Archive for September 12th, 2026
Shii News – Academic Items
1. Intellect is pleased to present Performing Islam Volume 14
For more information about the journal and issue click here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/performing-islam
Aims & Scope
Performing Islam is the first peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal about Islam and performance and their related aesthetics. The journal covers dance, ritual, theatre, performing arts, visual arts and cultures, and popular entertainment in Islam-influenced societies and their diasporas.
This title is indexed with Scopus.
Volume 14
Articles
Unravelling gems: Prophetic proximity in poetic performance
KAMAL SALHI, AROOJ EHSAN AND AFNAN HAFIZ
Commentary as performativity: Mimesis, embodiment and scholarly authority in the Islamic tradition
EBRAHIM MOOSA
2. Now Enrolling for Fall 2026
Silk Road Academy of Eastern Languages and Cultures
School-Library-Museum
Building on the brilliant experience of “Ghand-e Parsi: The Academy of Persian Language and Persianate Culture” (link) and “Lisan-ı Türki: The Academy of Turkish Language and Turkic Culture,” (link) we continue our journey under our new brand, Silk Road Academy. Unlocking the rich literary, philosophical, and historical heritage of Eastern languages that once spanned from the Balkans to Bengal, our programs combine academic rigor with cultural immersion—empowering beginners and advanced researchers alike to master both classical texts and modern spoken communication.
All courses begin the first week of October 2026 and are conducted in live online seminar formats. Registered participants will receive full access to recorded session videos and all course materials and can use the courses’ materials offline.
If you have any questions about the courses, please feel free to reach out to admin@silkroadacademy.info
3. The International Society for the History of the Map and the Newberry Library’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography invite participants for the inaugural Map History Writing Workshop. Meant for graduate students, early career scholars, and scholars writing about map history for the first time, this workshop will bring together a cohort of people working on articles or book chapters about map history. The workshop is designed to help refine scholarship in the field of the history of maps and mapping while also building a community of rising scholars in the field.
Structure:
The workshop will meet on Zoom up to 6 times for 1.5-2 hours each over the course of the first half of 2027, depending on the number of participants. Each meeting will focus on the precirculated writing of one participant. For each meeting, the organizers in consultation with the presenter will recruit 2-3 experts in the field as respondents. Along with these experts, the other participants will then discuss the presenter’s writing with attention both to content and argumentation.
Participants in the workshop should be prepared to:
- Attend all meetings of the workshop
- Read each paper before each meeting
- Circulate a draft of an article or chapter (8,000-12,000 words) in advance of their assigned meeting
- Be or become a member of ISHMap before the start of the workshop
Required materials for application:
- CV
- 300-500 abstract of the article or book chapter
- Commitment to attending meetings
- Commitment to having writing prepared to pre-circulate at least 2 weeks in advance
To apply for the workshop, please fill out this form by 31 October 2026. Please address any questions to ishmap.society@gmail.com
Contact Information
International Society for the History of the Map
Contact Email
URL
4. Online Resource – The CallFront Database of Calligraphic Works in Arabic Script – Now Available
After several years of research, development, and international collaboration, the CallFront team is pleased to announce the launch of the project’s website: https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/page/welcome
This website is intended for researchers, students, heritage professionals, and, more broadly, anyone interested in the history of calligraphy in Arabic script and it brings together a previously unpublished digital corpus dedicated to writings in Arabic script produced in the border regions of the Islamic world, from Spain to China. The corpus offers an original approach to these graphic traditions, based on a methodology developed by the project’s scientific consortium. Each entry combines a description of the artifact with a detailed analysis of the calligraphy based on the CallFront ontology, which is also available as open access.
The platform allows users to explore the data through various categories—regions, media, objects, monuments, manuscripts, graphic styles, interactive maps, or multi-criteria search. It thus offers a new tool for studying calligraphic traditions that are often little known and sometimes previously unpublished, while facilitating comparisons across regions, periods, and media.
Beyond the database, the website now serves as a platform for disseminating CallFront’s scholarly activities. It will feature consortium news, publications, audiovisual resources, and information on upcoming events and projects.
