1.Conference: “Regime-Critical Media and Arab Diaspora: Challenges and Opportunities Post-Arab Spring,” University of Copenhagen, 5-6 September 2019

The overall questions are: how do regime-critical media produced for the Middle Eastern or North-African audiences meet new challenges and opportunities? How do Middle Eastern and North-African diaspora groups mobilize politically and engage in transnational political activities? How does the audiences’ use of regime-critical media influences political action formation in diaspora?

Deadline for registration: 4 August 2019.

Information: https://ccrs.ku.dk/calendar/2019/regime-critical-media-and-arab-diaspora/

 

 

 

 

2. Workshop: “God’s Justice and Animal Welfare”, Department for Islamic-Religious Studies, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 13-14 December 2019

The junior research group  “Norm , Normativity and Norm Changes” is organising this workshop which aims to fathom the understanding of to what extent animals are recipients of justice. Hereby, interdisciplinary approaches are used to find answers to the research question. The workshop is open for interested researchers and students. Registration is required.

Information:  https://www.dirs.phil.fau.eu/2019/07/24/gods-justice-and-animal-welfare

 

 

 

 

3. Spring Meeting of the Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society: “Islam and Law,” Emory University, Atlanta, 6-8 March 2020

We invite paper abstracts from any discipline in the humanities or social sciences that address any topic related to Islam and Law in the MENA region – for example: Islam’s role in the historical, cultural, or theological origins of law and law-making; Islam’s role in shaping law, legal institutions, and legal processes; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 4 October 2019. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/25688/discussions/4334771/sermeiss-spring-2020-islam-and-law-workshop-cfp-future-special

 

 

 

 

4. Research Fellowship in the Governance Programme, Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London

The Fellow will carry out research related to one the following areas:  Political accountability of the executive in semi-presidential regimes;  Fiqh and popular culture; etc. Requirements: PhD in the Humanities or Social Sciences; demonstrated research background in one of the above topics; etc.

Deadline for application: 15 September 2019. Information: https://www.aku.edu/vacancies/pages/job-detail.aspx?JobID=6225&Title=Call%20for%20Research%20Fellowship%20Applications

 

 

 

 

5. Scholarships for Foreign MA Students at the Goethe University Frankfurt

Goethe University is offering scholarships for Master’s programs such as: International Studies/Peace and Conflict Studies; Political Theory; Social and Cultural Anthropology/Ethnology. Applicants must hold an excellent Bachelor’s degree from a university outside of Germany. Awardees are provided with a monthly stipend of 1,000 EUR and other benefits to help them develop their career.

Information: www.uni-frankfurt.de/masterstip

 

 

 

 

6. Articles for “The Canadian Journal for Middle East Studies“

This Journal is published two times a year and is currently under the editorship of Prof. Gahad Hamed of the University Western Ontario. It contains academic research articles, book reviews and a bibliographical section. All academics and experts who research the Middle East, Islam, and its broader questions are invited to contribute to the Journal.

Deadline for submissions: 15 September 2019. Information: https://cjmes.scholasticahq.com/post/53-call-for-submissions-the-canadian-journal-for-middle-east-studies

 

 

 

 

7. The Crossroads Emerging Leaders Program

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is partnering with other Harvard area studies centers and the Harvard Business School Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to help provide a career development opportunity for students living in Central Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and the United States.

The Program is a prestigious and a fully funded career development opportunity for students from across the world, who are the first member of their family—or the first generation within their family—to attend university and facing challenges of financial and social circumstances.

Qualifications include: students who are 18-24 years old, currently enrolled, facing challenging financial and social circumstances, fluent in English, first generation university students.

Please see the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute website for a programme overview as well as discussion on eligibility, FAQs and the application link:  https://mittalsouthasiainstitute.harvard.edu/crossroads/

• Location: Dubai International Financial Centre, Dubai – Spring 2020; exact dates TBD
• Cost: FREE (The program will cover the costs of international travel from select locations, board, lodging, and class materials. Visa costs are the responsibility of selected candidates.)
• Application deadline: August 30, 2019 at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST)
  (please allow at least 48 hours to complete the application; applicants will need to create an account that could take up to 24 hours to activate).
• Questions? Write to admin@hbsgcc.org

 

 

 

 

 

8. Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic

Washington and Lee University

The Department of German and Arabic at Washington and Lee University invites applications for a two-year visiting assistant professor of Arabic, beginning July 1, 2020. This position carries a 6-course teaching load distributed over Fall and Winter terms (12 weeks each), and the university’s signature 4-week Spring Term (maximum one course in Spring Term). Primary duties include teaching all levels of Arabic (first-, second-, and third-year), as well as advanced Arabic language courses that focus on media, conversation and composition, or topics in Arab literature, culture, and film. The candidate will also teach courses in English based on their discipline and the needs of the program.

In addition to teaching responsibilities, the successful candidate will assist in developing WLUArabic and contribute to the dynamic, interdisciplinary program in Middle East and South Asia (MESA) Studies. In keeping with the goals of the W&L Strategic Plan, we seek candidates who can effectively mentor underrepresented minority students.

Preferred candidates will hold a PhD or have ABD status in Arabic Language (TAFL or a related field (e.g., second language acquisition, comparative literature, Middle Eastern Studies)). M.A. holders will be considered. The successful candidate will have comprehensive mastery and fluency in Modern Standard Arabic and a dialect. Professional proficiency in English is required. The competitive applicant will have proven experience in Arabic language pedagogy using the integrated approach in a North American or liberal arts context.

The application deadline is September 30, 2019 and application review will begin October 1, 2019. Skype interviews will be conducted in mid-October, and finalists will be invited to campus in late October 2019.

Applicants should submit the following materials at https://apply.interfolio.com/65771.

• a cover letter
• a C.V.
• Graduate transcript(s)
• Three confidential letters of recommendation
• Teaching portfolio including
  • Sample syllabus for a first-, second-, or third-year Arabic course;
  • Sample syllabus for a course taught in English;
  • Teaching evaluations (as a primary instructor or TA).

Questions may be addressed to Professor Anthony Edwards, at EdwardsA@wlu.edu.

 

1.Irano-Judaica VII: Studies Relating to Jewish Contacts with Persian Culture Throughout the Ages. Ed. by Julia Rubanovich and Geoffrey Herman. Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 2019. 699 pp.

See here to order:  https://www.ybz.org.il/?CategoryID=1382

 

 

 

 

2. The Reshaping of Persian Art: Art Histories of Islamic Iran and Central Asia

Iván Szántó and Yuka Kadoi (eds.)

Piliscsaba: The Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies

2019

Series: Acta et Studia XV

Paperback, 273 pages

ISBN: 978-615-5343-11-7

 

How to order:

 

Please directly contact the Institute for the time being.

Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies

Contact: Oroszi Gyöngyi

Tel.: + 36 (06) 26 375 329 / 414 / E-mail: oroszi@avicenna-kkki.hu

 

http://avicenna-kkki.hu/publications/how-to-order/?lang=en

 

 

 

 

3. The Foundation for Iranian Studies invites applications for its annual award of $1000 for the best Ph.D. dissertation in a field of Iranian Studies. Students completing their dissertations between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019 are eligible to apply for the 2019 award.

Dissertations must be nominated by the author’s advisor and be accompanied by the Dissertation Committee’s letter of acceptance. Both documents may be emailed provided they contain appropriate official insignias and signatures.

Applicants for the 2019 award should submit a digital copy of the dissertation, either mailed on disc to

Secretary

Foundation for Iranian Studies

Bethesda, MD 20814

USA

 

Or emailed to

fis@fis-iran.org, or

gafkhami@fis-iran.org

For further information about the award, selection criteria, and previous winners consult the Foundation for Iranian Studies Website at www.fis-iran.org , Programs, Dissertation Awards. Inquiries should be emailed to fis@fis-iran.org .

Deadline: August 15, 2019

 

 

 

 

4. Conference: “Eastern Questions: New Perspectives on British Orientalism”, London, 16-17 October 2019

This interdisciplinary event aims to explore new perspectives on the intersection between Orientalism and visual culture across the nineteenth century. It invites contributions that explore the visual material of the Orient in the contexts of transculturation, imaginative geographies, and cultural border crossing in both directions and invites proposals from scholars in all sub-fields of the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2019.

Information: https://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/eastern-questions-new-perspectives-british-orientalism/?edit&language=en-gb

 

 

 

 

5. International Workshop: “Theological, Legal and Political Responses to Salafism”, Charles University, Prague, 15 November 2019

This workshop will focus upon wider religious, cultural and political strategies in facing the Salafi proselytising in EU, the Balkans, Maghreb, Indonesia and beyond. The aim is to map places of contention between global Salafism and local institutions and traditions, to identify actors that formulate responses and to explore concrete ways in which states, religious, educational and cultural institutions, civic and Islamic groups develop strategies to counter or deal with the Salafi ideological pressure and influence.

Deadline for abstracts: 10 September 2019. Information: https://kbv.ff.cuni.cz/cs/2019/07/18/theological-legal-and-political-responses-to-salafism-call-for-participation/

 

 

 

 

6. 41^st Annual Conference of the Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA): “Middle Eastern and North African Studies in the United States”, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 19-22 February 2020

We welcome and encourage proposals regarding any aspect of Middle Eastern and North African life in the U.S. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to the following: MENA representations in popular culture (television, film, comic books, video games, etc.); language and translation studies; queer theory and the MENA community; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2019.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/4309472/southwest-popularamerican-culture-association-middle-eastern

 

 

 

 

7. “ACRPS Conference for Arab Graduate Students in Western Universities”, Doha, 28-30 March 2020

The conference will provide Arab doctoral students in the social sciences and humanities based at Western universities an open space to present papers rooted in their graduate studies. This conference will give the participants the chance to benefit from discussions with their peers and with established Arab academics. Grants for travel and accommodation are available.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 July 2019.

Information: https://www.dohainstitute.org/en/Lists/ACRPS-PDFDocumentLibrary/Arab-Graduate-Students-Conference-2020-Background-Paper-English.pdf; Contact: arabdoctorate.conf@dohainstitute.org

 

 

 

 

8. International Conference “Crossroads”: “European Cultural Diplomacy and Eastern Christianity in Syria and Palestine: A Connected History in Late Ottoman Times and the British Mandate”, Thessaloniki, 14-15 May 2020

The conference aims to define and analyse how cultural diplomacy was deployed by the European powers in interwar Palestine and Syria. It questions how these policies impacted the cultural identification of indigenous Christians in a comparison with their fellow Palestinian and Syrian compatriots. This conference will focus on attempts at ideological and political domination by multiple actors, each with a diversity of diplomatic and cultural ends.

Deadline for applications: 15 October 2019.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/4316854/european-cultural-diplomacy-and-eastern-christianity-late

 

 

 

 

9. Research Fellowship in the Study of the Islamic World, University of Oxford

The successful candidate will be engaged in research and publication in any area of the arts, humanities or social sciences which contributes to a more informed understanding of the Islamic world – its history, economics, politics, culture, civilisation and contemporary life.

Deadline for applications: 28 August 2019.

