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1.The latest Latin America & Caribbean Islamic Studies newsletter (vol 2, number 4, July 2022) can be found on the LACISA website, https://www.lacisa.org/

‘Greetings from the Southwest U.S.! As I write this letter, I am staring out into the Sonoran desert. Just back from California, I am in Arizona conducting research on themes related to immigration, dialogue across difference, and Latinx Muslim philanthropy.
As part of my research, I am finding once again how race, religion, colonial legacies, and overlapping transnational trajectories form a complex core for our research on Islam and Muslim communities in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Latinx U.S.
This edition of the LACISA Newsletter, which rounds out our second full year of publication, reflects these themes as well.
Before sharing more about what you will find on these themes in the newsletter below, I’d first like to welcome our new Associate Editor, Rahma Maccarone. Rahma is a Ph.D. candidate at Georgetown University where her research examines questions of race, identity and agency in the history and literature surrounding the narratives of enslaved Muslims in North America, South America and the Caribbean. We are immensely excited to welcome Rahma to the team. I hope you enjoy getting to know about Rahma in her letter below and in her interview with Habeeb Akande, author of Illuminating the Blackness. Her contributions to the newsletter have already been immense.
In addition to Rahma’s letter and interview with Akande, you will also find other exciting content in this edition of the LACISA Newsletter:
* a podcast episode from The Maydan (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=6b20521049&e=f70992245e) discussing how the story of “global Islam” is part and parcel to the story of Latin America and the Caribbean;
* a call for contributions (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=a2e1a7a116&e=f70992245e) to a special edition of the International Journal of Latin American Religions;
* and a call for paid presentations (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=4fc4bcb482&e=f70992245e) at a colloquium on Muslim philanthropy in Latin America and the Latinx U.S., to be held December 7-8, 2022.
In addition, we present a round-up of several news headlines relevant to our community’s research, including stories from the U.S./Mexico border, Saudi Arabia, and beyond.
I invite you to enjoy and explore all of this content and look forward to featuring some of your own contributions in the near future. Thank you, as always, for your time, consideration, and growing commitment to our network.’
Kind Regards,
Ken Chitwood
Editor-in-Chief, LACISA Newsletter

2. Iran Namag Special Issue on Sohrab Sepehri

Editor-in-chief: Professor Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi

Special issue editors: Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi and Behrooz Mahmoodi Bakhtiari

Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980) was a prominent modern poet and painter of Iran, who has had an influence on many a writer, poet, and artist after him. His main work is The Eight Books, translated into English as The Eight Books: A Complete English Translation (Brill, 2021). He has also written three essays, which his sister published posthumously in one book, entitled, The Blue Room. Sepehri is said to be a modernist poet and painter. His painting can be visualized in his poetry, and his poetry flows in his painting.

This special issue of Iran Namag is a tribute to Sohrab Sepehri, as a poet, writer, and artist. The editors seek scholarly articles on any topic related to Sohrab Sepehri’s poetry, essays, and art.

Please send your proposed title and abstracts, in Persian or English, of no more than 500 words, along with a short bio, by September 1, 2022, to Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi at pshabanijadidi@uchicago.edu and Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari at mbakhtiari@ut.ac.ir.

As a bilingual quarterly, Iran Namag accepts articles for review in Persian and English; please indicate whether your final contribution will be in English or Persian in your abstract. Authors of the chosen abstracts will be asked to submit their articles (between 4000 to 6000 words) by January 1, 2023.

Please feel free to address any inquiries you may have to the editors of this special issue, Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi at pshabanijadidi@uchicago.edu and Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari at mbakhtiari@ut.ac.ir or to the Editor-in-Chief of Iran Namag, Professor Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi at editor@irannamag.com.

3. In Memoriam – Toh Sugimura

It is with great regret that we note the passing of Prof. Toh Sugimura at the age of 88 on July 10, 2022. He was the first East Asian scholar of Islamic art and the first to discuss the cultural exchanges between Persia and China from an East Asian point of view.

He was born in Dalian, China in 1934. At the time his father Yuzo, a historian of Chinese art, was conducting research on Manchurian sites. Prof. Sugimura’s interest in Asian art and archaeology was probably nurtured by his father, who later worked for the Tokyo National Museum and Daito Bunka University and published many books on Chinese art.

After graduating from Sophia University in Tokyo, he was awarded a scholarship from the Iraqi government and studied Islamic art and archaeology at the University of Baghdad from 1959 to 1965 under the guidance of John Shapley, an art historian specializing in early Christian and Byzantine art. He obtained his MA at the University of Michigan in 1968 and continued his doctorate studies there with Oleg Grabar. His Ph.D. dissertation titled “The Chinese Impact on Certain Fifteenth-Century Persian Miniature Paintings from the Albums (Hazine Library Nos. 2153, 2154, 2160) in the Topkapi Sarayi Museum, Istanbul” was completed in 1981.

After starting his career as a curator at the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, he became an assistant professor at the National Museum of Ethnology, Suita in 1976 and a professor in 1987, soon after which the School of Cultural and Social Studies at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies was attached to the museum. Prof. Sugimura became its deputy director-general in 1996 and professor emeritus in 1997. From this year to 2005, he was a professor at Ryukoku University, Otsu.

Prof. Sugimura’s research was not limited to his famous works on Persian and Chinese paintings in the Topkapi Sarayi Museum but also included Islamic crafts such as pottery and carpets. All of his work was based on his profound understanding of the cultures of both East and West Asia. He played a central role in reaching out to the Japanese public with his knowledge of Islamic art and crafts by publishing many art books and catalogues and leading research projects. In particular, his curation of the carpet exhibition at the National Museum of Ethnology in 1994 is highly rated, and its catalogue is still regarded in Japan as the textbook of carpets even after thirty years. His enthusiasm for Islamic art, his pioneering insight into the cultural exchanges in Eurasia, as well as his kind guidance of younger Japanese scholars interested in Islamic art, will always be remembered.

