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1.CfP: “The Ties that Bind”: Mechanisms and Structures of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire, 2-6 December 2019

Deadline for submission of abstracts, January 31st 2019.

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 structures and mechanisms that allowed the early Islamic empire to function. The period to be focused on at the conference is roughly focused on is roughly 600-1000 CE.

Structures and mechanisms

The papers should describe the way that local and regional elites were both embedded in larger structures of power and dependency, and employed specific mechanisms to achieve their goals. By structures, we refer to frameworks such as administration, tax-collection, political networks, religious communities, legal systems, social conventions and patronage networks. By mechanisms, we refer to specific instances which establish relationships between actors, including documentary cultures, mechanisms of social integration and embedding (such as oaths, contracts, pledges, marriage, inheritance and succession conventions), mechanisms of social exclusion (such as ostracism, imprisonment, excommunication) and so forth.

Papers may deal with mechanisms and structures that hold the empire together, or examine the fissiparous and centrifugal forces that tend in the opposite direction. Moments of crisis and breakdown are understood as particularly useful both illuminating the precise nature of structures and mechanisms and they are contested, renewed or replaced.

Local and regional elites

In focusing on local and regional elites, we aim to understand how the authority and power of the caliphate was actualized within the daily lives of the empire’s inhabitants. This focus cements a shift in recent years to thinking about the caliphate as a multipolar entity, rather than a pyramidical hierarchy of power (Neff and Tillier), and as a set of relationships and interfaces between actors whose influence derives from being embedded in a particular local context, and power-brokers at the centre of the empire (Paul, Heidemann) . This conference aims to push the field further, by inviting participants to dissect with greater precision the specific structures, mechanisms, behaviours, strategies and conventions that enabled key stakeholders to achieve goals which shaped the lives of the inhabitants of the empire.

Source material will be open to presenters, but we particularly welcome papers that combine literary sources with documentary and material sources.

In addition to  the presentation of papers, invited presenters will be encouraged to prepare visualizations of the structures and frameworks that they perceive in their materials, to be discussed in a separate session. These visualizations might be formed in terms of networks, hierarchies, blocs, or other models of conceptualizing the relationships between the diverse stakeholders in the empire.

One of the outcomes of the ERC project, Embedding Conquest, will be an edited volume which records the results of this and other conferences. Participants may be invited to submit their contribution as part of the edited volume. If you will be unable to contribute your research to this volume, then please signal that when you submit your abstract.

Details

The conference will take place 2-6th December, 2019.

Papers will be 30 mins with 15 for Q&A. Participant may also be requested to participate in additional discussion and visualization sessions.

Please send an abstracts of around 300 words to e.p.hayes@hum.leidenuniv.nl by January 31st 2019.

Travel and accommodation will be subsidized.

 

Link to the call for papers:

https://emco.hcommons.org/events/event/call-for-papers-mechanisms-and-structures-of-social-dependency-in-the-early-islamic-empire-2-6-december-2019/

 

 

 

2. Lecturer in Islamic History 600-1800 at QMUL (London) (closing date 06/02/19)

https://webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/job.action?jobRef=QMUL17414

 

 

 

3. The Research Training Group *Philosophy, Science and the Sciences* (RTG 1939) (ancient-philosophy.hu-berlin.de ) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is offering several

*salaried positions for doctoral candidates*
*stipends for pre-doctoral studies*

to candidates working on a research project within the RTG 1939 on the dialogue between different forms and models of knowledge in ancient Greek, Roman and Arabic thought (including its medieval and early modern reception). Topics involve both philosophy and some special science or other (including mathematics, medicine, and other disciplines that we might not today consider special sciences, such as grammar or divination).

Salaried doctoral positions (T-VL Berlin E13 at 65%) will be funded for three years, starting on 1 October 2019.
Stipends for pre-doctoral studies have guaranteed funding for one year, starting on 1 October 2019. Pre-doc students making good progress toward the doctorate will receive a further three years of funding, leading to the completed doctorate.

Additional funding is available for conference travels, research stays abroad and other qualification measures, such as language training.

Applications: Please follow the instructions given on our website (ancient-philosophy.hu-berlin.de). The application deadline is 31 January 2019.

 

 

 

4. 1st International Conference on “Peace and Conflict Resolution (ICPCR)”, Tehran, 29-30 April 2019

The University of Tehran, the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO and the Iranian Peace Studies Scientific Association will host this Conference.

Deadline for abstracts: 4 February 2019, Information: https://icpcr.ut.ac.ir/

 

 

 

 

5. 41st International Annual Conference of the European Association of Middle East Librarians (MELCom International): L’Orientale, Napoli, 18-21 June 2019

MELCom International is devoted to the study of collections, librarianship, projects etc. of resources and sources from and on the Middle East at large.

Information: www.melcominternational.org

 

 

 

6. Two Research Fellowships at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Oxford

The fellowships are tenable from October 2019  for a three year period, offering a competitive salary determined by qualifications and experience in the range of £24,000 – £31,000.

Closing date is 15 April 2019. Information: www.oxcis.ac.uk/vacancies.

 

 

 

7. Senior Research Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, 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. The fellowship is for a three year renewable period, and may be extended. Salary in the range of £39,000 to £53,000.

Closing date is 15 April 2019. Information: www.oxcis.ac.uk/vacancies

 

 

 

8. Lecturer in Arabic Language and Culture, University of Rhode Island

The lecturer will teach courses at all levels, from beginning language courses to upper-level content courses taught in the Arabic language, and potentially English-language content courses on cultural topics in the Arabic-speaking world.

Deadline for application: 15 February 2019. Information: https://jobs.uri.edu/postings/4608

 

 

 

9. Articles for the First Issue of “Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies”

Unpublished contributions from the Humanities, Cultural Studies and Social Sciences with a geographical focus on Turkey, the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, Iran, Central Asia and the Caucasus are invited in German, English and French.

Extended deadline for full articles: 15 April 2019. Information: https://www.diyar.nomos.de/en/; contact Tabea Becker-Bertau (diyar@ergon-verlag.de).

 

 

1.FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS | SYMPOSIA IRANICA

FOURTH BIENNIAL PG AND EARLY CAREER SCHOLARS’ CONFERENCE ON IRANIAN STUDIES

Hosted by the University of Cambridge at St John’s College, Cambridge, UK, 9-10 April 2019

***Final Submissions by Midnight, Friday 25 January 2019***

We welcome proposals that engage with any aspect of Iranian studies within the arts, humanities and social sciences. These include but are not limited to prehistory through to the ancient and post-antique, modern, and contemporary histories; historiography; art and architecture history; anthropology; archaeology; cultural heritage; film and cinema; music and musicology; new media and communication studies; the performing arts; poetry and literature; languages and linguistics; Diaspora and migration studies; diplomatic studies, international relations and political science; social and political theory; law and legal studies; economics, philately and numismatics; sociology; philosophy; religions and theology.

Comparative themes and interdisciplinary approaches are also very welcome.

SUBMISSIONS

Proposals are open to early career scholars at postgraduate and post-doctoral levels from any disciplinary background within the arts, humanities and social sciences:

1. Postgraduate students (MA, MPhil, MSt, etc. who are currently enrolled or who graduate/d in 2019 or 2018);
2. PhD students and PhD candidates at any stage of their degree; and
3. post-docs who graduated within the last three years (2018, 2017, 2016, 2015).

Persons falling into any of these categories are eligible to submit a proposal for an individual paper or pre-arranged panel. Submission is conducted electronically through the website. For any questions, please email us at office@symposia-iranica.com.

 

The language of the conference is English. All submissions undergo double-blind peer review.

 

 

2. The Aga Khan Library, London, is hosting  Seminar on Islamic Studies Librarianship: Past, Present and Future on 31 January 2019 (10-00-5.30 pm).

Speakers: Leif Stenberg, Walid Ghali, Arnoud Vrolijk, Paul Auchterlonie, David Hirsch, Gregor Schwarb, Waseem Farooq and Sarah Savant

Address: Atrium Conference Room, Aga Khan Centre,  10 Handyside Street,  London N1C 4DN

For further details and registration link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seminar-on-islamic-studies-librarianship-past-present-and-future-tickets-53442200059

 

 

 

3. Open Access Book Series: Memoria fontes minores ad historiam Imperii Ottomanici pertinentes.

https://prae.perspectivia.net/publikationen/memoria

 

 

4. Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam(University of Texas Press, March 2018).

Edited by Federico Spinetti (U. Cologne) and Michael Frishkopf, with a foreword by Ali Asani (Harvard), this interdisciplinary collection comprises 14 chapters, representing multiple regions of the Muslim world, by scholars offering diverse perspectives on the multifaceted relations between sound and the built environment.

The volume includes 16 full color plates, some 70 b&w figures, and an accompanying website (in progress) at archnet.org, which will ultimately provide accompanying AV for every chapter.

ِContributors (in order) include Ali Asani, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Nina Ergin, John Morgan O’Connell, Irene Markoff, Michael Frishkopf, Jonathan H. Shannon, Samer Akkach, Cynthia Robinson, Glaire D. Anderson, Paul A. Silverstein, Kamil Khan Mumtaz, Saida Daukeyeva, Anthony Welch, and Federico Spinetti.

https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/frishkopf-spinetti-music-sound-and-architecture-in-islam

 

 

 

5. Jobs:

 

University of Oslo – PhD Fellowship: Biopolitics in the Middle East
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58082

 

 

National Chengchi University – Full-time Faculty Position (Tenure
Track) in Arabic Linguistics/ Arabic Culture/ Computer Science/
Information and Communication Technology in Learning/ or relevant
fields
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58096

 

 

University of California – Berkeley – Academic Coordinator II-Center
for Middle Eastern Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58108

 

 

 

6. 3rd Annual International Conference on Middle Eastern and North African Studies on: “Feminism in the MENA Region: Women’s Rights in a Post-Globalist World”, Kenitra, Morocco, 20-21 March 2019

The Takamul Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies and Research in cooperation with the Hanns Seidel Foundation invites you to participate in this Conference.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2019. Information

http://www.hssma.org/admin_files/Conference%20Call%20for%20Submissions%20Updated.pdf

 

 

 

7. Conference: “Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World (1150–1550) – Including Arab-Islamic Geography”, University of Tübingen, 11-12 April 2019

The comparative perspective is intended to capture traditional peculiarities as well as transcultural exchange processes between the Arab-Muslim and the Latin-Christian world.