Information: https://www.oxcis.ac.uk/sites/www.oxcis.ac.uk/files/inline-files/190718_full_ad_research_fellow.pdf

 

 

 

 

10. Tenure-Track Position in Comparative Politics of the Middle East, Colorado College

The position requires expertise in the Middle East and North Africa, broadly defined. Crucial to the position is potential for, and commitment to, excellence in scholarship as well as in teaching at a liberal arts institution. If the successful candidate is to begin employment at the assistant professor level, all requirements for the Ph.D. should be complete by the starting date of 24 August 2020.

Deadline for applications: 15 September 2019. Information: https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000491966-01

 

 

 

 

11. Graduate Student Article Prize of Women Historians of the Middle East

WHOME announces its annual prize for the best article about Middle Eastern history written by a female identifying graduate student (Masters or PhD). The award aims to bring attention to the innovative scholarship women are producing in the field. The nominee must not have been awarded a Doctorate prior to 1 January 2019.

Deadline for applications: 6 September 2019.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/4326542/whome-graduate-student-article-prize-call-applications-and

 

 

 

 

12. Training School: “Islamic Heritage in Europe”, Granada and Córdoba, 14-16 January 2020

Over the past decades, there has been a growing interest among scholars in analysing how the Islamic heritage in Europe has been perceived, described, preserved, erased, negotiated or transformed in different areas of Europe, from medieval to modern times. However, those debates seldom crossed the borders of regional approaches. The aim of this training school is to discuss those issues from different and complementary perspectives and to question the traditional regional narrative through a comparative examination of Islamic monuments in a wider Mediterranean perspective.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/4324889/open-call-applications-participate-training-school-islamic

 

 

 

 

13. Articles for Edited Book on “New Arab Atheism”

Atheism in the Arab world became known to a wider public in the last decades. Esp., New Atheism inspired by Atheism of Dawkins et al. is influential among Arab Atheists today. This volume intends to open up a new field of research. Editors Rüdiger Lohlker and Tamara Abu-Hamdeh (both Oriental Institute, University of Vienna, Austria).

Deadline for proposals: 15 September 2019. Contact tamara.abu-hamdeh@univie.ac.at

 

 

 

 

14. Introduction of UNIMED – The Mediterranean Universities Union

This is an association of 124 universities from 23 countries of the Mediterranean basin founded in 1991 (http://www.uni-med.net/en/about-us/).

UNIMED aims to develop university research and education in the Euro-Mediterranean area in order to contribute to scientific, cultural, social and economic cooperation. It manages many projects on different issues (http://www.uni-med.net/en/projects/) and established a second-level network focused on specific sectors known as SubNetworks such as research on migration and tourism (http://www.uni-med.net/en/subnetworks/).

UNIMED annually organises two important institutional events: the UNIMED WEEK IN BRUSSELS (http://www.uni-med.net/en/unimed-week-in-brussels-2019) and the GENERAL ASSEMBLY (http://www.uni-med.net/en/general-assembly-2019).

 

 

 

 

15. Words Laying Down the Law
Translating Arabic Legal Discourse  

Time and Venue
7-8 October 2019: 7 October (16.00-19.30), 8 October (9.00-18.00)
Atrium Conference Room,
Aga Khan Centre,
10 Handyside Street,
London N1C 4DN

Keynote Speakers
Prof Myriam Salama-Carr, University of Manchester.
Prof Baudouin Dupret, Sciences Po Bordeaux​​.
Prof Roberta Aluffi, University of Turin​.
Dr Neveen Al Saeed, Ain Shams University, Cairo.

Programme at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D5l0bbUvsss6JiLzn7Q6KebygnQC4j5x/view

Booking
This event is free but booking is essential.

Book at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conference-words-laying-down-the-law-translating-arabic-legal-discourse-tickets-64718417529

 

 

 

16. The Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University invites applications for a tenure-track position of Assistant Professor in the fields of Islamic art, architecture, or archaeology, with a specialization in any aspect of the discipline focused on a period prior to 1750.

Responsibilities will consist of broad undergraduate teaching in the history of Islamic art and architecture along with supervision of undergraduate theses and independent work, while graduate teaching and Ph.D supervision will be in the area of the candidate’s expertise. Applicants will be expected to interact broadly with other departments and programs in the university and beyond.

Apply online at https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/ with a cover letter, CV, writing sample, research statement, teaching statement, and the names and contact information of three referees from whom letters of recommendation may be requested. PhD is expected by the start date. We seek to appoint a candidate who will contribute, through research, teaching, and service, to the excellence and diversity of our academic community. This position is subject to the University’s background check policy. Application deadline is September 16, 2019 (when initial discussion of the candidates will take place) or until the position is filled.

 

 

 

17. The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) is the University of Freiburg’s international research college. The Institute supports innovative research projects through individual fellowships.

The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies announces the following

Individual Marie S. Curie FCFP fellowships for the academic year 2020/21

(Fellowships start: September 1, 2020)

– Junior fellowships (completed PhD plus one to six years of post-doctoral experience)

– Senior fellowships (completed PhD plus a minimum of six years of post-doctoral experience or a tenured professorship or equivalent permanent position)

The FCFP is intended for current or future leaders in their fields. About 25 FCFP fellowships are awarded through a highly competitive, strictly merit-based selection process. Applications are invited from academics of all nationalities and all disciplines. Note, however, that applicants may not have resided or have carried out their main activity in Germany for more than a total of 12 months during the 3-year period prior to the application deadline.

The completed FCFP application form together with the required documents has to be uploaded on the application website for External Senior Fellowships or Junior Fellowships and submitted by September 15, 2019.

Information on the application and selection process (required documents, guidelines on eligibility, evaluation criteria, timeline and stages of the selection process) is provided at www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/en/funding-programmes/cofund.

Grants are subject to the final approval of the FRIAS budget from 2020 onwards.

More information on FRIAS is available at: www.frias.uni-freiburg.de.

 

 

1.Association for Iranian Studies Awards

AIS seeks your nominations for its AIS administered Awards,

 

THE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

THE EHSAN YARSHATER BOOK AWARD

THE MEHRDAD MASHAYEKHI DISSERTATION AWARD

THE PARVIZ SHAHRIARI BOOK AWARD

We have just opened the following award for nominations:THE SAIDI-SIRJANI BOOK AWARD

https://associationforiranianstudies.org/awards/saidiSirjani/nominate

 

Please visit the AIS website https://associationforiranianstudies.org/awards

for links to nomination forms and descriptions of the awards. The awards will be given out at a ceremony at the 2020 Biennial Conference in Salamanca Spain.

 

 

 

 

2. International Conference: “Russia and the Mediterranean: Diplomacy, Strategies and International Responses”, The Maghreb Review & Maghreb Studies Association, Oxford, 9-10 September 2019

The conference will focus upon Russia’s current and historical role in the Mediterranean region and its impact upon international relations. Themes range from Russia’s emerging Mediterranean ambitions during the Napoleonic Wars to Russia’s recent involvement with Turkey and in Libya, Syria and Iran. The conference will be in English or French.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 July 2019.

Information: https://www.maghreb-studies-association.co.uk/msa/en/conferences.html

 

 

 

 

3. 20^th Anniversary Conference of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship: “Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Religions and Secularism”, University of Bristol, 8-10 November 2019

Conference papers can come from sociology, political theory, political science, anthropology and other social sciences as well as disciplines in the humanities such as history and philosophy. Papers can focus on a range of themes such as multiculturalism, national identity, superdiversity, interculturalism, conviviality and everyday multiculturalism, neo-nationalism and populism, ethno-religious identities, racism and Islamophobia, secular governance and accommodation of religious diversity.

Deadline for abstracts: 12 August 2019.

Information: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/ethnicity/news/2019/bristol-conference-november.html

 

 

 

 

4. International Conference: “Islamic Law and Theology in Context – The Treatise-Literature (rasāʾil) as Documentation of Socially Relevant Discussions in Pre-Modern Muslim Societies (13^th – 19^th Centuries)”, University of Osnabrück, 25-27 March 2020

We welcome papers on treatises and counter-treatises written in Islamic Law and Theology (fiqh, kalām, taṣawwuf etc.) which address the content of the treatise as well as the social, political and intellectual context of its author and the audience with a main interest in the Ottoman and Mamluk Empires.

Deadline for abstracts extended until 31 July 2019. Information: https://www.islamische-theologie.uni-osnabrueck.de/fileadmin/documents/public/Plakate_Broschüren/Risala_Englisch__1_.pdf

 

 

 

 

5. Session on “Ottoman Cultural Mobilities: 19^th Century Modes of Travel, Collecting and Dis-play” during European Association for Urban History Conference 2020, Antwerp, 2-5 September 2020

This session welcomes researches on Ottoman participation and responses to the international 19th century culture of travel, collecting and display. It particularly focuses on the mobility and circulation of people and objects around Ottoman and connected contexts; Ottoman encounters and exchanges en route; the journeys of intellectuals, collections and archives in the late Ottoman Empire.

Deadline for abstracts: 4 October 2019.

Information: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/eauh2020/sessions/sessions-overview/session-type/specialist-sessions/; Session number: S-CUL-3.

 

 

 

 

6. Session on “Negotiating Monumentality: Monuments and the Politics of Public Space in Muslim Societies” during European Association for Urban History Conference 2020, Antwerp, 2-5 September 2020

We invite papers that probe particular cases (from the 19^th until the 21^st century) from Muslim societies in which the role of monuments/monumentality in triggering colonial/anti-colonial/post-colonial politicizations of urban space can be analyzed. Papers can focus on the original plans and designs of monuments and their positioning in public places, the political significance of style (e.g. classicism, modernism and neo-styles), iconography etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 4 October 2019. Information: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/eauh2020/sessions/sessions-overview/session-type/specialist-sessions/; Session number: S-HER-1.

 

 

 

 

7. Associate Professor in History of Islam or Islamic Philosophy, University of Lisbon

Applicants should have a doctoral degree in Philosophy or History and should present evidence of significant work in either field of this search, knowledge of Arabic, and additionally of authorship of at least five (5) peer-reviewed articles, or book chapters in the last 5 years.

Deadline for applications in Portuguese or in English: 31 July 2019.

Information: https://bit.ly/2XXLFtU and helenaalves@letras.ulisboa.pt

 

 

 

 

8. Three Tenure-Track or Tenured Faculty Positions in Global Affairs/Philosophy, Politics and Economics in the MENA Region, Yale-NUS College

Scholars are invited who can teach international development or international/comparative political economy or quantitative methods, or who have regional expertise in the Middle East.

Review of applications will begin 1 August 2019 and continue until the position is filled. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/YaleNUS

 

 

 

 

9. Assistant Professor in Early Modern Islamicate History, University of Toronto

Applicants must have a Ph.D. in History or a closely related discipline by the time of appointment or shortly thereafter. All applicants must have a proven record of excellence in research and teaching about Islamicate worlds, broadly defined, in the period ca. 1500-1800CE/900-1200AH. Regional and thematic specialization is open, but we seek to hire a scholar interested in trans-regional phenomena.

