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1.The British Library

A Historical Narrative of the Ka`ba and the Hajj Season

Reflecting on the Visual Materials Found in the IOR

https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2022/07/a-historical-narrative-of-the-ka%CA%BFba-and-the-hajj-season.html

2. CfP: Great Lakes Adiban Society Workshop, Oct 2022

The Great Lakes Adiban Society (GLAS) invites submissions for its sixth annual workshop, scheduled to take place at the University of Chicago on October 1–2, 2022. We welcome works in progress that would benefit from extensive discussion and feedback, and especially encourage graduate students to participate.

The Society aims to provide a regional forum for scholars of Islamicate adab, particularly of the medieval and early modern periods, to meet and share their work. We leave our parameters of language and genre intentionally open in order to invite as wide a collaboration as can be useful, but as a group we are generally interested in the literary production of the broad complex of premodern Muslim societies across the Eastern Hemisphere. This naturally includes the major Islamicate languages of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu, as well as many others (Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Hebrew, Spanish, etc.) that participate in similar literary conventions.

Those who wish to participate can apply by filling out our online application by July 30, 2022. Please note that each accepted participant will be given 45 minutes to present and discuss their work; because of this, we have limited space and may have to turn down some submissions if we receive too many. In such an event, preference will generally be given to graduate students, junior scholars based in the Great Lakes region, and works in progress. All participants should plan to cover the costs of travel and lodging, but graduate students should note that we may (funding permitting) be able to offer small grants to help offset these expenses; we should know more by early August, and all applicants can expect to hear back from us by then. The application will ask you to specify if your preferred format is online or in-person. We are prioritizing in-person participation in our program, but will accommodate a limited number of virtual presentations.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at greatlakesadibansociety@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

3. The Land between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300–1700

Editor: Alina Payne

Brill, 2022

Open Access

4. Oriens

Oriens reaches its 50th volume!
All articles from the latest issue (vol 50:1-2) will be free access until December 31st 2022.
No need to sign up for an account.
Find the issue here.

5. Institute for Mediterranean Studies 2022 International Mediterranean Conference

Institute for Mediterranean Studies is looking for presenters for 2022 International Mediterranean Conference.
The conference will be hold from 17th-18th of November, 2022, with title of
“Jerusalem and the Civilization Exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean”.
* We have adjustment to provision for foreign presenters. Please do check for
your participation.
“2022 International Mediterranean Conference”
▶ Title : Jerusalem and the Civilization Exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean
▶ Topic : General topics relevant to Jerusalem or Eastern Mediterranean region
▶ Date : 17th-18th of November, 2022. (Korean Standard Time)
▶ Venue : Busan University of Foreign Studies
▶ Host : Institute for Mediterranean Studies
▶ Registration & Abstract Submission : 31st, July, 2022.
Online Registration ; https://forms.gle/fCqTa2d5GtBRpNYr7

▶ Full article submission : 30th, September, 2022.
▶ IMS provides transportation fare (round trip, domestic presenters only) and
presentation honorarium for all.
For further information or questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Contact : +82 – 51 – 509 – 6695 / icims@ims.or.kr
Thank you. We look forward to meet and share academic experience through the
event.

Sincerely,
Institute for Mediterranean Studies,
Busan University of Foreign Studies

6. Arabic Disclosures, The Postcolonial Autobiographical Atlas

Muhsin J. al-Musawi

Notre Dame, 2022

https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268201647/arabic-disclosures/

7. Grabar Travel Grant

Deadline: August 15, 2022

This competition is open to graduate students (doctoral candidates) who have been invited or accepted as participants in a scholarly conference or other professional meeting for the purpose of presenting papers, chairing sessions or moderating discussions.

Applicants must be HIAA members in good standing at the time of application. Grabar Travel Grants must be used within 12 months of the award date.

Applications must include the following five components and be submitted in a single pdf to the Grabar Travel Committee Chair (grabar.hiaa@gmail.com) by August 15, 2022:

Application cover sheet, available here
A cover letter explaining the applicant’s purpose in participating in the conference, the expected benefits of participation, and an itemized travel budget
Curriculum vitae
Letter of acceptance from the conference/session organizer(s).
Abstract of the paper to be presented.

In addition, a letter of recommendation from the applicant’s primary supervisor should be sent directly to the Grabar Travel Committee Chair (grabar.hiaa@gmail.com) by the deadline.

Applicants from outside the United States are responsible for meeting the requirements for and obtaining any visas necessary for visits to or residence and research in the United States. Upon request, HIAA will supply documentation of the grant and/or fellowship award, the dates of the award, and financial support.

For further details and to apply, please visit: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/grabar-grants-and-fellowships

8. 2023 Sir William Luce fellowship, Durham University

The residential fellowship (Apr-June 2023) carries a grant, accommodation and meals, and is a valuable research and publication opportunity for post-doctoral scholars, diplomats, politicians, or business executives, working on the Sudans, South Arabia, the Gulf States and Iran: more details are provided in the notice. The application deadline is Monday 5 September 2022. The Sir William Luce Papers series (https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/school-government-international-affairs/research/fellowships/william-luce-fellowship/visiting-fellows-and-sir-william-luce-papers/) has been well served by the breadth of expertise and variety of experience past fellows have brought to the post.

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1.ONLINE Lecture “Consultative Mechanisms and Institutions in Late Ottoman Jeddah” by Ulrike Freitag, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, 11 July 2022, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Berlin Time

The presentation will not only engage with the question of how Ottoman reforms at the urban, provincial and imperial levels were implemented and who were the beneficiaries of these reforms, which provided for particular portions of elected members in various bodies. It will also point to less conspicuous forms of consultative and elective mechanisms.

Information and registration: https://forms.gle/A8AJDvdaQyUiG5qD8

2. HYBRID Lecture “Thinking of a Moral Economy with Ibn Khaldun” by Abdulkader Tayob (University of Cape Town); Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, 12 July 2022, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Berlin Time

The presentation deliberates on an Islamic moral economy through the work of Ibn Khaldun, the fourteenth-century historian and philosopher. It presents Ibn Khaldun’s analysis of the different ways in which individuals seek sustenance guided by practical but also moral and religious considerations.

Information and registration:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tdOihqjIoHtwdOb-eRTsbV6z5hssN87ag

3. HYBRID Lecture “Manufacturing Stability: Class and Property Contestations in an Egyptian Steel Town” by Dina Makram-Ebeid (The American University in Cairo), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, 14 July 2022, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Berlin Time

The paper looks at the life trajectories of fathers and sons working side by side on the shop floor of a steel plant and highlights how the aspirations for a good life through the preservation of family legacies became a claim for privilege consolidation that complicated class politics and gave the discourses of stability broader and more political meanings.

Information and registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsduyrrzwjGdRJxB1cWyfbbK37rPghYqQQ

4. ONLINE “Annual Graduate Colloquium in Middle Eastern, Islamic, and Ottoman Studies (MEIOS)”, George Mason University and Marmara University, 16-17 September 2022

The Colloquium welcomes papers related to the contemporary Middle East, Islamic Studies and Ottoman Studies from any historical period, including disciplinary approaches originating from history, history of arts and architecture, literature, religious studies, political science, sociology and anthropology. Graduate stu-dents will present their ongoing research to a peer audience with diverse specialties and disciplinary expertise, exchange views and perspectives.

Deadline for application: 1 August 2022. Information: https://themaydan.com/2022/06/meios2022/

5. Part Time Visiting Professor in the Humanities or Social Sciences with a Focus in Armenian Studies (1 Semester), Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University

Deadline for applications: 31 July 2022. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/06/28/part-time-visiting-professor-of-armenian-studies

6. 20 Albright Fellowships and Awards in Jerusalem 2023-2024

Fellowships are now open for students and scholars of the Near East, with research possibilities ranging from prehistory through the twenty-first century, including the fields of archaeology, assyriology, anthropology, biblical studies, art history, epigraphy, historical geography, literature, and religion. Awards are one to four months and come with a stipend and board at out the institute in the heart of Jerusalem.

