Categories : Academic items

1.Tuesday, June 1st, the Third International Meeting of the Avicenna Study Group“Surveying the summae: Comparisons and Contrasts among Avicenna‘s Eight Main Works” will have its first of seven online sessions.

We will meet weekly on Zoom, every Tuesday at 5pm CEST (German time), should be 8am PDT/11am EDT/4pm BST/6pm EEST/7.30pm IRDT/midnight JST (from June 1st to July 13th).

To keep the Zoom-link safe, a simple registration is required: http://www.arabic-philosophy.com/index.php/asg/asg-iii/registration/. Once you have registered, we will get in touch with you and send you the link prior to the sessions. Attendance is of course free. (Funded by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and Trier University.)

I would like to invite you to have a look at the lecture programme: http://www.arabic-philosophy.com/index.php/asg/asg-iii/programme/: Fourteen presentations will investigate and compare Avicenna’s eight main works by providing case studies on logic, theory of language, natural philosophy, psychology, and metaphysics.

For more info on our contributors, check out the booklet: http://www.arabic-philosophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Avicenna_Study_Group_III_Trier_2021_Surveying_the_summae_Booklet.pdf [12 MB]

Should you have any further question, please have a look at http://www.arabic-philosophy.com/ or get in touch with me. I am looking forward to seeing you online!

With all my best wishes from Trier,

Andi (Lammer)

Juniorprofessur für Arabische Philosophie, Kultur und Geschichte

Fachbereich I: Philosophie

Tel. +49 651 201-2338

Fax +49 651 201-3922

E-Mail lammer@uni-trier.de

Web https://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=65686

Publications https://uni-trier.academia.edu/AndreasLammer

 

 

 

 

2. Discussion Forum on Divine Scriptures(DFDS)
Series of meetings (Spring 2021)
Presenter:
Dr. Abdelmadjid BENHABIB, University of Tlemcen, Algeria
Meeting manager:
Dr. Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi, University of Tehran
The Subject:
Discursive and social psychological readings of al-Taqāwul التقاول (verbal inter-influence) between Noah and his people in the Qur’anic text,
Wednesday June 2th, 4 pm(Tehran zone)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74602805438?pwd=WkVkbmU3NEpyRkhlZFVzamhyaDNNQT09
Meeting ID: 746 0280 5438
Passcode: r7gRSH
More information about DFDS via:
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.domainuser.ir/p/46/DFDS-Spring-2021-3rd-meeting/
https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jdwlm06JIjOKMMvK3ppPzn

 

 

 

 

3. ONLINE Seminar: “Recording Feminist History: Anbara Salam Khalidi’s Memo” by Nova Robinson (Seattle University), Lecture Series “Life Narratives and Gender: Voices of Women in the Near East an Eastern Mediterranean”, Orient Institut Istanbul, 2 June 2021, 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm TRT

Throughout her memoir, Khalidi records how a pioneering generation of Arab feminists built connections with one another and with feminists in other world regions in order to support the cause of Arab, and later Palestinian, independence. Her memoir offers a unique window into the origins and evolution of the women’s movement in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Information and registration: https://www.oiist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/LIFE_NARRATIVES_BOOKLET_SPREAD.pdf

 

 

 

 

4. 4^th IDEO Conference: “The Cairo Edition of the Qurʾān (1924): Texts, Histories and Challenges”, Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies, Cairo, 16-17 October 2021

The conference examines the Cairo edition of the Qurʾān printed under the authority of the al-Azhar committee in 1924. The edition`s advent bears a significance that goes beyond the sphere of belief and takes an important place in the history of Islamic civilisation, including the history of institutions, material history, history of religious thought and history of Islamic studies.

Information: https://www.ideo-cairo.org/en/2021/03/call-for-papers-the-cairo-edition-of-the-qur%ca%bean-1924/

 

 

 

 

5. Conference: “Contemporary Iranian Studies Conference”, University of Tehran, 1-2 November 2021

The conference aims to investigate new approaches and methods to this field of study. Panel proposals and abstracts related to all major fields of Iranian studies in four general categories of politics, sociology, culture, and economics are welcomed.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2021. Information: https://iranianstudies.ut.ac.ir/?lang=en

 

 

 

 

6. International Workshop: “The Relationship between State and Religion in the Arab and Islamicate Contexts. Civil State, Secular State, Religious/Islamic State”, University of Leipzig, 9-10 December 2021.

The workshop aims at discussing the actual and/or potential forms of the relationship between state or politics and religion in Arab and Islamicate contexts. We seek to bring together case studies and theoretical reflections and discussions on the concepts of ‘civil state’, ‘secular state’ and ‘religious/Islamic state’ in different disciplines and academic and political contexts.

Deadline for abstracts: 20 June 2021. Information: https://www.multiple-secularities.de/events/event/cfp-workshop-the-relationship-between-state-and-religion-in-the-arab-and-islamicate-contexts-civil-state-secular-state-religious-islamic-state/?fbclid=IwAR3OJjGy9N3I5-S-QtjmQ8h_tqhDMrNsP_SIwjzQbZ-OX3XvcZu2xWZ-r4w

 

 

 

 

7. Award for Best Article in Kurdish Studies Published in 2020, University of Central Florida

All articles published in English peer-reviewed journals related to Kurdish politics 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 a graduate student, post-doc, independent scholar, assistant professor or equivalent. The winner will be awarded $500. Self-nominations are welcome.