Deadline for applications: 26 August 2019. Information: https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?job=1902399&tz=GMT%2B02%3A00&tzname=Europe%2FBerlin

 

 

 

10. Instructor/Lecturer (Part-Time during Fall Semester 2019) on Muslim Spiritual Care, Harvard University

The successful candidate will teach a course entitled “Spiritual Care from a Muslim Perspective”, which will introduce students to practices of spiritual care in Muslim communities. Candidates should be practitioners and ideally have pastoral as well as previous teaching experience. An advanced degree in Theological/or Religious Studies is required. Candidates should demonstrate experience and excellence in teaching. Previous publications in the area of the appointment are desirable, though not required.

Information: https://professorpositions.com/instructorlecturer-on-muslim-spiritual-care,i4146.html

 

 

 

11. Lecturer in Contemporary Middle Eastern Politics, Princeton University

The Politics Department at Princeton University seeks well-qualified applicants for a part-time lecturer position that will involve teaching an undergraduate seminar in the area of Contemporary Middle Eastern politics in Spring 2020. Advanced degree required; Ph.D. and teaching experience preferred.

Deadline for applications: 1 August 2019.

Information: https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=12221

 

 

 

 

12. Mediterranean Seminar Book Prize

The entries submitted should reflect the goals and mission of the Mediterranean Seminar, namely, to promote the Mediterranean region as a framework for scholarly inquiry and pedagogy. We are most interested in books that break new ground conceptually or methodologically, are comparative and/or interdisciplinary, that emphasize the intercultural/interregional/inter-religious contact, that are “of” rather than merely “in” the Mediterranean.

Deadline for applications: 1 January 2020.

Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/announcing-the-mediterranean-seminar-book-prizes-1-january-2020?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

13. Call for Projects in the Priority Program “Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics” for 2020-2023

The program will focus on the “Transottoman” ties and communication practices which emerged as a consequence of mobility between these dominions between the 16^th and the 19^th centuries and which have not previously become visible in studies of individual regions or bilateral relations. Non-German nationals can apply, but need an affiliation with a university or research institution in Germany.

Deadline for applications: 31 December 2019.

Information: http://www.transottomanica.de/activities/calls/call-for-projects

 

 

 

 

14. Network Conference of “Academics in Solidarity”, Freie Universität Berlin, 21-23 November 2019

The conference will launch the transnational peer-mentoring program for at-risk and exiled researchers, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The conference will serve as a platform for exchange among key stakeholders representing support programs for more than 70 at-risk scholars, research funding organizations, expert community and AiS partner institutions in Germany, Lebanon and Jordan.

Information: ais@fu-berlin.de; https://www.fu-berlin.de/international/profile/ais

 

 

 

 

15. Research and Publications on “Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom”

This is a cooperative effort led by a team that consists of medievalists specialising in Western, Byzantine and Islamic history tackling a vital historical question: Why did the Christendom government and society develop certain processes of institutionalisation that did not characterise the Islamic world, considering that the early medieval situation might have suggested otherwise?

Information: http://pimic-itn.eu/what/

 

 

 

1.Call for Papers – Iraqi Studies: Past, Present, and Future

28-29 February 2020

Columbia University

This two-day conference brings together a diverse group of established and emerging scholars working on the history of modern Iraq from the Ottoman period to the present to interrogate Iraqi studies; taking stock of its past, reflecting on the present, and looking towards its future. Studies of modern Iraq have grown qualitatively and quantitatively in recent years. There is now a critical mass of innovative scholars in the US, Europe, and the Middle East who work on Iraq and are exploring new lines of inquiry in a number of different directions. It is common to see Iraq-themed panels and round tables at international conferences. Given this volume of scholarly activity connected to modern Iraq, it is an opportune time to critically reflect on and examine Iraqi studies and its status as a burgeoning sub-field of Middle East Studies.

We aim to discuss research trends, to identify promising new questions and sources, to exchange experiences and insights, and to encourage networking across period-specializations and field boundaries. Each panel will comprise a discussant and several speakers. We will also hold a keynote panel of senior scholars who will critically reflect on the state of Iraqi studies. This panel will serve to guide and orient our discussions during the conference. Confirmed speakers for the Keynote Panel: Dr. Dina Khoury (George Washington University); Dr. Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago); Dr. Eric Davis (Rutgers University).

Among the questions we seek to explore are: How do we define Iraqi studies? What various methodological approaches inform our study of Iraq? Is Iraqi studies an inherently nationalist endeavor? How do different frameworks support or break with nationalist conventions?  How has Iraq’s recent turbulent history affected how scholars access sources to study the country, its geography, its people, its history, its literature, etc.? How can we move past the sectarian and ethnic narratives of understanding the Iraqi past and present?

We welcome submissions that address any of the above questions. Other sub-themes may also include:

• Iraq, Empires, and Imperialism – including the Ottoman, British, and American imperialisms. We welcome work which considers state-society relations as well as the place of Iraq in inter-imperial and international relations.
• Relationship between Iraqi society and the environment – including urban studies, infrastructure, and natural resource extraction.
• Explorations of Iraqi intellectual and cultural production – including how Iraqi intellectuals and other actors have produced theory which can be not only the subject of a historian’s study, but can serve as a framework to better understand such subjects.
• Studies of ethnic and religious minorities – including and beyond histories of sectarianism and ethnic/sectarian conflict.
• Innovative applications of new methods in gender studies to the context of Iraq and in particular works which suggest how such methodologies can be woven into work across sub-disciplines within the field of Iraqi studies.
• Studies that address conflict, violence and war in Iraq’s history, as well as the production of memory, practices of commemoration, documentation, and archives.

Conference Details

1. If you would like to propose a paper for the conference, please submit a completed application form (including a 300 word abstract) via the Google Form by August 31st. 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScHTNDqkedcMQ_NIL3K0x_HYHYeFp8L4f7YgQ1WVofTCM1DDQ/viewform

1. We seek proposals from junior faculty, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and emerging scholars.
2. The conference will have a keynote panel of speakers as well as a final roundtable
3. Meals will be provided for participants. We have limited funding to sponsor accommodation and travel expenses of participants, especially for those travelling from the Middle East. However, participants are encouraged to apply for funds from their home institutions, or to find alternative sources of funding where possible. Please indicate in the Google Form whether you have access to funding when you submit your abstracts.

Organisers:

Zeinab Azarbadegan (Columbia University)

Amnah Almukhtar (Columbia University)

Natasha Pesaran (Columbia University)

Sponsors:

Department of History

Center for International History

Center for the Study of Muslim Societies

Ottoman and Turkish Studies Seminar

Department of Art History and Archaeology

 

 

 

 

2. The Fourth European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (Turkologentag 2020) will be held in Mainz from September 16–18, 2020.

The conference is organized by the Society for Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (GTOT) in co-operation with the Chair of Turcology of Johannes Gutenberg University.

We are inviting proposals for papers and panels in the domains of language, literature, history, culture, society, politics, and philology of the Turks and the Turkic peoples. Conference languages are English, German, and Turkish.

The deadline for the submission of paper and panel proposals is February 15, 2020.

Detailed information, including guidance on the submission of abstracts and panel proposals, is found on www.turkologentag-2020.de.

 

 

 

 

3. Colloque international : « Les établissements scolaires privés musulmans : une offre éducationelle comme les autres ? », Campus Saint Jean-D’Angély Nice, 7-8 novembre 2019

Dans la perspective de ce colloque, il s’agit d’établir un état des lieux de la situation des établissements scolaires privés musulmans à partir d’une approche croisée avec des chercheurs et des acteurs du terrain (familles, personnels enseignants, responsables académiques et associatifs…). Plusieurs axes composent les orientations pluridisciplinaires en proposant de questionner une intrication des multiples enjeux éducatifs, sociaux, religieux, et politiques pour envisager une approche comparative à l’échelle nationale et internationale.

Deadline for abstracts: 10 September 2019. Information: https://etprimus.sciencesconf.org/

 

 

 

 

4. Muslim Studies Program 13th Annual Conference: “Islam, Environmental Science, and Conservation”, Michigan State University, 16-17 April 2020

This conference aims to foster understanding of the nexus between Islam, environmental science, and con-servation. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not restricted to, the nexus of Islam and the fol-lowing: environmental sustainability; gender and the environment; sustainable development; ecology; envi-ronmental conservation; natural resource management; climate change; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 August 2019. Information: https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/conference/

 

 

 

 

5. Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Islamic Rational Theology / Philosophy (kalām / falsafa), Aix-en-Provence

Required skills: specialisation in Arabic philosophy/philology/rational theology (PhD level); speaking, writing and oral comprehension of French and English; linguistic skills in Arabic (reading, editing ancient texts); experience in drafting and publishing scientific articles; knowledge of new technologies: research blog on the platform Hypothèses, knowledge of the word-processor Classical Text Editor.

Deadline for applications: 31 August 2019.

Information: http://iremam.cnrs.fr/IMG/pdf/anr-gaia_2019-post-doc_fr-en.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

6. Humanities Research Fellowships for the Study of the Arab World, NYU Abu Dhabi

While open to scholars working in all areas of the Humanities, the program aims in particular to build a center of outstanding research capacity in areas of the Humanities that are relevant for the study of the Arabic world, its rich intellectual, religious, and scientific history, its cultural and artistic heritage as expressed in traditional and new media, and its interaction with other cultures in the past and present.

Deadline for applications: 1 October 2019.

Information: https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/research/centers-labs-and-projects/humanities-research-fellowship-program.html

 

 

 

 

7. Assistant Professor (Four-Year Position) in Sociology, American University Cairo

Requirements: A PhD in sociology or a related discipline with the ability to teach and publish within the discipline of sociology. Commitment to teaching and engagement of students, as well as service to the university, particularly the sociology program and the department, are necessary, as well as an active research agenda.

Priority will be given to applications that are submitted by 1 November 2019.

Information: https://careers.insidehighered.com/job/1587207/sociology-fall-2020/

 

 

 

 

8. Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Islamic Studies, Macalester College, Saint Paul (Minnesota)

A PhD is required by time of appointment (Fall 2020). The successful candidate will be expected to teach a broad range of courses in classical and modern Islam and in the study of religion more broadly. The field of specialty within Islamic Studies is open. We will also consider the candidate’s ability to contribute to other on-campus programs.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2019. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/13798

 

 

 

 

9. Scholarships for Historical Researchers on Western Asia and the Islamic World (2020-2021), Princeton

Members in the School are appointed for either one term (first term 21 September to 18 December, second term 11 January to 9 April) or for two terms, amounting to a full academic year. Eligibility requirements include a substantial record of publication and a PhD awarded by no later than 31 December 2018.

Deadline for applications: 15 October 2019. Information: https://www.hs.ias.edu/mem_announcement

 

 

 

 

10. 4 bourses de Master 2 et une allocation doctorale pour l’année universeritaire 2019-20, La Fondation de l’Islam de France

Au regard de ces grandes orientations, la Fondation soutiendra les chercheurs dont les travaux permettent de mieux cerner les problématiques déclinées selon quatre axes relevant de l’islamologie fondamentale et appliquée. Une excellente maîtrise des langues arabe, turque ou / et persane sera jugée indispensable au soutien par la FIF de toute candidature.

