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1.Photos of Qajar Persia in an Old Dutch Book
http://persiandutch.com/2014/05/23/dutch-book-and-rare-photos-of-persia/
2. Sociocultural Anthropology (Assistant Professor, tenure-track)
Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
Deadline: Review of applications will begin on October 23, 2020, and continue until the position is filled.
Job Listing: https://www.arts.ubc.ca/academic-postings/unit/sociocultural-anthropology-assistant-professor-tenure-track/
The Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in sociocultural anthropology specializing in theoretical and/or ethnographic approaches to the study of race and racialization and/or queer theory. Regional focus is open, though the department has identified a strong interest in scholars working in Asia, the Middle East and/or Oceania.
3. Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Quran Online (https://brill.com/view/db/eqo), edited by Johanna Pink (Universität Freiburg), is the world’s foremost digital historical-critical reference work on the Quran. We are seeking professional scholars with demonstrable expertise in a variety of disciplines for the expansion and updating of the Encyclopaedia.
Since the printed volumes of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Quran appeared in 2001-2006, the larger field of Quranic Studies has expanded considerably. To account for the explosion of new research related to the Quran, the Encyclopaedia of the Quran Online (EQO) will be adding new articles and updating older entries. If your field of study and expertise appears below, or you feel your research should be addressed by the EQO, please reach out to the relevent members of the editorial board.
For articles or updates on Quranic exegetes, exegetical works, the broader Quranic sciences as well as social and liturgical practices related to the Quran (for example, recitation) please contact Associate Editor Shuruq Naguib (Lancaster University, shuruqnaguib@lancaster.ac.uk).
For articles or updates on modern Quranic Studies scholars, the Quran’s early history, and individual verses/ayat or suras, please contact Associate Editor Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau (Université de Strasbourg, asboisliveau@gmail.com).
For articles or updates on notable Quranic manuscripts, printed editions, Quranic and other significant epigraphy, or Quranic linguistics, please contact Associate Editor Süleyman Dost (Brandeis University, dost@brandeis.edu).
For articles or updates on biblical, para-biblical, Jewish, Christian, or other pre-Islamic texts with noteworthy relationships to the Quran, please contact Associate Editor George Archer (Iowa State University, garcher@iastate.edu).
For general inquiries about the project, or to propose articles or updates not suggested above, please contact General Editor, Johanna Pink (Universität Freiburg, johanna.pink@orient.uni-freiburg.de).
Authors are asked to send their CV, affiliation (if applicable), and the titles of the entry/entries they are proposing to update or create, along with a short statement clarifying why this is significant to the study of the Quran.
4. Call for papers for volume 22 (2022) of Methodos
“Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language”
Guest Editors Shahid Rahman and Walter Young invite submission of papers to be published in “Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language,” the forthcoming issue of Methodos, the online review of the research unit
« Savoirs, Textes, Langage » (UMR 8163 – CNRS, Université de Lille) (http://methodos.revues.org)
Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language
The domain of Islamic thought and intellectual history boasts an important body of studies relevant to the Arabic philosophy of language, as well as a growing interest in Islamic argumentation theory and practice. There remains, however, a dearth of volumes which pool research from both areas and examine them together. Filling this gap is more critical than ever; in our time, significant work is being conducted in argumentation theory, but little of it draws from, or relates to, the rich intellectual traditions of Islam (exceedingly few argumentation specialists have heard, for example, of Islamic traditions of dialectical theory [jadal, munāẓara, ādāb al-baḥth], much less benefited from the millennium of discussions and solutions they contain).
With this in mind, the main objective of this volume of Methodos is to provide a venue for studies of hermeneutics, linguistic analysis, and deductive reasoning (formal and informal) in the theory / practice of argumentation relevant to the Arabic philosophy of language, including contributions on: (1) theories which are geared towards argument (e.g., dialectical justifications and objections, linguistic fallacies, strategies and protocols for engagement on particular issues, etc.); (2) the dynamic of argument in shaping concepts and theories (e.g., explaining how systematic argument fashioned certain scholars’ solutions); and (3) theories “in action” (e.g., argument analyses of the historical, scholarly dialectic on a certain problem).
Understanding that interdisciplinarity is a quintessential feature of premodern Islamic thought, we are also particularly eager to attract contributions on Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language from a broad spectrum of premodern Islamic disciplines (philosophy, theology, law and legal theory, logic, dialectic, rhetoric, philology, grammar, linguistics, exegesis, etc.) so as to provide testimony for the dynamic “unity in diversity” of Islamic thought.
SUBMISSION OF PAPER PROPOSALS
Paper proposals (2500 characters) are to be sent electronically, in Word and PDF formats, to Leone Gazziero (leone.gazziero@univ-lille.fr) and Florence Thill (florence.thill@univ-lille.fr).
DEADLINE: 20 JANUARY 2021
Accepted languages : French, German, Italian, English.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Once a proposal has been accepted, the authors will send their text in accordance with the guidelines described under « Conditions de publication et instructions aux auteurs » on the review’s website (http://methodos.revues.org/2124).
DEADLINE: 15 MAY 2021
5. Online Panel: Black and Afro-Iranians in Iranian Cultural Imaginary
Oct 6, 2020 03:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Featuring panelists:
-Shadee Malaklou (Director of Berea College Women and Gender Non-Conforming Center)
-Parisa Vaziri (Asst. Prof. Complit Cornell U)
-Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda (Human Rights Lawyer, UN agencies and non-governmental organizations)
-Amir Vafa (Assistant Prof. English, Shiraz University)
Moderated by Sima Shakhsari (Associate Prof. Women’s Studies Minnesota U)
Sponsors: UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, Omar ibn Said Initiative,
Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, UNC Persian Studies Program, The American Institute of Iranian Studies
For more information, please contact Dr. Claudia Yaghoobi, Roshan Institute Associate Professor in Persian Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, Yaghoobi@email.unc.edu
Register at:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XkEOn3iGRJK4ZGo6fBZ-EQ
6. University of Basel – 2 PhD positions in Near and Middle Eastern Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60408
7. The12th Annual International Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Conference (IRTP) 23-26 June 2021 in Braga, Portugal
All detailed information about the Conference can be found at our web site: www.irtp.co.uk
Please submit your abstract till 31st January 2021 and join us at the conference the next year.
8. CFP: Comparative literary practice in the multilingual Islamic world(s)
Pre-modern comparative literary practice in the multilingual Islamic world(s)
a conference to be hosted by the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre (OCCT)
University of Oxford, 23-24 July 2021
with a volume of proceedings to follow
from Oxford University Press
https://www.occt.ox.ac.uk/pre-modern-comparative-literary-practice-multilingual-islamic-worlds
Abstracts (max. 400 words) should be sent in a Word document, along with a short biography that contains academic affiliations and publications. Please use the IJMES transliteration system. The deadline for all submissions is November 17th, 2020.
Please send abstracts to the conference’s email: premulticomparison@gmail.com
- October 03, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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1.Short Course – Islam and Constitutions. The Law and Politics of Sharia Provisions
This is a three-day online course, running on the 7, 14 and 21 November from 13:30 – 16:30 on each occasion.
The Agha Khan University, London.
Why all the hype about Islam when drafting a constitution? Why are constitutions so central, to begin with? And what is the politics around references to Islam in them? What are, in particular, the sharia provisions, and how do they work?
This online course introduces participants to the conceptual foundations of constitutional law, the articulations of State-Islam relations in contemporary constitutions, and the various models of sharia provisions in a comparative perspective. Sharia provisions, in particular, are considered both in terms of their wording and the overall design. A close up on the politics of sharia provisions will provide a useful case study. The course also provides practical training in handling constitutional provisions on sharia in different jurisdictions through the direct involvement of participants in class activities.
For further information, see the link above.
2. Head Librarian – Library of the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Description:
The Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences is seeking an experienced and motivated individual to serve as Head Librarian of its library based in Prague, Czech Republic as it undergoes the beginning phases of a planned transition to a new site. The qualified individual’s primary duties will be to oversee day-to-day operations of the library, supervise cataloguing and retro-cataloguing of the library holdings, monitor new acquisitions, and identify and manage special collections. The position is ideal for a self-motivated and self-directed individual who loves books and wishes to implement an exciting and dynamic vision for a 300,000+ volume library housed in one of Europe’s oldest institutes for Oriental Studies. The Head Librarian will supervise the library staff and report directly to the Director of the Oriental Institute.
Qualifications:
- Minimum B.A. degree, background or experience in library sciences strongly preferred
- Fluency or near-native fluency in written and spoken English
- Knowledge of library systems and cataloguing
- Ability to manage a team of librarians and external interns
- Ability to communicate clearly with co-workers, researchers, and library patrons
- Knowledge of one or more of the languages, cultures, and histories related to the Oriental Institute’s sub-fields (Middle East, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, Central Asia) preferred
Responsibilities:
- Manage day-to-day operations of library and oversee activities of library staff
- Identify and manage special collections (including possible digitalization)
- Support Oriental Institute researchers in utilizing and accessing library materials
- Pursue grants and other sources of external funding for retro-cataloguing of the library holdings, public exhibitions, and new acquisitions
- Formulate a new vision for the library as it undergoes a phased transition
Salary and Benefits:
1300-1700 EUR/month depending on experience. Full health benefits, 5-weeks annual vacation, travel and research stipends, and support for professional development and further study.