See program at https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3543039/geography-and-religious-knowledge-medieval-world-1150%E2%80%931550

 

 

 

8. Posts:

a) Irmgard Coninx Prize Fellowship for Transregional Studies “Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME)”, Berlin, 2019/2020

The prize consists of a post-doctoral research fellowship of up to ten months and the possibility to participate in the scholarly activities of the Forum.

Deadline for applications: 31 January 2019. Information: https://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/ausschreibungen/irmgard-coninx-2019.html

 

b) Fellowships at the American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo

Applications are invited to conduct independent humanities research in Egypt. Doctoral, postdoctoral, early career and senior humanities scholars are eligible to apply. Most awards require American citizenship.

Deadline for applications: 15 January 2019. Information: https://www.arce.org/fellows

 

c) Assistant Professor in Islam, Florida International University

The Department of Religious in the School of International and Public Affairs is pleased to announce a search for a faculty colleague with a specialization in Islam of the late medieval or early modern period, preferably with a focus on the Ottoman Empire. Candidates should becompetent in either Turkish, Arabic or both. A Ph.D. is required.

Deadline for applications: 31 January 2019. Information: https://facultycareers.fiu.edu/?posting=516574

 

d) Assistant Professor on Islam of the Late Medieval or Early Modern Period, Florida International University

Candidates should have a specialization in Islam of the late medieval or early modern period, preferably with a focus on the Ottoman Empire.Candidates should be competent in either Turkish, Arabic or both.

Qualified candidates should apply to Job Opening ID (516574) at https://facultycareers.fiu.edu/

 

 

 

9. Summer School on “Cultures of Documentation in Persianate Eurasia (15th-19th Centuries)”, Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna, 2-7 June 2019

The basic requirement is knowledge of Persian and one Turkic language (Ottoman Turkish or Chaghatay).

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3531264/call-applications-summer-school-cultures-documentation

 

 

 

10. Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Iranian Studies

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, in conjunction with the Program of Iranian Studies, at UCLA, invite applications for a postdoctoral position in the history and culture of modern Iran, effective July 1, 2019.  

The Amuzegar Postdoctoral Fellowship aims at promoting the work of exceptional scholars at an early stage of their careers whose presence at UCLA would strengthen the study of modern Iran. Applicants from all fields of humanities and social sciences are encouraged to apply. The Department is particularly interested in candidates whose research and teaching engage broader cultural and intellectual traditions, are transdisciplinary in scope, and grounded in philological expertise and archival work.

Applicants are required to have completed their PhD before the beginning of their tenure at UCLA. Preference is given to candidates who have obtained their doctoral degree more recently. Postdoctoral fellows may not hold concurrent fellowships or positions during their appointment.

Applicants should apply online via UCLA Academic Recruit. Applications require submission of (1) cover letter; (2) curriculum vitae and list of publications; (3) synopsis of proposed research project, and why it may be successfully conducted at UCLA, including publication goals; (4) sample syllabi for introductory courses and graduate seminars for a 10 week quarter; and (5) names of three referees.

Deadline for applications is February 15, 2019 and the Search Committee will begin reviewing the applications on March 1st. 

https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF04237

 

1.International Conference: “Untangling Popular Power: Rhetoric, Faith, and Social Order in the Middle East,” Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life and Columbia Global Center Amman, Jordan, 2-3 March 2019

This forum aims to explore the extent to which recently emerging populisms in the contemporary Middle East are illustrative of a new historical trend, and/or the extent to which they are a continuation of the diverse strategies for the mobilization of peoples that were deployed during international anti-colonial projects and civil rights movements.
Deadline for final papers: 15 January 2018. Information:
https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/news/call-papers-untangling-popular-power-rhetoric-faith-and-social-order-middle-east-march-2-3

 

 

 

2. International Conference on Ιbadi Studies 2019: “Ibadism and the Study of Islam: A view from the edge”, Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto, 17-19 June 2019

The Conference will locate the study of Ibadism interdisciplinarily as we examine how the spatial metaphor of center and edge, when applied to the study of Ibadism, can gesture to new research orientations in the field of Islamic studies.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2019.  Information: https://ibadistudies.org/index.php

 

 

 

3. Panel: “Beyond ‘Minorities’, Beyond Millet: Non (Sunni-)Muslim Groups and the Ottoman State in the “Post-Classical Age”, during the MESA Meeting in New Orleans, 14-17 November 2019

The panel aims to develop fresh and likewise philologically grounded perspectives on these communities, whose history in the Ottoman Empire is oftentimes misconstrued by outdated binaries, such as orthodoxy-heterodoxy, minority-majority, high-low-Islam etc.

Abstracts for papers may be sent to benjamin.weineck@uni-bayreuth.de until 1 February 2019

 

 

 

4. Visiting Fellowships at Harvard Law School’s Islamic Legal Studies Program: “Law and Social Change” for 2019–2020 Academic Year

We welcome applicants with a JD, LLM, SJD, PhD or other comparable degree who are interested in spending from one month up to one academic year in residence at Harvard Law School working on an independent project.

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2019. Information: https://ilsp.law.harvard.edu/how-to-apply/

 

 

 

5. German Parliamentary Scholarship for Young Arab Graduates in Berlin, 1-30 September 2019

The scholarship program is aimed at highly-motivated, capable and talented young individuals from the Arab region who are open to new ideas, interested in politics and wish to play an active and responsible role in shaping the democratic future of their country. Very good knowledge of German is required.

Deadline for applications: 31 January 2018. Information: https://www.bundestag.de/en/europe/international/exchange/ips/arabian/250618

 

 

 

6. Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship is now available for the study of Kurdish(sorani) language – 1st year and 2nd year – in the 2019 summer Language Workshop at Indiana University-Bloomington.

IU Summer Language Workshop:

https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/

 

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship:

https://hls.indiana.edu/student-life/scholarships/flas.html?fbclid=IwAR2yh7dSpzg5Tx8EOWnkDr0Cj1z86foPMXSDbfT1CXyaxGdRdeo8m6S2vJA

 

 

7. Berkeley-AIPS Urdu Language Program in Pakistan 

Fall 2019 Fellowship for U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents – March 1, 2019

Program Overview: The Berkeley-AIPS Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (BULPIP-AIPS) is accepting applications for its Fall 2019 intensive Urdu language immersion program based at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Pakistan until March 1, 2019. Jointly administered by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) and the Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (BULPIP) at the University of California, Berkeley, this Urdu language program offers daily classroom instruction, five days a week, for approximately fifteen weeks. Classes are small and individual tutorials provided. There are regular assignments outside of class and special emphasis is placed on connecting with the local speech community as well as self-management of learning. Participants need to take part in all program events, such as attending films, plays and other cultural activities. All admitted students, who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, receive program fellowships.

Applications materials must be submitted on Tango by March 1, 2019, before 5 pm (Pacific Standard Time):

 

Please check for detailed requirements at:

Berkeley-AIPS Urdu Language Program in Pakistan 2019

 

 

 

8. A tribute to Ehsan Yarshater (Video)

Speaker: Shapour Rasekh

22nd annual Conference of Persian Arts and Letters

London, Dec. 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_FxHQRFAM

 

PERSIAN DUTCH NETWORK

www.persiandutch.com

 

 

 

9. Conference: “Politics of Religious Knowledge and Ignorance”, Biennial Meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR), Toronto, 21-23 May 2019

Given the continued role of religion in the public realms of most societies, how might the anthropology of religion—alongside or distinct from theology and the natural sciences—articulate an equally public voice?

Deadline for abstracts: 21 January 2018. Information: http://sar.americananthro.org/activities/meeting/

 

 

 

10. International Conference: “Pilgrimages and Tourism”, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Re-search, Cambridge, 15-16 June 2019

This conference seeks to analyze the complex concepts of pilgrimages and tourism. What is a pilgrimage? Do pilgrimages contribute to the sense of community and belonging? Is tourism a transformative experience?  How do souvenirs, memorabilia and travelogues facilitate imagination of other people and places? Etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2019. Information: http://tourism.lcir.co.uk/

 

 

 

11. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA),

New Orleans, LA, 14-17 November 2019

MESA is primarily concerned with the area encompassing Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan, and the countries of the Arab World from the seventh century to modern times. Other regions, including Spain, Southeastern Europe, China and the former Soviet Union, also are included for the periods in which their territories were parts of the Middle Eastern empires or were under the influence of Middle Eastern civilization. Comparative work is encouraged.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2019. Information: https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers

 

 

 

12. Postdoctoral Research Fellowship on “Epidemics in the Middle East”, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo

The fellowship is part of the project “The Lifetimes of Epidemics in Europe and the Middle East” which sets out to analyze and understand the different temporalities of epidemics. Qualification requirements:  PhD or equivalent academic qualifications in a field relevant to the project; specialisation in language-based Middle Eastern studies; etc.

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2019. Information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/161101/post-doctoral-research-fellowship

 

 

 

13. Visiting (Research) Fellowships at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies 2019-20, University of Oxford

These Fellowships carry a stipend of £5000, with membership of the Common Room, office space and access to the resources of the Centre.

Deadline for applications: 13 January 2019. Information: https://www.oxcis.ac.uk/sites/www.oxcis.ac.uk/files/inline-files/Visiting%20Fellowships%20Poster%202018-19_4.pdf

 

 

 

14. Postdoctoral Position at SASNET for Religion and Politics in South Asia, Lund University

The position is full-time, divided as follows: 80% will be spent on research directly linked to religion and politics in South Asia, and 20% on teaching and other tasks related to education and administration.To be appointed as a postdoc you will need to have earned a PhD in the social sciences or other related subject.

Deadline for applications: 6 January 2019. Information: https://lu.mynetworkglobal.com/en/what:job/jobID:241035/type:job/where:4/apply:1?fbclid=IwAR2WRVzOMjeVlq2teQdbvJ_1fX4b6WpXAkaM30JP9AOxYj_lIi26blMVVoQ

 

 

 

15. Assistant Professor in the Study of Religions, University of Southern Denmark

Applicants must have a Ph.D.-degree in the study of religions (‘comparative religion’), and document research expertise in a field of specialization as well as a potential for teaching in this as well as in other fields.

Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58040

 

 

 

16. Two AUC Summer Course for Islamic Studies in Cairo for Graduate and Advanced Undergraduate Students

The general program (June 16 – July 12) covers Qur’an, Hadith, Islamic Law, and Sufism while the Islamic Law program (July 14 – August 8) covers origins, cases, criminal law, and post-colonial law

Deadline for application: 15 April 2019. Information: www.cairosummerinstitute.com

 

 

 

17. This year the University of Oxford 2019 Slade Professor is Finbarr Barry Flood, Director, Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University.  He will be speaking on ‘Islam and Image: Beyond Aniconism and Iconoclasm’.

 

Wednesdays 5pm, Mathematical Institute, Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG

 

16 January The Making of an Image Problem

23 January Mimesis and Magic: The Lives of Images Revisited

30 January Regulating the Gaze in the Medieval Mosque

06 February Economies of Imaging: Bowls, Baths and Bazaars

13 February Grammars of Defacement: Censure and Redemption

20 February Figuring for Piety: Strategies of Negotiation (Followed by a drinks reception)

27 February Statue Histories: Iconoclasm as Anti-Colonialism

06 March Beyond Enlightenment? Towards a Conclusion (Followed by questions and a discussion)

 

 

 

18. Other Posts:

 

Bard Graduate Center – Postdoctoral Fellowship in Islamic Art and
Material Culture
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58075

 

University of California Berkeley – Assistant Professor – Southeast
Asian Studies Modern or Pre-Modern Period
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58077

 

Emory University – South Asian Studies Librarian
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58053

 

1.„Seminar for Arabian Studies”, British Foundation for the Study of Arabia (BFSA), University of Leiden, 11-13 July 2019

The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the only international forum that meets annually for the presentation of the latest academic research in the humanities on the Arabian Peninsula from the earliest times to the present day or, in the case of political and social history, to the end of the Ottoman Empire (1922).

Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2019. Information: https://www.thebfsa.org/the-2019-seminar/

 

 

 

2. Posts

a) PhD Position on Islamic Law, Contemporary Islamic Law in Muslim States and Islamic Family Law, Maastricht University

PhD researchers participate in the Maastricht University Graduate School of Law. They will prepare a PhD thesis in English or Dutch within the Faculty of Law’s research programme. Supervision will be provided by Prof. Susan Rutten, Professor of Islamic Family Law in a European Context.

Deadline for submitting a draft proposal: 15 January 2019. Information: https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/51315/phd-candidates-at-the-faculty-of-law; Contact: s.rutten@maastrichtuniversity.nl

 

b) Research Fellowships in the 2019-2020 Program of the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School

These one-year fellowships are available for researchers at the pre-doctoral, post-doctoral and junior faculty level for research related to Middle Eastern governance and public policy. All fellowships carry a stipend. Citizens of all countries are invited to apply.

Deadline for application: 15 January 2019. Information: http://links.hks-belfercenter.mkt4851.com/servlet/MailView?ms=MjA3NDcxNzIS1&r=MjM2MzYyMzc5OTU1S0&j=MTQwMTI0MzAwOAS2&mt=1&rt=0

 

c) Postdoctoral Research Associate in Contemporary Politics in the Arab World, Princeton University

Applicants can be from the disciplines of history, politics, economics and international relations. The appointment will be for the year, September 1, 2019 through August 31, 2020. Candidates must hold the Ph.D.

Deadline for applications: 30 January 2019. Information: https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=9961

 

d) Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics/Middle East/North Africa, Virginia Tech

Candidates must have a research focus that involves comparative political analysis in the MENA region and demonstrated excellence in research. They also must have evidence of teaching effectiveness to meet the Department’s key teaching needs in its B.A. and M.A. programs. Teaching requirements for this position will be four courses a year. A PhD in Political Science or a closely related field is required by the time of appointment.

Review of applications start: 22 January 2019. Information: https://listings.jobs.vt.edu/postings/92715

 

e) Full-Time Continuing Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Arabic, College of the Holy Cross

The position is established for an initial term of three academic years, beginning in Fall 2019, and the appointment holds the rank of lecturer. The position will be reviewed for renewal in the second year of the term. If the position is re-approved for another three years, the holder of the position will be reviewed in the third year for reappointment. Candidates must have native or near native proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic; a master’s degree in Arabic language teaching.

Review of applications starts 1 February 2019. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/59022

 

f) Visiting Scholar Grants to Use the Archives at the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies

Funding for researchers – at all levels of their career from graduate students to senior scholars – working on early Arab diaspora and migration to work at the Khayrallah Center for a period of 1 to 2 weeks.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis with no deadline. Information: https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/awards/VisitingScholar.php

 

 

 

3. Arabic Summer Program at McGill University, Montreal, 7 June – 2 August 2019

Intensive and immersive summer program open to undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals. 170 in-class hours, 67 hours of extra-curriculars. Levels from absolute beginner to higher intermediate.

Deadline for registration: 1 March 2019. Information: https://www.mcgill.ca/arabic-summer

 

 

 

4. 6000 images archéologiques de la Syrie en libre accès

Au cours de l’été 2018, l’Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) a mis en ligne sur MédiHAL plus de 6000 images archéologiques de la Syrie issues de ses fonds documentaires. Ce sont plus de 8500 images scientifiques qui sont aujourd’hui accessibles en libre accès dans la collection de l’Ifpo.

Information : http://www.ifporient.org/6000-images-archeologiques-de-la-syrie-en-libre-acces/

1.Gerlach Press titles on many current topics are available as eBooks from JSTOR, the leading and eBook provider.
More information on Gerlach Press eBooks on Middle East & Islamic Studies can be found here:
Direct Link to Gerlach Press at JSTOR:
https://tinyurl.com/y9nrnsjx
List of all Gerlach Press eBooks at JSTOR:
https://tinyurl.com/yccjeck8

 

 

 

2. Deadline extended

BRAIS 2019

The Sixth Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies

15 April – 16 April 2019

(Arrival and Registration from 14 April)

University of Nottingham

The deadline for abstracts has been extended until 6 January 2019

 

Call for panels and papers

Following BRAIS’s successful conferences in Edinburgh (2014), London (2015 and 2016), Chester (2017) and Exeter (2018), the organisers invite proposals for whole panels or individual papers for the Sixth Annual Conference of BRAIS. Islamic Studies is broadly understood to include all disciplinary approaches to the study of Islam and Muslim societies (majority and minority), modern and premodern.

Plenary sessions at the conference

The conference committee is very pleased to announce that plenary lectures at the conference will be delivered by Maribel Fierro (CSIC, Madrid) on ‘Rulers as Authors in the Medieval Islamic West’; Khaled Fahmy (University of Cambridge) on ‘Implementing Shari’a in Modern Egypt: A Medical Perspective’, and Alison Scott-Baumann (SOAS, London) and the ‘Re/presenting Islam on Campus’ team.

Abstract Deadline: Sunday 6 January 2019.

For details on how to submit an abstract, see:

http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2019-call-for-papers

 

 

 

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

The current value of the prize is £600 for the winner and £150 for the runner up. We require:
A copy of the thesis (electronic) and a letter of endorsement/support from your supervisor.
Entries should be sent to louise.haysey@brismes.org .

Deadline | 31 January 2019.

 

 

 

4. CfP: UCL-Qatar Symposium on Living Arabic-Script Manuscript Cultures

15-16 April 2019

University College London- Qatar
Doha, Qatar

 

“The fascination of work with Islamic manuscripts lies in its direct contact with history, reviving it in the moment of studying it…Manuscripts reveal cultural exchanges across the borders of regions and times defined by ethnic, political, social, and language patterns” (Brinkmann & Wiesmuller, 2009, p. 15). The present day scholarly study of manuscripts – addressing their texts, contexts, and material form – has also produced new cultural exchanges. Through their study, preservation, collection, and digitization, latter day manuscript cultures of readership and engagement have arisen, cultivated by networks of scholars, archivists, librarians, conservators, students, and collectors, who make and make re/use of digital libraries, databases and social media in dynamic ways.

 

Archivists have argued that historical records are “recontextualized throughout every stage of the records life” and that they are constantly being activated with each interaction, interrogation and interpretation they undergo over time (Ketelaar, 2001, p.137). In this symposium, we intend to make explicit the ways in which modern day interactions with Arabic-script manuscripts are  contributing to the formation and elaboration of contemporary manuscript cultures of reception, readership and engagement.

 

We would like to examine the multifaceted aspects of these living* Arabic script manuscript cultures wherever they exist, be they in North and West Africa, South (East) Asia, the Levant, the Gulf, or the Americas and Europe.

 

In this vein, we invite papers that explore the dynamics of modern day Arabic-script manuscript cultures. This could include, but should not be limited to:

 

• Networks, discourses and lineages of present-day manuscript scholars
• Internet and social media as a facilitator of exchange
• Organizations, universities or foundations with special focus and mission to serve manuscript culture
• Understudied or marginalized manuscripts and manuscript cultures
• The culture of Orientalist manuscript scholarship
• Collections as manifestations of manuscript cultures
• Inheritances from earlier manuscript cultures
• The (re)publication, translation, and contemporary reception of specific scholarly manuscripts

*By “existing” we are not referring to the ongoing production/craft of manuscripts.*

 

Presenters whose papers are accepted will have their costs covered for transportation to and accommodation during the symposium.

Please submit an abstract no more than 500 words to qtap.qatar@ucl.ac.uk . The abstract should sufficiently detail the topic of the paper and the research approach that will be taken to address it. Also included should be the presenter’s name, affiliation (if any) and email address.

Abstracts must be submitted no later than: 18 January 2019

Abstracts accepted and presenters notified no later than:  15 February 2019

Symposium takes place 15-16 April 2019

 

 

5. CFP: “The Ties that Bind”: Structures and Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire

 

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 structures and mechanisms that allowed the early Islamic empire to function.

 

The conference will take place 2-6^th December, 2019.

Please send an abstract of around 300 words to e.p.hayes@hum.leidenuniv.nl by January 31^st 2019.