Deadline for applications: 17 July 2019. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/42213

 

 

 

 

11. Summer School of Iranian Studies and Persian Language

University of Tehran: 16 to 28 August 2019

All the classes will be held outside classrooms in museums, palaces, and historical and cultural settings. Lectures will be held in English by the University of Tehran’s professors. in the end, Participants will be awarded a certificate of attendance, certified by the University of Tehran, together with a memento.

Visa

To apply for a student visa, please visit the following link and fill out the required form. You need to pay an advance of €100. The remainder will be charged in cash in Tehran:

www.event.cins.ir/register/form/5

For questions and inquiries please contact: ialit@ut.ac.ir (Sadegh Hojjati: Executive Secretary)

Office of International Relations,

Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Tehran
Phone Number: +982166477453, +982166978881
Fax:+982166978881

E-mail:ialit@ut.ac.ir
Address: Enqelab Ave.,P.O.Box:14155-6158, Tehran, Iran

 

 

 

1.Omani manuscripts

The Omani ministry of Heritage and Culture has announced it is sharing more than 4,000 manuscripts electronically to researchers on its website. The manuscripts are distributed in four fields, focusing mostly on the humanities, Hadith, Quran, jurisprudence, history, literature, as well as astronomy, medicine and marine science.

See: https://manuscripts.mhc.gov.om/ar/?fbclid=IwAR26WpBU5LvbVZRFnzjJmK7j6cM6kUd4c-4u-ziq4qJVK4uoLDKjFNSqtl4

 

 

 

2. 125 More Arabic Scientific Manuscripts in the Qatar Digital Library

The second phase of the British Library/Qatar Foundation Partnership digitisation project has now come to a successful close.

For further information:

https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2019/07/-125-more-arabic-scientific-manuscripts-in-the-qatar-digital-library.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+asian-and-african+%28Asia+and+Africa%29

 

 

 

3. Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, (JOTSA vol.6.1, Part I) on Ceremonies, Festivals, and Rituals in the Ottoman World. 

Ozgen Felek and Sinem Erdoğan İşkorkutan, “Introduction: Ceremonies, Festivals, and Rituals in the Ottoman World” (pp. 9-19)

Jane Hathaway, “The Ottoman Chief Harem Eunuch in Ceremonies and Festivals” (pp. 21-37)

Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, “Those Heretics Gathering Secretly …”: Qizilbash Rituals and Practices in the Ottoman Empire according to Early Modern Sources” (pp. 39-60)

Nikolaos Vryzidis, “Textiles and Ceremonial of the Greek Orthodox Church under the Ottomans: New Evidence on Hil’ats, Kaftans, Covers, and Hangings” (pp. 61-80)

Darin Stephanov, “Salvos and Sovereignty: Comparative Notes on Ceremonial Gunfire in the Late Ottoman and Russian Empires” (pp. 81-102)

Hakan T. Karateke, “The Peculiar Status of the Crimean Khans in Ottoman Protocol” (pp. 103-120)

Sinem Erdoğan İşkorkutan, “Between Representation and Reality: A Critical Evaluation of Narratives of the 1720 Festival and Unknown Archival Sources” (pp. 121-140)

Ozgen Felek, “Displaying Manhood and Masculinity at the Imperial Circumcision Festivity of 1582” (pp. 141-170)

See: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jottturstuass.6.issue-1

 

 

4. University of Exeter

The Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies is seeking applicants for its Visiting Al-Qasimi Professor in Islamic Studies for the academic year 2020-2021.

Details are here:

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BTO210/visiting-al-qasimi-professor-in-islamic-studies

 

 

1.An Ocean of Paper Database Search Guide

An Ocean of Paper seeks to stimulate new research in the social history of the Sultanate by collecting, cataloging, and publishing the thousands of deeds (called waraqas) produced by Omanis in South Arabia and East Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These deeds, which exist in private and public collections in Oman and East Africa, recount transactions in money, property, and commodities between Omanis from different parts of the country who engaged in activities around the Indian Ocean. Individually, they tell stories of the lives, fortunes, and trajectories of Omani migrants; together, they constitute some of the richest written records we have on any community in the region, and promise to completely reshape the foundations of Omani social and economic history in the Indian Ocean.

Ocean of Paper is a part of Indian Ocean in World History educational resources project of Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center.

See: http://www.indianoceanhistory.org/oceanofpaper/

 

 

 

 

2. 3^rd Annual Conference of the International Working Group on “State, Society and Dynamics of Political Change in MENA”: “Values and Institutions: What has Changed in post 2011 North Africa?”, Tangier, 25-26 October 2019

This symposium aims to contribute to a preliminary assessment of the political transformations that resulted from the first wave of the Arab uprisings of 2011 from the perspective of the supposed mutual influence between democratic institutions and the democratic value system. Social scientists interested in taking part in this debate are invited to submit their abstracts.

Deadline for abstracts: 7 July 2019. Information: https://www.kas.de/web/marokko/veranstaltungen/detail/-/content/call-for-papers-3

 

 

 

 

3. 15^th International Congress of Ottoman Social and Economic History (ICOSEH), University of Zagreb, 13-17 July 2020

The Executive Committee of ICOSEH and the Organizing Committee invite the submission of abstracts of individual papers as well as pre-organized panels/sessions and workshops. Papers are expected to address various aspects of the economic and social history of the Ottoman Empire. We encourage panels and workshops on any aspects of the Ottomans and the Mediterranean and the Ottomans and Central Europe.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2019. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/4222924/icoseh-zagreb-2020-cfp

 

 

 

 

4. Rosalind Franklin Tenure Track Professorship for Female Scholar in the Research Field of “Islamic Thought and Culture”, University of Groningen

The positon will contribute to one or more of our common themes of inquiry, such as cultural heritage, intellectual history, history of religion, ethics and philosophy, and the contemporary governance of religion. Qualification: PhD degree in Theology/Religious Studies or another field appropriate to the position; etc.

Deadline for applications: 29 August 2019. Information: https://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000730P

 

 

 

 

5. Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Middle East / North Africa History, Appalachian State University, North Carolina

Minimum Qualifications: ability to teach courses in area of specialization and global history required. Ph.D. in history or a related field, teaching experience, and evidence of scholarly potential expected. Candidates who are ABD will be considered, but the position requires completion of all doctoral requirements by August 2020.

Review of applications will begin on 16 September 2019 and continue until the position is filled. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58651

 

 

 

 

6. Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track Position) in Law and Politics in Global or Middle East Context, Whitman College, Washington

Candidates should have experience in fieldwork, archival, historical institutional, political theoretical, and/or legal textual approaches. They might offer courses in international law; international politics; decolonization; human rights; theories of empire; comparative constitutionalism; indigenous politics; and/or area-specific courses on Asia and Africa.

Deadline for applications: 15 August 2019.

Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58653

 

 

 

 

7. PhD Dissertation Award 2019 of the “Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS)”

Dissertations from across the disciplines and a variety of perspectives are invited. They must primarily focus on the Arabian Peninsula, but can be inclusive of the transnational flows of people, material and ideas across the Gulf, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean. PhD dissertations (in English) accepted for the degree of PhD between 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2019 are eligible.

Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2019. Information: https://agaps.org/agapsmesa/mesa-awards/

 

 

 

 

8. Graduate Paper Prize 2019 of the “Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS)”

The research papers must have been written between 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2019 and primarily focus on the Arabian Peninsula but can be inclusive of the transnational flow of people, goods and ideas across the Gulf, Red Sea and Indian Ocean. Papers should include an engagement with literature, a clear methodology, and make an original contribution to scholarship in the field.

Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2019. Information: https://agaps.org/agapsmesa/mesa-awards/

 

 

 

 

9. École d’été : “Sources et méthodes pour l’étude du phénomène missionnaire au Moyen-Orient (fin XIXe-nos jours)”,  EFR Rome, 3-7 juin 2019

Écrire l’histoire des missions orientales à partir des archives romaines. Centralisation, classification, conservation?

Programme : http://iremam.cnrs.fr/IMG/pdf/prog-ed-062019-d.pdf

 

 

 

10. Articles on “Sufism and Peace Studies“ for the “Research Journal of Philosophy and Practice“

Research scholars, authors are welcome for submitting their valuable research work related to Sufi practice, philosophy and teaching of Sufi saints.

Deadline for articles: 30 September 2019.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/4243789/cfp-sufism-and-peace-studies-research-journal-sufi-philosophy

 

 

 

 

11. CfP: Sharḥ, tafsīr, and ḥāshiya. A workshop on the form, function and context of pre-modern commentary-writing in Arabic

University of Zurich, 15-16 June 2020

The pre-modern Arabic literary landscape is full of commentaries meta-commentaries and auto commentaries of various shapes and sizes, such that commentary-writing indisputably stood as one of the main forms of scholarly textual output over the centuries Some features of this tradition have received their fair share of attention; others remain yet to be explored. While the importance of, for example, Quranic or philosophical commentary as a source for Muslim intellectual history has been recognised in the last decades, commentaries in other fields are often mentioned only for the purpose of proving the popularity of the commentated text. The questions of why commentaries were composed in the first place, in what institutional settings, according to what conventions and with what techniques remain under-explored.  This workshop will focus on two principal aspects of the study of commentary and commentating practices: (1.) the techniques of commentary-writing; and (2.) its audience and reception. In the first area, we are interested in the interaction and connections between text and commentary.  This could be summarised with the simple question, “how does commentary work?”. In the second, we encourage papers that give consideration to readers and likely readerships of commentaries, either by studying the para-texts of commentaries (e.g. marginalia etc.) or sociologically, by looking at groups of readers, and owners of manuscripts. This could be summarised with the question, “how was commentary used?”.

We invite papers dealing with commentaries written in Arabic any time before roughly the 15^th century, belonging to any genre (philosophy, theology, literature, medicine, sciences, etc.).

Possible questions to be dealt with may include (but are not limited to):

• How does a commentary work? Which elements of a text receive what kind of attention, which parts are not commentated upon?  What kinds of relationship exist between the text and the commentary?
• What is considered a good commentary, a bad commentary?
• Why was it ever important to write a commentary? Are there different kinds of motivation that lead to different kinds of commentary?
• Who wrote commentaries and when? Is commentary writing something a beginner does or rather the opposite? Do people write different kinds of commentaries at different stages in their careers?
• Who are the intended readers and audiences?
• Who really commissioned, read, owned, or taught a commentary? Where were they composed?
• How are commentaries presented in their manuscripts? How is the link between the base-text and the commentary established, both linguistically and at the level of layout?
• Why are there so many “auto-commentaries”, i.e. commentaries written by the author of the commented work?

Please send a 400-word abstract to james.weaver@uzh.ch and forster@zedat.fu-berlin.de not later than August 31, 2019.

The selected participants will be notified by October 30, 2019.

Speakers’ costs for travel and accommodation will be covered.

Conveners:

Dr James Weaver, University of Zurich

Prof Dr Regula Forster, Freie Universität Berlin/University of Zurich

 

 

 

12. Call for papers for the session “Ethnic Diversity and Spatial Segregation; Cities in Motion in the World of Islam” at the European Association for Urban History Conference, Antwerp, 2-5 Sept. 2020: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/eauh2020/papers/. The call will be open until 4 October 2019.

