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1.ONLINE Talk: “Kings and Heroes, Lovers and Poets: the Shahnameh’s Continuous Appeal” by Prof. Charles Melville (British Institute of Persian Studies), Iran Heritage Foundation, London, 12 May 2021, 5:30 pm GMT
The Shahnameh, or Book of Kings, is arguably Iran’s most famous work of literature and one of the world’s greatest epic poems. It recounts tales of legendary kings and heroes, compiled from more ancient legends and was completed by Ferdowsi (d.1020) over a thousand years ago, yet it still has an enduring appeal to Iranians, and non-Iranians, around the world.
Information and registration: www.iranheritage.org/12052021
2. ONLINE Seminar: “Answering the Five “W”s of Kuwaiti Democracy” by Dr Tahani Al Terkait (Kuwait), Webinar Series “Bridging the Gulf”, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 14 May 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm SGT
From the reign of a shrewd desert warrior to the Iraqi invasion in 1990, how has the nature of Kuwaiti leadership changed? How harmonious have the cabinet and the parliament been since the beginning of their coex-istence? This webinar will also provide an overview of Kuwait’s balanced foreign policy.
Information and registraton: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/bridging-the-gulf/
3. ONLINE ASTENE Postgraduate Research Competition of the “Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East”, 15 May 2021, 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm CET
This competition is intended to reward the most promising and engaging research in the interdisciplinary and cross-period fields of Near Eastern studies and travel history. Nine finalists will present a 20-minute paper at this virtual day of research, debate and networking.
Information, program and registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/astene-postgraduate-research-competition-tickets-145051596229
4. ONLINE International Conference: “New Political Generations in the Arab World”, Working Group “Monde arabe en mouvement” of the “Association internationale des sociologues de langue française”, 16 May 2021
The conference will gather academics working on new political generation(s) in the Arab world. Its aim is to critically assess the construction of “political generation” in studies related to the Arab world. The conference is trilingual (Arabic, English and French).
Information: https://sites.google.com/view/newarabpoliticalgeneration/home
5. 5th Conference of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS): “Interrogating the Social Sciences in the Vortex of Crises: Waves of Discontent and Demands for Change”, Beirut, 3-5 September 2021
The conference is organized around the following four major axes: Inequality and Resistance; The State and Risk Society; Infrastructure and Survival; Global, Regional and National Ecologies.
Information: http://www.theacss.org/pages/fifth-conference
6. Workshop for Young Scholars: “DAVO-Werkstattgespräche” during the “27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO)”, University of Osnabrück, 16−18 September 2021
Young scholars have the opportunity to present their research studies in progress (Master thesis or PhD) in German or English. Since the general idea of the workshop is not to present finished works, young scholars are explicitly invited to contribute their projects in an early conception or implementation stage.
Deadline for applications: 15 June 2021.
Information: https://www.iit.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/events/27th_international_davo_congress/workshop_for_young_scholars.html
7. ONLINE & HYBRID Conference: “21th Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS 2021)”, Ohio State University, Columbus, 14-17 October 2021; Pre-Conference Workshops 13-14 October 2021
We invite submissions relating to all aspects of humanities and social science scholarship. The geographic domain of Central Eurasia encompasses Central Asia, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, the Black Sea region etc.
Deadline for abstracts extended until 17 May 2021.
Information: https://www.centraleurasia.org/conferences/annual/
8. Articles on “Constituting Archives in the Middle East Yesterday and Today: Legitimacy, Materiality, Temporality” for Special Issue of the Journal “Bulletin d’études orientales” (BEO 69)
In this issue the editors Pauline Koetschet, Falestin Naïli, Najla Nakhlé-Cerruti and Candice Raymond would like to bring together contributions from various disciplines (history, literature, anthropology, etc.) and from different periods.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2021.
Information: https://www.ifporient.org/beo-69-call-en/
9. Chapters for Edited Book on “South Asian Migration to Gulf: Issues, Perspectives and Opportunities”
The focus of the book will be on fixing the gap between the best possible policies for migrants, after under-standing the ground realities and challenges of migrants.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2021.
Information: https://grfdt.com/Upload/Event/7176_Invitation_to_contribute_a_chapter_to_th.pdf
10. Publications for Book Series “Critical, Connected Histories (Focus Middle East)” from Leiden University Press
The series seeks to explore unfamiliar social, cultural, and political issues that connect people of Asia, the Middle-East, Africa, Americas, and Europe in the modern age (since 1700). In addition to manuscripts we also accept edited volumes.
11. Proposals for a New Academic Book Series: “I.B.Tauris Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Persian Literature”
The temporal scope of the series is circa 850-1850. The geographical range is the full expanse of the Persianate world, from Anatolia and the Caucasus in the west, through Iran and Afghanistan, to Central and South Asia in the east.
12. The British Library :
The many names of the General Treaty with the Arab Tribes of the Persian Gulf
13. Online – Workshop: European Visions of the Qur’ān in the Middle Ages (9th-15th centuries)
20-21 May 2021
Nantes, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Ange Guépin
5 allée Jacques Berque, 44021 Nantes Cedex 1
Simone Veil Amphitheatre
For the programme and to register for Zoom, see:
14. Iranzamin Exhibition Talk Series – DE-TERRITORIALISING ISLAMIC ART HISTORY
Speaker: Dr. Mahroo Moosavi
In this talk Dr Mahroo Moosavi will speak about de-territorialising Islamic art history. The talk will question the habits of thought in the study of Islamic art history, especially in Persianate arts, by working between different forms of artistic production. It proposes an alternate way of discussing art history, allowing the encounter, rather than the effect of the modern act of ‘labelling’ of art, to guide the analysis and produce nuanced understandings that are informed by socio-cultural and religious discourses. This new type of engagement between different forms of art addresses a particular inadequacy in contemporary accounts of Islamic Persianate art, that is evident in the way that most Islamic art museums work, which are reductive of the complexities of this art.
Date: 15 May 2021
Time: 2.30pm – 3.30pm (Sydney Time)
Duration: 60 minutes
Zoom link:
https://zoom.us/j/94170635964…
Passcode: 335207
- May 11, 2021
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2021).
https://www.hackettpublishing.com/muslim-sources-of-the-crusader-period-4415
2. Call for Chapters: The Historicity of Democracy in the Arab and Muslim worlds
In the framework of the HISDEMAB research project on the historicity of democracy in the Arab and Muslim worlds, funded by the Leibniz-Association, original chapters are welcome for a collective book edited by Nora Lafi (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin). The volume will integrate work from historians of political systems, historians of ideas, historians focusing on social and cultural history, urban historians or specialists of the historical anthropology and anthropology of decision-making processes. The main objective of the volume is to deliver an up-to-date interpretation of the phenomena of negotiation, deliberation, representation, debate, consensus-building, election, designation, expression of ideas and opinions or construction of forms of public spheres in the Arab and Muslim worlds from the Middle-Ages to contemporary times. Within the historiographical context of studies having critically challenged the inertia of forms of orientalism and new-orientalism in debates on democracy in the region, the volume, in spite of only discussing the ability or not of societies to accomodate democratic institutions and practices, will deliberately focus on the study of such societies for themselves and of political forms that were inherent to them. The aim is to track, explore and interpret, on the basis of original sources (archives, manuscripts) practices that existed in the broader region without reducing them to only echoes or imports. Paradigms of circulation of ideas are of course important in this posture too but what will also be under study in this volume is the diversity of local societies and the complex solutions of governance they historically developed.
Chapters may cover the following themes. Alternative ideas are also welcome.
- Deliberation, representation, power and legitimacy in Medieval Islam (both theory and practice, with an attention to the inertia and transformation of previous practices)
- Systems of election, designation, negotiation and decision in the Medieval Islamic world as well as in the Ottoman Empire at the scale of confessional communities (Jewish, Christian and others), professional organisations, urban institutions, rural communities, nomadic or semi-nomadic communities
- Forms of female civic participation
- Expressions of civic life (debate, opinion, participation, opposition…) and practices of consensus-building
- Ottoman experiences of institutional reform of representation and of elective systems at both the local and imperial levels
- Representation, deliberation, decision-making and elections under colonial occupation
- The notion of democracy in the relationship with its various layers of historicity at the times of struggles for independence and during phases of national-building.
