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1.2021 BRISMES Annual Conference – Final Programme
The final programme for the 2021 BRISMES Annual Conference: Knowledge, Power and Middle Eastern Studies with over 80 sessions takes place online from 5-9 July. The programme is available to download via the following link: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/conference/postponed-brismes/
2. Open Access Book
Islam and Heritage in Europe
Pasts, Presents and Future Possibilities
Edited By Katarzyna Puzon, Sharon Macdonald, Mirjam Shatanawi
2021, Routledge.
3. Open-access Book
Defining Jewish Medicine
Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions
Edited by Lennart Lehmhaus
2021 Harrassowitz Verlag · Wiesbaden
4. Nayhan Fancy, “Verification and Utility in the Arabic Commentaries on the Canon of Medicine: Examples from the Works of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1210) and Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 1288),” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 75 (2020): 361–382 (click here for access)
5. A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years
ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, trans.
NYU Press, 2021
6. Ateliers du CeRMI en Histoire et histoire de l’art de l’Iran
au 4e congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans
28 et 30 juin 2021
L’accès à toutes les manifestations en ligne se fait sur inscription
28/06/2021 10 h 00 – 12 h 00
Atelier N° 4 : Pouvoir et société en Iran safavide (1501-1722) : pour une utilisation des traditions historiographiques non curiales, locales et indépendantes
Responsables : Sacha Alsancakli (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, CeRMI) et Camille Rhoné-Quer (Aix-Marseille Université, IREMAM)
Intervenants : Davide Trentacoste, Werner Gaboreau, Matteo Coq, Sacha Alsancakli
Discutantes : Camille Rhoné-Quer (Aix-Marseille Université, IREMAM) et Francis Richard (BULAC, CeRMI)
>>> Accès : sur inscription
28/06/2021 16 h 00 – 18 h 00
Atelier N° 8 : A blooming caliphate : Abbasid stucco corpora reconsidered (8th-9th c.)
Responsables : Viola Allegranzi (Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences) et Sandra Aube (CNRS, CeRMI)
Intervenants: Claus-Peter Haase, Viola Allegranzi, Andrea Luigi Corsi, Simone Struth
Discutant : Lorenz Korn (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg)
>>> Accès : sur inscription
30/06/2021 16 h 00 – 18 h 00
Atelier N° 73 : Patrimoine médiéval d’Iran et d’Afghanistan : Actualité des recherches de terrain
Responsables : Sandra Aube (CNRS, CeRMI) et Thomas Lorain (Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg)
Intervenants : Philippe Marquis, Thomas Lorain, Guergana Guionova, Lorenz Korn, Yves Porter, Anaïs Léone
Discutant : Frantz Grenet (Collège de France)
>>> Accès : sur inscription
7. Senior Language Teacher in Arabic
Department of East Asian Studies | University of Cambridge
Closing date for applications | 4 July 2021
Further information
8. New Approaches to Interdisciplinarity in MENA Studies
Call for Papers | First Annual INMENAS (Irish Network for Middle Eastern and North African Studies) Postgraduate Symposium
12-13 November 2021
Deadline for Abstracts | 2 August 2021
Further information
- June 26, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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1.Mustakim Arıcı, trans. Faruk Akyıldız, “Silent Sources of the History of Epidemics in the Islamic World: Literature on Ṭāʿūn/Plague Treatises,” Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences 7, no. 1 (April 2021): 99-158, DOI: dx.doi.org/10.12658/Nazariyat.7.1.M0132en, https://www.nazariyat.org/en/issues/cilt-7-sayi-1/mustakim-arici.
Also available here: https://www.academia.edu/49289154/Silent_Sources_of_the_History_of_Epidemics_in_the_Islamic_World_Literature_on_%E1%B9%AC%C4%81%CA%BF%C5%ABn_Plague_Treatises
2. ONLINE & HYBRID “27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO)”, University of Osnabrück, 16-18 September 2021
Scholars are invited to hand in proposals for contributions from all relevant disciplines in social sciences and humanities which are based on research on the contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and the entire Islamic World and its relations to other regions. Papers can be presented in-person in Osnabrueck or online where all panels will be accessible.
Deadline for abstracts of contributions to open panels: 1 July 2021. Deadline for abstracts of individual papers and closed panels: 15 July 2021.
Information: https://www.irp-cms.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/events/27th_international_davo_congress.html
3. ONLINE Conference: “Looking towards Peace in Afghanistan after the US-NATO Withdraw-al”, Arab Center Washington DC, 21-23 June 2021, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT
Speakers will address the formal negotiation process and the nature of a potential political settlement. They will also consider long-term planning for core recovery concerns and cross-sectoral and sustainable peace-building, including refugee return and peace education, from the perspective of inclusivity.
Information, program and registration: http://arabcenterdc.org/events/looking-towards-peace-in-afghanistan-after-the-us-nato-withdrawal/
4. ONLINE Lecture in the Mighty Magazines Online Series: “Accessing Arab American History: A Digital Archive” with Dr. Akram Khater (North Carolina State University), Berlin, 22 June 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm CEST
The speaker will explore the effort to gather, digitize, and develop an Arabic OCR program all in an effort to create the first searchable database of Arab American newspapers, journals, and books. I will also explore the challenges and pitfalls of such a political project.
Information and registration: https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/en/e/palread/Events/Accessing-Arab-Ameri-can-History_-A-Digital-Archive.html
5. ONLINE Lecture: “What’s Left of Syria? Thinking about Revolutionary Outcomes” by Adélie Chevée (European University Institute), Part of the Lecture Series: “10 Years So-called Arab Spring – a Critical Perspective”, Critical Students of Islamic and Arabic Studies (KIARA), Uni-versity of Leipzig, 23 June 2021, 7:30 pm CEST
How do we measure successes and failures of a revolution? Looking back at ten years of revolutionary struggle, I propose to investigate the transformations of the cultural world brought in the aftermath of the Syrian Uprising to rethink how we make sense of revolutionary outcomes.
Information and registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mlYg2OAuQw2v-D8sJROjLw
6. ONLINE Conference: “Islamic Thought and the Epistemological Challenge of Modernity”, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 24 June 2021, 2:30 pm – 7:00 pm CEST
The conference will discuss the epistemic condition of modernity in contemporary Muslim thought. The point of departure is the comprehensive thesis by Lahouari Addi about the persistence of Greek metaphysical framework informing Muslim theology and discourse. The conference will debate both the thesis, and philo-sophical attempts to overcome so conceived epistemic gap between Muslim religious discourse and the ef-fects of modernity.
Information and registration: http://cgs.flu.cas.cz/en/events/501-video-conference-islamic-thought-and-the-epistemological-challenge-of-modernity
7. ONLINE Two Panels on “Digital Humanities in Ottoman and Turkish Studies: Initiatives, Pro-jects, and Online Resources”, Orient-Institut Istanbul (OII) and Digital Ottoman Studies (DOS), 24 June 2021, 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm TRT
For information and registration until 22 June 2021: https://networks.h-net.org/save-date-june-24th-digital-humanities-ottoman-and-turkish-studies-initiatives-projects-and-online
8. ONLINE International Symposium on “Religion and Civilization in the Middle East”, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, 22-24 October 2021
The symposium will focus on the issues of historical dynamics of the Middle East, the identity formation processes of the Middle Eastern peoples, the conflicts centered on religion and civilization, the language and culture, and the philosophical accumulation.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 July 2021. Information: https://sempozyum.erbakan.edu.tr/UODMS/en/s/717/0
9. New Master’s Degree Professional Program: “Contemporary Art in the Arab World, Iran and Turkey (MasCAIT)”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in Cooperation with the University of Ge-neva, 2021/22
The Program offers an educational program which balances theory and practice, starting from a global per-spective and focusing on modern and contemporary artistic production in the Arab world, Iran and Turkey. Online Open Day on 30 June 2021.