Deadline for nominations: 2 August 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/7763421/call-submissions-best-article-award-kurdish-studies

 

 

 

 

8. Articles for Edited Book on “Levantines of the Ottoman World: Communities, Identities, and Cultures”

We welcome chapters that engage in current topics such as Levantine cosmopolitanism, hybridity, marginality, ambiguity, and transnationalism, but we also encourage submissions which critique the centrality of such terminology and theoretical frames in historical scholarship. Editors: Erik Blackthorne-O’Barr (Colombia University) and Burhan Çağlar (Sakarya University).

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2022. Information: https://levantinestudies.wixsite.com/book

 

 

 

9. The British Library:

A comparison between Rustam and Arjuna

 

 

 

 

10. Postdoctoral Research Associate Vacancy at the University of Manchester Postdoctoral Research Associate working on an international AHRC-funded research project on approaches to nonviolence and principled pacifism in modern Islam.

The fixed term position is from 20 September 2021 to 20 September 2022. The appointment will be made at Grade 6, £32,816 per annum on a 1.0 FTE basis.

Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 10/06/2021

For further information and person specifications please see the following link: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?isPreview=Yes&jobid=20241

 

 

 

 

11. Religion in the Egyptian Novel

Christina Phillips

Edinburgh, 2021

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-religion-in-the-egyptian-novel.html

 

 

 

 

12. Online Conference – Persian Arts of the Book Conference – 13-14 July 2021

This conference gathers scholars from around the world with expert curators from Oxford and beyond to reflect on the Persian manuscript tradition. In a series of short presentations and thematic panel discussions we will examine the poetry, history, and artistic expression contained in these treasures, and the materials and crafts that contributed to making the manuscripts, as well as the history and science of their preservation. Starting with a focus on the history of collections now at the Bodleian Library, presentations from former Bahari Visiting Fellows at the Bodleian Libraries represent the state of the field of Persian manuscript studies today.

 

Keynote speaker: David Roxburgh 

 

Online via Zoom

Advance registration essential:

https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/persian-arts-of-the-book

 

Conference outline 

 

Tuesday 13 July 2021   

10.45 am – 4:15 pm, British Summer Time 

 

Persian Texts: Literature and History

Persian Painting in its South Asian Contexts

Persian Literature and its Courtly Connections

 

Wednesday 14 July 2021 

11.00 am – 5.30 pm, British Summer Time 

 

The Arts of the Book I: Text and Image

The Arts of the Book II: The Painted Page

The Arts of the Book III: Materials and Structure

 

 

 

 

13. Iranzamin Symposium – Curating Persian arts in 21st Century: challenges and practices – July 30th, 2021

Speakers include Prof Christian Gruber (Chair, History of Art, University of Michigan, USA and world-renowned scholar in the field of Islamic Art and Material Culture), Dr Michael Chagnon (Curator, Aga Khan Museum, Canada and Art Historian specialising in the Persianate World), Dr Mahroo Moosavi (Lecturer, University of Sydney and Art Historian specialising in Persian Arts and Architecture) and Prof Pedram Khosronejad, Curator, Persian Arts, Powerhouse Museum.

Curating Persian arts in 21st Century: challenges and practices – Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (maas.museum)

 

Iranzamin Exhibition |  19 March – 8 August 2021 |  Powerhouse Museum

Pedram.khosronejad@maas.museum

 

 

 

 

14. OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS Occhialì – Rivista sul Mediterraneo islamico is a semi-annual scientific journal concerned with the publication of studies, researches and reflections on Islam and the Mediterranean. Active since 2017, it has promoted over time a broad discussion on transversal themes from different perspectives: historical, linguistic, political, philosophic, juridical, sociological, psychological or pedagogical, trying to represent the heterogeneity that characterizes its area of interest.

For issue 9/2021, it has been decided not to limit the contributions to a specific theme, but to open it to the proposals of scholars, so as to leave an open space and cast light on emerging horizons of study and research. Therefore, essays, analyses and translations concerning the Islamic Mediterranean are all acceptable: from religious forms to histories, from institutions to languages, social movements, changes, cultural representations, migratory flows, in ancient times as well as today.

The articles, written in English, French, Italian or Spanish, must be sent by 15 November 2021 to rivista.occhiali@unical.it in a format compatible with the procedure of blind review: a file will have to include the author’s name and surname, email address, a short biographical note, title and abstract (150 words in English), 3- 5 keywords; the other file will have to include the contribution without any reference to the author or to their known works that might point back to them. The articles, formatted according to the norms, shall not exceed 30,000 characters including spaces and excluding the bibliography.

 

 

 

 

15. Pierre Larcher (natus 23th May 1948), L’invention de la luga al-fusha. Une histoire de l’arabe par les textes, Louvain, Paris, Bristol, Peeters (A.P.H.A./Assocation pour la Promotion de l’Histoire et de l’Archéologie Orientales. Université de Liège, 13), 2021, XIV+203 p.; 21×29,5 cms, tow indices, p.173-199. ISBN: 978-90-429-4588-3

https://www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?search_key=9789042945883&series_number_str=13&lang=fr

1.Online – EuQu Copenhagen Seminar of Work in Progress

Thursday, 3 June, from 4pm to 5.30pm (CET).