To Apply:
Please send a statement of interest (no more than 2 pages), C.V., and the names of 2 references to Jakub Hruby (hruby@orient.cas.cz). Any inquiries related to the position may also be directed to Dr. Hruby. Deadline: November 8, 2020
About the Library:
The Oriental Institute Library (est. 1929) holds around 300,000 books, periodicals, and manuscripts related to the fields of Middle East, South Asian, Central Asian, and East Asian Studies. In addition to the general collection, the library is home to several rare collections: the 70,000 item Lu Xun library containing Chinese sources, a 3,500 item Korean library, which includes rare items from North Korea, the Tibetan Library, which houses the Tibetan Buddhist canon and other unique materials, Coptic and Arabic papyri collection, and a soon-to-be acquired collection on colonial Manchuria funded by the Japan Foundation and Czech Academy of Sciences, among others.
About the Oriental Institute:
The Oriental Institute (www.orient.cas.cz) is a public non-university research institution. The Institute currently employs approximately 30 researchers from across the Czech Republic, Europe, Asia, and the United States. Formally established in 1922, the Oriental Institute is one of the oldest institutions dedicated to the study of Oriental cultures in Central and Eastern Europe. Since 1993, it has fallen administratively under the auspices of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), an umbrella research institution similar in function to its counterparts in continental Europe, such as the CNRS in France. The CAS was established in 1992 as the Czech successor to the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. It is set up as a complex of 54 public research institutions. The primary mission of the CAS and its institutes is to conduct basic research in a broad spectrum of the natural, technical and social sciences and the humanities. This research, whether highly specialized or interdisciplinary in nature, aims to advance developments in scientific knowledge at the international level, while also taking into account the specific needs of both Czech society and national culture. In a country such as the Czech Republic, where university departments dealing with Oriental studies tend to be small and understaffed, the structure of non-university research bodies with permanent research positions brings numerous benefits. Among other things, scholars are enabled to pursue their specializations according to the needs of relevant fields of study, aiming correspondingly at the highest levels of research quality. The framework of the Institute allows for a flexible and open-ended approach to research initiatives in Asia-related topics, creating, in effect, an ideal environment for interdisciplinary research. The research quality is guaranteed by the Council of the Institute, composed of both internal and external members, and regular – both Czech and international – peer-review evaluations. Currently, the work of our researchers is mainly focused on the Arab world, Iran, Israel, Turkey, India, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, China, Tibet, Japan, and the ancient Near East.
3. Call for Book Proposals: Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa
I.B. Tauris is seeking book proposals for a new academic book series called Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa. The popular uprisings that rocked several Arab countries at the beginning of 2011, and the more recent ones in Algeria, Sudan, Lebanon and Iraq, arose, among other things, in the context of changing media practices and political communication in the region. Beyond visible actions by political elites and institutions, several of these movements were characterised by grassroots communication on social media, and many included creative practises by a diverse range of actors.
Books in this series critically engage with the complex and fluid relationship between politics, communication and culture in the Middle East and North Africa, taking into account the specificities of social and political local contexts, diverse political and media systems, media institutions, media and political actors and populations as well as differentiations along religious, sectarian, ethnic, gendered and racial lines.
4. Locating Afghanistan in the ‘Middle East’ with Moshtari Hilal
LSE Middle East Centre
On this episode of Instant Coffee, Marral Shamshiri-Fard talks to Moshtari Hilal about locating Afghanistan in the ‘Middle East’, as well as her own artistic practice. Moshtari Hilal is a visual artist and researcher working from Hamburg and Berlin.
Listen to the podcast
5. The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT)is pleased to announce 2021-2022 fellowship programs for students and scholars based in the U.S. and Canada:
ARIT / National Endowment for the Humanities Advanced Fellowships for Research in Turkey cover all fields of the humanities, including prehistory, history, art, archaeology, literature, and linguistics as well as interdisciplinary aspects of cultural history. The fellowships support applicants who have completed their academic training. The terms may range from four months to a full year. Stipend per month is $4,200.
ARIT Fellowships for Research in Turkey are offered for research in ancient, medieval, or modern times, in any field of the humanities and social sciences. Post-doctoral and advanced doctoral fellowships (PhD candidate) may be held for various terms, from one month up to one academic year. Stipends range from $2,500 to $15,500.
Applications for ARIT and ARIT NEH fellowships must be submitted to ARIT by November 1, 2020. The fellowship committee will notify applicants in late January 2021.
6. Online Exhibition – In the School of Wisdom: Persian Bookbinding ca 1575-1890, Curated by: Matthew Elliott Gillman, Columbia University
Now online: A Digital Exhibition of treasures of the art of the book from Columbia University’s Manuscript Collection.
In the School of Wisdom: Persian Bookbinding ca 1575-1890.
Curated by: Matthew Elliott Gillman — Ph.D. candidate, Department of Art History & Archaeology, Columbia University
This digital exhibition reprises a physical one held in Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, in the Chang Octagon, between October 2018 and March 2019. Its restaging might pose an irony, given that the show’s concept and title, drawn from a lyric poem, concerns ephemerality. Translating this experience to the web nevertheless offers an opportunity to underscore its very theme.
Few of Columbia’s seven hundred or so Islamic codices have bindings older than 1800, whether the text was copied a millennium or just a century earlier. The exhibition highlights examples of new and especially replacement bindings from the early modern period, supporting practices of collecting and memory.
You are most welcomed to browse by clicking:
https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/school_of_wisdom
7. ONLINE Webinar of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies, Fall 2020 Events, 16 October – 4 December 2020
16 October 2020: “Satan Conquered: The Iranian Revolution and its Demons” by Prof. Alireza Doostdar, University of Chicago
30 October 2020: “The Politicization of the Female Body in the Context of Sigheh Marriages”, Prof. Claudia Yaghoobi, University of North Carolina
13 November 2020: “Hafiz and His Contemporaries: Time, Place, and Dialogue in the Post-Mongol Persian Ghazal” by Prof. Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of Oxford
4 December 2020: “Re-discovering a Literary Treasure: The Anvar-e Sohayli Written by Vaʿez Kashefi in Fifteenth-Century Herat” by Prof. Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge
Information and registration: https://iranianstudies.macmillan.yale.edu/calendar/upcoming-events
8. ONLINE: “Second Annual Islamic Philosophy Conference”, American Society of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Harvard University, 5-6 December 2020
The aim of the conference is to promote the study of Islamic Philosophy, broadly conceived, in its historical and contemporary context. We welcome panel proposals as well as individual proposals. Papers will be eligible for publication in the Journal of Islamic Philosophy.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2020. Information: https://asipt.org/conferences/conference-paper/
9. Assistant Professor of Arabic, Hamilton College, New York
Ph.D in Arabic Language and Literature, Middle Eastern Studies or a closely related field is required. Applicants should have native, or near-native, fluency in Arabic and preferably have a record of excellence in teaching Arabic language, as well as experience in building a successful language program.
Deadline for applications: 21 October 2020. Information: http://apply.interfolio.com/78584
10. Canada Research Chair (Tier 2), History of the Modern Middle East, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
The Research Chair with a focus on the history of the modern Middle East, broadly construed both temporally and geographically, is intended for exceptional emerging scholars (i.e., candidates must have been active researchers in their field for fewer than 10 years from their degree at the time of nomination). The thematic focus is open.
Deadline for applications: 1 November 2020. Information: https://hist.air.arts.ubc.ca/canada-research-chair-tier-2-history-of-the-modern-middle-east/
11. Grabar Travel & Post-Doctoral Awards for Ph.D. Candidates and Post-doctoral Scholars in All Areas of the History of Islamic Art, Architecture and Archaeology
The Travel Grant (700 US-$) is open to doctoral candidates who have been invited as participants in a scholarly conference or other professional meeting for the purpose of presenting papers. The Post-doctoral Fellowship (2000 US-$) is intended to spend up to two months as a research scholar at a university, museum, research institute or similar institution, or to support additional research to aid in preparing the dissertation for publication.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2020. Information: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/grabar-grants-and-fellowships
12. Articles on “Speaking the Unspeakable – The Attributes of God in Islamic Thought” for Edited Volume in the Series “Horizons of Islamic Philosophy of Religion”
Topics include: doctrines of God’s attributes by various thinkers and thought schools; the ontological, epistemological and cosmological significance of the attributes; the political significance of particular attributes such as ʿadl; the influence of Jewish and Christian theologies; the actuality of the doctrine of God’s attributes for contemporary discourses.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2020. Information: https://www.uni-muenster.de/ZIT/Aktuelles/2020/callforpapers_speakingtheunspeakable___theattributesofgodinislamicthought.html
- September 28, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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1.Manuscripts in Arabic Script: Introduction to Codicology
October 23-24 (11:00-3:00 pm), 2020 London
This online course (2 days) aims to introduce Arabic manuscripts from a codicological and textual point of view. The first day will provide an overview of the field of codicology and it role in the manuscript field in general and in identifying the key features of the manuscript in particular. The second session will be dedicated to writing supports, the structure of quires, ruling and page layout, bookbinding, ornamentation, tools and materials used in bookmaking, and the palaeography of book hands. Some practical examples will be given based on the lecturers’ long experiences. The second day will focus on the importance of manuscripts in research. While the first session will cover the Para-textual features in the Arabic manuscripts, the second session will demonstrate the different approaches in editing manuscripts.