Deadline for application: 15 November 2022.

Information: www.aiar.org/fellowships

7. MIAS Ibn ‘Arabi Translation Prize

Entries should be in the form of original translations of the works of Ibn ‘Arabi, either of complete minor works or of key sections or chapters from major works. Where possible, translations should be based on critically edited Arabic texts already in print. The winner will be awarded a cash prize of 3000 USD, and their translation will be published in the “Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society”.

Deadline for entries: 1 September 2022.

Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/06/27/final-call-ibn-arabi-translation-prize

8. Humanities Research Fellowships for the Study of the Arab World (1 Year), NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute, Academic Year 2023-2024

Both distinguished scholars and promising scholars are invited to apply for residential fellowships for one year. Applications are invited from scholars working in all areas of the Humanities related to the study of the Arab world, its rich literature and history, its cultural and artistic heritage, and its manifold connections with other cultures.

Deadline for applications: 3 October 2022. Information: https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/research/faculty-labs-and-projects/humanities-research-fellowship-program.html

9. Articles for Author`s Workshop and Publication on “Unusual Places of Refuge and Sanctuary” (Focus MENA Region), University of Aalborg and University of Bergen, February 2023

We seek to shed light on under-researched and under-theorized refugee itineraries, destinations, choices, and aspirations. We seek to account for and desilence knowledge on what we frame as “non-iconic” places of refuge, defined both as unexpected, “off the radar” or less attractive destinations for refuge. We call for contributions that shed light on unusual places of refuge.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 August 2022. Information: https://www.cmi.no/news/2990-call-for-papers-for-a-special-issue-on-unusual-places-of-refuge-and-sanctuary

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1.Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean

Margaret S. Graves, Alex Dika Seggerman, eds.,

Indiana University Press, 2020

To receive a 30% discount enter code SAVE30 at the IUP Website:
https://iupress.org/9780253060341/making-modernity-in-the-islamic-mediterranean/

2. Hajj: How a new Saudi-run travel agency failed western ‘guests of God’

Seán McLoughlin

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/hajj-saudi-arabia-new-online-portal-fails-western-pilgrims

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1.American Universities in the Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy

Intersections with American Interests

P Chougule

Brill, 2022

https://brill.com/view/title/63192

2. HYBRID Webinar “Oneness in Arabic Philosophy from al-Kindi to Avicenna” by Dr. Damian Janos (Université de Montréal), Göttinger Orient-Symposium, 29 June 2022, 18:15-19:30 CET

Information and registration: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/661550.html

3. Hamburg – Acting Professorship for Islamic Studies (History and Culture of the pre–Modern Middle East) (50 % W2)

The successful applicant is expected to have international research experience. The University places particular emphasis on the quality of teaching and therefore requests applicants to provide details of their teaching experience and objectives.

Deadline for application extended to 15 July 2022. Information: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=339adcedc826afdb547aa050ec77f8a61cfb28f4

4. 1 temps plein CDD (bourse doctorale) 4 ans, Programme NarraMus, UCLouvain — LIMITE: 20/07/2022

Dans le cadre du programme de recherche collectif NarraMus Writing the Self and the Other: Identity and Societal Issues in Post-Migration Literatures of Muslim Descent in French, German and Italian

Application jusqua le 20 juillet 2022. Information : https://cdn.uclouvain.be/groups/cms-editors-cismoc/Offre%20d%27emploi%20NarraMus_socioBM.pdf

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1.Call for Papers: International Journal of Latin American Religions

Special Issue: Islam and Muslim Socialities of Latin America
https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=47ba7bac54&e=f70992245e
**Renewed Deadline: September 31, 2022**
In recent decades, global Islamic studies expanded to include geographies and cultures beyond a conventional Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) core. Research in South Asia, Europe, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa widened the field’s scope, introducing fresh, critical understandings into scholarly discourses about Islam and Muslims’ lived realities across the world. Nonetheless, global Islamic studies’ scope still fails to fully incorporate marginal geographies and the study of Islam beyond the MENA remains underrepresented. This is particularly evident when it comes to Latin America.
Likewise, research on religion in Latin America has grown to appreciate the changeability and variety of religious expression in the region over the last several decades. Studies on various traditions thickened scholarly understanding of the region’s religious diversity and introduced new ways of understanding transformations in culture, society, and politics across the Americas. Still, the study of Islam and Muslim socialities in relation to this evolution remains negligible when compared to that of other traditions.
This thematic issue invites articles presenting research results from various disciplines, geographies, and historical periods — from the “long” 16th century to today — dealing with the broad theme of “Islam and Muslim socialities of Latin America.” Through case studies and original research, articles should move beyond population surveys, overviews of immigrant communities, and questions of conversion to address theoretical and methodological gaps in the respective fields of global Islam and/or Latin American religion.
* Approaches can be informed by various disciplinary (or multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary) perspectives in the social sciences and the humanities, (e.g., anthropology, economics, history, literature and cultural studies, political science, and sociology). Especially welcome are submissions dealing with questions of (post)coloniality, gender, race, interreligious encounter, precarity, resilience, transregionalism, materiality, and/or affect.
* Submissions can focus on particular countries (e.g., Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, or Argentina), regions (the Hispanopone Caribbean, Central America, etc.), or networks connecting multiple locales (e.g., Spain and Mexico, West Africa and Brazil, the broader “Muslim Atlantic”). The only requirement is that they have some bearing on Latin America as a region.
Submission Deadline: September 31, 2022
**Submission Guidelines can be found HERE (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=e11518eb93&e=f70992245e) **
Please direct questions to guest editor: Dr. Ken Chitwood (mailto:k.chitwood@fu-berlin.de?subject=IJLAR%20Special%20Issue)
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2. Open call for Assistant Editor at IJIA (voluntary position)

Founded in 2012, the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) publishes peer-reviewed articles on the urban design, architecture and landscape architecture of the historic Islamic world, encompassing the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia, but also the more recent geographies of Islam in its global dimensions. IJIA’s main emphasis is on the detailed analysis of the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of architecture, and the audience of the journal includes both practitioners and scholars. IJIA is indexed in all major scientific databases, such as the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), EBSCO, and Scopus, and is the winner of the Mohamed Makiya Prize for Architecture 2019. The journal publishes two issues per year.

The editorial team of the IJIA is seeking a visionary and energetic scholar to join us as a new Assistant Editor in August 2022. This three-year voluntary position will provide an opportunity for the editor to work with an excellent, collaborative, and vibrant team of scholars from various disciplines and research interests. Aside from regular editorial duties, such as reviewing new submissions and preparing them for publication based on IJIA guidelines, the new Assistant Editor will contribute to the preparation of special issues, host a featured Dialogues session, and promote the journal in academic venues. The IJIA editorial team will offer rigorous training for the new team member.

While no previous editorial experience is required, some work in academic writing and publishing would be a plus. We welcome junior scholars and doctoral candidates.

In order to apply, please submit a CV along with a brief statement regarding your experience and interest in joining the IJIA team to kivanckilinc@gmail.com.

Best regards,

Kıvanç Kılınç, Editor

3. AKU-ISMC: 14-15 September 2022 Short Course – Praying on the Pitch: Football, Religion and Social Identities

Information at:

https://www.aku.edu/ismc/study/Pages/short-courses.aspx

4. Western Ottomanists’ Workshop 2022 at UCLA (November 18-19 2022) – Deadline for Applications, August 1 2022 (Funding for US-based graduate students available)

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will be hosting the Western Ottomanists’ Workshop (WOW) in person on November 18-19, 2022. (Friday Saturday) Some panels will be available for Zoom participation. WOW 2022 organizers encourage interested graduate students with works in progress to apply for this workshop using this Google Form. Funding for travel and accommodation is available for US-based graduate students, with those based in the western half of the US receiving priority. Graduate applicants who need funding should follow the instructions in the form to be considered for funding.