(Tomoko Masuya, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo)

Selected works by Prof. Toh Sugimura:

Toh Sugimura, “Albums in the Topkapı Sarayı Museum, Istanbul,” Oriento (Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan) 14-2 (1971), pp. 93–107 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura, “The Kuan-yin with a Fish Creel (Yü-lan Kuan-yin) in the Topkapu Sarayi Museum, Istanbul,” Studies Dedicated to Professor Namio Egami on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday: Archaeology and Art History, Yamakawa Shuppansha, Tokyo, 1976, pp. 377–97 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura tr., Ernst J. Grube, Filiz Çağman, and Zeren Akalay (with photos by Banri Namikawa), Islamic Painting: Topkapı Sarayı Collection, Heibonsha, Tokyo, 1978.

Seiichi Masuda and Toh Sugimura eds., National Museums of Syria (Wonders of the World’s Museums, vol. 18), Kodansha, Tokyo, 1979 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura (with photos by Banri Namikawa), Persian Pottery in the Iran Bastan Museum, Tehran, Heibonsha, Tokyo, 1980 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura, The Encounter of Persia with China: Research into Cultural Contacts Based on Fifteenth Century Persian Pictorial Materials (Senri Ethnological Studies 18), National Museum of Ethnology, Suita, 1986.

Toh Sugimura, “Islamic Pottery in Syria, Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia,” Tsugio Mikami ed. Islamic Pottery (Ceramic Art of the World, vol. 21), Shogakukan, Tokyo, 1986, pp. 138–73 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura tr., The Islamic World (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 10), Fukutake Shoten, Tokyo, 1987.

Toh Sugimura, “Westward Development of Taoist Paintings: ‘Four Sleepers’ in Persia,” Histories and Cultures of Asian Peoples: Studies Dedicated to Professor Yoshiro Shiratori on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, Rokko Shuppan, Tokyo, 1990, pp. 205–22 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura, “Chinese Influence on Persian Paintings of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries,” in Tadao Umesao and Toh Sugimura eds., Significance of Silk Roads in the History of Human Civilizations (Senri Ethnological Studies 32), National Museum of Ethnology, Suita, 1992, pp. 135–46.

Toh Sugimura, Woven Flowers of the Silk Roads: An Introduction to the Carpet Heritage of West Asia and Central Asia, Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, 1994 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura, “East Meets West,” Minpaku Tsushin 78 (1997), pp. 5–36 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura, “Islamic Art,” Toh Sugimura editorial supervision, MIHO MUSEUM South Wing, Miho Museum, Koka, 1997, pp. 287–311, 356–59 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura ed., Islam (New History of World Art, vol. 17 of Asian Art), Shogakukan, Tokyo, 1999 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura, “Islamic and Chinese Ceramics of Central Asia,” “Central Asian Historical Sites and Ceramics” (with Tatsuo Sasaki), “Ceramics Excavated at Otrar, Kazakhstan” (with Tatsuo Sasaki), “Timurid Architecture and Decorative Tiles in Central Asia,” Islamic and Chinese Ceramics of Central Asia (Silk Roadology 7), Research Center for Silk Roadology, Nara, 1999, pp. 1–18, 46–75 [in Japanese], 151–54 [in English].

Toh Sugimura, “Dogan ve Dogancilik-Sarayi Albumlerinde Kus Resimleri,” Portakal Sanat ve Kultur Evi 23 (2001), pp. 112–23

Toh Sugimura, “Islamic and Chinese Ceramics of Central Asia in the 15th Century,” “Blue of Samarkand,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Revitalization of Traditional Ceramic Techniques in Central Asia, UNESCO. Tashkent, 2001, pp. 38–46.

Toh Sugimura, “Whence the Birds of Prey in the Imperial Ottoman Albums?,” Portakal Art and Culture Magazine (Spring–Summer 2002, issue 6), pp. 102–113.

Toh Sugimura, “Islamic Ideas of Paradise and Their Representation,” The Exchange of East-West Motifs –Invocation of Paradise– (Silk Roadology 18), Research Center for Silk Roadology, Nara, 2003, pp. 1–41 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura, “Ceramics in Islamic Art,” Toyo Toji (Oriental Ceramics) 34 (2004–2005), pp. 5–12 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura and Xu Guanghui eds., Roads of Buddha: Cultural Materials of the Silk Roads, Toho Shuppan, Osaka, 2005.

Toh Sugimura, “Introduction,” Toh Sugimura editorial supervision, The Brilliant World of Persian Carpet, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima, 2006, pp. 6–30.

Toh Sugimura, “Sanguszko Medallion-Animal Carpet,” Kokka 1363 (2009), pp. 52––55 [in Japanese with English summary].

Toh Sugimura, “Luster Bowl with Figural Design,” Kokka 1368 (2009), pp. 5–14 [in Japanese with English summary].

Toh Sugimura, “Venuses and Goddesses of the Ancient Orient,” “Female Representations in Islamic Art,” in Tadanori Yuba ed., Women and the Silk Roads: History of Artistic Exchange between the East and the West, Heibonsha, Tokyo, 2010, pp. 43–72, 125–52 [in Japanese].

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July 30, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items

1.Call for Abstracts – Neglected Voices in Premodern Sciences

from Persia to Iceland

(Routledge, “Global Perspectives on the History of Natural Philosophy”)

Most of the studies about Pre-modern European sciences have been dedicated to the role

played by a relatively small number of primary characters (Avicenna, Albert the Great,

Roger Bacon, Nicole Oresme, Nicholas of Cusa, to name but a few) who had a significant

impact on knowledge, culture and modi pensandi of the Latin West throughout and

beyond the Middle Ages. However, this presentation has led to two closely related

consequences. The first consequence is that while the works of the “main” authors tend to

be thoroughly studied and thus their ideas continuously observed and reinforced, those of

other, less known characters, have received little, if any, attention, or have simply been

forgotten, primarily when they evolved on the fringe of the mainstream. The second

consequence is that Pre-modern and Medieval science is often perceived as a monolith,

one composed, and shaped, only by a few inspired authors.

In response to this observation, this book aims to shed light on these neglected voices in

Pre-modern sciences and to give a voice even to those ‘underrated’ actors (authors,

scribes, compilers, copyists, readers, users…) who nevertheless have somehow

contributed to the formation of Medieval science. Within this perspective, the volume

addresses these issues from the point of view of both ideas and practices, which are

particularly delicate to interrogate when dealing mainly with textual material.