 

Subsidies for travel and accommodation will be available.

For a detailed description of the conference see the EmCo project website:

https://emco.hcommons.org/2018/11/22/call-for-papers-mechanisms-and-structures-of-social-d…

 

 

 

6. Registration is open for the conference on Leadership, Authority and Representation in British Muslim Communities to be held at Cardiff University on 21^st January 2019.  The conference fee is £30 (including a vegetarian lunch and refreshments) with a concessionary rate of £15 is available for imams, students and the unwaged.  The registration deadline is 5pm on Wednesday 9^th January; we will not be accepting payment on the day so the only way to register attendance is through the online portal ahead of the deadline.

We are also pleased to share the conference programme which, alongside a series of Pecha Kucha style presentations, includes panels titled ‘Training Muslim Leaders in the West’ and ‘Changing Loci of Authority in British Islam’.  Additionally, Professor Ataullah Siddiqui (Markfield Institute of Higher Education) and Shaukat Warraich (Faith Associates) will deliver keynote lectures and a discussion panel on ‘The Future Role of Imams in Britain’ will feature Dr Shuruq Naguib, Dr Atif Imtiaz, Mufti Dr Abdur Rahman Mangera, Dr Myriam François-Cerrah, Imam Qari Asim MBE and Rehanah Sadiq (chaired by Saleem Kidwai OBE, Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Wales).  We hope you can join us!

The 2019 Public Seminar series which will kick off on 6^th February with Dr Anabel Inge’s session titled: ‘The Making of a Salafi Muslim Woman: Paths to Conversion’.

 

 

 

7. Annual Conference of the “Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI)”, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 30 May 2019

Scholars from all areas of study of the Middle East, Islam and Middle Eastern languages, with no limitation concerning discipline, period or sub-region, are welcome to send proposals.

Deadline for abstracts: 24 February 2019. Information: https://www.meisai.org.il/en/

 

 

 

8. Conference: “Pilgrimage and the Senses”, University of Oxford, 7 June 2019

This interdisciplinary conference hosted at the University of Oxford aims to shed light on how sensory perception shapes and is shaped by the experience of pilgrimage across cultures, faith traditions, and throughout history.

Deadline for abstracts: 20 January 2019. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3112523/cfp-pilgrimage-and-senses-conference-oxford-7-june-2019

 

 

1.CfP: The Primacy of Form

Brown University, Friday, October 25 – Saturday, October 26, 2019

This exploratory conference proposes that the vast diversity of ideas and practices associated with Islam deserve investigation through presuming continuities and divergences between forms. In the prevailing contours of Islamic studies as an academic field, pride of place is given to genealogies of ideas, theological precepts, and practices. What if we stand apart from problems of coherence and incoherence of ideas, or the effort to seek logics of practice?

What can be said to support, or contest, the notion that forms articulate Islam? How might we address forms, for example those embodied in structures and genres, with due attention to historicity and without presuming Islamic universals? Forms do not bind to permanent ideological investments, allowing us to explain Islam’s sociohistorical unboundedness. Forms that predate the mention of Islam become Islamic through particular historical processes. Forms identified with Islam can shed their Islamicness and acquire new coordinates in other contexts. Such transitions explicate the significance, yet permeability, of all boundaries, challenging Islam’s exceptionality. In the longue durée, forms can explain diachronic continuities. When observed turning into vessels for new ideas, forms index processes of change and transformation. Identified as literary genres and bureaucratic procedures, forms signify processes of authorization and exclusion.

We invite papers that reflect on the topic of forms from any perspective, pertaining to all time periods and geographical areas. Topics may be archival, conceptual, or comparative, addressing structure, anti-structure, and everything in between. Examples include, but are not limited to, arenas such as embodiment (dress, ritual, gender, etc.), discourse (names, hadith, tabaqat, qasida, ghazal, love tale, epics, etc.), philosophy and law (fatwa, syllogism, dialectic, guidebook, defters, identity papers, visas and passports, etc.), and art and architecture (visual design, album, muqarnas, minaret, repetition, graffiti, musical maqams and ragas, etc.). In selecting papers, we will give priority to conceptual innovation tied to exploration of specific questions and materials.

Practical Information:

Colleagues are requested to submit a 250-word proposal using the web form by January 30, 2019. We will not read beyond 250 words when evaluating proposals. Selected authors will be informed by March 30, 2019. Participants will be asked to submit drafts of their papers two weeks before the conference.

See here to submit proposal:

https://form.jotform.com/83406297122152

We will cover the cost of transportation to Providence, Rhode Island, and a stay of up to three nights.

This conference is sponsored by Islam and the Humanities at Brown, a project aimed at forging deliberate connections between the study of Islam and Muslims and topics engaged by scholars in the humanities in general. Through collective effort, the event hopes to stimulate new thinking on Islamic forms while, simultaneously, suggesting that Islam is an exceptionally good venue to query the very concept of form.

 

 

 

 

2. The Department of Religious in the School of International and Public Affairs of Florida International University is pleased to announce a search for a faculty colleague with a specialization in Islam of the late medieval or early modern period, preferably with a focus on the Ottoman Empire. Candidates should be competent in either Turkish, Arabic or both. They should be able to teach at the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as supervise and mentor students in the graduate program. A Ph.D. is required. FIU is a Carnegie R1 research institution with substantial research expectations of its faculty.
The department, with fourteen full time members, offers B.A. and M.A. degrees, and is located within FIU’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). The ideal candidate will be able to make contributions to SIPA’s Muslim World Studies Program as well.

See: https://facultycareers.fiu.edu/?posting=516574

Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply and attach a cover letter, curriculum vitae, course syllabi (if available), and writing sample-submitted online through the FIU HR portal (see link above). The writing sample can be either a published article or a thesis chapter. Sealed transcripts should be sent to Dr. Iqbal Akhtar, Islam Search Committee Chair,Department of Religious Studies, DM 302, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199. Candidates will be requested to provide names and
contact information for at least three references who will be contacted if advanced by the search committee. To receive full consideration,
applications and required materials should be received by January 31,2019. Review will continue until position is filled.
 

 

3. Full Professor of Pre-Modern Studies

The Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) invites applications for a tenured position in pre-modern (pre-1500) studies. The search is at the rank of Professor, and applications from all humanities disciplines are welcome. The successful candidate will bring a distinguished record of innovative research and publication, a record of leadership in the field, and must hold a Ph.D. degree in an appropriate field of study. Experience in organizing research initiatives, institutes, or centers is preferable. We expect that the successful candidate will take a leading role in the establishment of a new center for the study of the pre-modern world.

Interested candidates should provide a letter of application and a curriculum vitae. Application materials must be combined into and uploaded as one PDF document. In order to be considered for this position, all candidates must apply via the “Apply” link at the top or bottom of this page.  Applications will begin to be reviewed on January 15, but the position will remain open until filled. Inquiries may be directed to the search chair, Professor Lisa Bitel (bitel@usc.edu).

https://usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-angeles/full-professor-of-pre-modern-studies/1209/10236329

 

 

 

4. L’Iran en transition : de la révolution constitutionnelle à la fin de l’ère qajare

Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Université de Téhéran
17 et 18 décembre 2018

Déjà au cours des deux guerres irano-russes (1804-13, 1826-8), les élites iraniennes se trouvèrent confrontées au défi de la modernisation. Accompagnée d’un profond sentiment d’humiliation, la frustration de défaite stimula l’intérêt des hommes d’État et des intellectuels iraniens pour l’Europe. Ceci se matérialisa initialement sous la forme de traductions en persan d’ouvrages en langues européennes et de l’envoi de premières missions d’étudiants iraniens en Europe. Le règne de Nâser al-Din Shâh (1848-96) fut témoin de l’accélération de l’ouverture de l’Iran vers l’Occident, qui était due à l’évolution de la conscience politique des élites iraniennes et à l’intégration internationale de l’Iran. Or, la société iranienne ne connut qu’une transition radicale qu’à partir de la révolution constitutionnelle (1906-1911). Résultant de la convergence de plusieurs forces sociales et discours politiques, l’adoption de la constitution en 1906 fut un tournant radical dans l’histoire de l’Iran. Les deux dernières décennies du règne des Qajars furent marquées par l’influence décisive du constitutionnalisme dans l’ensemble des domaines (politique, social, économique et culturel) tandis que l’hégémonie anglo-russe était toujours plus contestée par une volonté d’émancipation et un nationalisme naissant. La transition du « traditionnel » au « moderne », modelée en grande partie par le triomphe symbolique du constitutionnalisme, était pourtant un processus non-linéaire, nourri à la fois par le dynamisme interne et par les influences extérieures. En dépit du déclin du mouvement constitutionnel au début des années 1910, les transformations subies par la société iranienne étaient irréversibles et l’héritage de la lutte constitutionnaliste continuait de se manifester dans la politique du gouvernement iranien, dans les pratiques administratives et dans l’activisme révolutionnaire populaire. L’ascension de Rezâ Khân (m. 1944) et l’établissement de la dynastie Pahlavi (1925) changèrent considérablement le lien discursif entre les perceptions iraniennes de la modernité et les modes d’expression politique – les idéaux constitutionnalistes n’étaient plus prioritaires dans l’agenda dominant de modernisation. Ainsi, la fin de l’ère qajare coïncida avec l’affaiblissement des forces démocratiques, et cela même si l’héritage du constitutionnalisme demeura incontestable tout au cours de l’histoire contemporaine de l’Iran.

Comité de coordination scientifique

Denis Hermann, directeur de l’Institut français de Recherche en Iran (IFRI)
Ali Shahidi, Université de Téhéran, département d’Études iraniennes
Sadeq Heidarinia, directeur de l’Institut Negarestan-e Andisheh
Alisa Shablovskaia, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Paris

Contact

Secrétariat de la coopération académique et des conférences
No 10, Azin St., Qods St., Enqelab St. Tehran
Téléfax : 02166978881-02166435423-02166435416
www.cins.ir – Email : info@cins.ir

Lien vers le site de l’IFRI : http://ifriran.org/2018/12/17/liran-en-transition-de-la-revolution-constitutionnelle-a-la-fin-de-lere-qajare/

 

 

 

5. International Conference: “Immortality of the Soul in Islam and Christianity”, Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy (ISCA), Iran, 4-5 March 2020

Topics of interest: The concept of death; The concept of immortality; The criteria of personal identity; Postmortem survival Life after death.