Developed as part of the ANR project “Calligraphy in Arabic Script at the Frontiers of the Islamicate World (CallFront) ” (ANR-22-CE54-0015) directed by Eloïse Brac de la Perrière (Sorbonne Université, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris) in collaboration with Maxime Durocher (Sorbonne Université), the website is hosted by the INHA and the project was also supported by Sorbonne Université, UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée, Barakat Trust, Observatoire des Patrimoines de l’Alliance Sorbonne Université and the Foundation Max van Berchem.
Access to the site: https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/page/welcome
Contact Information
Maxime Durocher, Lecturer in Islamic Art and Archaeology, Sorbonne Université
Contact Email
maxime.durocher@sorbonne-universite.fr
URL
https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/page/welcome
5. Hybrid Lecture – “The Shah Tahmasp Album from the Istanbul University Library,” Lâle Uluç
September 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm BST
About the Talk
“Shāh Ṭahmāsp Album” is a set of illustrated calligraphic works dating from the mid-14th to the mid-16th centuries compiled from various sources during the reign of the Safavid ruler Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524-1576). It was conveyed to the Ottoman State during the 16th century and preserved in Ottoman palaces until it was placed in the Library of Istanbul University at the beginning of the 20th century. It is commonly believed that the album was among the diplomatic gifts sent by Shah Tahmasp to Sultan Murad III (r. 1574-1595). The texts written in Persian, Arabic or Chagatai Turkish are related to various fields of knowledge. They include poetry, samples of calligraphy, model texts, and continuous works displayed in several folios. The album had drawn specialists’ interest especially for its miniatures, some of which were taken from illustrated copies of well-known texts existing at the time. The present book, authored by Lâle Uluç and Bora Keskiner, focuses essentially on calligraphy which contributes to understanding the purpose and significance of its compilation. Based on comparisons with other calligraphic works from the same centuries located in Istanbul libraries, it examines the scripts, compositions, and provenance of the texts, traces the influences of eminent calligraphers and artistic characteristics of the Safavid period, and in the process, supplies a lot of information to the researchers concerned.
To join online, please register here.
URL
https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/the-shah-tahmasp-album-from-the-…
6. EUP: special journal issue of Afghanistan (Open Access)
Explore an open access special issue of Afghanistan
Why did Afghanistan’s government collapse in 2021, with the Taliban seizing power? Bringing together international and local perspectives, it explores the failures of the US-led intervention and Afghan political leadership, the problems of centralised government and the role of local approaches to governance.
Visit the special issue homepage ( https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fddlnk.net%2Fc%2FAQjSfRC34bgHGPmorJQFILnK1K8BKLHU_UJ0VKm21-L4BdlnF9hhMw1IhikRNH3xdtN9624IaONyPA&data=05%7C02%7C%7Cfa3c83a052664b6e9e6708df0f094721%7C2e9f06b016694589878910a06934dc61%7C0%7C0%7C639246204648189565%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=HB3OFZpl%2FaqQjtTeFio4RSTCYsElhQ8nibubQTza1jQ%3D&reserved=0)
7. “The Birth of the Muslim Plague Martyr: A Story from Late Antiquity” inStudies in Late Antiquity (Open Access). Article is: https://online.ucpress.edu/SLA/article/10/3/219/219194/The-Birth-of-the-Muslim-Plague-MartyrA-Story-from
Abstract: This article attempts to explain why the Muslims of the first two hijri centuries came to view as martyrs those who died of a mysterious illness that they called the Stabber (al-ṭāʿūn). It finds the answer to that question at the intersection of the unique social pressures attendant on the Arab conquests, the presence of endemic Yersinia pestis in Greater Syria, the prior inheritance of Jewish and Christian ideas about the meaning of disease, and the distinctive view of salvation history found in the Qurʾan.
Early Muslims simultaneously affirmed the ancient Jewish and Christian theory of epidemic disease as divine punishment and gave it a separate meaning for their own community, as a martyrdom and a mercy, which set the conquering minority of Muhajirun apart in death as well as in life. In illuminating this process, the article writes a new cultural history of epidemic disease in the late antique world and revisits some of our fundamental assumptions about retrospective diagnosis and the discourse of disease in premodern culture. Its findings should be relevant to scholars of Christianity and Islam, to Syriacists, scholars of premodern disease, and to anyone invested in the current conversation about Yersinia pestis, epidemic disease, and environmental history in Late Antiquity.