- Interpreting democratic oppositions and recent experiments, as well as their repression, in the framework of debates on the historicity of democracy in the region
- The question of the access to archival resources in relation to debates on and practices of democracy
The authors will be invited to present their chapter in a workshop in Berlin in March 2022 (travel and accommodation costs covered).
Nora Lafi is the editor or co-editor of 6 collective books: Municipalités méditerranéennes, K. Schwarz, 2005; The City in the Ottoman Empire, Routledge, 2011; Urban Governance under the Ottomans, Routledge, 2014; Silvestre de Sacy: le projet européen d’une science orientaliste, Le Cerf, 2015; Urban Violence in the Middle East, Berghahn, 2015; Understanding the City through its Margins, Routledge, 2018. She also guest edited several thematic issues of peer-reviewed journals and published extensively on the subject of the civic dimension of governance in the Ottoman empire. She presently serves as Senior Research Fellow with Leibniz-ZMO in Berlin and is HISDEMAB project-leader.
Abstract deadline: July 9, 2021. Notification of acceptance: July 16, 2021. Paper deadline: January 15, 2022. Workshop in Berlin: March 2022. Revised Paper Deadline: June 30, 2022.
Please note that due to the present pandemic and to the limited duration of the funding, deadlines must be respected.
Please email your submission to: Nora.Lafi@zmo.de
3. Arab Law Quarterly, Special Issue:
‘Islamic Finance and Contemporary Challenges’,
edited by M. Kabir Hassan
Volume 35 (2021): Issue 1-2 (Nov 2020)
https://brill.com/view/journals/alq/35/1-2/alq.35.issue-1-2.xml
4. 14 May 2021 Event: Interrupted and Restricted: Digital Humanities and Ethics in a Time of Crisis – Zoom
Aga Khan Library
This panel seeks to address not only the forward facing aspects of digital humanities (DH), ensuring access to researchers, students, and scholars, but also takes a step back to question the ethics and implications of what is disseminated via the virtual vis-à-vis human rights.
Register: https://aku-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qduispjkjGNYwvUw1p97r9pWi4hr-Gvc-
5. Indian Ocean Studies Conference 12-13 November 2021
At the Western Australian Maritime Museum and Sheridan Institute of
Higher Education, Perth, Western Australia
Call for Presenters
Sheridan Institute, in partnership with the Western Australian Maritime
Museum and the Australian Association for Maritime History (AAMH),
wishes to announce its biennial Indian Ocean Studies Conference. The
theme of this year’s conference is Change and Continuity in an Age of
Uncertainty.
We welcome individual presentations as well as panels from researchers,
scholars, policy-makers, and students on the following sub-themes:
Maritime history and trade
Education and communities
Faith and culture
Disease and disease control
Environmental studies
Defence and strategic studies
The deadline for abstract/panel submissions is 28 May 2021. Please send
your abstract to jesler@sheridan.edu.au, or via the conference website
page: https://sheridanicon.weebly.com/abstract-submission.html .
For further details, please see the conference website:
https://sheridanicon.weebly.com/
Contact Info:
Dr Joshua Esler, Sheridan Institute of Higher Education, Perth, Western
Australia
Email: jesler@sheridan.edu.au
URL: https://sheridanicon.weebly.com/
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Session: “Listening to Women in the MENA Region Before and After the Arab Spring”, Foundation Maison des sciences de l’homme, 25 May 2021, 5:00 pm CET
This conversation will focus on gender-based oppression and violence directed toward women as fundamental elements of social structures that promote state-sanctioned violence, sectarian violence, and social violence. Speakers: Nadje Al-Ali, Saha Farhat, Ahlem Bousserwel.
Information and registration: https://www.ipev-fmsh.org/event/listening-to-women-in-the-mena-region-before-and-after-the-arab-spring/
2. ONLINE Session: “Arab Uprisings: The Evolution of Arab Society”, Foundation Maison des sciences de l’homme, 1 June 2021, 5:00 pm CET
The panel will investigate how Arab youth are responding to the increasing social polarization that eventuated post the Arab revolts. They will explore the MENA region’s trajectory into a new decade by studying strategies and tools employed by youth to bridge ideological gaps, resolve religious and ethnic tensions, and formulate a new social contract.
Information and registration: https://www.ipev-fmsh.org/event/arab-uprisings-the-evolution-of-arab-society/
3. 20th ISA World Congress of Sociology on “Resurgent Authoritarianism: Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies”, Melbourne, Australia, 24-30 July 2022
This World Congress of Sociology will focus on how sociologists worldwide can (and do) contribute to the understanding of the resurgent authoritarianism and analyze the new entanglements of religions, politics, and economies. It will also focus on how sociologists engage (physically and critically) in the formidable social movements we are witnessing today in different parts of the world and in a renascent civil society.
Information: https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress
4. “34. Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT) / 34th German Oriental Congress” Combined with the “28th International Congress of the German Middle Eastern Studies Association (DAVO)”, Free University Berlin, 12-17 September 2022
The DOT has been organised by the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG) since 1921 and takes place all 3-5 years. The 34th DOT marks the 100th anniversary. The 28th International Congress of DAVO is held under the umbrella of the DOT. The languages of the conference are German and English, papers in other languages are possible after consultation with the heads of the individual sections.
Deadline for panel proposals: 1 October 2021. Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2021. Information: https://dot2022.de/en/call-for-papers/
5. Lecturer for Persian Literature (1 Year), University of Oxford
You will have a doctorate in Persian Literature, a proven ability to give lectures and classes to undergraduate students in the field of Persian Literature, fluency in literary Persian and the ability to teach texts in the original (premodern and modern, poetry and prose).
Application deadline: 11 June 2021. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/04/29/departmental-lecturer-persian-literature
6. PhD Studentship: Egyptian-South African Relations in the Global Cold War, SOAS University of London
Requirements: The PhD will commence in October 2021. The student will spend at least three months each at the AARC, and at archives in South Africa. Fluency in Arabic, a capacity to travel freely in Africa, and a first-class degree in Politics/History are essential.
Deadline for application: 7 May 2021. Information: https://www.chase.ac.uk/cdas/egyptian-south-african-relations
7. PhD Studentship (3 Year) on “Transnational Solidarity in the Global Cold War: Egyptian-South African Relations” at SOAS/Birkbeck, London
The studentship will support interdisciplinary (Politics and History) research examining the dynamics of transnational solidarity as exemplified in Egypt’s role as sponsor of South African liberation movements during the 1960s. Requirements: Fluency in Arabic, a capacity to travel freely in Africa, and a first-class degree in Politics/History are essential.
Deadline for application: 7 May 2021. Information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CFC202/phd-studentship-transnational-solidarity-in-the-global-cold-war-egyptian-south-african-relations
8. The Study of Islam and Muslims in the shadow of the “War on Terror”: Complexity, Reflexivity and Decolonising Methodologies
This conference, taking place on Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th June 2021, aims to explore how the Decolonising the Curriculum Movement (DCM) at British Universities could enable research and teaching staff to tackle and transcend the aforementioned dynamics present in the study of Muslims and Islam within any discipline in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In so doing, it invites academics to critically explore the politics of engaging in research and teaching on Islam/Muslims at British universities through an exercise of self-reflection on their own research and teaching practises. It also aims to reflect more broadly on the political implications/limitations of producing knowledge about Islam/Muslims in the current socio-political context that differentially in(ex)cludes Muslim voices.
https://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/alwaleed/study-of-islam-and-muslims
Registration
This online conference is free to attend but registration is essential. Click here to register.
