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1. UIMP EuQu Summer School 21 – 25 June 2021
Registration period for the EuQu Summer School is now open.
The objective of this seminar is to analyse the role that the Qur’an had in interactions in modern and medieval Europe with Islam, in debates between Christians of various persuasions and doctrines or in criticism of Christianity during the Enlightenment, among other areas of investigation. To what extent is the Qur’an imbedded in the political and religious thought of Europe and part of the intellectual repertoire of Medieval and Early Modern Europeans of different Christian denominations, of European Jews, freethinkers, atheists and of course European Muslims? During the sessions we will study how the Qur’an was interpreted, adapted, used, and formed in Christian European contexts since the Middle Ages, in order to understand how the Holy Book has influenced both culture and religion in Europe.
You can check out the program and fill in the application form at the link below:
http://www.uimp.es/agenda-link.html?id_actividad=64XD&anyaca=2021-22
Best wishes,
Katarzyna Starczewska
Email: katarzyna.starczewska@cchs.csic.es
Phone: (+34) 916022765
Office: 2E11
Doctora Fuera de Convenio FC3
Instituto de Historia
Departamento de Estudios Medievales
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
C/Albasanz, 26-28. Madrid 28037 (España)
2. Tenure-track assistant professorship in Modern Turkish history, society, and culture, University of Copenhagen
The closing date for applications is the 21 of June 2021, 23:59 CET.
For full information, and to apply, see:
https://employment.ku.dk/tenure-track/?show=154047
3. SYMPOSIUM – Cultural Encounters in Anatolia in the Medieval Period: The Crusaders in Anatolia (Koç University VEKAM) – May 27-28
Cultural Encounters in Anatolia in the Medieval Period: The Crusaders in Anatolia Symposium. The symposium will be held online on May 27-28, 2021 due to pandemic.
Starting from Spring 2014, Koç University VEKAM has been organizing international symposiums to introduce various cultures that lived in Anatolia and to support research in these fields of study under the title of “Cultural Encounters in Anatolia in the Medieval Period”.
After the symposiums on the Georgian Kingdom, Ilkhanids, and Italians in Anatolia, within the scope of the series, this year’s theme is specified as “The Crusaders in Anatolia”. We believe that Cultural Encounters in Anatolia in the Medieval Period: The Crusaders in Anatolia symposium will be inspiring for researchers in this field.
Symposium will be in Turkish and English. Simultaneous translation will be available.
Registration is required.
for furher information and registration please see <<
| 4. University of Oxford: Senior Acquisitions and Cataloguing Assistant (Oriental Technical Services) | ||
| Osney One Building, Osney Mead, Oxford, OX2 0ES; occasionally libraries holding open-shelf collections | ||
| Closing Date & Time : | 02-Jun-2021 12:00 | |
5. Open Access e-book: Conquered Populations in Early Islam Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers
E. Urban, Edinburgh, 2020
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/44136
6. Third Summer School in Islamicate Digital Humanities for Scholars in Manuscript Studies
Date: 30 August – 10 September 2021 (twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays)
Venue: online, hosted by Hamburg Universität, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg
Director of the Course: Alba Fedeli
IT Coordinator: Alicia González Martínez and Cristina Vertan
Deadline for applications: 2 July 2021
Registration free of charge
Number of Participants: a limited number of participants will be selected, up to 15 people
Contact details: Alba Fedeli at alba.fedeli@uni-hamburg.de
The University of Hamburg is hosting a four-day summer course from August 30th to September 10th for graduate students and researchers who work with manuscript materials in Arabic script and want to learn how to choose tools and resources that are available to them and how to apply digital technology in their research. It includes theoretical and/or practical sessions on digital encoding and editing of manuscript texts, data modelling and annotation, advanced search, and visualization.
As the number of participants is limited to fifteen people for the effectiveness of the practical sessions, students and researchers interested to participate in this summer course must apply by Friday 2 July 2021 by submitting the following details:
• A one-page CV.
• A motivation letter (maximum 200 words) explaining their interest in the course and their field of research.
• A list of their technical skills in order to organize the practical sessions in the more effective way although they are not a requirement for participating in the course. Applicants have to indicate – for example – their knowledge of -any software for annotation, searching and/or any type of data handling; data formats; digital editing; programming languages, etc.
• City from where the participant will attend the summer school, so that we can arrange the time slots in the most convenient way for the majority of the people.
As this year the summer school will be held online, all participants applying MUST make sure that they have a stable and adequate fast internet connection, video camera and microphone, during the duration of the school.
All documents have to be sent as a single PDF-file attachment named as “LastName_Name_Hamburg_DHSchool_2021” to Alba Fedeli at alba.fedeli@uni-hamburg.de and Alicia González Martínez at alicia.gonzalez@uni-hamburg.de
Further details will be uploaded soon on InterSaME website, www.intersame.uni-hamburg.de .
7. Open Access e-journal:
Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies
https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/jlaibs
- May 22, 2021
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Online Lecture – “Ablution Rooms of Mosques in Medieval Near East“, by Marie-Odile Rousset (CNRS UMR 5133 Archéorient)
May, 20th (3h-4h PM CET, 4h-5h PM in Amman & Beirut)
https://www.ifporient.org/archaeology-mena/
Join next conference of Ifpo’s webinar “ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TO THE OTTOMAN PERIOD. FIRST SERIES: LEBANON AND JORDAN”
2. Travelling the Silk Road from East to West:
How a 14th century Mongol pilgrim became the leader of the church in Iraq
Philip Wood
9 June 2021 | 12 noon BST | Online
For further info and to register, see:
3. ONLINE Lecture: “Sharia Transformations: Cultural Politics and the Rebranding of an Islamic Judiciary” by Michael G. Peletz, Leiden University, 20 May 2021, 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm CET
The auther discusses his new ethnographic, historical, and theoretical study of the practice and lived entailments of sharia in Malaysia, arguably the most economically successful Muslim-majority nation in the world. The book focuses on the routine, everyday practices of Malaysia’s sharia courts and examines how these court practices and discourses have changed.
Information and registration: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2021/05/sharia-transformations-cultural-politics-and-the-rebranding-of-an-islamic-judiciary
4. ONLINE Lecture: “Al-Muḥāsibī and the Essence of Reason: A Note on Authorship” by Prof. Hussein Abdulsater (University of Notre Dame, USA), Göttinger Orient-Symposium, 20 May 2021, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm CET
This talk studies the theory of reason by al-Ḥārith al-Muḥāsibī (d. 243/857) through his major work on the subject, Māʾiyyat al-ʿaql. The talk attempts to verify the authorship of this critical section of Muḥāsibī’s work, therefore casting light on other contributions to the study of reason in Islam that were eclipsed by the scholarly concentration on Muḥāsibī’s output.
Information: sekretariat.guenther@uni-goettingen.de. Access Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/95643369638?pwd=aWZoVWRMMFo5RUs4NDF1TWVzVUcvUT09
5. ONLINE Discussion of the Book “Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920-1958” by Dr. Dylan Baun (University of Alabama), Association of Middle East Children’s and Youth Studies (AMECYS), 21 May 2021, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm CDT
The author traces the political and cultural history of a diverse set of youth-centric organizations to reveal how these youth movements played significant roles in the making of the modern Middle East. These groups both encouraged the political socialization of different types of youth, and, helped produce sectarian violence.