8. Two new book reviews published in MELA Notes, both engaging with modern Persian literature and intellectual history.
The first is my review of A Scholar for Our Times: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Shahrokh Meskoob, edited by Abbas Milani and C. Ryan Perkins. The volume brings together contributions on Meskoob’s life, writings, cultural identity, exile, and intellectual legacy. My review pays particular attention to Farokhfal’s discussion of yād- memory and remembrance-and his understanding of language as a space in which cultural memory survives. I read this alongside Meskoob’s reflections on Iranian cultural identity and the ruptures of exile: how literature, language, and archives allow cultural memory to persist across displacement and historical breaks.
https://www.mela.us/2026/09/11/scholar-for-our-times-book-review/
The second, reviewed by Nader Nasiri, is Shahriar Khosravi’s An Approach to Contemporary Persian Poetry 1906–2013. Khosravi offers an innovative way of mapping modern Persian poetry through ideas and poetic currents rather than primarily through individual poets. His “Triple-P” framework-the Poetic, Political, and Philosophical-provides a conceptual approach to understanding the transformations of Persian poetry from Nima Yushij onward.
https://www.mela.us/2026/09/11/approach-contemporary-persian-poetry-book-review/
9. 2–10-Week Intensive Persian Language Winter School in Yerevan
ASPIRANTUM is pleased to announce its 2026–2027 Persian Language Winter School in Yerevan, Armenia, running from November 29, 2026 to February 5, 2027.
Participants can choose a program lasting anywhere from 2 to 10 weeks, depending on their schedule and study goals.
The program offers 20 hours of intensive Persian language instruction per week in small groups, together with cultural activities and excursions in Armenia.
Full information about dates, tuition fees, program structure, and the application process is available here:
https://aspirantum.com/courses/persian-language-winter-school
Best regards,
Khachik Gevorgyan
Director
ASPIRANTUM – Armenian School of Languages and Cultures
10. Call for Applications: Teaching & Organizing Assistant (Internship)
The ISJ Writing Program is seeking a motivated Teaching and Organizing Assistant to run a dedicated parallel class in future rounds of the program. This internship offers a valuable opportunity to support junior scholars and graduate students specializing in Iranian studies as they develop high-quality academic work and navigate the publication process.
Key Responsibilities:
- Class Coordination
- Session Support
- Participant Guidance
Qualifications:
- Graduate students or junior scholars specializing in Iranian studies or related humanities fields.
- Strong organizational and communication skills.
- Familiarity with academic publishing conventions and the needs of researchers in the region.
Compensation & Details:
Stipend: A $1,000 stipend is offered by the Association for Iranian Studies for this role.
Format: Virtual / Online.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should submit the following application materials:
- Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Cover Letter (maximum 1,000 words) outlining your background, teaching philosophy, and specifically addressing how your experiences make you a good candidate for this particular workshop.
Application Deadline: September 20, 2026
For inquiries or to submit your application materials, please contact the program directors at:
Kind regards,
Iranian Studies Journal
11. CSMBR Upcoming Lecture: Beyond Contagion
Beyond Contagion
Rethinking the History of Leprosy in the Medieval Mediterranean
Anna Gili
22 September 2026 – 5 PM (CET)
Given the variety of its pathological manifestations, leprosy was difficult for physicians in the past to recognise. They attempted to provide different pathological descriptions, distinct aetiologies, and varied clinical portraits to grasp its nature. Even the proposed treatments, although often influenced by the Galenic discovery of theriac, show considerable variation.
This talk explores some of the texts composed in the medieval Arabic, Latin, and Greek worlds that sought to capture this multifaceted pathology, with the aim of providing a commentary that goes beyond the narrow focus on contagion typical of scholarship on the subject.
Drawing on my recent book Leprosy in the Mediterranean Medical Literature (De Gruyter, 2025), I examine these texts through the combined lenses of philology and the history of medicine to reconstruct a history of leprosy that is, at the same time, a history of authors, texts, translations, and cultural exchanges.
At the centre of the talk will be al-Majūsī’s Kitāb al-Malakī, a work that both draws upon and goes beyond antique and late antique doctrines on the nature and treatment of the disease. This text will be placed in dialogue with earlier Arabic works such as Sarābiyūn’s Compendium, al-Ṭabarī’s al-Muʿālajāt al-Buqrāṭiyya, and al-Zahrāwī’s Kitāb al-Taṣrīf.