Deadline for abstracts: 16 March 2019. Information: http://seminars.ir/soul2/en/

 

 

 

6. Posts:

a) Professorship (W2) in Islamic Law, Oriental Institute, Leipzig University

The professorship addresses both the teaching and research in the field of Islamic Law within a context of historic, social, religious and cultural representations. It also considers the law of Arabic and Islamic countries that is based on secular, non-Islamic sources. Aspects of Islamic law related to issues of migration and integration shall be potential prospects of the portfolio.

Deadline for applications: 18 January 2019. Information: http://www.orient.uni-leipzig.de/aktuelles/newsdetails/artikel/7/job-advertising-professorship-w2-in-islamic-law

 

b) Fellowships for PhD Students at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, 2019-2022

Doctoral students are invited to analyze political, social and economic developments in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and link this knowledge to questions of global significance.

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2019. Information: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/sites/default/files/md_pdf/GIGA-19-01_DP_CfA_external_funding.pdf

 

c) Fellowships at the American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo

Applications are invited to conduct independent humanities research in Egypt. Doctoral, postdoctoral, early career and senior humanities scholars are eligible to apply. Most awards require American citizenship.

Deadline for applications: 15 January 2019. Information: https://www.arce.org/fellows

 

d) Postdoctoral Fellow in Levantine Studies, Humanities Research Center, Rice University, Houston, TX

Renewable one-year appointment in the theory, geography, history, and/or practice of Spatial Studies, with an emphasis on the Levant, broadly construed. The fellow will develop or continue his or her own research project in spatial studies. Applicants from any humanistic discipline or interdiscipline are eligible to apply and must have received a PhD between July 1, 2016, and June 30, 2019.

Deadline for applications: 22 February 2019. Information: https://jobs.rice.edu/postings/17762

 

e) Imam Ali Chair for Shi‘i Studies and Dialogue among Islamic Legal Schools, Hartford Seminary

The successful candidate will demonstrate expertise in Shi‘i Islam and its relation to other traditions of Islam, Christianity and other religious traditions, and may be grounded in one of a number of academic disciplines.

Deadline for applications: 15 February 2019. Information: Contact Scott Thumma, sthumma@hartsem.edu

 

f) Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics/Middle East/North Africa, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

This position will begin August 10, 2019. Required qualifications: A Ph.D. in Political Science or a closely related field is required by the time of appointment. Candidates must have a research focus that involves comparative political analysis in the MENA region and demonstrated excellence in research.

Review of applications starts 22 January 2019. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58021

 

g) Grants and Fellowships of the University of Notre Dame

Research priorities include

1. “Immigration and the Challenge to National Identities”. The arrival of migrants from the Middle East and Africa directly fueled the rise of right-wing populist leaders throughout Europe. How can such challenges be met both effectively and in a way that respects human dignity?
2. “Islamophobia, “Christian” Identity, and the Secular State”. How have definitions of religious identity affected definitions of political identity, and what can be done to defuse such tensions?

Information: https://nanovic.nd.edu/grants-fellowships

 

 

 

7. Articles for Collection on “Sacred Troubling Topics in Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Qur’an”

The collection seeks to address topics overlooked, erased, romanticized, and ignored in academic as well as non-academic education and conversation related to collection sections of Gender & Sexuality, Body & Appearance, Women & Feminism, Death & Mourning, Life & Humor, Crime & Disobedience.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2019. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3344864/sacred-troubling-topics-hebrew-bible-new-testament-and-quran

 

 

 

8. CALL FOR PAPERS 

McGill University’s Institute of Islamic Studies

Graduate Student Symposium

April 4-5, 2019

 

The organising committee of the McGill Institute of Islamic Studies Graduate Student Symposium welcomes abstract submissions to their ninth annual symposium, to be held on April 4-5, 2019 at McGill University.

Our aim is to provide an opportunity for graduate students based in various parts of the world and approaching the study of Islamicate thought and life across time and space through a multiplicity of disciplinary and methodological approaches to share their work with the Institute’s faculty and students in an atmosphere of constructive and supportive criticism. We are pleased to invite graduate students at all stages of research and dissertation-writing related to Islam and Islamicate communities anywhere in the world (East Asia, South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East) to submit proposals for individual paper presentations.

Reflecting our department’s primary research areas, the symposium’s themes include but are not limited to:

• theology, philosophy, mysticism, and jurisprudence
• history, political science, and anthropology
• Urdu, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature

We are honoured that our keynote speaker this year will be Dr. SherAli Tareen from Franklin & Marshall College. Dr. Tareen’s work centres on Muslim intellectual thought in early-modern and modern South Asia with a focus on intra-Muslim debates and polemics over critical questions of law, ethics, theology, and politics among major Muslim scholars

An abstract of 250-500 words and a one-page résumé should be sent electronically to miisscsymposium@gmail.com  by December 30, 2018. Please include a tentative title for your paper and two or three keywords describing its regional and disciplinary focus, as well as your name, programme of study (MA, MPhil, or PhD), and departmental and institutional affiliation. Applicants will be notified of a decision by January 15, 2019. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us with any other queries.

 

 

1. Starting from 2016, Koç University’s Vehbi Koç Ankara Studies Research Center and the University of Cambridge’s Skiliter Centre for Ottoman Studies agreed to start a joint three year project on the Socio-Economic History of Anatolia in the Ottoman Period. The Project consists of three symposiums on three themes; Disease and Disaster (both man-made and natural disasters), Trade and Production and Social and Cultural Life.

The first symposium was held at University of Cambridge on 18-19 March 2016. The second thematic symposium Trade and Production in Ottoman Anatolia was held in Ankara by Koç University VEKAM and the final thematic symposium on Social and Cultural Life in Ottoman Anatolia will be held on Decemver 12-13, 2018 at the premises of VEKAM in Ankara Turkey.

We are pleased to announce the symposium and believe that it will be helpful to researchers, academicians and interested people.

For details, see: https://vekam.ku.edu.tr/sites/vekam.ku.edu.tr/files/program_4.pdf

 

 

2. L’institut Français de Recherche en Iran (IFRI) propose pour l’année 2019 des bourses d’aide à la mobilité internationale destinées : à des jeunes chercheurs, doctorants et post-doctorats inscrits dans un établissement français d’enseignement supérieur ou de recherche.

Ces bourses, d’une durée d’un à trois mois, visent à couvrir les frais de transport et de séjour de doctorants (allocation mensuelle de 800 €, à laquelle s’ajoute le cas échéant le remboursement – plafonné à 600€ – des frais de transport) ou de chercheurs détenteurs d’un doctorat, âgés de moins de 35 ans (allocation mensuelle de 1000 € plus, le cas échéant, des frais de transport – plafonné à 600 €-) et poursuivant des recherches sur le monde iranien.

See: http://ifriran.org/ifri/aides-a-la-mobilite-scientifique/

 

 

 

3. Open Access Database: Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative (ISMI)

https://ismi.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/

 

 

 

4. BRAIS 2019

The Sixth Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies

15 April – 16 April 2019

(Arrival and Registration from 14 April)

University of Nottingham

The deadline for abstracts has been extended until 6 January 2019

 

Call for panels and papers

Following BRAIS’s successful conferences in Edinburgh (2014), London (2015 and 2016), Chester (2017) and Exeter (2018), the organisers invite proposals for whole panels or individual papers for the Sixth Annual Conference of BRAIS. Islamic Studies is broadly understood to include all disciplinary approaches to the study of Islam and Muslim societies (majority and minority), modern and premodern.

Plenary sessions at the conference

The conference committee is very pleased to announce that plenary lectures at the conference will be delivered by Maribel Fierro (CSIC, Madrid) on ‘Rulers as Authors in the Medieval Islamic West’; Khaled Fahmy (University of Cambridge) on ‘Implementing Shari’a in Modern Egypt: A Medical Perspective’, and Alison Scott-Baumann (SOAS, London) and the ‘Re/presenting Islam on Campus’ team.

Abstract Deadline: Sunday 6 January 2019.

For details on how to submit an abstract, see:

http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2019-call-for-papers

 

 

 

5. We are writing to invite you to contribute a chapter to our co-edited volume
titled, Sex and Marriage in the Medieval Islamic World: Women, Family, and
Love, under contract with I. B. Tauris. This is the second of six volumes in
the book series, Sex, Marriage and the Family in the Middle East.

In this volume, we hope to explore the dynamics of family life, the
institution of marriage, and the significance of love in the Medieval Islamic
era. Your chapter may address any variety of topics related to these broad
subject headings—sex, marriage, gender, family, and love—such as divorce,
widowhood, inheritance, concubinage, polygamy, procreation and birth control,
and the nature of social hierarchies in marital relations, life experiences of
children, romantic love, gender norms and transgression, spousal rights and
responsibilities, domestic violence, marriage to non-Muslims, advice on
choosing a spouse, court cases involving spouses, masculinities, etc. Our aim
is to publish a volume wherein scholars explore the complex and multifaceted
phenomena related to these normative practices across the Islamic world during
the medieval period. Further reflecting this diverse approach, we also welcome
contributions utilizing interdisciplinary methodologies, including
Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, History, Religious Studies, Gender
Studies, Literature, Philosophy, and Media Studies.

If you are interested in contributing to this volume, we ask that you submit a
brief abstract of your proposed chapter to us by January 31, 2018. Please give
your proposed chapter a title and provide a 300 – 500 words long abstract
explaining the general scope of your chapter and the methodologies you will
employ. Completed chapters (7000 words) will be due to us on April 1, 2019.
All chapters will undergo a blind peer-review process conducted by the
publisher before they are published.

We very much hope that you accept our invitation. If so, please send us a note
at yaghoobi@email.unc.edu stating your intention to contribute to the volume
at your earliest convenience. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely.

Claudia Yaghoobi and Aisha Musa, Co-editors

 

 

 

6. Open Access newspapers: Ankara University

http://gazeteler.ankara.edu.tr/

 

 

 

7. Applications for HIAA’s Grabar Travel Grants and Post-docs are due on Saturday 15 December. Please check the HIAA website for details on the awards, including eligibility and how to apply.