Deadline for applications: 23 November 2021. Information: https://www.unive.it/pag/33862/
10. Museum Director Sought
The Director of the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University (CAM) will be committed to museum excellence and possess a deep appreciation for the visual arts, changing museum field, community engagement, and high-quality visitor experiences. The Director will represent the CAM regionally and nationally to external stakeholders, community partners, and the Niagara University community. The Director must have a demonstrated track record of responsible budget development and management, fundraising, grant writing, excellent written, verbal, and computer skills; familiarity with social media platforms; demonstrated track record of problem-solving, and organizational and decision-making skills; demonstrated proficiency in managing personnel and developing relationships, knowledge of current issues and best practices in museum management. A master’s degree or equivalent experience with at least five years of executive leadership or senior management experience in a museum or related nonprofit organization.
For information on how to apply visit https://niagara.applicantpro.com/jobs/1759762.html
11. Medicine and Shariah
A Dialogue in Islamic Bioethics
Edited by Aasim I. Padela
Contributions by Ebrahim Moosa
Notre Dame, 2021
https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780268108373/medicine-and-shariah/
Receive a 20% discount online*:
CSLS2021
*Valid until 11:59 GMT, 31st December 2021. Discount only applies to the CAP website
12. The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), London, is organising an online short course (22-24 September 2021) on Education and Networks of Learning in Islamic History by Dr Aslisho Qurboniev and Gowaart Van Den Bossche.
13. The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC):
The Idea of the Silk Road: Historians Debate and Discuss
This Modern Concept
A Panel Discussion With
Arezou Azad
Aslisho Qurboniev
Khodadad Rezakhani
Zhan Zhang
Chaired by
AKU-ISMC’s Sarah Bowen Savant
7 July 2021 | 12 noon BST | Online
- June 22, 2021
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1.Open Access Journal:
International Journal of Uyghur Studies
http://www.uygurarastirmalari.com/en/
2. On-line conference: ‘Persian arts of the book’
The University of Oxford
13-14 July, 2021
Full details and registration at:
https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/persian-arts-of-the-book
3. Sport and Nation Building along
the Silk Road:
Football and identity politics
With
Professor Leif Stenberg, AKU-ISMC
30 June 2021 | 12 noon BST | Online
- June 19, 2021
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1. The 5th installment in the 2021 Spring series of DFDS weekly meetings on zoom:
in which Dr. Sarah Markiewicz (Humboldt University of Berlin) presents on “Interfaith dialogue and the divine texts” on Wednesday June 16th, 4 pm (Tehran zone)
Dr. Markiewicz is consultant with Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) for the organisation of the “World Conference on Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogue” (2022) & Associated Researcher with the Research Programme on Religious Communities for Sustainable Development of the Humboldt University of Berlin.
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/p/47/DFDS-5th-meeting-by-by-Dr.-Sarah-Markiewicz/
♦️Some key points:
1. Seminars are open just to the University Professors who are specialists in the area of the Divine Texts.
2. All the weekly presentations will be followed by the discussion.
3. The University Professors who wish to present their idea in our weekly seminars, are welcome to join after they register by email to:ahmadi_mh@ut.ac.ir
4. All the participants; please check the meeting time to be linked exactly with your local time.
2. Jewish Medical Practitioners in the Medieval Muslim World
A Collective Biography
E. Lev
Edinburgh University Press, 2021,
3. ONLINE Lecture in Mighty Magazines Online Series: “Islamic History in Retrospective” by Dr. Zahiye Kundos (EUME Forum Transregional Studies Fellow), Berlin, 15 June 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm CEST
During 1884 Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (d. 1897) and Muḥammad ʿAbduh (d. 1905), two of the pioneering thinkers of modern Islam, met in Paris and co-edited the transregional anti-colonial journal al-ʿUrwa al-wuthqā la ʿinfișām lahā (“The most unfailing hold which shall never give way”). Literal reconstruction of this political-theological text provides an opportunity to shed light on the dramatic times of the 1880s.
Information and registration: https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/en/e/palread/Events/Islamic-History-in-Retrospective.html
4. ONLINE Lecture: “Scholars, Apostasy and States in Medieval Islam: Historiographical and Juridical Issues”, Islamic History and Thought Lecture Series, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 17 June 2021, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm GMT
Through the examples of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt al-Hamadānī and Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī this lecture will first present how the authors of literary sources of history constructed their narratives of scholarly apostasy in accordance with their own sectarian and political affiliations. It will then present the juridical procedure at play when scholars were accused of apostasy.
Information and registration: https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/scholars-apostasy-and-states-medieval-islam-historiographical-and-juridical-issues?utm_source=hnet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=IHTLS
5. ONLINE Workshop: “Materialities of Everyday Religiosity: Historical and Contemporary Dynamics in Turkey and Iran”, Orient-Institut Istanbul, 17-20 June 2021, 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm TRT.
By bringing together scholars from Iran, Turkey, Germany and France, the workshop will highlight the current state of the empirical study of religions in the respective countries and research contexts, foster reflections as to how these contexts impact research perspectives and methodologies and bring these specific perspectives and methodologies into critical dialogue with the material religion approach.
Please register your name and academic affiliation until 14 June 2021 via materialitiesofreligiosity@gmail.com . Information and program: https://30qtcudfwz93ffi2426a91bc-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Materialities-of-Everyday-Religiosity-Workshop-Program-Only-2.pdf
6. ONLINE Conference: “Looking towards Peace in Afghanistan after the US-NATO Withdrawal”, Arab Center Washington DC, 21-23 June 2021, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT
Speakers will address the formal negotiation process and the nature of a potential political settlement. They will also consider long-term planning for core recovery concerns and cross-sectoral and sustainable peacebuilding, including refugee return and peace education, from the perspective of inclusivity.
Information, program and registration: http://arabcenterdc.org/events/looking-towards-peace-in-afghanistan-after-the-us-nato-withdrawal/
7. International Conference: “Islamophobia and/in Post-Secular States”, University of Alberta, 12-14 November 2021.
This conference will develop a more comprehensive understanding and theorization of the pervasiveness of Islamophobia. We invite proposals for papers that explore any dimension of Islamophobia, that measure its effects, and that develop recommendations to address it.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2021. Information: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS;2cec0ea0.2106
8. Post-doctoral Researcher in 19th Century Ottoman Literature and Culture, University of Bologna
The “Modernizing Empires: Enlightenment, Nationalist Vanguards and Non-Western Literary Modernities” (NONWESTLIT) Project, is funded by the European Research Council. Qualification: Ph.D. in Comparative Literature or a related field of Middle Eastern Studies and Literatures; Experience in comparative methodologies or quantitative skills in literary studies; nowledge of Italian is welcome but not required.
Deadline for applications: 30 June 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/7822444/postdoctoral-researcher-19th-c-ottoman-literature-and-culture
9. Six 3-year Doctoral Scholarships in the Program “Global History of Empires”, University of Turin and Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg and Moscow)
The program provides a research environment in the fields of early modern, modern, and contemporary history, with a strong focus on its global dimension. It offers an interdisciplinary degree to graduate students who plan to research global issues such as conflicts, migrations, human rights, governance, environment, energy, technology, and development.
Deadline for applications: 18 June 2021. Information: https://www.globalhistoryphd.unito.it/do/home.pl
10. Assistant Professor (Tenure-track) in Comparative Politics of the MENA Region, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
A PhD in Political Science and specialization in the domestic politics of countries of the Middle East is required. Additional interest in Middle East regional relations is desirable. The expected start date for this position is 1 July 2022.
Deadline for applications: 1 September 2021. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/88350
11. Proposals for New Book Series “DISRUPTIONS” on Political Activism, Social Movements, and Revolution in the Middle East, Edinburgh University Press
Topics may include but are not limited to: Violent/non-violent forms of political protest; genesis and development of social movements; revolutions; arts and politics; women, gender, LGBT, or labour movements; norm diffusion; digital activism; civil societies.
Information: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-disruptions
12. Three Qur’an manuscripts from Aceh in the British Library
Aceh is renowned as one of the most fervently Islamic regions of Southeast Asia. Situated on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra, it was the site of the first Muslim kingdoms in the archipelago in the 13th century, and Aceh has also produced many famous Islamic scholars and writers. There are probably more illuminated Qur’an manuscripts known today from Aceh than from anywhere else in the Malay world, and nearly all conform closely to what can be termed the Acehnese style of manuscript illumination (cf. Gallop 2004). The British Library holds three Qur’an manuscripts from Aceh, and all have been fully digitised.