Information and registration: https://www.facebook.com/events/306585637515104/
6. ONLINE Panel: “Women, Patronage, and Agency in the Ottoman Empire”, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at New York University, 21 May 2021, 12:30 pm EST
This panel will present a diverse and nuanced set of studies that seek to expand, question, and resituate our understandings of gender and women’s agency in the Ottoman Empire.
Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYodumrrzMtG9HiS8KctilgiWZuKg4VTEyF
7. HYBRID International Interdisciplinary Colloquium: “Umayyad Syria: A Context for the Qur’an?”, University of Strasbourg, 2-4 June 2021
This conference intends to investigate the evolution and place of the Qur’anic text in early Islam within a specific spatial and temporal context: the central region of Syria and Palestine (Bilād al-Shām) under the Umayyad caliphate dynasty (661-750). The colloquium will be in French and English.
Information and registration: http://archimede.unistra.fr/fr/activites-de-recherche/programmes-de-recherche/equipes/equipe-i-territoires-et-empires-dorient-teo/la-syrie-omeyyade-un-contexte-pour-le-coran/
8. ONLINE Workshop: “What Does Decolonizing Kurdish Studies Mean?”, Centre for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 11 June 2021, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
The initiative is committed to the project of decolonizing epistemologies and methodologies in the field of Kurdish Studies. It aims to contribute to the understanding of this understudied field, at a time when Kurds have been the subject of academic, public, and political debates in the Middle East, Europe, the USA and beyond.
Information and registration: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2021/what-does-decolonizing-kurdish-studies-mean
9. ONLINE Workshop: “Anthropology, Economy, and Anti-Colonialism?”, Centre for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 23-24 June 2021, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm EST
The workshop will revolve around three basic questions. How might we think about decolonization with the tools of critical political economy, economic anthropology? What historical resources are valuable for understanding economy and coloniality in the present? How might we translate theory and critique into teachable moments in the classroom?
Information and registration: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2021/anthropology-economy-and-anti-colonialism
10. ONLINE Panel: “Is there a Middle Eastern Body?”, Orient Institute Istanbul, 7-9 August 2021
Drawing on anthropological research on aesthetic body modification (Liebelt 2019) and neuroscientific cyborg studies (Şahinol 2016), in this panel we wish to reflect on the role of cultural, historical and political constellations and peculiarities for bodily practices and beings from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2021. Information: sahinol@oiist.org and claudia.liebelt@uni-bayreuth.de
11. Workshop: “Enshrining the Past: Religion and Heritage-Making in a Secular Age”, Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities”, Leipzig University, 27-29 October 2021
This workshop seeks to explore the contours of the politics around cultural heritage and the ways it is enmeshed with the religious-secular dynamics in societies past and present. We suggest that these concerns manifest in three substantive ways, each provoking suggestive research questions: legal frames, immaterial values, and material patrimony.
Deadline for abstracts: 13 June 2021. Information: https://multiple-secularities.de/events/event/enshrining-the-past-religion-and-heritage-making-in-a-secular-age/
12. Conference: “Esotericism and the Qur’an / L’ésoterisme et le Coran”, Unversity of Lausanne & University of Geneva, Lausanne, 5-7 May 2022
The objective of this conference is to take stock of these esoteric uses of the Qur’an and to examine how they relate to each other and to non-esoteric traditions and methods, to set them in the broader context of Muslim uses and interpretations of the Qur’an.
Deadline for abstracts: 25 June 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7672230/call-papersesoterism-and-quran
13. 4 Three-year PhD Positions (65 %), Graduate School “Empires: Dynamic Transformation, Temporality and Postimperial Orders (Focus Islamic Studies)”, University Freiburg, Germany
The Research Training Group, comprising the historical disciplines of Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, Modern and Contemporary, Eastern European and Eastern Asian History and the disciplines of Sociology, Political Science, as well as Islamic Studies, and investigates imperial transformations leading up to the emergence of post-imperial orders. Deadline for applications: 7 July 2021. Information: https://uni-freiburg.de/university/jobs/00001586/
14. Lecturer in Iranian Islamic Art History (651-1725), University of St Andrews
Candidates should already have, or be close to completing, a Ph.D. Evidence of breadth of interest within the field of Iranian Islamic art and/or architecture is highly desirable, and a firm grounding in Iranian studies generally (e.g. in the fields of language, history, literature, religion) will be an advantage.
Deadline for applications: 31 May 2021. Information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CFV870/lectureship-in-iranian-islamic-art-history-ac1929nb?uuid=4ff016f9-b205-11eb-a3a3-064da8edb92a&campaign=jbew20210511&source=jbe
15. Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021/22, Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)
Visiting fellowships of 6 and 9 months for the academic year 2021/22 are awarded to junior scholars during the early stages of the postdoc period in support of excellent research projects in the humanities and social sciences. We are particularly interested in research projects that fit our annual topic of “humans in their relation to the divine and humans in their relation to their productions”.
Deadline for applications: 6 June 2021. Information: https: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/scholarships/postdoctoral-fellowships/
16. Doctoral Fellowships 2021/22, Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)
The OIB awards a number of visiting fellowships of up to 12 months for the academic year 2021/22 to doctoral candidates in support of excellent research projects in the humanities and social sciences. We are particularly interested in research projects that fit our annual topic of “humans in their relations to the divine and humans in their relation to their productions”.
Deadline for applications: 6 June 2021. Information: https: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/scholarships/doctoral-fellowships/
17. Assistant Professor in Modern World History (Regional Specialization Open), University of Northern British Columbia
Applicants should have a completed PhD, an established program of research, and a record of teaching excellence. Research strength in non-Western history will be an asset.
Deadline for applications: 1 July 2021. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61250
18. Chapters for Edited Book on “Islam and Politics in the 21st Century: Competitive Discourses and Future Uncertainties” by Ayfer Erdogan
This book will address different perspectives on the future of political Islam in light of its failure to develop a genuine political ideology that reflect their criticism of nation-state and its secular foundations. Articles will focus on conceptual debates and/or country-specific studies presenting single or comparative analyses of different experiences across the MENA region. Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2021. For further information, please contact Dr. Ayfer Erdogan at aerdogan@yildiz.edu.tr and Dr. Shaimaa Magued at shaimaamagued@feps.edu.eg
19. Proposals for a New Book Series: “The Gulf States in International Affairs” (Rowman & Littlefield)
The scope of the series encompasses members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar, as well as Iraq, Iran and Yemen. Volumes which refer substantially to the Gulf region, states or related foreign actors (which might typically involve the US, European powers, Russia and East Asian partners) will also be considered from across the social sciences and humanities.
Information: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/LEX/LEXGIA
20. Online Book Launch – Joint Islamic Art Circle and Royal Asiatic Society, Amanda Phillips – 20th May at 6.30pm BST
Please join us at 6.30pm on Thursday 20th May for the joint Royal Asiatic Society and Islamic Art Circle virtual book launch of Amanda Phillips’ Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles Between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean.
If you would like to attend, please contact Matty Bradley by e-mail: mb@royalasiaticsociety.org and the Zoom link and password will be provided. Please note the number of attendees is limited so early registration is advised. Please register by the 19th May.