Faculty members, instructors, adjuncts and independent scholars interested to attend should also get in touch using the Google Form; we would love to welcome you in person!

The deadline for applications and RSVPs is August 1^st 2022.

Baki Tezcan, President of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA) will be moderating the keynote panel featuring Sebouh Aslanianand Christine Philliou.

Heather Ferguson, editor of Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies (JOTSA), will be conducting a professionalization workshop about academic publishing for graduate students and early career scholars. Senior scholars will also be present to share their experiences on the review process.

WOW was founded in 2010 to bring together scholars and researchers based in the Western regions of the United States who are working to advance the study of the Ottoman Empire and its interactions with the wider world from the period of the late thirteenth century up until the early decades of the twentieth century.

Two years into this pandemic, many of us have not had a chance to meet each other in person. WOW 2022 aims to provide a space for in-person meeting, discussion, feedback, and conversation. Join us!

Please direct all queries to WOWUCLAWOW@gmail.com . Applications for WOW 2022 will only be accepted via the Google Form.

5. BRISMES 2022 Conference (4-6 July) Programme

‘Exploring and Contesting the (Re)Production of Coloniality in the Middle East: Borders, Transnationalism, and Resistance’

Is available via:

https://www.brismes.ac.uk/conference

Panels of particular interest to those interested in Shi`ism include:

1D, 4I and 6E

6. Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies (Education and Research)
University of Exeter
The post of Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies will contribute to extending the research profile of Islamic Studies at Exeter, particularly in areas related or complementary to Islamic Law, Islamic Theology and the analysis of religious texts in Arabic (and other Muslim world languages, if appropriate). The post replaces Professor Robert Gleave for the period of his three-year British Academy Wolfson Professorship.

Deadline | 17 July 2022

More information

7. Lecturer in Political Economy (Middle East specialism)
King’s College London
The Department of Political Economy invites applications for a lectureship in Political Economy, with a focus on the Middle East. We encourage applicants with an interest in any branch of political economy with this area focus, including theoretical work and/or empirical work drawing on qualitative and/or quantitative methodologies. Candidates should be able to contribute to teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Deadline | 18 July 2022

More information

8. Visiting Al-Qasimi Professor in Islamic Studies (E&R)
University of Exeter
This full-time, visiting professorship post is available from 2 January 2023 on a fixed term basis until 30 June 2023 in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. You will have an established international reputation in the field of Islamic Studies, a defined programme of research for their time as a member of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and will contribute to the activities of the Centre for the Study of Islam within the Institute.

Deadline | 18 July 2022

More information

9. CBRL 2022 Undergraduate Dissertation Prizes
Council for British Research in the Levant

UK-based heads of departments or chairs of departmental examination boards are invited to nominate one final year dissertation in the following subject areas:

Levantine archaeology or history: the CBRL Prize for a final-year undergraduate dissertation or major research paper
Contemporary Levantine studies: the CBRL Prize for a final-year undergraduate dissertation or major research paper

Where a department covers the ancient and contemporary Levant, the department may enter one nomination for each prize.

Deadline | 1 August 2022

More information

10. Call for Papers – What Does it Mean to Belong?
Annual Conference | SEPAD | 15-16 December 2022, Lancaster University
In the decade after the Arab Uprisings, the nature of political life has changed dramatically. Amidst shifting lines of inclusion and exclusion cutting across states, sects, tribes and ethnicities, critically reflecting on ideas of belonging is of paramount importance in understanding the nature of the political in the Middle East. SEPAD’s annual conference seeks to build on the existing scholarship that reflects on how particular forms of identity (sectarianism, nationalism, tribalism, ethnicity, and ideology) relate to states, society, urban life, and regional politics.

Deadline | 30 September 2022

More information

11. Sounds of Syria with the London Syrian Ensemble
Music | 15 July 2022 | Liverpool Arab Arts Festival
Alongside featured guest vocalists and songs from Arabic folk and classical repertoire, Sounds of Syria examines the new approaches and sounds created when Syrian music is composed in foreign lands, exploring themes of longing and loss, hope and new beginnings.
More information

12. 55th Seminar for Arabian Studies
Hybrid Conference | 5-7 August 2022 | International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA)
Registration is open for the 55th Seminar for Arabian Studies which will take place at the Humboldt University of Berlin. The organisers expect that the event will be both live in Berlin, and also accessible via the internet.
More information

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1.HYBRID Workshop “The Abbasid Capital at Samarra: The Current Situation and Its Research Potential”, Durham University, 27 June 2022, 13:00 – 16:00 BST

Samarra is one the largest archaeological sites in the world and the most important evidence available for the nature of Abbasid urban layout. The site also holds the answers to many important questions about the nature of Abbasid society and power. This workshop is intended to take a look at the current condition of the site and to discuss plans for future research.

Information and registration: https://hajar.hypotheses.org/300?fbclid=IwAR0xbeA5N7LNQkcBIosx4J0jK17WL6rau0P5mT3tA6mLhpfXuIX0Ma-SBr4

2. HYBRID International Conference “Epigraphy, the Qur’an, and the Religious Landscape of Arabia”, Tuebingen University, Germany, 8-10 September 2022

The conference will bring together specialists in epigraphy as well as scholars of the Qurʾān with the aim of exploring how recent epigraphic and archaeological findings and research have been changing our understanding of the Qurʾān and the Arabian religious, cultural, and political landscape.

Information and registration:

https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/evangelisch-theologische-fakultaet/lehrstuehle-und-institute/religionswissenschaft-und-judaistik/religionswissenschaft-und-judaistik/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/#c1603364

3. ONLINE Panel on “Narrative-Image Relationships: The Classical Illustration Tradition in Iranian Art History” for Conference of the “Universities Art Association of Canada”, University of Toronto, 4 November 2022

This session will encourage interdisciplinary dialogues concerning the relationship between verbal/written narratives and their visual adaptations and appropriations in the classical Iranian tradition of illustration. Ab-stracts that explore the text-image relationship in all forms of theoretical, visual, material culture are invited to problematize the current views on the art of illustration.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2022. Information:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_hFmUq_r2yXbyx4ybf_V-08xLn3vkubP/edit#heading=h.2dlolyb

4. ONLINE Annual Meeting “European Muslim Eco Lab (EMEL)”, Interdisciplinary Research Center Islam and Muslims in Europe, Sigmund Freud Private University, Vienna, 17 December 2022 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm CET

We cordially invite you to present on environmental issues in Muslim lifeworlds in the form of a scientific paper or a report: a) Europe-related • a research project, a scientific institution, or a final thesis • an organi-zation, NGO or initiative • a (popular) scientific or literary publication. b) worldwide • organizations and initia-tives of a country of your choice.

Deadline for abstract: 30 September 2022.

Information: https://www.sfu.ac.at/wp-content/uploads/Call-EMEL-2022.pdf

5. 17th Edition of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2023

In advancing Arabic literature and culture, authors, translators, researchers, publishers and institutions can submit across nine categories including Literature, Translation and Arabic Culture in Other Languages. Each winner receives a career-changing prize of AED 750,000 (165,220 GBP / 204,190 USD).

Deadline for submissions: 1 October 2022.

Information: https://www.zayedaward.ae/en/how.to.nominate.aspx

6. HYBRID Scholarship Funded “MENA Digital Summer School” for Graduate Students and Young Entrepreneurs, Age 20-40 Years, Who Care about Digital Transformation and Who Live in the MENA Region, Online Program 7-10 September 2022; in Person in Berlin 25 September – 3 October 2022

It is envisioning a MENA Digital School to educate experts on digital transformation so that they can – in the near future – understand the complexity and interactions of digitisation in the fields of technology, economy, civil society, media, and public administration.