13. Online Lecture – University of Bamberg: Crossing ‘Silk Roads’. Archaeological discoveries in the Oasis of Bukhara
with Prof. Dr. Rocco Rante (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
15 June, 2021, 7:15 P.M.
(Central European Summer Time, Madrid-Paris-Berlin-Rome-Budapest Time zone)
Please find login details at
www.uni-bamberg.de/iadk/archwiss/neuigkeiten/artikel/programm-archaeologisches-kolloquium-…
- June 15, 2021
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1.WHOME Graduate Student Article Prize
Call for Applications and Nominations
We are pleased to announce our annual prize for the best article about Middle Eastern history written by a female-identifying or gender non-conforming graduate student (Masters or PhD). The award aims to bring attention to the innovative scholarship women and gender non-conforming students are producing in the field. The article (not to exceed 8,000 words) can be published, under review, submitted, or in the final stages of preparation for submission to a journal. The article may be about any period in Middle Eastern history and may address any subfield in the discipline. The nominee must not have been awarded a Doctorate prior to October 1, 2020.
Articles may be nominated by the author, academic advisors, professors, or journal editors; journals may nominate up to three articles. Jointly published articles are acceptable, but both authors must be graduate students; the co-author may be male. Articles that have appeared in collections will be considered but only if the articles were published for the first time in the year prior to the application deadline; reprints will not be considered. Winners will be notified in the fall and will be publicly acknowledged in an official announcement at the WHOME meeting at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting. The winning author shall also receive a $250 award.
Please encourage your students, colleagues, and peers to apply. Applications are due by 11:59 PST on July 31, 2021.
To apply or submit a nomination, click here.
Questions: contactwhome@gmail.com
2. Tufts University – History of the Middle East
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61432
Closing date: June 24, 2021
3. Humboldt-Universit”at zu Berlin – Research fellow (postdoc) in Global
Intellectual History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61436
Closing date: June 15, 2021
4. On-Line (via Teams) Workshop: Pluriversality at Play: Art and Material Culture in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean
University of St Andrews, School of Art History Online via Teams |17-18 June 2021 | London/Edinburgh BST Thursday, 17 June: 14.15-19.10, 18 June: 15.30-18.00
For more information and to register see:
https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/pluriversality-at-play/
Seyed Mohammad Ali Taghavi
Middle East Critique, 2021
- June 12, 2021
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1.ONLINE Seminar: “In Search of Late Ottoman Sephardi Women’s Lives” by Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt University), Lecture Series “Life Narratives and Gender: Voices of Women in the Near East an Eastern Mediterranean”, Orient Institut Istanbul, 9 June 2021, 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm TRT
The lecture focusses on the extent of Ottoman Jewish women’s autonomy – whether, when, and in which contexts they had the space to forge their own paths in life, to marry for love, to pursue their own profes-sional interests, or achieve financial independence.
Information and registration: https://www.oiist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/LIFE_NARRATIVES_BOOKLET_SPREAD.pdf
2. ONLINE Colloque : « Les juifs et les autres minorités dans l’Islam méditerranéen, XIXe-XXIe siècles » sous la direction scientifique de Bernard Haykel, Princeton University, et de Lucette Valensi, EHESS, 9-11 juin 2021
Ce colloque abordera les relations des juifs non seulement avec les musulmans majoritaires mais aussi avec les autres minorités : grecs orthodoxes, maronites, arméniens, coptes, ibadites, chiites, Européens en Afrique du Nord à l’époque coloniale … pour approcher au plus près la réalité de ces sociétés multiculturelles.
Information et inscription : https://www.mahj.org/fr/programme/les-juifs-et-les-autres-minorites-dans-l-islam-mediterraneen-xixe-xxie-siecles-76568
3. ONLINE Lecture: “Great Lakes, Mighty Seas, and Uncharted Waters: Ottoman Studies, its Past, Present, and Future” by Elizabeth Frierson, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at NYU, 11 June 2021, 12:30 pm EST
This lecture will be a launching point for considering how digitization and changing political situations, and now a pandemic, have been driving new approaches in fields known from the beginning for their innovation and adaptability. How can we form a new sort of akhi discourse adapted to conditions of research and ex-change of findings in the 21st century?
Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsdOmsqTIjGdwlDJgHfId5ryrosgRHT9fM
4. ONLINE “The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Workshop and Conference 2021”, 26 June 2021
It will primarily focus on research methods. In the intra-pandemic world numerous conferences and academic meetings have gone digital, but there is still relatively limited space devoted to the discussion of digital research methods or to the processes of conducting digital humanities research within the field of oriental studies broadly defined.
Information and registration: https://digitalorientalist.com/the-digital-orientalists-virtual-workshop-and-conference-2021/
5. ONLINE “Quatrième Congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans / Fourth Congress of Middle East and Muslim Studies”, Aix-Marseille University, 28 June – 2 July 2021
The Congress offers 80 workshops and round tables, young researchers’ thread, thesis prizes, films, exhibition, theatre, concert, as well as a rich and abundant panorama of current questions, personal and collective research works, on the Middle East, the Maghreb, as well as on Islam and Muslims in the world.
For abstracts in French and English, the program, and registration see 4e Congres des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans – Sciencesconf.org
6. Huitième édition des Journées de l’association des doctorants la Halqa sur le thème : « Mobilisations et engagements dans les mondes arabes et musulmans (XVIIe – XXIe siècles) », Aix-en-Provence, 1-2 juillet 2021
En offrant aux doctorant·e·s et masterant·e·s un espace pour présenter leurs travaux, les Journées de la Halqaouvrent une possibilité d’échange sur des problématiques communes par-delà les barrières disciplinaires des sciences sociales.
7. ONLINE Workshop: “Travelling Practices and the Emergence of Tourism in the Middle East (16th – 20th Centuries)”, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna and Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 27-30 September 2021
This workshop will analyse travel literature with regard to the practices, patterns and significations of travel. It will serve to place travel narratives in a relational framework combining basic questions of infrastructure and transportation with the movements and pathways of individual travellers. Conveners: Christine Nölle-Karimi, Yavuz Köse, Onur İnal.
Registration: Contact Onur İnal at onur.inal@univie.ac.at. Information and program: https://travelmena.univie.ac.at/
8. Colloque : « La formation des imams, des aumôniers et des islamologues : état des lieux, enjeux et perspectives », Strasbourg, 8-9 October 2021
Nous avons privilégié trois axes : Etat des lieux des formations et des acteurs; Enjeux; Perspectives.
Date limite pour les résumés : 1 juillet 2021. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2021/04/Colloque-AFPI-Strasbourg-octobre-2021.pdf
9. International Conference: “Theological Disputes between Ašʿarīs and Ḥanbalīs and their Representations from the 11th/5th Century to Contemporary Wahhabi-Salafism”, CERMOM (Inalco), Paris, 18-19 November 2021
Ḥanbalism and Ašʿarism have been for more than a century represented as two inherently antagonistic theological schools. «Literalist», «fideist» and «traditionalist», Ḥanbalism is said to be the uncompromising opponent of rationalist currents. Contemporary Wahhabi-Salafism is perceived itself as a legitimate heir to this doctrine and a modern replica of this struggle.
Deadline for abstracts: 25 June 2021. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2021/06/appel_a_communication_colloque_discordia_18_et_19-11_0.pdf
10. Assistant·e de communication à l’Institut d’études de l’Islam et des sociétés du monde musulman (IISMM), Paris
Connaissances : Bonnes aptitudes rédactionnelles et maîtrise des techniques de présentation écrite et orale; Connaissance du fonctionnement de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, notamment de l’EHESS (et du CNRS) (souhaitée); Connaissance de la langue anglaise; etc.
Date de limite de candidature : 31 juillet 2021. Information : https://recrutement.ehess.fr/offre-emploi-283.html-o=14
11. Funding Opportunities for Conducting Research and/or Leading Research Projects in the Broad Discipline of Islamic Ethics, Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE), Qatar
Possible research areas includes the interplay of Islamic ethics with scholarly disciplines like politics, economics and business, gender, psychology, environment, arts, media, education, and food ethics.