For this purpose, several axes (not exhaustive) have been defined:

1) Authors against the tide: This section is particularly interested in authors who, in

various ways, went against the major scientific tendencies of their time and developed

their science as “free electrons” by contrast to their contemporaries. Several cases are to

be considered: (1) authors whose scientific involvement goes against the traditional ways

of thinking by exploring original and even daring theories and practices in opposition to

what was in vogue at their time; (2) authors who evolved outside the main intellectual

centers and networks of the time. This can be due either to their geographical situation on

the periphery of the traditional radiating places in the development of sciences or because

they did not belong to any organization, institutional group or religious order promoting

the diffusion and assimilation of knowledge.

2) Actors in the “physical” margins: This point focuses on those who added scientific

contents into the “broader margins” of a Late Medieval work, i.e. in the actual margins, at

the beginning or end of a manuscript or of a codicological unit. The contributions can

analyze the authors’ identities, if they can be reconstructed, as well as the new contents

which were added (ideas, sources, relationships with the main texts, reasons for which

they were inserted, circulation…). Moreover, the texts considered can be both paratextual

additions (comments, glosses, scholia…) or actual “guest texts”.

3) Unknown actors: This point questions the role of discrete authors, almost invisible and

unknown, in the development and diffusion of Medieval knowledge. It aims to bring to

light unpreserved authors who are known only through other posterior works. Within this

perspective, one could consider both characters who left no written traces and authors

whose works have been lost and are only known by later quotes. Papers focusing on

figures evolving in an “oral culture” (for instance in the pre-Islamic context), who

provided a basis for further scientific developments, will be particularly welcome.

Similarly, the scientific contribution of teachers, whose ideas and practices were kept

through the writings of their students, deserves to be taken into account. Finally, papers

highlighting the role of oral witnesses, practitioners and merchants, who might contribute

to the transmission of knowledge by bringing empirical data taken from their daily

practice, will be highly appreciated.

4) Authors between traditions: Another line of research will be dedicated to the study of

the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge in areas outside the scientific field (art,

literature…). In the first case, this volume is interested as much in the depictions of the

figure of the experimenter or the scholar as in the artistic exploitation of the scientific

disciplines. In the second case, a particular attention will also be paid to the integration of

scientific knowledge into the literary domain. The sciences, as well as some scientific

figures, become motifs and themes with specific narrative functions. Conversely, one

might also consider the way in which scientific discourse is fed and expressed through a

literary medium.

5) Authors on the fringes of historiography: Finally, this book also wants to give a voice

to authors who received less attention despite their actual importance and significant

contribution to premodern sciences. In particular, the historiographical readings and the

appreciation of an author’s significance have been oriented, among other criteria, by their

impact on European thought. Nevertheless, this attitude tends to exclude certain

important characters from our usual research horizons. This is notably the case of authors

who were not translated into Latin during the Middle Ages and who hardly reached

European Latin scholars at that time. From this point of view, this book gives the

opportunity to reassess the original contribution of such authorities and even to reevaluate

their possible influence on later works in more indirect ways, outside the scope of the

translations.

Abstracts (250/300 words) should be sent to:

Meyssa Ben Saad (mbs.bsaad@gmail.com ), Mattia Cipriani

(mattia.cipriani80@gmail.com), Grégory Clesse (gregory.clesse@uclouvain.be ), or

Florence Ninitte (Florence.Ninitte@univ-nantes.fr ).

Contributions will be written in English.

Abstracts submission deadline: on the 30th of September 2022.

Submission deadline for the completed articles: on the 30th of April 2023.

2. Brown University – The Adrienne Minassian Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63639

Closing date: Oct 19, 2022

3. HYBRID Journée d’étude du CCMO « Être chercheur.e sur le Moyen-Orient : mission impossible ? », Collège de France, Paris, 15 septembre 2022, 9h-18h

Le CCMO réunit des enseignant.e.s-chercheur.e.s issu.e.s de différentes générations et appartenant à diverses disciplines (anthropologie, histoire, géographie, sociologie et science politique), qui ont tou.tes en commun la pratique de l’enquête de terrain comme mode principal de recueil des données et de production d’informations inédites sur et dans les sociétés du Moyen-Orient.

Information, programme et inscription: https://cerclechercheursmoyenorient.wordpress.com/2022/07/13/etre-chercheur-e-sur-le-moyen-orient-mission-impossible/

4. Panels on “Death in the Mediterranean” during the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamzoo MI, 11-13 May 2023

Papers are sought that explore how people of various classes, genders, and religious traditions grappled with death, memorialized it, sanctified it or vilified it across the Mediterranean world, and to see how Christians, Muslims, and Jews from Europe, North Africa and West Asia commemorated, avenged, feared or forestalled death, and how they imagined it in art, literature and song.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-death-in-the-mediterranean-i-ii-1113-may-kalamazoo?e=82aeb6c61d

5. International Conference “Sociohistorical and Cultural Relations in Premodern Mediterranean Societies through Literature and Folklore between the 11th and 17th Centuries”, University of Dublin, 15-16 June 2023

Themes: Relationships between Jews, Christians, and Muslims through literature (especially poetry), culture, and languages; prominent myths and prophecies of the relationships and communications between Jews, Christians, Muslims and other Mediterranean communities; popular images of interactions between minority and majority communities, particularly through literature, fragments, travels and folklore; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 September 2022.

Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-sociohistorical-and-cultural-relations-in-premodern-mediterranean-societies-15-16-june-2023-dublin?e=82aeb6c61d

6. Syrian Nationals in Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan as External Collaborators for Research on Wartime and Post-Conflict Syria, Syria Initiative of the European University Institute, Florence

Desired qualifications: • Experience in field-based research on Syria. • A track record of publications, with a focus on themes at the sub-national level. • Strong analytical skills. • Proficiency in English and Arabic.

