Categories : Academic items

1.HYBRID Lecture “Experiences with and Expectations of Islamically Integrated Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy” by Dr. Rasjid Skinner, Interdisziplinäre Forschungsstelle “Islam und Muslim*innen in Europa (IFIME), Siegmund Freud PrivatUniversität, Vienna, 30 May 2023, 17:30-19:00 CET

Information and registration: https://www.sfu.ac.at/de/event/ifime-ringvorlesung-muslimische-patientinnen-ganz-anders-und-doch-so-gleich/

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Webinar “#IranFutures – A Multidisciplinary Look at Iran’s Protests and Future Trajectory“ with Azadeh Pourzand, Dr. Shirin Hakim, Dr. Behrooz Bayat und Dr. Dr. Mahdi Ghodsi, Center for Middle East and Global Order (CMEG), Berlin, 31 May 2023, 6:00 pm CET

Moderated by Dr. Ali Fathollah-Nejad. Registration: https://cmeg.org/iranfutures-webinar

 

 

 

 

3. ONLINE Panel “Remembering Sarah Hegazi: Queer Mourning and Militancy in the MENA”, BRISMES, London, 14 June 2023, 13:00-15:00 (BST)

This online panel brings together queer feminist scholars and activists from the MENA to reflect on Hegazi’s political legacy, the weaponization of sexuality from above and below that has alienated and killed many like her, and the political potential of grief and mourning.

Information and registration: www.brismes.ac.uk/events/remembering-sarah-hegazi

 

 

 

 

4. Panel “Religious Charisma in the MENA and Its Diasporas: Authority, Succession, and Devotion” at the Conference of the IUAES Commission on Anthropology of the Middle East, Istanbul, 5-8 September 2023

We invite papers with ethnographic approaches to charismatic authority and/or community in religious contexts in the MENA and its diasporic communities that refine our understanding of the variety of forms of religious commitment and belonging, as well as emotional attachment to a religious leader, community or movement, in order to establish a productive dialogue between the various perspectives and ethnographic contexts.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2023. Information: lizadumovich@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

5. Conference “Rewriting Global Orthodoxy: Oriental Orthodox Communities in a Transnational World”, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 25-27 January 2024

Is there indeed a shared Oriental and Eastern ‘global Orthodoxy’ that at least some of the Orthodox con-sciously are contributing to? How do Oriental and Eastern Orthodox migrant communities forge a social im-aginary (expressed in textual and visual cultures) that sustains their diasporan lives? How can the study of the varieties of Orthodoxy contribute to the study of religion in the contemporary world?

Deadline for abstracts: 4 June 2023.

Information: https://www.ru.nl/ftr/@1378195/rewriting-global-orthodoxy-oriental-orthodox/?reload=true

 

 

 

 

6. “Conference for Arab Graduate Students in Western Universities”, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS), Doha, 2-4 March 2024

The conference will provide Arab doctoral students and recent PhD graduates of the social sciences and humanities based at Western universities an open space to present papers based on their PhD theses and receive critical feedback. This unique conference will give the participants the chance to benefit from discus-sions with their peers and with established academics.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 August 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/05/24/acrps-conference-for-arab-graduate-students-in-western-universities

 

 

 

 

7. Head of the Program “Mediterranean, Middle East And Africa”, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Rome

Requirements: Ph.D. or at least six years of professional experience in research at national and/or interna-tional research institutions; specialization in the MENA region, with strong knowledge of case studies aca-demic/policy publications in English and Italian on Middle Eastern and/or African topics; excellent English writing and communication skills; fluency or proficiency in Italian.

Deadline for application: 30 June 2023.

Information: https://www.iai.it/en/news/job-opportunity-mediterranean-middle-east-and-africa-programme

 

 

 

8. Three Postdoctoral Research Associates (Byzantine Literature, Medieval Latin Literature, Medieval Italian Literature with Arabic, 5 Years), Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies, University of Padua

The project aims to address the complexities of medieval Sicilian literature by studying the totality of the court poetry produced in Sicily in Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Italian between the 10th and the 13th cc. Qualification: PhD in Greek, Latin, or Italian Studies (depending on application), chronologically focused on the medieval period. Expertise in two or more of these languages: medieval Arabic, Greek, Latin, Italian, Hebrew. Proficiency in English and Italian.

Deadline for applications:20 June 2023.

Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/05/23/three-full-time-postdoctoral-positions-byzantine-latin-and-italian-literature-with-arabic-5-years

 

 

 

 

9. Summer Intensive Courses in Western Armenian, Center for Western Armenian Studies, Larnaca, Cyprus, July/August 2023

Elementary Western Armenian: 3 July – 28 July 2023; Intermediate Western Armenian: 31 July – 25 August 2023. A number of full scholarships are available to cover students’ tuition fees.

Information: https://cfwas.org.uk/courses/summer-intensive-courses/

 

 

 

 

10. La 8^ème séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” aura lieu le jeudi 1^er juin 2023

17h à 19h, salle 3.15 à l’ INALCO 65, rue des Grands-Moulins 75013 Paris

Pour cette séance, nous recevons Jaroslava Obrtelovà (Uppsala University) pour une conférence intitulée :

« Linguistic means for expressing epistemological stance and perspective shifts in the Wakhi language »

Résumé :

Wakhi is one of the minority East-Iranian languages spoken in the remote areas of the high Pamir mountains. Analysis of the narrations collected among the Wakhi speakers in their natural environment revealed that expressing the speakers’ attitude towards knowledge and their stance in relation to what they tell is, if not more important, at least as important as expressing the temporal and aspectual properties of the narrated events.

For example, when telling a story, Wakhi narrators always choose between telling it either from the perspective of an eye-witness or from a non-witnessed perspective. The witnessed narrations are told exclusively in the past tense, while the non-witnessed narrations, be it a re-telling of past real events, fictional stories or even future events, are told in the non-tense/non-past. Thus, the choice of the verb form informs the listener/reader of the individual (subjective) speaker’s epistemological stance rather than the (objective) situation of the event on the time-line.

In addition to this ‘witnessed versus non-witnessed’ distinction, Wakhi speakers can further nuance their stance by either reinforcing or distancing themselves from the credibility claim. Different Wakhi speakers can narrate the same event or parts of it differently, depending on the speaker’s stance, which is reflected in the use of different linguistic means.

Orientation bibliographique
Mock, John Howard. 1998. The Discursive Construction of Reality in the Wakhi Community of Northern Pakistan . Berkeley: University of California PhD Thesis.

Obrtelová, Jaroslava. 2017. Narrative Structure of Wakhi Oral Stories (Studia Iranica Upsaliensia 32). Uppsala: Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology.

Obrtelová, Jaroslava. 2019. From Oral to Written: A Text-linguistic Study of Wakhi Narratives . Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology PhD Thesis.

Retrouvez les détails de cette séance et le programme complet du séminaire sur le site web du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/seminaires-de-recherche/societes-politiques-et-cultures-du-monde-iranien-2022-2023/

1.CfP: “Armenian Society under Caliphal Rule” (Online Workshop)

The Emmy Noether Junior Research Group ‘Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period’ (SCORE) at the University of Hamburg welcomes proposals for participation in the online workshop ‘Armenian Society under Caliphal Rule’, 7–8 December 2023.

This workshop will consider the social history of Armenia in the period between the first Muslim invasions and the establishment of the Bagratuni kingdom, i.e. seventh to ninth centuries CE/first to third centuries AH. Contributions will be warmly welcomed on any aspect of social history and its intersection with economic, environmental, cultural and religious history. Perspectives that draw upon the written word, visual culture, the built environment or any combination of the above will all be equally welcomed. Topics may include, but are by no means limited to, such themes as social hierarchies, government, church structures, labour relations, urbanism and ruralism, taxation, civic architecture, etc.

Confirmed participants include Stephanie Forrest (Cambridge), Tim Greenwood (St Andrews), Nik Matheou (Edinburgh), Leone Pecorini Goodall (Edinburgh/St Andrews), Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Vienna), and Aram Vardanyan (Yerevan).

The workshop is envisaged as a focused event running on two consecutive afternoons (Central European Time), with papers being pre-circulated two weeks in advance. If you would be interested in delivering a paper or acting as a dedicated respondent, please contact the organizer, Alasdair Grant, at alasdair.grant@uni-hamburg.de by 31 May 2023. If you are enquiring about acting as a respondent, please indicate which topic areas you would be most interested in responding to. If you are enquiring about delivering a paper, please send an abstract of around 250 words, accompanied by a brief indication of the background to your interest in and study of the topic. For more information on the workshop and subsequent publication plans, please visit https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score/news/project-news/2023-04-21-cfp.html or email the organizer if you have any further questions.

 

 

 

2. The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1391, research project no. B07 “Teaching Nature – Nature’s Teaching. Aesthetic Strategies of Knowledge Transmission in a Transcultural Perspective”, invites applications for a PhD student position / Doctoral candidate (m/f/d, 75%, E13 TV-L) in the field of Islamic Studies. The position is available from 1 July 2023 and limited to 30 June 2027.

Project B07 studies two 14th-century didactic texts about nature in a transcultural perspective. It is structured into two research areas, one focusing on al-Jildakī’s Durrat al-ghawwāṣ and one on Konrad of Megenberg’s Buch der Natur. These natural encyclopaedias transform Greek, Arabic, and Latin knowledge with a didactic intent. The didactics related to nature is provided with an aesthetic dimension, e.g. via rhetorical techniques, reflections on the beauty of the cosmos, and other artistic devices. The candidate will write their PhD dissertation systematically discussing the aesthetic strategies used by al-Jildakī in his Durrat al-ghawwāṣ for his epistemological ends.

Duties:

The position is allocated to Islamic Studies (principal investigator: Prof. Dr Regula Forster).

The candidate will conduct research leading to a dissertation on al-Jildakī’s Durrat al-ghawwāṣ in close cooperation and exchange with the research area in Medieval German (Dr. Jan Stellmann and a second doctoral candidate).

• organisation of and participation in project-related workshops and conferences
• participation in research events of the CRC
• (co-)editing conference proceedings, if applicable

Requirements:

• The position is open to graduates of any university who have obtained an academic degree equivalent to M.A. with excellent grades in Islamic / Arabic / Middle Eastern Studies or similar.
• very good knowledge of Arabic
• ability to conduct scholarly work independently

The position offers the chance to obtain further academic qualification (PhD).

The university seeks to raise the number of women in research and teaching and therefore urges qualified women academics to apply for these positions. Equally qualified applicants with disabilities will be given preference in the hiring process. The university is committed to equal opportunities and diversity. It therefore takes individual’s situation into account and asks for relevant information.

The employment will be carried out by the central administration of the University of Tübingen.

Applications should include:

• cover letter, curriculum vitae, academic certificates, if applicable: list of publications
• proof of writing skills (published article or chapter of graduate thesis, 1–2 samples in English or German)
• names and e-mail addresses of two contact persons for references

Please send applications as one pdf-file by E-mail to Prof. Dr Regula Forster (regula.forster@uni-tuebingen.de). Review of applications will begin on 12 June 2023, and continue until the position is filled. For questions regarding project B07, please contact Prof. Dr Regula Forster (+49 7071 29 78531).

The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1391 “Andere Ästhetik” (“Different Aesthetics”) is a research network funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) which aims to arrive, by means of our interdisciplinary research programme, at a revised evaluation of the contribution made by pre-modern aesthetic acts and artefacts within the field of aesthetic research (more information: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/159607).