Deadline for applications: 6 July 2022.

Information: https://www.mena-ds.com/application-2022

7. Chapters for Book on “Under the Hammer. Trafficking, Trading, and Salvaging the Middle Eastern and North African Written Heritage”, Edited by Stephane Ipert, Grigory Kessel, Sabine Schmidtke and Jack Tannous

We invite contributions that showcase the fate of individual manuscripts and written artifacts, or entire collections of such materials, that have been auctioned or otherwise sold during recent decades. Papers that ad-dress instances of forgeries of manuscripts, broken books or fragmentology are also encouraged.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2022.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10379549/under-hammer-trafficking-trading-and-salvaging-middle-eastern

8. Paid Research Articles on “Interdisciplinary Studies on Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa” for Journal “Rowaq Arabi”

This peer reviewed journal of human rights studies, is planning for a general issue that aims at providing original interdisciplinary research on a variety of topics. Relevant articles (English or Arabic) from all disci-plines of social sciences, humanities and law, which intersect with topics of human rights in the MENA region are welcome.

No deadline, however, researchers are encouraged to submit their manuscripts in the near future.

Information: https://rowaq.cihrs.org/call-for-papers-interdisciplinary-studies-on-human-rights-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/?lang=en

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1.Call for book proposals – The Ottoman Empire and the World

I.B.Tauris and the British Institute at Ankara are seeking book proposals for academic book series under new editorship and advisory board: The Ottoman Empire and the World.

Series Editor:

Christopher Markiewicz, University of Birmingham, UK

Editorial Advisory Board:

Amila Buturović, York University, Canada

Emine Fetvacı, Boston College, USA

Joshua M. White, University of Virginia, USA

Stefan Winter, The Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

For more information, or to submit a proposal, please contact:

Christopher Markiewicz, Series Editor, c.markiewicz@bham.ac.uk

Rory Gormley, Senior Commissioning Editor, rory.gormley@bloomsbury.com

2. Islamic Manuscript and Print Culture: from the Middle East to South Asia

Faculty: Nur Sobers-Khan

Description:

This course provides broad historical overview of Islamic manuscript and print culture, featuring sessions on the historical background and material context of manuscript production, the rise of typographic print and lithography in the Middle East and South Asia, as well as a critical view of 19^th-century colonial collecting practices and the formation and conceptualization of ‘special collections’ in Western institutions today vis-à-vis the Islamic world.

The course will open by setting the historical context of Islamic manuscript production, from early Quran manuscripts in the 7^th-9^th centuries, starting with the rise and development of Arabic script and also examined other forms of early written production, such as Arabic block printing from the 9^th century CE, to both decenter the focus on the birth of printing in Europe and also to explore the phenomenon of the co-existence of print techniques and large-scale scribal manuscript production in Islamic societies, a theme which recurs in the 18^th-19^th century. To provide the wider context of manuscript culture and production, students will also be introduced to the history of the formation of manuscript libraries in the Islamic world and the role they played in premodern knowledge production.

Students will be introduced to the development of Islamic courtly manuscript culture in the early modern period and the flourishing of manuscript illumination and figural illustration, as well as receive an overview of how to describe and date Islamic manuscript bindings, papers, locate colophons, seals and inscriptions, which often have a close connection to the historical libraries and courts foregrounded in the course. After a thorough exploration of manuscript production, we will turn to the rise of print in the Muslim context in the Middle East and South Asia, exploring the first experiment in typography and the role of missionary presses, then moving on to examine the technology of lithography and how it facilitated a transition from manuscript to large-scale production in the nineteenth century, with particular attention to India and Iran. The course will conclude with a discussion of colonial histories of collecting in the Middle East and South Asia, and an overview of the European and North American repositories that house large Islamic manuscript, lithograph and rare printed book collections and examine the history and provenance of a selection of these collections with an eye to providing a critical account of the history of collecting.

Requirements:

Circumstances permitting, we will use the UCLA Islamic manuscript collections in handling sessions for our course. If possible, we can include a visit to view manuscripts in LACMA’s collections as well.

Years taught: 2022

Apply!

Department of Information Studies, UCLA
232 GSEIS Building Box 951520
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520

3. The deadline for application for the LUCIS Summerschool on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World 2022 (Leiden, August 23-Sept 2) has been pushed forward to June 27. Applicants will be informed about selection before July 1. More information can be found here.

4. Online Event | Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s ‘You Have Not Yet Been Defeated’

Date: Wednesday, 22 June 2022

Time: 16:00 – 17:30 BST

Location: Online via Zoom (registration required)

Registration: www.brismes.ac.uk/events/outreach-and-pedagogy/you-have-not-yet-been-defeated

About the book

Alaa Abd El-Fattah is arguably the most high-profile political prisoner in Egypt, if not the Arab world, rising to international prominence during the revolution of 2011. A fiercely independent thinker who fuses politics and technology in powerful prose, an activist whose ideas represent a global generation which has only known struggle against a failing system, a public intellectual with the rare courage to offer personal, painful honesty, Alaa’s written voice came to symbolize much of what was fresh, inspiring and revolutionary about the uprisings that have defined the last decade. Collected here for the first time in English are a selection of his essays, social media posts and interviews from 2011 until the present. He has spent the majority of those years in prison, where many of these pieces were written. Together, they present not only a unique account from the frontline of a decade of global upheaval, but a catalogue of ideas about other futures those upheavals could yet reveal. From theories on technology and history to profound reflections on the meaning of prison, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated is a book about the importance of ideas, whatever their cost.

Chair and discussant

John Chalcraft (London School of Economics)

Speakers

Nicola Pratt (University of Warwick)
Sherif Azer (University of York)

5. The Iranian Studies Collective

Thank you for following our channel. We aim to publish videos every 3-4 weeks so we appreciate your patience and support. 🙏🏽 and hello to all our new followers, we hope you enjoy what we have here 👋🏽👋🏽 We’re a free initiative dedicated to promoting fresh and exciting scholars working on Iran. PhDs, Masters, Postdocs are very welcome. We hope to create easy to access content & videos featuring the research of these scholars. In addition, we also have videos of experts giving advice to students and scholars in the field of Iranian studies. Thank you for subscribing and for visiting our page.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNLr6AptCB6pYq_AVURoJwQ/featured

6. PhD Position in Arabic Lit and Cultural Studies at UiO

A PhD position in Arabic Literary and Cultural Studies is available at the University of Oslo. The deadline for application is 1^st of September.

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/227937/doctoral-research-fellowship-in-arabic-literature-and-or-cultural-studies

7. Residence Program in Advanced Arabic & Social Studies

Spring Semester 2023

A limited number of merit-based tuition waiver and housing support

The Language Center at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI) is pleased to announce its Spring semester 2022 – 2023 Residence Program in Advanced Arabic Language and Social Studies.

The Program is a unique forum for academic and cultural exchange between the DI’s predominantly native Arabic- speaking graduate students and faculty (from across the Arab world) from one side and their international non-native or heritage peers from the other side.

The Residence Program is offered for one semester on site in Doha. It meets the language, culture, and academic needs of advanced non-native and heritage graduate students who wish to strengthen their language and cultural skills, as well as prepare for specific challenges related to their academic areas of expertise. The Program is delivered entirely in Arabic and consists of a twin advanced language-training and academic components.

The language-training component prepares students to function professionally in Arabic and offers dedicated courses in language, translation, and content-based instruction. The program adapts to the academic needs of students as a base for linguistic and cultural acquisition, emphasizes productive and presentation skills, and develops higher levels of proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, writing, and translation.

The academic component gives fellows the opportunity to take advantage of the wide array of unique graduate-level courses the DI distinguished faculty teach in Arabic through its academic units: The School of Social Sciences and Humanities, the School of Economics, Administration and Public Policy.