12. ONLINE “Summer Institute for Teachers: The Middle East in America”, Yale Council on Middle East Studies, 20-24 June 2021
Topics include: The impact of Black Lives Matter in the Middle East; the role of comics and cartoons in shaping popular American perceptions of the Middle East; the extraordinary story of the Yazidi community in Nebraska; the incredible journey Arabic and Persian speaking Jewish immigrants to the United States, etc.
Information and registration: https://cmes.macmillan.yale.edu/k-12-outreach/summer-institute-2021-schedule
13. Chapters for Edited Book on “Transnational Generations in the GCC Countries and Beyond”, Springer Book Series on “Gulf Studies”
Topics: Ethnographic studies of second-generation Arab and Asian migrants in the GCC countries; nationality and citizenship policies for migrants; education and practices of transnationalism (ex. fashion, music, literature and arts) among the youth (including second-generation migrants) in the GCC countries.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2021. Information: kyoko@konan-u.ac.jp
14. On-line Event: Post-conflict:
Art History and Cultural Heritage in Dialogue
The Courtauld Research Forum
June 15, 2021
5-6:30 PM BST
Speakers and panel discussion: Christina Maranci, Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, Carsten Paludan-Müller, and Talinn Grigor
Organised and moderated by Sussan Babaie
Free booking essential
https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/events/post-conflict-art-history-and-cultural-heritage-in-dialogue/
15. PhD position on ERC project Caliphal Finances (Re-advertised with international fees), start date January, 2022
The PhD position on my ERC project: Caliphal Finances has been re-advertised now covering UK or International level of tuition fees and with a start date in January 2022.
You can find a short account of the aims of the project here:
Caliphal Finances | The University of Edinburgh
PhD studentship:
The candidate will select a topic of Abbasid fiscal history for their dissertation, based on the study of papyrus documents written in Arabic dating to the 8th-10th century CE. It is imperative that they have previously studied Classical Arabic at the undergraduate and/or graduate level.
The award is open to UK AND overseas students. It will cover the UK or International level of tuition fee and an annual stipend of £15,285 and will be awarded for a maximum of three years of study and a fourth year for writing up; subject to satisfactory annual progress.
Applicants need to apply for the PhD programme in the first instance and then apply for the scholarship, the deadline for both the PhD and Scholarship applications is the 16th of August 2021.
Applicants are encouraged to get in touch with me (marie.legendre@ed.ac.uk ) before applying to discuss their prospective topic.
How to apply: PhD European Research Studentship | The University of Edinburgh
16. On-Line lecture: Political Thought in Medieval and Early-Modern Iran: Islamic or Persianate?
2021 Ann Lambton Memorial Lecture
Professor Saïd Amir Arjomand
Jun 9, 2021 05:00 PM in London
Register at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/7016209067782/WN_4FJjU04dTXGlnPE0jBTjZg
17. Report Launch for the Universities & Muslim Seminaries Project (UMSEP)
Tuesday 8th June 5.30-6.30pm.
The project was undertaken mostly during 2019 was aimed at encouraging Muslim seminaries to pursue formal accreditation and become a part if the wider UK Higher Education sector. Our project created a collaboration between Islamic Seminaries in London, Birmingham and Blackburn, with universities in London, Birmingham and Leeds.
The report was meant to be launched in person, hosted by the House of Lords last year, but due to the pandemic has been postponed and put online instead. Your presence and support there will be greatly appreciated and this project will hopefully be the springboard for many fruitful developments in this field.
Please register here for the Zoom link:
https://soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_V_cdyNWtRBuk0eV0oF0w7g
You must sign up with the same email address that is registered with your Zoom account
18. On-line access book:
Negotiating the Religious in Contemporary Everyday Life in the “Islamic World”.
Edited by Roman Loimeier.
Gottingen, 2021.
19. On the Path of the 15th-Century Mazanderani Woodworkers (Iran), with Dr Sandra Aube (researcher, CNRS, CeRMI, Paris)
10 June, 2021, 6:15 P.M.
(Central European Summer Time, Madrid-Paris-Berlin-Rome-Budapest Time zone)
Please find login details at
https://www.uni-bamberg.de/turkologie/studium/veranstaltungen/bayerisches-orient-kolloquium/
(link information in the red box).
- June 08, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Archiv orientalní, the journal of Asian and African Studies published by the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, is seeking proposals for its 2022 Special Issue. The thematic focus is open, but preference will be given to topics with a transregional emphasis and/or with a focus on South and Southeast Asia. The deadline for application is June 30th. More details below.
Archiv orientalní (ArOr) welcomes proposals for its 2022 Special Issue (Due: June 30, 2021)
Guidelines for Submitting a Proposal for a Special Issue
Proposals for a special issue should include the following information:
- A proposed title for the special issue
- A one-page description of the focus of the issue; including a brief description of a) why the special issue is a good fit for ArOr, its mission, and readership; b) why the topic or theme is timely; c) how the special issue will contribute to the advancement of the academic debate around the topic of inquiry
- A curriculum vitae of the Guest Editor
- A list of prospective contributors, the titles of their articles, a brief abstract with the inclusion of 6-8 keywords for each abstract, and the total length of the special issue
- A proposed timeline for production.
We will give preference to contributions of a transregional and transdisciplinary character and emphasizing South and Southeast Asia.
Guest Editor Responsibilities
- All the tasks included in the guidelines for the submission of the proposal for a special issue
- Managing all exchanges with the contributors and with the editorial office of Archiv orientalní
- Coordination of the special issue
- Communicating to contributors that submitting a paper is not a guarantee for publication
- Gathering of all articles and submitting these to ArOr
- Receiving all articles and reviews and forwarding these to the respective authors
- Negotiating revisions with ArOr
- Ensuring the timeline is respected
Decision Process
Proposals for a special, thematic issue are assessed in two stages. They are first submitted to the Editorial Board for approval. If the editorial team deems it interesting according to the scope of the journal, proposals are then submitted to the journal’s editorial board.
If approved, all articles are sent to two referees for a double-blind peer-review process. Comments and requests for changes on each individual article will be collected by the Executive Editor and forwarded to the Guest Editor for discussion and approval.
Publication Timeline:
Special Issue submission deadline: June 30, 2021
Notification of accepted issue: August 1, 2021
Full paper submission deadline: December 31, 2021
Notification of accepted peer-reviewed submissions: May 30, 2022
Revised manuscripts due: July 15, 2022
Publication: December 2022
How to Apply
If you are interested in submitting a proposal for a special issue, please email all the necessary documentation to aror@orient.cas.cz; contact person: Anna Křivánková (Executive Editor). Specific questions about the journal and its special issues can be directed to the appropriate subject matter editor. A comprehensive guide can be found at http://aror.orient.cas.cz
About Archiv orientalní (ArOr)
Archiv orientalní (ArOr – http://aror.orient.cas.cz) is an indexed, peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the cultures and societies of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. ArOr is listed in Scopus, Art and Humanities Citation Index, and ERIH Plus and is accessible via ProQuest and EBSCO. The journal was founded in 1929 and has an uninterrupted history of high academic standards since then, aiming at reaching both the academic public as well as a wider readership interested in the areas covered. Archiv orientalní is published three times per year (May, September, and December), of which one is devoted to the publication of a special, thematic issue. Topics for the special issue can range in scope, discipline, and time, provided they are concerned with the geographical areas covered by the journal; interdisciplinary or cross-region themes are strongly supported. Thematic issues normally consist of an introductory article (approximately 5,000 to 10,000 words) and 6-8 articles (7,000 to 10,000 words). Each thematic issue is overseen by a guest editor whose name appears printed on the front cover.