By  Dr Paul M. Babinski, University of Copenhagen
‘Reading the Arabic Qur’an in Early Modern Europe’
With comments by Theodor Dunkelgrün, Universitt of Cambridge

Register at :

https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/register/u50qfuurqTMoGt0Br5e8OXiaTI7RY-ZreUVG

 

 

 

2. On-line Lecture: Earthly Beauty, Heavenly Art: Carpets for Prayer

by Sumru Belger Krody, Senior Curator, The Textile Museum Collection at The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum

Saturday, June 12, 2021, 1 pm EDT / 10 am PDT

Admission is free, with registration

Registration: https://tinyurl.com/PryrCarpetSKlsrv

 

Hosted by Textile Museum Associates of Southern California, Colorado Textile Group, Portland Area Rug Society, San Francisco Bay Area Rug Society, and Seattle Textile and Rug Society

 

 

 

 

3. 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

 

 

 

4. Whose Islam?

The Western University and Modern Islamic Thought in Indonesia

Megan Brankley Abbas

Stanford, 2021

https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781503627932/whose-islam/

 

 

 

 

5. Open Access E-Book: The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi, Sufism through the Eyes of ʿImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī (d. 711/1311)

Brill, 2020

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42527

 

 

 

 

6. Dr. Mahroo Moosavi “DE-TERRITORIALISING ISLAMIC ART HISTORY”, held at the Powerhouse Museum (15 May 2021) in the occasion of Iranzamin Exhibition, can now be watched online by following this link:

https://youtu.be/0DQLeLD4vn4

 

 

 

 

7. The Society of Architectural Historians is now accepting abstracts for its 75th Annual International Conferencein Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 27–May 1, 2022. If you are interested in the panel below, please submit an abstract no later than 11:59 p.m. CDT on June 2, 2021.

Interconnecting West and East Asia: A Transcultural Study of the Architecture of the Dead

In the wake of a growing interest in the global approach to architectural history, this session seeks to widen the scope of current research by conducting a transcultural and comparative analysis of the funerary construction practices in West and East Asia from the turn of the Common Era to the Early Modern Period. With the aim to open up a dialogue between scholars of the ancient and early modern period, and the area studies of West Asia (Islamic, Middle East, Mediterranean) and East Asia (China, Korea, Japan), we propose to investigate the connectivity between West and East Asian architecture through the lens of the “architecture of the dead,” including burial structures, tomb decorations, construction techniques, and the role funerary architecture played in negotiating the social relations.

Submission Guidelines: 

Abstracts must be under 300 words.

The title cannot exceed 65 characters, including spaces and punctuation.

Abstracts and titles must follow the Chicago Manual of Style.

Only one abstract per conference by an author or co-author may be submitted.

A maximum of three (3) authors per abstract will be accepted.

Please attach a two-page CV in PDF format.

Abstracts are to be submitted online using the link below.

https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/login?redirect=/stages/2562/submitter

 

 

 

 

8. Séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, 3 juin 2021, Conférence de Alexandre Papas

Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à la dernière séance de la saison 2020-21 du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” organisé par le CeRMI, qui aura lieu le jeudi 3 juin 2021 de 17h à 19h en visioconférence (lien de connexion ci-après)

Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Alexandre Papas (directeur de recherche, CNRS), pour une conférence intitulée :

Aspects du soufisme en Iran d’aujourd’hui

Lien zoom : https://zoom.us/j/94218926456

 

 

 

9. Online Talk – Freer and Sackler: Iran, Then and Now: A Conversation with Author Dalia Sofer – June 2, at 6 pm.

This program is part of Talk Series: Tea and Conversation with the Freer and Sackler.

Register here: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PWn3zuqLSEuHnjx3k1Rpyg

 

 

 

10. The British Library:

Fragments of Abbasid Sciences: From Desert Monastery to Digital Reunion

 

 

 

 

11. John Greaves’s Marginalia Workshop

Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Friday 4 June 2021, 17:00-21:00 (BST) – Online with Zoom (registration required)

Please join us virtually on Friday 4 June 2021, for the first workshop of the project: Arabic Books and Astronomy in Seventeenth Century Oxford. This project is a short-term pilot survey sponsored by St John’s College, University of Oxford, to analyse the Arabic and Persian MSS on astronomical topics held in two Oxford libraries, St John’s College, and the Bodleian. Its focus is notes written on the MSS by the seventeenth-century Oxford scholars who used them, in this case multilingual marginalia and interlinear notes by John Greaves, which we will annotate and digitize.

Further info and registration at :

https://www.hsmt.ox.ac.uk/event/john-greavess-marginalia-workshop

 

 

 

 

12. Contemporary Levant Best Article Prize 2021
Call for Submissions | Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)

Submissions for the 2021 Best Article Prize for CBRL’s international peer-reviewed journal Contemporary Levant are now open. The award recognises excellent research and scholarship that engages with current and emerging issues in the Levant to advance our understanding of the region. A committee from CBRL and the editorial board of Contemporary Levant will select the best article from submissions which will be published in Contemporary Levant in autumn 2021. The prize winner will receive a one-year membership to CBRL and online access to Contemporary Levant for one year. They will also be presented with a certificate of recognition at the CBRL annual general meeting.
Deadline for Submissions | 18 June 2021
Further information

 

 

 

13. Lecturer in Modern Islam (Part-time)

Modern Languages and Cultures | The Univeristy of Manchester
Applications are invited for the part-time (0.5 FTE), fixed-term, teaching-focused post of Lecturer in Modern Islam which is tenable from 1 September 2021 for a period of 10 months. You must have a PhD (or equivalent) in a relevant field, submitted or very near completion, and demonstrable university-level teaching experience in modern Islamic cultural studies and/or history with a focus on the Middle East.
Closing date for applications | 1 June 2021
Further information

 

 

 

14. On-line seminar :

Trade, Heritage and Landscape along the Silk Roads

16 June 2021 | 12 noon BST

With

Professor Michael Jansen, GuTech, Muscat

Professor Roland Lin, UNESCO / EPHE, Paris
Professor Stephane Pradines, AKU-ISMC, London

For more information/registration, see

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1516215118143/WN_KbXAQH3JQVS0p2ZW_Zy9Nw

‘The Silk Road: A Living History’ talks are a collaboration between Aga Khan Foundation UK, Aga Khan University – Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and The Institute of Ismaili Studies.