I will then turn to the Latin and Greek translations of the Kitāb al-Malakī to examine how the Arabic author’s biologically grounded, non-moralising approach to the disease was conveyed by its translators.
To register for this event, please click here.
Kindest regards,
Andreas Hylla
Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) – Assistant Coordinator
Domus Comeliana, Via Cardinale Maffi 48, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Tel.: +39.02.006.20.51 – Mobile: +39.333.13.12.203
Email: ah@csmbr.fondazionecomel.org
12. CFP for ACLA 2027 Seminar on Middle Eastern Modernisms
I am organizing an in-person seminar titled “Uneven Modernities and the Middle East ” for ACLA 2027. See below for the full proposal.
Please consider submitting an abstract by September 22, 2026: https://www.acla.org/seminar/0264089a-bcda-4b56-8bfe-9f2f6b266941
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me at zahram2@illinois.edu.
Warmly,
Zahra Meshkani
PhD Candidate
Program in Comparative and World Literature
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Challenging the persistent tendency to read Middle Eastern modernity as belated, derivative, or reactive to European models, we seek to foreground the region as a site where the modern was actively negotiated, reinterpreted, and reinvented. From the Ottoman Tanzimat and the Arab Nahda to the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, writers, reformers, jurists, translators, and artists engaged with modernity through innovation as much as imitation, navigating rapid political, legal, religious, and linguistic transformation.
The seminar aims to stimulate comparative inquiry into the asymmetries and convergences between Middle Eastern and Western experiences of the modern, debating issues such as: the politics of translation and the circulation of ideas, books, and periodicals across the Mediterranean and beyond; contested relations among secularism, religion, and tradition; competing philosophies of time and the trope of “catching up”; the role of the state, constitutionalism, and reform; and the reshaping of gender, the public sphere, and selfhood.
I invite proposals that examine modernity in the Middle East from a comparative and transregional perspective across literature, intellectual history, law, music, medicine, and beyond and that interrogate Eurocentric narratives by treating Middle Eastern and Western modernities as mutually constitutive. For any questions, please reach out to zahram2@illinois.edu.
13. A new issue of Arabic Sciences and Philosophy (ASP) has published with Liverpool University Press. An international journal on the Arabic sciences,
If you would like to read content from Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, you can recommend a subscription to your librarian using our online form and gain access via your institution, or subscribe as an individual for personal access.
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Volume 36. Issue 2.
Table of contents
THEMATIC FILES: Savoirs scientifiques en Méditerranée: Scientific knowledge in the Mediterranean: A tribute to Pascal Crozet
SAVOIRS SCIENTIFIQUES EN MÉDITERRANÉE: INTRODUCTION
ROSHDI RASHED
AL-SIǦZĪ, POURQUOI ?: GÉOMÉTRIES AU Xe SIÈCLE
ROSHDI RASHED
RÉFLEXIONS SUR LE RÔLE DU MOUVEMENT EN GÉOMÉTRIE: LE CAS PROCLUS
DAVID RABOUIN
À PROPOS DU CALCUL AÉRIEN: ABŪ BAKR AL-KARAǦĪ, KAMĀL AL-DĪN AL-FĀRISĪ ET QUELQUES AUTRES
PASCAL CROZET
ALGORITHMS, PROOFS AND COUNTING RESULTS IN AL-FĀRISĪ’S MULTIPLICATION
LEÏLA HAMOUDA
VARIA
UNE INFLUENCE PROBABLE DE QUṬB AL-DĪN AL-ŠĪRĀZĪ SUR AL-FĀRISĪ ET LA RÉDACTION DU TANQĪḤ AL-MANĀẒIR
DOMINIQUE RAYNAUD
14. Review of Global Qur’anic Studies of the Year (RGQ3rd) Sponsored by Ind. Int. Qur’anic Parliament
Wednesday, Sept. 16 2026 (10-12 Tehran Time)
10-11 AM : Western Exegesis of Holy Qur’an (No.1: Fātiḥa: 1-7) (This is the first volume of the continuous project from the first to the end of Qur’an focusing on the western Qur’anic scholars)
11-12 : World Qur’anic Arts and Museums – Case study: Qur’anic Botanic Garden (QBG)- Dr. Zenia Henriksen, University of Southern Denmark
For Registration:
https://event.fourwaves.com/iqp2026/registration
https://event.fourwaves.com/iqp2026
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/
15. ONLINE Webinar: Authority in Attire: The Politics of Moral Order in Iran
with Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS), 29 September, 2026, 5:00 pm UK Time