2. The Personal and the Public in Literary Works of the Arab Regions
Edited by Akiko Sumi and Tetsuo Nishio
Published by the Center for Modern Middle East Studies at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. March 2021
The collection is Open Source:
No.5 PDF
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SYRIqH4tjtctyiw5WmN13q0_YiodQfFG/view?usp=sharing
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SYRIqH4tjtctyiw5WmN13q0_YiodQfFG/view?usp=sharing>
No.5 E-PUB
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10tWQoLqCMSg_ZkeuQCA3IsmyYqTCI0pN/view?usp=sharing
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/10tWQoLqCMSg_ZkeuQCA3IsmyYqTCI0pN/view?usp=sharing>
3. AIS2022 Biennial Conference of Iranian Studies will take place at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Salamanca from August 30 to September 2, 2022. The AIS2022 Conference is planned as a primarily in person event, but will also accommodate online proposals for those who cannot physically attend for whatever reason.
Registration of papers / posters / panel / roundtables / special sessions will be open from June 1 to July 30, 2021 and will include the following categories of participants:
- Participants of the AIS2020 who will present in person their previously accepted paper / poster / panel / roundtable / special session with no change. No extra fees will be charged in this case.
- Participants of the AIS2020 who will present online their previously accepted paper / poster / panel / roundtable / special session with no change. No extra fees will be charged in this case.
- Participants of the AIS2020 who will present in person / online their previously accepted paper / poster / panel / roundtable / special session, but want to change its topic. No extra fees will be charged in this case, but these participants must undergo the review process again.
- New participants who will present in person / online. They must pay the fees and undergo the review process.
The global situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemics has been difficult for all and, among other plans, forced us to reschedule the organization of our AIS2020 Conference. Although we cannot foresee how the pandemics will develop worldwide next year, we are nevertheless optimistic about the future and are strongly committed to continue our arrangements for an in person conference.
First of all, the AIS2022 Conference will be organized carefully taking into account all the health measures in place at the time and the maximum capacity of each room available by then. The academic year 2020-21 in Salamanca has been in person since its very beginning, and the University of Salamanca has succeeded in guaranteeing that those measures were very effective in allowing a secure environment and in preventing contagion. In this regard, participants in person can be sure of our strong commitment to prioritize their health and security during this event.
Secondly, cameras and other equipment for online teaching and streaming were installed in all rooms of our faculties during the academic year 2020-21, and they will be available for connecting in person and online participants.
For more information about the AIS2022 Biennial Conference click here:
https://associationforiranianstudies.org/conferences/2022/information
To register for the AIS2022 Biennial Conference click here:
https://associationforiranianstudies.org/conferences/2022/registration
4. Verbes de l’arabe égyptien
https://www.ifao.egnet.net/bases/verbeseg/
5. The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies Presents:
Sa‘dian Satire (in Persian)
Iraj Pezeshkzad, the Author of My Uncle Napoleon
Sunday June 6, 4:00 P.M. EST
Zoom Registration: https://bit.ly/2SVbtGa
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/168683061852179
6. Popeye and Curly: 120 Days in Medieval Baghdad
A book of cartoons about Abbasid Baghdad, starring book-loving author Popeye (al-Jahiz) and winebibbing poet Curly (Abu Nuwas), along with their friends Coral (a singing girl) and the Caliph of one of the world’s most influential empires in history. Each episode is derived from historical sources, and designed to entertain, educate, and amaze.
Silver Goat Media, 2021
- Selove,
It includes a short preface by Geert Jan van Gelder, as well as a bibliography and index.
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3hBpt2j
Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3fsYPWA
7. Open Access Book:
The Personal and the Public in Literary Works of the Arab Regions
Edited by Akiko Sumi and Tetsuo Nishio
Published by: The Center for Modern Middle East Studies at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan.
Date: 2021
8. Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution. Production and Circulation in Iran and the World
L. Nanquette
Edinburgh University Press, 2021
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-iranian-literature-after-the-islamic-revolution.html
9. American Evangelicals, Conflicted on Islam
A. Quosigk
Bloomsbury, 2021
10. Conference: Knowledge Systems and Ottoman-European Encounters. Spatial and Social Dynamics
International Conference June 10-11, 2021, University of Zurich/ online via Zoom
Research Questions:
Knowledge Systems and Ottoman-European Encounters: Spatial and Social Dynamics Science, commerce, military, religion and authorities: in all these domains, everyday knowledge was from time immemorial collected and condensed into written knowledge. But content, structure and social relevance of knowledge are always historically contingent. The conference is asking thus for the importance of the Ottoman Empire in a history of European knowledge in the Early Modern Period. We focus on knowledge from or about the Ottoman Empire. We address two broader questions: from a spatial perspective, how can the Ottoman Empire be included into a European history of knowledge? From a social viewpoint: how was knowledge inside or about the Ottoman Empire organized and what kind of social functions can there be distinguished?
Spaces of knowledge
The development of Early Modern science was strongly influenced by (west-)European-Ottoman encounters. But to what degree was the Ottoman Empire an object of European knowledge systems? What contexts and players promoted or impeded the circulation of knowledge between the Ottoman Empire and other regions of Europe, including its Eastern parts? Which channels and forms were used for the communication of knowledge? What was the status of knowledge from or about the Ottoman Empire in European knowledge hierarchies and classification-systems?
Social functions
History of knowledge about the Ottoman Empire has long been focused on a classical history of science, technology and religion. Only recently, there is a shift towards conceptualising knowledge as a fundamental social practice for all kinds of human interaction. We are thus interested in social practices and discourses and their organizing or fragmentizing effects on social relations. What was the social relevance of different kinds of knowledge and which were the places of knowledge-production? Which kind of knowledge was privileged or legitimized by whom and in which contexts?
The Conference will be held on Zoom and is open to everyone interested. To get the Link to the Zoom-Meeting, please send a message to daniel.ursprung@hist.uzh.ch
URL:
http://www.osmanisches-europa.de/treffenmeetings/upcoming-meeting.html
11. CFContribuors: GSR-Global Sea Routes. A historical geodatabase of European global navigation (1500-1900)
Project web interface: GSR-Global Sea Routes
Project description:
GSR objectives
• to analyse and represent global maritime connections
• to understand globalisation as a function of overseas expansion and the connected voyages, explorations and transportations from the late-15th century to the beginning of the 20th century
• collecting data from printed travel accounts and manuscript ship logbooks
• building a relational online database to be accessed on the Web.
Contact Info:
Guido Abbattista
Professor of Modern history and Global history at the University of Trieste, Department of Human ities
Contact Email:
12. The editors of Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries are pleased to make the following announcements:
- The Spring 2021 issue is out! Abstracts are available here: https://mss.pennpress.org/about/current-issue-abstracts/
- We are seeking submissions for the Spring 2022 issue and beyond. Peer-reviewed articles for possible publication in the Spring 2022 issue should be submitted no later than June 30, 2021. Non-peer reviewed Annotations featuring recent discoveries, project reports, etc. (ca. 3000 words) can be submitted up to August 30, 2021 for the Spring 2022 issue. Articles and Annotations can be submitted here: https://manuscriptstudies.scholasticahq.com/for-authors
- Thanks to a generous agreement with the University of Pennsylvania Press, all Articles and Annotations in Manuscript Studies are made available on an open access basis after one year from the date of publication. Articles and Annotations from Vol. 5:1 are now available for downloading and sharing on Penn’s Scholarly Commons repository. To access the pdfs, go to: http://repository.upenn.edu/mss_sims/
Manuscript Studies brings together scholarship from around the world and across disciplines related to the study of pre-modern manuscript books and documents. This peer-reviewed journal is open to contributions that rely on both traditional methodologies of manuscript study and those that explore the potential of new ones. We publish articles that engage in a larger conversation on manuscript culture and its continued relevance in today’s world and highlight the value of manuscript evidence in understanding our shared cultural and intellectual heritage. Studies that incorporate digital methodologies to further understanding of the physical and conceptual structures of the manuscript book are encouraged. A separate section, entitled Annotations, features research in progress and digital project reports.