 

 

15. After Avicenna

Online conference on post-Avicennian Islamic philosophy and theology 

University of Jyväskylä, June 2–3 2021

Organised by the project Epistemic Transitions in Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science and funded by the European Research Council

The conference is open to all interested parties. The Zoom links and possible updates will be announced at the conference website, http://islamicepistemology.com/2021/05/18/after-avicenna. For all further information, please contact Mr Kutlu Okan (kutluokan@gmail.com).

1.CfP: International Conference on ‘Ibn Sina’s Philosophical Anthropology’

December 26-28, 2021, organised by the Iranian Institute of Philosophy.

Abstract Submission Deadline: 2021-07-22

Full information at:

http://ibsic.irip.ac.ir/

 

 

2. Antioch, A History

Andrea U. De Giorgi, A. Asa Eger

Routledge, 2021

https://www.routledge.com/Antioch-A-History/Giorgi-Eger/p/book/9780367633042

 

 

 

 

3. ONLINE Seminar: “Self-Narratives, Gendered Middle Class Subjectivities, and Feminism(s) In the “Orient” from the Last Quarter of the 19th Century to the Interwar Period” by Efthymia Kanner (University of Athens), Lecture Series “Life Narratives and Gender: Voices of Women in the Near East an Eastern Mediterranean”, Orient Institut Istanbul, 26 May 2021, 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm TRT

The lecture will try to reconstitute the gendered middle class subjectivities of some women who lived in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Early Turkish Republic from the last quarter of the 19th century to the Inter-war period and link these subjectivities to the emergence of feminist thought in the region.

Information and registration: https://30qtcudfwz93ffi2426a91bc-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/LIFE_NARRATIVES_BOOKLET_SPREAD.pdf

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Lecture: “Emotive Circulation: 19th Century Islamophobia in Anglophone Newspapers in India and the United States” by Peter Gottschalk (Wesleyan University, USA), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 27 May 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm CET

Anglophone newspapers published in India, Britain, and the United States in the nineteenth century reflected both the imaginaries and the emotions that helped constitute, reinforce, and challenge normative regimes of social belonging and religious commitment.

Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/emotive-circulation-19th-century-islamophobia-in-anglophone-newspapers

 

 

 

 

5. ONLINE Lecture: “Scholars, Apostasy and States in Medieval Islam: Historiographical and Juridical Issues”, Islamic History and Thought Lecture Series, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 17 June 2021, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm GMT

Through the examples of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt al-Hamadānī and Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī this lecture will first present how the authors of literary sources of history constructed their narratives of scholarly apostasy in accordance with their own sectarian and political affiliations. It will then present the juridical procedure at play when scholars were accused of apostasy.

Information and registration: https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/scholars-apostasy-and-states-medieval-islam-historiographical-and-juridical-issues?utm_source=hnet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=IHTLS

 

 

 

 

6. ONLINE Lecture: “The Politics of Islamic Pop” by Prof. Jonas Otterbeck (Aga Khan University, London), Middle East Institute, National Univerversity of Singapore, 23 June 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm SGT

This webinar will analyse the politics of Islamic pop music through a case study of the Islamic media company Awakening Records and their artistes. Beyond motivations and implications, the discussion will zoom in on the genealogy of the music in question. How can we frame the logic of politics within a conceptual discourse of Islamic ethical empowerment?

Information and registration: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/the-politics-of-islamic-pop/

 

 

 

 

7. ONLINE Conference: “Sites of Encounter and Cultural Exchange in West Asian and the Mediterranean (500-1500 CE)”, Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Society, University of Edinburgh, 4-6 November 2021

Papers and posters are invited that address issues including: Sites of Encounter in Material Culture; Frontiers; Marginality; Multilingualism; Religion as Site of Encounter; Mapping and Geographic Writings; Commercial Networks and Trade.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7717863/sites-encounter-and-cultural-exchange-west-asian-and

 

 

 

 

8. International Conference: “Media Aesthetics of Occidentalism”, Centre for Near and Middle East Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, 26-28 January 2022

The conference pursues the central question “How do media aesthetic qualities contribute to the constitution of Occidentalist discourses?”

Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2021. Information; https://www.online.uni-marburg.de/okzidentalismus/index.php/2021/02/08/internationale-abschlusstagung-26-bis-28-januar-2022/

 

 

 

 

9. PhD Candidate in Islamic History and Culture, University of Bergen

The candidate must hold a Norwegian master’s degree in African or Middle East history, Islamic studies, social anthropology or related disciplines and is expected to produce a PhD dissertation within a project which will analyze Islamic textual material from coastal East Africa ca. 1950 to the present.

Deadline for application: 6 June 2021. Information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/205579/phd-candidate-in-islamic-history-and-culture

 

 

 

 

10. Articles for “Nidhomul Haq: Journal of Islamic Education Management”

The journal invites scholars, researchers, and students to contribute in English the result of their studies and researches in the areas related to Islamic Education Management, leadership, school management, knowledge management which covers textual and fieldwork investigation with various perspectives of Education, philosophy, history, theology, sociology, anthropology, political science, and others.