 

 

 

13. In the period 2009-14 a relational prosopographical database MP3 was constructed at Ghent University for the study of late medieval Syro-Egyptian political elites, institutions and practices, in the context of a specific collaborative research project on ‘Mamluk’ state formation. In the period 2015-16 new funding was obtained to create from MP3’s Filemaker 12 database a more widely accessible, connected and multifunctional research infrastructure and to expand its textual component and analytical potential. This project is currently known as the MPP project, and it now is conceptualised as a pilot project for the Islamic History Open Data Platform(IHODP) that we are developing.

IHODP will be an Open Source & Open Access Data Platform for ’Medieval’ Arabic Humanities Research. It is being constructed from, and integrates, several interconnected open data projects, including MPP and the Arabic historiography project MMS-II. IHODP will be a flexible, sustainable, user-friendly and multi-purpose solution and allowing for the creation of multiple independent and/or integrated data projects with freely definable multiple user roles, default back up and export facilities, and opportunities to work with various metadata ontologies, annotation tools, and Arabic text corpora.

After extensive testing we are ready to launch a beta-version of the Islamic History Open Data Platform (IHODP) in which MPP runs as a first project. Two other related and interconnected projects, Corpus: Texts from Late Medieval Egypt and Syria (Corpus) and Bibliography of 15th Century Arabic Historiography (BAH), are soon going to be launched on IHODP too. You can find a detailed explanation with demo’s of IHODP and MPP on our MMS-website.

Kind regards,

Maya Termonia

Jo Van Steenbergen

 

 

14. Annual meeting at Leeds, UK (1-4 July), the International Medieval Congress, “Europe’s largest forum for sharing ideas in medieval studies”.

With at least 65 papers relevant for Arabic and Islamic Studies (accessible via https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc2019/programme/ > paper keyword > Islamic and Arabic Studies) the IMC has a lot to offer to Middle East Medievalists.

For the 2020 meeting (6-9 July) the special thematic strand will be ‘Borders’, a term that is meant to designate a wide variety of phenomena, from physical boundaries and material borders to dynamic social and spatial relationships. The IMC welcomes session and paper proposals related to this special thematic strand, or to any other aspect of the study of the period 300-1500 CE.

Individual paper proposal deadline: 31 August 2019; session proposal deadline: 30 September 2019.

For further information, and online proposal guidelines, please visit the IMC website at www.imc.leeds.ac.uk

 

 

1.Lawforms Workshop 2019: “Manuals, Stylebooks, and Formularies for Persianate Legal Documents”, Exeter, 8-10 July 2019

This is a project team-centred event, but we have space for a few more people; if  you can read Persian, and would like to read manuals for fun, do get in touch!

Information: https://lawforms.hypotheses.org/499

 

 

 

 

2. 26^th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) combined with the Conference of the Section for Islam Studies of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG), Hamburg, 3-5 October 2019

The deadline for abstracts of papers and panels has been extended until 30 June 2019. Please send your abstracts to the Secretary General of the Congress, amke.dietert@googlemail.com. Further information: https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/en/voror/veranstaltungen/2019-davokongress.html

 

 

 

 

3. Doctoral Workshop in Late- and Post-Ottoman Studies: “Values and Status Negotiation: Media in the Middle East and North Africa”, University of Basel, 18-19 October 2019

In this workshop, students will engage with understandings of the media in the Middle East from the perspective of the role media plays in society, and the position it commands in relation to power. We seek applicants whose work sets out to discover how these are understood, rationalized, exercised, negotiated and found appropriate and useful within different social milieux.

Deadline for applications: 2 August 2019. Information: https://nahoststudien.philhist.unibas.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/nahoststudien/CfA_MUBIT_2019_Media_in_the_Middle_East_and_North_Africa.pdf

 

 

 

 

4. 24^th Conference of the Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes, Thessaloniki, 23-27 June 2020

The aim is to provide a platform of a high scholarly level, which will promote the knowledge and sustain the memory of Ottoman history. The organizers encourage panels and individual papers that fall under the following topics: the Ottoman Empire in the Age of Revolutions; Sources: New interpretations and approaches; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2019. Information:https://www.univie.ac.at/ciepo/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/CIEPO24_1st_Circular.pdf

 

 

 

 

5. Fourth European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (“Turkologentag”), Mainz, 16-18 September 2020

We are inviting proposals for papers in the domains of language, literature, history, culture, society, politics, and philology of the Turks and the Turkic peoples. Conference languages are English, German, and Turkish.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2020. Information: http://www.turkologentag-2020.de/Call_for_Papers.html

 

 

 

 

6. Associate Professorship (Full-Time, Tenure-Track) in Middle Eastern Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

We are looking for candidates with expertise in a range of Middle East related fields, preferably: Politics in the contemporary Middle East; Cultural & literary aspects of the Middle East; The Arab world in relation to Israel, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and/or the Gulf region.

Deadline for applications: 27 June 2019. Information: https://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S00073ZP

 

 

 

 

7. Senior Research Fellow, MENA Peace and Security Program, Emirates Diplomatic Academy, Abu Dhabi

The EDA is recruiting a Senior Research Fellow, with particular expertise in humanitarian aid and development in the MENA region as well as interest and/or experience in stabilisation and post conflict reconstruction. PhD is required.

Deadline for applications: 31 July 2019. For information: victor.gervais@eda.ac.ae

 

 

 

 

8. Faculty Positions in the Human Rights Graduate Program, Doha Institute

Successful candidates will have a doctorate in Law or Political Science and will be able to teach one or more of the following subjects: Introduction to Human Rights, Public International Law, Human Rights and Islamic Law, Human Rights in the Arab World, Critical Approaches to Human Rights, and Comparative Constitutional Law, and must have the ability to teach in Arabic. The appointment is scheduled for August 2020.

Review of applications will continue until the position is filled.

Information: https://www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/EN/Careers/Pages/Apply.aspx?JobId=DIAC_2019_047

 

 

 

 

9. Richard Gillespie Mediterranean Prize of the Journal “Mediterranean Politics” for the Best Research Article on the Contemporary Social and Political Dynamics of the Mediterranean Region

We welcome contributions on politics and international relations as well as economics, human geography, sociology, anthropology and other relevant disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2019. Information: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/journal-prize-richard-gillespie-mediterranean-prize/

 

 

 

10. Grants for Research in Byzantine, Ottoman, Atatürk and Republican-Era Studies, Istanbul Research Institute

• 1 Post-Doctoral Research and Writing Grant (TRY40.000)
• 1 Research and Write-Up Grant for PhD Candidates (TRY30.000)
• 5 Travel Grants (TRY5.000)
• 5 Conference Grants (TRY5.000)

Deadline for applications: 11 August 2019. Information: https://en.iae.org.tr/Content/Grants/128

 

 

 

 

11. Summer School on “Politics, Islam and Government in Iran”, Regional Studies Committee of Iranian Political Science Association (IPSA), Tehran, 27 July – 7 August 2019

The school is planning to explore Islam, politics and government in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The focus of the courses is to portray and analyze the political power structure as well as the influence of religion on the Islamic Republic ideology.

Deadline for registration: 7 July 2019.

Information: http://www.ipsa.ir/content/2/%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AA/13763/Summer-school

 

 

 

 

12. Summer Course: “Islamicate Digital Humanities for Scholars in Manuscript Studies”, University of Hamburg, 14-18 August 2019

This course is for graduate students and researchers who work with manuscript materials in Arabic script and want to learn how to apply digital technology in their research. It includes both theoretical and practical sessions on digital encoding and editing of manuscript texts, data annotation, search and visualization.

Deadline for applications: 24 June 2019.

Information: https://www.cobhuni.uni-hamburg.de/en/news-and-events/summerschool19.html

 

 

 

 

13. Third Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 11 October 2019

The Colloquium invites advanced graduate students in the social sciences and humanities to submit reviews on noteworthy books published between 2017-2019 in the field of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies.

Deadline for submissions: 1 July 2019.

Information: https://www.themaydan.com/2019/06/cfa-third-annual-graduate-student-book-review-colloquium-on-islamic-and-middle-eastern-studies-at-gmu-october-11-2019/

 

 

 

 

14. Articles for the First Issue of the Journal “Modern Islamic Studies” on “Islam and/or Tradition? Traditional Islam and Islamic Traditions in the Eastern Europe”

Taken in a broad geographical sense, we are seeking for the papers addressing history and modernity of Muslims in the area from Balkans and Crimea on the South, Baltia on the North and Caucausus on the East, where indigenous Muslim popullation and traditions are represented.

Deadline for full papers: 15 November 2019. Information: https://journals.oa.edu.ua/Islamic/

 

 

 

 

15. Articles for “Zeitschrift für Recht & Islam / Journal of Law & Islam”

The peer reviewed Journal covers theoretical legal debate as well as the practical application of both secular and Islamic laws. It considers the historical development as well as the interaction of “secular” and Islamic laws in different contexts, and covers key phenomena affecting academic discourse, legislation and legal practice in the relevant states. Languages: German, English or French.

Information: http://zri.gair.de/index.php/en/; contact zri@gair.de

 

 

 

 

16. Articles on “The State of Islam amidst the Growth of the European Far-Right” for Special Issue of “Islamic Perspective Journal”

Papers are invited on: The state of Islam and Muslims in particular European countries; Critiques of anti-Muslim and anti-Islam ideologies; Critiques of specific anti-immigrant and anti-Islam thinkers as well as far-right political parties and nationalist movements;  The effects of such far-right movements on Muslim women, children, and family life and on Muslims in the public sphere, civil society, and in government positions; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 August 2019. Contact Dustin J. Byrd, Ph.D. (dbyrd@olivetcollege.edu)

 

 

 

 

17. Articles for Journal “Contemporary Arab Affairs (CAA)”

The editors of this peer-reviewed journal published by the Centre for Arab Unity Studies and University of California Press, invite authors to submit original multidisciplinary articles on the Arab World (5,000-7,000 words) to the editor at caa@caus.org.lb.

Deadline for manuscripts: 31 December 2019. Information: http://caa.ucpress.edu/content/submit

 

 

 

 

18. Contributions to Edited Volume on “Islam and Humour”

Contributions are invited on humour in the lives of Muslims around the world;  how Muslim comics use jokes to counteract oppression; how Muslim comics use humour as a tool for social integration into new communities; the role of humour in contemporary mass media in Muslim countries; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 August 2019. Information: Bernard Schweizer (Bernard.Schweizer@liu.edu)

 

 

 

 

19. Online Resource: “Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (600-1000)”, Leiden University

This blog of a research project focuses on how the Islamic conquests were consolidated in the diverse regions they reached. It is aimed at scholars and students and the interested public.

See https://emco.hcommons.org/2019/05/30/the-governors-orders-part-one/ and links to many other themes.

 

 

 

 

20. CFP: “Violence” Fall 2019 Mediterranean Seminar Workshop (4 & 5 October: Toronto)

 

Workshop paper proposals and round-table participants are being sought for the Mediterranean Seminar’s two-day Spring 2019 meeting on the subject of “Violence,” to be held at the University of Toronto on 4 & 5 October 2019.