 

 

 

 

3. Arabic Transliteration for Academics, Publishers and Librarians

AKU-ISMC’s new Centre for the Languages of the Muslim World is delighted to offer this short course as part of its Professional Development series. The course is aimed at professionals, scholars and students who work with Arabic text and would like to acquire knowledge of transliteration systems and gain or improve their practical transliteration skills under the guidance of experienced tutors. The course is a 5-hour practical workshop-style course taught in two highly interactive sessions. Both sessions incorporate tailored feedback from the tutors; prior to session II, participants are required to submit a short sample transliteration for discussion during the session. The course is equally well suited to native and non-native speakers of Arabic.

Date and time
08 June | 14:00 – 17:00 (London time)
15 June | 14:00 – 16:00  (London time)
Tickets
£99 professionals | £79 students, AKU alumni and staff. The number of tickets is limited
Note
The course will be delivered via Zoom. Readings and further details will be provided later upon registration.
This course will not be recorded. 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arabic-transliteration-for-academics-publishers-and-librarians-tickets-528267431107

 

 

 

 

4. ‘Pre-Islamic Survivals’ in Muslim Central Asia: Tsarist, Soviet and Post-Soviet Ethnography in World Historical Perspective

C Weller

Palgrave MacMillan, 2023

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-5697-3

 

 

 

 

5. Sunni Communities in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2013-2021

Securitization, Secularization and Privatization

Hessam Habibi Doroh

Brill, 2023

https://brill.com/display/title/63179

 

 

 

6. Call for Papers on “Media and Women” Arab Media & Society, the biannual journal of the Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism in the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo, is seeking submissions for our next issue on “Media & Women.” The world is contending with challenges of global magnitude like climate change, the COVID19 pandemic, and geopolitical conflicts, where women and girls are disproportionately negatively impacted. Our mediascapes are rapidly evolving and playing increasingly pivotal roles in shaping social and political responses to these challenges. Thus, it is of essence to critically examine how women in the Arab world engage with media: how they have been portrayed by it, how they contribute in its production, how they grapple with it as consumers and audiences, and even how they resist its depictions. This, not just as an effort to expand on the scholarship that tracks how media reflects and affects (positively and negatively) social patterns of gender inequality, but also to think through how these interactions can prove productive in addressing the urgent crises of our time. To that end Arab Media & Society has decided to focus on women and media in its upcoming issue 36 (Summer/Fall 2023). Papers may address (but are not limited to) the suggested subtopics below: – Media and women’s activisms – Gendered media production in new media spaces – Feminism and the media – Women in science journalism – Gender in climate change media – Gendered labor and care work in digital cultural production – Feminist approaches to crisis journalism – Women and media education – Media coverage of gender inequality – (Under)representation of women in professional media – Women on social media platforms – Social media, gender, and mental health – Representation of women in Arab film and television – Stereotypical representations of Arab women in international media – Historical regional representations of women in media – Religion, media, and women – Women and cultural diplomacy – Media, women, and popular culture While we welcome submissions from diverse disciplines and perspectives, articles should relate in some way to the Arab world and its diaspora, and media or communication technology. Submissions for peer-review consideration should be received by September 15, 2023; and all other submissions, including book and conference reviews, shorter research papers, and columns, should be received by October 1, 2023. Submissions should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style and may be up to 10,000 words, including footnotes, and citations (author-date). All submissions should be sent as .doc or .docx files, and should include the author’s name as it will be published, their affiliation, and a brief abstract of no more than 150 words. Send articles and ideas to editor@arabmediasociety.com For more information on our publishing policies please visit www.arabmediasociety.com/publishing-policies/

 

 

 

 

7. 3 Islamic Manuscripts on Astronomy

We would like to draw your attention to three manuscripts in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish which deal with Astronomy:
https://gerlachbooks.com/index.php?p=17&h=11
(1)
Tashrih al-aflak (Anatomy of the celestial spheres)
including Sharh Tashrih al-aflak (Commentary on Tashrih al-aflak)
Manuscript in Arabic , 1072 H (1656 AD)
Direct link: https://gerlachbooks.com/MSS_142
(2)
Three Manuscripts in Ottoman Turkish Bound in 1 Volume, 1166 H [1752 A.D.]
(1) Kifayat al-waqt li-ma’rifat al-da’ir wa- fadlihi wa-‘l-samt.
(2) Tashil al-miqat
(3) Farah Faza
Direct link: https://gerlachbooks.com/MSS_118
(3)
Observations of the Movements of Sun and Stars during the year 1287 H. [1870 AD]
for Submission to the Sultan.
Manuscript in Ottoman Turkish
Direct link: https://gerlachbooks.com/MSS_123

 

 

 

8. Career Information Days for Students of Iranian Studies, Arabic Studies, and Islamic Studies

The departments of Iranian Studies and Arabic/Islamic Studies I-II at the University of Göttingen organize a two-days Career Information event on the 2nd and 3rd of June via Zoom.

The talks are in German and English.

Link for participation:

https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/63754076924?pwd=Y0FoTGFzWl-QzWVRka0hudk1sTTZzUT09

Further information:

lara-lauren.goudarzi-gereke@uni-goettingen.de

sebastian.bitsch@uni-goettingen.de

ali.balaeilangroudi@uni-goettingen.de

 

 

 

9. Position in Arabic and ME studies : Bard College: Bard High School Early Colleges

Bard College: Bard High School Early Colleges: BHSEC – Manhattan

Location

New York, NY

Open Date

May 24, 2023

Description

Job Title: Full-time Faculty in Arabic Language/Middle Eastern Studies (Bard High School Early College Manhattan)

Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) Manhattan invites applications for a faculty position in Arabic language instruction, to begin in the fall of 2023.  We seek a teacher-scholar who is passionate about Arabic, creative in engaging students, and dedicated to working with adolescents.  More information about BHSEC is available here: https://bhsec.bard.edu/manhattan

Applicants should be prepared to teach Arabic language classes at all levels, as well as courses on the civilizations of the Islamic world.  The area of specialization is open.  College teaching experience and Ph.D. (in hand by August 2023) are preferred, and experience with younger students is a plus.  The successful candidate will teach four courses per semester.

This full-time position provides the opportunity to work with a dedicated faculty of scholars, scientists and artists, most of whom hold terminal degrees in their fields.  In their four years here, BHSEC students earn an associate of arts (A.A.) degree from Bard College in addition to a New York State high school diploma.  The academic program emphasizes small class size, seminar-style discussion and a commitment to teaching a diverse student body in a liberal arts environment.

Location: Bard High School Early College at 525 Houston Street in New York City, NY

Start Date: Late August 2023

Salary Range: $55-$80K based on experience

Qualifications

• This position is open to experienced teacher-scholars who hold a Master’s or PhD in Arabic literature and culture or a related field.
• The successful candidate should be capable of teaching Arabic classes from the high school level through the college 200-level as well as literature and culture courses in translation.
• We seek teachers and scholars deeply committed to their field and creative in engaging students at both the college and high school levels.
• New York State teaching certification is a plus.
• Interest in working with high school age students who are completing a college-level course of study
• We are seeking candidates with a strong commitment to equity and social justice and desire to open up opportunities for underrepresented students
• Candidates must understand cultural difference and purposefully help to uplift ideas from underrepresented groups to improve the equity balance in education.
• A commitment to reducing and an openness to learning about potential barriers to inclusion are needed.

Application Instructions

Please apply directly with Bard College / Bard Early Colleges.  Do this by clicking on the “Apply Now” button found through the Interfolio job application link provided here:  http://apply.interfolio.com/125951

Use the Interfolio link provided to upload the following documents directly with Bard College:

• a letter of interest (including a description of a proposed course)
• a C.V.
• a teaching portfolio (including statement of teaching philosophy and a sample writing assignment for the proposed course)
• contact information for three references

REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS TO BEGIN IMMEDIATELY.

Inquiries:
If you have any questions about the position, please reach out to Dean of Academic Life, William H. Hinrichs, whinrichs@bhsec.bard.edu.  Include your name and “Fall 2023 Arabic Search” in the subject line.
All materials must be submitted electronically.

 

 

 

 

10. ‘A UNIQUE RECORD OF FRANCO-PERSIAN RELATIONS IN THE REIGN OF NAPOLEON: THE MAUSOLEUM OF ANTOINE-ALEXANDRE ROMIEU (1764-1805)’

Daniel Potts

Journal Asiatique, 2022, 310/2, 229-235

link not yet available

 

 

 

11. Either Lost or Found? A Child’s Story from a WWII Australian Internment Camp

Thursday, June 1, 2023

Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm (Sydney Time)

Online / in person

https://westernsydney.libcal.com/event/5532195

Professor Pedram Khosronejad and Mrs Helga (Girschik) Griffin present the findings of a research project which explores the socio-cultural history and memories of a group of civilian German detainees and migrants in Australia through their heritage and the roles that they played in the development of the country after World War II.  This presentation is the result of a four year collaboration between Professor Khosronejad and Mrs Helga (Girschik) Griffin, the only surviving female among the civilian Germans from Persia (Iran) who were brought to Australia as families and allegedly kept in detention, but actually lived like prisoners in Tatura’s Internment Camp No. 3 (1941-46).

As many as 50,000 German, Italian, and Japanese civilians were sent to Internment camps in Australia during WWII. Until today, the lives and fates of 512 German civilians of Persia (Iran), the imprisoned inhabitants of Australian World War II confinement centres, and the roles that they and their family members played in the development of post-war Australia has been ignored by academia.

 

 

 

12. AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship

‘*The British Museum, and the University of St Andrews *are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded Collaborative doctoral studentship from October 2023 under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme.
This project will be jointly supervised by Dr Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Dr Tom Hockenhull at the British Museum and Professor Ali Ansari and Dr Siavush Randjbar-Daemi at the University of St Andrews. The student will be expected to spend time at both The British Museum and University of St Andrews, as well as becoming part of the wider cohort of CDP funded students across the UK. The studentship can be studied either full or part-time.
The project seeks to understand how Iran’s Pahlavi regime (1925–1979) defined and projected its identity through analysis of the circulating official iconography on coins, banknotes and commemorative medals. It will study how the two Pahlavi shahs fused Persian history and culture with western-style iconography to forge a distinct vision for modern Iran, in the process creating a political and societal divide that took full force during the 1979 Islamic Revolution, persisting to the present. The project will contextualise this highly significant body of material within what was a transformational period for Iran economically, politically and culturally.
The British Museum’s substantial and visually significant collection of coins, banknotes and medals from the Pahlavi period, will be the primary focus of this study.
*Deadline: 9th June 2023*
*For details please link to:*
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/prospective/cdp-studentship/ <https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/prospective/cdp-studentship/>

 

 

 

13. 22-23 June 2023 Islamic Manuscripts & Digital Codicology at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

AKU-ISMC Short Course

Information and book here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/islamic-manuscripts-digital-codicology-at-the-calouste-gulbenkian-museum-tickets-629255268447

1. Issue 95 MELA Notes (Available Now!)

I am delighted to announce the publication of Issue 95 (2022) of MELA Notes, the esteemed journal of the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA). As the Editor, it gives me great pleasure to present this latest edition, which showcases a collection of outstanding research and insightful contributions in the field of Middle East studies, librarianship, and archival studies.
Within the pages of this issue, readers will discover a diverse range of articles that delve into various aspects of Middle East Studies, shedding light on significant topics and offering fresh perspectives. The dedicated efforts of our esteemed authors have resulted in a rich and engaging compilation, making this edition a valuable resource for scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts alike.
I invite you all to explore the thought-provoking articles and engage in the intellectual discourse presented in MELA Notes, Issue 95. The journal is available, free of charge, for access on our official website https://www.mela.us/publications/mela-notes/mela-notes-archive/.
Warm regards,
Farshad Sonboldel
Editor, MELA Notes

 

 

 

 

2. HYBRIDE Journée d’études “Prophète(s), prophétie, prophétologie”, École pratique des hautes études, Les Patios Saint Jacques, Paris, 5-6 juin 2023 Programme et inscription : https://www.ephe.psl.eu/prophetes-prophetie-prophetologie

 

 

 

 

3. Journée d’étude : « Normes et pratiques dans la documentation juridique islamique », Campus Condorcet Aubervilliers, 7 juin 2023

The workshop aims to analyse the relation between norms and practices in Islamic legal documentation. From a comparative perspective, it seeks to bring out similarities and explain divergences between different Islamicate empires where Islamic law prevailed. It addresses how the legal doctrine of different schools (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi‘i, etc.) was implemented by legal authorities to shape normative practices in diverse circumstances.