This presentation considers the continuing controversies around state-sanctioned unveiling and reveiling in Iran. I will focus on how clothing became a way to exert authority and define identity. Fashion became a revealing political statement because of its public visibility and because the Iranian state had relied on attire to promote a culture of urbanity and sociability. I analyse the prominence of clothing as public expressions of state authority, religious power, social order, and moral purity. This essay departs from previous studies of the unveiling/veiling movement by expanding the analytical framework beyond ideology and assessing such directives as contests over social control and everyday life. In this way, both veiling and unveiling, at different moments, came to function as registers of ethically superior citizenship, each casting the other as its antithesis and transforming bodies into oppositional sites of moral order
Information and registration:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5317890304868/WN_eVnHyyUwQU6aeC4hTwp4Qg#/registration
16. Forthcoming Book
Title: An American Educator in Iran: The Life and Times of Samuel Martin Jordan.
By: Houchang Chehabi
MORE:
https://www.mazdapublishers.com/book/an-american-educator-in-iran
17. HYBRID Lecture “The Impish Revolutionary: Mischief, Play, and Counter-Sovereignty in Iran” by Alireza Doostdar (University of Chicago), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, 24 September 2026, 17:00 – 18:30 CET
Can revolutionary energy be understood as a form of mischievous play? This lecture takes up shaytanat – deviltry, roguishness, impish mischief – as an overlooked idiom of Iranian revolutionary life, one that runs alongside the more familiar registers of heroic piety and martyrdom. I ultimately suggest that the revolutionary state is not only one that devours its children but one that teaches them to revolt against it.
Information: https://tinyurl.com/2nwdxc37. Registration: https://tinyurl.com/mu6642r8
18. HYBRIDE Séance « La question kurde à l’horizon des années 2030 ? » avec Hamit Bozarslan (Directeur d’études à l’EHESS), Institut français du Proche-Orient, Erbil, 24 septembre 2026, 15h30 CET
Information et inscription : https://tinyurl.com/23wrvn3n
19. 6th Biennial University of Michigan International Conference on Arabic Applied Linguistics, University of Michigan, 31 October – 1 November 2026
The conference is an open forum for scholars interested in exploring empirically topics and issues in Arabic applied linguistics. The topics of the conference cover three main strands: – I. Topics which deal with Arabic second language acquisition (SLA). – II. Topics which deal with the theory and practice of Arabic second/foreign language teaching. – III. Topics which deal with applied research related to Ara-bic as an L1.
Programme: https://tinyurl.com/3ummjrpb. Registration: https://tinyurl.com/4zjjnxuv
20. Workshop “Family in History, History in the Family: Historical Approaches to Family, House-
hold, Kinship, and Generations (Focus Turkey)”, Istanbul University, 20-21 November 2026
While dynasties, political elites, and notable families have received substantial attention, the families of religious scholars and intellectuals, merchants and artisans, migrants, non-elite households, and fami-lies in the Republican period remain comparatively understudied. The workshop approaches the family not simply as a line of descent or a collection of individual biographies, but as a unit of historical anal-ysis. With particular interest in Ottoman and Turkish history, it also welcomes original, source-based research on other periods and geographical contexts.
Deadline for abstracts: 28 September 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/2mukwbkp
21. ONLINE Seminar “Counter-Futures: Dystopia and the World-Building of Arab Fictions”,
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), 15-16 May 2027
This seminar has the dual purpose of exploring the affordances of ‘dystopia’ as a sub-genre of science fiction for writing from the Arab world, and of testing the potency of the term ‘counter-futures’ as a way to identify and explore the political valences of such writing. We are interested in any scholarship on Arab science fiction, in particular on dystopian writing, and in approaches which insist on subjecting the literary-theoretical categories of science fiction and dystopia to historicising critiques.