21. Revealed Sciences
The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco
Justin Stearns,
Cambridge, 2021
22. Discussion Forum on Divine Scriptures(DFDS)
Series of meetings (Spring 2021)
Presenter:
Dr. Ghassan El Masri, Bavarian Research Center for Inter-religious Discourses (BaFID)
Meeting manager:
Dr. Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi, University of Tehran
The Subject:
The semantics of Qur’anic Language: al-Akhira,
Wednesday May 19th, 4 pm(Tehran zone)
More information about DFDS via:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jdwlm06JIjOKMMvK3ppPzn
Meeting Link:
Mohamadhasan Ahmadi is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: DFDS Spring 2021 First meeting
Time: May 19, 2021 04:00 PM Tehran
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/78224713099?pwd=ZTdhVGlSMWxpR3I3N2pnL0lhVllWQT09
Meeting ID: 782 2471 3099
Passcode: L8e9QE
23. University of Oxford – Professorship in Arabic (Abdulaziz Saud
AlBabtain Laudian Professorship)
The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Friday 27 August 2021.
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61384
- May 18, 2021
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1.Durham University
Teaching Fellow in Arabic
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Grade 7: – £33,797 – £40,322 per annum
Fixed Term – Full Time
Contract Duration: 12 months
Contracted Hours per Week: 35
Closing Date: 06-Jun-2021, 11:59:00 PM
https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=21000427&lang=en
For informal enquiries please contact Professor Jonathan Long, Head of School (j.j.long@durham.ac.uk ), or Dr Adam Talib, Director of Arabic Studies (adam.talib@durham.ac.uk ). All enquiries will be treated in the strictest confidence.
2. Webinar – Prof Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Poets and Artisans in the Mamluk Sultanate – June 2
As part of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies’ Wednesday Seminar Series for Trinity Term 2021, we’re delighted to be joined by Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif (SOAS), on Wednesday, 2 June 2021 at 5pm BST (not GMT!), who will present on ‘Poets and Artisans in the Mamluk Sultanate – Literary and Artistic Interactions’. Talks will take place via Zoom. Please register here.
3. BRAIS 2021 Online Series
We are hosting THREE panels next week as part of the BRAIS 2021 Online Series, and full details of each panel are below.
As ever, these panels are free and open to all. If you would like to attend but have not yet registered for the series, you can do so here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2021/brais-2021-online-series-registration
Islam and Society in Europe
Tuesday 18 May, 12pm BST
- Fouzia Azzouz (University of Bristol) British Muslim marriage and divorce practices: Avenues for regulation
- Fatou Sambe (Cardiff University) Muslim Convert Families and the Experiences of Convert Children
- Laiqah Osman (Cardiff University) Muslim Women in Britain and the Authority of Online Islamic Content
- Tatia Tavkhelidze (European University Viadrina) Boundaries between the living concept of Islamophobia and the term ‘being Islamophobic’
Criticality in Islamic Scholarship
Thursday 20 May, 10:30am BST
- I-Wen Su (National Chengchi University) ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī: a Critical Review and Reconstruction of His Biography
- Mostafa Movahedifar (University of Birmingham) The position of content criticism within early Shīʿī hadith scholarship: the case study of the legal punishment of committing zinā with a female slave of one’s wife
- Essam Ayyad (Qatar University) Medieval Muslim Katātīb between Independent Thinking and Learning by Rote
Colonialism and the Empire of Law
Friday 21 May, 2pm BST
- Rozaliya Garipova (Nazarbayev University) Colonial Rule and the Legality of Marriage in the Russian Empire
- Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown University) A Subtle Imbibe: Islamic law in 19th Century Colonial Courts in India
- Alexandre Caeiro (Hamad Bin Khalifa University) Justice before Oil: Pearl Trade, Diving Courts, and the British Legal Order in the Arabian Peninsula (1860s-1950s)
- May 15, 2021
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1.ONLINE Talk: “Kings and Heroes, Lovers and Poets: the Shahnameh’s Continuous Appeal” by Prof. Charles Melville (British Institute of Persian Studies), Iran Heritage Foundation, London, 12 May 2021, 5:30 pm GMT
The Shahnameh, or Book of Kings, is arguably Iran’s most famous work of literature and one of the world’s greatest epic poems. It recounts tales of legendary kings and heroes, compiled from more ancient legends and was completed by Ferdowsi (d.1020) over a thousand years ago, yet it still has an enduring appeal to Iranians, and non-Iranians, around the world.
Information and registration: www.iranheritage.org/12052021
2. ONLINE Seminar: “Answering the Five “W”s of Kuwaiti Democracy” by Dr Tahani Al Terkait (Kuwait), Webinar Series “Bridging the Gulf”, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 14 May 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm SGT
From the reign of a shrewd desert warrior to the Iraqi invasion in 1990, how has the nature of Kuwaiti leadership changed? How harmonious have the cabinet and the parliament been since the beginning of their coex-istence? This webinar will also provide an overview of Kuwait’s balanced foreign policy.
Information and registraton: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/bridging-the-gulf/
3. ONLINE ASTENE Postgraduate Research Competition of the “Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East”, 15 May 2021, 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm CET
This competition is intended to reward the most promising and engaging research in the interdisciplinary and cross-period fields of Near Eastern studies and travel history. Nine finalists will present a 20-minute paper at this virtual day of research, debate and networking.
Information, program and registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/astene-postgraduate-research-competition-tickets-145051596229
4. ONLINE International Conference: “New Political Generations in the Arab World”, Working Group “Monde arabe en mouvement” of the “Association internationale des sociologues de langue française”, 16 May 2021
The conference will gather academics working on new political generation(s) in the Arab world. Its aim is to critically assess the construction of “political generation” in studies related to the Arab world. The conference is trilingual (Arabic, English and French).
Information: https://sites.google.com/view/newarabpoliticalgeneration/home
5. 5th Conference of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS): “Interrogating the Social Sciences in the Vortex of Crises: Waves of Discontent and Demands for Change”, Beirut, 3-5 September 2021
The conference is organized around the following four major axes: Inequality and Resistance; The State and Risk Society; Infrastructure and Survival; Global, Regional and National Ecologies.
Information: http://www.theacss.org/pages/fifth-conference
6. Workshop for Young Scholars: “DAVO-Werkstattgespräche” during the “27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO)”, University of Osnabrück, 16−18 September 2021
Young scholars have the opportunity to present their research studies in progress (Master thesis or PhD) in German or English. Since the general idea of the workshop is not to present finished works, young scholars are explicitly invited to contribute their projects in an early conception or implementation stage.
Deadline for applications: 15 June 2021.
Information: https://www.iit.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/events/27th_international_davo_congress/workshop_for_young_scholars.html
7. ONLINE & HYBRID Conference: “21th Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS 2021)”, Ohio State University, Columbus, 14-17 October 2021; Pre-Conference Workshops 13-14 October 2021
We invite submissions relating to all aspects of humanities and social science scholarship. The geographic domain of Central Eurasia encompasses Central Asia, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, the Black Sea region etc.
Deadline for abstracts extended until 17 May 2021.
Information: https://www.centraleurasia.org/conferences/annual/
8. Articles on “Constituting Archives in the Middle East Yesterday and Today: Legitimacy, Materiality, Temporality” for Special Issue of the Journal “Bulletin d’études orientales” (BEO 69)
In this issue the editors Pauline Koetschet, Falestin Naïli, Najla Nakhlé-Cerruti and Candice Raymond would like to bring together contributions from various disciplines (history, literature, anthropology, etc.) and from different periods.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2021.
Information: https://www.ifporient.org/beo-69-call-en/
9. Chapters for Edited Book on “South Asian Migration to Gulf: Issues, Perspectives and Opportunities”
The focus of the book will be on fixing the gap between the best possible policies for migrants, after under-standing the ground realities and challenges of migrants.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2021.