 

The meeting is jointly sponsored by the the Malta Study Center at the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library and the Department of History, the Centre for Medieval Studies, the Centre for Jewish Studies, the Institute for Islamic Studies, the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, the Department of Religious Studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto.

 

As the principal site of contact and confrontation between Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the premodern world, the Mediterranean presents an ideal geography within which to explore various dimensions of interfaith violence:  ideologies and practices of war, conquest and colonialism; conflict between confessional communities within Muslim and Christian states; piracy; slavery; the trauma resulting from such violence; and the memorialization of violence.  The Mediterranean also lends itself to the comparative exploration of violence within Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities as a culturally specific form of social discourse, as expressed, for instance, in class conflict and social rebellion, feuds and vendettas, the violence related to gendered notions of honor and shame, and punishment and execution.  Since modern (mis)understandings of premodern crusades and jihads, relations between ruling majorities and religious minorities, and the role of violence in gender relations continue to contribute to prejudice and violence throughout the world, the study of violence in the premodern Mediterranean is all too relevant.

Papers and round-table participants from history, art history, religious studies, literary and cultural studies, anthropology or any relevant Humanities and Social Sciences discipline are welcome.

 

Our Mediterranean is construed geographically as including southern Europe, the Near and Middle East and North Africa and into the Black Sea and Central Asia, and the Red Sea and Indian Ocean.

 

All North American-based scholars (or foreign scholars who will be in the US at this time) working on relevant material are encouraged to apply. Scholars from further abroad may apply but we cannot pay full travel costs. ABD PhD students, junior and non-tenure track faculty are particularly welcome to apply.

 

For the workshop (to be held on Friday, 4 October), we invite abstracts of in-progress (unpublished) drafts of articles or book/dissertation chapters on any aspect of interfaith or intrafaith violence in the premodern Mediterranean and on literary and artistic representations of such violence.  Papers with a comparative approach are particularly welcome.

The workshop will also feature a keynote presentation, “”‘Blood of God! Bowels of God!’: Violence and the Order of Malta”,” by Dr. Emanuel Buttigieg (University of Malta).

 

The second day, Saturday, 5 October, will feature three round-table conversations, focusing on the following questions:
1. What was the relationship between the practice of violence and its representations (textual, visual, or other) ? Did the rhetoric of violence correspond to its practice ?
2. How has violence shaped Mediterranean art, or popular or material culture, and in what sense can it be seen as legitimate or illegitimate through various medium and modes of expression?
3. How has gender in the Mediterranean defined and been defined by violence?

A separate call for non-presenting workshop and symposium attendees will go out in mid-August.

The deadline for workshop and round-table proposals is 15 July 2019.

Please submit an abstract (250-500 words) and two-page CV by this date to mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org (subject line: Fall 2019 Proposal).

• If you are applying to present at the workshop, please indicate this clearly; state the title of your paper and its nature (e.g. article, book chapter, dissertation chapter).  Successful applicants are expected to submit a 35-page (maximum) double-spaced paper-in-progress for pre-circulation by 7 September.
• If you are applying to participate in a round-table, please indicate which round table(s) you are applying for. Round table participates will be required to submit a 3-5 page “position paper’ by 14 September

You may apply for both a workshop presentation and round-table discussion.

For further information, please consult www.mediterraneanseminar.org, or inquire at mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org

 

 

 

 

21. Naskhi-divani: a little-recognized sultanate script

The art of the book in sultanate India, particularly of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, is notable for its eclecticism. Because of the sultanates’ evolving political terrain, the search for a coherent narrative of manuscript patronage and production is a challenge. In comparison to painting, one relatively overlooked feature of sultanate books is calligraphy. Here, we examine a script found in sultanate manuscripts that scholars have started to call naskhī-dīvānī.

Read more at: https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2019/06/naskhi-divani-a-little-recognized-sultanate-script.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+asian-and-african+%28Asia+and+Africa%29

 

 

1.Position in Islamic Studies

Harvard University’s Faculty of Divinity seeks to make a full-time, tenure track appointment in Islamic Studies. We are particularly interested in a candidate with scholarly expertise either in: Islam in the Americas, Islam in Southeast Asia, or Quranic Studies. The candidate should be competent in the appropriate research languages and conversant with the broader, global history of Islamic religion and culture.

This is a tenure track position. The successful candidate will work closely with students in the Divinity School’s masters programs and the doctoral program in the Study of Religion. It is likely they will also teach undergraduates in the Comparative Study of Religion and graduate students in related departments of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. It is expected that this scholar will be in conversation with those in other programs and schools at Harvard critical to Islamic Studies. Openness to our growing program in ministry studies in Islam will be an advantage.

Applicants should also be able to contribute to the Divinity School’s degree programs, including its multi-religious Master of Divinity program, and be familiar with forms of analysis that address race, gender, and social location. The doctoral degree must be held by June 30, 2020.

Applications should be made online at: http://academicpositions.harvard.edu . A CV, cover letter, writing sample, and the names of three references whom the School may wish to contact will be required of all candidates. Review of applications will begin in September 2019 and continue until the position is filled. Selected candidates may be invited to initial interviews at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, this coming November.

Letters of nomination are also welcome and should be sent to: Islamic Studies Search Committee, c/o Faculty Search Office, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Divinity Hall 417, Cambridge, MA, 02138, or to islamicsearch@hds.harvard.edu . Applicants should address any questions regarding the position itself or the online application system to the Office of Academic Affairs at islamicsearch@hds.harvard.edu .

 

 

2. Viola ALLEGRANZI, Aux sources de la poésie ghaznavide. Les inscriptions persanes de Ghazni (Afghanistan, XI-XIIe siècles, 2 vols., Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2019. (ISBN: 978-2-87854-981-2)

Here in the link to PSN webpage with more information on the book (in French and in English): http://psn.univ-paris3.fr/ouvrage/aux-sources-de-la-poesie-ghaznavide-les-inscriptions-persanes-de-ghazni-afghanistan-xi-xiie-siecles#

 

 

 

3. CfP: CIWAS (The Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies) Third Annual Conference

‘Urban Islam: Muslim Minorities, Identity and Tradition in West Asian, South Asian, and African Cities’

19 February, 2020

Royal Holloway,

University of London

 

Deadine for abstracts: 4 October, 2019.

 

Full details at:

http://ciwas.net/upcoming-events-2/

 

 

 

 

4. Mosques: The 100 Most Iconic Islamic Houses of Worship

Bernard O’Kane is Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the American University in Cairo, where he has been teaching since 1980.

He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Timurid Architecture in Khurasan (1987), Studies in Persian Art and Architecture (1995), Early Persian Painting: Kalila and Dimna Manuscripts of the Late Fourteenth Century (2003), The World of Islamic Art (2007), The Appearance of Persian on Islamic Art (2009), The Illustrated Guide to the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo (2012) and The Mosques of Egypt (2016).

https://www.assouline.com/products/mosque-ultimate

 

 

 

 

5. Materials and Technologies in the Age of Transition: The Byzantine, Sasanian and Islamic Near East

Wolfson College, University of Oxford, 10–11 July 2019

Organisers: Moujan Matin (moujan.matin@wolfson.ox.ac.uk) and Alain George (alain.george@orinst.ox.ac.uk)

For registration please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/materials-and-technologies-in-the-age-of-transition-the-byz…

Between the late seventh century and the so-called Golden Age of Islam in the ninth to tenth centuries, the patronage of Islamic courts promoted the establishment of learned circles, observatories and semi-public libraries, the conduct of scientific research, and a translation movement from Greek and Sanskrit into Arabic. Various aspects of the transmission of knowledge in this period and the development of more abstract sciences of mathematics and astronomy, as well as medicine, have been discussed in the scholarly literature. However, very little is known about the development of materials technologies in this period, such as metalwork, ceramics, glass, manuscripts, textiles and cosmetics, that originated in the experimentation and hands-on knowledge of miners, smiths, scribes, potters and other craftsmen. Scientific analyses of archaeological materials in recent decades have produced a large body of scientific data on methods of production and technological links. Despite their crucial importance, these archaeological scientific projects tend to focus on only one type of material – e.g. metalwork, or pottery – and hence fail to provide a broader historical perspective on the development and spread of technologies and the cross-technology interactions. This symposium will provide a rare occasion to bring together historians and researchers engaged in scientific study of different materials, and to help transform their respective outlooks on the Byzantine-Islamic transition in different artistic media. This one-and-a-half-day symposium will be divided into six sessions:

 

 

 

 

6. 12th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

November 21-23, 2019

Hooking Up

In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 12th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, Hooking Up.

The concept of linked open data is the holy grail of the digital humanities. Yet the problem of how to link information across platforms has existed since civilization began. As knowledge and learning expanded in pre-modern society, the problems associated with collecting, combining, and disseminating information inspired new approaches to and technologies for the material text. In the internet age, we continue to grapple with the same problems and issues. While technologies have changed, the questions remain the same.

This year’s symposium explores the connections between historic and current approaches to data linkage in regard to manuscripts and manuscript research. Hooking Up addresses the topic from a variety of angles and considers how the manuscript book operates as a vehicle for information retrieval and dissemination from the technology of the page and the textual apparatus of a book, to the library, and finally, the internet. We will also consider such questions as how medieval practices of memory shaped information retrieval and gathering, how did the technology of the manuscripts book—in all its many forms—facilitate or hinder information processing, how can medieval solutions inform modern technologies, and how do modern technologies illuminate medieval practices? The program will also feature sessions highlighting projects that are advancing linked data technologies for manuscript researchers, including the T-AP Digging Into Data Challenge project Mapping Manuscript Migrations.

The program will begin Thursday evening, November 21, 5:00 pm, at the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library, with a keynote address by Professor Mary Carruthers, New York University, and All Souls College, Oxford University. The symposium will continue November 22nd-23rd at the Kislak Center of Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania.

Other speakers include:

• Benjamin L. Albritton, Stanford Libraries
• Toby Burrows, e-Research Centre, Oxford University,
• Matthew Driscoll, University of Copenhagen
• Christoph Flüeler, University of Fribourg
• Katarzyna Anna Kapitan, University of Copenhagen
• Mikko Koho, Aalto University
• Megan C. McNamee, Warburg Institute
• Aylin Malcolm, University of Pennsylvania
• Sally Ragep, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
• Helmut Reimitz, Princeton University
• Linda Safran, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
• Elly Truitt, Bryn Mawr College
• Kelly Tuttle, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
• Athanasios Velios, Ligatus, University of the Arts London
• Hanno Wijsman, Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes
• Jeffrey Witt, Loyola University Maryland
• Elizabeth Yale, University of Iowa
• Kıvılcım Yavuz, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas

For more information, go to http://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs-symposium12. Registration opens in September 2019.

 

 

 

 

7. CFP:  “Acts of Excommunication” in the Late Antique and Early Islamicate Middle East. March 12-13, 2020, Leiden University

As part of the ERC-funded project, “Embedding Conquest, Naturalising Muslim Rule (600-1000)”, at Leiden University, this conference aims to bring together both senior and junior scholars to present research which illuminates the dynamics implicit in the act of excommunication and associated practices: ostracism, anathema, and other forms of religio-social exclusion, among the major religious communities of the Islamicate world, 600-1200 CE: including various Christian and Jewish denominations, Sunni, Shiʿi, ‘Khārijī’ and other groups within Islam; Zoroastrians and other relevant groups.

