative or administrative cultures, or how they create advantages.
Deadline for abstracts: 22 February 2025. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20056923/cfp-edited-volume-yale-whc-working-group-cultures-good-legislation
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