For more information and to subscribe, go to http://mss.pennpress.org. For direct inquiries, please don’t hesitate to contact the editors at sims-mss@pobox.upenn.edu
13. ‘The Jewish Ḥāfeẓ: Classical New Persian Literature in the Judeo-Persian Garšūni Literary Tradition’
S. Farridnejad,
Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, 2021
14. ‘Conversion, Identity, and Memory in Iranian-Jewish Historiography: The Jews of Mashhad’
A. Sadjed,
International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2021
15. AMECYS Call for Papers:
Graduate Student Paper Prize
Submission deadline: August 1, 2021
The Association of Middle East Children’s and Youth Studies (AMECYS) calls graduate students engaged in the study of children and youth in the region to submit papers to the AMECYS graduate student paper prize. A cash prize of $100 will be awarded to the winner at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) of North America’s annual meeting in Montreal, Canada, October 28-31, 2021.
Papers can be submitted in any capacity that aligns with AMECYS’ mission statement:
The AMECYS is a private, non-profit, international association for scholars with an interest in the study of children and youth in the Middle East, North Africa and their diasporic communities. Through interdisciplinary programs, publications, and services, AMECYS promotes innovative scholarship, facilitates global academic exchange, and enhances public understanding about Middle Eastern children and youth in diverse times and places.
Requirements for submission:
- Papers should be original scholarship. However, papers readying for journal submission are acceptable (i.e., not yet submitted for publication or published).
- No more than 7,500 words (excluding endnotes and bibliographies)
- Standard font, Double-spaced, 1” margins, IJMES standards for endnotes and transliteration
- AMECYS membership in good standing
- Proof of registered graduate student enrolment for the 2021-2022 academic year may be requested at a later date
Send submissions as a pdf or word doc to dylan.baun@uah.edu.
AMECYS Board Members Dylan Baun and Chiara Diana will review all papers submitted by members of AMECYS that are received by the deadline of August 1.
For any queries, email AMECYS program chair at dylan.baun@uah.edu.
- June 05, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Tuesday, June 1st, the Third International Meeting of the Avicenna Study Group“Surveying the summae: Comparisons and Contrasts among Avicenna‘s Eight Main Works” will have its first of seven online sessions.
We will meet weekly on Zoom, every Tuesday at 5pm CEST (German time), should be 8am PDT/11am EDT/4pm BST/6pm EEST/7.30pm IRDT/midnight JST (from June 1st to July 13th).
To keep the Zoom-link safe, a simple registration is required: http://www.arabic-philosophy.com/index.php/asg/asg-iii/registration/. Once you have registered, we will get in touch with you and send you the link prior to the sessions. Attendance is of course free. (Funded by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and Trier University.)
I would like to invite you to have a look at the lecture programme: http://www.arabic-philosophy.com/index.php/asg/asg-iii/programme/: Fourteen presentations will investigate and compare Avicenna’s eight main works by providing case studies on logic, theory of language, natural philosophy, psychology, and metaphysics.
For more info on our contributors, check out the booklet: http://www.arabic-philosophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Avicenna_Study_Group_III_Trier_2021_Surveying_the_summae_Booklet.pdf [12 MB]
Should you have any further question, please have a look at http://www.arabic-philosophy.com/ or get in touch with me. I am looking forward to seeing you online!
With all my best wishes from Trier,
Andi (Lammer)
Juniorprofessur für Arabische Philosophie, Kultur und Geschichte
Fachbereich I: Philosophie
Tel. +49 651 201-2338
Fax +49 651 201-3922
E-Mail lammer@uni-trier.de
Web https://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=65686
Publications https://uni-trier.academia.edu/AndreasLammer
2. Discussion Forum on Divine Scriptures(DFDS)
Series of meetings (Spring 2021)
Presenter:
Dr. Abdelmadjid BENHABIB, University of Tlemcen, Algeria
Meeting manager:
Dr. Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi, University of Tehran
The Subject:
Discursive and social psychological readings of al-Taqāwul التقاول (verbal inter-influence) between Noah and his people in the Qur’anic text,
Wednesday June 2th, 4 pm(Tehran zone)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74602805438?pwd=WkVkbmU3NEpyRkhlZFVzamhyaDNNQT09
Meeting ID: 746 0280 5438
Passcode: r7gRSH
More information about DFDS via:
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.domainuser.ir/p/46/DFDS-Spring-2021-3rd-meeting/
https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jdwlm06JIjOKMMvK3ppPzn
3. ONLINE Seminar: “Recording Feminist History: Anbara Salam Khalidi’s Memo” by Nova Robinson (Seattle University), Lecture Series “Life Narratives and Gender: Voices of Women in the Near East an Eastern Mediterranean”, Orient Institut Istanbul, 2 June 2021, 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm TRT
Throughout her memoir, Khalidi records how a pioneering generation of Arab feminists built connections with one another and with feminists in other world regions in order to support the cause of Arab, and later Palestinian, independence. Her memoir offers a unique window into the origins and evolution of the women’s movement in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Information and registration: https://www.oiist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/LIFE_NARRATIVES_BOOKLET_SPREAD.pdf
4. 4th IDEO Conference: “The Cairo Edition of the Qurʾān (1924): Texts, Histories and Challenges”, Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies, Cairo, 16-17 October 2021
The conference examines the Cairo edition of the Qurʾān printed under the authority of the al-Azhar committee in 1924. The edition`s advent bears a significance that goes beyond the sphere of belief and takes an important place in the history of Islamic civilisation, including the history of institutions, material history, history of religious thought and history of Islamic studies.
Information: https://www.ideo-cairo.org/en/2021/03/call-for-papers-the-cairo-edition-of-the-qur%ca%bean-1924/
5. Conference: “Contemporary Iranian Studies Conference”, University of Tehran, 1-2 November 2021
The conference aims to investigate new approaches and methods to this field of study. Panel proposals and abstracts related to all major fields of Iranian studies in four general categories of politics, sociology, culture, and economics are welcomed.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2021. Information: https://iranianstudies.ut.ac.ir/?lang=en
6. International Workshop: “The Relationship between State and Religion in the Arab and Islamicate Contexts. Civil State, Secular State, Religious/Islamic State”, University of Leipzig, 9-10 December 2021.
The workshop aims at discussing the actual and/or potential forms of the relationship between state or politics and religion in Arab and Islamicate contexts. We seek to bring together case studies and theoretical reflections and discussions on the concepts of ‘civil state’, ‘secular state’ and ‘religious/Islamic state’ in different disciplines and academic and political contexts.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 June 2021. Information: https://www.multiple-secularities.de/events/event/cfp-workshop-the-relationship-between-state-and-religion-in-the-arab-and-islamicate-contexts-civil-state-secular-state-religious-islamic-state/?fbclid=IwAR3OJjGy9N3I5-S-QtjmQ8h_tqhDMrNsP_SIwjzQbZ-OX3XvcZu2xWZ-r4w
7. Award for Best Article in Kurdish Studies Published in 2020, University of Central Florida
All articles published in English peer-reviewed journals related to Kurdish politics will be considered for the award. The award is open to all disciplines under social sciences and humanities. The primary author of the article needs to be a graduate student, post-doc, independent scholar, assistant professor or equivalent. The winner will be awarded $500. Self-nominations are welcome.
Deadline for nominations: 2 August 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/7763421/call-submissions-best-article-award-kurdish-studies
8. Articles for Edited Book on “Levantines of the Ottoman World: Communities, Identities, and Cultures”
We welcome chapters that engage in current topics such as Levantine cosmopolitanism, hybridity, marginality, ambiguity, and transnationalism, but we also encourage submissions which critique the centrality of such terminology and theoretical frames in historical scholarship. Editors: Erik Blackthorne-O’Barr (Colombia University) and Burhan Çağlar (Sakarya University).
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2022. Information: https://levantinestudies.wixsite.com/book
9. The British Library:
A comparison between Rustam and Arjuna
10. Postdoctoral Research Associate Vacancy at the University of Manchester Postdoctoral Research Associate working on an international AHRC-funded research project on approaches to nonviolence and principled pacifism in modern Islam.
The fixed term position is from 20 September 2021 to 20 September 2022. The appointment will be made at Grade 6, £32,816 per annum on a 1.0 FTE basis.
