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1.Lundi 10 mars 2025, 10h-13h
Cultivate, celebrate, classify:
Humans and plants from the Bosphorus to Bengal
Interdisciplinary workshop
Iranian Studies and Environmental Approaches
Organizers: Camille Rhoné-Quer (IREMAM, BioArch & Université Aix-Marseille), Justine Landau (CeRMI & Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Matteo de Chiara (CeRMI & INALCO)
Thanks to the revival carried out for several years by archaeobotany, numerous works shed light with increasing precision on the processes of domestication and circulation of plant species throughout the world, particularly in the Eurasian area. In this vast space structured by countless networks of exchanges, of which the Silk Roads are only one aspect, the dissemination of knowledge and techniques on plants and their uses echoes the multiple economic, social and cultural issues related to the plant world. Plants are omnipresent in the daily lives of the populations of the Turkish-Iranian worlds, which are largely focused on agricultural activities. The objective of this workshop is to propose, through an interdisciplinary approach, a better understanding of the knowledge and methods used during the Holocene (term designating the last 10,000 years) to produce, consume, care for and conserve plants in all their forms. The mobilization of specialists from various disciplines in the sciences of paleoenvironments, humanities and social sciences, languages and literatures will make it possible to reflect on the complementarity of sources, whether they come from scholarly or popular cultures, material or textual, oral or written, private or public.
- Camille Rhoné-Quer and Matteo De Chiara – Iranian Studies and Environmental Approaches: State of Play and Perspectives
- Margareta Tengberg – Contribution of paleo- and archaeobotanical disciplines to the knowledge of human-plant relations in the ancient Iranian world
- Parviz Mohebbi – The introduction of the potato in Iran
- Justine Landau – Is the cure in verse? Plant literature and knowledge transfer in pre-Mongol Iran
Room 4.05, INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII,4th floor).
To attend the workshop remotely, contact camille.rhone@univ-amu.fr
2. Zoom: Architectural Inscriptions from 10th- to 13th-Century Afghanistan as Recorded in Photographic Archives
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies and Invisible East present a series of monthly online seminars about archives and documents.
Convened by Arezou Azad and Mohamad Tavakoli, the seminars are held monthly on Zoom.
Please join us this month to hear from Dr Viola Allegranzi on ‘Zooming In: Architectural Inscriptions from 10th- to 13th-Century Afghanistan as Recorded in Photographic Archives’. Thursday 13 March at 12PM EST / 4PM GMT. Pre-registration is essential.
3. The Pearls of Wisdom: An Arabic critical edition of Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam wa Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ by Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi.
https://www.shiahinstitute.org/publications/the-pearls-of-wisdom/
4. The Gibb Memorial trust scholarship for doctoral study at a British Univeristy. They are open to anyone registered for a doctorate at a British university. Two scholarship schemes are available:
The Gibb Centenary Scholarship (on any area of Middle eastern Studies from 7thcentury to 1918) – the scholarship is up to £2000.
The A H Morton Memorial Scholarship (in Classical Persian Studies) – up to £3000, two scholarships available in 2025.
Details can be found at: Scholarships | The E J W Gibb Memorial Trust
Closing date is 31st March 2025. Results are released by 30 June 2025.
If you have any queries please contact: r.gleave@exeter.ac.uk
5. Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du Monde iranien”, qui se tiendra jeudi prochain, 13 mars 2025, 17h-19h, en salle 4.15 à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 4eétage).
Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir M. Pavel Lurje (Musée de l’Ermitage; actuellement chercheur en résidence à l’Institut d’Études Avancées de Paris), pour une conférence intitulée: “Sogdian Documents from Mount Mugh: Historical, Archaeological, Administrative and Economic Geographies of Central Asia on the Eve of Islamization“.
Résumé:
In 1932-33, a set of 80 documents, mostly in Sogdian, but also in Chinese, Arabic and Old Turkic were discovered incidentally in the ruins of the castle on Mount Mugh, in the highlands of Tajikistan 150 km east of Samarkand. The documents, as it soon appeared, are dated to 722 CE (and few decades earlier), and were part of the archive of Dewashtich, the last ruler of Panjakent (the easternmost Sogdian city) and his retinue, who were defeated by Moslem forces and their allies in the mountains. Since the 1960s, the documents have all been made available in facsimile, photos and transliterations; and in the last decade, an updated English translation of the documents was published. Most of the placenames mentioned in the documents were ingeniously identified by the editors, and at a later stage, the tracks of the military expeditions mirrored in the texts could even be outlined. The bulk of the locations mentioned are situated to the east of Samarkand, especially around Panjakent and in the upper Zarafshan valley surrounding mount Mugh, but more distant places are also referred to.
At this time, we possess much better knowledge of the archaeological sites in the area (through survey and excavations), and of the linguistic features of Sogdian. Similar texts have been found elsewhere, and documents pertaining to another crucial moment in the history of Upper Zarafshan, the Russian conquest of 1860s and its aftermath, have been published. These new data have allowed scholars to reconsider the geography of the documents in a new light.
In this talk, the lecturer will present the preliminary results of his research project carried out as a Fellow at the Paris Institute of Advanced Studies. Several issues will be addressed: How was the power and administration in this area organized? What were the main products used, and how were they distributed? Which of the toponyms mentioned in the documents can be associated with known sites? And what was the oikumene known to the authors of these texts?
Orientations bibliographiques:
– Smirnova, O.I., 1963. La carte des régions du haut Zérafchân d’après les documents du Mt. Mugh, Труды двадцать пятого международного конгресса востоковедов. Москва, 9 – 16 августа 1960 г. II, 329–37.
– Ю. Якубов. Паргар в VII – VIII вв. н. э. Душанбе: Дониш, 1979.
– Frantz Grenet, Étienne de la Vaissière, 2002. “The last days of Panjikent”, Silk Road Art and Arcaheology 8, 155–96.
– Livshits, V.A., 2015. Sogdian epigraphy of Central Asia and Semirech’e. London: Corpus inscriptionum iranicarum.
– Begmatov, A., 2019. Sogdian Textual Materials from Central Asia: A Critical Re-Edition of the Documents from Mount Mugh, Unpublished PhD thesis, Kyoto.
– Исаков, А.И., Ю.Я. Якубов & Г.Р. Каримова, 2020. Верховья Долины Зарафшана (Археологическая карта Таджикистана). Душанбе: Дониш.
– Ҳоҷизодаи Мадрушкатӣ, А., 2021. Масчоҳ: Сад Санади Таърихӣ. Душанбе: Меҳроҷ-граф.
– Documentation on the inscription of monuments of Zarafshan-Karakum corridor of the Silk Road in the UNESCO World Heritage list, 2023. Available at: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1675/documents/
Pour rappel, vous retrouverez le programme 2024-2025 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du Monde iranien” sur le site du CeRMI :
https://cermi.cnrs.fr/seminaires-d
6. Hybrid: The Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World in partnership with the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies is convening an international conference on The Bible in Its Ancient Iranian Context, held on March 13–14, 2025 at UCLA.
The Bible in Its Ancient Iranian Context
An International Conference Convened by Rahim ShayeganWilliam Schniedewind Catherine Bonesho
co-sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies
March 13–14, 2025 | 314 & 306 Royce Hall(with a live stream option for hybrid attendance)
Morning refreshments and check-in begin at 8:00 am
Zoom link:
https://ucla.zoom.us/j/91611647646#success
Inperson: https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/event/the-bible-in-its-ancient-iranian-context/
7. Exploring the Kitáb-i-Aqdas: The Laws and Teachings of the Bahá’í Faith
Omid Ghaemmaghami and Shahin Vafai
I B Tauris, 2025
35% discount code (GLR AT8)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/exploring-the-kit%C3%A1biaqdas-9780755606269/
8. International Conference “Philosophy, the Political, and Politics of Translation in the Modern Islamic World”, Organized by the Scholarly Network for Philosophy in the Islamic World, Berlin, ZMO and Kath. Akad., 10-12 March 2025
At our conference, international scholars address questions such as: How have colonial and political forces shaped philosophical translations in the MENA region? How does translation drive philosophical thought in the modern Islamic world? What do case studies reveal about the political and cultural power of translation?
Information and programme: https://philosophy-in-the-modern-islamic-world.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Konf-Berlin-2025-Programm-final.pdf
9. HYBRID Workshop “People and Powers: Rome, Persia, and Armenia in the Fifth Century”, University of Lille, 31 March 2025
Information, programme and registration:
10. “XIII International Medieval Meeting Lleida”, Universitat de Lleida, Espanya, 3-6 June 2025
Main themes in Medieval Studies: Wars and Crusades – Institutions, Law and Government – Islam – Judaism – Political History – Social and Economic History – Woman and Gender Studies; Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 March 2025. Information: https://www.internationalmedievalmeetinglleida.udl.cat/en/
11. Graduate Conference “Cartographic Imaginaries: Spaces and Images of Central and Eastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus, and Central Asia”, EHESS, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, 11 June 2025
This conference aims to foster critical reflection on spatial reconfigurations and their resonances in both historical and contemporary contexts. We invite interdisciplinary contributions that re-examine the past and present of this vast region through various disciplines and fields of study, including migration studies, urban and cultural studies, sociology, history, art history, visual anthropology, political science, and critical geography.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 March 2025.
Information: https://cetobac.ehess.fr/system/files/2025-02/appel_a_communications_jd_cetobac.pdf
12. “35th Exeter Gulf Conference: Temporality and Aesthetics in the Arabian Peninsula”, Center for Gulf Studies, University of Exeter, 7-8 July 2025
How does the domain of the aesthetic – in art, architecture, film and literature – allow us to better comprehend how values and ideals are cultivated, enforced, and contested in the region? We invite contributions from the following disciplines: Visual arts – Drama – Film studies – Anthropology and sociology – Human and cultural geography – Environmental and urban studies – Literary studies – Political economy – Gender studies – Political science – History – Migration and diaspora studies, etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 18 April 2025. Information: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/events/details/index.php?event=14823
13. Conference “Beyond Borders Colonial Encounters & Challenges of Religious Minorities between Afghanistan, Central Asia, and Iran (19th – Early 20th Centuries)”, Orient-Institut Istanbul, 16-17 October 2025
Topics: 1) Connections among non-Muslim communities within and beyond the borderlands of Afghanistan, Central Asia, and Iran. – 2) Interaction and Relations of non-Muslim communities with different Muslim groups and political authorities. – 3) Disruption of cross-border relations and forming of new ideas of community and belonging. – 4) Cross-border family histories
Deadline for abstracts: 14 March 2025. Information: https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-152696
14. Doctoral Research Assistant (65 %, 4 Years) in Arabic/Islamic Studies, Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt
Research on “„(De)Colonizing Sharia?“ Tracing Transformation, Change and Continuity in Islamic Law in the MENA in the 19th and 20th Centuries”, chaired by Prof. Dr. Irene Schneider. Qualification: MA in Arabic/Islamic Studies. – Research specialization in modern Islamic law and/or in the fields of law/politics/(post)colonialism. – Knowledge of pre-modern law/colonial law. – Very good knowledge of Arabic, English, if possible, Persian/Turkish/Ottoman Turkish and, if possible, German.
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2025.