Program: http://crh.ehess.fr/index.php?8656

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Book Talk “Charity in Saudi Arabia: Civil Society under Authoritarianism” with Hanaa Almoaibed, Steffen Hertog and Nora Derbal, Middle East Center, London School of Economics and Political Science, 13 June 2023, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm BST

In this study of everyday charity practices in Jeddah, Nora Derbal employs a ‘bottom-up’ approach to chal-lenge dominant narratives about state-society relations in Saudi Arabia. Exploring charity organizations in Jeddah, this book both offers an ethnography of associational life and counters Riyadh-centric studies which focus on oil, the royal family, and the religious establishment.

Information and registration:

https://www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-centre/events/2023/charity-in-saudi-arabia-nora-derbal

 

 

 

 

5. HYBRID 2023 PhD Global History of Empires Conference: “Governing the Lives of Others: Global Histories of Empires, Theories and Practices”, University of Turin, 14-15 September 2023

We want to bring together doctoral students and early career scholars from different geographical areas, historical periods and methodologies. Diversity is a necessary step to ensure that our discussions show the complexity of theory and practices of empire without recurring to the usual worn-out tropes. A more varied base will also enable us to make better use of comparisons and highlight lesser-known case studies.

Deadline for abstracts: 28 May 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12646040/cfp-governing-lives-others-global-histories-empires-theories

 

 

 

 

6. 1 Postdoctoral Research Associate and 2 Doctoral Research Associates (4 Years), Arabic-Persian-Turkish Translation Processes, Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Münster Uni-versity

The positions are part of the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group “TRANSLAPT: Inner-Islamic Transfer of Knowledge within Arabic-Persian-Ottoman Translation Processes in the Eastern Mediterranean (1400–1750)” (https://go.wwu.de/translapt). Good reading skills in Arabic (or Persian) and Ottoman Turkish are es-sential.

Application deadline: 9 June 2023.

Information: https://www.uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIslam/translapt/call/index.html

 

 

 

 

7. Post-doctoral Research and Teaching Position (80-100%) at the Chair of the History of Archi-tecture and Preservation (Focus MENA), University of Bern

Starting 1st September 2023 (or as agreed) for two years (with an option for extension). Specialization should be in the field of the history and theory of architecture and preservation (Europe or other regions, e.g. South-ern/Eastern Europe, Latin America, MENA region) from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Period.

Deadline for application: 15 June 2023.

Information: https://ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobs/862d0ac4-7d3b-4d44-a934-a1d8511400ab

 

 

 

 

8. New PhD in Islamic Studies Starting Fall 2023, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha

This PhD is an interdisciplinary program that cultivates a detailed understanding of Islamic studies and a mastery of a chosen disciplinary pathway. This expertise is acquired by undertaking dynamic and innovative research that facilitates the analysis and production of contemporary Islamic discourses, engages with diverse themes and topics, and supports the human development goals of the State of Qatar and broader global needs.

Information and registration: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/program/cis/phdis

 

 

 

9. La Révolution des féminismes musulmans

Élaboration théorique et agir féministe (2004–2014)

de Malika HAMIDI (Auteur)

Peter Lang, 2023

https://www.peterlang.com/document/1294509

 

 

 

10. 3 x 36-month postdocs at University of Venice

1) Science and the environment in the eastern Mediterranean in the first millennium CE

36 months with possible renewal for 12 months

Deadline: 17th June 2023, 12.00 CET

https://apps.unive.it/common2/file/download/assegni_ricerca/6467847cba87a

“The post-doctoral researcher will carry out original research into the history of science in the eastern Mediterranean in the first millennium CE, and the connections between the study of pre-modern science and the environmental contexts of the writers. …”

2) Society and environmental change in the western Mediterranean in the first millennium CE

36 months

Deadline: 17th June 2023, 12.00 CET

https://apps.unive.it/common2/file/download/assegni_ricerca/646b165de51fc

“The postdoctoral researcher will be an environmental archaeologist interested in socio-ecological systems. They will carry out original research into the relationships between society and environmental change in the western Mediterranean in the first millennium CE. …”

3) Water, landscapes and environmental history in the medieval Islamic Mediterranean, c. 600-1050 CE

36 months

Deadline: 14th June 2023, 12.00 CET

https://apps.unive.it/common2/file/download/assegni_ricerca/646b2dc52057b

“The post-doctoral researcher will examine the social and intellectual history of water in the Muslim-ruled territories around the Mediterranean from the seventh century to the early eleventh.”

 

 

 

 

11. Love in the Teachings of Ibn ‘Arabī

Hany T. A. Ibrahim

Equinox, 2023

https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/love-teachings/

 

 

 

12. Brill: Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages and Linguistics Online

https://brill.com/display/db/etlo

 

 

 

13. Introducing Feminist Futures

Introducing /Feminist Futures/. In a world ignited by the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadî”-inspired women*-led uprising in Iran, the notion of revolution takes on new dimensions. We pause to ponder: what does revolution truly mean? Is it only about the usurpation of state power to change regimes? How can we redefine it to reflect the power and impact of global feminist uprisings? Join us as we bring together brilliant minds from across the globe: leading scholars, writers, and artists who are at the forefront of reshaping our societies. Through a collection of bilingual (English and Persian) critical reflections and provocations, /Feminist Futures/ invites us to engage in meaningful deliberations about the intersections of global feminist liberation movements.
/Feminist Futures/ is our response to the call of feminist scholarship to take stock of the global movements for change that are being led by women and queers, embracing the invitation posed by our current historical moment. It is an opportunity to explore the often-overlooked power within global feminist uprisings, to challenge conventional definitions of revolution.
We’ll be releasing new content every few weeks until the end of 2023.
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*SAREH AFSHAR* is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Gender Studies at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. They hold a PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at NYU, and their research interests include the aesthetics of everyday life, materiality of visuality, minoritarian memory and trauma theory, and digital and new media. Their writing has appeared or is forthcoming in TDR: The Drama Review, e-misférica, Text & Performance Quarterly, Interventions, Khayyam, Ravagh, and edited book volumes. She has lost two cities—lovely ones, Montréal and Tehran—but deems New York a most soothing compromise.
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*NARGES BAJOGHLI* is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University, SAIS. She is an award-winning scholar, writer, educator, and cultural curator. Trained as a political anthropologist, media anthropologist, and documentary filmmaker, Narges’ academic research is at the intersections of media production, power, and resistance. She is the author of the award-winning book Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic (Stanford University Press 2019; winner 2020 Margaret Mead Award; 2020 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title; 2021 Silver Medal in Independent Publisher Book Awards for Current Events); and the director of The Skin That Burns, a documentary film about survivors of chemical war. In addition to her academic work, Narges is a community organizer and creator of educational programs for middle school, high school, and college students rooted in social justice pedagogy. She has worked with cultural and educational collectives in the Middle East and Latin America, and organized cultural programming and exchanges in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean for over two decades. Narges is the co-director of the Rethinking Iran Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, which houses the /Feminist Futures/ platform.

1.History of Glass & Ceramics in Iran, 1500–1925

W Floor

Mage, 2023

https://magepublishers.com/history-of-glass-ceramics-in-iran-1500-1925/

 

 

 

 

 

2. Kurdistan Memory Programme

https://kurdistanmemoryprogramme.com/

 

 

 

3. Recrutement lecteur/lectrice de persan – Inalco (date du dépôt de candidature le 23 mai 2023)

L’Inalco, département Eurasie, recrute un(e) enseignat(e) contractuel(le) – lecteur/lectrice de persan

Date de dépôt de candidature: avant le 23 mai 2023

Profil de l’emploi, conditions du recrutement et procédure du dépôt de candidature :

http://www.inalco.fr/concours-recrutement/appel-candidatures-lectrice/lecteur-persan

Contact: Madame Julie Duvigneau, Directrice du Département Eurasie : julie.duvigneau@inalco.fr

 

 

 

 

4. Announcing the launch of UTL crowdsourcing OCR correction project

The University of Texas Libraries is launching a crowdsourcing effort to correct the OCR (optical character recognition) output for the Egyptian periodical, جريدة البلاغ الاسبوعي (Jaridat al-Balagh al-Usbu’i). A pilot set of issues of Jaridat al-Balagh is available through the UTL Digital Collections Portal, and this crowdsourcing project seeks to gather the data necessary to make those images full-text searchable.

If you are interested in participating, please visit the project at FromThePage and follow the instructions to create a collaborator account. At present, there are two issues of the periodical with rough OCR available for correction. We will be adding more issues in the coming weeks.

Please share widely! I’m leading this effort so that we can make more UTL digital collections––and more non-English, non-Roman script digital collections––accessible and useful for researchers. I sincerely appreciate your participation and feedback.

Best wishes,

Dale

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DALE J. CORREA (pronounce) PhD, MS/LIS | Middle Eastern Studies Librarian & History Coordinator

The University of Texas at Austin

Middle Eastern Studies Research Guide

History Research Guide

Fellow, RBS-Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage

Past Chair, Digital Scholarship Interest Group Steering Committee of the Middle East Librarians Association

Recent edited book: Maturidi Theology: A Bilingual Reader (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022)

 

 

 

5. CFP – Graduate Student Symposium in Art History, Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University – deadline: June 15, 2023

October 14th, 2023, 10 AM – 5:30 PM (in-person)
Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University
2001 N. 13th St. Philadelphia, PA 19122
Accepting papers from art history graduate students based in the mid-Atlantic/Northeastern United States
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2023

Accepted papers will be notified via email in July 2023.

The Art History Graduate Organization at the Tyler School of Art & Architecture at Temple University invites art history graduate students in the mid-Atlantic region to submit to an open call for papers. Submissions may relate to any time period, geography, and media visual arts and culture and should be submitted in the form of 250-word abstracts, with the full presentation running to approximately 20 minutes.

This is an opportunity to connect with a community of graduate students and professors from other universities in the region, and to share your ongoing research. This call for papers is intentionally open-ended and inclusive in order to welcome the widest possible cohort of presenters to share their work. Presentations could focus a developing chapter of your dissertation, a completed seminar paper, or a piece of
independent research.

To apply:
Please send the following materials to AHGOtylerschoolofart@gmail.com by June 15, 2023
with the subject line: “The First Graduate Student Symposium in Art History.”
● Presentation title and abstract (250 words or less)
● CV, 2 pages
● Summary of graduate studies progress, including research interests, dissertation progress, etc. (250 words or less)

See all of the details on submiting here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fQrSaKVZWA3KDkqRERbgPRYrPtLCCX-L/view. 