9. Discussion Forum on Divine Scriptures(DFDS)
Series of meetings (Spring 2021)
- Wednesday May 19th, 4 pm(Tehran zone): The semantics of Qur’anic Language: al-Akhira, Dr. Ghassan El Masri, Bavarian Research Center for Inter-religious Discourses (BaFID)
- Wednesday May 26th, 4 pm(Tehran zone):purity in the Qur’an and its Biblical subtext, Prof. Gabriel Said Reynolds,University of Notre Dame
- Wednesday June 2th, 4 pm(Tehran zone): Discursive and social psychological readings of al-Taqāwul التقاول between Noah and his people in the Qur’anic text, Dr. abdelmadjid BENHABIB, University of Tlemcen, Algeria
- Wednesday June 9th, 4 pm(Tehran zone): Figurative and Metaphorical approach as way to interpreting the Islamic text, Dr. Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi, University of Tehran.
- Wednesday June 16th, 4 pm(Tehran zone): Interfaith dialogue and the divine texts, Dr. Sarah Markiewicz, Humboldt University of Berlin.
Find more information and primary registration via:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jdwlm06JIjOKMMvK3ppPzn
6. Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds, edited by Evanthia Baboula and Lesley Jessop (Brill).
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. The BRAIS 2021 Online Series will be returning for our third panel entitled ‘Modern Islamic Movements’ on Monday 3 May.
Full details are below. To attend this and all other panels in the series for free, please register here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2021/brais-2021-online-series-registration.
Modern Islamic Movements
Monday 3 May, 2pm BST
- Dietrich Reetz (BGSMCS, Free University of Berlin) Amir or Shura: How to lead a global missionary movement of Islam like the Tablighi Jama’at
- Sara Tonsy (CHERPA, Institut d’Etudes Politique-Aix) An Alternative Political Economy in Egypt: the case of the Muslim Brotherhood
- Fabian Spengler (Tel Aviv University) The Limited Appeal of Salafiyya and Wasatiyya for Muslims in Europe
For further information about the series, including the full programme, click here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2021
2. Open- Access book –
Brill, 2021
3. Lecturer (Education) in Middle East and Global Affairs
King’s College London – Global Institutes, School of Global Affairs
Closes: 23.5.21
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CFP204/lecturer-education-in-middle-east-and-global-affairs
4. Language and Nature in South Arabia: online workshop series
May 4, 15:00 BST
The workshop on 4th May features Leonid Kogan, HSE University, Moscow, who will discuss his recent lexicographic research on Soqotra from a comparative-historical dimension.
- Leonid Kogan – Recent Lexicographic Research on Soqotri, with an emphasis on the comparative historical dimension.
5. LOVA network – Harassment in the field: Reflections on safety and vulnerability during fieldwork
Webinar | LOVA Network
The LOVA network of engaged feminist anthropologists has scheduled a two-part non-prep webinar to reflect on the impact of (sexual) harassment and intimidation in the field, both for us as ethnographers and for the practice of ethnography.
Webinar – Harassment in the field: Reflections on safety and vulnerability during fieldwork
- 27 May 2021, 2PM-5PM
- 28 May 2021, 2PM-4:30PM
You can sign up at safety@lova.network until 20 May 2021, including your name, a short (2-3 sentences) motivation, and whether you would like to attend session 1, session 2, or both.
6. Qur’ans from Morocco to Malaysia: Manuscript Studies from the Frontiers of the Islamic World
These webinars will be held via Zoom by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies on selected Tuesdays at 5pm BST in May and June 2021. Please register online here. All welcome!
18 May: ‘Untold stories of Maghribī Qurʾans (12th-14th centuries)’, Dr Umberto Bongianino, University of Oxford
1 June: ‘Worlding the Qur’an: A corpus of 18th-19th century Illuminated Qur’an manuscripts from coastal East Africa’, Dr Zulfikar Hirji, York University, Toronto
8 June: ‘The Sulawesi diaspora floral style of Qur’an illumination’, Dr Annabel Teh Gallop, British Library
15 June: ‘The Qur’ans of Harar: An Ethiopian manuscript tradition’, Dr Sana Mirza, Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Washington DC
7. “Umm as-Surab (north-eastern Jordan): Settlement Dynamics in the Islamic periods. New data from Building Archaeology” by Piero Gilento (CNRS UMR 7041 ArScAn – Ifpo) – May 6th
https://www.ifporient.org/archaeology-mena/
- May 01, 2021
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Embroidery of Central Asia, Iranian Plateau and the Indian Subcontinent
I B Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2021
2. Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” organisé par le CeRMI, qui aura lieu le jeudi 6 mai 2021 de17h à19h en visioconférence (lien de connexion ci-après).
Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Maria Szuppe (directrice de recherche, CNRS, CeRMI / UMR 8041), pour une conférence intitulée :
Grandes familles locales et leurs réseaux d’influence dans le monde iranien oriental : le cas des khwājas de Barnābād (Hérat) aux XVe-XVIIIe siècles
ID de réunion : 983 2581 4324
Code secret : 854249
3. BIPS (British Institute of Persian Studies) invites applications for Research and Travel Grant Awards.
BIPS Research and Travel Grant Awards are to assist scholars wishing to pursue research in the area of arts, humanities and social science research, relating to the Persianate world, particularly Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Transcaucasia, Iraq, the Persian Gulf littoral and South Asia. Subject areas include, but are not limited to: Art, Anthropology, Archaeology, Classics, Cultural Studies, History, Language, Literature, Politics, Religious Studies, and Sociology. Scholars who apply must be attached to a UK Higher Educational Institution (university, museum or similar).
Most of the grant funds are set aside for collaborative research projects and we are currently seeking to attract applications from scholars under three “umbrella” programmes:
- Objects of Empire: Imperial Elites and Material Cultures of Ancient Iran
- Persianisation and Persianate Cosmopolises
- Iran and the International in the Modern Period
For more information and to download the application form, visit our Grants page.
Deadline for submitting applications: 14th May 2021
4. ONLINE Panel: “Digital Forays in Middle Eastern Studies: Lightning Talks from Junior Scholars”, Kevorkian Center, New York University, 29 April 2021, 12:30 pm EST
What does it look like to think, engage, and do research in this digital age? In this panel, seven PhD/MA Candidates, junior faculty, and independent scholars will present projects that are pushing the norms, boundaries, and forms of Middle Eastern Scholarship through adopting new tools, methods, and modes of dissemination.
Information and registration: https://as.nyu.edu/neareaststudies/events/spring-202011/digital-forays–lightning-talks-from-junior-scholars1.html
5. ONLINE Lecture: “Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans: Mouradgea d’Ohsson and His Masterpiece “Tableau général de l’Empire othoman” by Carter V. Findley (Ohio State University), Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative, New York University, 14 May 2021, 12:30 pm EST
This was the most authoritative work ever yet published on Islam and the Ottomans. Profusely illustrated with 233 engravings, the work also offered the century’s richest collection of visual imagery on the Ottomans and opened deep insights into the processes and politics of illustrated book production in this period.
Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqdO-vrjotHNOA4QnEdSVrmISPCIpClcMq
6. ONLINE “54th Seminar for Arabian Studies”, Organized by the International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA), 2-4 and 9-11 July 2021 BST
The seminar is in collaboration with “Casa Árabe” which will host a special session and a keynote lecture on 9 July 2021 tht are free of charge.
Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/026f5d0c9dec/54th-seminar-for-arabian-studies-programme-and-registration?e=18cf0337f7
7. 3rd International Süleymaniye Symposium: “The “Köprülü Era” (1656-1710) in Ottoman History: New Sources, New Approaches”, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 24-26 September 2021
The Köprülü family has profoundly shaped Ottoman history. Many new sources, recent articles, books, dissertations, and projects have opened new frontiers while also expanding on the existing assumptions and approaches about the period.
Abstract submission deadline: 31 May 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/7575183/call-papers-3rd-international-s%C3%BCleymaniye-symposium-24-26
8. Post-Doctorate Researcher (Arabic Poetry in the Cairo Genizah: History of Literacy and Education), University of Dublin (3 Yeaars)
Qualification: PhD in a relevant field; Proven research skills in Arabic/Islamic Literary History, Arabic literature or Medieval/Premodern Islamic History; Research skills in medieval / premodern history and / or literature; Knowledge of Arabic language and literature; Ability to translate Arabic poetry into English.