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 10/06/2021
For further information and person specifications please see the following link: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?isPreview=Yes&jobid=20241
11. Religion in the Egyptian Novel
Christina Phillips
Edinburgh, 2021
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-religion-in-the-egyptian-novel.html
12. Online Conference – Persian Arts of the Book Conference – 13-14 July 2021
This conference gathers scholars from around the world with expert curators from Oxford and beyond to reflect on the Persian manuscript tradition. In a series of short presentations and thematic panel discussions we will examine the poetry, history, and artistic expression contained in these treasures, and the materials and crafts that contributed to making the manuscripts, as well as the history and science of their preservation. Starting with a focus on the history of collections now at the Bodleian Library, presentations from former Bahari Visiting Fellows at the Bodleian Libraries represent the state of the field of Persian manuscript studies today.
Keynote speaker: David Roxburgh
Online via Zoom
Advance registration essential:
https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/persian-arts-of-the-book
Conference outline
Tuesday 13 July 2021
10.45 am – 4:15 pm, British Summer Time
Persian Texts: Literature and History
Persian Painting in its South Asian Contexts
Persian Literature and its Courtly Connections
Wednesday 14 July 2021
11.00 am – 5.30 pm, British Summer Time
The Arts of the Book I: Text and Image
The Arts of the Book II: The Painted Page
The Arts of the Book III: Materials and Structure
13. Iranzamin Symposium – Curating Persian arts in 21st Century: challenges and practices – July 30th, 2021
Speakers include Prof Christian Gruber (Chair, History of Art, University of Michigan, USA and world-renowned scholar in the field of Islamic Art and Material Culture), Dr Michael Chagnon (Curator, Aga Khan Museum, Canada and Art Historian specialising in the Persianate World), Dr Mahroo Moosavi (Lecturer, University of Sydney and Art Historian specialising in Persian Arts and Architecture) and Prof Pedram Khosronejad, Curator, Persian Arts, Powerhouse Museum.
Iranzamin Exhibition | 19 March – 8 August 2021 | Powerhouse Museum
Pedram.khosronejad@maas.museum
14. OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS Occhialì – Rivista sul Mediterraneo islamico is a semi-annual scientific journal concerned with the publication of studies, researches and reflections on Islam and the Mediterranean. Active since 2017, it has promoted over time a broad discussion on transversal themes from different perspectives: historical, linguistic, political, philosophic, juridical, sociological, psychological or pedagogical, trying to represent the heterogeneity that characterizes its area of interest.
For issue 9/2021, it has been decided not to limit the contributions to a specific theme, but to open it to the proposals of scholars, so as to leave an open space and cast light on emerging horizons of study and research. Therefore, essays, analyses and translations concerning the Islamic Mediterranean are all acceptable: from religious forms to histories, from institutions to languages, social movements, changes, cultural representations, migratory flows, in ancient times as well as today.
The articles, written in English, French, Italian or Spanish, must be sent by 15 November 2021 to rivista.occhiali@unical.it in a format compatible with the procedure of blind review: a file will have to include the author’s name and surname, email address, a short biographical note, title and abstract (150 words in English), 3- 5 keywords; the other file will have to include the contribution without any reference to the author or to their known works that might point back to them. The articles, formatted according to the norms, shall not exceed 30,000 characters including spaces and excluding the bibliography.
15. Pierre Larcher (natus 23th May 1948), L’invention de la luga al-fusha. Une histoire de l’arabe par les textes, Louvain, Paris, Bristol, Peeters (A.P.H.A./Assocation pour la Promotion de l’Histoire et de l’Archéologie Orientales. Université de Liège, 13), 2021, XIV+203 p.; 21×29,5 cms, tow indices, p.173-199. ISBN: 978-90-429-4588-3
https://www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?search_key=9789042945883&series_number_str=13&lang=fr
- June 01, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Online – EuQu Copenhagen Seminar of Work in Progress
Thursday, 3 June, from 4pm to 5.30pm (CET).
By Dr Paul M. Babinski, University of Copenhagen
‘Reading the Arabic Qur’an in Early Modern Europe’
With comments by Theodor Dunkelgrün, Universitt of Cambridge
Register at :
https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/register/u50qfuurqTMoGt0Br5e8OXiaTI7RY-ZreUVG
2. On-line Lecture: Earthly Beauty, Heavenly Art: Carpets for Prayer
by Sumru Belger Krody, Senior Curator, The Textile Museum Collection at The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum
Saturday, June 12, 2021, 1 pm EDT / 10 am PDT
Admission is free, with registration
Registration: https://tinyurl.com/PryrCarpetSKlsrv
Hosted by Textile Museum Associates of Southern California, Colorado Textile Group, Portland Area Rug Society, San Francisco Bay Area Rug Society, and Seattle Textile and Rug Society
3. Articles for “Nazhruna: Islamic Education Journal”
Editors invite academicians to contribute his thoughts either in the form of research results, in-depth study, and book reviews in accordance with the discipline owned. The script is original, has not been published in other media. The manuscripts are preferably from research results and written in either English or Arabic.
Information: https://e-journal.ikhac.ac.id/index.php/NAZHRUNA
4. Whose Islam?
The Western University and Modern Islamic Thought in Indonesia
Megan Brankley Abbas
Stanford, 2021
https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781503627932/whose-islam/
5. Open Access E-Book: The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi, Sufism through the Eyes of ʿImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī (d. 711/1311)
Brill, 2020
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42527
6. Dr. Mahroo Moosavi “DE-TERRITORIALISING ISLAMIC ART HISTORY”, held at the Powerhouse Museum (15 May 2021) in the occasion of Iranzamin Exhibition, can now be watched online by following this link:
7. The Society of Architectural Historians is now accepting abstracts for its 75th Annual International Conferencein Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 27–May 1, 2022. If you are interested in the panel below, please submit an abstract no later than 11:59 p.m. CDT on June 2, 2021.
Interconnecting West and East Asia: A Transcultural Study of the Architecture of the Dead
In the wake of a growing interest in the global approach to architectural history, this session seeks to widen the scope of current research by conducting a transcultural and comparative analysis of the funerary construction practices in West and East Asia from the turn of the Common Era to the Early Modern Period. With the aim to open up a dialogue between scholars of the ancient and early modern period, and the area studies of West Asia (Islamic, Middle East, Mediterranean) and East Asia (China, Korea, Japan), we propose to investigate the connectivity between West and East Asian architecture through the lens of the “architecture of the dead,” including burial structures, tomb decorations, construction techniques, and the role funerary architecture played in negotiating the social relations.
Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts must be under 300 words.
The title cannot exceed 65 characters, including spaces and punctuation.
Abstracts and titles must follow the Chicago Manual of Style.
Only one abstract per conference by an author or co-author may be submitted.
A maximum of three (3) authors per abstract will be accepted.
Please attach a two-page CV in PDF format.
Abstracts are to be submitted online using the link below.
https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/login?redirect=/stages/2562/submitter
8. Séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, 3 juin 2021, Conférence de Alexandre Papas
Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à la dernière séance de la saison 2020-21 du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” organisé par le CeRMI, qui aura lieu le jeudi 3 juin 2021 de 17h à 19h en visioconférence (lien de connexion ci-après)
Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Alexandre Papas (directeur de recherche, CNRS), pour une conférence intitulée :
Aspects du soufisme en Iran d’aujourd’hui
Lien zoom : https://zoom.us/j/94218926456
9. Online Talk – Freer and Sackler: Iran, Then and Now: A Conversation with Author Dalia Sofer – June 2, at 6 pm.
This program is part of Talk Series: Tea and Conversation with the Freer and Sackler.
Register here: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PWn3zuqLSEuHnjx3k1Rpyg
10. The British Library:
Fragments of Abbasid Sciences: From Desert Monastery to Digital Reunion
11. John Greaves’s Marginalia Workshop
Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Friday 4 June 2021, 17:00-21:00 (BST) – Online with Zoom (registration required)
Please join us virtually on Friday 4 June 2021, for the first workshop of the project: Arabic Books and Astronomy in Seventeenth Century Oxford. This project is a short-term pilot survey sponsored by St John’s College, University of Oxford, to analyse the Arabic and Persian MSS on astronomical topics held in two Oxford libraries, St John’s College, and the Bodleian. Its focus is notes written on the MSS by the seventeenth-century Oxford scholars who used them, in this case multilingual marginalia and interlinear notes by John Greaves, which we will annotate and digitize.