The Residence Program is an important part of the DI’s mission to establish, maintain, and nurture intellectual links and two-way dialogues between its students, faculty, and the international learning and research community.

The DI aims to create an enduring legacy of intellectual innovation and education within the Arab world and beyond. It assumes and promotes the Arabic language as a tool of scientific inquiry, an official language in public discourse, and a primary language for teaching and research.

Semester Program Features:

⦁ 6 credits of intensive Arabic;

⦁ Option to audit graduate academic courses taught in Arabic if eligible;

⦁ Option to have an academic partner;

⦁ Option to a language partner;

⦁ Access to the DI rich conferences, symposia, and guest lectures.

Admission Requirements:

⦁ Advanced level in Arabic;

⦁ Tuition fees: QAR 9,000 (approximately €2,250 OR $2,465) Per semester.

⦁ Housing: QAR 11,000 (approximately €3,000 OR $2,650) Per semester.

Program Dates:

⦁ Application Deadline: July 20, 2022

⦁ Start of Classes: January 8, 2023

⦁ End of Classes: April 20, 2023

To Apply to the Doha Residence Program, click on the link below:

https://dilc.wufoo.com/forms/znatdf40sd7rqv/

8. The Afghanistan Wars

William Maley

I B Tauris, 2022

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/afghanistan-wars-9781352011005/

9. The Shahnameh, a critical edition

Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh

8-volume set

Mazda, 2022

http://www.mazdapublishers.com/book/the-shahnameh

10. Persian, Kurdish and Assyrian Periodical Press in the Ottoman Empire

The Turkish-language journal Kebikec has recently made available its 52nd issue that appeared in December 2021. This issue includes contributions on Persian, Assyrian and Kurdish periodical press in the Ottoman Empire. You can download the complete issue from the following academia link of the journal.

https://www.academia.edu/67368188/Say%C4%B1_52_Osmanl%C4%B1da_T%C3%BCrk%C3%A7e_D%C4%B1%C5%9F%C4%B1_S%C3%BCreli_Yay%C4%B1nlar_3_

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June 18, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items

1.„Berlin meets Parviz Tanavoli. Tandis Tanavoli and Dr. Gisela Fock“

Thursday, June 16th 2022 at 6:30 pm (CET)

Webex link: https://spk-berlin.webex.com/spk-berlin/onstage/g.php?MTID=e7c556401527d2dd09f9b49996e01bd9e

Language: English

The focus will be on the sculptor Parviz Tanavoli, whose work “HEECH” has been on display at the Museum for Islamic Art (Pergamon Museum) since 2020.

Parviz Tanavoli is one of Iran’s most outstanding artists alive, whose work spans over six decades now. Venturing the popular aesthetics in his native country, he bridged European style modernism, U.S. Pop art, and many more inspirations into a uniquely modern as well as recognisably Iranian art form.

By some regarded as his most outstanding series Heech iconises an elegantly curved Nastaliq script in three dimensions. Since 1964 the Farsi word that translates as “nothingness” forms one of Tanavoli’s central occupations and he processed it in painting to sculpture, as an almost hidden inclusion into other works or as grand scale stand-alone script statues.

Sitting on the Tandem-Sofa will be Tandis Tanavoli, film producer and daughter of the artist, and Dr. Gisela Fock, who did her doctorate on Parviz Tanavoli and has been studying Iranian modernism for 25 years. Prof. Dr. Stefan Weber, Director of the Museum for Islamic Art, will speak about the “HEECH” in Berlin as an introduction, followed by an insight by Tanavoli and Fock into the works and its meanings.

Registration is not required.

2. ONLINE Webinar “Making Genealogies, Creating Pasts: Shajre-nasb as an Alternative Archival Practice in Kashmir” by Idrees Kanth (Leiden University), Trinity College Dublin, 14 June 2022, 17:00-18:00 h

Shajre nasb can be described as a mapping exercise that provides a genealogical account of a particular khandan (clan). It is an old practice that has usually involved the Syed families of Kashmir who claim to have descended directly from the family of the Prophet Muhammad.

Information and registration: https://apcairogenizah.com/events .

Zoom: https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/94790996814?pwd=dk1ZQUIxdUVlRlh1VFI0U3ZkM1lWZz09

3. ONLINE Research Workshop “Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Un-easy Politics” by Carl Rommel, CDEJ, Universitè Paris 1, 15 June 2022, 4:00 pm CEST

Information and registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScDfcVJPHUElQ45E61OeZB-_r_OeZqDEKOFi5M6Zc-fASHr_w/viewform

4. ONLINE “Mediterranean Studies Virtual Symposium”, Auburn University, 17-18 June 2022

The emphasis is on women and women’s issues. There will be 24 presenters and a social hour included in the program.

Information, program and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-mediterranean-stud-ies-symposium-17-18-june-2022-zoom?e=82aeb6c61d

5. International Conference: “The Final Chapters: Twentieth Century Jewish Communities in the Muslim World. Comparative Perspectives”, Munich University, 21 – 22 June 2022

The Conference brings together scholars from Europe, the US and Israel, who work on Jewish communities in the Muslim world in the 20th century.

Deadline for registration: 17 June 2022. Information and program: https://www.jgk.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/termine/konferenz-mahla/index.html

6. Conference “Multilingualism, Translation, Transfer: Persian in the Ottoman Empire”, Gotha Research Library, 27–29 April 2023

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars with expertise in Persian and Ottoman Turkish language contacts who are interested in the fields of language, literature, and history, and to explore the role of multilingual practices – especially translation – which are an essential part of knowledge production in the respective traditions.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2022. Information: philip.bockholt@uni-leipzig.de

7. World Congress “Comparative Empire: Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation, 1750-1914”, Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, Singapore, 19-22 June 2023

We welcome proposals for papers and panels that consider forms of interimperial exchanges between empires during this period.

Deadline for abstracts of panels: 25 July 2022; for papers 1 October 2022.

Information: https://www.sgncscongress.com/

8. Panel “Perspectives of Political Islam in the MENA Region”, 5th GIS MOMM Congress, University of Lyon, 11-13 July 2023

This panel discusses the Islamists’ political professionalization in the MENA region facing the sanitary crisis, protest movements (Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria), election loss and fragmentation (Morocco, Tunisia), or polit-ical marginalization (Tunisia) and repression (Egypt), based on their interactions with social and political ac-tors and resulting public policies.

Deadline for proposals (En/Fr): 10 July 2022. Contact: anca.munteanu@univ-lyon2.fr

9. Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship (1 Year) in Arabic, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

Native or near-native fluency in English and Arabic and familiarity with a dialect are required. Experience in Arabic language instruction preferred. Possible research areas include literature, cinema, linguistics, and cultural studies.

Deadline for applications: 24 June 2022. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportuni-ties/2022/06/08/andrew-w.-mellon-postdoctoral-fellow-in-arabic

10. Croft Visiting Assistant Professor (1 Year) of Anthropology & International Studies (Focus on Contemporary Middle East & North Africa), University of Mississippi

The successful candidate will be able to teach courses with a focus on the contemporary Middle East & North Africa and have a strong commitment to teaching excellence and a pedagogy that values diversity and inclusivity. Preference is for candidates with an active program of scholarly research and language proficiency to conduct original research in Arabic.

Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/06/08/croft-visiting-assistant-professor-of-anthropology-international-studies

11. Six Scholarships for Binational Master`s Program “Middle Eastern Sociology / Anthropology & History” (MESH) at the University of Erfurt, Université Saint-Joseph (Beirut) and Université Saint-Esprit De Kaslik (Jounieh)

The one-semester study phase in Lebanon provides knowledge of the sociology / anthropology of the Middle East. It is embedded in the anthropological and global-historical study of history at the University of Erfurt. The teaching languages of the MA program are English, French and German, and special attention is also paid to the acquisition of Arabic language skills.