This introductory course is intended for students, researchers and librarians who are working in the field of manuscript studies. In the two-day course, the lecturers will cover a wide range of aspects for those who are acquiring basic knowledge in this field.
Learning outcomes:
– Basic understanding of the field of manuscript studies in general.
– Identify the role of manuscripts in knowledge production in different areas studies in Muslim cultures.
Length of course: 2 days (4 lectures)
Course Lecturers:
Dr Walid Ghali is the Head of the Aga Khan Library, London, Assistant Professor at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and a Chartered Librarian of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). Also, he is a member of the Islamic Manuscript Association, University of Cambridge. Dr Ghali received his PhD from Cairo University, Faculty of Arts in 2012. His current research projects focus on the Islamic manuscript traditions, particularly in Arabic script, and the history of books. Dr Ghali teaches Sufism, Arabic literature and manuscript traditions. Before moving to London, Dr Ghali worked in various librarian roles at the American University in Cairo. He has also held several consultancy roles in and outside Egypt, such as the Ministry of Endowment, Qatar University and the Supreme Council for Culture in Kuwait.
Dr Anne Regourd is researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, France. She has published extensively in the fields of History and Philology dealing with Codicology, Paper Studies, and Papyrology. She is the editor of book, The Trade in Papers Marked with Non-Latin Characters, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2018, and heads the free access online journal, Nouvelles Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen.
Registration:
Tickets: £80 for professionals | £50 for students, AKU alumni and staff. Book your ticket soon.
*The course will be delivered via Zoom and further details will be provided later upon registration.
2. Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice Vol 16, Issue 1 (2020)
Full issue on line at:
https://www.electronicpublications.org/catalogue/244
3. Call for Papers: British Muslims and Covid-19: Impacts, Experiences and Responses
8th December 2020
A free MBRN online symposium
Last date for submission of abstracts: 30th October 2020
Research on Covid-19 has highlighted its disproportionate impact on Black and Asian Minority Ethnic groups (BAME) communities (Public Health England, 2020). However, these studies only offer a limited understanding of the particularity of experiences within the umbrella category BAME. For instance, there is only limited discussion around faith in relation to Covid-19, its impacts and the socio-economic fall-outs of lockdown. This MBRN symposium will redress this gap by taking an intersectional perspective in mapping and analysing the impact of Covid-19 on British Muslim communities. By bringing together practitioners and academics, we will examine how diverse British Muslim communities have experienced the pandemic, how their lives have been impacted during and after lockdown and how they responded.
More information at:
4. Symposium: “Ottoman Ego-Documents”, Istanbul Medeniyet University, 7-9 April 2021
The symposium will be in English and Turkish. The texts belonging to pre-Tanzimat period are particularly advisedb to present. The primary sources used in the presentations can be in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Persian or any other languages spoken/written in Ottoman territories. The main focus would be on the texts written in Ottoman Turkish.
Information: https://benanlatilari.medeniyet.edu.tr/en
5. 27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), Institute for Islamic Theology, University of Osnabrück, 16-18 September 2021
It was originally planned that this international congress should take place in September 2020 in the Institute for Islamic Theology at the University of Osnabrück, chaired by Prof. Dr. Bülent Uçar. This event had to be postponed by one year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Further information will soon be available.
6. Conference on “The Visual Culture of Mosques”, King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra), Dahran, 23-25 November 2021
Architects, designers, archeologists, artists, writers, historians and curators are invited to present their original research, objects or insights about mosques and related cultural objects. Categories of submission include: Research papers; Models, objects; Posters; Audio-visual productions.
Deadline for submissions: 28 December 2020. Information: https://www.ithra.com/en/visual-culture-mosques
7. 20th ISA World Congress of Sociology on “Resurgent Authoritarianism: Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies”, Melbourne, Australia, 24-30 July 2022
Mind this date! Information: https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress
8. Fellowship of the American Druze Foundation, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University
The Fellowship is to promote research on the Druze and Arab minorities with a concentration in the political, economic, and social history of the Druze. It supports academic research in the disciplines of history, political science, sociology, economics, anthropology, and archaeology.
Deadline for applications: 1 December 2020. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/78701
9. Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University
The fellowship supports a recent Ph.D. working on the topic of U.S.-Arab relations, Arab Studies, or Islamic Studies for one academic year ($60,000 plus benefits). The post-doctoral fellow will transform their Ph.D. dissertation into a publication, teach a small seminar on a topic of their choosing in either the fall or spring semester, and deliver a lecture at CCAS about their research. We also will support the Fellow to travel to Qatar and deliver a lecture at an educational institution in Doha.
Deadline for applications: 1 December 2020. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/78670
10. Mekka and Medina Maps and Illustrations: from 15th to 20th Century
Mehmet Tütüncü with contributions from Atef Alshehri (Medina-Riyadh), Ahmed Ameen (Fayoum University -Egypt) and İbrahim Yılmaz (Erzurum).
30×30 cm, hardcover luxurious paper and print total 182 pages
ISBN 978-90-6921-022-3
SOTA / Research Centre for Tukish and Arabic World
11. Muthanna/Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy. History, Theory and Aesthetics
Esra Akın-Kıvanç
Indiana University Press, 2020
https://iupress.org/9780253049209/muthanna-mirror-writing-in-islamic-calligraphy/
- September 22, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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1.Middle East Women’s Activism digital archive is a collection of interviews with 96 women of different generations in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, which form the basis of a monograph, entitled, Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. All interviews were conducted by Nicola Pratt, University of Warwick, in 2013-2014 as part of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship exploring the relationship between gender and geopolitics in the context of the Middle East. The research received approval from the University of Warwick Humanities and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee and consent was given at the time of interview to make this material publicly available.
The archive will be of interest to researchers in the fields of gender studies and post-independence social history in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. The interviews consist of women’s personal narratives of their family background and education, how they became involved in public work (al-‘amal al-‘am), information about their activism and how it has changed over time and the impact of/their involvement in major national events, amongst other details. More.
2. The Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize in Islamic Art and Culture
Deadline: November 15, 2020
Every year the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) sponsors a competition and awards the Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize for the best unpublished essay written by a junior scholar (pre-dissertation graduate student to three years after the Ph.D. degree) on any aspect of Islamic visual culture. This competition is open to HIAA members only. The Ševčenko Prize recipient receives an award of $500 and a citation, generally presented at HIAA’s annual business meeting. The Prize is named in memory of Margaret Bentley Ševčenko, the first and long-serving Managing Editor of Muqarnas, a journal devoted to the visual culture of the Islamic world and sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard and at MIT. The winning essay will be considered for publication by the MuqarnasEditorial Board.
Submissions must include the paper in both Word and PDF format, and a separate sheet with the author’s contact information (address, telephone number, and email address). Papers should not exceed 10,000 words in length (including footnotes) and can be accompanied by up to 15 low-res illustrations.
Please note that submissions cannot be in press or under review with any publisher.
A letter of recommendation for the paper should be sent separately by the author’s adviser or referee.
All materials should be submitted by email to the Ševčenko committee chair, Hala Auji (sevcenko.hiaa@gmail.com) by November 15, 2020. Files exceeding 5 Mb should be transferred by FTP.
For further details, please visit: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/the-margaret-ševčenko-prize-in-islamic-art-and-culture
3. The Iran Society invites applications, through British Institute of Persian Studies, for a ONE YEAR bursary of £5000 for 2020-21 to enable a final year PhD student at a UK Higher Educational Institution (university, museum or similar) to complete and, time permitting, initiate a post-doctoral research project. The bursary may be divided into £2500 each for two finalists for the same purpose.
Applicants will need to provide:
- a curriculum vitae (CV);
- a brief summary of the project in under 100 words and a longer description in greater detail in not more than 700 words;
- a timeline plan indicating the stages of their project and the anticipated final date of submission;
- realistic details of their current funding position, budget and the costs of the study up to completion. If they will complete well within the year, they must give the financial details involved in any postdoctoral project till the final date of this award;
- names of two referees, one of whom should be their supervisor.
Publication is an absolute condition of the award, as is acknowledgement of both the Iran Society and BIPS, who will be administering it. The Iran Society and BIPS should see and approve the appropriate acknowledgement of funding in any proposed publication prior to its actual appearance.
Enquiries and applications should be sent by email to reach the BIPS Executive Officer (bips@britac.ac.uk ) no later than 11th October 2020 at 6.00 p.m. UK time. The referees should be requested to send their references directly to the Executive Officer. It is the responsibility of the applicants to ensure that the application form and references arrive by the deadline; late applications, or those without references, will not be considered.