Further info and registration at :
https://www.hsmt.ox.ac.uk/event/john-greavess-marginalia-workshop
12. Contemporary Levant Best Article Prize 2021
Call for Submissions | Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)
Submissions for the 2021 Best Article Prize for CBRL’s international peer-reviewed journal Contemporary Levant are now open. The award recognises excellent research and scholarship that engages with current and emerging issues in the Levant to advance our understanding of the region. A committee from CBRL and the editorial board of Contemporary Levant will select the best article from submissions which will be published in Contemporary Levant in autumn 2021. The prize winner will receive a one-year membership to CBRL and online access to Contemporary Levant for one year. They will also be presented with a certificate of recognition at the CBRL annual general meeting.
Deadline for Submissions | 18 June 2021
Further information
13. Lecturer in Modern Islam (Part-time)
Modern Languages and Cultures | The Univeristy of Manchester
Applications are invited for the part-time (0.5 FTE), fixed-term, teaching-focused post of Lecturer in Modern Islam which is tenable from 1 September 2021 for a period of 10 months. You must have a PhD (or equivalent) in a relevant field, submitted or very near completion, and demonstrable university-level teaching experience in modern Islamic cultural studies and/or history with a focus on the Middle East.
Closing date for applications | 1 June 2021
Further information
14. On-line seminar :
Trade, Heritage and Landscape along the Silk Roads
16 June 2021 | 12 noon BST
With
Professor Michael Jansen, GuTech, Muscat
Professor Roland Lin, UNESCO / EPHE, Paris
Professor Stephane Pradines, AKU-ISMC, London
For more information/registration, see
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1516215118143/WN_KbXAQH3JQVS0p2ZW_Zy9Nw
‘The Silk Road: A Living History’ talks are a collaboration between Aga Khan Foundation UK, Aga Khan University – Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and The Institute of Ismaili Studies.
15. After Avicenna
Online conference on post-Avicennian Islamic philosophy and theology
University of Jyväskylä, June 2–3 2021
Organised by the project Epistemic Transitions in Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science and funded by the European Research Council
The conference is open to all interested parties. The Zoom links and possible updates will be announced at the conference website, http://islamicepistemology.com/2021/05/18/after-avicenna. For all further information, please contact Mr Kutlu Okan (kutluokan@gmail.com).
- May 29, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.CfP: International Conference on ‘Ibn Sina’s Philosophical Anthropology’
December 26-28, 2021, organised by the Iranian Institute of Philosophy.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 2021-07-22
Full information at:
2. Antioch, A History
Andrea U. De Giorgi, A. Asa Eger
Routledge, 2021
https://www.routledge.com/Antioch-A-History/Giorgi-Eger/p/book/9780367633042
3. ONLINE Seminar: “Self-Narratives, Gendered Middle Class Subjectivities, and Feminism(s) In the “Orient” from the Last Quarter of the 19th Century to the Interwar Period” by Efthymia Kanner (University of Athens), Lecture Series “Life Narratives and Gender: Voices of Women in the Near East an Eastern Mediterranean”, Orient Institut Istanbul, 26 May 2021, 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm TRT
The lecture will try to reconstitute the gendered middle class subjectivities of some women who lived in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Early Turkish Republic from the last quarter of the 19th century to the Inter-war period and link these subjectivities to the emergence of feminist thought in the region.
Information and registration: https://30qtcudfwz93ffi2426a91bc-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/LIFE_NARRATIVES_BOOKLET_SPREAD.pdf
4. ONLINE Lecture: “Emotive Circulation: 19th Century Islamophobia in Anglophone Newspapers in India and the United States” by Peter Gottschalk (Wesleyan University, USA), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 27 May 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm CET
Anglophone newspapers published in India, Britain, and the United States in the nineteenth century reflected both the imaginaries and the emotions that helped constitute, reinforce, and challenge normative regimes of social belonging and religious commitment.
Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/emotive-circulation-19th-century-islamophobia-in-anglophone-newspapers
5. ONLINE Lecture: “Scholars, Apostasy and States in Medieval Islam: Historiographical and Juridical Issues”, Islamic History and Thought Lecture Series, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 17 June 2021, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm GMT
Through the examples of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt al-Hamadānī and Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī this lecture will first present how the authors of literary sources of history constructed their narratives of scholarly apostasy in accordance with their own sectarian and political affiliations. It will then present the juridical procedure at play when scholars were accused of apostasy.
Information and registration: https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/scholars-apostasy-and-states-medieval-islam-historiographical-and-juridical-issues?utm_source=hnet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=IHTLS
6. ONLINE Lecture: “The Politics of Islamic Pop” by Prof. Jonas Otterbeck (Aga Khan University, London), Middle East Institute, National Univerversity of Singapore, 23 June 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm SGT
This webinar will analyse the politics of Islamic pop music through a case study of the Islamic media company Awakening Records and their artistes. Beyond motivations and implications, the discussion will zoom in on the genealogy of the music in question. How can we frame the logic of politics within a conceptual discourse of Islamic ethical empowerment?
Information and registration: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/the-politics-of-islamic-pop/
7. ONLINE Conference: “Sites of Encounter and Cultural Exchange in West Asian and the Mediterranean (500-1500 CE)”, Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Society, University of Edinburgh, 4-6 November 2021
Papers and posters are invited that address issues including: Sites of Encounter in Material Culture; Frontiers; Marginality; Multilingualism; Religion as Site of Encounter; Mapping and Geographic Writings; Commercial Networks and Trade.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7717863/sites-encounter-and-cultural-exchange-west-asian-and
8. International Conference: “Media Aesthetics of Occidentalism”, Centre for Near and Middle East Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, 26-28 January 2022
The conference pursues the central question “How do media aesthetic qualities contribute to the constitution of Occidentalist discourses?”
Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2021. Information; https://www.online.uni-marburg.de/okzidentalismus/index.php/2021/02/08/internationale-abschlusstagung-26-bis-28-januar-2022/
9. PhD Candidate in Islamic History and Culture, University of Bergen
The candidate must hold a Norwegian master’s degree in African or Middle East history, Islamic studies, social anthropology or related disciplines and is expected to produce a PhD dissertation within a project which will analyze Islamic textual material from coastal East Africa ca. 1950 to the present.
Deadline for application: 6 June 2021. Information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/205579/phd-candidate-in-islamic-history-and-culture
10. Articles for “Nidhomul Haq: Journal of Islamic Education Management”
The journal invites scholars, researchers, and students to contribute in English the result of their studies and researches in the areas related to Islamic Education Management, leadership, school management, knowledge management which covers textual and fieldwork investigation with various perspectives of Education, philosophy, history, theology, sociology, anthropology, political science, and others.
Information: https://e-journal.ikhac.ac.id/index.php/nidhomulhaq
11. Assistant Professor of Islamic Traditions and Contemporary Politics, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Requirements: A completed PhD and scientific publications on a relevant theme in contemporary politics and Islamic studies; teaching experience in the field of Islamic studies, and/or Middle Eastern studies at BA and MA levels; involvement in societal debates about the role of Islam in contemporary society; proficiency in Dutch (C1 level) and English (C2 level) or willingness to achieve these levels within two years.
Deadline for applications: 31 May 2021. Information: https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/300482/assistant-professor-of-islamic-traditions-and-contemporary-politics/
12. Post: University of Oxford, Departmental Lecturer, Islamic History,
Faculty of Oriental Studies, Pusey Lane
The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 25 June 2021.
This is a full-time, fixed-term position between 1 September 2021 (or as soon as possible thereafter) and 31 August 2023.
Full info at:
13.On-line seminar: Early Hadith Criticism: ‘Ali b. al-Madini and His Contributions.’ .
Lecturer: Dr. I-Wen Su
National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan
Date: 27 May 2021 (Thursday) Time: 3.00 – 4.00 pm (Malaysia and Taiwan Time Zone)
Platform: Microsoft Teams – URL: shorturl.at/mszQV
- May 25, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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