Information: https://grfdt.com/Upload/Event/7176_Invitation_to_contribute_a_chapter_to_th.pdf
10. Publications for Book Series “Critical, Connected Histories (Focus Middle East)” from Leiden University Press
The series seeks to explore unfamiliar social, cultural, and political issues that connect people of Asia, the Middle-East, Africa, Americas, and Europe in the modern age (since 1700). In addition to manuscripts we also accept edited volumes.
11. Proposals for a New Academic Book Series: “I.B.Tauris Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Persian Literature”
The temporal scope of the series is circa 850-1850. The geographical range is the full expanse of the Persianate world, from Anatolia and the Caucasus in the west, through Iran and Afghanistan, to Central and South Asia in the east.
12. The British Library :
The many names of the General Treaty with the Arab Tribes of the Persian Gulf
13. Online – Workshop: European Visions of the Qur’ān in the Middle Ages (9th-15th centuries)
20-21 May 2021
Nantes, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Ange Guépin
5 allée Jacques Berque, 44021 Nantes Cedex 1
Simone Veil Amphitheatre
For the programme and to register for Zoom, see:
14. Iranzamin Exhibition Talk Series – DE-TERRITORIALISING ISLAMIC ART HISTORY
Speaker: Dr. Mahroo Moosavi
In this talk Dr Mahroo Moosavi will speak about de-territorialising Islamic art history. The talk will question the habits of thought in the study of Islamic art history, especially in Persianate arts, by working between different forms of artistic production. It proposes an alternate way of discussing art history, allowing the encounter, rather than the effect of the modern act of ‘labelling’ of art, to guide the analysis and produce nuanced understandings that are informed by socio-cultural and religious discourses. This new type of engagement between different forms of art addresses a particular inadequacy in contemporary accounts of Islamic Persianate art, that is evident in the way that most Islamic art museums work, which are reductive of the complexities of this art.
Date: 15 May 2021
Time: 2.30pm – 3.30pm (Sydney Time)
Duration: 60 minutes
Zoom link:
https://zoom.us/j/94170635964…
Passcode: 335207
- May 11, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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1.Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2021).
https://www.hackettpublishing.com/muslim-sources-of-the-crusader-period-4415
2. Call for Chapters: The Historicity of Democracy in the Arab and Muslim worlds
In the framework of the HISDEMAB research project on the historicity of democracy in the Arab and Muslim worlds, funded by the Leibniz-Association, original chapters are welcome for a collective book edited by Nora Lafi (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin). The volume will integrate work from historians of political systems, historians of ideas, historians focusing on social and cultural history, urban historians or specialists of the historical anthropology and anthropology of decision-making processes. The main objective of the volume is to deliver an up-to-date interpretation of the phenomena of negotiation, deliberation, representation, debate, consensus-building, election, designation, expression of ideas and opinions or construction of forms of public spheres in the Arab and Muslim worlds from the Middle-Ages to contemporary times. Within the historiographical context of studies having critically challenged the inertia of forms of orientalism and new-orientalism in debates on democracy in the region, the volume, in spite of only discussing the ability or not of societies to accomodate democratic institutions and practices, will deliberately focus on the study of such societies for themselves and of political forms that were inherent to them. The aim is to track, explore and interpret, on the basis of original sources (archives, manuscripts) practices that existed in the broader region without reducing them to only echoes or imports. Paradigms of circulation of ideas are of course important in this posture too but what will also be under study in this volume is the diversity of local societies and the complex solutions of governance they historically developed.
Chapters may cover the following themes. Alternative ideas are also welcome.
- Deliberation, representation, power and legitimacy in Medieval Islam (both theory and practice, with an attention to the inertia and transformation of previous practices)
- Systems of election, designation, negotiation and decision in the Medieval Islamic world as well as in the Ottoman Empire at the scale of confessional communities (Jewish, Christian and others), professional organisations, urban institutions, rural communities, nomadic or semi-nomadic communities
- Forms of female civic participation
- Expressions of civic life (debate, opinion, participation, opposition…) and practices of consensus-building
- Ottoman experiences of institutional reform of representation and of elective systems at both the local and imperial levels
- Representation, deliberation, decision-making and elections under colonial occupation
- The notion of democracy in the relationship with its various layers of historicity at the times of struggles for independence and during phases of national-building.
- Interpreting democratic oppositions and recent experiments, as well as their repression, in the framework of debates on the historicity of democracy in the region
- The question of the access to archival resources in relation to debates on and practices of democracy
The authors will be invited to present their chapter in a workshop in Berlin in March 2022 (travel and accommodation costs covered).
Nora Lafi is the editor or co-editor of 6 collective books: Municipalités méditerranéennes, K. Schwarz, 2005; The City in the Ottoman Empire, Routledge, 2011; Urban Governance under the Ottomans, Routledge, 2014; Silvestre de Sacy: le projet européen d’une science orientaliste, Le Cerf, 2015; Urban Violence in the Middle East, Berghahn, 2015; Understanding the City through its Margins, Routledge, 2018. She also guest edited several thematic issues of peer-reviewed journals and published extensively on the subject of the civic dimension of governance in the Ottoman empire. She presently serves as Senior Research Fellow with Leibniz-ZMO in Berlin and is HISDEMAB project-leader.
Abstract deadline: July 9, 2021. Notification of acceptance: July 16, 2021. Paper deadline: January 15, 2022. Workshop in Berlin: March 2022. Revised Paper Deadline: June 30, 2022.
Please note that due to the present pandemic and to the limited duration of the funding, deadlines must be respected.
Please email your submission to: Nora.Lafi@zmo.de
3. Arab Law Quarterly, Special Issue:
‘Islamic Finance and Contemporary Challenges’,
edited by M. Kabir Hassan
Volume 35 (2021): Issue 1-2 (Nov 2020)
https://brill.com/view/journals/alq/35/1-2/alq.35.issue-1-2.xml
4. 14 May 2021 Event: Interrupted and Restricted: Digital Humanities and Ethics in a Time of Crisis – Zoom
Aga Khan Library
This panel seeks to address not only the forward facing aspects of digital humanities (DH), ensuring access to researchers, students, and scholars, but also takes a step back to question the ethics and implications of what is disseminated via the virtual vis-à-vis human rights.
Register: https://aku-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qduispjkjGNYwvUw1p97r9pWi4hr-Gvc-
5. Indian Ocean Studies Conference 12-13 November 2021
At the Western Australian Maritime Museum and Sheridan Institute of
Higher Education, Perth, Western Australia
Call for Presenters
Sheridan Institute, in partnership with the Western Australian Maritime
Museum and the Australian Association for Maritime History (AAMH),
wishes to announce its biennial Indian Ocean Studies Conference. The
theme of this year’s conference is Change and Continuity in an Age of
Uncertainty.
We welcome individual presentations as well as panels from researchers,
scholars, policy-makers, and students on the following sub-themes:
Maritime history and trade
Education and communities
Faith and culture
Disease and disease control
Environmental studies
Defence and strategic studies
The deadline for abstract/panel submissions is 28 May 2021. Please send
your abstract to jesler@sheridan.edu.au, or via the conference website
page: https://sheridanicon.weebly.com/abstract-submission.html .