Deadline for abstracts: 22 September 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/483r7zr5
22. Symposium “Dutch Levantines in the Ottoman World”, Levantine Heritage Foundation, Uni-versity of Amsterdam, 11-13 June 2027
This conference will emphasize the theme of the Dutch in the Levant as a vital force in the creation of a Levantine world, with complex socio-economic networks giving rise to social, cultural, political, and material exchanges with resonances lasting till today.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/3dwe3kcd
23. POSTE DE PROFESSEURE, PROFESSEUR
LES ISLAMS : SOURCES, HISTOIRE ET PRÉSENCE DANS LE MONDE
CONTEMPORAIN
Université du Québec, Montréal
Exigences: Doctorat en sciences des religions ou dans une discipline connexe. – Expérience profes-sionnelle pertinente d’au moins 3 ans, incluant les activités de recherche doctorales. – Connaissance approfondie et critique de l’islam et de ses contenus fondamentaux. – Connaissance approfondie du corpus fondateur de l’islam. – Dossier de recherche et de publications solide. – Maîtrise de la langue française, tant à l’oral qu’à l’écrit*
Limite : 23 octobre 2026. Information : https://tinyurl.com/bdhmkjsn
24. Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Global History (Focus Middle East), Suffolk University, Boston, MA
We seek a teacher-scholar with research focus in Global History, broadly defined. Applicants should be able to teach and lead initiatives related to one or more of the following topic areas: Africa; Europe and European empires; Latin America; the Middle East; and/or Russia/the Soviet Union.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/yw9yep32
25. Contributions to the “Middle East and North Africa Profile” of the Online Encyclopedia “Atlas of Today`s World”
We are currently accepting contributions on topics including: – Human Rights, Minorities and Gender. – Living Standards & Impacts of Conflict. – Environmental Conditions. – Economic Systems and Cor-ruption. – Ideology and Religion (including Sunni-Shia dynamics and religious minorities). – Society, Demography, Migration & Social Tensions. – International Relations & Regional Power Dynamics. – Colonial Legacy, State Formation & Post-Independence Transformations. – Political Upheavals, the Arab Spring, Youth and Digitalization. – Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/mstr36k5
26. ONLINE New Volume: “Radical Encounters: Islamists and Leftists in the Middle East and North Africa (1960s-2010s)” edited by Laura Guazzone and Rossana Tufaro, Sapienza University of Rome Press, September 2026, 316 Pages
This volume uncovers tactical alliances, biographical conversions, and hybridizations of languages and symbols. Drawing on case studies that move from the Maghreb to Iran and from universities to rural communities, the book develops an original typology of cooperation and conflict, restoring the historical depth of relations that have redrawn the boundary between the “secular” and the “religious” and con-tinue to shape oppositional politics in the contemporary Middle East.
View: https://tinyurl.com/56bkf426
27. Nouveau livre: “Changer d’alphabet Turquie 1850-1950” de Emmanuel Szurek, PUF, 1 octo-bre 2026
En 1928, la Turquie abandonne la graphie arabe au profit d’une écriture à base latine. En replaçant cet épisode dans une histoire longue, ce livre montre que la romanisation du turc ne saurait se réduire à sa dimension spectaculaire. Elle s’inscrit dans une série de transformations souterraines qu’il faut saisir à l’échelle globale : pression des technologies, reconfigurations des savoirs linguistiques, inégalités d’accès à l’écrit, redéfinition du rapport entre langue, nation et « civilisation ».
Information: https://tinyurl.com/bddzkjcj
28. New Book: “The Life and Memoirs of Fakhri al-Barudi – The Renaissance Man of Syria, 1887-1966” by Sami Moubayed and Fakhri al-Barudi, AUC Press, 25 August 2026, 156 Pages
Born into an aristocratic Damascene family in about 1887, Fakhri al-Barudi was universally acclaimed as one of the country’s founding fathers and a leading figure in the country’s struggle for independence from French rule during the 1920s. Drawing on both private papers and published sources, Sami Mou-bayed’s authoritative epilogue takes up al-Barudi’s life in Syrian politics from where the memoirs leave off, through to al-Barudi’s death in 1966.
Information: https://tinyurl.com/4njsrdaa
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