Information: https://e-journal.ikhac.ac.id/index.php/nidhomulhaq

 

 

 

 

11. Assistant Professor of Islamic Traditions and Contemporary Politics, Radboud University, Nijmegen

Requirements: A completed PhD and scientific publications on a relevant theme in contemporary politics and Islamic studies; teaching experience in the field of Islamic studies, and/or Middle Eastern studies at BA and MA levels; involvement in societal debates about the role of Islam in contemporary society; proficiency in Dutch (C1 level) and English (C2 level) or willingness to achieve these levels within two years.

Deadline for applications: 31 May 2021. Information: https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/300482/assistant-professor-of-islamic-traditions-and-contemporary-politics/

 

 

12. Post: University of Oxford, Departmental Lecturer, Islamic History,

Faculty of Oriental Studies, Pusey Lane

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 25 June 2021.

This is a full-time, fixed-term position between 1 September 2021 (or as soon as possible thereafter) and 31 August 2023.

Full info at:

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=151173

 

 

13.On-line seminar:  Early Hadith Criticism: ‘Ali b. al-Madini and His Contributions.’ .

Lecturer: Dr. I-Wen Su

National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan

Date: 27 May 2021 (Thursday) Time: 3.00 – 4.00 pm (Malaysia and Taiwan Time Zone)

Platform: Microsoft Teams – URL: shorturl.at/mszQV

1. UIMP EuQu Summer School 21 – 25 June 2021

Registration period for the EuQu Summer School is now open.
The objective of this seminar is to analyse the role that the Qur’an had in interactions in modern and medieval Europe with Islam, in debates between Christians of various persuasions and doctrines or in criticism of Christianity during the Enlightenment, among other areas of investigation. To what extent is the Qur’an imbedded in the political and religious thought of Europe and part of the intellectual repertoire of Medieval and Early Modern Europeans of different Christian denominations, of European Jews, freethinkers, atheists and of course European Muslims? During the sessions we will study how the Qur’an was interpreted, adapted, used, and formed in Christian European contexts since the Middle Ages, in order to understand how the Holy Book has influenced both culture and religion in Europe.

You can check out the program and fill in the application form at the link below:
http://www.uimp.es/agenda-link.html?id_actividad=64XD&anyaca=2021-22

 

Best wishes,

Katarzyna Starczewska

Email: katarzyna.starczewska@cchs.csic.es

Phone: (+34) 916022765

Office: 2E11

Doctora Fuera de Convenio FC3

Instituto de Historia

Departamento de Estudios Medievales

Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

C/Albasanz, 26-28. Madrid 28037 (España)

 

 

 

2. Tenure-track assistant professorship in Modern Turkish history, society, and culture, University of Copenhagen

The closing date for applications is the 21 of June 2021, 23:59 CET.

For full information, and to apply, see:

https://employment.ku.dk/tenure-track/?show=154047

 

 

 

 

3. SYMPOSIUM – Cultural Encounters in Anatolia in the Medieval Period: The Crusaders in Anatolia (Koç University VEKAM) – May 27-28

Cultural Encounters in Anatolia in the Medieval Period: The Crusaders in Anatolia Symposium. The symposium will be held online on May 27-28, 2021 due to pandemic.

Starting from Spring 2014, Koç University VEKAM has been organizing international symposiums to introduce various cultures that lived in Anatolia and to support research in these fields of study under the title of  “Cultural Encounters in Anatolia in the Medieval Period”.

After the symposiums on the Georgian Kingdom, Ilkhanids, and Italians in Anatolia, within the scope of the series, this year’s theme is specified as “The Crusaders in Anatolia”. We believe that Cultural Encounters in Anatolia in the Medieval Period: The Crusaders in Anatolia symposium will be inspiring for researchers in this field.

Symposium will be in Turkish and English. Simultaneous translation will be available.

Registration is required.

for furher information and registration please see <<

 

 

 

4. University of Oxford: Senior Acquisitions and Cataloguing Assistant (Oriental Technical Services)
Osney One Building, Osney Mead, Oxford, OX2 0ES; occasionally libraries holding open-shelf collections
	Closing Date & Time :	02-Jun-2021 12:00

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=150291

 

 

 

 

5. Open Access e-book: Conquered Populations in Early Islam Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers

E. Urban, Edinburgh, 2020

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/44136

 

 

 

 

6. Third Summer School in Islamicate Digital Humanities for Scholars in Manuscript Studies

Date: 30 August – 10 September 2021 (twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays)
Venue: online, hosted by Hamburg Universität, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg
Director of the Course: Alba Fedeli
IT Coordinator: Alicia González Martínez and Cristina Vertan
Deadline for applications: 2 July 2021
Registration free of charge
Number of Participants: a limited number of participants will be selected, up to 15 people

Contact details: Alba Fedeli at alba.fedeli@uni-hamburg.de

The University of Hamburg is hosting a four-day summer course from August 30th to September 10th for graduate students and researchers who work with manuscript materials in Arabic script and want to learn how to choose tools and resources that are available to them and how to apply digital technology in their research. It includes theoretical and/or practical sessions on digital encoding and editing of manuscript texts, data modelling and annotation, advanced search, and visualization.

As the number of participants is limited to fifteen people for the effectiveness of the practical sessions, students and researchers interested to participate in this summer course must apply by Friday 2 July 2021 by submitting the following details:
• A one-page CV.
• A motivation letter (maximum 200 words) explaining their interest in the course and their field of research.
• A list of their technical skills in order to organize the practical sessions in the more effective way although they are not a requirement for participating in the course. Applicants have to indicate – for example – their knowledge of -any software for annotation, searching and/or any type of data handling; data formats; digital editing; programming languages, etc.
• City from where the participant will attend the summer school, so that we can arrange the time slots in the most convenient way for the majority of the people.