See: https://www.bips.ac.uk/iran-society-bursary/
- September 19, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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1.The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, is pleased to announce that “Byzantine Pieces of an Umayyad Puzzle: A Basalt Platform in the Azraq Oasis” has been rescheduled. In this lecture, Dr. Alexander Brey, Wellesley College, will discuss an Umayyad-era basalt reservoir platform built within the Azraq oasis in eastern Jordan and places its carved interlocking stones in conservation with early Byzantine zodiac and celestial diagrams.
October 1, 2020 | Zoom | 4:00–5:00 pm (Eastern time)
This lecture will take place live on ZOOM, followed by a question and answer period. Please register to receive the ZOOM link. An email with the relevant ZOOM information will be sent 1–2 hours ahead of the lecture. Registration closes at 11:00 AM on October 1, 2020.
Register here: https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/byzantine-pieces-of-an-umayyad-puzzle-a-basalt-platform-in-the-azraq-oasis
Mary Jaharis Center lectures are co-sponsored by Harvard University Standing Committee on Medieval Studies.
Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, with any questions.
2. Turkish History and Culture in India: Identity, Art and Transregional Connections
co-edited by A.C.S. Peacock and Richard Piran McClary.
Leiden: Brill, 2020
https://brill.com/view/title/57315?language=en
3. Sheikh Zayed Book Award (9 categories) | Final Call for Submissions to 15th edition | 1 October 2020
Examples of previous winners
Marina Warner (Arabic Culture in Other Languages, 2013); Amin Maalouf (Cultural Personality of the Year, 2016); Ibitisam Barakat (Children’s Literature, 2020); and Moncef Ouhaibi (Literature, 2020).
Award categories include:
● Arabic Culture in Other Languages
● Translation (either to or from Arabic)
● Literature (including fiction, poetry and plays)
● Literary and Art Criticism
● Young Author (for writers under the age of 40)
● Children’s & Adolescent Literature
● Publishing & Technology
● Contribution to the Development of Nations
● Cultural Personality of the Year
For further information:
https://www.zayedaward.ae/en/how.to.nominate.aspx
4. Mideastwire announces free access to the Taliban Source Project
Through a partnership with Thesigers, the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (FFI) and the University of Oslo, Mideastwire.com has translated and is now making available 1,452 separate translations drawn from nine years of the Taliban’s Arabic language magazine, Al-Samood (Issues 1-99/2006-2014), which together constitute the overwhelming bulk of the Taliban Source Project (TSP) database.
Unfortunately, the TSP as a whole and our translations of Al-Samood specifically were only made available this year because of what we believe was a fundamental misunderstanding of the project and its implication.
Indeed, several years ago, the British Library, which was supposed to serve as the sole repository, judged that the archive contained some material that could contravene the Terrorism Act.
Thankfully, the University of Oslo recently stepped up and hosted the project, thereby recognizing how freely available, high-quality translations – especially of one’s purported adversary – can actually lead to greater understanding and, potentially, peace-building.
The material in both the original Arabic (downloadable PDF for each month) and English are all searchable in full.
Register at: https://www.mideastwire15years.com/
5. The HIAA Biennial Symposium, originally planned for October 2020, was postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. We are now writing to announce that the event will be held remotely by the University of Michigan on April 15-17, 2021. Please mark your virtual calendars!
We are currently revising the symposium program in order to accommodate our participants’ various time zones. Thank you for staying tuned for more information as we revise the schedule of panels and talks.
The remote pivot notwithstanding, we are so looking forward to hosting the HIAA Biennial Symposium remotely in April 2021! If any questions pop up, please do not hesitate to contact us at besener@umich.edu.
All best wishes,
Christiane Gruber and Bihter Esener
5. ONLINE: Conference via Zoom: “The Concept of Death, and the Concept of Life in Judaism, Christianity and Islam”, Research Unit “Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses”, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 23-24 September 2020
It is possible to join the conference after registration. Please contact Mr. Fabian Schmidmeier fabian.schmidmeier@fau.de. Program: https://www.kcid.fau.de/files/2020/09/program_online_conference_the-concept-of-life-and-the-concept-of-death-in-judaism.pdf
6. ONLINE: “4th Annual Late Antique, Islamic, and Byzantine Studies Conference”, University of Edinburgh, 19-21 November 2020
The conference focuses on disasters (natural, “manmade” or “supernatural”) that shape historical memory and our understanding of the past, concentrating on the problematic relations between catastrophes and memory in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine societies.
Information and registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/4th-annual-edinburgh-late-antique-islamic-and-byzantine-conference-tickets-117904135443
7. POSTPONED: Conference: “The Middle East c.1960-1980. Global and Transnational Perspectives“, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 5 March 2021; Postponed, New Date to be Announced
The Conference will look at the ways in which events in the Middle East were shaped by global and transnational contexts and, in turn, the impact events in the region exercised on other parts of the world.
8. Symposium on “Alanya and Alaaddin Keykubat on the Eve of 800th Year of Conquest”, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, 21-22 April 2021
The symposium will focus on Sultan Alaaddin Keykubat and the history of Alanya during Seljukid, Ottoman and Republican periods.
Information: https://selcuklu.alanya.edu.tr/ctrcms/media/61/tmp//2020_05_11_alanya_sempozyum_call_for_papers_EN.pdf
9. Post-Doctoral Researcher (3 Years) in Islamic Manuscripts of Sumatra, SOAS, University of London
Requirements: PhD, or be very close to completion of a PhD, in a relevant subject (i.e. philology, codicology, textual or literary analysis, history and/or ethnography utilising Islamic manuscripts in Malay and/or Arabic and/or other relevant languages); etc.
Deadline for applications: 3 October 2020. Information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CBK758/post-doctoral-researcher-in-islamic-manuscripts-of-sumatra?uuid=aeb9c14b-f17f-11ea-a3a3-064da8edb92a&campaign=jbew20200908&source=jbe
10. Articles on “Feminist Political Economy in the Arab Region” for a Special Issue of the Journal “Al-Raida”
This issue of Al-Raida asks what feminist political economy, or FPE, can contribute as a critical framework for analyzing, understanding, and challenging dominant socioeconomic and political systems in the Arab Region. With an emphasis on process, FPE examines the lived realities of social difference, and the constraints and pressures of the everyday under global capitalism.
Deadline for full-length article: 27 November 2020. Information: http://alraidajournal.com/index.php/ALRJ/announcement/view/5
11. Articles for “Al Noor”, the Undergraduate Middle Eastern Studies Journal of Boston College
Our aims: – Facilitate a nonpartisan, unbiased conversation within the Boston College community and beyond about the Middle East. – Provide a medium for students to publish research on the Middle East. – Promote diverse opinions and present a comprehensive view of the myriad of cultures, histories, and perspectives of the Middle East
Deadline for submissions: 11 October 2020. Information: https://www.bcalnoor.org/ and https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/09/10/al-noor-fall-2020
12. ARIT Summer Fellowships for Advanced Turkish Language in Istanbul offers intensive advanced study of Turkish at Bogazici University during the summer 2021. Participants must have two years of Turkish language study or the equivalent. The fellowships cover round-trip airfare to Istanbul, application and tuition fees, and a maintenance stipend. The application deadline will be in early February, 2021.
For additional information please see the ARIT webpage at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT/FellowshipPrograms.html
13. The Silk Road: Crafting global futures, global pasts
Panel Proposal, International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS )12
Kyoto, Japan, 24-27 August 2021
Prof Tim Winter, University of Western Australia
Deadline for Abstracts 25th September 2020
The Silk Road has emerged as one of the key geocultural and geostrategic concepts of the 21st century. Built around narratives of maritime and overland trade and exchange connecting Asia with Africa and Europe, Silk Road discourses are rewriting histories, remapping futures. In the age of Belt and Road, they now operate as platforms for international trade, diplomacy, infrastructure development and statecraft.
The ascendancy of the Silk Road in international affairs means it is also fast gaining currency across academic disciplines, migrating outwards from Archaeology, Asian Studies and History into International Relations, Political Geography, Religious Studies, Public Health and Urban Studies, to name a few. Such developments raise important questions about how to interrogate and locate the Silk Roads, conceptually and empirically.
In China’s worldview the Silk Roads serve as both ‘shared heritage’ and ‘shared destiny’. So what does the idea of ‘reviving’ them for the 21st century tell us about global futures? How are we to read the Health Silk Road as a platform for COVID-19 medical cooperation across Asia and beyond? What’s really at stake in the Digital Silk Roads? And is the push for Silk Road narratives finally putting Asia at the centre of global history?
In exploring such themes, this panel takes the Silk Road as a topic of critical investigation. It addresses the urgent need to take Silk Road discourses seriously, interrogating the work they do crafting both pasts and futures around certain themes, ideologies and structural relations.
Papers are welcome that consider the Silk Roads across different contexts, in academia or policy.
Please send 250 word abstracts and author details to Tim Winter, tim.winter@uwa.edu.au by 25th September 2020.