 

 

 

6. Hybrid Lecture – Book Talk: The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court, Yael Rice – May 23

May 23 at 6:30pm BST at the Royal Asiatic Society, London, in connection with monograph The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court (University of Washington Press).

To attend via Zoom, please email Matty Bradley (mb@royalasiaticsociety.org). You’ll find additional information about the publication, including discount codes for purchasing, below.

The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court
By Yael Rice

PUBLISHED: May 2023
SUBJECT LISTING: Asian Studies / South Asia, Art History / Asian Art
BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: 272 Pages, 7 x 10 in, 86 color illus., 1 map, 3 tables
ISBN: 9780295751092
Publisher: University of Washington Press

** DISCOUNT CODES: 40% off and free domestic shipping – WARM23 (USA only), order online at https://uwapress.uw.edu/; 30% off – FFS23 (outside USA), order online at https://combinedacademic.co.uk

 

 

 

 

7. Teaching Fellow – The University of Edinburgh

Fixed Term: Tenable from 6^th September 2023 (Maternity cover) for 9 months

Part Time, 10.5 Hours per Week (0.3 FTE)

Teaching Fellow in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies – University of Edinburgh Jobs Careers (oraclecloud.com)

Closing date: 12/6/23

 

 

 

8. From The Bosporus to the Southern Sea Travel book from 1793

Gaspard Testa/Mehmet Tütüncü

Published ‏ : ‎ SOTA; 1e editie (14 november 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ Dutch

Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 204 pagina’s
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9069210476
size ‏ : ‎ 17.6 x 1.7 x 24.7 cm

Introductory pages and cover: https://www.academia.edu/87639237/Van_de_Bosporus_naar_de_Zuiderzee

ORDERS to be placed by email : sotapublishing@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

9. Fellowship | MECAM Postdoctoral Researchers
Université de Tunis/Tunisia

The Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) invites applications for three long- term fellowships for postdoctoral researchers in the humanities and social sciences for the period from September 2023 to August 2026. This call for applications is open to researchers from all countries, including Tunisia.

Deadline | 31 May 2023

More information

 

 

 

 

10. Assistant Professor in History
University of Nottingham

The Department of History is looking to appoint an Assistant Professor with specialist knowledge in the history of Late Medieval/Early Modern Middle East and/or Central Asia. You will have a PhD in history or relevant subject area, with research expertise on social and political networks across the region and related expertise in material culture.

Deadline | 8 June 2023

More information

 

 

 

 

11. BIAA Assistant Director
British Institute at Ankara

The Assistant Director supports and reports to the Director. Responsibilities include the management and facilitation of Contemporary/ Ottoman Türkiye-related aspects of the BIAA’s research programme and public events and outreach, managing the library staff and the daily running of the library. The Assistant Director also collaborates with the BIAA IT Manager to further develop BIAA’s IT digital framework.

Deadline | 15 June 2023

More information

 

 

 

 

12. PhD | SUBLIME – Subsidies Lift in the Middle East and North Africa: Unveiling the politics of welfare in post-uprising societies
Institute for Research on Arab and Muslim Worlds (IREMAM)

Applications are invited for a PhD position (36 months) within the ANR-funded project SUBLIME – Subsidies Lift in the Middle East and North Africa. The SUBLIME project, which started ́in January 2023, studies the change that is undermining one of the pillars of the social state in the Arab world: consumer subsidies, especially on food and energy. The PhD proposal will focus on one of the countries within the scope: Algeria (priority), Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt or, possibly, Morocco.

Deadline | 23 June 2023

More information

 

 

 

 

13. Call for Applications – APSA MENA Mentoring Initiative

The American Political Science Association (APSA) is pleased to announce a Call for Applications from early-career scholars who would like to participate in the MENA Mentoring Initiative. The program is an opportunity to receive feedback and comments from senior colleagues on a project-specific activity that is at an advanced stage of development. The mentoring duration will be between 3 and 6 months, depending on the activity and planned outcome.

Deadline | 11 June 2023

More information

 

 

 

 

14. Call for Applications – New Directions in the Study of the Arab World

Graduate Student Research Workshop | 4-6 March 2024 | NYU Abu Dhabi

The NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World program invites applications for the upcoming Graduate Student Research Workshop to be hosted in spring 2024 at NYU Abu Dhabi. We welcome applications from international doctoral students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly discuss their Ph.D. projects related to the Arab world.

Deadline | 4 September 2023

More information

 

 

 

15. Zoom – Monday Majlis Series Programme 2022-2023

Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter

5 June. Hassan Abbas, The Return of the Taliban:Afghanistan after the Americans Left

12 June. Nebil Husayn, Deconstructing Memories of Ali in Sunni and Shiʿi Islam

More information

 

 

 

16. ONLINE EVENT: ‘Identity and Aspiration: Chinese Muslims in the Arab Gulf’ – Dr Yuting Wang (Thursday 25 May, 13:00 BST)

The Alwaleed Centre at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to be hosting Dr Yuting Wang (American University of Sharjah) for a special online seminar exploring Chinese Muslims in the Arab Gulf.

The event will take place online via Zoom on Thursday 25 May at 1pm BST. The event is free to attend but registration is essential.

For further information and to register please click here: https://chinese-muslims-in-the-gulf.eventbrite.co.uk

With very best wishes,

The Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam

in the Contemporary World

University of Edinburgh

16 George Square

Edinburgh

EH8 9LD

0131 650 4615

thealwaleedcentre@ed.ac.uk

www.alwaleed.ed.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

17. ‘Unearthing Rabi`a’s Grave: Placemaking, Shrines, and Contested Traditions in Balkh, Afghanistan’

Shamim Homayun

IJMES online, 2023

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-middle-east-studies/article/unearthing-rabias-grave-placemaking-shrines-and-contested-traditions-in-balkh-afghanistan/C60CAA3E6681F3233D0F8211212C7CA5?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Issues&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Issues

 

1.Call for Papers: “Channels of Transmission of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ottoman World (14th-18th centuries)” in Istanbul, Türkiye, November 21-24, 2023

The Department of the History of Science at Istanbul University and Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes (IFEA) organize an international congress. Below please find a CfP, theme 5 is related to medicinal, botanical and agricultural knowledge: https://ottomanastronomy.org/theme5/

See also: https://ottomanastronomy.org/

Deadline for abstracts: June 25, 2023

 

 

 

 

2. HYBRID Symposium “New Culinary Landscapes in Turkey and the Levant: Global Perspective”, Birkbeck, University of London, 18 May 2023, 10:00 h – 17:00 h

We seek in this symposium to understand and evaluate the nature and driving forces of the changing gastronomic landscape through concepts drawn from the academic disciplines of politics, economics, sociology, anthropology, geography and area studies.

Information and registration: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=36910

 

 

 

 

3. Workshop “Productions and Exchanges : New Research on the History of Syro-Egyptian Arts in the 15th and Early 16th Centuries”, Institut des Civilisations, Paris, 22-23 May 2023

This workshop will focus on the circulation and transmission of artistic models. It seeks to identify the motifs shared between different artistic productions of the Syro-Egyptian territory, but also with neighbouring areas, particularly Turkish and Persian. In this perspective, a specific interest is given to the modes of formal or aesthetic appropriation and transformation of patterns that connect or differentiate these artistic productions.

Information, program and registration: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/83236

 

 

 

 

4. Poster Session of the 2nd GlobalMed Meeting, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence, 22-23 June 2023

The GlobalMed network brings together researchers from international partner institutions working on a global approach to the Mediterranean, i.e., attention to the human, cultural, social, material, and environmental connections between the Mediterranean and the world, from prehistory to the present. The poster exhibition will allow the different partners to present ongoing or completed research projects related to the GlobalMed themes.

Deadline for proposals: 22 May 2023.

Information:

https://www.mmsh.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Globalmed_rencontre-2023_AMI_Posters_FR_ENG.pdf

 

 

 

 

5. Conference ” “Muslim Intellectual History in Mughal South Asia”, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California-Berkeley, 6-7 October 2023

The conference invites current research on Muslim intellectual history in Mughal South Asia across areas like philosophy, theology, astronomy, rhetoric, jurisprudence, hadīth, tafsīr, Perso-Sanskrit interactions, infra-structures of knowledge production.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2023.

Information: https://cmes.berkeley.edu/mughal-conference

 

 

 

 

6. Conference “The Cloven Dukes: The Mediterranean Diplomacy of the Small Italian Powers (1530-1730)”, Haifa Center for Mediterranean Diplomatic History, 7-8 November 2023

This conference intends to explore the diplomatic strategies, models, agencies, and practices adopted by Italian duchies and republics when negotiating with the Ottomans, the Safavids or the various Muslim polities of North Africa, and to compare them with those traditionally deployed in the European context.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-the-mediterranean-diplomacy-of-the-small-italian-powers-1530-1730-november-7-8-haifa?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

7. Conference “Recited Ink: Written Representations of the Oral Aspects of the Qur’ān”, Università l’Orientale di Napoli, 21-22 May 2024

The word Qur’ān primarily indicates recitation. Despite this, when we think about the Sacred Book of Islam, we picture a manuscript or a printed copy. In the last century, recordings and “study Qur’āns” have in a certain way standardized the process of learning and the performance of qirā’a. Orthoepic signs, often colorized, are a common presence in muṣḥafs printed for recitation schools. What we know less about is how these signs developed and how they were used before the 20th century.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2023.

Information: https://euqu.eu/2023/05/02/call-for-papers-recited-ink-written-representations-of-the-oral-aspects-of-the-quran/

 

 

 

 

8. Scholarships on Projects Related to the Departments of Byzantine, Ottoman, Atatürk and Republican-Era Studies, and “Istanbul and Music” Research Program, Istanbul Research Institute

The grants fall into three categories: One scholar will be awarded Research and Write-Up Grant for PhD Candidates; Five scholars will be awarded Travel Grants; Five scholars will be awarded Conference Grants. Applications can be prepared in English or Turkish.

Deadline for applications: 3 July 2023. Information: https://en.iae.org.tr/Grants/18

 

 

 

 

9. Articles on “Alī al-Qūshjī” for Special Issue of “Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Science”

Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2024.

Information: https://nazariyat.org/en/special-issues/ali-kuscu-ozel-sayisi

 

 

 

10. P/T – Teaching Fellow (Arabic)

University of Edinburgh

Closing date : 26/5/23

https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/7403

 

 

 

11. Conference – The Art and Architecture of Mapping: Visual and Material Approaches to Cartographic Objects – London, 20-21 June

The Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, London WC1X 9EW, 20-21 June, 2023

Despite the attentions of cultural historians since the 1980s, maps still tend to escape close and critical study as fundamentally visual and material forms of communication, with histories of cartography remaining predominantly disconnected from these dimensions of the subject matter. This two-day symposium addresses this interdisciplinary challenge from a diverse range of perspectives that foreground such questions as: how do maps operate as representations, and how do culturally situated understandings of space shape how they are created, seen and read? How does the study of maps within specific historical or cultural contexts connect to broader issues in visual/material history? In what ways are coloniality and/or indigeneity made visible/material in maps? How can art-historical approaches inform other disciplinary analyses and uses of maps? Invited speakers will offer new perspectives through studies of cartographic objects from around the world, from early modern India, Iran, and China to the Atlantic world and contemporary South Africa.