For further details, please see the conference website:
https://sheridanicon.weebly.com/
Contact Info:
Dr Joshua Esler, Sheridan Institute of Higher Education, Perth, Western
Australia
Email: jesler@sheridan.edu.au
URL: https://sheridanicon.weebly.com/
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1.ONLINE Session: “Listening to Women in the MENA Region Before and After the Arab Spring”, Foundation Maison des sciences de l’homme, 25 May 2021, 5:00 pm CET
This conversation will focus on gender-based oppression and violence directed toward women as fundamental elements of social structures that promote state-sanctioned violence, sectarian violence, and social violence. Speakers: Nadje Al-Ali, Saha Farhat, Ahlem Bousserwel.
Information and registration: https://www.ipev-fmsh.org/event/listening-to-women-in-the-mena-region-before-and-after-the-arab-spring/
2. ONLINE Session: “Arab Uprisings: The Evolution of Arab Society”, Foundation Maison des sciences de l’homme, 1 June 2021, 5:00 pm CET
The panel will investigate how Arab youth are responding to the increasing social polarization that eventuated post the Arab revolts. They will explore the MENA region’s trajectory into a new decade by studying strategies and tools employed by youth to bridge ideological gaps, resolve religious and ethnic tensions, and formulate a new social contract.
Information and registration: https://www.ipev-fmsh.org/event/arab-uprisings-the-evolution-of-arab-society/
3. 20th ISA World Congress of Sociology on “Resurgent Authoritarianism: Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies”, Melbourne, Australia, 24-30 July 2022
This World Congress of Sociology will focus on how sociologists worldwide can (and do) contribute to the understanding of the resurgent authoritarianism and analyze the new entanglements of religions, politics, and economies. It will also focus on how sociologists engage (physically and critically) in the formidable social movements we are witnessing today in different parts of the world and in a renascent civil society.
Information: https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress
4. “34. Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT) / 34th German Oriental Congress” Combined with the “28th International Congress of the German Middle Eastern Studies Association (DAVO)”, Free University Berlin, 12-17 September 2022
The DOT has been organised by the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG) since 1921 and takes place all 3-5 years. The 34th DOT marks the 100th anniversary. The 28th International Congress of DAVO is held under the umbrella of the DOT. The languages of the conference are German and English, papers in other languages are possible after consultation with the heads of the individual sections.
Deadline for panel proposals: 1 October 2021. Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2021. Information: https://dot2022.de/en/call-for-papers/
5. Lecturer for Persian Literature (1 Year), University of Oxford
You will have a doctorate in Persian Literature, a proven ability to give lectures and classes to undergraduate students in the field of Persian Literature, fluency in literary Persian and the ability to teach texts in the original (premodern and modern, poetry and prose).
Application deadline: 11 June 2021. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/04/29/departmental-lecturer-persian-literature
6. PhD Studentship: Egyptian-South African Relations in the Global Cold War, SOAS University of London
Requirements: The PhD will commence in October 2021. The student will spend at least three months each at the AARC, and at archives in South Africa. Fluency in Arabic, a capacity to travel freely in Africa, and a first-class degree in Politics/History are essential.
Deadline for application: 7 May 2021. Information: https://www.chase.ac.uk/cdas/egyptian-south-african-relations
7. PhD Studentship (3 Year) on “Transnational Solidarity in the Global Cold War: Egyptian-South African Relations” at SOAS/Birkbeck, London
The studentship will support interdisciplinary (Politics and History) research examining the dynamics of transnational solidarity as exemplified in Egypt’s role as sponsor of South African liberation movements during the 1960s. Requirements: Fluency in Arabic, a capacity to travel freely in Africa, and a first-class degree in Politics/History are essential.
Deadline for application: 7 May 2021. Information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CFC202/phd-studentship-transnational-solidarity-in-the-global-cold-war-egyptian-south-african-relations
8. The Study of Islam and Muslims in the shadow of the “War on Terror”: Complexity, Reflexivity and Decolonising Methodologies
This conference, taking place on Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th June 2021, aims to explore how the Decolonising the Curriculum Movement (DCM) at British Universities could enable research and teaching staff to tackle and transcend the aforementioned dynamics present in the study of Muslims and Islam within any discipline in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In so doing, it invites academics to critically explore the politics of engaging in research and teaching on Islam/Muslims at British universities through an exercise of self-reflection on their own research and teaching practises. It also aims to reflect more broadly on the political implications/limitations of producing knowledge about Islam/Muslims in the current socio-political context that differentially in(ex)cludes Muslim voices.
https://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/alwaleed/study-of-islam-and-muslims
Registration
This online conference is free to attend but registration is essential. Click here to register.
9. Discussion Forum on Divine Scriptures(DFDS)
Series of meetings (Spring 2021)
- Wednesday May 19th, 4 pm(Tehran zone): The semantics of Qur’anic Language: al-Akhira, Dr. Ghassan El Masri, Bavarian Research Center for Inter-religious Discourses (BaFID)
- Wednesday May 26th, 4 pm(Tehran zone):purity in the Qur’an and its Biblical subtext, Prof. Gabriel Said Reynolds,University of Notre Dame
- Wednesday June 2th, 4 pm(Tehran zone): Discursive and social psychological readings of al-Taqāwul التقاول between Noah and his people in the Qur’anic text, Dr. abdelmadjid BENHABIB, University of Tlemcen, Algeria
- Wednesday June 9th, 4 pm(Tehran zone): Figurative and Metaphorical approach as way to interpreting the Islamic text, Dr. Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi, University of Tehran.
- Wednesday June 16th, 4 pm(Tehran zone): Interfaith dialogue and the divine texts, Dr. Sarah Markiewicz, Humboldt University of Berlin.
Find more information and primary registration via:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jdwlm06JIjOKMMvK3ppPzn
6. Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds, edited by Evanthia Baboula and Lesley Jessop (Brill).
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1. The BRAIS 2021 Online Series will be returning for our third panel entitled ‘Modern Islamic Movements’ on Monday 3 May.
Full details are below. To attend this and all other panels in the series for free, please register here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2021/brais-2021-online-series-registration.
Modern Islamic Movements
Monday 3 May, 2pm BST
- Dietrich Reetz (BGSMCS, Free University of Berlin) Amir or Shura: How to lead a global missionary movement of Islam like the Tablighi Jama’at
- Sara Tonsy (CHERPA, Institut d’Etudes Politique-Aix) An Alternative Political Economy in Egypt: the case of the Muslim Brotherhood
- Fabian Spengler (Tel Aviv University) The Limited Appeal of Salafiyya and Wasatiyya for Muslims in Europe
For further information about the series, including the full programme, click here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2021
2. Open- Access book –
Brill, 2021
3. Lecturer (Education) in Middle East and Global Affairs
King’s College London – Global Institutes, School of Global Affairs
Closes: 23.5.21
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CFP204/lecturer-education-in-middle-east-and-global-affairs
4. Language and Nature in South Arabia: online workshop series
May 4, 15:00 BST
The workshop on 4th May features Leonid Kogan, HSE University, Moscow, who will discuss his recent lexicographic research on Soqotra from a comparative-historical dimension.
- Leonid Kogan – Recent Lexicographic Research on Soqotri, with an emphasis on the comparative historical dimension.
5. LOVA network – Harassment in the field: Reflections on safety and vulnerability during fieldwork
Webinar | LOVA Network
The LOVA network of engaged feminist anthropologists has scheduled a two-part non-prep webinar to reflect on the impact of (sexual) harassment and intimidation in the field, both for us as ethnographers and for the practice of ethnography.