The workshop will focus on “acts of excommunication”, meaning that its primary focus will be specific cases, whether real or imagined, which display the dynamics and implications of excommunicatory practices. The discussion of specifc (pseudo-) documents is particularly encouraged. While participants will be asked to focus on specific cases, they should show how these examples illuminate the larger frameworks within which their cases occurred.

Topics to be covered might include the following:

• Excommunicatory statements in contracts and oaths
• Excommunication as a tool in managing institutional hierarchies and hierocracies
• Maximal and minimalist excommunication
• Exclusions from ritual, social activities, trade, place and space
• Political rebels
• Overlapping or contested jurisdictions
• Enforcement issues
• Excommunication at centre and periphery
• Conversion and apostasy

Aims of the workshop

Scholars of Judaism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Islam often study excommunication in separate silos, developing separate vocabularies and models. However, during the early Islamic period, these communities shared space and ideas. When compared, various contexts (theology, ritual, eschatology, social mores) indicate isomorphisms which suggest that different religious communities were as connected as they were divided.

Excommunication is a tool of coercion, and as such, it deserves to be studied in comparative context which might highlight the operation of intersecting power dynamics in society.

This workshop aims to move beyond the idea that acts of excommunication were purely the result of theological issues. Instead, this workshop aims to explore acts of excommunication as social and political as well as religious practice, with important implications for activities in local communities, but also for interactions with wider society and with governing authorities within the early Islamic empire.

While the theological, doctrinal and legal backdrop are important, an act of excommunication does not simply flow from the conceptual force of a doctrinal transgression, but rather the act is situated within a set of overlapping fields which may include economic, institutional, familial, political, ethnic, linguistic and generational aspects. These fields, in turn, contributed to how an act of excommunication came to be interpreted and positioned within evolving systems of law, theology and doctrine.

Format and logistics

The workshop will take place Thurs 12-Fri 13 March , 2020, Leiden University

The output of this workshop will be an open-access special issue on the topic of excommunication in and around the early Islamicate empire, to be published in Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists ( http://islamichistorycommons.org/mem/al-usur-al-wusta/).

Contributions to this workshop will be understood to be works in progress, with final versions to be submitted for the special issue.

Please send an abstracts of around 300 words to e.p.hayes@hum.leidenuniv.nl by October 1^st, 2019.

Pre-circulation of papers will not be necessary, but final versions of papers for publication will be requested by September 2020.

If you are unable to attend the workshop, but would be interested in submitting to the special issue, please indicate this.

Subsidies will be available for travel and accommodation.

 

https://emco.hcommons.org/

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/research-projects/humanities/embedding-conquest#tab-1

 

 

1.37^th Annual Symposium of the Association for the Study of Islam and Middle East Law (RIMO): “Informal Dispute Resolution and Islam”, Leiden, 4 July 2019

See program at http://www.verenigingrimo.nl/

 

 

 

 

2. International Conference: “Global Islamism 2019 – Phenomena, Interdependencies, Prevention”, Potsdam, 15-17 October 2019

The conference will feature discussions along the entire spectrum of transnational Islamism, from legalistic Islamism all the way to violent Jihadism. Besides providing a platform for analysing the phenomena as such, the conference will bring together experts from Germany and around the world to exchange notes on prevention strategies.

Deadline for registration: 27 September 2019. Information:

http://www.bpb.de/veranstaltungen/format/kongress-tagung/290378/glocal-islamism-2019

 

 

 

 

3. International Conference: “The Qur’an in its Milieu of Origin: Possibilities of the Historical Reconstruction of the Qur’anic Revelation”, Muenster, 8-10 November 2019

This conference is particularly dedicated to the context of the Qur’an in its milieu of origin. We are looking for contributions concerning the following questions: do we have enough authentic Islamic and non-Islamic historical sources to reconstruct the historical context of the Qur’anic revelation? Which sources, studies and academic researchers could be employed to contextualize the Qur’an historically? Etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2019. Information: https://www.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/content/zit/veranstaltungen/cfp_quran_conference2_2019.pdf

 

 

 

 

4. Humanities Multi-Year Research Fellowships for the Study of the Arab World, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)

While open to scholars working in all areas of the Humanities, the program aims in particular to build a center of outstanding research capacity in areas of the Humanities that are relevant for the study of the Arabic world. Eligible candidates for the senior fellowships have an outstanding scholarly accomplishment. Mid-career scholars with strong publication records and exceptional scholarly promise may be considered in this category. Eligible candidates for the research fellowships, which are intended especially for young scholars who wish to turn their doctoral dissertations into book manuscripts publishable with major academic presses, have received their PhD within the previous five years and have a strong record of scholarly accomplishment.

Deadline for applications: 1 September 2019.

Information: https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/research/centers-labs-and-projects/humanities-research-fellowship-program.html

 

 

 

5. Islamic Studies Tenure Track Position, Harvard Divinity School

We are interested in a candidate with scholarly expertise either in: Islam in the Americas, Islam in Southeast Asia, or Quranic Studies. The candidate should be competent in the appropriate research languages and conversant with the broader, global history of Islamic religion and culture.

Deadline for applications: 30 June 2019. Information: http://academicpositions.harvard.edu

 

 

 

 

6. Cape Town Summer School: “Critical Muslim Studies (CMS): Decolonial Struggles and Liberation Theologies”, 8-15 January 2020

CMS is inspired by a need to open up a space for intellectually rigorous and socially committed explorations between decolonial thinking and studies of Muslims, Islam and the Islamicate. CMS does not regard Islam only as a religio-spiritual tradition, or a civilization, but also as a possibility for a decolonial epistemic perspective that suggests contributions and responses to the problems facing humankind today.

Deadline for applications: 30 June 2019. Information: https://criticalmuslimct.com/

 

 

 

 

7. Articles on “Contemporary Politics of the Middle-East and North-Africa” for Special Issue of the Journal “Societies”

Articles are invited that deal either with internal political considerations and the governmental systems of one of the countries in the region, or comparisons between different countries or focusing on the international relations of any of the countries.

Deadline for manuscripts: 30 September 2019. Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/societies/special_issues/contemporary_politics_

 

 

 

 

8. Research and Publications on “Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom”

This is a cooperative effort led by a team that consists of medievalists specialising in Western, Byzantine and Islamic history tackling a vital historical question: Why did the Christendom government and society develop certain processes of institutionalisation that did not characterise the Islamic world, considering that the early medieval situation might have suggested otherwise?

Information: http://pimic-itn.eu/what/

 

 

 

 

9. CfP: Colophons in Middle Eastern Manuscripts Workshop

Kiraz, George A.; Schmidtke, Sabine

 

Abstract:

The colophon, the ultimate or “crowing touch” paragraphs of a manuscript, provides readers with a the historical context in which the scribe produced the manuscript. At its basic essence, the colophon gives us the “metadata” of the manuscript: who was the scribe? When and where was the manuscript pro-duced? For whom was it produced and who paid for it? But colophons are far more rich. They are literary works on their own right, having a style and rhetoric independent of the main literary text of the manuscript. In addition, colophons provide historical facts otherwise lost to histories: wars, earthquakes, religious events, etc.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together scholars from various disciplines to study colophons in Middle Easter manuscripts in various languages, including, but not limited to, Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian,* Hebrew, Persian, and Syriac. Scholars interested in participating may send via email a proposal between 750 and 1,000 words. Pro-posals are to focus on the colophon (i.e. not a study of the main literary text of the manuscript). Com-parative analyses across traditions is encouraged but not required.

Submission deadline is January 15, 2020. Submissions are to be sent via email directly to George A. Kiraz at gkiraz@ias.edu.

Scholars are expected to fund their travel to/from and accommodation in Princeton. The Institute will provide meals and a conference celebratory dinner. Speakers will be invited to contribute to a collected volume on an agreed-upon theme.

https://albert.ias.edu/handle/20.500.12111/7776

 

 

 

 

10. BRAIS – DE GRUYTER PRIZE 2020

 

The Fifth Round of the BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions.

The British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) and De Gruyter are delighted to announce the fifth round of the BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World. This international prize will be awarded annually to the best doctoral thesis or unpublished first monograph based on a doctoral thesis. English-language submissions on any aspect of the academic study of Islam and the Muslim world, past and present, including Muslim-minority societies are accepted. Applicants can be based in any country, and manuscripts will be assessed on the basis of scholarly quality and originality.

Documents must be submitted to prize@brais.ac.uk by 5.00 pm GMT, 1 October 2019.

For full details, see https://www.brais.ac.uk/prize

 

 

 

 

11. We are pleased to announce the upcoming international conference “There was one, there wasn’t one”: Modalities and challenges of the narrative in the Persianate world, in memory of our dear friend and colleague, Dr. Marina Gaillard (1955-2015), in Paris next week.

 

A prominent specialist of medieval Persian narrative, Marina Gaillard was a member of the “Mondes iranien et indien” CNRS research team and associate faculty member at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO, Paris). Her work on prose narrative, and particularly on the modalities of the “semi-popular” romance in medieval Iran, constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of pre-modern Persian literature. Interrupted by her untimely death, her pioneering research continues to nourish and inspire much of our own work.

 

The conference will be held June 27-28, 2019 at the Auditorium du Pôle Langues et Civilisations (Inalco, Paris).

 

Attached, please find the conference program, with full description and abstracts.

 

The program is also available online from the CNRS research team “Mondes iranien et indien”: https://www.iran-inde.cnrs.fr/scientific-events/events-2019/there-was-one-there-wasn-t-one-modalities-and-challenges-of-the-narrative-in.html?lang=en

 

The event is free and open to the public. Please consider joining us if you are in Paris next week.

 

 

 

12. CALL FOR PAPERS

Global Technology in Local Contexts: Lithography in Asia

A two-day international workshop at the University of Chicago Center in Delhi

16–17 March 2020

Workshop conveners

Prof. Ulrike Stark, Dept. of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Prof. Thibaut d’Hubert, Dept. of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Prof. Abhijit Gupta, Dept. of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

The year 2022 will mark the bicentenary of the arrival of lithography in India, a watershed moment in the history of printing in South Asia. In anticipation of this anniversary, the University of Chicago Center in Delhi will host a two-day workshop on 16–17 March 2020. We invite scholars working on various aspects of lithography in Asia to submit proposals for papers. We especially welcome proposals from scholars based in South Asia and from early career researchers.

The upcoming anniversary provides a timely moment to review the history of lithography in its technological, sociocultural, economic, and aesthetic dimensions, and from both local and transregional perspectives. Rather than focusing on India alone, the workshop aims to look at the rise of lithography across Asia, from Teheran to Shanghai, and to address the impact of a global technology that bridged traditional and modern practices of textual production from a variety of disciplinary lenses, languages, and local contexts. The workshop will bring together junior and senior scholars from the US, Europe, India and other Asian countries to discuss approaches to the study of lithography in light of recent interest in material cultures, entangled histories, and the circulation of knowledge and technologies. We will explore new lines of inquiry into the relationship between manuscript and print production and the competition between lithography and typography. Possible topics of discussion may include: the social history of lithography; lithography’s trajectory from the sphere of artistic book production to commercial mass printing, lithography as a religious technology, lithography as an art form, the democratizing effect of lithography, lithography and community formation, lithography and the rise of vernacular journalism, global flows of technology and expertise, missionary uses of lithography, lithography in graphic design and advertising.