See: silkroadfutures.net
14. Call for Papers: 4th Islamicate Digital Humanities Conference
We are calling for contributions from both members and guests employing digital methods in their research within the Islamicate Studies and related fields in the Humanities, as well as from our colleagues in Linguistics and Computer Science.
We will have four to six presentations of 20 minutes each in which you can introduce your project and share your expertise and questions with the network.
To contribute, send an email to info@idhn.org with the preliminary title, an abstract of 150 to 250 words, and your academic affiliation until October 2nd, 2020. We encourage submissions from those in Graduate School or beyond. Find more information on www.idhn.org and join at https://idhn.org/contact/.
15. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: SoFCB JUNIOR FELLOWS PROGRAM
Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) invites applications for its 2021–23 cohort of junior fellows. The deadline is Monday, 2 November 2020.
Continuing the work of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography (2012–17), this scholarly society works to advance the study of texts, images, and artifacts as material objects through capacious, interdisciplinary scholarship—and to enrich humanistic inquiry and education by identifying, mentoring, and training promising early-career scholars. Junior Fellows will be encouraged and supported in integrating the methods of critical bibliography into their teaching and research, fostering collegial conversations about historical and emerging media across disciplines and institutions, and sharing their knowledge with broader publics.
The fellowship includes tuition waivers for two Rare Book School courses, as well as funding for Junior Fellows to participate in the Society’s annual meeting and orientation. Additional funds are available for fellows to organize symposia at their home institutions, and fellows will have the option of attending a bibliographical field school to visit libraries, archives, and collections in a major metropolitan area. After completing two years in good standing as Junior Fellows, program participants will have the option to become Senior Fellows in the Society.
The Society is committed to supporting diversity and to advancing the scholarship of outstanding persons of every race, gender, sexual orientation, creed, and socioeconomic background, and to enhancing the diversity of the professions and academic disciplines it represents, including those of the professoriate, museums, libraries, archives, public humanities, and digital humanities. We warmly encourage prospective applicants from a wide range of disciplines, institutions, and areas of expertise.
For more information and to apply, please visit:
http://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/sofcb/
For more information about diversity and the SoFCB, please visit the SoFCB Diversity & Outreach Committee’s Welcome Letter: https://rarebookschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/SoFCB_Welcome_Letter_2020.pdf
Inquiries about the SoFCB Junior Fellows Program can be directed to Sonia Hazard, SoFCB Selection Committee Chair, at shazard@fsu.edu, or Donna Sy, SoFCB Administrative Director, at rbs-mellon@virginia.edu.
- September 15, 2020
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Tributaries and Peripheries of the Ottoman Empire
Ed G Karman
Leiden: Brill, 2020
https://brill.com/view/title/56530
2. ONLINE: 4th Islamicate Digital Humanities Conference of the Islamicate Digital Humanities Network (IDHN), 18 November 2020
We are calling for contributions from both members and guests employing digital methods in their research within the Islamicate Studies and related fields in the Humanities, as well as from our colleagues in Linguistics and Computer Science. We encourage submissions from those in Graduate School or beyond.
Deadline for submissions: 2 October 2020. Information: www.idhn.org
3. Conference: “Knowledge Systems and Ottoman-European Encounters: Spatial and Social Dynamics”, University of Zurich, 21-23 January 2021
The conference will focus on knowledge from or about the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period, addressing two questions: from a spatial perspective, how can the Ottoman Empire be included into a European history of knowledge? From a social viewpoint: how was knowledge inside or about the Ottoman Empire organized and what kind of social functions can there be distinguished?
4. Visiting Professorship (6 Months) at Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) under the Kuwait Program, Sciences Po, Paris
The visiting professorship will start 6 January 2021. We are seeking professors or researchers who are full-time faculty members of professorial rank from the social sciences or economics with a Middle East/Gulf focus.
Application deadline: 15 September 2020. Information: https://www.sciencespo.fr/kuwait-program/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Call_KSP_Visting_Faculty_Spring_2021_V2.pdf
5. 30 Fellowships for10 Months per Academic Year (Focus Mediterranean Studies) Offered by “French Institutes for Advanced Study” at High-level Scientific Residencies in Paris, Lyon, Marseille, and Montpellier
The fellowships are offered to outstanding researchers of all career levels. The minimum requirement is a PhD + 2 years of research experience at the time of the application. Exception will be made for scholars with a Master + 6 years of full‐time research experience after the degree. Researchers from all countries are eligible, but they have to have spent no more than 12 months in France during the three years prior to the application deadline.
Deadline for applications: 15 September 2020. Information: https://www.fias-fp.eu/
6. Book Proposals for New Series on “Cinema and Media Cultures in the Middle East“, Peter Lang Publishing
The purpose of the series is to demarcate and critically examine the shifting terrain of film- and media-making in the Middle East, and of practices of film and media studies regarding it, testing them both against their larger, social enabling conditions at the national, regional, and transnational levels. Titles in the series will engage recent developments in the field of Middle East film and media studies.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6380782/cinema-and-media-cultures-middle-east
7. The Arab Regional Center for World Heritage (ARC-WH) has launched the Dr. Ahmad Yusuf Al-Ubaydli Award for the Study of Ancient Arab Dialects and Societies. The award will help shed light on the traditional Arabic languages and dialects that are threatened and disappearing, in addition to encouraging scientific research to enhance efforts of preserving intangible cultural heritage in the Arab world.The award covers all regions of the Arab world.
Regional and international researchers are invited to participate by presenting research or literature in Arabic or English that focus on various topics and areas of interest. Studies or text presented must be in line with the scientific method of analysis.The award includes the following areas: contemporary Arab societies that speak languages such as Dhofari, Mehri, and Socotran, as well as various forms of text and writings widespread in the Arabian Peninsula.
The deadline for submission is 1 June 2021. Those wishing to apply for the award must fill out of the form provided on ARC-WH’s website and send their research proposal to ARC-WH electronically via e-mail to info@arcwh.org <mailto:info@arcwh.org>. Contestants can also send their proposal to the following address: P.O. Box 75553, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain.
8. CFP for METHODOS 22 “Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language”
Guest Editors Shahid Rahman and Walter Young invite submission of papers to be
published in “Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language,” the
forthcoming issue of Methodos, the online review of the research unit
« Savoirs, Textes, Langage » (UMR 8163 – CNRS, Université de Lille)
(http://methodos.revues.org)
Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language
The domain of Islamic thought and intellectual history boasts an important
body of studies relevant to the Arabic philosophy of language, as well as a
growing interest in Islamic argumentation theory and practice. There remains,
however, a dearth of volumes which pool research from both areas and examine
them together. Filling this gap is more critical than ever; in our time,
significant work is being conducted in argumentation theory, but little of it
draws from, or relates to, the rich intellectual traditions of Islam
(exceedingly few argumentation specialists have heard, for example, of Islamic
traditions of dialectical theory [jadal, munāẓara, ādāb al-baḥth], much less
benefited from the millennium of discussions and solutions they contain).
With this in mind, the main objective of this volume of Methodos is to provide
a venue for studies of hermeneutics, linguistic analysis, and deductive
reasoning (formal and informal) in the theory / practice of argumentation
relevant to the Arabic philosophy of language, including contributions on: (1)
theories which are geared towards argument (e.g., dialectical justifications
and objections, linguistic fallacies, strategies and protocols for engagement
on particular issues, etc.); (2) the dynamic of argument in shaping concepts
and theories (e.g., explaining how systematic argument fashioned certain
scholars’ solutions); and (3) theories “in action” (e.g., argument analyses of
the historical, scholarly dialectic on a certain problem).
Understanding that interdisciplinarity is a quintessential feature of
premodern Islamic thought, we are also particularly eager to attract
contributions on Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language from a broad
spectrum of premodern Islamic disciplines (philosophy, theology, law and legal
theory, logic, dialectic, rhetoric, philology, grammar, linguistics, exegesis,
etc.) so as to provide testimony for the dynamic “unity in diversity” of
Islamic thought.
SUBMISSION OF PAPER PROPOSALS
Paper proposals (2500 characters) are to be sent electronically, in Word and
PDF formats, to Leone Gazziero (leone.gazziero@univ-lille.fr) and Florence
Thill (florence.thill@univ-lille.fr).
DEADLINE: 20 JANUARY 2021
Accepted languages : French, German, Italian, English.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Once a proposal has been accepted, the authors will send their text in
accordance with the guidelines described under « Conditions de publication et
instructions aux auteurs » on the review’s website
(http://methodos.revues.org/2124).
DEADLINE: 15 MAY 2021
9. Call for chapters: Marriage and Forced Migration: New Understandings of Conjugal Relationships in the Middle East and North Africa
- Edited by: Yafa Shanneik, Mulki al-Sharmani and Farah Al Taji
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has experienced, since the beginning of the 21st century, large-scale forced movement of populations who fled wars in countries such as Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia. The absorption of millions of these refugees, including (un)recognised asylum seekers, in neighbouring countries creates a number of significant socio-economic and political challenges. This massive forced population movement also resulted in ruptures of traditional understandings of family structures and gender roles defined by religio-cultural norms and values of both new-comers and of receiving societies.
