Shii News – 2 research fellowships and 1 PhD studentship on transnational Twelver Shiism (Birmingham, UK)

The Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham is seeking applications for 2 post-doctoral research fellowships and for 1 PhD studentship. The fellows and PhD student will work as part of the ERC-funded project “Creating an alternative umma: Clerical authority and religio-political mobilisation in transnational Twelver Shiism”. For more information on the project, see: https://alterumma.bham.ac.uk/

Further information and particulars on the fellowships and the PhD studentship are available here:

– Research Fellowship on the development of Shii ritual practices: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BRR683/research-fellow

– Research Fellowship on Shii devotional poetry: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BRR704/research-fellow-alterumma-5

– PhD studentship: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BRR988/phd-studentship-alterumma-creating-an-alternative-umma-clerical-authority-and-religio-political-mobilisation-in-transnational-shii-islam

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