Deadline for applications: 14 May 2021. Information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CFJ702/research-fellow-post-doctorate-researcher-arabic-poetry-in-the-cairo-genizah-history-of-literacy-and-education?uuid=da54c787-a184-11eb-a3a3-064da8edb92a&campaign=jbew20210420&source=jbe
9. Coordinator for “Anti-Muslim Racism Working Group”, European Coalition of Cities against Racism (ECCAR)
Candidate requirements: Experience of working across multiple departments and teams; Degree in Social Science / Political Science; Academic writing skills in English; Fluent proficiency in written and spoken English. Duration: 8 months (starting date: as soon as possible). Part time 30% based on TV-L 11 (German public service salary scale).
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2021. Information: https://www.eccar.info/en/news/eccar-hiring-new-coordinator-anti-muslim-racism-working-group
10. ONLINE or IN-CLASS: “Ottoman Turkish Summer School”: Intensive Instruction in Ottoman Turkish for International Students and Professionals, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 5 July – 27 August 2021
The summer school is designed to comprise co-curricular and extra-curricular activities such as seminars by top scholars on Turkish history, politics, literature, and art; cultural events, and, field trips to historical sites and archives.
Deadline for applications: 29 May 2021. Information: https://oss.ihu.edu.tr/languages-program/
11. ONLINE Summer School “In Search of the Reader: New Approaches to Practices, Functions and Histories of Reading in Arabic Literature, Arts, Media and Culture”, Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA), 16-20 August 2021
The summer school provides PhD students and postdocs of Arabic literary studies from European and Arab universities the opportunity to present their own research in an international academic context, to discuss innovative approaches readers and reading pracices, and to practice the respective foreign language (Eng-lish or Arabic).
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2021. Information: http://arabic-philologies.de/en/online2021.html
12. ONLINE Summer Language Program in Arabic and Persian, University of Maryland
Classes are available for all levels, from complete beginners up to advanced speakers. The program is open to all.
Information: http://www.globalprofessionals.umd.edu/summer-language-institute
13. Articles on “Public Space, Publicness and Social Transformations” for Special Issue of “Egypte Monde Arabe”
This call for papers argues that public spaces and publicness are engines for a better understanding of current socio-spatial and multifaceted overall transformations, namely questioning how both the massive protest events that occurred in the region between 2011 and 2018 and their aftermath but also the growin g commodification and privatization of spaces have modified the understanding, practices, and politics of public spaces?
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2021. Information: http://cedej-eg.org/index.php/2021/03/10/call-for-papers-egypte-monde-arabe-30th-of-april-2021/
14. Articles on “Public Space, Publicness and Social Transformations” for Special Issue of “Egypte Monde Arabe”
This call for papers argues that public spaces and publicness are engines for a better understanding of current socio-spatial and multifaceted overall transformations, namely questioning how both the massive protest events that occurred in the region between 2011 and 2018 and their aftermath but also the growin g commodification and privatization of spaces have modified the understanding, practices, and politics of public spaces?
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2021. Information: http://cedej-eg.org/index.php/2021/03/10/call-for-papers-egypte-monde-arabe-30th-of-april-2021/
15. Articles for “Nazhruna: Islamic Education Journal”
Editors invite academicians to contribute his thoughts either in the form of research results, in-depth study, and book reviews in accordance with the discipline owned. The script is original, has not been published in other media. The manuscripts are preferably from research results and written in either English or Arabic.
Information: https://e-journal.ikhac.ac.id/index.php/NAZHRUNA
16. Chapters for Edited Book on “South Asian Migration to Gulf: Issues, Perspectives and Opportunities”
The focus of the book will be on fixing the gap between the best possible policies for migrants, after understanding the ground realities and challenges of migrants.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2021. Information: https://grfdt.com/Upload/Event/7176_Invitation_to_contribute_a_chapter_to_th.pdf
17. Events on Islam and the Middle East this week in and around Cambridge (all times are UK time):
Tue 27 Apr
5:00pm – 6:30pm – “Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire”
( SherAli Tareen (Franklin & Marshall College))
Wed 28 Apr
2:00pm – 3:00pm – Music and Islamic Literary Heritage
(Davesh Soneji (University of Pennsylvania) and Richard Williams (SOAS))
Thu 29 Apr
6:00pm – 7:00pm – The power of geography. Ten maps that reveal the future of our world
(Tim Marshall)
Fri 30 Apr
1:00pm – 2:00pm – “Jaina Temple Architecture of Coastal Karnataka: Climatic Dependencies and Artistic Freedoms”
(Julia A. B. Hegewald,)
5:00pm – 6:30pm – The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad
(Hamid Dabashi)
- April 27, 2021
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1.5th IDHN Conference on Thursday, May 6, 2021. Please find the full program of the conference as a pdf attachment here. Our program also contains information about the conference’s schedule in different time zones.
Session 1 (10:00 am to 12:00 noon EDT)
Sofya A. Ragozina (Russian Academy of Sciences): Virtual Space of Russian Muslims During Pandemics: What Can We Learn on Building Muslim Identity through Digital Ethnography?
Abdullah al-Saleh (University of Leeds): Quranic Verses Semantic Relatedness Using AraBERT
Yusuf Celik (Utrecht University): Footprinter: an online environment for comparatively tracing Qur’an citations in fifty-five works of substantial law
Session 2 (12:30 pm to 2:30 pm EDT)
Ashley Sanders Garcia (University of California, Los Angeles): Uncovering Women’s Socio-Political Roles in Ottoman Algeria: Mining, Mapping, and Measuring the Relationships of Named and Unnamed Entities
Richard Nielson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): The Rise and Impact of Muslim Women Preaching Online
Yasmin Amin (University of Exeter): Waving the Mantle of the Prophet: The Journey of Umm Salama’s Narration of Ḥadīth al-kisāʾ over Six Centuries
To attend this online conference, please register as a member at https://idhn.org/contact/, or email registration@idhn.org to request guest access. We look forward to your attendance at our conference.
2. Introduction to Arabo-Islamic Manuscript Culture is an Intensive Course organized by Qatar National Library and the Chair of Islamic History and Culture, University of Tübingen, Germany. 21-23.6.2021
https://events.qnl.qa/event/jeB91/EN
At the heart of this introductory course are manuscripts and the knowledge they contain. The course consists of six open lectures and three closed practical sessions, taking students on an exploration of Islamic intellectual heritage from its origins to the modern era.
The lectures begin by tracing fundamental perspectives of heritage, along with related terms, concepts and disciplines dealing with manuscripts. After a survey of writing materials and formats, we will focus on the Arabo-Islamic manuscript tradition, outlining its textual and physical aspects. We will also discuss the cultural history of the Qur’an and Hadith documentation and authorship, as well as issues in the history of reading, learning and the transmission of knowledge, the role of libraries, the book trade, and the preparation of editions.
In this course, we follow the dynamic life cycle of the manuscript and the text, starting from the origin of the work (authorship) and its manifestations and textual relations, through the production of the manuscript(s), until the reception of both in the past and present, considering the social and cultural contexts.
By the end of the course, you will have the basic knowledge and context to better understand the intellectual and social contexts of Arabo-Islamic books and deal with manuscripts in Arabic language and script.
The course will be delivered by Mahmoud Zaki, Manuscript Librarian at Qatar National Library, and Regula Forster, Professor of Islamic History and Culture at the University of Tübingen, with Juliane Müller, Research Associate at the Department of Oriental and Islamic Studies of the University of Tübingen, as a guest lecturer.
The course is taught in both Arabic and English, with simultaneous interpretation. Q&As and participation in sessions can be in either Arabic or English.registration and more information : https://events.qnl.qa/event/jeB91/EN
- April 24, 2021
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1.Armenian School of Languages and Cultures – ASPIRANTUM organizes an “Introduction to the Iranian languages” online course. The 2 weeks online school will start on June 21, 2021, and will last till July 2, 2021.
This 2 weeks online school will be organized on working days each week (5 days each week, 10 days during two weeks) and will include 25 hours of intensive teaching (2.5 hours during each day).
To apply and for more details please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/introduction-to-iranian-languages
2. Teaching with Manuscripts: Material, Digital, and Collaborative Pedagogies
A 40-minute presentation followed by 50 minutes of Q&A scheduled for Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 4:30–6:00 p.m. ET, via Zoom.