Information: https://jobs.uni-erfurt.de/jobposting/7448386011e6231c0ffcee042c7738c0b60bba3e0
15. Postdoc Research Assistant (75 %, 4 Years) in Arabic/Islamic Studies, Max Weber Centre for Advan-ced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt
Research on “„(De)Colonizing Sharia?“ Tracing Transformation, Change and Continuity in Islamic Law in the MENA in the 19th and 20th Centuries”, chaired by Prof. Dr. Irene Schneider. Qualification: PhD in Arabic/Islamic Studies. – Research focus in modern Islamic law or in the areas of law/politics/(post)colonialism. – Knowledge of pre-modern law/colonial law. – Very good knowledge of Arabic, English, if possible, Persian/Turkish/Ottoman Turkish and, if possible, German.
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2025.
Information: https://jobs.uni-erfurt.de/jobposting/aad3a8bd05b31fa09be0a109806abbb9ed7271a40
16. Doctoral Fellowships 2025-26 (7-11 Months) at the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)
The OIB awards a number of fellowships-in-residence, beginning on 15 September 2025, designed for doctoral candidates engaged in outstanding research projects in the humanities and social sciences. We invite applications across disciplines, time periods, and geographic coverage. Proposals should articulate the contemporary stakes of the research project, encompassing historiographical, cultural, religious and/or political dimensions.
Deadline for applications: 20 March 2025.
Information: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/fellowships/doctoralfellowships.html
17. Intensive Summer School on “Comparative Habsburg-Ottoman Paleography”, Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies (IHB), Vienna, 7-18 July 2025
This program is dedicated to the comparative study of early modern (1500 – 1800) Habsburg and Ottoman primary sources. The school will be helpful especially for MA and PhD students, and early career researchers who want to improve their Kurrentschrift and/or Ottoman Turkish reading skills. We will accept applications from advanced scholars, but the priority will be given to younger candidates.
Deadline for applications: 16 March 2025. Information: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ihb/forschungsbereiche/digitale-historiographie-und-editionen/forschung/habsburg-osmanische-diplomatie/summer-school
18. “Manuscripts for Research: An Advanced Course in Arabic Manuscript Studies”, Library of the Academy of Science of Lisbon, 22-25 July 2025
During this workshop, participants will delve into the vibrant manuscript collection at the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon. This remarkable collection encompasses a diverse array of subjects and regions. The course will include interactive lectures on philology, as well as hands-on sessions centred around a selection of manuscripts from this invaluable collection.
Information: https://www.aku.edu/events/pages/event-detail.aspx?EventID=2747
19. Participate: “Postmedieval Mentorship Programme for Scholars Who Have not yet Published in English”, Organised by “postmedieval – a journal of medieval cultural studies”
This programme is intended for scholars who have not yet published in English in peer-reviewed publications, including books and journals, and whose first language is not English. Preference may be given to early career academics and those from the Global South.
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2025.
Information: https://sites.google.com/view/postmedieval/Announcements/call-for-participants?authuser=0
20. Early Scholars Publication Grants for Dissertations that Reconceptualize “Translating Cultures in the Digital Age”, UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies
We seek dissertations that explore the evolving relationship between humans and advanced AI systems, including the new interpretive strategies required to navigate AI’s fluid, data-driven formulations, and focus on themes such as agency, authorship, translation, and the human-machine interface. Qualification: PhD in a relevant field, such as Arabic language and culture, translation studies, comparative literature, Middle Eastern studies, cultural sociology, etc.
Deadline for applications: 26 May 2025. Information: https://www.kfcris.com/en/unesco/grant/2025
- March 08, 2025
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Webinar ‘Book Launch: Karbala in the Ta’ziyeh Episode, Shi’i Devotional Drama in Iran’
With Lucy Deacon
In this webinar, Dr. Lucy Deacon presents on her new book ‘Karbala in the Ta’ziyeh Episode, Shi’i Devotional Drama in Iran’ (2024). Verisimilitude is not the endeavour of ta’ziyeh passion plays; this is a devotional offering that stirs lament for the the Shiʿi martyrs by representing events crucial to sacred history. But what does that retelling entail? Through study of four of its main episodes—from their long inter-female dialogues to the protagonists’ encounters with jinn, dervishes, and foreigners—this book explores the taʿziyeh repertoire’s compositional features. Combining a wide range of historical scripts, largely unpublished manuscripts, with witness accounts, it tracks the tradition’s development from Safavid to Qajar Iran asking, who were its contributors? And, how have they left their mark?
British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS),
26 March, 2025, 5:00 pm UK Time
Information and registration:
2. ISIC 2025
The Eighth International Conference on Islamic Civilisation
Call for Papers
Sects, Sectarianism, and Sectarian Identities in Islam
Dates: 1–2 November 2025
Venue: National Chengchi University (Taipei, Taiwan) and Online
Organized by
Department of Arabic Language and Culture, National Chengchi University (Republic of China)
Institut Islam Hadhari, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Malaysia)
Sectarian divisions within the Islamic world have long been misunderstood by both the media and the general public. While communal violence and conflict in modern Muslim-majority countries are often framed in sectarian terms, attributing these conflicts solely to historical sectarian divides —such as the Sunni-Shiʿa split — is misleading and reductive. Medieval Muslim sources and heresiographical literature use terms like firaq, niḥal, ṭāʾifa, or madhhab to refer to religious communities, groups, or schools of thought. These are often translated as “sects,” a term that carries connotations of schism and heresy in the Christian tradition, implying a division from an established orthodoxy. However, applying this conceptualization of sects and sectarianism to the Islamic context can be problematic. Over the past fourteen centuries, medieval Islamic societies have largely been tolerant—and at times even appreciative—of diverse, sometimes contradictory, interpretations of revealed truth. The existence of multiple sects and schools of thought within Islam highlights the richness and diversity of Islamic expressions of faith.
While the formation of groups based on shared qualities is a universal human phenomenon, what distinguishes the Islamic world—both past and present—is the ubiquity of sectarian identities, symbols, and ideas, which permeate various genres of literature, daily rituals, and art forms. Beyond the major sectarian alignments of Sunnis and Shiʿas, Muslim sects or schools are often subject to further divisions and subdivisions throughout history. Sectarian identity is frequently entangled with other social, political, and cultural affiliations, making any attempt to define an Islamic sect or sectarian identity inherently complex and multi-faceted.
Due to the nature of available sources, the formation of Muslim sects and sectarian identities during the first three centuries of Islam remains an underexplored field that warrants systematic and rigorous study. Furthermore, the historical development of Islamic sects and schools in the post-formative period should be considered in order to reassess the validity and utility of classifications based on sectarianism.
ISIC 2025 invites paper submissions on a wide range of topics related to sects, sectarian identities, and sectarianism in both pre-modern and modern Islamic contexts. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Islamic firaq or heresiographical literature
- The diachronic use and meaning of sectarian labels in various genres of literature and historical contexts
- Sectarian denominations in modern Muslim politics
- Reflections on the concept of sects and sectarianism
- Origins and formation of sectarian identities and communities
- The evolution of sects in different parts of the Islamic world in pre-modern and modern periods
Proposals for pre-arranged panels dedicated to the above themes are also welcome.
Submission Guidelines
Please submit anonymized abstracts (250-300 words) in English, along with a one-page CV, to isu@nccu.edu.tw by 15 May 2025. Both the abstract and CV should be submitted in Word docx format. The conference will take place in a hybrid format on 1-2 November 2025 at National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan. The official language of the conference is English.
Panel Proposals
Panel proposals should include a 600-word abstract with the following details:
Introduction to the topic
The number of presenters
Short biographical information about the presenters and convenor (the person submitting the proposal)
Contact Email:
isu@nccu.edu.tw
Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 May 2025
Notification of acceptance will be sent by mid-June 2025.
3. Aga Khan Museum – Curator
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=68607
4. Ghada Karmi’s Murjana: A Tale of Love and Passion in Medieval Baghdad
Book Launch | Online on Zoom | 18 March 2025
Dr Ghada Karmi is going to tell us more about her novel, Murjana, and discuss it with two prominent scholars of Arabic literature: Prof Caroline Rooney and Prof Wen-chin Ouyang. The discussion will be followed by a live Q&A from the audience. The event is chaired by BRISMES Trustee Dr Feras Alkabani.
More information
5. The Silk Road Talk & Exhibition
Talk & Exhibition | MENACS, Brighton | 21 March 2025
Sussex based artist Carole Bennett will discuss her work and Silk Road inspirations covering a range of related topics from ceramics and pottery to Medieval Arabic poetry and texts, which she uses to decorate her pots and artefacts. A small selection of her work will be on display.
More information
6. “After 100 Years: The Past, Present and Future of Persian Art”
Dr. Yuka Kadoi
University of Vienna
Friday, 14 March 2025, 1:00 p.m. EDT
Location for In-Person Attendance:
Rm 304, 4 Bancroft Ave
Toronto, ON, M5S 1C1
Zoom Registration Link for Virtual Attendance:
https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuf-ytrD8iHNIbx2IQTFku6OO7gkHyjVSu
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
7. IQP Series of Meetings
“*جولة فی المتاحف القرآنیه العالمیة:* متحف صحف القرآني في لبنان انموذجا”
*فضیلة الشیخ علی خازم*
(مدير مركز صحف لحفظ التراث القرآني والكتابي فی لبنان)
Wednesday Mar. 5, 2025 | (٤ رمضان المبارك)*
🕞 15:30_16:30 (Tehran Time)
*عبر الرابط:*
http://vroom.ut.ac.ir/farabi1
*الالقاء سیتم باللغة العربية*
- March 04, 2025
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. On Tuesday, March 18, Atri Hatef Naiemi (University of British Columbia) will present “Ilkhanid Capital Cities: Transcultural Interactions.”
As always, you can find a full schedule of upcoming talks and register for our list-serv on our website at viahss.org. Although not every talk is recorded, we also have recordings of several recent talks available on the VIAHSS Vimeo page at vimeo.com/viahss . Lastly, you can follow us on X at @viahss and on Instagram at @theviahss to stay up to date on upcoming events!
We look forward to seeing you on March 4!
Contact Information
Drs. Alexander Brey, Jaimee Comstock-Skipp, and Rachel Winter
Contact Email
URL
2. HYBRID History Seminar “Cinema alla franca in Ottoman Istanbul” by Özde Çeliktemel (Boğaziçi University), IFEA, Istanbul, 5 March 2025, 15:00 – 17:00 h CET
This presentation examines the emergence of cinematic culture in early 20th century Ottoman Istanbul, focusing on its interplay with the cultural, social, and political fabric of the imperial capital. The introduction of films as cultural exports and tradable commodities was driven by both foreign and local entrepreneurs eager to profit from exhibitions, rentals, and the sale of cinematic devices.
Deadline for registration: 3 March 2025. Information: https://www.ifea-istanbul.net/index.php/fr/evenements/eve-hist/history-seminar-cinema-alla-franca-in-ottoman-istanbul
3. HYBRID Roundtable “Making and Unmaking of Ottoman Borders”, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative, New York University, 6 March 2025, 11:30 pm CET
This roundtable brings together scholars to discuss the making and unmaking of Ottoman borders in the last century of the empire. The participants will reflect on the definition of what constitutes borderlands in relation to their academic works, and what are the processes in which various experiences of territoriality can be conceptualized within the Ottoman context.
Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/kAmiTPU7RM2VmnevvvljLA#/registration
4. HYBRID Book Talk „Occasions for Poetry: Politics, Literature, and Imagination Among the Early Modern Ottomans“ by Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano, Ottoman and Turkish Studies, New York Univer-sity, 20 March 2025, 10:30 pm CET
After the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman elites turned to poetry to craft distinctive expressions of identity and authority within the sultanate. Aguirre-Mandujano places Ottoman court poetry in its historical and social context, revealing its role as a powerful political act. Through poetic imagery, scholars and bureaucrats not only engaged with one another but also influenced bureaucratic practices and advanced their careers.
Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/dWWJ8jUCTVW8FepB4dH_Ow#/registration
5. Research Seminar “War and Armed Conflict Ethics in Islamic Scholarship: Historical Insights and Modern Challenges”, Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, 26-27 May 2025
This seminar seeks to critically engage with both modern ethical challenges and the long-standing tradition of Islamic scholarship on war ethics. The discussion will focus on two main themes: (A) modern ethical challenges as addressed by contemporary interdisciplinary scholarship, and (B) insights from historical Islamic scholarship that remain relevant to these discussions today. CILE will cover travel, accommodation, and open-access publication fees for selected participants.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 March 2025. Information:
https://www.cilecenter.org/public-outreach/announcements/call-research-papers?utmsource=chatgpt.com
6. Conference “Minority Law in Arab States: Governing Religious Diversity”, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, 14-15 July 2025
The conference foregrounds the complex interplay between legal autonomy and the governance of religious diversity with regard to family law in Arab states. We invite submissions that address legal pluralism; minority responses to the governance of religious diversity; gender and inter-religious relationships; the impact of conflict on family laws; international law, institutions, and advocacy; local, national, and regional policy and reform perspectives.
Deadline for abstracts: 24 March 2025. Information: https://www.mpipriv.de/minority-law
7. Workshop “Changing Conditions, Changing Discourse: Bektashis and Other Sufis in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic Turkey, 1826 to 1950”, University of Munich, 21-22 July 2025
Main topics: • How did Sufi orders, both as organizations or represented by individual disciples, experience and respond to the aforementioned events and to the concomitant change of discourses? • In what manner has the format of their communications evolved? How did Sufis share their individual experience within their communities? Which external actors were attracted, which cooperations were established?
Deadline for abstracts:9 March 2025.
Information: https://www.sfb1369.uni-muenchen.de/veranstaltungen/meldungen/cfp-b05/index.html
8. Annual Conference of the “Qurán Unit” of the “American Academy of Religion (AAR)”, Boston, 22-25 November 2025
We are especially interested in proposals highlighting new or developing areas of research in relation to the Qur’an, papers on understudied topics and themes, or that relate to the annual theme of “Freedom” (broadly defined – political, religious, economic, personal, positive, negative, etc.). Deadline for abstracts: 2025 [sic]
Information: https://papers.aarweb.org/sites/default/files/uploads/full_call.pdf (page 270)
9. Arcapita Visiting Professor of Modern Arab Studies (1 Semester), Middle East Institute, Columbia University
We are interested in candidates whose field of research and teaching is in history, culture, or social sciences of the modern Arab world. Qualifications: Ph.D., record of scholarly publications, and proven teaching experience in English are required by the beginning of the appointment. Experience teaching at a university in the Middle East highly preferred.
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2025. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/162010
10. Faculty Fellow in Near Eastern Studies (1-3 Years), Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University
The ideal candidate has an in-depth understanding of the modern Middle East, knowledge of at least one Middle Eastern language, a commitment to inclusive pedagogy, and has a Ph.D. in one of the following fields: Anthropology, History, Near Eastern Studies, Politics/Political Economy, Sociology, or related disciplines. Candidates should have completed their Ph.D. no earlier than 2020, and no later than August 1, 2025.
Deadline for applications: 24 March 2025. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/163617
11. Call for Papers – Journal of Digital Islamicate Research (JDIR)
Issue: July 2025 | Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025
The Journal of Digital Islamicate Research (JDIR) invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit original contributions for its upcoming issue, scheduled for publication in July 2025. As a peer-reviewed journal, JDIR is dedicated to advancing the intersection of Digital Humanities (DH) and Islamicate Studies, fostering innovative computational, analytical, and theoretical approaches to the study of Middle Eastern and Islamicate cultures—both past and present.
We particularly welcome interdisciplinary and methodologically diverse studies that integrate Cultural Analytics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), visualization techniques, and other digital methodologies to examine the rich textual, visual, and material culture of the Islamicate world. We are especially interested in expanding our focus to include literary, artistic, and cultural production within the Islamicateworld, encouraging contributions that explore how digital tools transform the study of Islamicateliterature, aesthetic practices, media, and performance cultures across different historical periods and geographic regions.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Computational and Quantitative Analyses of Islamicate Texts
(Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Urdu, and other Middle Eastern languages) - Digital Methods in the Study of Islamicate Literature and Poetics
- Visualization and Big Data Approaches to Islamicate Cultural Heritage
- Applications of AI, NLP, and Machine Learning in Middle Eastern Digital Humanities
- Corpus Linguistics and Stylometric Studies of Islamicate Writing Traditions
- Islamicate Digital Archives, Repositories, and Text Encoding Initiatives
- Non-Muslim Literary and Cultural Traditions in Islamicate Contexts
(e.g., Geniza research, Judeo-Arabic, Syriac, Armenian, Persianate Jewish texts) - Digital Approaches to Islamic Manuscripts, Calligraphy, and Epigraphy
- Mapping and GIS Analysis of Islamicate History and Cultural Networks
- Computational Studies of Islamic Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture
- Digital Media and Islamicate Popular Culture: Film, Music, and Performance in Digital Contexts
- Islamicate Digital-Born and Digitally-Reformatted Materials in the Contemporary World
- Ethical Considerations in Digital Humanities and Islamicate Knowledge Production
The Journal of Digital Islamicate Research accepts manuscripts in English and Arabic. Submissions should be made via the Editorial Manager on the Brill website: Submit Your Manuscript.
For inquiries or further information, please contact: jdir@brill.com
12. Circle for Late Antique and Medieval Studies (CLAMS) at The Ralph Bunche Institute of International Studies (RBIIS) The Graduate Center & College of Arts & Sciences at New York City College of Technology/CUNY
Presents
KHUSRO I ANUSHIRWAN (531-79)
The Life & Achievements of a Great Reforming Sasanian King
Friday, March 7th | 12:00 pm
James Howard-Johnston
Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University
https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/IjsPCkfuTKy26O7jfkG01w#/registration
13. Online conference on Script-switching in Literary Texts
Join us online for over thirty inspiring talks, interesting discussions and a visual poster session on literary script-switching!
The programme, abstracts and sign-up link for our Script-switching in Literary Texts conference on 12-14 March 2025 are now available on the LangueFlow website.
14. “An Examination of the Historical Evolution of Persian Lithographic Book Publishing during the First Pahlavi Era in the Cities of Tehran and Shiraz” (in Persian)
Dr. Torfeh Abtahi
Independent Scholar, Tehran
Thursday, 6 March 2025, 12:00 p.m. EST
Zoom Registration Link:
https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUscumrrzosHNUsM7F1nqw4NvFz2Ia1ON9Q
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
15. M-Classi, tutorial for new users
A short demo of M-Classi device, to help users navigate the system and showing M-Classi’s main functionalities:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggUuIL1Adpw&ab_channel=InstitutIncalUCLouvain
M-Classi is an open-source digital tool to store, catalogue, search, and visualize the classifications of the sciences in Islam as well as those of the regions that came into contact with Islamic cultures, from Antiquity to the Pre-Modern era. The device is thus focused by priority on Arabic, Persian, and Turkish classifications, but for comparative purposes it will also integrate taxonomies in languages such as Syriac, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and others.
M-Classi allows one to make various types of queries on the classifications integrated into its database. Through a cumulative graph and the use of filters (by language, by author, by period, etc.), it also allows one to visualize the results at a glance and in a dynamic manner.
M-Classi’s beta version (https://www.m-classi.eu/), created at UCLouvain in 2023, is available on simple request by contacting me at godefroid.decallatay@uclouvain.be.
- March 01, 2025
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Introduction to Early Classical Persian Prose: From Abu Mansūr’s Shahname to Kalīla wa Dimna
This course will explore Early Classical Persian literary, geographical, and historical texts, engage in discussions on key topics in Persian philology, and examine manuscript sources of selected works.
Application deadline: March 14th
Early application discount available!
Ferdowsi School of Persian Literature
Yerevan, Armenia
Website: www.ferdowsi.org
2. Mystical Landscapes in Medieval Persian Literature
Edited by Fatemeh Keshavarz, Ahmet T. Karamustafa
EUP, 2025
3. February 26, 12:00-1:00 pm
Near Eastern Studies and Digital Scholarship @IAS virtual event:
Opportunities and Challenges for Indexing a Polyglot Society: The Development of HIMME
Thomas A. Carlson (School of Historical Studies, IAS and Oklahoma State University).
More languages and literary traditions existed simultaneously in the medieval Middle East than any individual scholar can hope to master. Disciplinary norms have mandated that scholars focus on one or perhaps two languages, but the actual historical society was bewilderingly polyglot. Can digital methods provide an opportunity for overcoming our individual scholarly limitations? On the other hand, what dynamics of multilingual cultures challenge modern digital approaches themselves? This talk will open a conversation centered around the development of the Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East (HIMME: https://medievalmideast.org/)
Registration is required: https://bit.ly/HIMME
https://www.ias.edu/hs/islamic-world/events
https://www.ias.edu/digital-scholarship/events_ias
4. The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) is offering multiple grant opportunities in conjunction with its Eighteenth Annual Conference taking place in Washington, D.C. on November 1 – 3, 2025.
The ASMEA Research Grant Program seeks to support research on topics in Middle Eastern and African studies that deserve greater attention. Applicants may submit paper proposals on any topic as long as it constitutes new and original research and is relevant to the five qualifying topic areas:
- Minorities and Women
- Military History
- Governance and Economy
- Faith
- Iran
Grants of $2500 will be awarded. Successful research grant applicants are required to present their research at the Eighteenth Annual ASMEA Conference. The deadline to apply is April 30, 2025.
ASMEA is also offering Travel Grants of up to $750 which can be used towards the costs associated with attending the Annual ASMEA Conference in Washington, D.C. The deadline to apply is April 30, 2025.
In addition, we have issued our general Call for Papers and Panels.
Grant opportunities are open to members only. For information on how to become a member and full guidelines on each program, visit our website at www.asmeascholars.org.
Contact Information
Emily Lucas
Membership and Operations Director
Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA)
Contact Email
URL
https://www.asmeascholars.org/upcoming-conference
5. Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du Monde iranien”, qui se tiendra le jeudi 13 mars 2025, 17h-19h, en salle 4.15 à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 4eétage).
Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir M. Pavel Lurje (Musée de l’Ermitage; actuellement chercheur en résidence à l’Institut d’Études Avancées de Paris), pour une conférence intitulée: “Sogdian Documents from Mount Mugh: Historical, Archaeological, Administrative and Economic Geographies of Central Asia on the Eve of Islamization“.
Résumé:
In 1932-33, a set of 80 documents, mostly in Sogdian, but also in Chinese, Arabic and Old Turkic were discovered incidentally in the ruins of the castle on Mount Mugh, in the highlands of Tajikistan 150 km east of Samarkand. The documents, as it soon appeared, are dated to 722 CE (and few decades earlier), and were part of the archive of Dewashtich, the last ruler of Panjakent (the easternmost Sogdian city) and his retinue, who were defeated by Moslem forces and their allies in the mountains. Since the 1960s, the documents have all been made available in facsimile, photos and transliterations; and in the last decade, an updated English translation of the documents was published. Most of the placenames mentioned in the documents were ingeniously identified by the editors, and at a later stage, the tracks of the military expeditions mirrored in the texts could even be outlined. The bulk of the locations mentioned are situated to the east of Samarkand, especially around Panjakent and in the upper Zarafshan valley surrounding mount Mugh, but more distant places are also referred to.