This edited volume seeks to analyse conjugal relationships and matrimonial practices (marriage and divorce) as they are being debated and developed in theory and practice in the MENA region. We aim to explore to what extent the conflict- and crises-induced displacement of people contribute to the emergence of new understandings of family structures and relationships and their wider religious and socio-economic context. While there is a growing body of research on gender and sexuality in the MENA region and legislative or judicial approaches towards questions of Islamic family law, fewer studies have given attention to the impact of the significant refugee flows on the emergence of new conjugal relationship norms and practices in the MENA region.
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 September 2020
Abstracts of 300-500 words need to specify the empirical research and/or methodological and conceptual discussions the chapter is based on and the broader questions addressed. We also need a short bio of up to 200 words. The abstract and the bio need to be sent as one email attachment in MS Word format to Yafa Shanneik: y.shanneik@bham.ac.uk with ‘abstract and bio’ and your last name in the subject heading.
Further information at:
10. Posts: Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh
Alwaleed Lecturer in the Globalised Muslim World: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=053049
Alwaleed Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow: Contemporary Muslim Societies in Southeast Asia: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=053050
The closing date for both posts is the 7th October.
Interviews for both posts will take place online towards the end of October.
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. University of Toronto – Mississauga – Assistant Professor – History of Islamic Art and Architecture
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60314
All application materials, including reference letters, must be received by September 30, 2020
2. MOON AND SUN, a bilingual edition of translations of Rumi’s rubaiyat, is now available in both hardcover and eBook formats.
You can find more information and purchase the book here: https://zarahoushmand.com/moon-and-sun/
3. Tehran Islamic Studies Monitor (TehranISM)
TehranISM is a series of conversations addressing Islamic studies across the world. The aim of conversations is to link “Western” and “non-Western” study of Islam. In particular, it aims at engaging more Iranian scholars and students with the state of the art in global Islamic studies.
Each conversation will focus on one recently published work about Islam. The structure of each conversation consists of: 5 minutes “introduction” by the host; 15 minutes “comments” by the discussant; and 20-30 minutes “response” by the author and the Q&A period.
For full information, see: https://ftis.ut.ac.ir/en/tehranism
September 3, 11 am (EDT), 16 (BST), 19:30 (Iran daylight time)
The Qur’an and the Bible: Text and Commentary.
Author: Gabriel Said Reynolds (University of Notre Dame)
Discussant: Mohsen Goudarzi (University of Minnesota)
September 10, 10 am (EDT), 15 (BST), 18:30 (Iran daylight time)
Teaching and learning the sciences in Islamicate societies (800-1700)
Author: Sonja Brentjes (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
Discussant: Amir Mohammad Gamini (University of Tehran)
September 17, 10 am (EDT), 15 (BST), 18:30 (Iran daylight time)
A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī
Author: Konrad Hirschler (Freie Universität Berlin)
Discussant: TBA
September 24, 10 am (EDT), 15 (BST), 17:30 (Iran standard time)
Qur’anic Hermeneutics: Between Science, History, and the Bible
Author: Abdulla Galadari (Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi)
Discussant: Kurt Andres Richardson (University of Toronto)
October 1, 10 am (EDT), 15 (BST), 17:30 (Iran standard time)
Author: Marijn van Putten (Leiden University)
Discussant: Ala Vahidnia (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran)
Further inquiries: feyzbakhsh@ut.ac.ir
4. Monash University is starting an open-to-public online seminar series on the medieval Sufi master Ibn Arabi (d.1240), titled “The Hidden Treasure.”
It will meet on the first Saturday of every month, and the inaugural seminar will be delivered by Dr. Stephen Hirtenstein (Ibn Arabi Society, UK) on Sept.5 (at 10am in London time). The seminars will be composed of 30-minute presentations by the speaker followed by 30 minutes of question and answer with the audience. See the link and the attachment for more info and for free registration: https://www.monash.edu/arts/Ibn-Arabi-Interreligious-Research-Initiative/news-and-events/events/events/the-hidden-treasure-ibn-arabi-seminar-series2 The following talk will be delivered by Prof. Pablo Beneito (Uni. Murcia, Spain) on Oct.3, and the series will feature other distinguished experts on Ibn Arabi.
5. Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II: Live and Afterlives of an Iconic Image
Elizabeth Rodini
IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2020
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gentile-bellinis-portrait-of-sultan-mehmed-ii-9781838604813/
6. Le judaïsme persique
Le double sens de l’assimilation
de Reza ROKOEE
Editions du Cygne, 2020
http://www.editionsducygne.com/editions-du-cygne-judaisme-persique.html
- September 07, 2020
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Modern Hadith Studies
Continuing Debates and New Approaches
Edited by Belal Abu-Alabbas, Christopher Melchert, Michael Dann
Edinburgh University Press, 2020
2. The Department of History and the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at Amherst College invite applications for a joint tenure-track appointment at the rank of assistant professor in South Asian history, broadly defined.
Amherst College is one of the most diverse liberal arts colleges in the country. Forty-five percent of our students identify as domestic students of color, and another 9 percent are international, with non-U.S. citizenship; 14 percent are the first members of their families to attend college. Amherst is committed to providing financial aid that meets 100 percent of every student’s demonstrated need, and 57 percent of our students receive financial aid. Our expectation is that the successful candidate will excel at teaching and mentoring students who are broadly diverse with regard to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and religion.
We welcome applications from candidates in any specialization who are prepared to teach courses in both pre-modern and modern South Asian history, and who have strong commitments to scholarship and to teaching a diverse undergraduate student body. The teaching load is two courses per semester. The successful candidate will also be expected to advise senior thesis projects in both departments and to participate in the life of the college. Candidates must have the Ph.D. in history or a related field in hand, or all requirements for the degree must be fulfilled by the start of the appointment on July 1, 2021.
See: https://apply.interfolio.com/77685
Candidates who progress beyond the initial review will be asked to submit three letters of recommendation, a writing sample, and syllabi for two proposed courses. Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2020, and continue until the position is filled. Questions may be directed to Professor Trent Maxey, chair of the Asian Languages and Civilizations Department, at tmaxey@amherst.edu.
Amherst College is an equal opportunity employer and encourages persons of all genders, persons of color, and persons with disabilities to apply. The college is committed to enriching its educational experience and its culture through the diversity of its faculty, administration, and staff.
3. Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University
Fall 2020 Series
Islam in Africa: Material Histories
Dear colleagues and friends,
We are delighted to announce below the lineup for our fall lecture series Islam in Africa: Material Histories. Due to the ongoing restrictions imposed by the pandemic, this will be an online series in the form of Webinars. We are extremely grateful to our speakers for agreeing to participate in this format.
To accommodate audiences in the US and abroad, for this semester we are changing the timing of our lectures to 12.30-2.30 ET (New York time).
Each event will take place as a live Webinar at 12.30 ET New York (equivalent to 17.30 Abuja & London; 18.30 Berlin & Cape Town; 19.30 Addis & Beirut; 21.30 Islamabad; 22.00 Delhi; 23.30 Jakarta). Links to register are posted on the web pages for each event (https://as.nyu.edu/silsila/events.html). You will then receive a link enabling you to access the event as an attendee. Only registered attendees will be able to access the event.
We look forward to welcoming you back to Silsila, virtually.
Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, “Islam in Africa: Material Histories”
Sep 9th “THE LOST ARCHIVE – TRACES OF A CALIPHATE IN A CAIRO SYNAGOGUE” Marina Rustow, Princeton University
Sep 16th “SWAHILI MOSQUES BETWEEN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN” Stéphane Pradines, Aga Khan University, London
Sep 23rd “CONTINUITIES AND CROSSINGS – EAST AFRICAN ILLUMINATED QUR’ANS FROM FAZA AND SIYU” Zulfikar Hirji, York University, Toronto
Sep 30th “ITEMS OF VALUE IN THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN” Stephanie Wynne-Jones, University of York
Oct 7th “BROKER STATES & THE ARTICULATION OF MEDIEVAL AFRICA WITH THE ISLAMIC WORLD” François-Xavier Fauvelle, Collège de France
Oct 14th “THE PALACE OF KING NJOYA – COLONIALISM, MODERNITY, AND ISLAM” Mark DeLancey, DePaul University
Oct 20th “RELATIONS BETWEEN THE MAGHREB AND THE BILAD AL-SUDAN AT THE TIME OF THE BERBER EMPIRES” Mehdi Ghouirgate, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne
Oct 22nd “TRANS-SAHARAN SLAVERY AND GNAWA GUINBRI – FROM CONCEALMENT TO EXHIBITION” Cynthia Becker, Boston University
Oct 28th “THE TARIKH AL-FATTASH AND THE MAKING OF THE CALIPHATE OF HAMDALLAHI” Mauro Nobili, University of Illinois
Nov 4th “BECOMING MUSLIM. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ISLAMISATION AND TRADE IN EASTERN ETHIOPIA” Timothy Insoll, University of Exeter
Nov 11th “DETERMINANT INDETERMINACIES – ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF A SENEGALESE SUFI SAINT” Allen F. Roberts, UCLA
Nov 18th “PAPERS OF ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS AS GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATORS” Anne Regourd, CNRS, Paris
Nov 24th “TIMBUKTU, THE SCHOLARS, AND RULERS: AHMAD BABA TINBUKTI’s Jalb al–ni‘ma wa daf‘ al-niqma bi mujānabat al-wulāt al-ẓalama (How to obtain blessing and avoid divine anger by avoiding unjust rulers)” Shamil Jeppie, University of Cape Town
Dec 2nd “GOLD WORK: TECHNIQUES AND EXCHANGE ACROSS THE SAHARA” Sarah Guérin, University of Pennsylvania
Dec 9th “AFRICA IN THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD – THE PROBLEM OF MARGINS IN ART HISTORY” Prita Meier, NYU
4. “Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online” is an emerging platform of digital resources to aid the teaching of the history of Islamic art and architecture. In its initial stage, the platform provides original multimedia content developed by scholars from across the field of Islamic art, which is intended to aid educators in the creation of an interactive learning environment and to contribute to new ways of teaching in general, bringing new voices, perspectives, and materials into our classrooms. The project is spearheaded by Prof. Christiane Gruber at the University of Michigan and a team of six collaborators. Team Khamseen will make this material available to public audiences, with the aim to establish and expand a website with additional resources over the coming months.