Owing to Zoom’s restrictions, this event is limited to the first 300 people who register. The event will be recorded and made available for later viewing on the RBS YouTube channel.
This panel, sponsored by Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB), brings together four short, practical papers about teaching medieval, early modern, and eighteenth-century European and Islamic manuscripts through hands-on, digital, and collaborative approaches. Panelists will address issues related to teaching manuscript studies in graduate and undergraduate literature and art history courses, including paleography, editing, computational methods, and the physical analysis of manuscripts. Some of the hands-on and digital methods presented in these papers respond to COVID-19 disruptions of in-person teaching, while others reflect projects that were specifically designed for collaboration at a distance. All papers address the needs of students or curricula at the institutions where panelists teach. Some speakers are also participating in collaborative projects that involve faculty, librarian, undergraduate student, and graduate student researchers at multiple institutions. Together, these papers speak to the work of teaching with manuscripts in the classroom, on the screen, and through collaborative projects that share the work of humanities research and critical bibliography beyond the university.
Everyone is welcome to attend. To ensure the security of the event, advance registration is required; to register, click here.
3. ONLINE Seminar: “Christian-Muslim Diplomacy – Gestures and Words: European Ambassadors and the Mamluk Sultanate” by Dr Alessandro Rizzo (University of Liège) and Prof. Jo Van Steenbergen (Ghent University), Society for the Medieval Maditerranean, 20 April 2021, 7 pm CET
The webinar will focus on the letter of instructions delivered to the first Florentine ambassadors sent to Cairo in 1422, which will be examined in a comparative perspective in relation to other analogous documents.
Information and registration: https://www.societymedievalmediterranean.com/news/2021/4/9/christian-muslim-diplomacy-gestures-and-words-european-ambassadors-and-the-mamluk-sultanate
4. ONLINE Seminar: “The Erotics of Revolution: An Outline of Emotions in the 2011 and 2019 Uprisings” by Mohammed Bamyeh (University of Pittsburgh), Chair: Cilja Harders (Freie Universität Berlin), Europe in the Middle East (EUME) Forum Transregional Studies, 21 April 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm CET
The large amount of record now available on the movements of 2011 and 2019 demonstrate that one aspect of that mobilization involved pleasure,This talk presents an outline of an evolving project on the role of pleasure in revolutionary movements, and proposes to situate the question of pleasure at the center of studies of revolutionary processes.
Information and registration https://www.eume-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/kalender/details/the-erotics-of-revolution-an-outline-of-emotions-in-the-2011-and-2019-uprisings.html
5. ONLINE Vernissage: “Annemarie Schimmel: Woman Scholar, Linguistic Genius, Poetess and Genial Friend to Many”, Museum of Religions, Marburg, 21 April 2021, 6:00 pm CET
This special exhibition will honor the life of the internationally renowned Islamic and religious studies scholar Annemarie Schimmel (1922-2003).
Information and registration: https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/relsamm/sammlung/sonderausstellungen/annamarie-schimmel/annemarie-schimmel-wissenschaftlerin-sprachgenie-dichterin-und-freundesammlerin
6. ONLINE Workshop: “Ottoman Empire and Global Modernism(s)”, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at NYU (OTS-NYU), 23 April 2021, 12:30 pm EST
This panel will explore key figures and works that prompt new ways of understanding the status of the Ottoman state and society within the discussion of globalism and its renderings in the last two centuries of the empire.
Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvf–gqTopHdW94kk5Hg-B1WpNzySrvZ2p
7. ONLINE Seminar: “Politics, Energy, and Opposition in the Gulf: What You Need to Know” by Dr Jessie Moritz (Australian National University), Webinar Series “Bridging the Gulf”, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 23 April 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm SGT
The Gulf is changing. Oil prices are low and that is placing fiscal pressure on Gulf governments. A new generation of royals have come to power, disrupting the status quo. Islamist movements have been more active since the Arab Spring protests in 2011 and Gulf governments are deeply divided over how to respond.
Information and registraton: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/bridging-the-gulf/
8. ONLINE Workshop: “Religious Minorities, Sacred Space and Heritage in Transition in the Middle East”, Central European University and Institute for the Study of Religions, Leipzig University, 23-24 April 2021, 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm CET
Sacred space contributed to the formation and preservation of group identity and communal memory, especially among religious minorities who may have had only limited capacity of publicly expressing/affirming their religious heritage. Some sacred space may be shared between different religious groups, often leading to syncretic practices and creating an intricate network of social ties.
Information and registration: https://events.ceu.edu/2021-04-23/religious-minorities-sacred-space-and-heritage-transition-middle-east
9. ONLINE Seminar: “Religious Responses to Covid-19 in Media and Politics: Muslim, Jewish and Christian Experiences”, University of Copenhagen, 26 and 27 April 2021, 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm CET
The seminar’s ten papers provide an insight and highlight the role of religious communities and authorities in the interpretation and handling of Covid-19. The papers cover different religions around the world, such as Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism. The seminar contributes with perspectives on how states and faith communities have approached, mediated, and tried to control the linking of religious and health science issues.
Program and registration: https://ccrs.ku.dk/calendar/2021/religious-responses-to-covid-19-in-media-and-politics/
10. ONLINE Workshop: “Discoursing Sectarianism: Patterns, Trajectories and Identities from 1979 Onwards”, SEPAD, Lancaster University, 30 June 2021, 12:00 pm GMT
We welcome contributions that trace discourse/s of sectarianism by their own and explore the process of their production and articulation irrespective of their end-goals or final functionality. More specifically, we are interested in the ‘global meanings’ such as topics, themes and perspectives under which sectarianism is framed as an ‘interpretive schemata’ or ‘organizing principle’ where we can relate, compare and contrast meanings of the concept in different contexts.
Deadline for abstracts: 7 May 2021. Information and registration: https://www.sepad.org.uk/event/call-for-papers-discoursing-sectarianism-patterns-trajectories-and-identities-from-1979-onwards
11. ONLINE Workshop: “Sects and the City II”, SEPAD, Lancaster University, 26 July 2021, 12:00 pm GMT
The workshop reflects on the urban and spatial dimensions of the protesters in the re-imagining of identities across the contemporary Middle East. We are particularly interested in papers that reflect on sectarianism and urban politics in Kuwait, Syria, Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Deadline for abstracts extended until 30 April 2021.
Information and registration: https://www.sepad.org.uk/event/call-for-papers-sects-and-the-city-ii
12. Seven Panels at the “27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO)”, Institute for Islamic Theology, University of Osnabrück, 16-18 September 2021
1) Online Databases Instead of History Books? Potentials of Digital Humanities Data-bases in Historical Research on the MENA Region and Ottoman World
2) The Formation of the Concepts of Secularity/Secularism in the Arab/Islamicate Worlds
3) New Perspectives on Sufism, Modern Sunni Reform Thinking and Activism
4) Methodological Approaches to the Study of Muslim Traditions
5) The Qurʾān and its Cultural and Religious Context in Late Antiquity
6) Authoritarianisms in Search of Consolidation and Challenges to the Liberal Order: Remilitarisations, Dynamics of Adaptations and Political Phobias
7) Palestine in Post- and Decolonial Contexts
Please send your paper proposals with title and abstract (about 250 words) to the organiser of the of the specific panel until 15 May 2021. Abstracts of the panels and further information:
13. Annual Conference: “The Age of Populism”, Arab American University in Palestine Ramallah, 23-24 October 2021
Scholars are invited to engage, theorize and contextualize the different ways to understand “populism” in Arab countries and other parts of the world as a concept of analysis and reexamine the term itself and evaluate whether the use of the term should be revisited.
Deadline for abstracts in English or Arabic: 2 May 2021. Information: https://pcrsc.aaup.edu/Conferences/2021-Annual-Conference
14. Panel on “American Muslims” at the Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SMALA 93), Atlanta, 4-6 November 2021
This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, jazz musicians, punks, hip hop artists, filmmakers, and visual artists. Papers are invited that explore the diverse compositions of Muslim American identities in cultural texts as they challenge and engage with the canonical codes and sociopolitical norms of national, theoretical, literary, and aesthetic spaces.