At this time, we possess much better knowledge of the archaeological sites in the area (through survey and excavations), and of the linguistic features of Sogdian. Similar texts have been found elsewhere, and documents pertaining to another crucial moment in the history of Upper Zarafshan, the Russian conquest of 1860s and its aftermath, have been published. These new data have allowed scholars to reconsider the geography of the documents in a new light.
In this talk, the lecturer will present the preliminary results of his research project carried out as a Fellow at the Paris Institute of Advanced Studies. Several issues will be addressed: How was the power and administration in this area organized? What were the main products used, and how were they distributed? Which of the toponyms mentioned in the documents can be associated with known sites? And what was the oikumene known to the authors of these texts?
Orientations bibliographiques:
– Smirnova, O.I., 1963. La carte des régions du haut Zérafchân d’après les documents du Mt. Mugh, Труды двадцать пятого международного конгресса востоковедов. Москва, 9 – 16 августа 1960 г. II, 329–37.
– Ю. Якубов. Паргар в VII – VIII вв. н. э. Душанбе: Дониш, 1979.
– Frantz Grenet, Étienne de la Vaissière, 2002. “The last days of Panjikent”, Silk Road Art and Arcaheology 8, 155–96.
– Livshits, V.A., 2015. Sogdian epigraphy of Central Asia and Semirech’e. London: Corpus inscriptionum iranicarum.
– Begmatov, A., 2019. Sogdian Textual Materials from Central Asia: A Critical Re-Edition of the Documents from Mount Mugh, Unpublished PhD thesis, Kyoto.
– Исаков, А.И., Ю.Я. Якубов & Г.Р. Каримова, 2020. Верховья Долины Зарафшана (Археологическая карта Таджикистана). Душанбе: Дониш.
– Ҳоҷизодаи Мадрушкатӣ, А., 2021. Масчоҳ: Сад Санади Таърихӣ. Душанбе: Меҳроҷ-граф.
– Documentation on the inscription of monuments of Zarafshan-Karakum corridor of the Silk Road in the UNESCO World Heritage list, 2023. Available at: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1675/documents/
Pour rappel, vous retrouverez le programme 2024-2025 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du Monde iranien” sur le site du CeRMI :
Contact: justine.landau@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr
- February 25, 2025
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Pourdavoud Lecture Series Video Available: Carlo G. Cereti
The Rise of Persian: Understanding the Evolution of Writing in the Sasanian and Early Islamic Periods
This talk explores the evolution of writing during the Sasanian and early Islamic periods, shedding light on the long-term process that led to Persian becoming the lingua franca in Western and Central Asia from Iran to the borders of China. With the groundwork laid by pioneering scholars, we now have a stronger foundation for reading and understanding Middle Persian documents in their many forms. As Bernhard of Chartres observed, “we are but dwarves on the shoulders of giants,” benefiting from the invaluable contributions of previous generations.
Our understanding of Middle Persian script has progressed in many key areas ranging from 3rd century royal inscriptions to the legends found on coins and gems, and the wider array of secular texts written in ink on various materials. These include legal and commercial texts, letters, ostraca, and dipinti found on walls and stuccos. Notable examples include the dipinti from Dura Europos (3rd century CE), Pahlavi papyri from the Sasanian occupation of Egypt (7th century), and parchments from the Iranian highlands (7th century). Additional comparable texts were found in the Indian subcontintent and range from the Quilon Copper Plates (9th century), to Parsi inscriptions in the Kanheri caves close to Mumbai (11th century) and to Nestorian crosses in Chennai and Kerala.
While substantial evidence exists from the early and late Sasanian periods, a gap persists in our record from the central Sasanian centuries. This may be due to limited archaeological investigation in major Sasanian cities, though sociolinguistic shifts—perhaps after the Mazdakite movement disrupted the social order—may also have influenced the spread of writing. This analysis aligns with the scholarly interests of Ehsan Yarshater, who offered profound insights into Iranian National History, and invites further interdisciplinary inquiry to fully understand Persia’s enduring impact on the Islamic world.
Recorded: January 29, 2025
Event: Pourdavoud Lecture Series
Citation: Cereti, Carlo. “The Rise of Persian: Understanding the Evolution of Writing in the Sasanian and Early Islamic Periods” Pourdavoud Lecture Series. January 29, 2025.
by Carlo G. Cereti (University of California, Irvine)
2. IQP 2025 Nowruz Festival (2025 March 30 – April 9)
Presidential Address: Qom, Tehran old road, After Bus Terminal, Farabi Campus, University of Tehran,
Tour Costs: US$3500
The IQP 2025 Nowruz Festival in Qom, Tehran, etc. is just a few weeks away! As you plan your trip, please note the following special events on the program, which starts on Saturday 30 March:
Qom: Qom Seminary and traditional Islamic education system
Qom: Ayatollah Marashi Najafi Int. Library
Qom: Ayatollah Sistani Int. Library
Qom: Museum of Religion and Life
Qom: Meeting with scientific-Qur’anic figures
Qom: Islamic Sciences Computer Center for the Production of Islamic Sciences Softwares.
Tehran: Tehran Big Bazar
Tehran: National Museum of the Holy Quran
Tehran: University of Tehran
Isfahan: Historical Monuments
Shiraz: Persepolis Monuments
Shiraz: Tombs of Hafez and Saadi Shirazi
Mashhad: Razavi Shrine and Museums of Astan Quds Razavi
Yazd: Historical Monuments
Conference: Fifth International Conference on the Holy Quran and the Holy Bible
All volunteers in Qur’anic and Islamic Studies attending the IQP IQP 2025 Nowruz Festival are welcome to join. All needed (Food/travel/Hotel, …) except your visa and traveling to Int. Imam Khomeini Airport will be scheduled in advance. For Registration you can correspond via info@zabanshenasitarikhi.ir
3. The Latin America and Caribbean Islamic Studies Newsletter
Vol. 5, no. 1 | Winter 2025
https://mailchi.mp/12de60ff1efb/latin-america-caribbean-islamic-studies-newsletter-vol5-no1
4. The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies
in collaboration with the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago jointly present:
Lessons from the Age of ‘Ajam: Teaching Persian with the Seventeenth-century Archive
Shaahin Pishbin, University of Oxford, Queen’s College
Saturday, 1 March 2025, 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time (Canada and US)
Zoom Meeting Registration:
https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/2ZqVLChRSUSCWCmdpjVsgg
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Abstract:
Coinciding with the turn of the Islamic millennium, the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries arguably represent the high watermark of Persian’s history as a transregional, cosmopolitan lingua franca. What can this rich period of the language’s history teach students today about Persian and the stories Persian speakers tell themselves (and others) about their language?
In this talk, I will draw attention to insights and ideas about the Persian language circulating in the seventeenth century, hoping to create some critical distance between modern students and certain long-standing totems of Persian’s linguistic ideology. Drawing on a variety of sources that discuss the grammar, geography, aesthetics, origins, and cosmic destiny of the Persian language itself, such as dictionaries, literary treatises, and occult literature, I will historicize and contextualize some of the stereotypical claims and attitudes students might encounter when learning the language today. For example, the sources under consideration will help answer some of the following questions: what do Persian speakers mean when they claim Persian to be an exceptionally poetic and idiomatic language? What explains Persian speakers’ sometimes fraught relationship with Arabic? How did notions of Persian’s primordial connection to a place called “Iran” become established? Why are some Persian speakers considered more “authoritative” than others? In partially answering such questions, I will discuss the pedagogical advantages of sensitizing students of Persian to the political, social, and cultural contexts of the seventeenth century out of which much of the languag
5. ONLINE Lecture “Between Byzantium and Modernity: Portraits of Civic Virtue in Late Ottoman Les-vos” by Dimitris Krallis (Simon Fraser University), Harvard University, 28 February 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
In a rich family archive from the Island of Lesvos that dates to the 19th and early 20th centuries, various documents outline fascinating ways in which members of the family in question negotiated modernity and the transition from Ottoman rule to Greek nationhood. This talk will introduce the archive and consider the ways in which Byzantine notions of domestic virtue competed with new ideas in the North Aegean.
Information and registration: https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/between-byzantium-and-modernity
6. HYBRID Roundtable “Making and Unmaking of Ottoman Borders”, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative, New York University, 6 March 2025, 11:30 pm CET
This roundtable brings together scholars to discuss the making and unmaking of Ottoman borders in the last century of the empire. The participants will reflect on the definition of what constitutes borderlands in relation to their academic works, and what are the processes in which various experiences of territoriality can be conceptualized within the Ottoman context.
Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/kAmiTPU7RM2VmnevvvljLA#/registration
7. ONLINE Book Launch “Murjana – A Tale of Love and Passion in Medieval Baghdad” by Dr. Ghada Karmi, Middle East and North Africa Centre at Sussex (MENACS), 18 March 2025, 18:00–19:30 CET
It is spring of the year 830. Baghdad, the capital of a vast Islamic empire, is one of the world’s most glorious cities. The Caliph’s court has become a dazzling academy of poets, musicians, philosophers, and theologians – a picture of a vibrant, self confident, pleasure-loving society. The Sunni-Shia divide, religious fanaticism, and the stirrings of Islamist extremism all started then. These themes emerge as the story of a passionate love that ends in murder unfolds.
Registration: https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/92804789851
8. Workshop “Connecting Constantinople: Objects, Empire, and Inter-Civic Relationality”, Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul & Netherlands Institute in Turkey, Istanbul, 13 June 2025
From Constantine’s transfer of the Palladium from Rome to Constantinople, to Sultan Selim I’s symbolic acquisition of the keys to the Ka’aba, objects, both tangible and symbolic, have played a pivotal role in shaping and symbolizing the connectivity between Constantinople and its urban counterparts. This workshop offers new insights into the intricate dynamics of urban connectivity from antiquity to the present day.
Deadline for abstracts: 16 March 2025. Information: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/onderzoekschool-medievistiek/nieuws/2025/februari/call-for-papers-connecting-constantinople
9. Extended deadline: “35th Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT)” and “31st Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO)”, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 8-12 September 2025 The DOT has been regularly convened by the “Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG)” since 1921. It is the biggest conference of Oriental Studies in the German speaking area and an internationally important conference for the research of languages, cultures and societies of the Near East, Asia and Africa. Contributions of the DAVO-Congress will be presented within the 21 sections and panels of the DOT, which are thematically and organisationally connected to the sections.
Extended Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2025.
Information: https://www.dot2025.fau.eu/files/2024/08/Call-for-Papers-DOT-2025_ENGLISH.pdf
10. 7th Conference of the European Network for Teaching Arabic (ENTA-7): “Literature and Culture in a Changing Arabic Language Classroom”, SOAS, University of London, 12 September 2025
Papers are invited on research that has implications on teaching and learning Arabic as a foreign language. Themes: – Classical literature and heritage texts: their incorporation into modern curricula. – Modern literary and cultural products: their incorporation into modern curricula. – Cinema and the Visual Arts: Arabic and optic regimes. – History, Religion and Society: inclusion and impact. – Content-Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and the Arabic classroom. Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2025. Information: https://enta.network/enta-7-call/
11. Articles for Journal “Turkish German Studies (TSG)”, Istanbul University Press
TGS is a platform for the exchange of academic research on all aspects of Turkish German Studies, including literary and cultural studies, linguistics, media and communication studies, sociology, political science, history, and edu-cation. In addition to contemporary topics, such as analyses of cultures of immigration, we seek to publish scholar-ship on Turkish German cultural contact, in the broadest sense, throughout history.