Currently available mini-multimedia files include the following presentations, which were kindly (and very swiftly) provided by international experts. We hope these will prove useful to those teaching remotely this fall semester:
Water and Sound in Islamic Architecture
The Egyptian Tentmakers and the Art of Khayamiya
Islamic Art at the Walters Art Museum
İbrahim Müteferrika and the First Printed Books of the Islamic World
Touching Mecca & Medina: The Dalā’il al-Khayrāt and Devotional Practices
Gruber, Christiane and Paroma Chaterjee.
[available online with closed captions here]
A Safavid Painting of the Prophet Muhammad’s Mi‘raj
[available online with closed captions here]
Persian Painting in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century: Farangi Sâzi Safavid Paintings
Dome of the Rock: Original Mosaics
The Paintings of Osman Hamdi Bey
The Khanqah of Baybar al-Jashinkir, 1306-1310
Islamic Arms and Armor: A Look at Dhu’l Fiqar, ‘Ali’s Miraculous Sword
Mahmoud Mukhtar’s Khamasin: Scuplture in Modern Egypt
The Stuart Cary Welch Islamic & South Asian Photograph Collection
Contextualizing the Hünername (Book of Talents)
Monumental Mosques in Latin America
Khamseen is an ongoing project and more material will be included on a rolling basis. For any questions, or if you are interested in contributing a mini multi-media file, please contact Sandy Williams (University of Michigan) at sswill@umich.edu.
5. ONLINE: International eConference on Interreligious Dialogue, Global Center for Religious Research (GCRR), 4-6 December 2020
The conference will bring together religion scholars, specialists, and practitioners of different faith traditions (from all over the world) to discuss the various complexities, problems, and solutions resulting from interreligious dialogue.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2020. Information: https://www.gcrr.org/2020interreligiousdialogue
6. 3rd ANU Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian National University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2020 – POSTPONED to 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. British Academy Postdoc Fellowships (3 Years) for Outstanding Early Career Researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Any nationals from the European Economic Area are eligible, regardless of where their doctorate was obtained. Eligible applicants are expected to be at an early stage of their career. This is defined as being within three years from the date of your successful Viva Voce examination.
Deadline for application: 14 October 2020.
Information: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/postdoctoral-fellowships/
8. Postdoctoral Fellowship (11 Months) for Research on Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and Persian Sources on Religion in the Ottoman Empire (15th -18th Centuries), Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
Application requirements: PhD degree in history, Islamic Studies, or a related field; near-native fluency in English and an excellent command of Ottoman Turkish, Persian and Arabic; experience in translating primary sources.
Deadline for applications: 4 September 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/6348878/cfa-postdoc-opportunity-bogazici-university-early-modern-ottoman
9. Up to 40 Scholarships (3 or 6 Months) for Historical Research on Near Eastern Civilizations and the Islamic World, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton University
Requirements: Substantial record of publications and a PhD awarded by no later than 31 December 2019.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2020. Information: https://www.hs.ias.edu/mem_announcement
10. Up to 40 Residential Fellowships at the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Dakota
Mid-career and senior scholars from all over the world are encouraged to apply. Emerging scholars with a strong record of peer-reviewed work may also apply. In addition to scholars from all fields of the humanities, the Center accepts individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects.
Deadline for applications: 8 October 2020.
Information: https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/become-a-fellow/
11. Articles on “Islamic Theologies of Disasters: Between Science, Religion and Messianism” for Special Issue of “MIDEO” 38 (2023)
This issue of MIDEO is devoted to the Islamic theology of catastrophes at different periods of history, in ancient, modern and contemporary theological thought.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2021.
Information: https://www.ideo-cairo.org/en/2020/07/call-for-papers-islamic-theologies-of-disasters/
12. Articles on “Historizing Islamophobia” for Special Issue of “Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam”
We seek articles that present counter-hegemonic analyses, approaches and concepts, examining Islamophobia as a longer and more complex phenomenon. We are especially interested in papers which examine how settler-colonial projects against Indigenous communities and colonized communities have informed Islamophobia formations across varying national, social and political contexts.
Deadline for submissions: 20 February 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6142269/special-issue-%E2%80%9Chistorizing-islamophobia%E2%80%9D
13. Editors and Contributors on Middle Eastern, Persian and Iranian Studies for “The Digital Orientalist”
This is the digital magazine and arm the “American Oriental Society”. Editors will be expected to contribute 5-6 posts between September 2020 and June 2021. We are also looking for people who contribute guest posts or series of guests posts on the Digital Humanities in General, Islamic Studies, Syriac Studies etc.
Information: https://digitalorientalist.com/2020/06/30/open-call-for-editors-and-contributiors/
- August 31, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. International Conference on Gender Studies: “Mapping Gender”, Cambridge, UK, 5-6 December 2020
The conference seeks to explore the past and current status of gender identity around the world, to examine the ways in which society is shaped by gender and to situate gender in relation to the full scope of human affairs. Online participation is available. Presented papers will be published in a post-conference volume.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2020. Information: https://genderstudies.lcir.co.uk/home/
2. Doctoral Contract for Research on “History: Places and Uses of Popular Arabic Tales in the Contemporary Levant (19th – 21st Century)”, Université Jean Moulin, Lyon
Applicants should hold a MA in Middle Eastern studies, the humanities, or social sciences, as well art history and architecture, at the time of submission of their project. The selected candidate will have to register in doctoral studies in Modern and Contemporary History at the Université Lyon 3 before the beginning of the contract.
Deadline for applications: 15 September 2020.
Information: https://www.ifporient.org/offre-de-contrat-doctoral-anr-lipol/
3. Fellowship in Turkish Studies for Research Visit (1-3 Months) at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna
The fellowship is open to advanced doctoral candidates and postdoctoral/early stage researchers studying a specific subject in Turkish studies. We particularly welcome applications that expand the current research focus of the Department (i.e. environmental history, history of technology, digital humanities, consumption history, history of tourism, and cultural heritage).
Deadline for applications: 1 October 2020.
Information: https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/forschung/fellowships/andreas-tietze-memorial-fellowship/
4. Winter School: “The State in Flux”, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, 3-13 January 2021
This program is open to advanced graduate students/early career researchers in the social sciences and humanities in the US, UK, Canada, and Europe. The objective is to provide an in-depth and critical look at specifically selected topics in the broader study of the Middle East.
Deadline for applications: 30 September 2020. Information: https://www.dohainstitute.org/en/Events/The-Second-Graduate-Winter-School-program/Pages/index.aspx
5. Articles on “Media Reporting of COVID19 and the Challenges of the Digital Environment” for Special Issue of “Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research”
Topics include: Media representation of the COVID19 pandemic; Serious journalism versus sensational reporting; Ethics and fake news in COVID19 reporting; Media coverage of the pandemic as ideological manipulation; Contested narratives: comparing global media’s case studies; etc.
Deadlines for abstracts: 30 August 2020.
Information: http://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arab-muslim-media-research
6. Chapters for Edited Volume on “The Gendered Arab”
Topics include: The criteria of cisheteronormative masculinity in the Arab world; the unparalleled perceptions of the Arabian male figure in comparison to the traditional Non-Arab patriarchal archetype; conceptualizing the role of the domesticated Arab mother in terms of comparative individuality with the Western notion of motherness; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2020.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6345674/gendered-arab
7. Call for papers: “Gather Up Fragments” – Digital Philology
We are calling for short case studies on individual fragments or dismembered manuscripts for a special issue of Digital Philology (https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital-philology-journal-medieval-cultures) for 2022. We are eager to encourage a global perspective on the dispersal, re-use, and fragmentation of non-Western manuscripts in this issue and we welcome submissions from colleagues working on global fragments, such as African, Asian, and Middle Eastern materials, and in particular from Islamic traditions.