 

https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/grabar-grants-and-fellowships

 

 

 

8. The Textile Museum at The George Washington University is excited to announce the publication of volume 45 of The Textile Museum Journal.

Titled Draping the Middle Ages and guest edited by Patricia Blessing, assistant professor of Medieval and Islamic Art History at Pomona College, The Textile Museum Journal 45 focuses on the mobile nature of textile patterns in the East and West during the Middle Ages and investigates the question of cultural specificity in the use of textile imitations in a range of media. As coveted objects of trade and diplomatic gift exchange, textiles were widely distributed using the cross-cultural networks between Byzantium, the Islamic world, and East Asia. Within this broader world of medieval textile exchange, the notion of textile patterns that are adapted in architecture, ceramics, metalwork, and manuscripts stand at the center of the four articles in this volume:

• Draping, Wrapping, Hanging: Transposing Textile Materiality in the Middle Ages by Patricia Blessing, Pomona College
• Painted Silks: Form and Production of Women’s Court Dress in the Mongol Empire by Eiren L. Shea; Grinnell College
• Gems in Cloth and Stone: Medium, Materiality, and the Late Antique Jeweled Aesthetic by Elizabeth Dospěl Williams, Dumbarton Oaks Museum
• Put a Bird on it: What an Aviary Preoccupation Reveals about Medieval Silks by Meredyth Lynn Winter, Harvard University

 

For subscriptions to the The Textile Museum Journal 45 and access to earlier issues, please visit https://museum.gwu.edu/tmjournal/subscribe. For submissions, more information, or questions, please check https://museum.gwu.edu/tmjournal or contact The Textile Museum Journal editorial team at tmjournal@gwu.edu.

 

 

 

9. The Mawlana Rumi Review (MRR) is an annual academic journal (est. 2010) devoted to the poetry, life, thought, and legacy of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273), the Islamic Sufi poet who authored some 60,000 lines of poetry, lectures, sermons, and letters in Persian and Arabic, and founded the Mevlevi (Mawlawiyya) dervish order.

The Mawlana Rumi Review was founded in 2010 as a publication of the Rumi Institute of Near East University, Cyprus, and the Rumi Studies Group of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter.  Eight issues of MRR have appeared to date, edited by the late and much missed Leonard Lewisohn (1953-2018) of Exeter University, advised by an international board of scholars and editors, and published by Archetype.

The editorial board of the Mawlana Rumi Review is now calling for submissions for Issue 10 (edited by Franklin Lewis) and beyond.  MRR publishes original articles, translations of Rumi’s poetry done from the original languages, book reviews, and reports. The editors welcome articles in English, as well as in French, and from Issue 10 will also entertain submissions in Persian or Turkish.  Topics covered in MRR include: Historical biography of Rumi and his circle, based on original sources; analysis and interpretation of Rumi’s poetry; his adaptation of the literary and Sufi traditions; his narratology and story-telling techniques; hermeneutics; theology and prophetology; theosophy and mysticism; spiritual psychology; erotic spirituality; metaphysics and cosmology; epistemology; ethics; pedagogy; the history of the Mevlevi order; the commentary and interpretative tradition on his works (The Masnavī, Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīz, Fīhi mā fīh and Majālis al-sabʽa ; and the reception and translation of Rumi’s thought in modern and medieval literary history and thought.

To submit an article for consideration or to contact the editors, please write to: Mawlanarumireview@protonmail.com and for submissions of translations of Mawlana Rumi’s poetry, please write the Poetry Consultant, Paul Losensky, at:  Poetry-MMR@protonmail.com .

 

 

 

10. VEKAM- Symposium on “Social and Cultural Life in Ottoman Anatolia”, Ankara, 12-13 December 2018

Symposium on the intellectual and cultural life, material culture, representations, order and violence in Ottoman Anatolia. See program at https://vekam.ku.edu.tr/en/content/social-and-cultural-life-ottoman-anatolia-symposium (English program at the end; simultaneous translation Turkish-English available)

 

 

 

11. International Conference: “Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds: Across and Between the Local and Global”, ZMO, Berlin, 3-5 April 2019

The conference concludes the 12-year research program: “Muslim Worlds – Worlds of Islam?”

See program at http://www.zmo.de/veranstaltungen/2019/Conferences/ConferenceProgramme_ClaimingAndMakingMuslimWorlds_Final.pdf; for registration contact MuslimWorlds2019@zmo.de

 

 

 

12. International Symposium: “The Ottoman World during the Reign of Fatih Sultan Mehmet”, Fatih Sultan Mehmed Vakif University, Istanbul, 12-13 April 2019

A series of symposiums is aiming to reveal the period of Fatih Sultan Mehmed in every aspects from the texture used to the currency, from the problems of the public to their entertainment, from benevolentness to stinginess, from warfare to peace, from the religious life to the daily life, and from its institutions to its legislation.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3302044/international-symposium-ottoman-world-during-reign-fatih-sultan

 

 

 

13. International Workshop: “Gender, Fashion, and Embodiment in Islam”, University of Hamburg, 29-30 June 2019

The aim is to bring together research on the changing practices of gendered clothing in Muslim contexts. We want to compare the dynamics in the so-called “Islamic center” (the Arabian Peninsula) with developments in the “Muslim Periphery” and problematize the lived interactions between gender, fashion, spirituality, religion, class, and ethnicity.

Deadline for abstracts: 19 January 2019. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3132582/call-papers-international-workshop-%E2%80%9Cgender-fashion-and

 

 

 

14. Conference: “Rethinking Genre in the Islamicate Middle East”, Asia-Africa-Institute, University of Hamburg, 5-6 September 2019

The conference aims to bring together scholars with expertise in Arabic, Persian and Turkish narrative traditions who are interested in the manifold facets of the history, sociology and poetics of genre and generic structures underlying the literary production of the respective traditions.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2019. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3284420/cfp-%E2%80%9Crethinking-genre-islamicate-middle-east%E2%80%9D

 

 

 

15. Posts:

 

a) Full Professorship for “Islamic Intellectual History of the Post-Classical Period (1200-1800)”, Humboldt University Berlin

Position is starting 1 October 2019 and initially limited to a 5-year contract. The successful candidate will focus on the significance of the post-classical intellectual history in his or her research and teaching, especially in the areas of Kalām, philosophy and mysticism, with a special emphasis on different doctrinal currents (especially Sunna and Shia).

Deadline for applications: 15 January 2019. Information: https://www.personalabteilung.hu-berlin.de/stellenausschreibungen/full-professorship-for-islamic-intellectual-history-of-the-post-classical-period-1200-1800-201d-w3

 

b) Full Professorship for “Comparative Theology from an Islamic Perspective”, Humboldt University Berlin

Position is starting 1 October 2019 and initially limited to a 5-year contract. The successful candidate will focus on the relationship between Muslim religiosity and other religious communities and worldviews in his or her research and teaching. He or she will undertake research in entangled history, particularly with respect to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and will compare the interaction of actors of various religious origins with regard to religious doctrine and practice.

Deadline for applications: 15 January 2019. Information: https://www.personalabteilung.hu-berlin.de/stellenausschreibungen/full-professorship-for-comparative-theology-from-an-islamic-perspective201d-w3

 

 

c) Postdoctoral Fellows at the American University of Beirut

The positions are open to recent recipients of the PhD degree whose research and teaching interests involve one or more of the following disciplines: Arabic (Mamluk or Ottoman Arabic Literature); Philosophy (Ancient Philosophy, Islamic Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy); History and Archaeology (Prehistory of the Levant, Islamic Archaeology, Egyptology)

Deadline for applications: 15 January 2019. Information: https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1460/files/2018/10/CAH_Postdoctoral_Fellows_2019.pdf

 

d) Assistant Professor of Health Studies in the Middle East and North Africa, University of Arizona

We are interested in a broad range of historical and/or social scientific approaches to the study of health and health care in the Middle East and North Africa. Proficiency in at least one Middle Eastern language is highly desirable (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish or a related language).

Review of applications begins 21 January 2019. Information: https://uacareers.com/postings/34011

 

 

e) Assistant Professor of the History of the Islamic World (non-Western), Texas A&M University

The successful candidate must possess a PhD in History with a specialization in the Islamic World, any period or region, and must demonstrate experience teaching in higher education.

Deadline for application: 22 January 2019.  Information: https://tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMUC_External/job/Commerce-TAMUC/Assistant-Professor_R-014623

 

 

 

16. New Online Database to Facilitate Research in the History of the Exact Sciences in the Islamic World

The Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative (ISMI) website at https://ismi.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de covers the period to ca. 1350 CE. The mission is to make accessible information on all Islamic manuscripts in the exact sciences (astronomy, mathematics, optics, mathematical geography, music, mechanics, and related disciplines), whether in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, or other languages.

 

 

17. Job Opportunity: Project Officer for Support to the Yemeni Peace Process – Constitutional Dialogues

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)

 

The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) is an intergovernmental organization that supports sustainable democracy worldwide. International IDEA’s mission is to support sustainable democratic change by providing comparative knowledge, and assisting in democratic reform, and influencing policies and politics.

 

International IDEA develops, shares and enables the use of comparative knowledge in its key areas of expertise: electoral processes, constitution-building, political participation and representation, democracy and development and democracy assessments.

 

As part of International IDEA’s Africa and West Asia Region, the Tunis sub-regional office has been implementing a project since 2016 to provide support to Yemen’s peace negotiations. From 2016 to October 2018, the project mainly consisted of dialogue sessions and expert meetings, and focused on Yemen’s constitutional future.

 

International IDEA is looking to recruit a project officer to support this work in Yemen. The position is full time, and based in the Tunis office, working very closely with the project team.

 

The deadline to apply is 17 December 2018. For full project details, terms of reference, and directions to apply, visit: https://www.idea.int/sites/default/files/tenders/EOI%20Reference%20No%20258-18-106-%20%20%20TOR%20Final.pdf

 

 

1.Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship is now available for the study of Kurdish (sorani) language – 1st year and 2nd year – in the 2019 summer Language Workshop at Indiana University-Bloomington. Please announce this to your students and colleagues who might be interested.