Information: https://middleeastdirections.eu/syria-initiative-vacancy-notice-for-research-collaborators/?fbclid=IwAR1vrlorBzo43nQlpr8JV8HT7anzpmYMv0JnhkUophDhHjYfMXUrP2utNwE

7. Two Tenure-Track Positions “Islam in South Asia” and “Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies – The Late Medieval and Early Modern Islamicate World (ca. 1000-1700)”, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The position is open to all candidates who have attained a Ph.D. degree; and to advanced doctoral students who expect to be granted their Ph.D. no later than 30 June 2023. Candidates whose Hebrew proficiency is such that they would not be comfortable teaching in Hebrew will be encouraged to sufficiently master the language during the initial years following their appointment.

Deadline for applications: 11 September 2022. Information: https://en-hum.huji.ac.il/tenure-track-positions# and https://en-hum.huji.ac.il/tenure-track-positions#

8. Chapters for Edited Book on “Art and Politics between the Arab World and Latin America, 1920s – 1970s”

Three issues should be addressed: 1. Art and nationalist narratives between Latin America and the Arab World. – 2. Rethinking transnational solidarity between Latin America and the Arab World. –

Artistic practices and the formation of alternative political communities?

Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2022. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2022/06/Call-for-contributions-%E2%80%93-Art-and-politics-Arab-World-%E2%80%93-Latin-America.pdf

9. Articles on “The Future of Islamic Liberation Theology” for Special Issue of the Open-Access Journal “Religions”

This Issue is to chart out new directions in ILT. What is the current state of the field? Hitherto, what are the key contexts, problems, and thematic areas that ILT has focused on and why? How has ILT challenged dominant hermeneutical approaches and offered more inclusive reading methods? Which areas of human experience (class? race and ethnicity? disabilities? ecology?) have received less attention in ILT? Etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2022.

Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/354W74T405

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July 26, 2022
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1.AKU-ISMC: 14 and 21 October 2022 Short Course – Religious Cultural Heritage: Concepts and Issues in the Modern Middle East

This is a two-day introductory course on the theme of religious cultural heritage (RCH) in the Middle East. It aims to contextualise RCH as the living cultural heritage of its community of users. In addition, the course attempts to present RCH as a contemporary construct of its socio-political and religious context through its connections to ethnicity, gender, nationalism, as much as religion.

Read and download course structure.
Learning Objectives

– To identify religious cultural heritage as one constituent of the community’s broader cultural heritage;

– To address the challenges that religious cultural heritage faces in its cultural, religious and socio-political context;

– To examine the process of constructing relationship between people and their religious cultural heritage and its changes over time;

– To appreciate religious cultural heritage through the community’s values and their various processes of meaning making rather than the intrinsic values of the religious cultural heritage site itself.
Course Convenors

Professor Dick Douwes holds the chair of Global History at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He studied Languages and Cultures of the Middle East at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. From 1994 to 1998 he was coordinator of the programme Indonesian-Netherlands’ Cooperation in Islamic Studies (INIS) at Leiden University. From 1998 onwards, he was academic coordinator – later executive director – of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) and editor of the ISIM Newsletter/Review and ISIM Paper Series. He has published on late Ottoman history in Syria and on religious plurality in the Middle East, as well as on Muslims in Western Europe. Currently, he researches changes in shrine culture and politics in Syria and Lebanon, including the destruction of shrines.

Mohamad Meqdad is a PhD student at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His main research focuses on religious cultural heritage at times of crisis. In 2006, Mohamad received his BA in Archaeology and Museum Studies from Aleppo University, Syria. He also took part in several national and international archaeological expeditions in Syria (2002-2008), where he worked on discovering its rich cultural heritage and preserving it for future generations. In 2010, Mohamad received an MA in Muslim Cultures from the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), London, with focus on researching the display of Muslim material culture in international museums, specifically at the British Museum’s John Addis Islamic Gallery. Between 2011-2019, he was the Arabic editor, and later the acting manager, of the Muslim Civilisations Abstracts Project (MCA) at AKU-ISMC.
Date and Time

14 October (13:15 – 16:00) and 21 October (13:30 – 16:00) 2022, London Time.
Tickets and Booking

£75 professionals | £45 students, AKU alumni and staff. Book as soon as possible.
*The course will be delivered via Zoom. Readings and further details will be provided later upon registration.

*The course will not be recorded.

2. The Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies is pleased to announce that fascicle 2 of Volume XVII of the Encyclopaedia Iranica has been printed and is available to order.This installment (pp. 113-224) of Volume XVII of the EIr continues the development of letter “K” topics and covers titles starting with the entry “Khotan iii. History in the Islamic Period” and ends with “King of the Benighted.” These 112 new pages of the Encyclopædia Iranica include the conclusion of a major series of entries on Khotan and its history, language, literature, and art that began in fascicle 1 of Volume XVII. The fascicle also contains significant and up-to-date biographical entries on Moḥammad Ḵiābāni, Nur-al-Din Kiānuri, and Abbas Kiarostami; a detailed study of Ḡazāli’s Kimiā-ye Saʿādat; and reports on the archeological sites of Kilizu, Kindyktepa, and Kinet Höyük.

For the complete list of entries, please visit the Yarshater Center website at https://cfis.columbia.edu/research-projects/encyclopaedia-iranica.

For ordering information, please contact Brill Publishers.

3. Summer School of Persian Language and Iranology

PLUS Special Tour of Tehran, Kashan, Abyaneh, and Isfahan

15 August – 9 September 2022

https://avestak.com/summer-school-of-persian-language-and-iranian-studies/

4. The 3rd Intensive Academic Tour and Course in Iranian studies

University of Religions and Denominations, Qom
2 to 12 September 2022

For more information:

https://iranianstudies.urd.ac.ir/#join-us

5. Call for Applications – BJMES Assistant Editor

The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BJMES) is seeking an assistant editor who can help with the refereeing process for articles relating to the Arab world, and in particular Palestine/Israel. The successful candidate will be fluent in Arabic (knowledge of Hebrew too, is an advantage) and have a PhD. Preference will be given to applications from scholars who reside in the UK, and who are thus able to attend editorial meetings when necessary.
Please contact Lloyd Ridgeon to express interest: lloyd.ridgeon@glasgow.ac.uk. Please also send a brief CV (no more than 2 pages in length). The position comes with an annual honorarium and the successful candidate can serve for a maximum of eight years. The journal is looking to have someone in the position by the beginning of August 2022.

