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1. The BRAIS 2021 Online Series will be returning for our third panel entitled ‘Modern Islamic Movements’ on Monday 3 May.

Full details are below. To attend this and all other panels in the series for free, please register here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2021/brais-2021-online-series-registration.

Modern Islamic Movements

Monday 3 May, 2pm BST

  • Dietrich Reetz (BGSMCS, Free University of Berlin) Amir or Shura: How to lead a global missionary movement of Islam like the Tablighi Jama’at
  • Sara Tonsy (CHERPA, Institut d’Etudes Politique-Aix) An Alternative Political Economy in Egypt: the case of the Muslim Brotherhood
  • Fabian Spengler (Tel Aviv University) The Limited Appeal of Salafiyya and Wasatiyya for Muslims in Europe

For further information about the series, including the full programme, click here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2021

 

 

 

2. Open- Access book –

New Readings in Arabic Historiography from Late Medieval Egypt and Syria. Proceedings of the themed day of the Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies

Brill, 2021

 

 

 

3. Lecturer (Education) in Middle East and Global Affairs

King’s College London – Global Institutes, School of Global Affairs

Closes: 23.5.21

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CFP204/lecturer-education-in-middle-east-and-global-affairs

 

 

 

 

4. Language and Nature in South Arabia: online workshop series

May 4, 15:00 BST

The workshop on 4th May features Leonid Kogan, HSE University, Moscow, who will discuss his recent lexicographic research on Soqotra from a comparative-historical dimension.

  • Leonid Kogan – Recent Lexicographic Research on Soqotri, with an emphasis on the comparative historical dimension.

https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/modern-south-arabian-languages/news/article/1764/language-and-nature-in-south-arabia-online-workshop-series

 

 

 

 

5. LOVA network – Harassment in the field: Reflections on safety and vulnerability during fieldwork
Webinar | LOVA Network
The LOVA network of engaged feminist anthropologists has scheduled a two-part non-prep webinar to reflect on the impact of (sexual) harassment and intimidation in the field, both for us as ethnographers and for the practice of ethnography.
Webinar – Harassment in the field: Reflections on safety and vulnerability during fieldwork

  • 27 May 2021, 2PM-5PM
  • 28 May 2021, 2PM-4:30PM

You can sign up at safety@lova.network  until 20 May 2021, including your name, a short (2-3 sentences) motivation, and whether you would like to attend session 1, session 2, or both.

 

 

 

 

6. Qur’ans from Morocco to Malaysia: Manuscript Studies from the Frontiers of the Islamic World

These webinars will be held via Zoom by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies on selected Tuesdays at 5pm BST in May and June 2021. Please register online here. All welcome!

18 May: ‘Untold stories of Maghribī Qurʾans (12th-14th centuries)’, Dr Umberto Bongianino, University of Oxford

1 June: ‘Worlding the Qur’an: A corpus of 18th-19th century Illuminated Qur’an manuscripts from coastal East Africa’, Dr Zulfikar Hirji, York University, Toronto

8 June: ‘The Sulawesi diaspora floral style of Qur’an illumination’, Dr Annabel Teh Gallop, British Library

15 June: ‘The Qur’ans of Harar: An Ethiopian manuscript tradition’, Dr Sana Mirza, Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Washington DC

 

 

 

7. “Umm as-Surab (north-eastern Jordan): Settlement Dynamics in the Islamic periods. New data from Building Archaeology” by Piero Gilento (CNRS UMR 7041 ArScAn – Ifpo) – May 6th

https://www.ifporient.org/archaeology-mena/

 

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