IU Summer Language Workshop:

https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship:

https://hls.indiana.edu/student-life/scholarships/flas.html?fbclid=IwAR2yh7dSpzg5Tx8EOWnkDr0Cj1z86foPMXSDbfT1CXyaxGdRdeo8m6S2vJA

 

 

 

2. Islamic school of art has announced its next year’s short courses next year:

1. Colors & Pigments:
10-17 March 2019
Come and join us in a weeklong workshop in which natural handpicked organic and mineral objects will be processed into paints. At the end of the course, participants will bring home their own set of handmade watercolors.

2. Islamic calligraphy:
9-14 April 2019
Let the most acclaimed calligraphy masters teach you “NASTALIQ” calligraphy, this sacred and exquisite art as you immerse yourself in the holy city of Qom, a cradle of Islamic-Persian art and architecture

3. Persian-Islamic geometric patterns:
April 26th – May 1st, 2019
This course will give you the opportunity to learn, understand and draw different Islamic geometric patterns with a traditional approach and study its impact on Islamic culture.
ISOA is the leading private school teaching Islamic art in Iran and has the privilege to be a partner of some great universities in the world.For more information please visit our website:
http://www.isoacourses.com/

or contact s.soltanpour@isoa.ir

+98-25-37830834

WhatsApp: +989112162404

 

 

 

3. The Kurds : history, religion, language, politics
Author:     Wolfgang Taucher
Publisher:     Vienna : Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior, [2015] ©2015
ISBN: 9783950364361
184 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps.

 

 

Atlas Afghanistan

Title: Atlas Afghanistan
Authors: Wolfgang Taucher – Mathias Vogl – Peter Webinger
Publisher: Vienna: Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior,
Date: 2018
75 pages, maps.

See: http://amirmideast.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

4. Women’s Studies Course, University of Religions and Denominations, Iran

The University of Religions and Denominations (Qom, Iran) is an experienced university in performing academic short courses in cooperation with other institutions.

This course will be held in March 2019 in Iran in Tehran and Qom.

Course dates: 2-7th March 2019

Application deadline: 20th January 2019

American passport holders: 1st January 2019

Early registration deadline: 30th November

For information regarding course fees, topics, other information and to apply, please visit the following website: https://iiws.urd.ac.ir

You can follow us at the following links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ws.qom.90

Twitter: https://twitter.com/studies_s

Instagram: http://instagram.com/studies_of_women/

LinkedIn: 

Academia: https://urd.academia.edu/WomensStudies

 

 

 

5. Sheikh Zayid Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies, American University of Beirut

Candidates for the Sheikh Zayid Chair are required to have made highly distinguished and internationally acclaimed contributions in one or more academic fields of Arabic and Islamic Studies as conceived broadly (encompassing: philology and critical editions of Arabic texts, classical literature, intellectual history; civilization studies; etc).

New deadline for applications: end December 2018. Information:

http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/Pages/academic-employment.aspx#Link24

 

 

 

6. The Islamic Painted Page website

A huge free database of references for Persian paintings, Ottoman paintings, Arab paintings and Mughal paintings. This site enables you to locate printed reproductions, commentaries and weblinks for thousands of Islamic paintings, including illuminated “carpet” pages, decorated Quran pages, and book bindings from over 230 collections all over the world.

http://www.islamicpaintedpage.com/

 

 

7. New Book – Y. Aykan & I Tamdoğan (dirs.) Forms and institutions of justice. Legal actions in Ottoman contexts

Dear Colleagues,

We have the pleasure to announce the publication of a new volume in our digital collection.

The articles forming the volume Forms and institutions of justice. Legal actions in Ottoman contexts aim to contribute to the rich and evolving historiography on the multiplicity of the actors and the institutions of Ottoman legal system. As the title of the volume suggests, “forms” and “institutions” of justice are a common thread in the contributions. Each article concentrates on a specific historical moment and context in order to chart the articulation of different forms of Ottoman justice.

This volume has emerged as an outcome of a workshop organized by Işık Tamdoğan (CNRS/CETOBAC, Paris – IFEA, Istanbul) and Yavuz Aykan (University Paris 1 Sorbonne) at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies (IFEA) on January 6-7, 2012, in Istanbul.

The book is available from OpenEdition Books. The contents of the book are available free of charge in HTML and can be quoted, printed or embedded on external sites. PDF and ePub formats are on sale from digital bookstores. They are also available from subscribing libraries.

https://books.openedition.org/ifeagd/2316

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Yavuz Aykan & Işık Tamdoğan
Introduction

Işık Tamdoğan
The Ottoman political community in the process of justice making in the 18th-century Adana

Nil Tekgül
Some comments on the role of the Ottoman “Eyalet divanı” in the classical period

Zouhair Ghazal
Case-histories from the “Egyptian” consultative majlis of Aleppo in the mid-1830s: Fiscal patrimonialism in light of the hermeneutics of regional adjudication

Panagiotis Krokidas
Love in Crete in the time of Mehmet Ali, 1830–1834

Alp Yücel Kaya
The Müvella and the Adjudication of Property Conflicts in the Ottoman Empire (1874-1914)

Martha Mundy
On reading two epistles of Muhammad Amin Ibn ‘Abidin of Damascus

Yavuz Aykan
From the Hanafi Doxa to the Mecelle
The Mufti of Amid and genealogies of the Ottoman jurisprudential tradition

 

 

 

8. Arabic Ontology الأنطولوجيا العربية

http://ontology.birzeit.edu/

The Arabic Ontology

An Arabic Wordnet with ontologically-clean content.
Classification of the meanings of the Arabic terms, based on state-of-art science, rather than on speakers’ naïve knowledge.

150 Dictionaries

Multilingual dictionaries were digitized and integrated. Only the semantic features (definitions, synonyms, translations) are currently displayed, soon the morphological features.

 

 

 

9. Conference: “Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses: The Concept of History and the Concept of Time in Judaism, Christianity and Islam”, University of Erlangen, 12-14 December 2018

Deadline for registration: 5 December 2018. Program: https://www.kcid.fau.de/files/2018/11/Concepts20in20Interreligious_Discourses_Folder_4.pdf

 

 

 

10. Qur’an Conference of the International Qur´anic Studies Association, University of New England, Tangier, Morocco, 25-26 July 2019

The main theme is “Reading the Qur’an in the Context of Empire”. We are particularly interested in papers about how rulers, politicians, religious figures and later colonial officers and European travelers contributed to the production, distribution and reception of Scriptures in general and the Qur’an in particular.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2019. Information: https://iqsaweb.wordpress.com/international-meeting-2019/

 

 

 

11. Posts:

a) University Assistant (post doc) in Islamic Theology with Focus on Fiqh and Usul al-fiqh, University of Vienna

Profile: PhD in Islamic Theology or comparable discipline; familiarity with the observational history and genesis of Islamic Jurisprudence, in classic, modern and current methodical approaches, etc.

Deadline for application: 13 December 2018. Information:

https: https://bit.ly/2ADOcvB

 

 

b) Position in Persian and Iranian Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Successful candidates must hold a Ph.D. and are expected to actively engage in research, supervise graduate students, and take part in academic activity in the Department of Middle East Studies, in addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on Iranian studies covering various periods. Candidates must be qualified to teach in Hebrew.

Deadline for applications: 24 february 2019. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2018/11/28/full-time-tenure-track-position-in-persian-and-iranian-studies

 

c) Faculty Position in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, American University of Kuwait

Candidates should have a Ph.D. in anthropology. The specialization is open but priority is given to Africa, East Asia, South Asia and the Middle East.

The position will remain open until filled. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2018/11/26/faculty-position-in-socio-cultural-anthropology

 

d) Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, University of North Carolina

Candidates should have broad training in their field(s) of expertise, the relevant linguistic competencies, a commitment to interdisciplinary work, and a willingness to engage with broad theoretical issues in the study of religion. The successful candidate is expected to have a Ph.D. in hand by the time the appointment begins, July 1, 2019.

Deadline for applications: 5 January 2019. Information: https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/151991

 

 

 

12. Doctoral Spring School: “Patronage and Clientelism in the Muslim World”, Granada, 18-22 March 2019

Initiated by Prof. Albrecht Fuess (University of Marburg) etc. PhD candidate students and advanced MA students, whose research focuses on the study of Muslims, Muslim societies and Islam, in the broadest sense of the word, are invited to apply for participation.

Deadline for applications: 25 January 2019. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/37857

 

 

 

13. Ph.D. Research Grants of the Orient-Institut Istanbul

The grants support field research in Istanbul by Ph.D. students not living in Turkey in one of the research areas of the Institute:

1. Musicological research on the Ottoman Empire and Turkey 2. Narrative sources on Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire 3. Historic and contemporary forms of religious expression in Anatolia since the 11th century 4. Manuscript cultures in the Ottoman Empire and Iran 5. Human, medicine, and society. The award consists of a monthly stipend of € 1,100 for up to six months the reimbursement of travel expenses. Start of the scholarship should be at latest 1 November 2019.

Deadline for applications: 7 January 2019. Information: https://www.oiist.org/en/stipendien/

 

 

 

14. Book Award, Dissertation and Graduate Student Paper Prizes by the Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS)

AGAPS invites proposals for the book award for those published between 1 May 2017 and 30 April 2019, an award for PhD dissertations accepted between 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2019, and an award for graduate student papers written between 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2019.

For more information and to see the previous winners, please visit: https://agaps.org/agapsmesa/mesa-awards/

 

 

 

15. The Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona

is pleased to host the

Second North American Conference in Iranian Linguistics (NACIL2)

April 19 – 21, 2019

And

A Workshop on Complex Predicates in Iranian Languages

April 18, 2019

https://sites.google.com/view/nacil2

 

 

 

16. CALL FOR PAPERS | SYMPOSIA IRANICA

FOURTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON IRANIAN STUDIES

 

Hosted by the University of Cambridge at St John’s College, Cambridge, UK, 9-10 April 2019

 

***Deadline: 13 January 2019***

 

We welcome proposals that engage with any aspect of Iranian studies within the arts, humanities and social sciences. These include but are not limited to prehistory through to the ancient and post-antique, modern, and contemporary histories; historiography; art and architecture history; anthropology; archaeology; cultural heritage; film and cinema; music and musicology; new media and communication studies; the performing arts; poetry and literature; languages and linguistics; Diaspora and migration studies; diplomatic studies, international relations and political science; social and political theory; law and legal studies; economics, philately and numismatics; sociology; philosophy; religions and theology.