6. BRISMES awards:

The Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize was established jointly in 1986 by the Leigh Douglas Memorial Fund and BRISMES in memory of Dr Leigh Douglas who was killed in Beirut in 1986. The prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University in the previous calendar year.

Joint winner: Nader Andrawos (LSE)
Righting Dissent: Intellectual Critique and Human Rights in Egypt
Joint winner: Nora Jaber (Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London)
Women, International Law, and the State: A Critical Analysis of Saudi Women’s Petitions for Reform
Runner Up: Joshua Rigg (SOAS, University of London)
A Resounding No: Contentious Politics in Tunisia 2015-2019
Honourable Mention: Dena Qaddumi (University of Cambridge)
Post-Arab Spring Tunis: Materializing Revolution in the City

Congratulations to the prize winners and thank you to everyone who submitted their dissertations for consideration. Read more about the prize and the winning dissertations on the BRISMES website.

The BRISMES Early Career Development Prize was established in 2021 to support activities geared toward strengthening the academic profile and CV of an early career scholar. This year, the prize was awarded to Narges Ansari and Nur Arafeh.

Narges Ansari

From the Prize Committee: The applicant’s proposal has the potential to contribute to novel findings in both the sub-field of Iranian Studies and the larger field of political anthropology. The applicant’s research theorises subjectivity in revolutionary Iran going beyond well-established epistemological binaries such as obedience and resistance, coercion and subversion, secular and religious politics. Read more

Nur Arafeh

From the Prize Committee: The prize will sustain the applicant through one of the most arduous processes for an early career scholar: the transformation of their PhD into a book. Dr. Arafeh will expand on their doctoral thesis and conduct further interviews in Hebron on the role of local elites in the broader Palestinian business class, and wider class structures. Read more

7. Research Associate
University of Leicester
In this role you will undertake research and related administration and other activities supporting the work of a project entitled ‘Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa’ which is funded by the Arcadia Fund. Reporting to the PI (Professor D. Mattingly) and the Senior Researcher (Dr N. Sheldrick), you will be a member of a University of Leicester project group of the Endangered Archaeology project, collaborating with archaeologists at the University of Oxford and University of Durham.

Deadline | 24 July 2022

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8. Assistant Professor in Modern Arabic Studies (Fixed Term)
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Modern Arabic Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies to begin on 1 October 2022. The appointment is for 12 months in the first instance. Applicants will have the opportunity to contribute to the delivery of a stimulating programme for bright and highly-motivated students taking Arabic, Persian, Hebrew often in conjunction with a modern European language.

Deadline | 7 August 2022

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9. Research Fellow in Human Geography
University of Leeds
You will work with a team of researchers on emerging trends in refugee governance in relation to cash assistance and biometrics. Under the supervision of Co-Investigator Dr. Glenda Garelli, you will be researching cash assistance and / or digital technology and humanitarian assistance in Jordan (examples may include digital and e-wallets, debit cards, Iris scan technologies used in the provision of humanitarian aid).

Deadline | 2 September 2022

More information

10. Call for Papers – War, Gender and Displacement: The Impact of Forced Migration on Families in the Middle East and North Africa
Conference | German-Jordanian University | 9 October 2022

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to demonstrate to what extent the emergence of new understandings of gender socialisation, informed by grassroots and top-down approaches, can contribute to securing sustainable societal well-being. Exploring the changing demographics of host societies through the spread, speed and scale of refugees, this conference examines the different socio-religious, economic and legal challenges host societies in various countries in the Middle East have faced since the beginning of the 21st century. The focus of the conference lies in the changing nature of family structures and their relationships as well as gender roles influenced through and by migration processes.

Deadline | 1 September 2022

More information

11. ASPIRANTUM is organizing a Persian language winter school in Yerevan, Armenia, from December 5 till December 30, 2022.

For more details and to apply, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/persian-language-winter-school

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July 23, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items

1.WHOME Graduate Student Article Prize Call for Applications and Nominations

We are pleased to announce our annual prize for the best article about Middle Eastern history written by a female-identifying or gender non-conforming graduate student (Masters or PhD). The award aims to bring attention to the innovative scholarship women and gender non-conforming students are producing in the field. The article (not to exceed 8,000 words) can be published, under review, submitted, or in the final stages of preparation for submission to a journal. The article may be about any period in Middle Eastern history and may address any subfield in the discipline. Submissions will be evaluated on their originality, use of primary and secondary sources, argumentation, and contribution to the field. The nominee must not have been awarded a Doctorate prior to October 1, 2021.

Articles may be nominated by the author, academic advisors, professors, or journal editors; journals may nominate up to three articles. Jointly published articles are acceptable, but both authors must be graduate students; the co-author may be male. Articles that have appeared in collections will be considered but only if the articles were published for the first time in the year prior to the application deadline; reprints will not be considered. Winners will be notified in the fall and will be publicly acknowledged in an official announcement at the WHOME meeting at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting. The winning author shall also receive a $250 award.

Please encourage your students, colleagues, and peers to apply. Applications are due by 11:59 PST on August 31, 2022.

To apply or submit a nomination, click here.

Questions: contactwhome@gmail.com or t.nalbantian@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Warmly,

WHOME 2022 Prize Committee

2. CfP International Medieval Congress, Leeds (UK), 3-6 July 2023 (‘networks & entanglements’)

The IMC provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of Medieval studies, including those related to the premodern Islamicate world. Proposals on any topic are welcome, but every year the IMC also chooses a special thematic focus. In 2023 this is ‘Networks and Entanglements’ (co-ordinator Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien).

Paper proposal deadline: 31 August 2022

Session proposal deadline: 30 September 2022

Format: Coronavirus restrictions permitting, the IMC is planning to host an in-person gathering in Leeds, with virtual involvement possible for those who are unable to attend in person.