Organised by Emily Mann (Bartlett School of Architecture) & Stephen Whiteman (The Courtauld)

Speakers:

Zoltan Biedermann, Department of History, University College, London
Alexandria Brown-Hejazi, Department of Art History, Stanford University
Tristan Brown, Department of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chanchal Dadlani, Department of Art History, Pomona College
Georges Farhat, Daniels School of Architecture, University of Toronto
Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Department of Art History, Emory University
Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, Department of History, Boğaziçi University
Olanrewaju Lasisi, School of Architecture, University of Virginia
Emily Mann, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London
Matthew Francis Rarey, Department of Art History, Oberlin College
Rose Marie San Juan, Department of History of Art, University College, London
Samira Sheikh, Department of History, Vanderbilt University
Stephen H. Whiteman, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

Free and open to the public, please register here.

1.The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University invites applications for two Postdoctoral Fellowships in Disaster Studies. The fellowships extend for 12 months, from September 1, 2023, to August 31, 2024. These fellowships and the activities organized by and with the fellows are intended to launch a long-term project, triggered by present concerns arising from the recent devastation in Turkey and Syria as well as the urgent need to develop our understanding of the history of seismicity in the region.

Closing date: 31 May, 2023

More information at:

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65397

 

 

 

 

2. Three items of interest regarding Omar Ibn Said, the African Muslim scholar enslaved in North Carolina during the early nineteenth century.

The Pulitzer Prize in music has been awarded to Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels for the opera “Omar”. This is a remarkable treatment of a previously marginalized figure, presented in a central American cultural arena. Numerous reviews, including in the current edition of the New York Review of Books make it clear that this opera is having a major impact. ‘Tell Your Story, Omar’ | Edward Ball | The New York Review of Books (nybooks.com);

For those who are interested in the book on Omar written by Mbaye Lo and myself, I cannot write my life: Islam, Arabic, and slavery in Omar Ibn Said’s America (University of North Carolina press, https://uncpress.org/book/9781469674674/i-cannot-write-my-life/), printed copies will be available in August, and instructors interested in getting an e-exam copy can do so now at Request an Electronic Exam Copy – University of North Carolina Press (uncpress.org);

Mbaye Lo and I have set up a website at the Digital Repository at UNC Library, “Enslaved Scholars: A Website Repository for Editions of Arabic Texts and English Translations of writings by Enslaved Muslims in the Americas, including works they quote.” This contains open-source pdf copies of our critical editions of 18 Arabic texts with English translations of Omar’s writing, and links to URLs with images of the original manuscripts. We plan to add some other figures in the near future, beginning with Abdurrahman ibn Ibrahima (d. 1829)  and Shaykh Sana See (Panama, 1860s). Anyone interested in participating in this project, please let us know.

Carl W. Ernst

William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

carlwernst.web.unc.edu

cernst@email.unc.edu

 

 

 

3. We now are thrilled to invite you to a supplementary session of the Harb al-Basus Seminar on May 23rd at 8 a.m. ET/ 2p.m. Central European Time, and 8 p.m. in Perth Australia, whence  Dr. Said al-Ghanimi will deliver his presentation on the diachronic cultural and literary connections between the story of Harb al-Basus and major heroic tales across the eras of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean.   We are thrilled that he has agreed to offer his presentation to us on Zoom, and we hope to engage him in fruitful discussion of his ideas concerning the core narrative of Harb al-Basus and its relation to other heroic tales.   Please join us if you can.

We will record this session, and post it to the al-Zir Salim@ Harb al-Basus channel on Youtube, where the rest of our sessions are archived, here: https://www.youtube.com/@HarbalBasus

And here is the webpage of the seminar:

https://www.usna.edu/Harb-al-Basus-Seminar/index.php

If you can join us, we would be thrilled to see you there and to have you join the discussion.

Here is the Zoom link to the May 23rd session:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81553406270?pwd=bFpZdnQwMUpXdE5yYlBZemFEMEVtUT09

Meeting ID: 815 5340 6270

Passcode: 031802

Sincerely,

Clarissa Burt                                                   Johan Weststeijn

burt@usna.edu   j.k.weststeijn@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

4. Afghanistan,Volume 6, Issue 1
Find out more:

https://ddlnk.net/CEQ-89W2D-MWI2D5-559S7V-0/c.aspx

 

 

 

5. Call for Applications: The Iraj Khademi Residency in Persian Literature at the UW

The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Washington enthusiastically invites poets and other creative writers, scholars (including doctoral students), and translators of Persian literature to apply for a two-week residency in Seattle during spring 2024. For more information, please see here.

 

 

 

6. ’Processes of the circulation of Chinese wares in the Middle East during the Abbasid-Chinese ceramic exchange, eighth–tenth centuries ce’

Wen Wen,

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2023

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-royal-asiatic-society/article/processes-of-the-circulation-of-chinese-wares-in-the-middle-east-during-the-abbasidchinese-ceramic-exchange-eighthtenth-centuries-ce/ACF8905808997F0257DDF6DF68DA39E8?WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

 

 

 

7. Finding Ways: Stakes and Strategies in South Asian Cartography, hybrid workshop at Vanderbilt University, 18-20 May, 2023

You are welcome to a hybrid workshop on South Asian maps, digital mapping projects, conceptions of space, and map epistemologies, to be held in person and over Zoom next week. Please use the form linked below to receive a Zoom link.

Samira Sheikh, Vanderbilt University.

Finding Ways: Stakes and Strategies in South Asian Cartography

Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, and online via Zoom

May 18th – May 20th

Registration link: https://forms.gle/95eeYrsffY3R1J2S6

The workshop will run from 8 AM – 12 AM US Central Time in Nashville

6 AM-10 AM US Pacific Time                       9 AM – 1PM US Eastern Time

6:30 PM – 10:30 PM Indian Time                 2 PM – 6 PM UK Time

3 PM – 7 PM Central European Time

All times below are in local Nashville time (CT)

Thursday, 18th May 

8-8:30 Introduction and welcome, Samira Sheikh

8:30-9:30 Maps and margins 

Debjani Bhattacharyya (University of Zurich) “Drawing Margins: Inscriptions, Sketches and Marginalia in Pattahs and Titles”

Eric Gurevitch (Vanderbilt University) “Cosmograms, Centers of Calculation, and the Creation of the Many-Headed Knower: Maps in the Historiography of Science”

Karen Pinto (University of Colorado, Boulder) “South Asian Connections with Islamicate Cartography”

9:45-10:45 Access and heritage  

Afifa Khan, Rebecca Roberts, Cameron Petrie (University of Cambridge) “Introducing MAHSA: the Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia project”

Rahul Chopra (FLAME University) “Towards an open access platform of maps of India”

11-12 Digital experiments

Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University) “Going Global in Mughal India”

Deborah Sutton (Lancaster University) “(M)apping Strategies for Digital Heritage: The Safarnama App Framework”

Friday, 19th May

8-9  Fluid boundaries 

Bhavani Raman (University of Toronto) “Drawing the Language of the Sea: How Fisher Science Unsettles Weather Maps”

Ian Barrow (Middlebury College) “Finding Time in Colonial-Era Maps of South Asia: Possibilities for Teaching and Research”

Eduardo Acosta (University of Chicago) “Fluvial Temporalities: Thinking Time through Early Colonial Maps”

9:15-10:15 Envisioning the land

Mark Hauser (Northwestern University) “A Tale of Two Maps: Colonial Cartography, the Archaeological Record, and Agrarian Transition”

Ashish Koul (Northwestern University) “Reimagining a geography of conflict”

David Ludden  (New York University)”Mapping South Asia as Mobile Historical Space”

10:30-11:30 Representing Delhi 

Yuthika Sharma (Northwestern University) “Manuscripts to Maps: Cartography as a model of artistic change in eighteenth-century Mughal South Asia”

Iqtedar Alam (University of Cambridge) “GIS-based Modelling of Shahjahanabad’s Hydrological Landscape: Challenges in Interpretation of Pre-Colonial Maps of Delhi (1750-1850)”

Abhishek Kaicker (University of California, Berkeley) “A first look at the Delhi Canal map”

11:30-12 Discussion

Saturday, 20th May

8-9  Space and place

Dipti Khera (New York University) “Drawing Together Maps and Moods: Localizations of Knowledge, Power, and Emotions, Udaipur, c. 1700”

Sumit Guha (University of Texas, Austin) “Symbolic Geography, Pragmatic Geography and Visual Representation”

Caleb Simmons (University of Arizona) “Territorial Dominion/Cartographic Dominance: Colonial Mapping and the Work of Creating Space and Making Place”

9:15-10:15   Coloniality and beyond 

Shailka Mishra (Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum, Hyderabad) “Maps and Mapping in the Courts of Rajasthan: Production, Collection and Consumption”

Charlotte Evans (Lancaster University) “Using the digital humanities to map water histories in the Kaveri catchment: methodologies and considerations”

Kapil Raj (EHESS, Paris) ” Epistemic Divides and the Faculty of Translation: Rendering Space Intelligible in 19th-Century South Asia”

10:30-11:30 Himalayan ways 

Diana Lange (Humboldt University) “Tibetan Mapping and the Mapping of Tibet”

Abeer Gupta (Achi Association) “Global-digital cultural construction, agency, and the formal-informal archives of knowledge”

Aniket Alam (IIIT, Hyderabad) “Mapping the Himalayas through Historical Texts: An NLP and GIS Approach”

11:30-12 Closing Discussion

 

 

 

 

8. Online Lecture – “Potters’ workshops and their productions in the Arabian Peninsula between 10th and 15th AD”

Fabien Lesguer (Phd student University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne; CNRS Dadan Archaeological Project)

May, 17th (4 PM Paris; 5 PM Riyad)

For further information: 

https://www.ifporient.org/archaeology-mena-2/

 

 

 

 

9. The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers over 400 unique awards for U.S. citizens to teach, research, and conduct professional projects in more than 130 countries. 

In the 2024-25 competition, many awards around the world welcome applications in Islamic Art and Architecture, such as opportunities in  Kuwait, Tunisia, Jordan and Pakistan.  Explore awards available in the 2024-25 competition on our site, where you can search by country, discipline and other criteria.  You can join the more than 400,000 Fulbrighters who have come away with enhanced skills, new connections and greater mutual understanding.

We encourage you to visit our website for application resources:

• Getting Started (new to Fulbright? Start here!)
• Application Guidance
• Open Awards in the 2024-25 Competition, searchable by discipline, country/region, etc.
• Webinar Schedule and Archive
• Office Hours, a great way to get your questions answered live by Fulbright staff

We look forward to receiving your application by our deadline of September 15, 2023.  To receive program updates and application resources, connect with Fulbright.  Know someone who could benefit from a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award? Refer a colleague!

Here’s to another year of global action, opportunity, connections — and creating a brighter future.

Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Contact: scholars@iie.org

 

 

 

10. The editors of Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists are looking for submissions that will help diversify the journal’s contents as well as the authors and audiences it attracts. We are currently interested in submissions from disciplines other than history and/or that engage non-Arabic sources, the post-Umayyad period, or non-Muslim peoples. We particularly encourage women and scholars of color to submit.

A peer-reviewed, open access journal since 2015, UW defines the medieval Middle East expansively to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social presences between the rough parameters of 500-1500 CE. We seek previously unpublished articles featuring original research and analysis, including those that push the boundaries of the medieval Middle East as defined above.

UW publishes research articles on a rolling basis, and we pride ourselves on a friendly, efficient, and substantive editorial process. For more reasons to publish with UW and additional information about submissions, please visit the journal’s website or contact the editors directly.

Zayde Antrim: Zayde.Antrim@trincoll.edu

Alison Vacca: av3096@columbia.edu

 

 

 

11. Please join us for the next Maps & Society lecture on May 18, 5 – 7pm (GMT). Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (CNRS Researcher, LARHRA, Lyon) will be talking on ‘Magnetism Matters: Early Modern Commerce, Practices and Frameworks in the Iberian Empires’.