As this year the summer school will be held online, all participants applying MUST make sure that they have a stable and adequate fast internet connection, video camera and microphone, during the duration of the school.

All documents have to be sent as a single PDF-file attachment named as “LastName_Name_Hamburg_DHSchool_2021” to Alba Fedeli at alba.fedeli@uni-hamburg.de  and Alicia González Martínez at alicia.gonzalez@uni-hamburg.de

Further details will be uploaded soon on InterSaME website, www.intersame.uni-hamburg.de .

 

 

 

 

7. Open Access e-journal:

Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies

https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/jlaibs

 

 

1.Online Lecture – “Ablution Rooms of Mosques in Medieval Near East“, by Marie-Odile Rousset (CNRS UMR 5133 Archéorient)

May, 20th (3h-4h PM CET, 4h-5h PM in Amman & Beirut)

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

Join next conference of Ifpo’s webinar “ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TO THE OTTOMAN PERIOD. FIRST SERIES: LEBANON AND JORDAN”

 

 

 

 

2. Travelling the Silk Road from East to West:
How a 14th century Mongol pilgrim became the leader of the church in Iraq

Philip Wood

9 June 2021 | 12 noon BST | Online

For further info and to register, see:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8916207323702/WN_JTgARheWQ6-d7Vrs7GguEA?mc_cid=ea3bc2f692&mc_eid=UNIQID

 

 

 

 

3. ONLINE Lecture: “Sharia Transformations: Cultural Politics and the Rebranding of an Islamic Judiciary” by Michael G. Peletz, Leiden University, 20 May 2021, 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm CET

The auther discusses his new ethnographic, historical, and theoretical study of the practice and lived entailments of sharia in Malaysia, arguably the most economically successful Muslim-majority nation in the world. The book focuses on the routine, everyday practices of Malaysia’s sharia courts and examines how these court practices and discourses have changed.

Information and registration: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2021/05/sharia-transformations-cultural-politics-and-the-rebranding-of-an-islamic-judiciary

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Lecture: “Al-Muḥāsibī and the Essence of Reason: A Note on Authorship” by Prof. Hussein Abdulsater (University of Notre Dame, USA), Göttinger Orient-Symposium, 20 May 2021, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm CET

This talk studies the theory of reason by al-Ḥārith al-Muḥāsibī (d. 243/857) through his major work on the subject, Māʾiyyat al-ʿaql. The talk attempts to verify the authorship of this critical section of Muḥāsibī’s work, therefore casting light on other contributions to the study of reason in Islam that were eclipsed by the scholarly concentration on Muḥāsibī’s output.

Information: sekretariat.guenther@uni-goettingen.de. Access Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/95643369638?pwd=aWZoVWRMMFo5RUs4NDF1TWVzVUcvUT09

 

 

 

 

5. ONLINE Discussion of the Book “Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920-1958” by Dr. Dylan Baun (University of Alabama), Association of Middle East Children’s and Youth Studies (AMECYS), 21 May 2021, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm CDT

The author traces the political and cultural history of a diverse set of youth-centric organizations to reveal how these youth movements played significant roles in the making of the modern Middle East. These groups both encouraged the political socialization of different types of youth, and, helped produce sectarian violence.

Information and registration: https://www.facebook.com/events/306585637515104/

 

 

 

 

6. ONLINE Panel: “Women, Patronage, and Agency in the Ottoman Empire”, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at New York University, 21 May 2021, 12:30 pm EST

This panel will present a diverse and nuanced set of studies that seek to expand, question, and resituate our understandings of gender and women’s agency in the Ottoman Empire.

Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYodumrrzMtG9HiS8KctilgiWZuKg4VTEyF

 

 

 

 

7. HYBRID International Interdisciplinary Colloquium: “Umayyad Syria: A Context for the Qur’an?”, University of Strasbourg, 2-4 June 2021

This conference intends to investigate the evolution and place of the Qur’anic text in early Islam within a specific spatial and temporal context: the central region of Syria and Palestine (Bilād al-Shām) under the Umayyad caliphate dynasty (661-750). The colloquium will be in French and English.

Information and registration: http://archimede.unistra.fr/fr/activites-de-recherche/programmes-de-recherche/equipes/equipe-i-territoires-et-empires-dorient-teo/la-syrie-omeyyade-un-contexte-pour-le-coran/

 

 

 

 

8. ONLINE Workshop: “What Does Decolonizing Kurdish Studies Mean?”, Centre for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 11 June 2021, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST

The initiative is committed to the project of decolonizing epistemologies and methodologies in the field of Kurdish Studies. It aims to contribute to the understanding of this understudied field, at a time when Kurds have been the subject of academic, public, and political debates in the Middle East, Europe, the USA and beyond.

Information and registration: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2021/what-does-decolonizing-kurdish-studies-mean

 

 

 

 

9. ONLINE Workshop: “Anthropology, Economy, and Anti-Colonialism?”, Centre for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 23-24 June 2021, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm EST

The workshop will revolve around three basic questions. How might we think about decolonization with the tools of critical political economy, economic anthropology? What historical resources are valuable for understanding economy and coloniality in the present? How might we translate theory and critique into teachable moments in the classroom?