Webinar – Harassment in the field: Reflections on safety and vulnerability during fieldwork
- 27 May 2021, 2PM-5PM
- 28 May 2021, 2PM-4:30PM
You can sign up at safety@lova.network until 20 May 2021, including your name, a short (2-3 sentences) motivation, and whether you would like to attend session 1, session 2, or both.
6. Qur’ans from Morocco to Malaysia: Manuscript Studies from the Frontiers of the Islamic World
These webinars will be held via Zoom by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies on selected Tuesdays at 5pm BST in May and June 2021. Please register online here. All welcome!
18 May: ‘Untold stories of Maghribī Qurʾans (12th-14th centuries)’, Dr Umberto Bongianino, University of Oxford
1 June: ‘Worlding the Qur’an: A corpus of 18th-19th century Illuminated Qur’an manuscripts from coastal East Africa’, Dr Zulfikar Hirji, York University, Toronto
8 June: ‘The Sulawesi diaspora floral style of Qur’an illumination’, Dr Annabel Teh Gallop, British Library
15 June: ‘The Qur’ans of Harar: An Ethiopian manuscript tradition’, Dr Sana Mirza, Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Washington DC
7. “Umm as-Surab (north-eastern Jordan): Settlement Dynamics in the Islamic periods. New data from Building Archaeology” by Piero Gilento (CNRS UMR 7041 ArScAn – Ifpo) – May 6th
https://www.ifporient.org/archaeology-mena/
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1.Embroidery of Central Asia, Iranian Plateau and the Indian Subcontinent
I B Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2021
2. Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” organisé par le CeRMI, qui aura lieu le jeudi 6 mai 2021 de17h à19h en visioconférence (lien de connexion ci-après).
Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Maria Szuppe (directrice de recherche, CNRS, CeRMI / UMR 8041), pour une conférence intitulée :
Grandes familles locales et leurs réseaux d’influence dans le monde iranien oriental : le cas des khwājas de Barnābād (Hérat) aux XVe-XVIIIe siècles
ID de réunion : 983 2581 4324
Code secret : 854249
3. BIPS (British Institute of Persian Studies) invites applications for Research and Travel Grant Awards.
BIPS Research and Travel Grant Awards are to assist scholars wishing to pursue research in the area of arts, humanities and social science research, relating to the Persianate world, particularly Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Transcaucasia, Iraq, the Persian Gulf littoral and South Asia. Subject areas include, but are not limited to: Art, Anthropology, Archaeology, Classics, Cultural Studies, History, Language, Literature, Politics, Religious Studies, and Sociology. Scholars who apply must be attached to a UK Higher Educational Institution (university, museum or similar).
Most of the grant funds are set aside for collaborative research projects and we are currently seeking to attract applications from scholars under three “umbrella” programmes:
- Objects of Empire: Imperial Elites and Material Cultures of Ancient Iran
- Persianisation and Persianate Cosmopolises
- Iran and the International in the Modern Period
For more information and to download the application form, visit our Grants page.
Deadline for submitting applications: 14th May 2021
4. ONLINE Panel: “Digital Forays in Middle Eastern Studies: Lightning Talks from Junior Scholars”, Kevorkian Center, New York University, 29 April 2021, 12:30 pm EST
What does it look like to think, engage, and do research in this digital age? In this panel, seven PhD/MA Candidates, junior faculty, and independent scholars will present projects that are pushing the norms, boundaries, and forms of Middle Eastern Scholarship through adopting new tools, methods, and modes of dissemination.
Information and registration: https://as.nyu.edu/neareaststudies/events/spring-202011/digital-forays–lightning-talks-from-junior-scholars1.html
5. ONLINE Lecture: “Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans: Mouradgea d’Ohsson and His Masterpiece “Tableau général de l’Empire othoman” by Carter V. Findley (Ohio State University), Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative, New York University, 14 May 2021, 12:30 pm EST
This was the most authoritative work ever yet published on Islam and the Ottomans. Profusely illustrated with 233 engravings, the work also offered the century’s richest collection of visual imagery on the Ottomans and opened deep insights into the processes and politics of illustrated book production in this period.
Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqdO-vrjotHNOA4QnEdSVrmISPCIpClcMq
6. ONLINE “54th Seminar for Arabian Studies”, Organized by the International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA), 2-4 and 9-11 July 2021 BST
The seminar is in collaboration with “Casa Árabe” which will host a special session and a keynote lecture on 9 July 2021 tht are free of charge.
Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/026f5d0c9dec/54th-seminar-for-arabian-studies-programme-and-registration?e=18cf0337f7
7. 3rd International Süleymaniye Symposium: “The “Köprülü Era” (1656-1710) in Ottoman History: New Sources, New Approaches”, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 24-26 September 2021
The Köprülü family has profoundly shaped Ottoman history. Many new sources, recent articles, books, dissertations, and projects have opened new frontiers while also expanding on the existing assumptions and approaches about the period.
Abstract submission deadline: 31 May 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/7575183/call-papers-3rd-international-s%C3%BCleymaniye-symposium-24-26
8. Post-Doctorate Researcher (Arabic Poetry in the Cairo Genizah: History of Literacy and Education), University of Dublin (3 Yeaars)
Qualification: PhD in a relevant field; Proven research skills in Arabic/Islamic Literary History, Arabic literature or Medieval/Premodern Islamic History; Research skills in medieval / premodern history and / or literature; Knowledge of Arabic language and literature; Ability to translate Arabic poetry into English.
Deadline for applications: 14 May 2021. Information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CFJ702/research-fellow-post-doctorate-researcher-arabic-poetry-in-the-cairo-genizah-history-of-literacy-and-education?uuid=da54c787-a184-11eb-a3a3-064da8edb92a&campaign=jbew20210420&source=jbe
9. Coordinator for “Anti-Muslim Racism Working Group”, European Coalition of Cities against Racism (ECCAR)
Candidate requirements: Experience of working across multiple departments and teams; Degree in Social Science / Political Science; Academic writing skills in English; Fluent proficiency in written and spoken English. Duration: 8 months (starting date: as soon as possible). Part time 30% based on TV-L 11 (German public service salary scale).
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2021. Information: https://www.eccar.info/en/news/eccar-hiring-new-coordinator-anti-muslim-racism-working-group
10. ONLINE or IN-CLASS: “Ottoman Turkish Summer School”: Intensive Instruction in Ottoman Turkish for International Students and Professionals, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 5 July – 27 August 2021
The summer school is designed to comprise co-curricular and extra-curricular activities such as seminars by top scholars on Turkish history, politics, literature, and art; cultural events, and, field trips to historical sites and archives.
Deadline for applications: 29 May 2021. Information: https://oss.ihu.edu.tr/languages-program/
11. ONLINE Summer School “In Search of the Reader: New Approaches to Practices, Functions and Histories of Reading in Arabic Literature, Arts, Media and Culture”, Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA), 16-20 August 2021
The summer school provides PhD students and postdocs of Arabic literary studies from European and Arab universities the opportunity to present their own research in an international academic context, to discuss innovative approaches readers and reading pracices, and to practice the respective foreign language (Eng-lish or Arabic).
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2021. Information: http://arabic-philologies.de/en/online2021.html
12. ONLINE Summer Language Program in Arabic and Persian, University of Maryland
Classes are available for all levels, from complete beginners up to advanced speakers. The program is open to all.