Deadline for articles: 30 April 2025. Information: https://iupress.istanbul.edu.tr/en/journal/tgs/announcements/call-for-papers-turkish-german-studies-tgs-2025-issues
- February 22, 2025
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Workshop “Diasporas, Exiles, Migrants, and Refugees from Europe in the Middle East and North Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries”, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, 8-10 July 2025
This workshop will think about how historical, spatial, cultural or conceptual imaginations of the nations, regions and their boundaries, have been transformed by the movements of people from Europe who went to MENA. What potential might a decolonial approach to the questions of diaspora, exile, migration and refuge offer, and how does it challenge our understanding of areas or regions in Europeand MENA.
Deadline for abstracts: 12 March 2025. Information: https://www.eume-berlin.de/fileadmin/eume/Bilder/Veranstaltungen/Workshops/CfP-WS_European_Migration_to_MENA.pdf
2. Assistant or Associate Professor in Sociocultural Anthropology of Palestine, University of California, Davis
We seek a scholar with a cutting-edge, ethnographically grounded research agenda whose work addresses key topics in Palestine Studies.
Deadline for applications: 5 March 2025. Information: https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06996
3. Visiting Assistant Professor (1 Year +) of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (Focus Middle East/North Africa, and their American Diasporas), Colgate University, New York
The candidate’s areas of research and teaching should be Arab, Arab American feminisms. The candidate should be able to teach broadly materials pertaining to the region. Completion of Ph.D. or appropriate terminal degree is required prior to or shortly after the date of hire.
Deadline for applications: 8 March 2025. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/162764
4. “RIMO Thesis Award 2024-2025” for Research of Students in Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Related to The Netherlands or Belgium
Eligibility requirements: Students who write about topics related to the Netherlands or Belgium, are eligible to apply. Submissions can include theses, journal articles, or other academic works. Participants must not have been older than 35 years at the time of writing their submission.
Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2025. Information: https://www.verenigingrimo.nl/english#thesisprize
5. HYBRID Summer School: “Critical Muslim Studies: Decolonial Struggles and Liberation Theologies”, Granada, Spain, 13-28 June 2025
Critical Muslim Studies is inspired by a need for opening up a space for intellectually rigorous and socially committed explorations between decolonial thinking and studies of Muslims, Islam and the Islamicate. Critical Muslim Studies does not take Islam as only a spiritual tradition, or a civilization, but also as a possibility of a decolonial epistemic perspective that suggests contributions and responses to the problems facing humankind today.
Deadline for application: 30 March 2025. Information and registration: https://www.dialogoglobal.com/granada/
6. Call for Papers:
Motherhood and Unfreedom in the Islamicate World (700-1000)
June 4, 2025
Workshop
This workshop aims to bring together scholars working on women, unfreedom, gender, and households in the Islamicate world (and beyond) to explore how these factors intersected and shaped women’s lives. Through an interdisciplinary lens, the workshop will interrogate the roles that enslaved and free women played in shaping power dynamics, kinship structures, and societal norms. By focusing on both the visible and invisible contributions of women, the workshop seeks to reevaluate the historical record and push the boundaries of current scholarship. Given the collaboration of the Allard Pierson (Amsterdam) we strongly encourage the participation of researchers who engage with material culture in order to shed light on the dynamics of unfreedom.
We invite applications from scholars working inside and outside the field of Islamic studies and welcome contributions investigating unfreedom and motherhood from comparative perspectives (Byzantine, Latin Christendom, Indian Ocean, Central Asia etc.)
Some guiding questions include: How did enslaved women influence family structures, societal views on marriage and sexuality, and ideologies of rulership? How did genealogical shifts challenge notions of Arab nobility?
What role did the maternal family play, and is there evidence for matrilineal influence in early Islamic society? What was the experience of unfree mothers? What legal avenues existed for enslaved women to assert agency, and how do male-written sources depict or omit their presence? How did enslavement and multi-lingualism interact?
Ultimately, this workshop hopes to open new pathways for understanding gender, slavery, and the household, contributing to a more nuanced history of early Islam.
This workshop is organized by Dr. Zahra Azhar and Dr. Leone Pecorini-Goodall, and supported by ERC Horizon Starting Grant Project, “Embodied Imamate: Mapping the Development of the Early Shil Community 700-900 CE (ImBod),” grant number 101077946, led by Dr. Edmund Hayes with the generous support of the Allard Pierson and their collaborative partner, the National Slavery Museum.
Please submit abstracts of up to 500 words to this email address no later than
March 15th:
7. Zoom Panel: Christian, Jewish, Islamic & Secular Law in American & International History (Thurs, Feb 27, 3:30 Eastern US)
Panelists include: Deina Abdelkader (University of Massachusetts), David Novak (University of Toronto), Peter N. Stearns (George Mason University), R. Charles Weller (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and Washington State University). MC’d by Dr. Heather Salter & Dr. David Kalivas. Sponsored by: The World History Association (WHA) & the New England World History Workshop (NEWHW)
The registration link is https://wsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/NL4vJeFORAOjAhl3A050fg
8. Indiana University’s Summer 2025 Language Workshop is now accepting applications for its intensive online Kurdish program!
- Learn 1 year of language in 2 months
- Enjoy 18 hours of live instruction per week, plus cultural activities
- Combine the effectiveness of intensive study with the convenience of an online class
- Speed your learning by studying alongside enthusiastic and talented language learners
Rolling Application Deadline
- May 16, 2025
Learn more and apply here: https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/kurdish
Questions? Email the Language Workshop at languageworkshop@iu.edu or join virtual office hours.
9. Indiana University’s Summer 2025 Language Workshop is now accepting applications for its intensive online Turkish program!
- Learn 1 year of language in 2 months
- Enjoy 18 hours of live instruction per week, plus cultural activities
- Combine the effectiveness of intensive study with the convenience of an online class
- Accelerate your learning with daily 1-on-1 skills training
- Speed your learning by studying alongside enthusiastic and talented language learners
Rolling Application Deadline
- May 16, 2025
Learn more and apply here: https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/turkish
Questions? Email the Language Workshop at languageworkshop@iu.edu or join virtual office hours.
10. Indiana University’s Summer 2025 Language Workshop is now accepting applications for its intensive online Persian program!
- Learn 1 year of language in 2 months
- Enjoy 18 hours of live instruction per week, plus cultural activities
- Combine the effectiveness of intensive study with the convenience of an online class
- Accelerate your learning with daily 1-on-1 skills training
- Speed your learning by studying alongside enthusiastic and talented language learners
Rolling Application Deadline
- May 16, 2025
Learn more and apply here: https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/persian
Questions? Email the Language Workshop at languageworkshop@iu.edu or join virtual office hours.
11. Call for Papers: AWEJ for Translation and Literary Studies (May Issue 2025)
Arab World English Journal for Translation and Literary Studies welcomes the submission of papers for the May Issue 2025.Due to requests from many colleagues, the submission deadline is March 15, 2025. The issue publication date is May Issue 2025. Please read the submission.
- February 18, 2025
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Department of Middle Eastern Studies of the University of Chicago is honored to have Prof. Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi as speaker in the Heshmat Moayyad Lecture Series 2025. The lecture will be in person and on zoom on Wednesday, Feb 19 at 5:00 PM US Central Time at The Tea Room, The Social Science Research Building.
Title
Rights Civilization and Governmentality: The Cyrus Cylinder and ‘Equality Rights’ in Cold War Iran
Abstract
“Rights Civilization and Governmentality: The Cyrus Cylinder and ‘Equality Rights’ in Cold War Iran” explores the interplay between historical memory, social rights, and the contested conceptions of governmentality and constitutionality in the four decades prior to the 1979 Revolution. Offering a corrective to the ideological and linear revolutionary narratives of Pahlavi Iran, this historical inquiry elucidates how a multi-confessional conception of Iran and its constitutionally sanctioned “equality rights” of citizens was reconceived at “a moment of danger” during WWII when Iran was invaded by the Allied forces and Reza Shah Pahlavi (r. 1925-1941) was forced to abdicate. It explores how the endeavor for the promotion of legal equality of women and non-Muslims was opposed on religious and constitutional grounds by those who conceived of Iran as a “Shi‘i nation” (millat-i Shi‘ah). Exploring the concurrent and protracted efforts of lawyers and jurists (fuqaha) to promote two divergent modes of governing the everyday conduct of citizens—one based on “equality rights” and the other on Islamic jurisprudence––this lecture offers a historically situated account of the rights question in Iran in the decades before the 1979 Revolution.
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2. Indiana University’s Summer 2025 Language Workshop is now accepting applications for its intensive immersion programs in Arabic, Chinese, and Russian!
- Learn 1 year of language in 2 months and earn college credit
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3. The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites researchers to apply for up to 3 postdoctoral fellowships forthe academic year 2025/2026 for the research program EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE EAST—THE MIDDLE EAST IN EUROPE (EUME).
Location: Berlin / Closing Date: 26 March 2025, 12.00h (noon) CET
FAQ (PDF): https://www.eume-berlin.de/fileadmin/bilder/Forum/Ausschreibungen/CfA-2025-26-FAQ.pdf
EUME seeks to rethink key concepts and premises that link and divide Europe and the Middle East. The program draws on the international expertise of a growing network of scholars in and outside of Germany and is embedded in university and extra-university research institutions in and outside of Berlin. EUME supports historical-critical philology, rigorous engagement with the literatures of the Middle East and their histories, the social history and life of cities and the study of Middle Eastern political and philosophical thought as central fields of research not only for area or cultural studies, but also for European intellectual history and other academic disciplines. The program explores modernity as a historical space and conceptual frame. EUME is interested in questions relating to ongoing transformation processes in and between Europe and the Middle East, in re-imaginations of the past and present that contribute to free, pluralistic and just societies.
The program puts forward three programmatic ideas:
1) supporting research that demonstrates the rich and complex historical legacies and entanglements between Europe and the Middle East; 2) re-examining genealogical notions of mythical ‘origins’, and ‘purity’ in relation to culture and society; and 3) rethinking key concepts of a shared modernity and future in light of contemporary cultural, social, and political divisions and entanglements that supersede identity discourses as well as national, cultural or regional canons and epistemologies that were established in the nineteenth century.
EUME supports and rests upon interconnected research fields and themes that mark the open framework for the fellowship program that constitutes EUME:
Travelling Traditions: Comparative Perspectives on Near Eastern Literatures
represented by Friederike Pannewick (Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies/Department for Arabic Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg) and Samah Selim (Rutgers University – New Brunswick) reassesses literary entanglements and processes of translation and canonization between Europe and the Middle East.
Cities Compared: Governance, Participatory Mechanisms and Plurality
represented by Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi (both Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin) contributes to the debates on civil society, participation, deliberation, opinion formation, citizenship, migration and mobilization from the experience of cultural and religious differences in cities around the Mediterranean and beyond.