Information and registration: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2021/anthropology-economy-and-anti-colonialism

 

 

 

 

10. ONLINE Panel: “Is there a Middle Eastern Body?”, Orient Institute Istanbul, 7-9 August 2021

Drawing on anthropological research on aesthetic body modification (Liebelt 2019) and neuroscientific cyborg studies (Şahinol 2016), in this panel we wish to reflect on the role of cultural, historical and political constellations and peculiarities for bodily practices and beings from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2021. Information: sahinol@oiist.org  and claudia.liebelt@uni-bayreuth.de

 

 

 

 

11. Workshop: “Enshrining the Past: Religion and Heritage-Making in a Secular Age”, Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities”, Leipzig University, 27-29 October 2021

This workshop seeks to explore the contours of the politics around cultural heritage and the ways it is enmeshed with the religious-secular dynamics in societies past and present. We suggest that these concerns manifest in three substantive ways, each provoking suggestive research questions: legal frames, immaterial values, and material patrimony.

Deadline for abstracts: 13 June 2021. Information: https://multiple-secularities.de/events/event/enshrining-the-past-religion-and-heritage-making-in-a-secular-age/

 

 

 

 

12. Conference: “Esotericism and the Qur’an / L’ésoterisme et le Coran”, Unversity of Lausanne & University of Geneva, Lausanne, 5-7 May 2022

The objective of this conference is to take stock of these esoteric uses of the Qur’an and to examine how they relate to each other and to non-esoteric traditions and methods, to set them in the broader context of Muslim uses and interpretations of the Qur’an.

Deadline for abstracts: 25 June 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7672230/call-papersesoterism-and-quran

 

 

 

 

13. 4 Three-year PhD Positions (65 %), Graduate School “Empires: Dynamic Transformation, Temporality and Postimperial Orders (Focus Islamic Studies)”, University Freiburg, Germany

The Research Training Group, comprising the historical disciplines of Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, Modern and Contemporary, Eastern European and Eastern Asian History and the disciplines of Sociology, Political Science, as well as Islamic Studies, and investigates imperial transformations leading up to the emergence of post-imperial orders. Deadline for applications: 7 July 2021. Information: https://uni-freiburg.de/university/jobs/00001586/

 

 

 

 

14. Lecturer in Iranian Islamic Art History (651-1725), University of St Andrews

Candidates should already have, or be close to completing, a Ph.D. Evidence of breadth of interest within the field of Iranian Islamic art and/or architecture is highly desirable, and a firm grounding in Iranian studies generally (e.g. in the fields of language, history, literature, religion) will be an advantage.

Deadline for applications: 31 May 2021. Information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CFV870/lectureship-in-iranian-islamic-art-history-ac1929nb?uuid=4ff016f9-b205-11eb-a3a3-064da8edb92a&campaign=jbew20210511&source=jbe

 

 

 

 

15. Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021/22, Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)

Visiting fellowships of 6 and 9 months for the academic year 2021/22 are awarded to junior scholars during the early stages of the postdoc period in support of excellent research projects in the humanities and social sciences. We are particularly interested in research projects that fit our annual topic of “humans in their relation to the divine and humans in their relation to their productions”.

Deadline for applications: 6 June 2021. Information: https: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/scholarships/postdoctoral-fellowships/

 

 

 

 

16. Doctoral Fellowships 2021/22, Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)

The OIB awards a number of visiting fellowships of up to 12 months for the academic year 2021/22 to doctoral candidates in support of excellent research projects in the humanities and social sciences. We are particularly interested in research projects that fit our annual topic of “humans in their relations to the divine and humans in their relation to their productions”.

Deadline for applications: 6 June 2021. Information: https: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/scholarships/doctoral-fellowships/

 

 

 

 

17. Assistant Professor in Modern World History (Regional Specialization Open), University of Northern British Columbia

Applicants should have a completed PhD, an established program of research, and a record of teaching excellence. Research strength in non-Western history will be an asset.

Deadline for applications: 1 July 2021. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61250

 

 

 

 

18. Chapters for Edited Book on “Islam and Politics in the 21st Century: Competitive Discourses and Future Uncertainties” by Ayfer Erdogan

This book will address different perspectives on the future of political Islam in light of its failure to develop a genuine political ideology that reflect their criticism of nation-state and its secular foundations. Articles will focus on conceptual debates and/or country-specific studies presenting single or comparative analyses of different experiences across the MENA region. Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2021. For further information, please contact Dr. Ayfer Erdogan at aerdogan@yildiz.edu.tr and Dr. Shaimaa Magued at shaimaamagued@feps.edu.eg

 

 

 

 

19. Proposals for a New Book Series: “The Gulf States in International Affairs” (Rowman & Littlefield)

The scope of the series encompasses members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar, as well as Iraq, Iran and Yemen. Volumes which refer substantially to the Gulf region, states or related foreign actors (which might typically involve the US, European powers, Russia and East Asian partners) will also be considered from across the social sciences and humanities.

Information: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/LEX/LEXGIA

 

 

 

 

20. Online Book Launch – Joint Islamic Art Circle and Royal Asiatic Society, Amanda Phillips – 20th May at 6.30pm BST

Please join us at 6.30pm on Thursday 20th May for the joint Royal Asiatic Society and Islamic Art Circle virtual book launch of Amanda Phillips’ Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles Between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean.
If you would like to attend, please contact Matty Bradley by e-mail:  mb@royalasiaticsociety.org and the Zoom link and password will be provided. Please note the number of attendees is limited so early registration is advised. Please register by the 19^th May.   