Deadline for applications: 15 July 2022.

Information: https://www.uni-erfurt.de/en/philosophische-fakultaet/seminare-professuren/historisches-seminar/geschichte-westasiens/mesh/call-for-scholarship-applications

12. Chapters for Edited Book on “Arts and Politics Between the Arab World and Latin America, 1920s-1970s” (Edinburg University Press)

How have artistic networks taken shape between the Arab world and Latin America? To what extent, and how, have cultural institutions and individual agents such as literary translators, poets, novelists, painters, or editors related to key political issues both in the Arab world and in Latin America? How have Arab and Latin American states themselves mobilized art and culture in their foreign policy toward each other, and for what purposes?

Deadline for announcing interest in writing a chapter: 30 June 2022.

Information: laureguirguis1205@gmail.com and eugenia.palieraki@cyu.fr

13. Open Access – Methodos 22: Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language

We are very pleased to announce publication of the latest online, open access
issue of Methodos, dedicated to “Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of
Language,” co-edited by Shahid Rahman and Walter Edward Young, with chief
editor Leone Gazziero and editorial secretary Anne Dourlens.

The issue includes an introductory essay by Rahman and Young, followed by ten articles
by authors in relevant fields—one of which includes a first-time critical
edition of an intriguing text on dialectic.

Link to the issue: https://journals.openedition.org/methodos/8605

14. St Andrews: Alternative Paths in Iranian Cultural Production 20 June 2022

(Online and in Person) 12-5pm.

12- 13: Persian Poetry

Vahid Davar: Nezami, an Equal of Kings, a Giver of the Means of Reigning

Dr Farshad Sonboldel: Verse-essay in Modern Persian Poetry: the Return of Didactic Literature

13-13.30: News Media

Mahtab Saadatmandi: A Comparative Discourse Analysis of the Persian News Bulletins of The Islamic Republic of Iran News Network (IRINN), BBC Persian and Iran International Television

13.30-14.30: Buffet Lunch

14.30-15.30: Fiction

Parviz Jahed: The Literary Style of Ebrahim Golestan’s Short Stories

Fatemeh-Mehr Khansalar: The Tale of that Distant, Foggy Landscape”: An Ecocritical Reading of Houshang Golshiri’s “Naqāsh Bāghāni” (The Painter of Bāghān)

15.45-17: Drama and Cinema

Dr Saeed Talajooy:From Mehrin Negār to Tārā: The Evolution of Female Protagonists in Bahram Beyzaie’s The Snake King (1966) and The Ballad of Tārā (1979)
Dr Nahid Ahmadian:Indigenizing Shakespeare: Revisiting Iranian theatrical forms in Seh Bāz’khāni

For Abstracts and Bios, see https://forumfortheculturalstudiesofiran.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2022-2/symposium-2022-alternative-paths-in-persian-cultural-production/

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81765628186?pwd=bkc2TllMTStuL05GcS9PbzV0bE4wdz09

Meeting ID: 817 6562 8186

Passcode: 2CF7YU

In Person Venue: 216 Buchanan Building, University of St Andrews

Further Information: Dr Saeed Talajooy (st83@st-andrews.ac.uk )

15. Journée d’étude “Dans l’objectif d’Henry Viollet. Les monuments islamiques à travers un fond d’archives inédites (1904-1913)”

Dans le cadre du projet CollEx-Persée EpiPOM (BULAC/CeRMI), nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer l’organisation de la journée d’étude qui se déroulera les 23-24 juin à l’auditorium de la BULAC (65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris) :

“Dans l’objectif d’Henry Viollet. Les monuments islamiques à travers un fonds d’archives inédites (1904-1913)“.

Retrouvez le programme complet en cliquant ici et la présentation de l’exposition-dossier organisée à la BULAC à l’occasion.

N’hésitez pas à faire circuler l’information !

En espérant avoir le plaisir de vous revoir à cette occasion,

Sandra Aube Lorain & Martina Massullo

16. BA Taster Course – The Islamic College

Considering a BA degree in Islamic Studies? Attend our taster course where you can attend taster class sessions and meet some of our staff.

BA degrees in Islamic Studies and Islamic Law
Full-time and Part-time options
Degrees validated by Middlesex University, UK
Study under eminent academics, Islamic scholars, and specialists
Be part of a vibrant, knowledgeable student community

DATE: 5th July 2022
TIME: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm (London time)
HOSTED BY: The Islamic College, London, UK, degrees validated by Middlesex University, UK

https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/study/ba-taster-course/

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June 14, 2022
by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items

1.British Institute of Persian Studies WEBINAR

Roi sur son Trône: the Achaemenid royal audience in late Qajar media

29 June 2022, 5PM BST

Lindsay Allen, Senior Lecturer in Greek and Near Eastern History at King’s College London.

For more information and to register:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7016510585756/WN_DeF8offES6C_naWNIZL4gg

2. ‘Decolonising Human Rights: Theories and Practices’: Prof. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim and Prof Noorhaidi Hasan, Monday 13 June, 2pm BST via Zoom

You are warmly invited you to a special online event ‘Decolonising Human Rights: Theories and Practices’ featuring Prof. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim (Emory University) and Prof. Noorhaidi Hasan (Indonesian InternationaI Islamic University), chaired by Alwaleed Fellow Dr Siti Sarah Muwahidah.

The event will take place online via Zoom on Monday 13th June, starting at 2pm BST.

For further information and registration, click here: https://decolonisinghumanrights.eventbrite.co.uk

With very best wishes from us all,

The Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam

in the Contemporary World

University of Edinburgh

16 George Square

Edinburgh

EH8 9LD

3. Islam and Creativity in Popular Culture (Online Short Course)

This is a three-day online course that addresses the many new expressions of mass mediated creative arts that make reference to Islam. These expressions may be motivated by a wish to express an Islamic interpretation or spirituality, but they may also be for other reasons, such as from anti-racism or critical perspectives. Muslims, as well as non-Muslims, take part in this ongoing art making process. By looking into a number of exciting and intriguing case-studies, and by combining this with the latest theoretical ideas in the field, this course aims to enable participants to individually analyse and comprehend contemporary creativity in relation to Islam.
Read and download course structure: https://fal.cn/3pm67
Course Convenor
Professor Jonas Otterbeck is a specialist on contemporary Islam. He is Head of Research at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) and the current holder of the Rasul-Walker Chair in Popular Culture in Islam. The three main topics of his research are Islamic views on music, Muslims in Europe, and contemporary Islamic ideas. Theoretically, he has worked within gender, culture, and religious studies. In August 2021, Otterbeck’s new book The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music was published by Edinburgh University Press, and his current research is on creativity and Islam.
Date and Time
12, 19 and 26 September 2022,13:30 – 16:00 London Time.
Tickets
£75 professionals | £45 students, AKU alumni and staff. Book soon: https://fal.cn/3pm65
Organiser
Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), London.
*The course will be delivered via Zoom. Readings and further details will be provided later upon registration.

4. Graduate Student Research Workshop

“New Directions in the Study of the Arab World”

March 4-8, 2023

The NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World program invites applications for its second Graduate Student Research Workshop to be hosted in spring 2023 at NYU Abu Dhabi.

The Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World program welcomes applications from international doctoral students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly discuss their Ph.D. projects related to the Arab world.

The workshop provides the opportunity for current advanced doctoral candidates who are currently in the writing stage to present, discuss, and receive valuable feedback on their research. Accepted applicants will pre-circulate an English-language chapter of their project and orally present a short overview of the project, raising questions or challenges to be discussed with the group.

Participants will read and discuss each other’s work in addition to presenting their own. NYUAD-based scholars in a variety of disciplines will offer feedback on the students’ projects and questions related to research, writing, and professional development. The workshop is also an opportunity to meet, learn from, and develop relationships with colleagues in the field.