The workshop will be free and open to invited guest participants. We are unable to cover travel costs for international presenting participants from outside South Asia, but will cover two nights of accommodation in Delhi as well as refreshments and meals for the duration of the workshop. For speakers based in South Asia, we will cover two nights of accommodation and travel expenses (domestic economy round-trip travel).

 

Proposals

We invite proposals for papers of 30-minute duration. Proposals should be submitted no later than 15 August 2019 and must include:

1. An abstract of no more than 350 words outlining your research presentation
2. A current CV
3. A completed contact information form. A copy of the form can be accessed at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeAcDs3P9MOeaI04gBtCuL5H8ojY85lFOZsy88fYaVcMQlYqQ/viewform

Please email these materials to Shruti Brar at shrutibrar@uchicago.edu

Proposals may also be sent via mail to the following address:

University of Chicago Center

Attn: Shruti Brar

DLF Capitol Point

Baba Kharak Singh Marg

New Delhi, India 110001

 

—

Thibaut d’Hubert
Bengali language and Bengal studies
South Asian Languages and Civilizations
The University of Chicago
http://salc.uchicago.edu/faculty/d-hubert
https://chicago.academia.edu/ThibautdHubert

 

 

 

1.ISLAMIC PAINTED PAGE DATABASE – EXTENSION

The University of Hamburg’s Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures and Islamic Painted Page are pleased to announce the launch of a new version of the Islamic Painted Page website, www.islamicpaintedpage.com.

The website exists to help users locate reproductions, commentaries and online images for tens of thousands of Persian, Ottoman, Arab, Mughal, Sultanate and other paintings, bindings, illuminations, and decorated Qur’an pages up to c.1900 CE. It is also a signposting site, providing item-specific onward links and references to authoritative online and print publications.

As well as some refinements to the site, we are proud to report the database is now expanded to 42,000 references, of which 21,000 now include images.

Very grateful acknowledgement is made to the Smithsonian Freer Sackler Galleries; The Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Harvard Art Museums; Copenhagen David Collection; the Geneva Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, and Chester Beatty Library, for permission to include images from their collections on this latest version of the database. Together with previous permissions and Creative Commons policies, this enables the database to display images for items from twenty of the world’s most important collections so far.

As a result, the database now covers works from over 270 collections worldwide, with image facilities and direct collection weblinks for 50% of the content. Everything is fully searchable by picture description as well as by place, date, accession number and other metadata, and supportive item-specific links are also provided to VIAF, WORLDCAT and FIHRIST.

The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures aims to enable the continued development of the Islamic Painted Page database, and the site is now hosted and supported by the University of Hamburg, although the database ownership and maintenance remain unchanged.

We hope that users will find the site increasingly useful, and warmly welcome feedback and any suggestions for future developments.

Stephen Serpell

Islamic Painted Page & Research Associate, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), University of Hamburg

e-Mail: stephen.serpell@uni-hamburg.de

 

 

 

2. ASPIRANTUM -School of languages and cultures invites international participants to apply and take part in Armenian, Persian and Russian language winter schools from December 1 till December 21, 2019 in Yerevan, Armenia.

You can read testimonials of our alumni here: https://aspirantum.com/testimonials

You may find the details about Persian language winter school here: https://aspirantum.com/topics/persian

You may find the details about Russian language winter school here: https://aspirantum.com/topics/russian

You may find the details about Armenian language winter school here: https://aspirantum.com/topics/armenian

 

 

 

 

3. Colloque international

Jeudi 27 & vendredi 28 juin 2019

INaLCO, Auditorium de la BULAC (65 Rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris)

 

« Il y avait quelqu’un, il n’y avait personne »

Modes et enjeux de la narration dans le monde persanophone

Colloque international dédié à la mémoire de Marina Gaillard (1955-2015)

En 2015 disparaissait, fort prématurément, notre chère collègue et amie, Marina Gaillard, spécialiste de littérature persane classique, enseignante à l’INaLCO et membre de l’équipe CNRS « Mondes iranien et indien ». Son travail sur le récit en prose, et en particulier, sur les modalités du roman « semi-populaire » dans l’Iran médiéval, constitue une contribution majeure à notre connaissance de la narration persane pré-moderne. Auteur d’une œuvre pionnière, trop tôt interrompue, elle continue de nourrir nos recherches et d’inspirer nombre de nos travaux. Ce colloque est dédié à sa mémoire.

Du pouvoir salvateur des contes de Schéhérazade au mordant des récits de Hedayat et de Golshiri ; de l’épopée mythique de Ferdowsi aux romances médiévales en vers et en prose ; des anecdotes édifiantes de Sa‘adi à l’humour illustré de Marjane Satrapi ou au cinéma de Kiarostami et de Farhadi : autant de récits qui ont fasciné et continuent de fasciner le public persanophone aussi bien qu’étranger, en offrant un accès privilégié au monde dont ils sont issus, à ses croyances, à sa culture et sa pensée.

Y aurait-il donc un mode spécifique du récit « à la persane » ? Un rapport particulier à l’auditoire ? Une façon de raconter, héritage de pratiques ancestrales, qui aurait perduré à l’époque moderne ? Se pourrait-il que ces récits, dans leurs formes et dans leurs visées, voire dans leurs publics, se soient développés sinon indépendamment, du moins parallèlement aux formes connues du monde occidental ? L’attrait persistant qu’exerce, à ce jour, la narration persane sur un vaste auditoire, mérite que l’on s’attarde sur ces questions.

 Comité d’organisation

• Amr Ahmed, Maître de Conférences en langue et littérature kurdes sorani, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, “Mondes iranien et indien” (FRE2018, CNRS-Sorbonne Nouvelle-INaLCO-EPHE)

• Julie Duvigneau, Maître de Conférences en langue et littérature persanes, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, “Mondes iranien et indien” (FRE2018, CNRS-Sorbonne Nouvelle-INaLCO-EPHE)

• Yassaman Khajehi, Maître de Conférences en Études Théâtrales, Université Clermont Auvergne, Centre d’Histoire “Espaces et Cultures” (CHEC)
• Justine Landau, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Programme et Information sur le site web de l’Inalco et de « Mondes iranien et indien »

INALCO : http://www.inalco.fr/evenement/avait-quelqu-avait-personne-modes-enjeux-narration-monde-persanophone

Mondes iranien et indien : https://www.iran-inde.cnrs.fr/evenements-scientifiques/colloques-et-conferences-2019/il-y-avait-quelqu-un-il-n-y-avait-personne-modes-et-enjeux-de-la-narration-dans.html

 

 

 

 

4. 1st Annual Muslim Minorities and Human Rights Conference – London

This conference aims to encourage academic and quality research on Muslim minorities’ issues, and trying to provide academic and practical solutions to the problems and challenges of social, political, educational aspects that are faced by Muslim minorities in Britain. Aiming also to create a forum of dialogue on related issues for researchers and stakeholders.

Centre for Arab Progress – London is pleased to invite researchers and academics to participate in the 1st Annual Conference, to be held on (5th September 2019), entitled: “Islam, Muslims in Britain: radicalisation, deradicalisation, islamophobia and human rights”.

The conference aims to become an important academic and research platform in the UK on Islam and Muslim minorities and related matters. In addition, the papers that are accepted and presented in the conference will be published as hard copy and in electronic format.

For further information on the conference please visit the conference website on the following link: http://mmhrc.co.uk/

 

 

 

5. Call for papers: 

*AFGHANISTAN IN THE WORLD: 100 Years of Independence
*SOAS, University of London*
*18-19 October 2019*

https://afgacademia.wixsite.com/afgindependence

*Deadline: June 30, 2019*

*Subject Fields: *Anthropology, Archaeology, Asian History / Studies,
Geography, Humanities

2019 marks one hundred years since the signing of the Anglo-Afghan Treaty
of 1919. This monumental event resulted in the United Kingdom formally
recognising Afghanistan’s independence, yet at present Afghanistan’s
sovereignty is still being contested. In a year when multiple events will
be taking place globally to celebrate the country’s independence, we seek
to critically engage with the notion of independence in a two-day workshop
marking the centenary of the modern state of Afghanistan with our Keynote
Speaker cited above.

We welcome PhD students and early-career researchers to submit abstracts of
200 words on any of the following themes:

1. Colonialism and imperialism
2. Society, borders and mobility
3. Histories and historiography
4. Insider-outsider perspectives
5. Decolonisation, resistance and resilience

For further details about the workshop and information on applying please
refer to:
*https://afgacademia.wixsite.com/afgindependence/call-for-papers

Completed abstracts should be e-mailed to afg1919soas@gmail.com

*Deadline for abstract submission:* *30th June 2019*

*The workshop will take place on Friday the 18th of October and Saturday
the 19th of October 2019 at SOAS, University of London.*

This workshop is supported by the generosity of the SOAS Early Career
Development Fund and the Association for Central Asian Civilizations & Silk
Road Studies – UK.

*Conveners*: Rabia Khan (SOAS) – Florence Shahabi (SOAS)

*Contact Info: *Florence Shahabi

*Contact Email: afg1919soas@gmail.com

*URL:* http://bit.ly/2HGwc7x

 

 

 

 

6. MA Iranian Studies: Iran in Antiquity and Late Antiquity

For the autumn 2019/20 (“Wintersemester”) at the Institute of Iranian Studies,

Freie Universität Berlin. This two year (four semesters), full-time study programme

is convened in English , leading to an internationally recognised Master of Arts in

Iranian Studies.

See: https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/iranistik/studium/master/index.html

 

 

 

 

7. « Current Perspectives on Ibn ʿArabī and ‘Akbarī’ Thought »

June 24-25, 2019

UCLouvain | Salle du Sénat académique (Halles universitaires, Place de l’Université 1) – Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

9:30 — 17:30

PROGRAM.pdf

Keynotes:

Claude Addas | Denis Gril | James W. Morris

 

Participants:

José Bellver (UCLouvain) | Nicholas Boylston (Harvard) | Stephen Hirtenstein (MIAS)

Giovanni Maria Martini (L’Orientale) | Michele Petrone (UCLouvain) | Ali Reza Pharaa (Stony Brook)

Sophie Tyser (EPHE/Uni. Bonn) | Gregory Vandamme (FNRS/UCLouvain) | Cornelis van Lit (Utrecht)

 

Organisers:

Cécile Bonmariage & Gregory Vandamme

 

UCLouvain

Institut supérieur de philosophie (Centre De Wulf-Mansion)

 

Partners:

RSCS | INCAL

Ecole des Sciences philosophiques et religieuses (USL-B)

F.R.S.-FNRS

 

https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/isp/evenements/current-perspectives-on-ibn-arabi-and-akbari-thought.html