Tradition and the Critique of Modernity: Secularism, Fundamentalism and Religion from Middle Eastern Perspectives
represented by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva) tries to rethink key concepts of modernity like secularity, tradition, and religion in the context of experiences, interpretations, and critiques from the Middle East in order to contribute to a more inclusive language of culture, politics and community.
Politics and Processes of Change, Archaeologies of the Present, and Imaginations of the Future
are research themes that emerged during the last years and are represented by the work of several EUME Fellows and members of the Collegium (e.g. Cilja Harders, Friederike Pannewick, Rachid Ouaissa, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin).
The Prison Narratives of Assad’s Syria: Voices, Texts, Publics (SYRASP), directed by Anne-Marie McManus, and Beyond Restitution: Heritage, (Dis)Possession and the Politics of Knowledge (BEYONDREST), directed by Banu Karaca, are two ERC funded projects related to EUME, hosted at the Forum.
Since 1997, more than 400 scholars from and of the Middle East have been EUME Fellows, who, by their scholarly projects, engagement, and their inquiries into the order of knowledge, society and politics, shape the academic program of EUME that is coordinated by Georges Khalil, Jessica Metz, Claudia Pfitzner and Rashof Salih at the Forum Transregionale Studien.
Fellowships
We invite scholars in the humanities and social sciences who want to carry out their research projects in connection with the Berlin-based program. The up to three fellowships announced here are intended to contribute to the mobility of researchers, and are primarily addressed to scholars from outside Germany. This year we especially encourage scholars from Palestine and its diaspora to apply.
As the number of fellowships we are able to offer is limited, we invite interested scholars also to apply with their own funding or contact us with the inquiry for support in finding third party funding. If this may be an option, please contact us via eume(at)trafo-berlin.de anytime.
Applicants should be at the postdoctoral level and should have obtained their doctorate within the last seven years. Fellows gain the opportunity to pursue research projects of their own choice within the framework of Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe. Successful applicants will be fellows of EUME at the Forum Transregionale Studien, and associate members of one of the university or non-university research institutes listed below or connected to the Forum Transregionale Studien.
The fellowships start on 1 October 2025 and will end on 31 July 2026. Postdoctoral fellows will receive a monthly stipend of 2,500 € plus supplements depending on their personal situation. Organisational support regarding visa, insurance, housing, etc. will be provided. Fellows are obliged to work in Berlin and to help shape the seminars and working discussions related to their research field. The working language of EUME is English.
Application Procedure
We kindly ask you to submit your application via the secure online application platform of the Forum Transregionale Studien by 26 March 2025, 12.00h (noon) CET:
https://application.trafo-berlin.de/
Please note that applications by email will not be considered.
As part of your application, you will be asked to prepare and upload the following:
— a curriculum vitae (including a list of publications);
— a project description (no longer than 5 pages), stating what the scholar will work on in Berlin if granted a fellowship, and
— the names of two university faculty members who can serve as referees (no letters of recommendation required).
In case of questions, please consult the FAQ or send an email to eume(at)trafo-berlin.de
Institutional Framework
Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME) has been initiated in 2006 as a joint research program of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. It builds upon the previous work of the Working Group Modernity and Islam (1996-2006). Since 2011 EUME is continued at the Forum Transregionale Studien.
In scholarly terms EUME is steered by a Collegium that currently consists of Ulrike Freitag (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin), Cilja Harders (Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin), Nora Lafi (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin), Rachid Ouaissa (Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg / MECAM – Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb), Friederike Pannewick (Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg), Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva), Samah Selim (Rutgers University), and Stefan Weber (Museum for Islamic Art, Berlin).
The Forum Transregionale Studien (Forum) is a research organization for the promotion of cross-border cooperation between scholars of different expertise and perspectives on global issues. Transregional approaches connect and confront diverse disciplines, regional, national and local positions and insights on global issues. The Forum provides scope for exchange on questions of science policy, epistemology and ethics, and develops infrastructures and formats that allow transregional research ideas and projects to be tested, implemented and communicated. The Forum is constituted by its members and the diversity of their research expertise and networks. It is committed to strengthening regional studies and to the principle of non-hierarchical research. It appoints scholars from around the world as fellows and engages in joint research programs and initiatives with partners from universities and research institutions in and outside Berlin. The Forum is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Higher Education and Research, Health and Long-Term Care.
The Forum currently supports the following research programs and initiatives: Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME), Prisma Ukraïna – Research Network Eastern Europe, and re:constitution – Exchange and Analysis on Democracy and the Rule of Law in Europe. The Forum is a member of the consortium of MECAM: Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb, and of the research college EUTIM: Europäische Zeiten/European Times – A Transregional Approach to the Societies of Central and Eastern Europe. Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship and 4A_Lab: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics are connected programs developed at the Forum that are continued at other institutions.
For more information on the Forum, its programs, initiatives and communication, please visit
www.forum-transregionale-studien.de
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
https://trafo.hypotheses.org/
For further information on EUME and for detailed information on the research fields and themes, please visit
www.eume-berlin.de
For information on the research institutions in Berlin participating in EUME, please visit
— Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin
https://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/
— Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science,
Freie Universität Berlin
https://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en
— Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
https://www.zmo.de
— Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/friedrichschlegel
— Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/en/e/islamwiss
— Museum for Islamic Art
https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/museum-fuer-islamische-kunst/
— Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/en/e/semiarab
— Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg
https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/cnms
— MECAM – Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb
https://mecam.tn/?lang=en
Contact Email
URL
https://www.eume-berlin.de/en/homepage
4. Indiana University’s Summer 2025 Language Workshop is now accepting applications for its intensive online Pashto program!
- Learn 1 year of language in 2 months
- Enjoy 18 hours of live instruction per week, plus cultural activities
- Combine the effectiveness of intensive study with the convenience of an online class
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5. Book Conversation by Dr. Marilyn Jenkins-Madina
Date: March 4th, 6:00 pm
Place: Columbia University, 825 Schermerhorn Hall
Dr. Marilyn Jenkins-Madina is Curator Emerita of the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. During the forty years she served as a curator in that department, she played a key role in helping to create the museum’s first major (ten-gallery) installation of Islamic art as well as adding to the collection and organizing special exhibitions. With an MA in Art History from Columbia University and a PhD from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, she has lectured widely, published over 30 articles, and written or co-authored seven books, including the classic Islamic Art and Architecture 650-1250 with Richard Ettinghausen and Oleg Grabar. Her memoir, The Lure of the East: A Curator’s Fascinating Journey, was published by Rodin Books in 2024. Please join Dr. Jenkins-Madina in her discussion of her book in conversation with Dr. Lila Abu-Lughod at Columbia University, on March 4th at 6:00 pm.
If you plan on attending, we kindly ask you to register at this Google form no later than February 28th at 3:00 pm to be able to access the Columbia campus: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeru2mAJDzowUFoLW1GaquMSu0LEzifmUNI8D2KVs2i9n5rNQ/viewform
6. The CeRMI is pleased to invite you to the next session of the seminar “Societies, Politics and Cultures of the Iranian World”, which will be held next Thursday, February 20, 2025, 5pm-7pm, in room 4.15 at the INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII,4th floor).
We are pleased to welcome Ms. Eva Zahiri (CeRMI, IFI, Sciences-Po), for a lecture entitled: “For an Islamic Law of Our Time: The Renewal of Legal Thought in Iran“.
Summary:
The purpose of this presentation is to examine the transformation of Islamic law in Iran since the 1990s and 2000s. Contrary to the traditional interpretation of foqahā, which is rooted in objective natural law and an apologetic perspective, some contemporary Iranian jurists favor the method of historicity and the critical approach, with a view to enshrine legal subjectivity and equality. Although they do not belong to an established movement, they embody anembryonic but lasting historical process of ongoing restructuring.
Their doctrinal innovations were part of the rationalist usūlī tradition while renewing it in the light of the needs of Iranian society, which was recomposing itself. Despite the diversity of trends and nuances, all stress the need to think of the social contract on the basis of a renewed theory of law and a system of law guaranteeing legal certainty in national legislation. Their goal is to update and perpetuate the cardinal principle of justice to reflect the current Iranian way of life and maintain the universality of Islam.
Bibliographical orientations:
D āwood pherahi, fikh wa siyāsat rate irān-a mo’āser, vol. 1. ET 2 Tehran, Nasr-e, 1392/2013.
– Mohsen KADIVAR, Haqq al-nās. Eslām va hoquq-e bashar, Téhéran, Kavir, 1387/2008.
– Mohammad RĀSEKH, “Sharia and Law in the Age of Constitutionalism,” Journal of Global Justice and Public Policy, vol. 2, n° 2, 2016.
Sedigheh Wasmaghi, Zan, Fikh, ESL ām, Tehran, Samadiyeh, 1386/2007.
As a reminder, you will find the 2024-2025 program of the monthly research seminar “Societies, Politics and Cultures of the Iranian World” on the CeRMI website:
Contact: justine.landau@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr
7. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin is hosting a conference showcasing new academic books on the study of Middle Eastern Literature in its ongoing “New Perspectives on Middle Eastern Literatures and Cultures” series.
The conference will start on Thursday, February 27th at 3:30pm with a keynote speech by Nergis Ertürk. The rest of the talks will take place on Friday, February 28th. See this page for the full Friday schedule.
Register for the conference here: https://new-books-on-ME-lit.eventbrite.com.
The event will also be streamed live on Zoom. Register on the Eventbrite page for a virtual attendance ticket, and you will be sent the Zoom link.
8. ONLINE Lecture: „Tents and Fortresses, Palaces and Caves: Literary Architectures in Nezāmi’s Book of Alexander“ by Prof. Paul Losensky (Indiana University), Brown University, Providence, RI, 20 February 2025, 18:00 – 19:15 h CET
Building projects frame the career of Alexander the Great as told by the Persian poet Nezāmi Ganjavi (d. 1209) in his „Eskandarnāmeh“. Although Alexander`s encounters with palaces, religious sites, and domestic dwellings, shape his character significantly, leading to an ascetic critique of architecture as a whole, a critique symbolized by the natural shelter of the cave.
Information and registration: https://events.brown.edu/event/tents-and-fortresses-palaces
9. HYBRID Book Talk “The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century” by Zozan Pehlivan, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative, New York University, 20 February 2025, 23:30 h CET
The lecture will illuminate the environmental roots of intercommunal conflict in Ottoman Kurdistan during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on insights from climate science, agronomy, and zoology, Pehli-van offers a groundbreaking perspective on how extreme climate disruptions fueled tensions between Christian Armenian peasants and Muslim Kurdish pastoralists.
Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/uOiEHhBMSHWh1_m4P5otOA#/registration
10. Workshop “Inheriting Empire? Transformations and Contestations of “Ottoman” Heritage”, Berlin, 13-14 March 2025
Through a focus on (post)-Ottoman lands and imaginaries, this workshop aims to engage with civilization, empire, nation, and heritage as constructs in flux, forever dependent on individuals, objects, ideas, and places that carry inherited meanings and become catalysts for new kinds of meaning making, as well. We will examine how multiple political projects have engaged in memory-making and heritage-making practices.
Deadline for registration: 7 March 2025. Information and program:
11. Extended deadline:
Workshop “Faking It – Forgery, Fraud, Deception and Dissimulation in the Pre-Modern Mediterra-nean (Including Near East and North Africa)”, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 10-11 April 2025
Proposals are welcome from scholars of all ranks from across all disciplines of the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, as are papers from the Sciences, that engage in the broadest sense with social, historical and cultural aspects of the Mediterranean language, linguistics, literature, culture, society, art, and social, economic and political history, as well as anthropology, sociology, and other related humanities and social science disciplines.