Deadline for abstracts: 18 June 2021. Information: https://samla.memberclicks.net/callsforpapers#americanstudies
15. Associate Professorship in the History and Politics of Iran, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
You should have received a doctorate in the modern history and/or politics of Iran, by 1 September 2021. The successful candidate will demonstrate: research achievement at an international level appropriate to the stage of their career, the skills and commitment to contribute effectively to teaching, supervision and academic administration in the School, and fluency in the Persian language.
Deadline for applications: 21 May 2021. Information: https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=10&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=150478
16. Joint International Master Program (2 Years) on “Comparative and Middle East Politics and Society (CMEPS)”, University of Tübingen and American University in Cairo
Due to its unique profile, the program provides in-depth knowledge of the political and societal developments in the Middle East as well as analytical tools for understanding this region’s complex dynamics and challenges.
Deadline for applications: 15 May 2021. Information: https://cmeps.eu
- April 20, 2021
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1.ONLINE Research and Training Workshop / Atelier de recherche et de formation
Reading Sources in Area Studies
Contribution of biographical data for the social and cultural history
of Turko-Iranian societies (9th-18th c.)
Lire les sources en études aréales
L’apport des données biographiques pour l’histoire sociale et culturelle
du monde turko-iranien (IXe-XVIIIe s.)
Panel 2: Tuesday 20 April 2021 / mardi 20 avril 2021:
Epigraphy and craftsmanship in the Iranian world / L’épigraphie et l’artisanat du monde iranien
PhD candidate students and advanced MA students are invited to apply for participation
Doctorants et étudiants de Master sont encouragés à participer
To register to get the Zoom link / inscription à la visioconférence
http://www.inalco.fr/webform/ateliers-sources-etudes-areales
Full details and program: https://cermi.cnrs.fr/reading-sources-in-area-studies-contribution-of-biographical-data-for-the-social-and-cultural-history-of-turko-iranian-societies-9th-18th-c/
Contacts: maria.szuppe@cnrs.fr / camille.rhone@univ-amu.fr
2. Arabic with Jordan Language Academy – Summer 2021
Jordan Language Academy (JLA) is pleased to offer its full Arabic courses this summer 2021 in person (in campus) or virtually depending on the student’s choice. You can learn Arabic online or in person with our flexible and engaging programs to help you improve your Arabic and reach your language goals.
Students can join our group classes or have personal tutoring. JLA is also ready to work with the institutes/students on designing a tailor-made program that fits students’ needs and the current circumstances.
For registration and more info please contact us at:
Email: info@jordanla.com
Mobile: +962-779502220
www.youtube.com/user/JordanLangAcademy
3. Open Access Books:
Open Access E-Book: Sufi Masters and the Creation of Saintly Spheres in Medieval Syria
Author: Ephrat, Daphna
Publisher: Arc Humanities Press, 2021
URL: https://globalcommentary.utoronto.ca/?p=654. Direct download of the book: https://globalcommentary.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Practices-of-Commentary-Zeitspru%CC%88nge-Forschungen-zur-Fru%CC%88hen-Neuzeit.pdf.
Stefanie Brinkmann, “Marginal Commentaries in Ḥadīṯ Manuscripts.”
Walid Saleh, “The Place of the Medieval in Qur’an Commentary: A Survey of Recent Editions.”
Jeannie Miller, “Commentary and Text Organization in al-Jāḥiẓ’s Book of Animals.”
Suzanne Akbari, “Ekphrasis and Commentary in Walter of Chatillon’s Alexandreis.”
Jennifer Gerber, “About Form and Function of German Vernacular Commentaries.”
Christina Lechtermann, “Commentary as Literature: The Medieval ‘Glossenlied.’”
Philip Stockbrugger, “Mirroring Authorization in Torquato Tasso’s Rime Amorose.”
New Open Access Journal: Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World
Open Access Journal: Journal of Islamic Ethics
Open Access E-book: Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire
Edited by: Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Stefan Heidemann
De Gruyter | 2020
ISBN 9783110669800 (ebook)/ 9783110666489 (hardcover)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110669800
Open Access E-Book: The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire
Editor: Umar Ryad
Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2014]
Series: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, Volume: 5
4. PhD position in research project on social contexts of rebellion in the early Islamic period based at Universität Hamburg.
The successful applicant will work on early ‘Alid/proto-Shī‘ī revolts. It’s 2+2 years, deadline for applications is 1 May and preferred start date is 1 August. For more information, please go to https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=ada1df62a39c324fa8a1e9c61ccef7abce0d0616.
You can also email hannah-lena.hagemann@uni-hamburg.de.
5. Book Launch: Fada’il-i Balkh
Tuesday, 20 April 5-6pm (British Summer Time (UTC+1)
This book is a critical edition and translation of the medieval local history of Balkh, known as Faḍāʾil-i Balkh (“The Merits of Balkh”), which was completed in 610 Hijrī (1214 CE) in Arabic by Shaykh al-Islām Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh al-Wāʿiẓ and translated into Persian by ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusaynī in 676 Hijri (1278 CE). It is the Persian version which survives today and forms the source text for this book.
Balkh is one of the most illustrious cities of the Islamicate East, and yet we know very little about life in the city during the first five centuries of Islam (8th-13th centuries CE). The Faḍāʾil-i Balkh, the oldest surviving local history of Balkh, changes that. You can find out more about the book on the Oxbow Books website, and register for the book launch here.
https://www.ongc.ox.ac.uk/event/book-of-launch-merits-of-balkh
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pYPZO_zrSyeZNvDai8tO1w
- April 17, 2021
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1.ONLINE Book Introduction “Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq” by Sara Pursley, Centre for Middle East Studies, Brown University, AMEWS, 15 April 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
This book considers how the country’s creation under British mandate rule in 1920 through the 1958 revolution to the first Ba’th coup in 1963 reshaped Iraqi everyday habits, desires, and familial relations. Future-oriented discourses about the importance of sexual difference to Iraq’s modernization worked paradoxically, deferring demands for political change in the present and reproducing existing capitalist relations.
Information and registration: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2021/sara-pursley-familiar-futures
2. ONLINE Conference: “Gulf Research Meeting 2021”, Gulf Research Center (GRC), University of Cambridge/UK, 23-24 July 2021
The workshops cover a wide range of topics in the fields of politics, energy, security, and the wider social sciences as they relate to the wider Gulf region (GCC countries in addition to Iraq and Yemen).
Information: https://www.gulfresearchmeeting.net/
3. Open Panels for the “27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO)” Institute for Islamic Theology, University of Osnabrück, 16-18 September 2021
If you are interested in organizing an open panel for this congress and look for paper presenters, you are kindly requested to send the title and summary (up to 300 words) to the General Secretary of the congress, Amke Dietert (amke.dietert@googlemail.com) before 15 April 2021.
Deadline of submissions: 15 May 2021.
Information: https://www.irp-cms.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/events/27th_international_davo_congress.html
4. Conference on “Translation and Transfer” of the Network “Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics”, University of Marburg, 6-9 October 2021
The conference will stress the pragmatic implications of the translation of texts in its narrower sense and the translators involved in activities across or within the Transottoman focus region. For a closer look at this and the multiple projects within this framework, please visit our website at www.transottomanica.de.
For further information, contact florian.riedler@uni-leipzig.de.
5. Seminar “Reassembling Creation: Green Ethics (GE) and the Scholarly Disciplines in the Islamic Tradition”, Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), Doha, 12-14 October 2021
The seminar is convened by Dr. Birgit Krawietz (Freie Universität Berlin) in collaboration with Dr. Mohammed Ghaly (CILE). The papers will be published as part of a thematic issue of the “Journal of Islamic Ethics (JIE)” and/or an edited volume in the peer-reviewed book-series “Studies in Islamic Ethics”, both published by Brill.