For all information, see https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2023/

3. HYBRID International Conference “Uneasy Neighbours: Conflict and Control in the Colonial City, c. 1870–1940” (Including Beirut and Fes), University of Bremen, 21-22 July 2022

The conference explores ideas, experiences, and memories of neighbours and neighbourhoods in the colonial city. It brings together historians, sociologists, and urban scholars of the Mediterranean, sub-Saharan Africa, and South East Asia to discuss new avenues in the research of living together and living apart in colonial cities.

Program and registration: https://uneasyneighbours.wordpress.com/

4. Mediterranean Seminar Fall Workshop on “The Mediterranean Origins of the West”, University of Colorado Boulder, 21-22 October 2022

We seek to explore questions relating to the role of the Islamicate world and of peoples of Africa and West Asia in the evolution of modern science, theology, art and literature; the nature and significance of political and commercial engagement between the Islamic and Christian spheres; the role of gender, class and social affiliations; and the status and role of ethnic and religious minorities in pre-Modern and Modern Mediterranean societies.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2022.

Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-mediterranean-seminar-fall-2022-workshop-the-mediterranean-origins-of-the-west-21-22-october-boulder-925968

5. ONLINE Congress on “Gender Studies: Appearances of Violence”, Karadeniz Technical University etc., 16-18 November 2022

The Congress aims to provide a forum for researchers, academics, practitioners, students, and educators to discuss issues linked to gender studies from a violence perspective. Theoretical, empirical, conceptual, experimental, descriptive, and constructive studies focusing on gender are invited to highlight the issues, challenges, and opportunities that have developed as a result of the violence.

Deadline for abstracts: 16 September 2022.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10481263/online-congress-gender-studies-cgs22-appearances-violence

6. Fellowship Program (2 Years) for Early Career Scholars from Algeria, Libya, Morocco, or Tunisia for Research on “The Maghrib from the Peripheries: Property, Natural Resources, and Social Actors in North Africa”

The fellowships from the “Council of American Overseas Research Centers / Carnegie Corporation of New York” are designed to serve scholars who are currently enrolled in a PhD program or who completed their PhD in the past ten years.

Deadline for applications: 22 July 2022. Information:

https://www.caorc.org/post/call-for-applications-critical-research-and-scholarship-in-north-africa

7. Assistant Professor of History and Judaic Studies, Brown University, Providence RI

The primary focus should be on the Islamic World and Jewish-Muslim relations in any period prior to the First World War. The department places a high priority on research excellence, high-quality teaching, and a commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive academic community.

Deadline for applications: 3 October 2022. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/108842

8. Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants (Max Weber Foundation) to Academics in the Qualification Phase with an International Focus (Including Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Turkey etc.)

Applications may be filed by highly qualified humanities and social science academics of any nationality (with at least a M.A.) who have already published and can present a research plan. The total term of funding shall not exceed three months.

Deadline for applications: 7 October 2022.

Information: https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/foerderung/feldman-travel-grants.html

9. Chapters on Languages Spoken and Taught in the Ottoman Empire for Edited Book on “Ottoman Minorities, Their Languages, and the World” (Bloomsbury)

Articles are invited on trade, culture, education, religion, and tourism as reasons for which these languages were spoken and they were taught, explaining the peculiarities of these languages, differentiating from previous studies on them; for instance, journal articles, recipes, folkloristic tests, exhibitions, auctions, etc. may be analyzed from global perspectives.

Deadline for abstracts: 29 July 2022.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10485434/call-chapters-languages-spoken-and-taught-ottoman-empire

10. Call for articles: The Crusades: Historiography, Settlements, People and Roads (11-14th Centuries)

Chapters are sought for a collection of essays entitled, “The Crusades: Historiography, Settlements, People and Roads (11-14th Centuries)”

Topics: The origin of the idea of crusade; Crusades historiography: eastern and western sources; Battles: The Crusades of 1096-1291; Alliances and Conflicts; Settlements: Crusader States (County of Edessa, Principality of Antioch, County of Tripoli, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Kingdom of Cyprus); Roads: Crusades army route: sea and land roads from Clermont to Jerusalem; Byzantine Empire, Constantinople and the crusades.

Deadline for abstracts: 3 October 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/call-for-articles-the-crusades-historiography-settlements-people-and-roads-11-14th-centuries?e=82aeb6c61d

11. Chapters for Edited Book on “Migration Narratives in the Global Mediterranean (1450–1850)”

Main themes: Migration as a result of religious dissent and lack of a toleration towards religious diversity; Migration as a result of contested political positions, actions of political opposition, or state of war in the country of origin; Migration as a result of environmental conditions; Methodological reflections that elaborate the concept of migrant agency in a historical and long-term perspective.

Deadline for abstracts: 2 September 2022. Information: https://ithacahorizon.eu/event/call-for-papers-migration-narratives-in-the-global-mediterranean-1450-1850/

12. La célébration de la naissance du Prophète (al-mawlid al-nabawī) dans les mondes musulmans et en Occident : débats, pratiques et representations (Special issue of REMMM)

Proposed by Farid Bouchiba and 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.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2022.

Information: https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/16764#tocto1n3

13. Exilium Revista de Estudos da contemporaneidade / Journal of Contemporary Studies of the Edward Saïd Chair, at Federal University of São Paulo – Brazil, is inviting submissions for unpublished articles on Orientalism, especially involving History, Literature and Culture of Africa and Asia of Portuguese language and culture or in connection with them.
For more information, including information for authors and the submission process, please see the journal’s website.

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July 19, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items

1.Call for papers: What is the European Qur’ān?

ERC EuQu, Nantes, 11-12 May 2023

(deadline for the submission of proposals: 30 September 2022)

The Nantes Université researchers of the ERC project EuQu – The European Qur’ān are pleased to announce the organisation of a conference devoted to the problem of defining the nature of the Qur’ān in Europe in the 12^th-19^th centuries.

How did medieval and modern Europeans perceive what the Qur’ān is? What definitions did they give, and what definitions underlie the representations they developed? How did they conceive the Qur’ān in relation to what was familiar to them and to their concerns? In what ways did they grasp, define and represent its different facets over the centuries? Participants will be invited to reflect on these questions through the study of lexicographical, encyclopaedic, technical, literary and scholarly works, as well as theatrical pieces and artistic representations.