The meeting will be held online on Zoom. To receive a link, please register via the Warburg Institute: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/maps-and-society-magnetism-matters-early-modern-commerce-practices-and-frameworks-iberian

Everyone is warmly welcomed.

Catherine Delano-Smith and Philip Jagessar

 

1.ONLINE Lecture: “Women and the Intersection of political roles in Power, the Ilkhanate of Persia (1206 – 1335 CE), a Historical Study” (in Arabic) by Dr. Reem Soud Alrudainy (Kuwait University), University of Manchester, 10 May 2023, 17:00 BST

What are the most important political changes and the political effects that accompanied Mongol Ilkhanate women of Persia? And how were the different intersections that represented their experiences reflected in political life? The present study presents the Mongol women’s experiences and political life and tests the ways which enabled them to have power and to have a role in politics.

Information and registration: https://forms.office.com/e/CLzeCLXw7q

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Lecture “Before the Nabataeans: Arabian Traders in the Negev Highlands” by Tali Erickson-Gini and Martin David Pasternak, W.F. Albright Institute of Archaological Research, Jerusalem, 11 May 2023, 16:00 IDT

Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/aiar/erickson-gini-pasternak-lecture2023?e=4b7f78b915

 

 

 

 

3. 4th Graduate Colloquium in Middle Eastern and Ottoman Studies, Marmara University and George Mason University, Istanbul, 11-12 August 2023

The Colloquium welcomes papers related to the Middle East Islamic Studies in historical and contemporary contexts, including Ottoman Studies. It is open to all disciplines as well as multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary fields, including history, history of arts and architecture, literature, religious studies, cultural studies, political science, sociology, and anthropology.

Deadline for abstracts: 20 May 2023. Information: https://istanbulcolloquium.com

 

 

 

4. “Postclassical Philosophy in the Muslim World: A Symposium on Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210)”, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, 26-28 April 2024

Rāzī’s position as a preeminent figure of Postclassical Islam (ca. 1200-1900 CE) was influential in nearly all areas of knowledge. This symposium welcomes proposals for presentations on any of the fields to which Rāzī dedicated himself, e.g., philosophy, logic, the sciences, magic and sorcery, theology, Qurʾānic exegesis, and jurisprudence. Presentations may also focus on Rāzī’s life and legacy. Presentations with a strong phil-ological focus are encouraged.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 August 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements /12778902/cfp-symposium-fakhr-al-din-al-razi-d-6061210

 

 

 

 

5. Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought
Turkish and Egyptian Thinkers on the Disruption of Islamic Knowledge

Andrew Hammond

CUP. 2022

https://www.cambridge.org/eg/academic/subjects/history/middle-east-history/late-ottoman-origins-modern-islamic-thought-turkish-and-egyptian-thinkers-disruption-islamic-knowledge?format=HB&isbn=9781009199506

 

 

 

 

6. SCORE lecture series: “Egyptian Historiography of the First and Second fitnas” (16 May)

The second talk in the summer 2023 term of our online lecture series ‘Rethinking Social Contention’, which will take place on Tuesday, 16 May, at 4:00 pm CEST.

We’re excited to host Ed Zychowicz-Coghill (King’s College London), who will present his research on “The Historiography of the First and Second fitnas in Egypt”.

If you’d like to attend, please email score.aai@uni-hamburg.de to receive the access details. We look forward to a stimulating paper and discussion and hope to see many of you there! For more information on our project, “Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period” (SCORE), please visit our website at www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/score

 

 

 

7. The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 7th Forum Medieval Art/Forum Kunst des Mittelalters, Jena, September 25–28, 2024. The biannual colloquium is organized by the Deutsche Verein für Kunstwissenschaft e.V.

The theme for the 7th Forum Medieval Art is Light: Art, Metaphysics and Science in the Middle Ages.

The Mary Jaharis Center invites session proposals that fit within the Light theme and are relevant to Byzantine studies.

Session proposals must be submitted through the Mary Jaharis Center website. The deadline for submission is May 29, 2023.

If the proposed session is approved, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse a maximum of 4 session participants (presenters and session chair) up to $500 maximum for participants traveling from locations in Germany, up to $800 maximum for participants traveling from the EU, and up to $1400 maximum for participants traveling from outside Europe. Funding is through reimbursement only; advance funding cannot be provided. Eligible expenses include conference registration, transportation, and food and lodging. Receipts are required for reimbursement. The Mary Jaharis Center regrets that it cannot reimburse participants who have last-minute cancellations and are unable to attend the conference.

For a complete description of the theme, further details, and submission instructions, please visit https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/7th-forum-medieval-art.

Please contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, with any questions.

 

 

 

8. Call for Middle-East Paper/Session Proposals for Medieval Academy Meeting, March 2024

Jack Tannous will be one of three plenary speakers at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, March 14-16, 2024 at University of Notre Dame.

We’d love to have a strong showing of Middle-Eastern/Islamic content to complement him.  Please consider proposing a paper or session.  CfP is just below:

Updated Call for Papers
2024 Annual Meeting of
The Medieval Academy of America
Hosted by the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
MARCH 14–16, 2024

The 99th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Indiana).  The meeting is hosted by The Medieval Institute, St. Mary’s College, Holy Cross College, and Indiana University, South Bend.  The conference will be entirely in person, though the plenary lectures and some other events will also be live-streamed.
The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. Exceptions can be given to individuals whose specialty would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy.
Location: The Medieval Institute has one of the preeminent library collections for medieval studies in North America. Notre Dame is located about two hours’ drive from Chicago, with commuter train service available. Scholars may wish to extend their visit and take advantage of opportunities for research or sightseeing.

Plenary Speakers:  Robin Fleming (Boston College), Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford), and Jack Tannous (Princeton).
Themes:
Mapping the Middle Ages: Under this theme we invite explorations of how medieval people mapped their world and of how we, as modern scholars, have mapped or might map that world.  For example, sessions or individual presentations could focus on medieval cartography or the distortions of modern maps of the medieval world, but also on other kinds of medieval and modern mappings:  the creation of medieval cosmologies and cosmographies; the construction of boundaries, edges, peripheries, authorities, and jurisdictions; the positioning of marginal groups, of insiders and outsiders, of friends and enemies; the conjuring of frontiers between ‘civilizations’ across Eurasia; the figuring of past, present, and future, of ancient, medieval, and modern; the making of archives and libraries.
Bodies in Motion: This strand thematizes bodies (for example, animate bodies, celestial bodies, or material objects) as they move, whether through displacement or through movement within a space. Papers might consider celestial motion, mathematical models, music, and concepts of time; travel (e.g. for trade, pilgrimage, or war), migration and resettlement (voluntary or forced); the transmission of food, goods, art objects and diseases through patterns of human contact; bodies that transform or transcend categories; textual corpora, their material transmissions, and their transformations through translation and reception; habit, gesture, ritual, and the lived use of domestic, urban, political, or religious architectural spaces.
Communities of Knowledge: We invite papers exploring communities formed around the creation, dissemination, exchange, and preservation of knowledge in the medieval world. Papers might treat centers of learning and their students and teachers, including but not limited to the universities; virtual communities formed by epistolary networks, narrative traditions, dissident theologies, or political ideologies; communities defined in terms of medical knowledge; apocalyptic or prophetic or messianic communities bound by foreknowledge of things to come; the peripheries of knowledge, including the limits of literacy or belief; material supports for the transmission of knowledge, from shipping routes or urban spaces to fresco cycles or manuscript glosses; and the formation of political and legal knowledge in the Middle Ages and their impact on the constitution of authority.
The Medieval Academy welcomes innovative panels that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries or that use various disciplinary approaches to examine an individual topic. We encourage papers on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, or Eastern Europe and the networks and exchanges between East and West.
Proposals: Individuals may propose to offer a paper or propose a full panel of papers and speakers to fit one of the themes above.  Panels usually consist of three 25-minute papers, and proposals should be geared to that length. The Program Committee may choose a different format for some panels after the proposals have been reviewed. Panel organizers may wish to propose different formats for their panels, subject to Program Committee approval.
In order to be considered, proposals must be complete and sent in via the Submittable platform at this link:

https://bit.ly/MAA2024-ND-MI

Paper proposals will need to include the proposer’s information (name; a statement of Medieval Academy membership, or statement that the individual’s specialty would not normally involve membership in the Academy; professional status; email address; postal address; home or cell and office telephone numbers) and paper information (title, abstract of no more than 250 words, session theme for which it should be considered, and audio-visual needs).
Session proposals: If a full panel is being proposed, the above information will be required for each paper, as well as for the session as a whole.  Session proposals may also include the name of the chair (with the relevant contact information) or ask that a chair be appointed.

If the proposer will be at a different address when decisions are announced in September 2023, that address should be included.
Submissions:
The deadline is 15 June 2023.
Please do not send proposals to the Medieval Academy office or to the conference organizers. Contact MAA2024@TheMedievalAcademy.org with questions.
Selection Procedure: The Committee will review paper and panel proposals for their quality, the significance of their topics, and their relevance to the conference themes. The Program Committee will evaluate proposals during the summer of 2023 and the Committee will inform all successful and unsuccessful proposers and announce the program in September of 2023.

 

 

 

9. IDHN 9th online conference on May 31 2023

We have the great pleasure of inviting you to our 9th IDHN online conference on May 31 2023. You will find below and attached to this email the program of the conference together with the registration link. We have as always great speakers who will share their groundbreaking research with us. Do join us for these four exciting talks and share our invitation within your networks.

Ursula Hammed (Munich University): EGIPTOS – Establishing Groups, Identifying Patterns in Texts from Original Sources

Estrella Samba-Campos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Access to Knowledge: The kutub al-ʿilm and muṣannaf collections as aural databases

Julio César Cárdenas Arenas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Islamic University of Madinah): A Computational Linguistics Analysis of “Christians” and “Jews”  in Ibn Taymīyah’s Legal Verdicts

Tynan Kelly (University of Chicago): The Digital Takhrīj: Tracing the Transmission of `Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib’s Orations (khuṭub) with Text-Comparison and Algorithm-Assisted Network Graphing

In order to attend the conference please register at: https://georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkfuChqD0iGdb63d_MzZq9ge9IKCrP3BPg

https://idhn.org/

 

1.In person: Rumi and the Masnavi: Talk and Recitation Annual Bruce Wannell Memorial Lecture 2023
Co-sponsored by the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) and the University of York and it is part of the York Festival of Ideas.
with Alan Williams and Seyed Ali Jaberi & the Hamdel Ensemble
Rumi is one of the best loved and most influential poets in Islamic culture, and today is fame is global. Join Prof Alan Williams for a fascinating talk including a recitation and performance by Seyed Ali Jaberi and the Hamdel Ensemble, centring on the enigmatic story of an old musician, from the first book of Rumi’s Masnavi, a work of couplet verses in Persian and Arabic.
8 June 2023, 7:30PM. In person; registration required. National Centre for Early Music, Walmgate, York.

 

 

 

 

2. Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: Romantic and Didactic Genres

A History of Persian Literature, Vol III

Mohsen Ashtiany (Anthology Editor)

I B Tauris, 2023

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/persian-narrative-poetry-in-the-classical-era-8001500-romantic-and-didactic-genres-9781845119041/

 

 

 

 

3. CMES Harvard is hosting the exhibit of Qajar era archives and objects covering 30 years in the life of an Assyrian-Irish family from Urmia that settled in Santa Clara County, CA: Assyrians from Persia (Iran) to the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries, and the Search for a Home 

The exhibit website is https://qarajalutosantaclara.com

The next speaker (ZOOM) in the accompanying series is Dr. Mira X Schwerda who will speak about the key Ali Khan Vali photo album at Harvard’s Fine Arts library. 