Participants will be required to prepare a 10-minute presentation of their research project, which will be followed by 10 minutes of commentary from an assigned discussant, and a 35-minute open discussion.

Applications are encouraged for projects that range broadly across the arts, humanities, and social sciences related to the study of the Arab world, broadly defined, its rich literature and history, its cultural and artistic heritage, and its manifold connections with other cultures.

The Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World program will cover travel costs to and from Abu Dhabi, accommodation, and meals during the three-day workshop.

Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a two-page statement about the research, a one-page work plan with the projected date of completion of the degree, an abstract of the chapter that would be presented, and a letter of recommendation from the dissertation advisor. Application materials must be submitted in English.

Due to the ongoing pandemic, NYUAD reserves the right to adapt the conference format and structure and host the event online or in a hybrid format if necessary.

Conveners: Dr. Nathalie Peutz and Dr. Erin Pettigrew

Application process opens: July 2022

Application deadline: September 30, 2022

Project selection by: November 1, 2022

Applications should be submitted via our website.

5. AMEA Bi-annual Book Award 2022

The Association for Middle East Anthropology is accepting nominations for its bi-annual book award. This award is given to an anthropological work (single or co-authored, but not edited volumes) that features creative ethnographic writing, innovative data collection strategies, and sophisticated analysis. We solicit books that make significant contributions to anthropological knowledge and that advance our understanding of the complex forces that shape life in the Middle East and North Africa. Books submitted for the 2022 award must have a publication date in 2020 or 2021.

Submissions for this award should include a brief letter of nomination or self-nomination to the AMEA Book Award Chair. Please send this letter, along with a copy of the book, to each committee member. The letter and book may arrive separately (nominators/authors can contact the editorial office of their press to have books shipped directly to committee members). All submissions must be received by July 1st, 2022. Awardees will be announced at the fall 2022 meeting of MESA in Denver, CO.

Send any inquiries to the AMEA Book Award Chair, Anne Meneley: ameneley@trentu.ca.

Committee Members:

Chair, Anne Meneley:

Department of Anthropology, Trent University

Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, K9L 0G2

Second member, Angie Abdelmonem:

angie.abdelmonem@asu.edu (contact via email to receive shipping address)

Third member, Sa’ed Atshan:

Department of Anthropology, Emory University

1557 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322

https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/03/10/amea-bi-annual-book-award-2022

6. 16th Annual Muslim Studies Program Conference
Measuring Muslim Publics: Curves, Columns, Spheres and Squares
February 23-24, 2023
Michigan State University, International Center, East Lansing, MI, USA
Michigan State University is hosting an international conference entitled “Measuring Muslim Publics: Curves, Columns, Spheres and Squares.” This conference investigates who is ‘the public’ in public opinion? What effect does it have on politics? These questions have received a great deal of attention by scholars of American and European contexts where their contributions have taken on a universalistic overtone. Are these generalized assumptions valid in other societies – notably in Muslim-majority contexts? In addressing these questions, this conference aims to contribute to the interdisciplinary study of public opinion and ‘the public’ in Muslim contexts inside and outside of the Muslim world.
Previous research on public opinion and the public often falls into one of the following metaphorical categories. Survey research aggregates individual attitudes into curves measuring supplies of cultural values and of political demands. Media studies interprets the public through the writing of columns by journalists and their contemporary electronic equivalents. Social movement theories investigate the contentious social and political behavior of protest and demonstrations in city squares. Theories of public spheres investigate both the discourses that shape collective norms and the institutional settings they reside in.
Studies of public opinion from these various approaches in the Muslim world have increased in quantity and quality in recent years. However, researchers often fail to have conversations across both disciplinary boundaries and geographic scope. Area Studies specialists – of the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, or of Africa – may share interdisciplinary findings on their region of focus. Scholars within disciplines may use comparative research but without engaging with theories and methods from other fields. Moreover, with greater globalization of media and communications people hear, share (and ‘like’) content from beyond their own communities and nations. Yet, social media have also created information ‘bubbles’ while linguistic differences reflect lasting boundaries. Finally, do these theories and methods reflect imported or indigenous practices? While academic research on public opinion has been globalized in various disciplines, do the concerns of the field only reflect priorities from outside the regions they study? Thus, this conference seeks to foster a dialogue across disciplinary and geographic boundaries about research on public opinion and especially on who constitutes the public that it assumes.
Call for papers: The organizers welcome abstracts for previously unpublished research that can fall into any of these research streams about public opinion and the public in Muslim-majority contexts or Muslim contexts outside of the Muslim world. It especially encourages papers that blend them or have a comparative geographic scope. Papers that interrogate normative assumptions and methodologies in public opinion research are also encouraged. Junior scholars and post-doctoral researchers are encouraged to submit abstracts for consideration.
The deadline to apply is August 31, 2022, and accepted papers will be announced by September 30, 2022.
Click here to submit an abstract.: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5PHqGPdzJRTbfkUfUiA_XWgeLHBYdtZHZPzHCLlGVpPL7sg/viewform?usp=sf_link

7. Iranian / Persianate Subalterns in the Safavid Period: Their Role and Depiction, Recovering ’Lost Voices‘

Editor: Andrew J. Newman

Gerlach, 2022

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June 11, 2022
by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items

1.HYBRID Book Launch and Discussion “Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania” by Hansjörg Dilger, Berlin Anthropology Seminar, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Free University Berlin, 8 June 2022, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm CEST

The author explores the emerging entanglements of faith, morality, and the educational market in Dar es Salaam, thereby shedding light on processes of religious institutionalisation and their individual and collective embodiment. By analysing the politics of Christian-Muslim relations in postcolonial Tanzania, this book shows how the field of education has shaped the positions of highly diverse religious communities in diverging ways.

Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/learning-morality-inequalities-and-faith

2. ONLINE Lecture “‘Authoritarian Democracy’ and the late Ottoman Empire: State, Power, and Civil Society in the Second Constitutional Period” by Erol Ülker (Işık University, Istanbul), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Free University Berlin, 13 June 2022, 4:00 pm CEST

This lecture aims to discuss the political and ideological character of the single-party rule that prevailed in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. It addresses this topic by focusing on the formation of a corpo-ratist movement in the Second Constitutional Period (1908-1918).

Information and registration: https://hisdemab.hypotheses.org/seminarprogramme/2022-06-13-erol-ulker

3. HYBRID Webinar “Cryptocurrencies: How Will Islamic Finance and Law (fiqh) Adapt to the New Economic Paradigm?”, Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, SOAS, London, 15 June 2022, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm GMT

Information and registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cryptocurrencies-how-will-islamic-law-adapt-to-the-new-economic-paradigm-tickets-335163812987?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

4. ONLINE Symposium “The Art of Incredible: Strategies Employed by Early Arab Poets to Sur-pass the Competitors” by Dr. Maxim Yosefi, University of Göttingen, 15 June 2022, 18:15-19:45 h CEST

Early Arab poets used to describe each quality in its completeness, and each function fulfilled in the poem got infinitely close to the limit. Poets tried to be most effective in conventional descriptions of ideal beauty, perfect she-camels and absolute hospitality and pugnacity of their tribes. The art of playing with the listeners’ imagination will be in the centre of discussion.

