Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Webinar: “Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon” with Maya Mikdashi and Attiya Ahmad, Institute for Middle East Studies, Washington, DC, 28 April 2022, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Maya Mikdashi offers a new way to understand state power, theorizing how sex, sexuality, and sect shape and are shaped by law, secularism, and sovereignty. Drawing on court archives, public records, and ethnog-raphy of the Court of Cassation, the highest civil court in Lebanon, Mikdashi shows how political difference is entangled with religious, secular, and sexual difference.
Information and registration: https://imes.elliott.gwu.edu/events/sextarianism-sovereignty-secularism-and-the-state-in-lebanon-with-maya-mikdashi-and-attiya-ahmad/
2. Summer School on “Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World”, Leiden University, 23 August – 2 September 2022
This course includes lectures by experts, hands-on classes and much practice with manuscripts from Lei-den`s famous collection of oriental manuscripts. The course is meant for graduate students (MA and PhD) and researchers.
Deadline for abstracts: 17 June 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9711267/lucis-summer-school-philology-and-manuscripts-muslim-world-aug
3. Kashf Al-Zunūn ‘An Asāmī Al-Kutub Wa Al-Funūn
(The removal of Doubt from the Names of Books and the Sciences)
By Muṣṭafa ibn ʿAbd Allāh
(known as Kātip Çelebī and Ḥājjī Khalīfa)
Critical edition by:
Ekmeleddin ihsanoğlu and Bashar Awad Ma’rouf
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4. AKU-ISMC 12-13 May Short Course – Manuscripts in Arabic Script: Introduction to Codicology (Online)
This online course aims to introduce key concepts in the field of Arabic manuscripts and codicology. It is designed to attract participants who want to learn basic knowledge about Arabic manuscripts. The first day will provide an overview of the field of codicology and its role in the manuscript field in general and in identifying key features of manuscripts in particular. The second session will be dedicated to writing supports, the structure of quires, ruling and page layout, bookbinding, ornamentation, tools and materials used in bookmaking, and the palaeography of book hands. Some practical examples will be given based on the lecturers’ long experiences. The second day will focus on the importance of manuscripts in research. While the first session will cover the paratextual features in the Arabic manuscripts, the second session will demonstrate the different approaches in editing manuscripts.
This introductory course is intended for students, researchers, and librarians who wish to increase their knowledge in the manuscript field.
Learning Outcomes
– Basic understanding of the field of Arabic manuscript studies.
– Identify the role of manuscripts in knowledge production in different areas of studies in Muslim cultures.
Course Convenors
Dr Walid Ghali is the Head of the Aga Khan Library, London, Associate Professor of Islamic and Arabic studies at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and a Chartered Librarian of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). Dr Ghali received his PhD in Islamic Manuscript Studies from the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University (2012). Dr Ghali’s current research projects focus on Islamic manuscript traditions, particularly in Arabic script and book history. He has published on Arabic literature, Sufi traditions and Islamic manuscripts cultures.
Dr Anne Regourd is researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, France. She has published extensively in the fields of history and philology dealing with codicology, paper studies, and papyrology. She is the editor of book, The Trade in Papers Marked with Non-Latin Characters, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2018, and heads the free access online journal, Nouvelles Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen.
Dr Eléonore Cellard is a specialist in Qurʾānic manuscripts. She started her research activities in 2008 under the supervision of Professor François Déroche. In 2015, she submitted her dissertation entitled The Written Transmission of the Qur’an: Study of a Corpus of Manuscripts from the 2nd Century AH/ 8th Century CE (INALCO/EPHE). She has collaborated on several international projects about Qurʾānic manuscripts, and recently carried out a research project on one of the Qurʾān copies attributed to the caliph ʿUthman ibn Affan’. She has also authored several monographs and articles on Qurʾānic manuscripts.
Date and Time
12-13 May 2022, 11:00-15:00 (London Time).
Tickets and Booking
Tickets: £80 professionals | £50 students, AKU alumni and staff. Book as soon as possible
5. The 13th Annual International Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Conference (IRTP) will be held on 29th June – 2nd July 2022 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Abstract submission extended till 28th February 2022.
All detailed information about the Conference can be found at this website: https://irtp.co.uk/the-13th-annual-international-religious-tourism-and-pilgrimage-irtp-conference-2021/
6. The British Library:
The art of small things (5): Recitation markers in Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia
7. Qur’an Gateway, a tool for critical study of the text, construction, and language of the Qur’an which used to require subscription is now available as open source under the name Qur’an Tools.
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