Extended deadline for abstracts: 29 February 2025. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-faking-it-forgery-fraud-deception-and-dissimulation-mediterranean-seminar-spring-2025-workshop-10-11-april-cleveland-2535779?e=82aeb6c61d
12. [KAIS] 2025 Korean Association of Islamic Studies (KAIS) International Conference Call for Papers
The Korean Association for Islamic Studies (KAIS) is pleased to announce that the upcoming joint international conference on “Religious Harmony and Tolerance in a Globalized, Multicultural Society-Religious Diversity and Social Solidarity: Beyond Conflict to Harmony-” will be held at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Republic of Korea, on May 30th, 2025.
Founded in 1989, KAIS is the only academic association in Korea dedicated to Islamic Studies, with over 200 members from domestic and international universities and research institutions. The association has played a pivotal role in establishing and promoting Islamic Studies in Korea, which was once considered an academic void in the field.
In 2025, KAIS aims to expand its reach beyond Korea by fostering cooperation with universities, research institutions, and public organizations in key Islamic countries. In this regard, we kindly request the cooperation of your esteemed institution for this international conference and encourage the active participation of interested scholars.
This international conference, jointly organized by KAIS, the Korean Association for Buddhist Studies (KABS), and Christianity academic associations in Korea, will feature in-depth discussions on religious diversity, conflict, coexistence, and harmony.
《Session Details》
Session 1 will address “Islamophobia and Migration“. This session will examine the experiences of Muslims who have settled in Korea and the challenges they face. Through insightful presentations and in-depth discussions, we will explore the lives of Muslims living in different cultures and consider how we can move toward greater coexistence and harmony.
If you (or members of the association) are interested in participating, please respond to this email (Islamhakhoe@hanmail.net ) by February 28th, 2025 with a 250-300 abstract, including the title of the paper in English, along with a CV. The CV should include personal information (name, nationality and email address), affiliation & position, research interests, and research activities.
Papers should be presented in English, and participants wishing to present in Arabic should provide the title in English. For the publication of the conference proceedings, we recommend that manuscripts should be 5 to 10 pages on A4 paper or a PPT presentation with no more than 20 slides. The deadline for paper submission is April 30, 2025.
For inquiries or further information, please contact KAIS via our official email: islamhakhoe@hanmail.net
- February 15, 2025
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Shi News – Academic Items
1. On Theocratic Criminal Law: The Rule of Religion and Punishment in Iran
Bahman Khodadadi
OUP, 2024
https://academic.oup.com/book/58208
2. UCLA IRANIAN STUDIES OUTREACH
BILINGUAL LECTURE SERIES
‘Women’s Rights and the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran’
Pegah Banihashemi
Sunday, March 9, 2025 at 11:30 am
Lecture in Persian
Zoom Registration:
https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pM3LdrXXSriCfDMGfzVg8w
3. Harvard University – Senior Preceptor in Armenian
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=68527
4. IJIA Dialogues
1 March, 2025 | 9:00–10:30 Pacific/12:00–13:30 Eastern/ 17:00–18:30 GMT
Building the Vernacular and the Everyday in Islamic Contexts
Much of the built environment in Islamic contexts facilitates the needs of everyday life. Self-built spaces are constructed by the community, and schools, housing and streetscapes are reshaped by users to better meet the needs of local people. Settings for assembly are made, adapted, and reshaped. Investigations of these design practices will broaden our understanding of spatial needs and intentions. Twentieth-century architects borrowed liberally from regional materials and traditions, winning awards for designs based on the work of master builders. We can question whether the vernacular label is a useful categorization for localized traditions or the contemporary revival of local practices. Why does vernacular design continue to be presented as if it is less meaningful than institutionally guided and canonical projects, or to be overlooked altogether? There are many ways to engage place-based design needs, communal spaces, and sites erected to facilitate learning, worship, festivals, ritual, and daily life.
Please join us for the annual ‘Dialogues’ roundtable as the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) brings together scholars and practitioners from varied disciplines for a discussion of critical contemporary issues that interrogate the boundaries between architecture, art, anthropology, archaeology, and history. In this year’s session, ‘Building the Vernacular and the Everyday in Islamic Contexts’, IJIA Associate Editor Angela Andersen and panelists Yasaman Esmaili, Hussein Keshani, and Solaiman Salahi will discuss the idea of the vernacular, how current needs act to shift and adapt past traditions, and how the digital realm intersects with local brick and stone.
Zoom registration: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/rEg-1JwKTmeZl9onMhPVtA
Yasaman Esmaili is an architect and educator based in Tehran, Iran. She is the founder of the award-winning Studio Chahar, which fosters community participation through collaborative architectural processes. Her work was shortlisted for the Aga Khan Award in 2022.
Hussein Keshani is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator in Art History and Visual
Culture at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada. He is a specialist in Delhi
Sultanate and Awadhi visual cultures, and digital art history.
Solaiman Salahi is a civil engineer and Fulbright Scholar based in Seattle, in the United States. He is experienced in sustainable design, and has been involved in creating safe learning environments for girls through sustainable educational infrastructure in Afghanistan.
View the event PDF here: https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/92979/1/IJIA_Dialogues_2025_info.pdf
- February 11, 2025
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Les offres pour un contrat doctoral ou un contrat postdoctoral liée à la chaire junior “Arts et patrimoine d’Afghanistan” sont désormais en ligne sur le site de l’INaLCO.
– Contrat doctoral: https://www.inalco.fr/institut/concours-recrutement/appels-candidatures-contrat-doctoral-en-histoire-du-monde-islamique
Date limite de candidature : 31 mars 2025
– Contrat post-doctoral: https://www.inalco.fr/institut/concours-recrutement/contrat-post-doctoral/assistant-de-projet-sur-la-thematique-art
Date limite de candidature : le 15 avril 2025
Contact et information complémentaire : Arezou Azad : arezou.azad@inalco.fr
2. The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies and Invisible East present a series of monthly online seminars about archives and documents.
Convened by Arezou Azad and Mohamad Tavakoli, the seminars are held monthly on Zoom.
Please join us this month to hear from Professor Farzin Vejdani on ‘Private Sins, Public Crimes: Policing, Punishment, and Authority in Iran’. Wednesday 12 February at 12PM EST / 5PM GMT.
Pre-registration is essential.
https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArdu-upjkoHt105Bv9ohYiR1iWSIXsCrFA#/registration
3.Fatema Mernissi for Our Times
Edited by Minoo Moallem and Paola Bacchetta
Paper $44.95 9780815638575
Hardcover $90 9780815638568
Ebook $44.95 9780815657354
To order: https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/8090/fatema-mernissi-for-our-times/
4. Armenian Cultural Heritage Conference and Medicine in the Islamic World on February 8
Armenian Cultural Heritage: Past, Present, and Future
A full-day conference that brings together a diverse group of experts to delve into the rich Armenian cultural heritage of the South Caucasus and Eastern Turkey
Co-sponsored event, cohosted by the Promise Armenian Institute and the Fowler Museum at UCLA
Saturday, February 8, 2025
8:00 AM – 7:00 PM PST
Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum
https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/16994
Medicine in the Islamic World: A History through Manuscripts
Co-sponsored event, organized by the UCLA Islamic Studies
Saturday, February 8, 2025
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM PST
Location provided upon RSVP
5. The symposium “Libraries and Archival Practices in the Early Modern Eastern Islamic World” will be held in hybrid mode on March 20, 2025, in Tokyo.
Philip Bockholt, Yui Kanda, Elahe Mahbub, Behzad Nemati, and Andrew Peacock will be speaking. Pre-registration is required for both on-site and online participation. For further details, please visit https://x.gd/4Z5jQ .
6. University of Maryland
Summer Language Institute
June 2nd, 2025 – August 1st, 2025
Rapidly improve your Persian language skills in a 9 week intensive program with the University of Maryland’s Summer Language Institute.
The UMD Summer Language Institute offers
- Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced and Content level courses
- Small class sizes, at least 40 hours of language contact per week and a dedicated team of faculty and staff
- One-on-one time with conversation partners for additional speaking practice
- A rich calendar of cultural events, interactive workshops, lectures, career panels, and field trips in the Washington D.C area
- Flat rate tuition for all students and competitive Summer Institute scholarshipsavailable (apply by the priority deadline!)
Early Bird Deadline ($200 off tuition): March 21st, 2025
Priority Deadline (scholarship consideration): April 11th, 2025
Final Application Deadline: May 15th, 202
https://sllc.umd.edu/special-programs/arabic-persian/summer-langage-institutes/persian
7. CALL FOR PAPERS FOR SYMPOSIUM
53rd Annual South Asia Conference 2025 Madison, Wisconsin, 22-25 October 2025
Majoritarianism and Community Resilience in Modern India: Histories, Modalities, Futures
Submission Deadline: Monday, February 17, 2025
The South Asian Muslim Studies Association (SAMSA) invites paper submissions for a full-day symposium examining the complex dimensions of anti-Muslim violence in contemporary India. The symposium seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on the intersections of religious nationalism, state power, and minority experiences in South Asia. We welcome contributions from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and methods, including but not limited to history, anthropology, religious studies, literature, media studies, politics, and area studies.
We welcome papers addressing the following themes:
- Historical genealogies of anti-Muslim violence and their relationship to contemporary Hindutva politics
- Institutional mechanisms of marginalization across bureaucratic, legal, and social domains
- Geographical variations in the manifestation and intensity of anti-Muslim violence
- The role of family, community, and religious institutions in either facilitating, negotiating, or resisting violence
- Muslim subjectivities and lived experiences under conditions of systematic marginalization
- Forms of resistance, community resilience, and strategies for social reconstruction
- Critical and diachronic analysis of concepts that have come to dominate the conversation like religion, nationalism
- Critical analyses of conceptions of citizenship, religious identity, and syncretic traditions that press upon communalist boundaries
- Theoretical frameworks for understanding state power and minority rights in South Asia
- Papers should engage with one or more of these themes while contributing to broader theoretical discussions about religious nationalism, minority rights, and state power in South Asia.
Submission Guidelines: - Abstract length: 300 words maximum
- Include a brief bio: 150 words
- Submit all materials as a single Microsof t Word file
- Email submissions to: ysaikia@asu.edu and robbme@upenn.edu
- Deadline: Monday, February 17, 2025, 11:59 PM EST
The symposium organizers plan to develop selected papers into an edited volume or special journal issue. We encourage graduate students and early-career scholars to apply.
Note: The symposium will be held in person at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as part of the Annual South Asia Conference 2025.
8. Scent and Imagination Symposium, which will be held on Wednesday 4th June 2025, at Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge.
This interdisciplinary symposium seeks to explore the dynamic interplay between olfactory heritage and imagination. We aim to understand the material, cultural, and symbolic dimensions of smells and how they shape and are shaped by cultural practices and imaginative processes. The event will feature academic paper presentations, practical and artistic workshops, and an art performance.
For more info, please visit: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45567/#description
We will accept Paper Proposals until the 20th of February 2025, and would be very glad if you could share this information with anyone interested and willing to participate, either as a speaker or as a general participant!