An Archive of Fragmented Memories: The Concept of Time in the ‘Ali Khan Vali Album

Mira Xenia Schwerda
Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art, 2023-2024; Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 2022-2023.
Monday, May 8, 2023
12:00 to 1:30pm ET
Online; register in advance on Zoom: https://bit.ly/3L90xMO.

 

 

 

4. From Konkan to Coromandel: Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture

The University of Cambridge’s Centre of Islamic Studies has partnered with Art, Resources and Teaching Trust, Bangalore to deliver an exciting program this season.

Gangaram Tambat: A Deccan Artist and a British Archive

Holly Shaffer (Brown University) on May 12th at 2 PM London (9 AM New York, and

6:30 PM Mumbai)

Sea a Boiling Vessel: Oceanic Imaginations of Kerala’s History

Aazhi Archives on June 9th at 2 PM London (9 AM New York, and 6:30 PM Mumbai)

Shantaladevi: The History and Mythos of an “Exceptional” Hoysala Queen

Samana Gururaja (Humboldt Universität) on July 21st 2 PM London (9 AM New York, and 6:30 PM Mumbai)

Painted Chests and Sculpted Beds: Tracing Artistic Connections Between the Malabar Coast and the Broader Indian Ocean World

Deepthi Murali (George Mason University) on August 11th 2 PM London (9 AM New York, and 6:30 PM Mumbai)

All webinars will take place on Zoom. Free and open to the public. Prior registration is mandatory. Please visit https://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/activities/lectures-workshops/from-malabar-to-coromandel/ to register and receive the Zoom link.

 

 

 

5. Online: Intratextuality in the Bible and the Qur’an

DFDS2023 (3rd) International Conference

Organized by the Discussion Forum on Divine Scriptures and the World Religions World Church Program (Notre Dame)
May 17 2023, 8-11 am (Eastern Time – New  York)
Registration : ahmadi_mh@ut.ac.ir
Speakers:
– Gabriel Said Reynolds , Notre Dame University
– Mun’im Sirry , Notre Dame University
– Hussein Abdulsater , Notre Dame University
– Gary Anderson , Notre Dame University
– Jennifer Grillo , Notre Dame University
– Nathan Eubank , Notre Dame University
– Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi , University of Tehran
– Abdulkader Tayob , University of Cape Town
– Ghassan Elmasri , Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourses
– Mohammad Kazem Shaker , Allameh Tabataba’i University
– Mehrab Sadegh Nia , University of Religions and Denominations
– Mahmoud Sadeghi Tajar , Independent Scholar
For more information:
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/p/53

https://chat.whatsapp.com/GSaHZjoRnZ5JNHRh18O2AV
—

Dr. Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi
Assoc. Prof. University of Tehran
Islamic Historical Philology
Executive Director of Discussion Forum on Divine Scriptures(DFDS)
Website: http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/
Phone : +98 (0)9127580228 (ٌWhatsApp)
Email: ahmadi_mh@ut.ac.ir

 

 

 

6. Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research 16.1 is out now!

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arab-muslim-media-research

 

 

 

7. Intellect is pleased to announce that International Journal of Islamic Architecture 12.2 is out now.

Special Issue: ‘Rupture and Response’

The theme for this special issue was inspired by the early months of the pandemic in 2020, when it was just beginning to disrupt and fracture lives, systems, economies, social fabrics, and many other facets of daily life around the globe.

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture

 

 

 

 

8. Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz, Director of Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, will be delivering a virtual lecture hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara on Saturday, May 6 at 11 a.m. PST.

“The presentation will focus on medieval Persian writers’ perception of the Other and their level of tolerance for diversity using the example of ‘Aziz al-Din Nasafi, Jalal al-Din Rumi, and Sa’di of Shiraz. We will examine these writers’ perception of the Other imagined to be residing in unfamiliar/hostile political, cultural, and religious geographies. The examples will include poetry and prose.”

 

If you would like to attend, please follow this link to the event page and click ‘REGISTER’ 

 

 

 

9. CfP: Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam

Special issue of our journal on the theme of Islam and the Discourse of the Enlightenment

We welcome articles on the following themes:

Islamic conception of Subjectivity and Maturity

Islam and Reason

Islam and Political Sovereignty

Islam and Secularism

Islam and Development

and any other related themes

Book reviews on the aforementioned subjects are also appreciated.

JCSI is a peer-viewed academic journal publishing in London.

The length of the article should be between 5000 and 7000 words, and it should be submitted via the journal’s website: https://contemporarystudyofislam.org/

If there are any issues with submission, writers can email their paper directly to the journal’s editor at dr.emad-bazzi@contemporarystudyofislam.org  or emadbazzi@hotmail.com

Before submission, authors are urged to review the paper criteria listed on the journal’s website. We also respectfully request that authors refrain from raising any topics that can be acrimonious or offensive to Muslim or other religious communities.

The submission deadline for this special issue is 30th June 2023

Contributors are asked to include a three-line profile about themselves containing their academic affiliation and major publications

1. HYBRID Annual Research Workshop “Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies”, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London, 6-7 October 2023

The workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies for investigating history writing in Arabic in the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond in any period from the seventh century to the present. Contributions are invited from scholars at all career levels, addressing any period and any part of the Middle East and North Africa, broadly defined.

Extended deadline: 12 May 2023. Information:

https://www.aku.edu/ismc/events/pages/event-detail.aspx?EventID=2321&Title=Arabic%20Pasts:%20Histories%20and%20Historiographies6-7%20October%202023

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Lecture “Between Stigma and Necessity – Paradigm Shift Among Muslims in the West” by Rania Awaad (Stanford Muslim Mental Health & Islamic Psychology Lab, Stanford University), Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität Vienna, 2 May 2023, 17:30-19:00 h CET

Information and registration: https://www.sfu.ac.at/de/event/ifime-ringvorlesung-muslimische-patientinnen-ganz-anders-und-doch-so-gleich/

 

 

 

 

3. HYBRID Colloquium of the Mediterranean Platform: “Translating Arabic Crusade Chronicles in 19th Century France” by James Wilson, University of Konstanz, Germany, 3 May 2023, 15:15-16:45 h CET

The colloquium serves to discuss new and ongoing MA, PhD and postdoctoral research projects on Mediter-ranean Studies across the ages and disciplines. Interested persons are invited to join the colloquium at the University of Konstanz, within which both pre- and postgraduate students (MA Students, Doctoral and Post-doctoral fellows) and scholars could partake.

Information and program: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-mediterranean-platform-colloqui um-konstanz-summer-2023?e=82aeb6c61d. Contact for link: jovo.miladinovic@uni-konstanz.de

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Book Launch “Islamophobia in Lebanon: Visibly Muslim Women and Global” by Ali Kassem (Nation University of Singapore), MENACS and BRISMES, University of Sussex, 3 May 2023, 16:00 -17:30 BST

The author offers rare and important insights into the lives of hijabi women in the ex-French colony of Lebanon. Through listening to everyday experiences of Islamophobia, this book masterfully engages the decolo-nial lens to articulate a principled and urgent account of coloniality in the Muslim World.

Registration: https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/98982730778 , Meeting ID: 989 8273 0778.

 

 

 

 

5. HYBRIDE Conférence Publique de l´IISMM : « L’exploitation des références eschatologiques dans la propagande du groupe État islamique » avec Othman El Kachtoul (Docteur en islamo-logie, Université de Strasbourg. GEO), BULAC, Paris, 9 mai 2023, 18h30 – 20h CET

Information : http://iismm.ehess.fr/index.php?2388

Inscription : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvnGy-LrSdA

 

 

 

 

6. HYBRIDE Atelier IISMM “Normativité en islam : enjeux politiques de la déconstruction du sacré” avec Stéphane Valter (Professeur en langue et civilisation arabes, Université de Lyon 2), 25 mai 2023, 10h – 12h

L’ouvrage de Ma‘rûf al-Rusâfî (1875-1945), poète iraqien arabophone d’origine kurde, „La personnalité muhammadienne“ n’est nullement un pamphlet anticlérical. Pour un philosophe athée, il n’y a en fait dans ce livre rien d’extraordinaire, si ce n’est l’intérêt provenant de la description de croyances et pratiques à une période donnée. Mais pour des pratiquants un peu étriqués, il est probable que le livre, comme la traduction, soient considérés comme ineptes, ou pire, blasphématoire.

Information: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=WroeienWoEWqj7IoDFlyCpW03jsjCalL-psIgf0J8WalURDlNOEdSMU03MTNZQ0FaSDY5TjZSOVlKTy4u . Inscription: https://bbb.ehess.fr/b/fra-lzk-hvs-wue

 

 

 

 

7. Symposium “Islamic Ethics & Living in Ethnic and Cultural Diversity”, Ghent University, Belgium, 21 June 2023

The goal is to reflect on current approaches in the anthropology of Islam, particularly by foregrounding Islamic faith, spirituality and ethics, and the conditions of life in super diverse contexts. How can anthropologists study everyday life but also the role of Islamic ethics in environments marked by multiple forms of cultural and religious difference? More generally, how can both disciplines – Islamic theology/ethics and anthropology – be brought into a productive dialogue and conversation?

Deadline for abstracts: 7 May 2023, send to an.vanraemdonck@ugent.be

Information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-islamic-ethics-living-in-ethnic-and-cultural-diversity-tickets-623489492857?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&keep_tld=1

 

 

 

 

8. International Conference “Women and Leadership in the Middle East and Africa”, CLAS LAB, Ibn Zohr University, Ait Melloul, Morocco, 12-13 October 2023

The conference aims to provide an intellectual venue for scholars (from various disciplines), practitioners, feminists, activists and policy makers working on women’s rights and gender studies to explore the factors behind the gender leadership gap in so many public life sectors and cultural contexts and investigate the harm it does to societies.

Deadline for abstracts: 20 June 2023.

Information: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/international-conference-gender-politics-icgp-2023-women-darhour

 

 

 

 

9. Postdoctoral Position in the Research Project “Constructing the Indian Ocean” (Focus Muslim Communities, Dubai), School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark

We are looking for an innovative scholar with an academic background in either Anthropology, Global Stud-ies, the Sociology of Religion or similar, preferably with a specialization in the Indian Ocean world and/or the study of Islam and Muslim communities.

Deadline for applications: 9 May 2023.

Information: https://www.au.dk/om/stillinger/job/postdoctoral-position-within-the-research-project-constructing-the-ocean-at-the-school-of-culture-and-society-1

 

 

 

 

10. 2 Research Associates for “Ottoman Auralities and the Eastern Mediterranean: Sound, Media and Power, 1789-1922”, University of Cambridge

Candidates should propose a research project that foreground especially marginalized communities in Ana-tolia (e.g., Kurds, Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians) or the Arab regions of the Ottoman Empire (e.g., the Syrian Provinces). Applicants must hold (or show evidence of nearing completion of) a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline (e.g., music, history, history of science, anthropology, Middle Eastern studies), and show a devel-oping profile of publications.

Deadline for applications: 14 May 2023 Information: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/40476/

 

 

 

11. Articles for Journal “Revue Egypte Soudan Mondes Arabes (ESMA)” in French or English

ESMA is a journal that promotes empirically grounded social science research on contemporary Egypt, Su-dan, and other MENA countries. The journal welcomes articles from sociology, anthropology, political sci-ence, geography, urban studies, history, political economy, legal studies, development studies, etc. and en-courages new theoretical contributions.