We have extended the deadline of the abstract submission to 31 August 2020. Please send us your abstracts of 200-300 words.
Many thanks,
and best wishes,
Shiva Mihan
—
Shiva Mihan
Schroeder Curatorial Fellow of Islamic Art
617-495-9250
8. The UNC-Chapel Hill Persian Studies Program Presents:
Revisiting Discourses of Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Iran and Diaspora: A Symposium in a Series of Virtual Panels
September 5 – October 3, 2020
For more information:
9. University of Edinburgh – Persian post
The department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, part of School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, seeks to appoint a Persian language assistant. This is a part time (17.5 hpw), fixed-term post available from September 2020 to August 2021. Closing date: 5 September, 2020.
Further details can be found here:
https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=052871
- August 25, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Call for Proposals, CAA 2021
The Classical is Political
109TH CAA (College Art Association of America, Inc.) ANNUAL CONFERENCE
New York City, February 10–13, 2021
Since the rise of nationalism in the 19th century, the modern nation has defined state identity in the present by redefining its ties to the distant past. No longer an historical—or art historical—given, the temporal, geographic, and ethnic construction of “the classical” became a function of the particular geo-political ambitions of the nation state. Throughout the late modern period, the territorial claims of imperialist nations were motivated by notions of ethnic and cultural lineage connecting occupying powers to the classical pasts of occupied lands. Meanwhile, some countries looked to notions of local classical history to define their distinct cultural identities as defense against the incursions of imperialist powers. The classical remains the subject of contestation in the contemporary. Whereas the right mobilizes classical aesthetics as the language of reactionary nostalgia, the left appropriates these forms as a vehicle for staging progressive positions on discourses on race, gender, religion and disability.
We solicit papers, focusing on a range of geographic and cultural localities, which examine the conflicts surrounding the construction of the classical. How and when did definitions of “the classical” take hold? How are claims on the classical past mobilized and what role has art and architecture played in these claims? What types of trans-cultural influences and hybrid cultural forms do definitions of the classical aim to distill or purify? How has the rise of post-colonial theory de-centered hegemonic constructs of the classical?
Please send your proposal, including the completed proposal form, title, 250 words (max.) abstract, 2-page CV, as well as a short statement explaining why your proposal would be a good fit for this panel: titrand@buffalo.edu and beringol@buffalo.edu. We encourage early submissions, and we can only consider proposals received on or before Sept. 16, 2020. Please note that panel participants must be active CAA members at the time of selection.
2. Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum, 1270s-1370s: Production, Patronage and the Arts of the Book (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) – C. Jackson
3. The Armenian School of Languages and Cultures – ASPIRANTUM is inviting you to apply and participate in the “Learn Persian through the Shahname” online course.
You may find the details about this course and apply through this link: https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-shahname
The syllabus of the course is available here: https://aspirantum.com/curriculum/learning-persian-through-shahname-syllabus
4. Association for Iranian Studies 2020 awardees:
AIS Lifetime Achievement Award:
Emerita Professor Erika Friedl, Western Michigan University
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Mehrdad Mashayekhi Dissertation Award
Winner: Dr. Peyman Jafari.
Thesis: “Oil, Labor and Revolution in Iran; A Social History of Labor in the Iranian Oil Industry, 1973-83.” University of Leiden, October 2018
Advisors: Prof. Touraj Atabaki and Prof. Marcel van der Linden
Honorable Mention: Dr. Sheida Dayani.
Thesis: “Juggling Revolutionaries: A Theatrical History of Indigenous Theatre and Early Playwriting in Iran.” New York University, 2018
Advisors: Prof. Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami and Prof. Arnold Aronson
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Keiji Yamamoto (ed) and Charles Burnett (ed), The Great Introduction to Astrology by Abu Ma’sar (2 vols.), Volume 106 Herausgeber: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2019.
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Dominic Brookshaw (Associate Professor of Persian Literature, and Senior Research
Fellow in Persian at Wadham College, Oxford University), Hafiz and His
Contemporaries – Poetry, Performance and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Iran. London: I.B. Tauris / Bloomsbury, 2019).
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Nazanin Shahrokni (Assistant Professor of Gender and Globalization at the London School of Economics and Political Science), Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran. University of California Press, 2019.
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Winner: Rika Gyselen (Directrice de Recherche émérite, CNRS: Histoire ancienne – Iran), La géograghie administrative de l’Émpire Sassanide. Les témoignages épigraphiques en moyen-perse. Res Orientales XXV, Groupe pour l’Étude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient, 2019.
Honorable Mention: Matthew Canepa (University of California-Irvine), The Iranian Expanse: Transforming Royal Identity through Architecture, Landscape, and the Built Environment, 550 BCE-642 CE.University of California Press, 2020.
Normally, we would celebrate them in person at a lovely reception at our conference. And we will certainly do that at the next available opportunity. This year, however, the award committee chairs have agreed to share proper appreciations of their awardees in the 2020 Virtual Workshop on August 22nd . If you are looking for another reason to visit the Virtual Workshop, you now have it! In the interim, I am sure you will join me congratulating these fine scholars who inspire us to do our best, as they have done their best, for the field.
My thanks also to our colleagues serving on the award committees (Please follow the links above to learn more about the awards and the committees). Let me add an additional presidential “thank you” to Dr. Canepa, Dr. Jafari, and Dr. Brookshaw for their service on AIS Council, AIS Nominating Committee and the Iranian Studies Editorial Board, respectively. We need scholarship and service both.
All best,
Camron Michael Amin
AIS President
5. Appended below is the Call for Papers for the next volume (32) of the Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (RSSSR) which I co-edit with Professor Ralph Hood – https://brill.com/view/serial/RSSR . RSSSR 32 will have special section on Cultural Blindness in Psychology and Religion of Belief in HE. It will also have its regular open section for papers on any subject within the socio-scientific study of religion. We welcome your proposals .
Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (RSSSR) is an interdisciplinary, international peer-viewed annual series, which publishes new and innovative research within the social scientific study of religion or belief. Contributions span a range of theoretical orientations, geographic contexts and research methods, though most articles are reports of original quantitative or qualitative research related mainly to the sociology and/or psychology of religion.
RSSR usually includes one or more guest-edited special sections that allows networks of researchers to report studies in areas that are or current interest or which are innovative and expanding the discipline into new areas. For 2021, RSSR will include the following special sections
Special section 1: Cultural Blindness in Psychology. Guest Editor Dr. Louise Sundararajan, has collected several papers documenting cultural blindness in psychology beginning with her own paper, “Cultural blindness in psychology: Implications for studies of religion.”
Special section 2: Religion or Belief in Higher Education. In this section, we will explore religious and non-religious identities on university campuses anywhere in the world. Chapter may interrogate how these identities are ‘lived’ on campus and how these are dealt with in university policy, practice, management and curricula. This section will explore the diversity of ways in which religious and non-religious identities are experienced, encountered and catered for on higher education campuses. We invite proposals for papers that explore any dimension of religion or non-religion on campuses in any geographical context, focussing on a particular tradition, group or movement or on the interactions between different parties, or on broader cultural or political changes impacting upon how religion is expressed within campus contexts. We hope that the special section will attract a range of epistemological positions and disciplinary standpoints.
Submitting Proposals
We invite proposals for the next edition of the RSSSR – RSSSR 32. This will be published by autumn 2021. We welcome proposals from academics at all levels of their career, including early career researchers and final year PhD students.
For Book Chapters
Please submit a title and abstract of no more than 300 words together with names and short biographies (150 words), institutional affiliation/s (if relevant), and contact details.
- Deadline for abstracts: 5pm on Friday 30th October 2020
- Notification of acceptance of paper: 5pm on Friday 13th November 2020
- If accepted full papers will be due by 5pm Friday 12th March 2021
Proposals for both the main and special sections should be send to the editors, Ralph Hood (ralph-hood@utc.edu) and Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor (ac0967@coventry.ac.uk).
For Special Section Proposals
We welcome enquiries for guest edited special sections for RSSSR 32 and also for future editions. Special section proposals can emerge from conference proceedings or from other forms of academic collaboration around a specific subject area. To suggest a special proposal please contact the editors Ralph Hood (ralph-hood@utc.edu) and Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor (ac0967@coventry.ac.uk) in the first instance, with the following information:
- Theme / Title of the special section
- Short rationale of the special section (no more than 500 words)
- Guest editor/s name and short bio (150 words) for each editor
- List of potential contributors
- If accepted timelines for special sections will be discussed with editors
For more information and submission guidelines please check the author guidelines (https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/RSSR_Author%20Guidelines.pdf) or contact the editors.
We look forward to receiving your work.
Professor Ralph Hood and Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor
Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor
Assistant Professor | Research Group Lead | Faith and Peaceful Relations
Series Editor | Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion
Chair (2020-2023) | Muslims in Britain Research Network
Principal Investigator | AHRC GCRF Minorities on Campus in India (2020-2022)
Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
- August 22, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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