Extended deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2021. Information: https://www.cilecenter.org/resources/news/call-research-papers-reassembling-creation-green-ethics-ge-and-scholarly-disciplines
6. 3rd ANU Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian National University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2021
The aim of this conference is to explore the various phenomena related to religion and migration; the political and social transitions impacting upon the transnational religiosity of contemporary communities.
Deadline for abstracts: 21 May 2021. Information: https://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/events/religion-and-migration-culture-and-policy-0#acton-tabs-link–tabs-0-middle-1
7. 5 PhD Positions (65 %) in Dependency and Slavery Studies (Focus Islamic World)”, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Bonn University (1 October 2021 to 30 September 2024)
Applicants are required to have a Master degree in history, archaeology, philology, theology, sociology, anthropology, law, history and societies of the Islamicate World, Religious Studies etc.
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2021. Information: https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/career/wissenschaftliche-hilfskraft-whf-mit-ba-abschluss-oder-studentische-hilfskraft-shk-fur-den-bereich-it-19-std.-woche
8. Senior Fellow, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
This position is open rank and open discipline. The successful candidate must hold a PhD (or the equivalent in experience) and show a track record of scholarship on and/or teaching of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Application deadline: 15 April 2021. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/03/16/senior-fellow
9. Visiting Assistant Professor in the Arabic Language, Middle East and South Asia St/udies Program, Wake Forest University, North Carolina
Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Arabic linguistics, literature, second-language pedagogy, or a related area. They must have native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English, and experience in teaching Arabic language courses of all levels as well as for specific purposes at the university level.
Review of applications will begin 30 April 2021. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/04/08/visiting-assistant-professor-of-arabic-wake
10. 2021 Book Award of the “Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS)” for Books Published in 2020
The award recognizes and promotes excellence in the field of Middle East gender, women’s and sexuality studies. The award is offered annually to a scholar for a solo-authored book.
Deadline for the nomination of a book: 1 June 2021. Information: https://amews.org/amews-book-award/
11. Book Awards of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)
This award and a monetary prize of $500 is presented to the author of a research monograph, published in 2020, that: 1) represents the most important contribution to Central Eurasian studies, or 2) that holds the greatest potential for furthering scholarship on the Central Eurasian region.
Deadline for applications: 15 April 2021. Information: https://www.centraleurasia.org/2021/call-for-nominations-2021-cess-book-awards/
12. ONLINE Free Workshop: “An Introduction to Arabic Manuscripts, Centre for Near Eastern Studied, UCLA, 23-27 August 2021
The workshop will equip emerging scholars with the basic tools to conduct research with original handwritten texts in Arabic script. The participants will learn the basics of codicology, palaeography, and manuscript production and circulation, in the context of an expansive vision of current debates in Arabic manuscript research.
Application deadline: 22 April 2021. Information: https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/14962
13. Chapters for Edited Book on „Marxism in Muslim Contexts: Communist Organizing, Social-ist Movement, and Religious Response“
Proposals investigating Muslim responses to Marxism from historical, anthropological, literary, sociological, cultural, and religious perspectives are welcomed.
Deadline extended to 16 April 2021. Information: dwidmannabraham@ursinus.edu
14. OPenn Primary Digital Manuscripts of the Muslim World Available to Everyone
The digital editions comprise more than 500 manuscripts and 827 paintings from the Islamicate. Together these holdings represent in great breadth the flourishing intellectual and cultural heritage of Muslim lands from 1000 to 1900, covering mathematics, astrology, history, law, literature, as well as the Qur’an and Hadith. The bulk of the collection consists of manuscripts in Arabic and Persian, along with examples of Coptic, Samaritan, Syriac, Turkish, and Berber.
Information: https://openn.library.upenn.edu/html/muslimworld_contents.html
15. Thursday 22 April, 4:30 pm, Michael Sells reads from and speaks about The Translator of Desires
Join the Yale Departments of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and Comparative Literature, the Whitney Humanities Center, and the Translation Initiative for a reading and discussion with Michael Sells’s of his new translation of Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi’s The Translator of Desires, on Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 4:30 p.m. EDT, with Feisal G. Mohamed.
Zoom Registration: tinyurl.com/sellsevent
16. The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies Presents:
Women Poets: Gendered Personhood and Displacement
Professor Fatemeh Shams, University of Pennsylvania
Friday April 16, 4:00-6:00 P.M. EST
Zoom Registration: https://uoft.me/IranianStudies
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/765732604290639
- April 13, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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1.The Penn Language Center at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a part-time Lecturer in Persian starting August 2021.This is a one-year appointment with the possibility of a renewal, contingent upon satisfactory performance, student interest, the availability of funding, and need. Candidates will be expected to teach Advanced Persian language and culture at two levels (one course per semester).
Qualifications: evidence of successful teaching experience at the collegiate level, knowledge of language pedagogy, native or near-native fluency in Persian and English, at least an M.A. in Education, Middle Eastern Studies, or a related field. Candidates must currently be authorized to work in the U.S., without future need of any sponsorship for employment authorization because this is a part-time position.
Please send a letter of application (including a statement of teaching philosophy) and curriculum vitae to Dr. Mahyar Entezari (entezari@sas.upenn.edu). In the letter, please indicate the names and email addresses of three referees who can attest to your pedagogical qualifications.
Review of applications will begin on May 1, 2021, and continue until the position is filled. Preliminary interviews will be conducted via Zoom. The University of Pennsylvania is an EOE. Minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans are encouraged to apply.
2. “The Geopolitics of Womens Rights in the Middle East”, a talk by Dr. Nicola Pratt.
The department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to host Dr. Nicola Pratt in this talk, part of our Spring 2021 research seminars. The seminar is open to all and FREE but registration is required.
Date and time: April 19, 5-6 PM, GMT +1.
Please reserve your FREE ticket and details of the Zoom event will be emailed to you directly on the day of the event.
For any questions please contact the seminar organiser, Dr. Ebtihal Mahadeen: ebtihal.mahadeen@ed.ac.uk
Abstract: This paper is based on a chapter of my recently published book, Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon (University of California Press, 2020). The book explores the ways in which the legacies of colonialism and ongoing neocolonialism shape the politics of gender and sexuality, with consequences for women’s activism and its effects. Drawing on more than 100 interviews with women activists of different generations, it foregrounds their personal narratives as situated and embodied knowledge about Middle East politics.
This paper explores a geopolitics of women’s rights through a case study of women’s rights activism in the wake of the 2011 Arab uprisings. Rather than viewing gender inequality as a stubborn residue of culture, I contend that it is performative of cultural difference that serves to produce a “sovereignty effect” (Roxanne Doty 1996a: 124) for Middle East states, whose sovereignty is otherwise continuously undermined as a result of their subordinate position within the international state system. The paper considers the ways in which women’s rights demands have posed a challenge to the exercise and organization of geopolitical power, or what Edward Said termed ‘the struggle over geography’ – a struggle ‘not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings’ (1993: 7). Viewing women’s rights as integral to the imagining and performance of state sovereignty enables us to understand why regimes may or may not support demands for women’s rights reforms in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Speaker’s bio: Nicola Pratt is Associate Professor (Reader) in the Politics and International Studies Department at the University of Warwick, UK, and Vice President of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES). She teaches and researches on the international politics of the Middle East, with a particular interest in feminist and decolonial approaches and a focus on ‘politics from below.’ She has written and co-edited a number of books on women and gender in the Middle East. Her most recent monograph, entitled, Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, was published by University of California Press in fall 2020. She has also written extensively on Egyptian ‘politics-from-below’ and is currently co-authoring a book on popular culture and the contested meanings of the 2011 Egyptian revolution; which is also the subject of a multimedia, digital archive that she co-curated: https://egyptrevolution2011.ac.uk/
Link to the Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-geopolitics-of-womens-rights-in-the-middle-east-tickets-149877364231
3. New BRISMES prizes for students and early career researchers
BRISMES is very pleased to announce the following new prizes for 2021:
BRISMES Early Career Development (ECR) Prize
Eligibility
- The applicant must be a BRISMES member by the time the application is submitted.
- The applicant must have submitted a PhD dissertation in the last 2 years in any disciplinary field, on a topic related to the study of the Middle East and North Africa and must not have a permanent academic position when they receive the grant.