 

 

 

 

21. Revealed Sciences
The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco

Justin Stearns,

Cambridge, 2021

https://www.cambridge.org/br/academic/subjects/history/middle-east-history/revealed-sciences-natural-sciences-islam-seventeenth-century-morocco?format=HB

 

 

 

 

22. Discussion Forum on Divine Scriptures(DFDS)
Series of meetings (Spring 2021)

Presenter:
Dr. Ghassan El Masri, Bavarian Research Center for Inter-religious Discourses (BaFID)

Meeting manager:
Dr. Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi, University of Tehran

The Subject:
The semantics of Qur’anic Language: al-Akhira,

Wednesday May 19th, 4 pm(Tehran zone)

More information about DFDS via:

zabanshenasitarikhi.ir

https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jdwlm06JIjOKMMvK3ppPzn

Meeting Link:

Mohamadhasan Ahmadi is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: DFDS Spring 2021 First meeting
Time: May 19, 2021 04:00 PM Tehran

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/78224713099?pwd=ZTdhVGlSMWxpR3I3N2pnL0lhVllWQT09

Meeting ID: 782 2471 3099
Passcode: L8e9QE

23. University of Oxford – Professorship in Arabic (Abdulaziz Saud
AlBabtain Laudian Professorship)

The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Friday 27 August 2021.
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61384

1.Durham University

Teaching Fellow in Arabic 

School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Grade 7: – £33,797 – £40,322 per annum

Fixed Term – Full Time

Contract Duration: 12 months

Contracted Hours per Week: 35

Closing Date: 06-Jun-2021, 11:59:00 PM

https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=21000427&lang=en

For informal enquiries please contact Professor Jonathan Long, Head of School (j.j.long@durham.ac.uk ), or Dr Adam Talib, Director of Arabic Studies (adam.talib@durham.ac.uk ).  All enquiries will be treated in the strictest confidence.

 

 

 

 

2. Webinar – Prof Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Poets and Artisans in the Mamluk Sultanate – June 2

As part of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies’ Wednesday Seminar Series for Trinity Term 2021, we’re delighted to be joined by Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif (SOAS), on Wednesday, 2 June 2021 at 5pm BST (not GMT!), who will present on ‘Poets and Artisans in the Mamluk Sultanate – Literary and Artistic Interactions’. Talks will take place via Zoom. Please register here.

 

 

 

3. BRAIS 2021 Online Series

We are hosting THREE panels next week as part of the BRAIS 2021 Online Series, and full details of each panel are below.

 

As ever, these panels are free and open to all. If you would like to attend but have not yet registered for the series, you can do so here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2021/brais-2021-online-series-registration

 

Islam and Society in Europe

Tuesday 18 May, 12pm BST

• Fouzia Azzouz (University of Bristol) British Muslim marriage and divorce practices: Avenues for regulation
• Fatou Sambe (Cardiff University) Muslim Convert Families and the Experiences of Convert Children
• Laiqah Osman (Cardiff University) Muslim Women in Britain and the Authority of Online Islamic Content
• Tatia Tavkhelidze (European University Viadrina) Boundaries between the living concept of Islamophobia and the term ‘being Islamophobic’

Criticality in Islamic Scholarship

Thursday 20 May, 10:30am BST

• I-Wen Su (National Chengchi University) ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī: a Critical Review and Reconstruction of His Biography
• Mostafa Movahedifar (University of Birmingham) The position of content criticism within early Shīʿī hadith scholarship: the case study of the legal punishment of committing zinā with a female slave of one’s wife
• Essam Ayyad (Qatar University) Medieval Muslim Katātīb between Independent Thinking and Learning by Rote 

Colonialism and the Empire of Law

Friday 21 May, 2pm BST

• Rozaliya Garipova (Nazarbayev University) Colonial Rule and the Legality of Marriage in the Russian Empire
• Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown University) A Subtle Imbibe: Islamic law in 19th Century Colonial Courts in India
• Alexandre Caeiro (Hamad Bin Khalifa University) Justice before Oil: Pearl Trade, Diving Courts, and the British Legal Order in the Arabian Peninsula (1860s-1950s)

 

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. 5^th 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.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/7671999/call-publications-book-series-%E2%80%9Ccritical-connected-histories%E2%80%9D

 

 

 

 

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.

Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/05/04/call-for-manuscripts-i.b.tauris-studies-in-medieval-and-early-modern-persian-literature

 

 

 

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:

https://euqu.eu/2021/03/29/workshop-european-visions-of-the-quran-in-the-middle-ages-9th-15th-centuries/

 

 

 

 

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

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.

1. Deliberation, representation, power and legitimacy in Medieval Islam (both theory and practice, with an attention to the inertia and transformation of previous practices)
2. 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
3. Forms of female civic participation
4. Expressions of civic life (debate, opinion, participation, opposition…) and practices of consensus-building
5. Ottoman experiences of institutional reform of representation and of elective systems at both the local and imperial levels
6. Representation, deliberation, decision-making and elections under colonial occupation
7. 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.
8. Interpreting democratic oppositions and recent experiments, as well as their repression, in the framework of debates on the historicity of democracy in the region
9. 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/

 

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. 20^th 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) / 34^th German Oriental Congress” Combined with the “28^th 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)

 

1. 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)

 

2. Wednesday May 26th, 4 pm(Tehran zone):purity in the Qur’an and its Biblical subtext, Prof. Gabriel Said Reynolds,University of Notre Dame

 

3. 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

 

4. 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.

 

5. 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).

https://brill.com/view/title/59823

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 –

New Readings in Arabic Historiography from Late Medieval Egypt and Syria. Proceedings of the themed day of the Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies

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.

https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/modern-south-arabian-languages/news/article/1764/language-and-nature-in-south-arabia-online-workshop-series

 

 

 

 

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/