Information: http://www.globalprofessionals.umd.edu/summer-language-institute
13. Articles on “Public Space, Publicness and Social Transformations” for Special Issue of “Egypte Monde Arabe”
This call for papers argues that public spaces and publicness are engines for a better understanding of current socio-spatial and multifaceted overall transformations, namely questioning how both the massive protest events that occurred in the region between 2011 and 2018 and their aftermath but also the growin g commodification and privatization of spaces have modified the understanding, practices, and politics of public spaces?
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2021. Information: http://cedej-eg.org/index.php/2021/03/10/call-for-papers-egypte-monde-arabe-30th-of-april-2021/
14. Articles on “Public Space, Publicness and Social Transformations” for Special Issue of “Egypte Monde Arabe”
This call for papers argues that public spaces and publicness are engines for a better understanding of current socio-spatial and multifaceted overall transformations, namely questioning how both the massive protest events that occurred in the region between 2011 and 2018 and their aftermath but also the growin g commodification and privatization of spaces have modified the understanding, practices, and politics of public spaces?
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2021. Information: http://cedej-eg.org/index.php/2021/03/10/call-for-papers-egypte-monde-arabe-30th-of-april-2021/
15. 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
16. Chapters for Edited Book on “South Asian Migration to Gulf: Issues, Perspectives and Opportunities”
The focus of the book will be on fixing the gap between the best possible policies for migrants, after understanding the ground realities and challenges of migrants.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2021. Information: https://grfdt.com/Upload/Event/7176_Invitation_to_contribute_a_chapter_to_th.pdf
17. Events on Islam and the Middle East this week in and around Cambridge (all times are UK time):
Tue 27 Apr
5:00pm – 6:30pm – “Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire”
( SherAli Tareen (Franklin & Marshall College))
Wed 28 Apr
2:00pm – 3:00pm – Music and Islamic Literary Heritage
(Davesh Soneji (University of Pennsylvania) and Richard Williams (SOAS))
Thu 29 Apr
6:00pm – 7:00pm – The power of geography. Ten maps that reveal the future of our world
(Tim Marshall)
Fri 30 Apr
1:00pm – 2:00pm – “Jaina Temple Architecture of Coastal Karnataka: Climatic Dependencies and Artistic Freedoms”
(Julia A. B. Hegewald,)
5:00pm – 6:30pm – The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad
(Hamid Dabashi)
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1.5th IDHN Conference on Thursday, May 6, 2021. Please find the full program of the conference as a pdf attachment here. Our program also contains information about the conference’s schedule in different time zones.
Session 1 (10:00 am to 12:00 noon EDT)
Sofya A. Ragozina (Russian Academy of Sciences): Virtual Space of Russian Muslims During Pandemics: What Can We Learn on Building Muslim Identity through Digital Ethnography?
Abdullah al-Saleh (University of Leeds): Quranic Verses Semantic Relatedness Using AraBERT
Yusuf Celik (Utrecht University): Footprinter: an online environment for comparatively tracing Qur’an citations in fifty-five works of substantial law
Session 2 (12:30 pm to 2:30 pm EDT)
Ashley Sanders Garcia (University of California, Los Angeles): Uncovering Women’s Socio-Political Roles in Ottoman Algeria: Mining, Mapping, and Measuring the Relationships of Named and Unnamed Entities
Richard Nielson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): The Rise and Impact of Muslim Women Preaching Online
Yasmin Amin (University of Exeter): Waving the Mantle of the Prophet: The Journey of Umm Salama’s Narration of Ḥadīth al-kisāʾ over Six Centuries
To attend this online conference, please register as a member at https://idhn.org/contact/, or email registration@idhn.org to request guest access. We look forward to your attendance at our conference.
2. Introduction to Arabo-Islamic Manuscript Culture is an Intensive Course organized by Qatar National Library and the Chair of Islamic History and Culture, University of Tübingen, Germany. 21-23.6.2021
https://events.qnl.qa/event/jeB91/EN
At the heart of this introductory course are manuscripts and the knowledge they contain. The course consists of six open lectures and three closed practical sessions, taking students on an exploration of Islamic intellectual heritage from its origins to the modern era.
The lectures begin by tracing fundamental perspectives of heritage, along with related terms, concepts and disciplines dealing with manuscripts. After a survey of writing materials and formats, we will focus on the Arabo-Islamic manuscript tradition, outlining its textual and physical aspects. We will also discuss the cultural history of the Qur’an and Hadith documentation and authorship, as well as issues in the history of reading, learning and the transmission of knowledge, the role of libraries, the book trade, and the preparation of editions.
In this course, we follow the dynamic life cycle of the manuscript and the text, starting from the origin of the work (authorship) and its manifestations and textual relations, through the production of the manuscript(s), until the reception of both in the past and present, considering the social and cultural contexts.
By the end of the course, you will have the basic knowledge and context to better understand the intellectual and social contexts of Arabo-Islamic books and deal with manuscripts in Arabic language and script.
The course will be delivered by Mahmoud Zaki, Manuscript Librarian at Qatar National Library, and Regula Forster, Professor of Islamic History and Culture at the University of Tübingen, with Juliane Müller, Research Associate at the Department of Oriental and Islamic Studies of the University of Tübingen, as a guest lecturer.
The course is taught in both Arabic and English, with simultaneous interpretation. Q&As and participation in sessions can be in either Arabic or English.registration and more information : https://events.qnl.qa/event/jeB91/EN
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1.Armenian School of Languages and Cultures – ASPIRANTUM organizes an “Introduction to the Iranian languages” online course. The 2 weeks online school will start on June 21, 2021, and will last till July 2, 2021.
This 2 weeks online school will be organized on working days each week (5 days each week, 10 days during two weeks) and will include 25 hours of intensive teaching (2.5 hours during each day).
To apply and for more details please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/introduction-to-iranian-languages
2. Teaching with Manuscripts: Material, Digital, and Collaborative Pedagogies
A 40-minute presentation followed by 50 minutes of Q&A scheduled for Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 4:30–6:00 p.m. ET, via Zoom.
Owing to Zoom’s restrictions, this event is limited to the first 300 people who register. The event will be recorded and made available for later viewing on the RBS YouTube channel.
This panel, sponsored by Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB), brings together four short, practical papers about teaching medieval, early modern, and eighteenth-century European and Islamic manuscripts through hands-on, digital, and collaborative approaches. Panelists will address issues related to teaching manuscript studies in graduate and undergraduate literature and art history courses, including paleography, editing, computational methods, and the physical analysis of manuscripts. Some of the hands-on and digital methods presented in these papers respond to COVID-19 disruptions of in-person teaching, while others reflect projects that were specifically designed for collaboration at a distance. All papers address the needs of students or curricula at the institutions where panelists teach. Some speakers are also participating in collaborative projects that involve faculty, librarian, undergraduate student, and graduate student researchers at multiple institutions. Together, these papers speak to the work of teaching with manuscripts in the classroom, on the screen, and through collaborative projects that share the work of humanities research and critical bibliography beyond the university.
Everyone is welcome to attend. To ensure the security of the event, advance registration is required; to register, click here.
3. ONLINE Seminar: “Christian-Muslim Diplomacy – Gestures and Words: European Ambassadors and the Mamluk Sultanate” by Dr Alessandro Rizzo (University of Liège) and Prof. Jo Van Steenbergen (Ghent University), Society for the Medieval Maditerranean, 20 April 2021, 7 pm CET
The webinar will focus on the letter of instructions delivered to the first Florentine ambassadors sent to Cairo in 1422, which will be examined in a comparative perspective in relation to other analogous documents.