For more info:

https://euqu.eu/2022/07/12/call-for-papers-what-is-the-european-quran/

2.دنياى سخن = Dunyā-yi sukhan

Nos. 10-95 ; 1366-1380 (1987-2001)
Published: Tihrān : Shams al-Dīn Ṣawlatī Dihkurdī, 1986-2001
ISSN 1606-5840

3. Seminar: Travellers in Ottoman Lands: The Balkans, Anatolia and Beyond

Wednesday, August 24, 2022 9:00 AM
Friday, August 26, 2022 1:00 PM

Faculty of Islamic Studies of the University of Sarajevo 54 Ćemerlina Sarajevo, Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine, 71000 Bosnia & Herzegovina

Full details at:

https://www.astene.org.uk/current-events/travellers-in-ottoman-lands

4. I B Tauris

Browse Open Access Books by Subject:

https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/search?newSearchRecord=&browse=&product=bloomsburyOpenAccess

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July 16, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items

1.“15th International Congress of Ottoman Social and Economic History (ICOSEH)”, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 11-15 July 2022

The program is available: https://iaoseh.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/icoseh-zagreb-program-online.pdf

2. ONLINE Lecture on “Islamic Medical Manuscripts in the National Library of Israel Collections” by Samuel Thrope (Curator, Islam and Middle East Collection, National Library of Israel), 14 July 2022, 11:00 am ET

The Islam and Middle East Collection contains nearly 2500 Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts dating from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries. Among these are numerous rare and important copies of works that attest to the history of Islamic medicine. The Lecture will focus on rare and unique manuscripts that can shed light on the NLM’s own collection, which is among the best in the world.

Information and registration: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=44389

3. Conference “Beyond Cultural Identities – The Jew of Polyphony, Relationality and Translation in Muslim Contexts”, IZEA, University Halle-Wittenberg, 18-20 July 2022

Information and program:

https://www.izea.uni-halle.de/veranstaltungen/detail/beyond_cultural_identities_.html

4. HYBRID Sessions on “Eco-Imagination towards a Sustainable Future. Perspectives from Philosophies in Islam and Asia” during the “66th International Congress of Phenomenology”, Milan, 27-29 October 2022

Contributions are invited on the following topics: – Eco-imagination in Islamic Philosophies and Occidental Phenomenology. – Self-Knowledge and alterity. – Oneness in cross-cultural dialogue. – Symbiotics in the understanding of everything-there-is-alive. – Sustainable future(s) in Islamic and Asian philosophies; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2022. Information: http://phenomenology.org/

5. Rencontres de la sociologie francophone de l’Association internationale des sociologues de langue française (AISLF): « De la circulation des concepts ou comment mieux éclairer nos sociétés (arabes!)? », Sfax, Tunisie, 24 – 28 octobre 2022

Les sessions du GT04 « Sociétés arabes en mouvement » souhaitent lier les questions épistémiques posées par la production de la connaissance en sciences sociales, en particulier en sociologie, à celles posées par la circulation des concepts. Comment une réflexivité soucieuse des apports des contextes locaux conditionnent les possibilités d’échange et d’enrichissement disciplinaire ?

Ouvert jusqu’au 31 juillet 2022. Information: https://www.aislf.org/gt04-circulation-des-concepts

6. International Conference on “Memory and Identity in North Africa”, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco, 22-24 December 2022

We seek papers that draw on Memory Studies to reflect on issues related to identity, history, historiography, commemoration, remembrance, and changing conceptions of the self and the collective in North Africa. We ask how much memory is present in the North African spheres? How have memories of the past in North Africa been appropriated for the sake of a more flexible public sphere? Who are the memory stakeholders? How do they mobilize memory?

Extended deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10460827/memory-and-identity-north-africa-new-abstract-submission

7. Post-doctoral Fellowships for Excellent Researchers in Humanities, Cultural Studies and Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen (6 Months)

The fellowships are open to researches with a completed PhD and up to six years of postdoctoral experience. Duration 1 April 2023 until 30 September 2023.

Deadline for applications: 31 August 2022. Information: https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/thyssen-april23-1.pdf ; https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/call-international-fellowships-vi.pdf

8. CHARGÉE DE MISSION (CHERCHEUSE) / CHARGÉ DE MISSION(CHERCHEUR) – INSTITUT FRANÇAIS DU PROCHE-ORIENT (IFPO) –ANTENNE DE JÉRUSALEM – ISRAËL / TERRITOIRES PALESTINIENS Le chercheur aura pour mission de mettre en place et de piloter, à partir des Territoires palestiniens, un pôle de recherche en islamologie au sein de cet institut de recherche à vocation régionale (Liban, Jordanie, Irak, Territoires palestiniens) placé sous la tutelle du ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères (MEAE) du ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (MESR) et du CNRS.

Limit: 31/08/2022. Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2022/07/Fiche-de-Poste_0003007141_01-12-2022.pdf

9. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship / Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California

Qualifications: Applicants should have expertise in Islam, with some training in Religious Studies; they should hold a Ph.D. by the time of appointment; evidence of excellence in undergraduate teaching (whether as primary instructor or teaching assistant); the potential for an active research agenda; fluency in relevant research languages; etc.

Deadline for applications: 15 September 2022.

Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63558

10. Lecturer in Middle Eastern History, Norwich University, Vermont

Requirements: While a strong commitment to undergraduate teaching is essential, Norwich University is committed to junior faculty developing scholarship through a supportive faculty development program. A Ph.D. is strongly preferred, though strong A.B.D. candidates will be considered.

Application as soon as possible. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63544

11. Autumn School on “Coercion, Slavery, and Relations of Dependency in the Islamicate World”, Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Bonn University, 31 October – 4 November 2022

The Autumn School aims at Master-level and PhD researchers. It will feature four keynote speakers, Serena Tolino (Bern), Ehud Toledano (Tel Aviv), Sebastian Sons (Bonn), and Paolo Gaibazzi (Bayreuth). The keynote lectures will focus on the question of coerced labour in the Islamicate world in historical and contemporary perspective.