Information: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/657724.html

Zoom Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/68191031818?pwd=Q0FiR2w4cklkTEg0OWQxRnlFajFhQT09

5. International Conference “Mediterranean Mobility between Migration and Colonialism (19th-20th Centuries)”, University of Bologna, 11-12 November 2022 Deadline for abstracts: 29 July 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-mediterranean-mobilities-between-migrations-and-colonialisms-11-12-november-bologna?e=82aeb6c61d

6. Symposium “Animals as Worshippers of God First of All. On Animal Piety in Islam”, Paris, 16-17 November 2022

This symposium aims to consider the religious figure of the animal in Islam, neither as an object of worship (an idol) nor a means of worshipping (sacrificial offering), but rather as a fully-fledged subject, a worshipper of God and a model for all worshippers.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2022. Information: https://apam.hypotheses.org/4200

7. Communications Coordinator for the Middle East Centre, LSE, London

The Centre seeks to hire a Communications Coordinator to work on all aspects of the Centre’s communi-cations, online presence (including developing a social media strategy) and designing publications. The post-holder will play a key role in regularly updating and improving the quality and reach of the Centre’s commu-nications work and impact.

Closing Date for Applications: 19 June 2022.

Information: https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/7372/0/349856/15539/communications-coordinator-mec

8. Summer Course “Romanization and Islamization in the Western Mediterranean”, Casa Árabe Córdoba, 18-22 July 2022

Experts from multiple international and national academic institutions would lead a selected group of students through the exciting history of the romanization and islamization of the Western Mediterranean over the course of a week. The courses would be taught in English.

Deadline for applications: 25 June 2022. Information: https://en.casaarabe.es/event/summer-course-romanization-andislamization-in-the-westernmediterranean

9. Summer Course “Arabic & Moroccan Arabic”, Al Minbar Institute, Rabat, 11 July – 19 August 2022

You can choose between Modern Standard Arabic or Colloquial Moroccan Arabic (Darija) or a hybrid solution.

Information: https://alminbar-institute.ma/mesana-6-weeks-july-application-form/

10. Articles on “Forces and Order. Police, Security and Surveillance in North Africa” for Journal “L` Année du Maghreb”, Research Dossier 30, Vol. II, 2023

This special issue aims to highlight sociological, anthropological and historical analyses of the various security systems: from the police institution to the more opaque surveillance mechanisms fostered by various institutionalised security professions (informers, militias, neighbourhood agents, etc.). Articles in English and French.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2022.

Information: https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/10465

11. La célébration de la naissance du Prophète (al-mawlid al-nabawī) dans les mondes musulmans et en Occident : débats, pratiques et représentations

Projet de publication proposé par Farid Bouchiba et Myriam Laakili

Axe 1. Débats doctrinaux autour du mawlid à travers l’histoire; – Axe 2. Pratiques du mawlid : une approche socio-anthropologique; – Axe 3. Productions littéraires et artistiques Propositions d’article sont à envoyer avant 1er septembre 2022, Information : https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/16764?fbclid=IwAR0z6y08ptPUf7QW1WBh7KLHv9KWePGWusVRMVbRKypSkZqPmqEjzgVkGC8

12. Articles on “Speech, Speak Out, Crisis” for First Issue of Journal “Mutations en Méditerranée (MEM)”

We submit various lines of thought ranging from the Arab uprisings to the place speech occupies in social movements. Our contemplation of this topic ranges from the hierarchy of languages to the hierarchies of discourse, to the role of scientific discussion in society and within the restitution of an interviewees or respondents spoken word within the framework of research investigation in the humanities.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2022, Information: https://somum.hypotheses.org/7810

13. Call for SAMSA Book Award and a symposium

A call for submissions for the second SAMSA Biennial Book Award and a call for abstracts for a symposium organized by the Tasavvur Collective.

The South Asian Muslim Studies Association (SAMSA) announces its second biennial SAMSA Book Award for a monograph published on the subject of South Asian Islam and Muslim societies during the calendar years of 2020 and 2021. Books from all disciplines in the Humanities and the Social Sciences will be considered. Only single-authored monographs are eligible; edited volumes, works of translation, literary fiction and short stories, or collections of poetry are not eligible. Monographs focused on all regions of South Asia (including Afghanistan) and time periods will be considered. Awards will be decided on the basis of the novelty of the book’s intervention in the field, its intellectual rigor and its clarity and quality of writing. Award recipient will be recognized at a SAMSA meeting and will be featured at a panel discussion. The award does not carry any monetary compensation. Submissions may be made by an author or by a publisher. To apply, please mail a copy of the book to Dr. Raisur Rahman, Department of History, P.O. Box 7806, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA no later than July 15, 2022. Additional copies of the monographs will be requested in due time. Applicants must also email rahmanmr@wfu.edu with the following information: book title, author email and phone contact, and publisher’s email and phone contact. Award will be announced in Spring 2023. For more information on SAMSA and a list of previous winners, click here.

The Tasavvur Collective is organizing a symposium in the summer of 2022 (provisionally August 5-6, 2022) titled ‘Writing Muslim Women in South Asia’. The symposium aims to make interventions in the monolithic discourse surrounding Muslim women by expanding on notions of self, identity, politics, agency, resistance, and much more, with particular reference to the experiences and representation of Muslim women in South Asian countries. Please send 300 word abstracts/presentation outlines including a short bio of not more than 100 words to tasavvurcollective@gmail.com. The deadline for submission of abstracts is July 1, 2022. More information can be found here.

In addition, the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies will be held in Boston, MA during March 16-19, 2022. The call for proposals is not out yet, but feel free to get in touch in due course, if you would like to propose a panel or a paper.

If you are into social media, please follow us on Twitter, thanks to our Social Media Coordinator Dr. Jaclyn Michael.

14. AMECYS Call for Papers:

Graduate Student Paper Prize

Submission deadline: August 1, 2022

The Association of Middle East Children’s and Youth Studies (AMECYS) calls graduate students engaged in the study of children and youth in the region to submit papers to the AMECYS graduate student paper prize. A cash prize of $100 will be awarded to the winner at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) of North America’s annual meeting in Denver, Colorado, U.S.A, December 1-4, 2022

Papers can be submitted in any capacity that aligns with AMECYS’ mission statement:

The AMECYS is a private, non-profit, international association for scholars with an interest in the study of children and youth in the Middle East, North Africa and their diasporic communities. Through interdisciplinary programs, publications, and services, AMECYS promotes innovative scholarship, facilitates global academic exchange, and enhances public understanding about Middle Eastern children and youth in diverse times and places.

Requirements for submission:

Papers should be original scholarship. However, papers readying for journal submission are acceptable (i.e., not yet submitted for publication or published).
No more than 7,500 words (excluding endnotes and bibliographies)
Standard font, Double-spaced, 1” margins, IJMES standards for endnotes and transliteration
AMECYS membership in good standing
Proof of registered graduate student enrolment for the 2021-2022 academic year may be requested at a later date

3 prior winners/honorable mentions of the award (Caroline Kahlenberg, Tory Brykalski, and Nada Berrada) will review all papers submitted by members of AMECYS that are received by the deadline of August 1.

Send submissions as a pdf or word doc to dylan.baun@uah.edu.

For any queries, email program chair at dylan.baun@uah.edu.

15. Zoom – The Shah’s Imperial Celebrations of 1971 Spotlighting an Author with Dr. Robert Steele

In this first comprehensive academic study of the 2500th Anniversary Celebrations, Robert Steele looks beyond the pomp and splendor to examine the events’ origins, the goals the organizers set out to achieve with them and the extent to which these goals were accomplished. The book seeks to place the Celebrations in the context of the Shah’s rise, rather than his fall, uncovering the unparalleled international cultural and scholarly operation that was spurred by the Iranian regime for the occasion, exploring the effects the event had on Iran’s tourism industry and questioning narratives of the event’s cost.

Join Dr. Robert Steele as he talks about his book “/The Shah’s Imperial Celebrations of 1971”.

Friday, 10 June, 1 pm EST

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SGXdVrrsRD-qCBj-NF7GKA

16. Video: Persia Exhibition @ Getty Museum

The Getty Museum in Los Angeles is currently displaying over 200 objects from ancient dynasties of Persia.

The exhibition has been warmly received but has had a controversial side too:

https://youtu.be/ZMov5-AVnXs

(BBC Persian coverage

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