Information and registration: https://www.societymedievalmediterranean.com/news/2021/4/9/christian-muslim-diplomacy-gestures-and-words-european-ambassadors-and-the-mamluk-sultanate
4. ONLINE Seminar: “The Erotics of Revolution: An Outline of Emotions in the 2011 and 2019 Uprisings” by Mohammed Bamyeh (University of Pittsburgh), Chair: Cilja Harders (Freie Universität Berlin), Europe in the Middle East (EUME) Forum Transregional Studies, 21 April 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm CET
The large amount of record now available on the movements of 2011 and 2019 demonstrate that one aspect of that mobilization involved pleasure,This talk presents an outline of an evolving project on the role of pleasure in revolutionary movements, and proposes to situate the question of pleasure at the center of studies of revolutionary processes.
Information and registration https://www.eume-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/kalender/details/the-erotics-of-revolution-an-outline-of-emotions-in-the-2011-and-2019-uprisings.html
5. ONLINE Vernissage: “Annemarie Schimmel: Woman Scholar, Linguistic Genius, Poetess and Genial Friend to Many”, Museum of Religions, Marburg, 21 April 2021, 6:00 pm CET
This special exhibition will honor the life of the internationally renowned Islamic and religious studies scholar Annemarie Schimmel (1922-2003).
Information and registration: https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/relsamm/sammlung/sonderausstellungen/annamarie-schimmel/annemarie-schimmel-wissenschaftlerin-sprachgenie-dichterin-und-freundesammlerin
6. ONLINE Workshop: “Ottoman Empire and Global Modernism(s)”, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at NYU (OTS-NYU), 23 April 2021, 12:30 pm EST
This panel will explore key figures and works that prompt new ways of understanding the status of the Ottoman state and society within the discussion of globalism and its renderings in the last two centuries of the empire.
Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvf–gqTopHdW94kk5Hg-B1WpNzySrvZ2p
7. ONLINE Seminar: “Politics, Energy, and Opposition in the Gulf: What You Need to Know” by Dr Jessie Moritz (Australian National University), Webinar Series “Bridging the Gulf”, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 23 April 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm SGT
The Gulf is changing. Oil prices are low and that is placing fiscal pressure on Gulf governments. A new generation of royals have come to power, disrupting the status quo. Islamist movements have been more active since the Arab Spring protests in 2011 and Gulf governments are deeply divided over how to respond.
Information and registraton: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/bridging-the-gulf/
8. ONLINE Workshop: “Religious Minorities, Sacred Space and Heritage in Transition in the Middle East”, Central European University and Institute for the Study of Religions, Leipzig University, 23-24 April 2021, 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm CET
Sacred space contributed to the formation and preservation of group identity and communal memory, especially among religious minorities who may have had only limited capacity of publicly expressing/affirming their religious heritage. Some sacred space may be shared between different religious groups, often leading to syncretic practices and creating an intricate network of social ties.
Information and registration: https://events.ceu.edu/2021-04-23/religious-minorities-sacred-space-and-heritage-transition-middle-east
9. ONLINE Seminar: “Religious Responses to Covid-19 in Media and Politics: Muslim, Jewish and Christian Experiences”, University of Copenhagen, 26 and 27 April 2021, 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm CET
The seminar’s ten papers provide an insight and highlight the role of religious communities and authorities in the interpretation and handling of Covid-19. The papers cover different religions around the world, such as Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism. The seminar contributes with perspectives on how states and faith communities have approached, mediated, and tried to control the linking of religious and health science issues.
Program and registration: https://ccrs.ku.dk/calendar/2021/religious-responses-to-covid-19-in-media-and-politics/
10. ONLINE Workshop: “Discoursing Sectarianism: Patterns, Trajectories and Identities from 1979 Onwards”, SEPAD, Lancaster University, 30 June 2021, 12:00 pm GMT
We welcome contributions that trace discourse/s of sectarianism by their own and explore the process of their production and articulation irrespective of their end-goals or final functionality. More specifically, we are interested in the ‘global meanings’ such as topics, themes and perspectives under which sectarianism is framed as an ‘interpretive schemata’ or ‘organizing principle’ where we can relate, compare and contrast meanings of the concept in different contexts.
Deadline for abstracts: 7 May 2021. Information and registration: https://www.sepad.org.uk/event/call-for-papers-discoursing-sectarianism-patterns-trajectories-and-identities-from-1979-onwards
11. ONLINE Workshop: “Sects and the City II”, SEPAD, Lancaster University, 26 July 2021, 12:00 pm GMT
The workshop reflects on the urban and spatial dimensions of the protesters in the re-imagining of identities across the contemporary Middle East. We are particularly interested in papers that reflect on sectarianism and urban politics in Kuwait, Syria, Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Deadline for abstracts extended until 30 April 2021.
Information and registration: https://www.sepad.org.uk/event/call-for-papers-sects-and-the-city-ii
12. Seven Panels at the “27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO)”, Institute for Islamic Theology, University of Osnabrück, 16-18 September 2021
1) Online Databases Instead of History Books? Potentials of Digital Humanities Data-bases in Historical Research on the MENA Region and Ottoman World
2) The Formation of the Concepts of Secularity/Secularism in the Arab/Islamicate Worlds
3) New Perspectives on Sufism, Modern Sunni Reform Thinking and Activism
4) Methodological Approaches to the Study of Muslim Traditions
5) The Qurʾān and its Cultural and Religious Context in Late Antiquity
6) Authoritarianisms in Search of Consolidation and Challenges to the Liberal Order: Remilitarisations, Dynamics of Adaptations and Political Phobias
7) Palestine in Post- and Decolonial Contexts
Please send your paper proposals with title and abstract (about 250 words) to the organiser of the of the specific panel until 15 May 2021. Abstracts of the panels and further information:
13. Annual Conference: “The Age of Populism”, Arab American University in Palestine Ramallah, 23-24 October 2021
Scholars are invited to engage, theorize and contextualize the different ways to understand “populism” in Arab countries and other parts of the world as a concept of analysis and reexamine the term itself and evaluate whether the use of the term should be revisited.
Deadline for abstracts in English or Arabic: 2 May 2021. Information: https://pcrsc.aaup.edu/Conferences/2021-Annual-Conference
14. Panel on “American Muslims” at the Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SMALA 93), Atlanta, 4-6 November 2021
This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, jazz musicians, punks, hip hop artists, filmmakers, and visual artists. Papers are invited that explore the diverse compositions of Muslim American identities in cultural texts as they challenge and engage with the canonical codes and sociopolitical norms of national, theoretical, literary, and aesthetic spaces.
Deadline for abstracts: 18 June 2021. Information: https://samla.memberclicks.net/callsforpapers#americanstudies
15. Associate Professorship in the History and Politics of Iran, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
You should have received a doctorate in the modern history and/or politics of Iran, by 1 September 2021. The successful candidate will demonstrate: research achievement at an international level appropriate to the stage of their career, the skills and commitment to contribute effectively to teaching, supervision and academic administration in the School, and fluency in the Persian language.
Deadline for applications: 21 May 2021. Information: https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=10&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=150478
16. Joint International Master Program (2 Years) on “Comparative and Middle East Politics and Society (CMEPS)”, University of Tübingen and American University in Cairo
Due to its unique profile, the program provides in-depth knowledge of the political and societal developments in the Middle East as well as analytical tools for understanding this region’s complex dynamics and challenges.
Deadline for applications: 15 May 2021. Information: https://cmeps.eu
- April 20, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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