Information: http://cedej-eg.org/index.php/revue-egyptemonde-arabe/

 

 

 

12. American University in Cairo: Scanlon Award & Keynote Lecture

You are cordially invited to attend this year’s George T. Scanlon Graduate Student Award Ceremony on Saturday 6 May, 2023, 6.00-8.00pm, Oriental Hall, Tahrir Square Campus, American University in Cairo. This year’s awardee will be announced at the ceremony.

If you’re not in Cairo you can also attend online. Please register here:

https://aucegypt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_raIWxG4nREOzqMsDxxCBig

We are honored that this year’s keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr Tarek Swelim ’86, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, under the title: “Al-Mu’ayyad: From Mamluk to Sultan.”

Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/2TPlHvbS0

The George T. Scanlon Graduate Student Award in Arab and Islamic Civilizations is given to the most distinguished graduate thesis produced by a student of the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations (ARIC) at the American University in Cairo (AUC). The prize recognizes Scanlon’s 50-year teaching career at the University, which made an immense impact on all his students, scholars, fellow colleagues, and researchers, and even many of those who encountered him only briefly.

 

 

 

13. University of Oxford – Departmental Lecturer, Persian Studies

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65365

This is a part-time, fixed-term position until 31 August 2024.

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 10 May 2023.

 

 

 

 

14. Webinar – British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)

‘Feeling Mission Hospitals in Persia and British India’

with Sara Honarmand

31 May 2023, 5PM UK time

For more information and to register, see:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7516801746030/WN_5Am9d6aET8m2taAqTcwCmQ#/registration

 

 

 

15. In Person Lecture | “You are fired”: A Comparison of Roman and Sasanian Military Careers

Event co-organised by the Iran Society and the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS).
Sean Strong, winner of last year’s Iran Society study grants, discusses some critical aspects of the lives of military men in Late Antique Roman and Sasanian armies.
18 May 2023, 7PM. In person.

Army & Navy Club 36-39 Pall Mall London, SW1Y 5JN.
Register on Eventbrite.

 

 

 

16. ONLINE Webinar ‘Presence and Silence: The Iran Archives in the German Foreign Office’

with Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto

18 May 2023, 5PM, on Zoom.

This is part of the monthly seminar Series “Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents” convened by Arezou Azad & Mohamad Tavakoli

Information and registration:

https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocuuhpz8iEtZ-L4819TcSD47Uh7mRt8tK#/registration

 

 

 

17. The Islamic College: Arabic Online Language Course

Beginner (Friday), Intermediate (Sunday)
12th May – 16th July (10 sessions)
Registration Deadline: 5th May 2023

https://islamic-college.ac.uk/study/short-courses/learn-arabic/

 

1. Al Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation invites applications for the position of Outreach & Events.

For further details and for applying, please click the following link: https://smrtr.io/dDgrw

The closing date for all applications is 5th May 2023.

Kind regards,

Al Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation

 

 

 

2. La 7^ème séance du séminaire « Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien » aura lieu le jeudi 11 mai 2023

17h à 19h, salle 3.15 à l’INALCO : 65, rue des Grands-Moulins 75013 Paris

Pour cette séance, nous recevons Rostislav Oreshko (CNRS/UMR 8761 Orient et Méditerranée & Center for Hellenic Studies – Harvard University) pour une conférence intitulée :

« Les Perses en Anatolie : trois études épigraphiques sur la Lycie, la Lydie et la Phrygie »

Résumé :

Suite à la conquête de la Lydie par Cyrus vers 546 av. J.-C., l’Asie Mineure devint une partie intégrante de l’Empire perse et, à l’exception des villes grecques de la côte égéenne libérées à la suite des guerres médiques, le resta par la suite pendant plus de deux siècles. Cette longue période de domination achéménide a laissé une empreinte remarquable sur le paysage culturel de la région (cf. Briant 2020 et Dusinberre 2020). Sur le territoire anatolien divisé en cinq satrapies, Cyrus et ses successeurs établirent des colonies militaires – notamment dans les parties occidentales toujours menacées par les Grecs – et introduirent des éléments du système administratif perse (e.g., Dusinberre 2013), et des terres furent données en apanage aux nobles perses (Briant 1986 et Sekunda 1986). Tout cela, peut-on supposer, généra un important afflux de la population iranienne en Anatolie. Pourtant, la situation n’était pas identique dans toutes les régions. Par exemple, à Sardes, la capitale de la satrapie la plus importante d’Anatolie, et dans toute la plaine lydienne l’influence iranienne était forte (cf. Dusinberre 2003), tout autant que dans la région de Daskyleion, la capitale de la satrapie de la Phrygie hellespontique (cf. Bakır 2003 et Kaptan 2002). En revanche, en Carie (proprement dite), dont la gouvernance fut placée dans les mains d’une dynastie locale, les éléments iraniens sont moins apparents, et en Phrygie centrale on ne trouve des traces de la présence perse que dans l’ancienne capitale, Gordion.

Nos connaissances de l’Anatolie achéménide se fondent principalement sur trois types de témoignages bien connus. Les aspects essentiels de l’histoire politique ont été établis surtout grâce aux sources classiques allant des témoignages contemporains d’Hérodote, Thucydide ou Xénophon aux récits historiques de Strabon, Diodore ou Arrien. L’archéologie y ajoute des détails mineurs concernant la culture matérielle et la vie quotidienne. Les inscriptions grecques de la région, pour leur part, en évoquant des noms de dieux et de personnes d’origine iranienne, fournissent de précieux indices sur la religion et le tissu social au temps de l’Empire perse (cf. Mitchell 2007, entre autres). Ces témoignages épigraphiques sont malheureusement très rares et souvent trop fragmentaires. Pourtant, les inscriptions grecques ne sont pas les seules contenant du matériel pertinent : les inscriptions en d’autres langues de l’Anatolie comportent elles aussi des références à la présence iranienne qui, si interprétées correctement, peuvent considérablement enrichir nos connaissances de l’Anatolie achéménide.

Dans cette conférence, je présenterai trois cas d’études concernant les corpus épigraphiques en trois langues anatoliennes – le lycien, le lydien et le phrygien – qui mettent en évidence le potentiel de ce matériel pour éclairer l’histoire de l’Anatolie achéménide. Le premier (reprenant Oreshko 2021, cf. Hyland 2021) se concentrera sur l’inscription trilingue de Xanthos et sur des aspects militaires et politiques de la présence iranienne en Anatolie du Sud à la fin du 5ème siècle av. J.-C. Le deuxième portera sur l’engagement des Perses dans les questions religieuses et le culte en Lydie au 4ème siècle av. J.-C. Enfin, dans la troisième étude, je présenterai une nouvelle inscription phrygienne trouvée en 2022 à Gordion (Oreshko-Alagöz à paraître) qui, entre autres, jette une lumière inattendue sur la présence de la noblesse iranienne dans la région de Pergame en Mysie au début de la période hellénistique.

 

Orientation bibliographique

• Bakır, T. 2003 : « Daskyleion (Tayaiy Drayahya) Hellespontine Phrygia Bölgesi Akhmenid Satraplığı », Anatolia 25, p. 1-26 [en allemand et en turc].
• Briant, P. 1986 : « Dons de terres et de villes : l’Asie mineure dans le contexte Achéménide », Revue des Études Anciennes, tome 87 (1985), n°1-2, Journées d’Études sur l’Asie Mineure, Bordeaux, p. 53-72.
• Briant, P. 2020 : « On ‘Achaemenid impact’ in Anatolia (reading notes) », dans Ashk P. Dahlén (éd.) Achaemenid Anatolia: Persian Presence and Impact in the Western Satrapies 546-330 BC. Proceedings of an International Symposium at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 7-8 September 2017, p. 9-35.
• Dusinberre, E. R. M. 2003 : Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis, Cambridge.
• Dusinberre, E. R. M. 2013 : Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia, Cambridge.
• Dusinberre, E. R. M. 2020 : « Impacts of Empire in Achaemenid Anatolia », dans Ashk P. Dahlén (éd.) Achaemenid Anatolia: Persian Presence and Impact in the Western Satrapies 546-330 BC. Proceedings of an International Symposium at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 7-8 September 2017, p. 37-63.
• Hyland, J. 2021: « Between Amorges and Tissaphernes: Lycia and Persia in the Xanthos Stele », dans: Annick Payne – Šárka Velhartická – Jorit Wintjes (éd.), Beyond All Boundaries: Anatolia in the 1st Millennium BC (OBO 295), Leuven, p. 257-278.
• Kaptan, D. 2002 : The Daskyleion Bullae: seal images from the western Achaemenid empire I–II, Leiden.
• Mitchell, S. 2007 : « Iranian Names and the Presence of Persians in the Religious Sanctuaries of Asia Minor », dans : Elaine Matthews (éd.), Old and New Worlds in Greek Onomastics, Oxford, p. 151-172.
• Oreshko, R. 2021 : « Observations on the Xanthos Trilingual: Syntactic Structure of TL 44a, 41-55 and the Lycian Terminology of Art and War », Hungarian Assyriological Review 2/1, p. 95-144.
• Oreshko, R. – Alagöz, U. à paraître : « A new Phrygian Inscription from Gordion: A Pergamene contingent in Phrygia in the early reign of Antiochus I », Belleten 87, août 2023.
• Sekunda, N. V. 1986 : « Achaemenid colonization in Lydia », Revue des Études Anciennes. Tome 87, 1985, n°1-2. Journées d’Études sur l’Asie Mineure, Bordeaux, p. 7-30.

 

 

 

3. The Worlding of Arabic Literature

by Anna Ziajka Stanton

Fordham U P, 2023

https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531503222/the-worlding-of-arabic-literature/

 

 

 

 

4. Hybrid Lecture – “THE COMPLEX OF QALAWUN AND THE SHAPING OF MAMLUK ARCHITECTURE IN CAIRO”, Iman Abdulfattah (NYU, Silsila) – May 3”

Iman Abdulfattah, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Hybrid Talk – Wednesday, May 3rd, 6:30pm EDT, New York University,   Room 222, 20 Cooper Square, New York, 10003
Silsila Spring 2023 Program

A great advantage to working on the Mamluk period is the plethora of surviving sources on the material and social history of Egypt and Syria. Representative of this bounty is the trove of literature available on the reign of Sultan al-Malik al-Manṣūr Sayf al-Dīn Qalāwūn (r. 678 689/1279-1290), the seventh Mamluk ruler, under whom the sultanate was stabilized. He was a prolific builder who ordered the construction or restoration of several buildings throughout the Mamluk realm. However, most are no longer extant, making the massive urban complex that he commissioned in Cairo (684/1285) important to understanding the material culture and built environment of medieval Cairo.

There are other factors that make this building worthy of discussion: construction was supervised by Amir ʿAlam al-Dīn Sanjar al-Shujāʿī (d. 693/1294), an ambitious and influential Mansūrī amir, giving us insight into the relationship between a patron and project supervisor; it was built in 14 months on the site of a 10th century Fatimid palace, factors that contributed to the wealth of material reuse incorporated in the building process; and it set a new precedent for later complexes in Cairo.

To register to attend, either on Zoom or in person, please use the links provided on the webpage for the event:

https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/silsila/events/2022-2023/the-complex-of-qalwn-and-the-shaping-of-mamluk-architecture-in-c.html

 

 

 

 

5. University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series

Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 17:00 GMT

ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/91491257407

The Women and Memory Forum: A Feminist Archive

Professor Hoda Elsadda, Cairo University