Deadline for abstracts and registration: 1 September 2022. Information: https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/news/events/autumn-school-nisis

12. 1 Candidatures pour l`Académie doctorale “Horizons de Renouvellement des Ètudes Arabes (HoREA)” HoRÉA est un programme de formation et d`accompagnement interdisciplinaire et interuniversitaire destiné à des doctorantes et doctorants de toutes disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales dont le travail porte sur les mondes arabes et implique und maitrise avancée de la langue arabe, acquise ou en cours d`acquistion.

Candidatures jusqu`au 18 juillet 2022. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/68491

13. Candidatures pour des bourses de recherche en islamologie MASTER 2 (3 mois)

L’octroi d’une bourse de mobilité devra permettre aux étudiant/es d’accomplir un travail de terrain de recherche en islamologie en étant accueilli/es dans une UMIFRE (ou instituts partenaires du programme). La discipline « islamologie » est entendue au sens large et pourra intégrer les axes suivants : – Analyse, sciences et critique des textes et des doctrines. – Etude historique de l’Islam. – Etude et analyse du fait religieux musulman dans les sociétés contemporaines.

Les dossiers de candidatures sont à envoyer avant le 01/09/22. Information: http://cedej-eg.org/index.php/2022/07/07/umifre-appel-a-candidatures-pour-des-bourses-de-recherche-en-islamologie-master/

14. Critical Pakistan Studies to be published by Cambridge University Press from 2023

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is pleased to announce that starting in January 2023, we will publish a new interdisciplinary journal, Critical Pakistan Studies. The journal is a joint launch between CUP and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS); the University of Exeter South Asia Centre, UK; and Le Centre d ‘Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS), France; and thus, expects to become a major force in a significant and growing field of research. Critical Pakistan Studies will also benefit from the strength of the existing CUP Asian Studies journals list and books program, with its strong focus on South Asia and the diaspora.

Critical Pakistan Studies will publish primary source interpretive social science and humanities research that, in addition to Pakistan and Pakistanis, tackle broader interdisciplinary issues (e.g., colonialism, nationalism, integration, marginalization, devotion, institutionalization, vernacularism, cosmopolitanism, development, environment, popular culture, diaspora, gender, representation, and others). The journal’s interdisciplinary approach will push beyond the nation-state, security, Islam, extremism, and other topics that narrowly define the study of Pakistan. It will analyze, discuss, and seek to understand the varied and multilayered contexts that constitute Pakistan and its people (both past and present and in South Asia and the wider world).
Its global editorial board represents and supports the publication of scholarship on Pakistan and the diaspora originating within Pakistan itself, as well as throughout Europe, North America, and elsewhere in Asia.
The journal’s editorial collective of Kamran Asdar Ali, Michel Boivin, Matthew A. Cook, and Amina Yaqin assert that, “Until recently, Pakistan Studies was a small interdisciplinary research area. However, this is no longer the case and t here is no international journal devoted to the study of Pakistan. Critical Pakistan Studies will fill this gap and be the flagship publication in its field of study.”
Ann Avouris, Cambridge University Press’ Head of Journals, North America, said, “The Press looks forward to working with the partnered institutions and the editorial team in this exciting new launch. We are particularly keen to bring new authors and readers to our program from Pakistan itself.”
Learn more about this field-leading Gold Open Access journal at cambridge.org/CPS.

15. Mu’tazilism and the Qur’an Conference

22 July 2022, Aga Khan Centre (London) and Online

Full information at: https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/mutazilism-and-quran-conference/?utm_source=D0722&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=AN

16. New publication on smartphone use and ageing in the Middle East

We would like to draw your attention to the publication of the Arabic translation of ‘The Global Smartphone: Beyond a youth technology’, an open access eBook which presents a series of original perspectives deriving from the Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing (ASSA) project. A multisited research project led by Prof. Daniel Miller at UCL Anthropology.

The book is based on simultaneous 16-months of research in 11 countries around the world. A key ethnography in the book was a joint project between Laila Abed Rabho, a Palestinian researcher, and Maya de Vries, an Israeli academic. Dar al-Hawa is a Palestinian community of around 13,000, which is today a neighbourhood in al-Quds. Prior to annexation by Israel, it was a village between the old city of Jerusalem and Bethlehem. This location remains very present in the daily lives of people, influencing their relationship to various bureaucracies and to digital and health services. Laila and Maya focused upon the local seniors’ club at the community centre and conducted many interviews and conversations both at the community centre and in people’s homes. Maya also taught a course on smartphone use. It is available as a free download from UCL Press.

Arabic: الهاتف الذكي العالمي: ما وراء تكنولوجيا الشباب
English: The Global Smartphone: Beyond a youth technology

We believe it is very important, where we can, to ensure the availability of our research findings to people whose first language is not English and we would be grateful if you can spread news of this publication to any networks you are aware of. For example, those who might find this useful for teaching purposes.

Best wishes,
Alex Clegg

Research Assistant, Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing (ASSA)
Twitter: @ASSAUCL | Instagram: @assa.ucl | Facebook: @ASSAUCL

17. Call for Nominations: The Best Article Award in Kurdish Studies

This award, sponsored by Kurdish Political Studies Program at the University of Central Florida, recognizes the best article in Kurdish Studies by a rising scholar during the previous calendar year. For this award cycle, articles published in 2021 will be considered. All articles published in English language peer-reviewed journals addressing questions and covering issues related to Kurdish politics, broadly defined, will be considered for the award. The award is open to all disciplines under social sciences and humanities. The primary author of the article needs to be an untenured scholar (graduate student, post-doc, independent scholar, assistant professor or equivalent) at the time of the publication. The award comes with a prize of $800. The awardee will be announced by November 2022.

An electronic copy of the nominated article should be sent to kurdish@ucf.edu. Self-nominations are welcome. Deadline for nominations: September 2, 2022.

Award Committee:

Michiel Leezenberg, University of Amsterdam
Zozan Pehlivan, University of Minnesota
Güneş Murat Tezcür, University of Central Florida

18. Baylor University – Lecturer, History

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63592

Deadline: Oct 1, 2022

19. FLAME University – Assistant /Associate & Professor – History

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63543

Deadline: Nov 27, 2022

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July 12, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items

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.

Shii News – Academic Items

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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July 05, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items

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

Shii News – Academic Items

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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