9. ‘New insights into Sistani intellectual culture under the Saffarids’,
Marc Czarnuszewicz
Journal of Islamic Studies, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/etaf003
10. Online Course: Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Toronto
Course Title: ‘Persian Book and Printing History’
Course Description: This online course offers an in-depth exploration of early modern and modern Persian Book History, focusing on the transnational development of print in the Persian language. Drawing on the remarkable Tavakoli Archives’ collection of early Persian lithographs and movable type materials, students will examine the historical, cultural, and technological aspects of Persian book production, dissemination, and reception from the late 18th century to 1950.
Through seminars, interactive discussions, and hands-on sessions with digitized archival materials, students will engage with tangible historical artifacts to uncover the intricate relationship between print, culture, and intellectual development in the Persian-speaking world. This material-focused course emphasizes critical analysis, collaborative projects, and independent research centered on the Tavakoli Archives’ collection. By combining theoretical knowledge with practical experience, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of Persian book history and its broader cultural and intellectual significance.
Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students will:
- Acquire a deep understanding of the historical, cultural, and social contexts that shaped the evolution of modern Persian book production.
- Analyze the impact of movable type on the Persian printing industry, examining its historical significance and influence on book distribution.
- Investigate the historical and technological developments of lithography in the Persian-speaking world, exploring its impact on book design and production.
- Compare and contrast Persian print cultures in Iran and India, exploring the cultural exchanges and cross-cultural influences in the production of Persian books.
- Trace the transition to modern printing methods in Iran, examining the role of technological advancements and global socio-political conditions in shaping the landscape of Persian printing trade.
- Develop practical research skills by actively engaging with the Tavakoli Archives’ collection, including archival research, cataloging, and preservation techniques.
- Apply theoretical knowledge gained throughout the course to critically analyze and interpret historical materials within the context of Persian Book History.
Students and professionals from other universities can audit or enroll through the standard procedures: https://future.utoronto.ca/apply/requirements/non-degree-students/.
11. ONLINE Conference “The Qur’ān and the Turkic World: Context and Interpretation”, SOAS/Charles Sturt University/University of Freiburg, 19 February 2025, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm CET
This conference will examine the correlation between the Qur’ān and Turkic nations, highlighting the contextual factors that impact its interpretation and implementation. It will explore how the Qur’ān has been translated, interpreted and applied in different historical and contemporary contexts of the Turkic world, such as Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and significant Turkic minorities in other states.
Information, program, and registration:
https://arts-ed.csu.edu.au/centres/cisac/conferences/the-quran-and-the-turkic-world
12. Workshop “What is Islam About: Concept and Conceptualization of Islam from an Interdisciplinary Perspective”, Goethe-University Frankfurt, 21-22 February 2025
We will look at different academic disciplines and their explicit and implicit premises about Islam. In particular, we examine how Islam has been, and is, defined and conceptualized by modern scholars from Islamic Theology, Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, History, Art History, Archaeology and Anthropology. At the same time, we explore the concept and conceptualization of Islam in different periods in history and in various sources.
Deadline for registration: 16 February 2025. Information und program: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/115599
13. Postdoctoral Fellow / Visiting Scholar (2025-2026), Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University
We invite applications for paid and unpaid Postdoctoral Fellow / Visiting Scholar appointment(s) to conduct advan-ced historical research in Islamic art, architecture, material culture, and archaeology at Harvard University. We welcome applications from recent PhD graduates (as Postdoctoral Fellow) and mid-career scholars/senior scholars (as Visiting Scholar).
Deadline for applications: 20 February 2025. Information:
https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14649 and https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14659
14. “Prix Michel Seurat 2025” pour un jeune chercheur, ressortissant d’un pays européen ou d’un pays du Proche-Orient ou du Maghreb, CNRS
Doté d’un montant de 15 000 €, le Prix est ouvert aux titulaires d’un master 2 ou d’un diplôme équivalent, âgés de moins de 35 ans révolus et sans condition de nationalité, de toutes disciplines, dont la recherche doctorale en cours porte sur les sociétés contemporaines du monde arabe, domaine envisagé comme ouvert et en interaction avec d’autres contextes et traditions intellectuels.
Limite : 15/04/2025. Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2025/02/Seurat2025_Appel_V2.pdf
- February 08, 2025
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.HYBRID Ibn Haldun University (IHU) Summer Language School Program (Modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Persian), Istanbul, 30 June – 15 August 2025
Ibn Haldun University offers two types of summer school programs every year; Intensive language and subject-specific academic summer schools. Students can benefit from all university facilities.
Deadline for applications: 21 March 2025. Information: https://summer.ihu.edu.tr/en
2. ONLINE Webinar ‘Book Launch: The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Iranian Cinema’
with Maryam Ghorbankarimi, Michelle Langford, Zahra Khosroshahi, Laudan Nooshin, Lindsey Moore, Kaveh Abbasian, and Max Bledstein
The book is organised around eight broad themes including cinema before and after the revolution, stylistic innovation, documentary, gender, and genre. Encompassing a diverse range of methodological approaches and disciplinary frameworks including film studies, cultural studies, and political economy, each chapter is a self-contained study on a specific topic engaging with the national and transnational history of Iranian cinema which combined provide readers with original new insights into Iranian film and filmmakers, from fiction films to art house and popular cinema. The Handbook includes analysis of the works of established filmmakers such as Bahram Beyzaie, Rakhshan Banetemad, Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, as well as the output of emerging voices such as Ida Panahandeh and Shahram Mokri. Covering well-known topics as well as cutting edge ones such the sonic and visual manifestations of the urban environment in Iranian films, this book is a vital resource for understanding Iran and its unique cinematic culture
British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS),
26 February, 2025, 5:00 pm UK Time
Information and registration:
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/book-launch-the-i-b-tauris-handbook-of-iranian-cinema/
3. German and Persian Encounters in History, Philosophy, and the Arts
German Studies Association Conference, September 25-28, 2025; Arlington, VA
Beyond Goethe’s famed West-östlicher Divan, the relationship between the German-speaking and Persianate world spans centuries, ranging from historical encounters to literature, art, theater, translation, philosophy, and film. This panel invites participants to explore intersections between these linguistic realms from ancient to contemporary times, across Afghanistan, Austria, Germany, Iran, Switzerland, Tajikistan, and their global diasporas.
Through travel both real and imagined, scholars, writers, filmmakers, and artists have engaged with one another in historical encounters, cultural exchanges, translations, and other shared intellectual pursuits, for example, in Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall’s metrically faithful translations of classic Persian poetry into German, which introduced new rhythms to German prosody in the early nineteenth century. We see further exchanges in the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s influence on Christian Petzold and the Berlin School of filmmakers or the interpretation of classic German literature in Iranian cinema, such as Postchi (The Postman), Dariush Mehrjui’s 1962 adaptation of Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck. Additionally, the Afghan German director Burhan Qurbani explores German immigrant experiences through his film adaptation of Berlin Alexanderplatz.
Recently, prominent voices in contemporary fiction have narrated experiences of growing up Iranian German and Afghan German, including Hengameh Yaghoobifarah’s 2021 Ministerium der Träume and Aria Aber’s 2025 Good Girl. This panel, we hope, will highlight work on the points of contact between German and Persian cultures and the arts as well as on lived experiences between these realms.
Possible topics include:
- Literature: Comparative studies of German and Persian literary traditions, influential authors, and the exchange of literary styles and/or genres.
- Film: In addition to examining the contributions of German Iranian and German Afghan filmmakers, papers might explore how German, Austrian, Swiss, Iranian, Afghan, and Tajik filmmakers have responded to each other’s work.
- History: Historical connections, including diplomacy and political relations. Papers might investigate the role of Iranian and Afghan exiles in German-speaking countries, or the impact of Nazism, World War II, and its aftermath on both regions.
- Philosophy and Intellectual Exchanges: Shared intellectual heritage, including the impact of German philosophers on Persian intellectual thought, or the influence of Persian-speaking philosophers, scientists, or mystics on German thinkers.
- Translation: The role of translation and transmission in shaping the reception of Persianate culture in the German-speaking world, and vice versa.
- Orientalism: The role of German Orientalists (philologists, archaeologists, historians, etc.) in studying Persian culture, language, and artifacts, and/or possible connections to the “Aryan” myth.
Please submit an abstract of 350 words to Annie Pfeifer (ap750@columbia.edu) and Michael Swellander (mswellander@skidmore.edu) by March 1st.
Contact Information
Michael Swellander (mswellander@skidmore.edu) and Annie Pfeifer (ap750@columbia.edu)
4. Nationalism in the Architecture of Modern Iran
N Kakhi, Gingko, 2024
https://www.gingko.org.uk/publishing/books/nationalism-in-the-architecture-of-modern-iran/
5. Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du Monde iranien”, qui se tiendra le jeudi 20 février 2025, 17h-19h, en salle 4.15 à l’INaLCO(65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 4eétage).
Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir Mme. Eva Zahiri (IFI-CNRS), pour une conférence intitulée: “Pour un droit islamique de notre temps: le renouvellement de la pensée juridique en Iran“.
Résumé:
Cette présentation a pour visée d’examiner la transformation du droit islamique en Iran depuis les années 1990-2000. À rebours de l’interprétation traditionnelle des foqahā, ancrée dans le droit naturel objectif et dans une perspective apologétique, certains juristes iraniens contemporains privilégient la méthode de l’historicité et l’approche critique, en vue de consacrer la subjectivité et l’égalité juridiques. Bien que n’appartenant pas à un mouvement établi, ils incarnent unprocessus historique embryonnaire mais durable de restructuration en cours.
Leurs innovations doctrinales s’inscrivent dans la tradition usūlī rationaliste tout en la renouvelant au regard des besoins de la société iranienne qui se recompose. Malgré les diversités de tendances et les nuances, tous soulignent la nécessité de penser le contrat social à partir d’une théorie du droit et d’un système de droit renouvelés garantissant la sécurité juridique dans la législation nationale. Leur objectif est d’actualiser et perpétuer le principe cardinal de justice pour refléter le mode de vie iranien actuel et maintenir l’universalité de l’islam.
Orientations bibliographiques:
– Dâvud FEYRAHI, Fiqh va siyâsat dar Irân-e mo‘âser, vol. 1. et 2, Téhéran, Nashr-e ney, 1392/2013.
– Mohsen KADIVAR, Haqq al-nâs. Eslâm va hoquq-e bashar, Téhéran, Kavir, 1387/2008.
– Mohammad RÂSEKH, “Sharia and Law in the Age of Constitutionalism,” Journal of Global Justice and Public Policy, vol. 2, n° 2, 2016.
– Sedigheh VASMAGHI, Zan, fiqh, eslâm, Téhéran, Samadiyeh, 1386/2007.
Pour rappel, vous retrouverez le programme 2024-2025 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du Monde iranien” sur le site du CeRMI :
6. “Persianate Studies: Research Institutions, Reference Works and Digital Sources”
Instructor: Peyman Eshaghi
In this workshop, a large number of websites, databanks, search engines, online material, and research institutions with digital services that can assist learners in doing their research on Persianate studies are discussed. It will not only identify these crucial research tools, but will also equip the students and researchers with the practical knowledge to effectively navigate Persian databases — both archival and modern — and locate rare, primary sources.
This workshop is free to attend, but participants must register in advance.
Date and Time:
Saturday, February 22, 2025
08:00 – 10:00 Pacific Standard Time; 11:00 – 14:00 Eastern Standard Time; 17:00 – 19:00 Central European Time; 21:00-23:00 Indian Standard Time
Registration deadline:
February 15, 2025
More information and registration:
https://tinyurl.com/persianlecture
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- February 04, 2025
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