Aims
The aim of the BRISMES Early Career Development Prize is to support activities geared toward strengthening the academic profile and CV of an early career scholar. Two prizes of £2,000 each are available. Eligible activities include (but are not necessarily limited to):
- Developing an article for a peer-reviewed journal
- Developing a book chapter
- Transforming a PhD thesis into a book manuscript
- Developing pilot research for a new project
- Preparing a grant proposal for their own postdoctoral work
The activity must be completed within 12 months of receipt of the prize.
How to apply
Applicants must send a CV (4 pages max) and a statement of interest (1000 words max) to administrator@brismes.org including the following details:
- A description of the activity for which support is requested (include specific details of the timeline/scope of work, target journals, granting bodies, publisher, scope of pilot research, etc…)
- An explanation of how the proposed activity will benefit the applicant’s career path
- A description of the activity’s contribution to the field of Middle East Studies
Deadline
30 April 2021
Reporting
Applicants will submit a narrative summary of completed activities within 3 months after the prize period has ended (500 words max).
BRISMES Conference Student Paper Prize
Eligibility
- The applicant must be a BRISMES student member by the time the application is submitted.
- The applicant must have registered for the Annual Conference.
- The paper must be on the same topic on which the applicant is presenting at the Annual Conference.
- The paper needs to be an original unpublished work from any discipline on any topic related to the study of Middle East and North Africa.
- The only selection criteria is academic excellence.
Aims
To support BRISMES student members in the development of peer-reviewed work. The prize winner will receive £300 and will be mentored through a review process at BJMES by a senior member of the BRISMES academic community. Such a mentor will be identified on the basis of the disciplinary field and topic of the awarded conference paper. In addition, the desk review process will be skipped and the journal will commit to sending the paper directly to external reviewers for the final decision about publication.
How to apply
Send the paper with a short biography (150 words max) and CV to administrator@brismes.org, indicating the disciplinary field to which the paper is contributing.
The estimated word count for a typical paper in BJMES is 10,000 words, inclusive of the abstract, tables, references, figure captions.
Deadline
2 weeks after the end of the Annual Conference in which the paper was presented.
4. Online Zoom webinar on Wednesday, April 14, 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada), hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies (Near Eastern Studies) and Digital Scholarship@IAS.
Bibliotheca Arabica – A Digital Home for the Arabic Manuscript Tradition
Verena Klemm (Institute of Arabic Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany) • Stefanie Brinkmann (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig) • Boris Liebrenz (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig) • Thomas Efer (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig)
Arabic literatures are usually studied as purely creative products, a body of texts disembodied from their material life. Bibliotheca Arabica, in contrast, focusses on the context, the production, transmission, and reception of the manuscripts that for centuries carried the works we study today. Knowing what was copied, read, endowed, or owned when, where, and by whom, offers new perspectives on this immensely rich tradition. However, such a research agenda requires the collection, cross-reference, normalization, and visualization of widely diverse data created over more than one and a half millennia.
The long-term perspective of the Academy Program offers a unique environment to tackle such an ambitious task for an extended period. Over 18 years, the collection of data culled from biographical dictionaries, catalogues, and original manuscript research will enable sharply focused studies (the fate of single books or libraries) as well as broader overviews (literary trends and centers). The project’s database as a combination of bio-bibliography and manuscript reference, including a systematic collection and edition of manuscript notes, will provide a versatile tool not only for our own research agenda, but for the field as a whole.
This presentation will offer an overview of the scope, progress, and challenges of Bibliotheca Arabica, illuminated through exemplary case studies of libraries and marginal commentaries. It will showcase the database tools that are being developed as the backbone of our analytical endeavor.
Register in advance for this webinar here. After registering, you will receive an email containing information about joining the webinar.
For additional information contact María Mercedes Tuya by email to ds@ias.edu
5. IASH-Alwaleed Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021/22: Application deadline 30th April
IASH-Alwaleed Fellowships are open to early career researchers with interests in contemporary Islam and the Muslim world. Fellowship can last between three and ten months and come with a maximum stipend of £13,000.
We would particularly welcome applications linked to the themes of the new Institute Project on Decoloniality (IPD’24) taking place at IASH from 2021 to 2024. This project invites scholars from around the world to visit Edinburgh and conduct research on the theme of decoloniality, broadly understood. Projects dealing with other themes in relation to the contemporary Muslim world will also be fully considered for this round of Fellowships.
For further information, including how to apply, please follow this link: https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-alwaleed-postdoctoral-fellowship
Application deadline 30th April
6. THE ITS RAMADAN DISCOUNT 2021
In celebration of the holy month of Ramadan and the Eid, the Islamic Texts Society is offering a 15% discount on all titles.*
Books from the ITS are an aid to deepening one’s worship in this holy month, and also make an ideal Ramadan and Eid gift for family, friends and loved ones.
In order to take advantage of this offer, please visit our website by clicking on the button below and enter the coupon code, RAMADAN21, on the purchase page. Discount ends at 11:59PM on Sunday 16th May 2021.
*Excluding Arabic-English Lexicon by E. W. Lane. Coupon cannot be used in conjunction with other coupons nor is it applicable to titles that are already on sale.
7. The Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice (formerly the Journal of Islamic State Practice in International Laws ) is pleased to announce the call for papers and book reviews for its 2021 Issue. Please take a look at the attached calls.
MJTILP is a peer reviewed journal and can be accessed on HeinOnline. It has recently been accepted to be indexed with SCOPUS.
The journal welcomes submission of articles that meet its objectives for consideration with a view to publication. The journal comprises of three sections: (1) Articles, (2) Recent Developments, and (3) Book Reviews. The normal word length for articles is between 5000-15000 words (16000 including footnotes). The journal also welcomes shorter contributions (between 2000 to 3000 words) for its ‘Recent Developments’ section.
The MJTILP is not restricted to any specific field of law and aims to cover a wide range of subjects relevant to Islamic law and practice. Topics of particular interest include: transnational forms of Islamic law; constitutional developments, law reform and application of international law in the Muslim world; application of Shariah in Muslim or non-Muslim States; accommodation of Muslims in non-Muslim State; comparative practices of Muslim majority States; and intersections between Islamic law and international law or other religious and secular legal systems.
The deadline for submissions for the 2021 Issue is June 30th, 2021. The Issue will be published by the end of October 2021.
Please get in touch with the Editor-in-Chief Dr Ahmad Ghouri (a.a.ghouri@outlook.com) if you have any questions with regards to MJTILP or would like to discuss your paper submission.
8. May 20, 2021, 12:00-1:30 pm EST: “Beyond Ethiopia: The Islamic Intellectual History of the Horn of Africa.” Register in advance for this meeting here. IAS Ethiopian Studies Series
Much progress has been made over the past decade in the study of Muslim Ethiopia, and with the ongoing work of digitizing, cataloguing and analyzing the local Muslim manuscript tradition, scholars are in a better position than ever before to assess the intellectual strands prevalent among the Muslims of Ethiopia at any given time in history. Our objective for the webinar is threefold: First, we would like to get a clearer picture of what still needs to be done in terms of salvaging and providing access to the Muslim manuscript tradition of Ethiopia (or Ethiopian provenance) — what are the challenges and what would be the promises? Secondly, we hope to engage in a discussion that will assess the intellectual traditions prevalent among Ethiopian Muslims, e.g. legal traditions, doctrinal stances, and other prevalent expressions of Islamic identity, throughout history. Thirdly, we intend to engage in a discussion that will situate the intellectual history of Muslim Ethiopia beyond its core region and discuss how it intersected over the centuries with other prevalent strands and developments, such as the Horn of Africa (including Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia), Southern Arabia (Yemen), as well as East Africa or even the Indian Ocean network. Lastly, we are eager to think together about where the study of Muslim Ethiopia stands within the larger picture of Ethiopian Studies.
Panelists:
Maria Bulakh (Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Alessandro Gori (University of Copenhagen)
Hassen Muhammad Kewo (Addis Ababa University)
Paul M. Love (Al Akhawayn University)
Anne Regourd (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
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