 

Comparative themes and interdisciplinary approaches are also very welcome.

 

SUBMISSIONS

Proposals are open to early career scholars at postgraduate and post-doctoral levels from any disciplinary background within the arts, humanities and social sciences:

 

1. Postgraduate students (MA, MPhil, MSt, etc. who are currently enrolled or who graduate/d in 2019 or 2018);
2. PhD students and PhD candidates at any stage of their degree; and
3. post-docs who graduated within the last three years (2018, 2017, 2016, 2015).

 

Persons falling into any of these categories are eligible to submit a proposal for an individual paper or pre-arranged panel. Submission is conducted electronically through the website. For any questions, please email us at office@symposia-iranica.com.

 

The language of the conference is English. All submissions undergo double-blind peer review.

 

ABOUT US

Symposia Iranica is Iranian studies’ leading forum for early career scholars. A dedicated, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed platform open to emerging scholars working on any aspect of Iranian or Persian Studies within the arts, humanities, and social sciences, our three previous conferences were hosted by the University of St Andrews at St Mary’s College in 2013 and the University of Cambridge at Downing College in 2015 and Pembroke College in 2017.

 

The full call for papers is on our website: symposia-iranica.com

Updates will be posted to our Facebook page: facebook.com/SymposiaIranica

A virtual preview of our programme is at: symposia-iranica.com/preview

Highlights from all three conferences to-date: symposia-iranica.com/past

 

PARTNERS

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Shahnama Centre for Persian Studies and the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge; St John’s College, Cambridge; Trinity College, Cambridge; British Institute of Persian Studies; Iran Heritage Foundation; Soudavar Memorial Foundation; Ancient India and Iran Trust; Institute of Iranian Studies, University of St Andrews; Pembroke College, Cambridge; Brill Publishers; I.B. Tauris Publishers; Edinburgh University Press; and the German Oriental Studies Trust.

 

With thanks,

 

Armin Yavari, Founding Chair

Michael Pye, Co-Chair

 

 

 

17. Research Assistant

Are you interested in British Islam and its interactions with UK state and society? Do you have experience of working with Muslim organisations, editing reports and websites, as well as organising events, promoting research and gathering feedback? Would you like to work on a collaborative project which aims to have a positive impact on the UK Hajj pilgrimage sector?

You will provide flexible research assistance to Professor Seán McLoughlin, who is working with the Council of British Hajjis to consult pilgrims, Hajj organisers and UK governance authorities as part of the process of writing the first independent report on the Hajj pilgrimage sector in the UK. This effort to develop impact from Prof. McLoughlin’s research is supported by the Leeds Social Sciences Institute (LSSI) with funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

You will hold an honours degree in the social sciences or arts and humanities or a comparable subject. A higher degree with a research component is also desirable. You will have first-hand research or other related experience of engaging with British Muslim communities and organisations, as well as a sound understanding of their relations to UK state and society. You will have strong communication skills, both verbally and in writing, and have the capacity to judge/vary what is required to connect with different audiences and influencers. Strong interpersonal skills and self-motivation are also essential, together with the ability to work independently and flexibly to deadlines as part of a small team. Competence in a community language (e.g. Urdu, Panjabi, etc) is also desirable.

You will need to have the flexibility to work more/less intensively at times but will be able to negotiate working patterns with Prof. McLoughlin. Working from home will sometimes be appropriate. Some limited, fully-funded travelling out of office hours and at weekends e.g. to meet community partners and/or to help at events in the North of England and the English Midlands will also be necessary, as will two overnight stays in London. The position is available immediately.

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact: 

Seán McLoughlin, Professor of the Anthropology of Islam (Muslim Diasporas)

Email: s.mcloughlin@leeds.ac.uk

Full details of how to apply at: http://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCPR1021

Location:	Leeds – Main Campus
Faculty/Service:	Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Cultures
School/Institute:	School of Philosophy, Religion & History of Science
Category:	Research
Grade:	Grade 6
Salary:	£27,025 to £32,236 p.a. pro rata
Working Time:	30% of full time
Post Type:	Part Time
Contract Type:	Fixed Term (until 31 July 2019)
Closing Date:	Thursday 13 December 2018
Reference:	AHCPR1021

 

 

 

 

1.Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies 2^nd Annual Conference

Call for Papers

Islam, the West, and Radicalism

20 February 2019

Royal Holloway, University of London

Egham, Surrey UK

 

The Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies (Royal Holloway, University of London) and the Imam Sadr Foundation (Lebanon) invite proposals for the 2019 Annual Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies (CIWAS) Conference on ‘Islam, West, and Radicalism’.

Today, more than in any age and area, the role of Islam in societies across the world is being shaped by the political, economic, and cultural dynamics of West Asia. While many are celebrating the imminent demise of ISIS, acute observers express concern that the persistence of the West Asian socio-political context in which radical ideologies and movements have emerged will generate new radical movements in the region and beyond.

The CIWAS 2019 Annual Conference seeks to address the conference theme by considering a broad range of issues; and we are particularly interested in panel and paper proposals that offer original and under-researched approaches to them. The various issues that might be addresses, include, but are not limited to:

• Islam and the West (the Muslim diaspora, its coexistence with ‘others’ in the West) Islamic responses to radicalism
• Islam and ethics (human rights, ethics, medical ethics and Islamic jurisprudence, women’s rights)
• Spirituality in Islam (Islamic arts, rituals)
• Islamic authority in an age of Western dominance

Paper title and abstract (maximum 250-words) and contact details should be sent by email attachment to ciwas@rhul.ac.uk by 5pm (UK time), Friday 14 December 2019. You will receive an email notification confirming receipt of your form.

 

 

 

2. 2019. 16th Symposium

Fantasy and Imagination in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Projections, Dreams, and Illusion (also: Monsters and Monstrosity).

For more information see, https://aclassen.faculty.arizona.edu/content/2019-16th-symposium.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 31, 2018, but feel free to send an inquiry even after that date, to aclassen@email.arizona.edu

 

 

 

3. International Conference: “Hadith and Inner-Islamic Pluralism: The Origin and Development of the Prophetic Tradition as a Trans-denominational Phenomenon”, University of Tuebingen, 7-8 December 2018

See program at https://bit.ly/2P4SVvO; for registration contact hossam-mohammed-mohammed.ouf@student.uni-tuebingen.de

 

 

 

4. Posts:

a) Professorship (Tenure Track) for the History and Culture of Islam in the Eastern Mediterranean (W 1), University of Mainz

The junior professor should represent the entire field in research and teaching. Knowledge of Arabic is required, that of Ottoman Turkish is also desirable. The candidate should either possess or be willing to develop a research focus on gender relations and roles from a historical perspective. Competencies in the field of visual and material culture are preferable.

Deadline for application: 27 December 2018. Information: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/354794

 

b) PhD Position (E 13 TV-L / 50%) for Islam Studies, University of Bayreuth

The successful candidate will work part time (until 30 September 2022) in a research group addressing questions of religious difference, sectarianism or sectarian indifference among Muslims in the European diaspora and in the respective countries of origin. Especially welcomed are projects on Shiis or Alevis, dealing with contemporary issues or topics of modern history, thereby focusing either on the diaspora or on the Near and Middle East.

Deadline for application: 17 December 2018. Information: https://www.uni-bayreuth.de/de/universitaet/arbeiten-an-der-universitaet/stellenangebote/doktorandenstellen/KW-1/index.html

 

c) University Assistant (post-doc) at the Department of Islamic-Theological Studies, University of Vienna

Reference No. 9110. Job-Description: Participation in research, teaching and administration at the Institute for lslamic-Theological Studies for four years. Profile: PhD in lslamic studies, lslamic theology, legal science; relevant knowledge of lslamic theology with a focus on Fiqh and Usul al-fiqh or in a similar discipline.

For information contact Prof. Dr. Ebrahim Afsah: ebrahim.afsah@univie.ac.at.

 

d) Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, University of AlbertaThe Faculty of Arts invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, with a starting date of July 1, 2019. Applicants must hold a PhD in a humanities or social science discipline with a research focus on Islamic Studies, or have a strong expectation of completing such a PhD before July 1, 2019.

Review of applications start on 2 January 2019. Information: https://www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/A107337623/

 

e) Lecturer in Arabic Language and Middle Eastern Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University

The School of World Studies invites applications for a non-tenure-track position at the instructor level. Requirements: PhD in hand by August 2019 in Arabic studies or closely related field with preference given to specialists in Arabic language acquisition, linguistics, applied linguistics, Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, etc.

Deadline for applications: 10 January 2019. Information: https://www.vcujobs.com/postings/84511

 

f) Granada ENI Spring School 2019 on “Patronage and Clientelism in the Muslim World”, Granada, 18-22 March 2019

We invite doctoral students and Early Stage Researchers working on or being interested in aspects of patronage and clientelism in the Muslim world from different disciplines in humanities and social sciences (history, anthropology, sociology, economics, cultural studies, political sciences, religious studies) to explore and present the relevance of these concepts for their work.

Deadline for applications: 15 January 2019. Information: https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/cnms/islamwissenschaft/aktuelles/nachrichten/granada-enis-spring-school-2019-on-patronage-and-clientelism-in-the-muslim-world

 

g) Articles for Edited Book with Brill on “Ḥadīth and Ethics: Concepts, Approaches and Theoretical Foundations”

Full papers will be discussed in a seminar at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) in Doha, 7-5 May 2019 (travel expenses will be covered).

Deadline for proposals: 15 December 2018. For information contact Dr. Mutaz al-Khatib: malkhatib@hbku.edu.qa.

 

 

 

1. Tenure-track post in Islamic Studies at Trinity College Dublin

See:  https://jobs.tcd.ie  and choose ‘academic vacancies’ or search for key word ‘Islam’.

Closing date of 3.12.18

 

 

2. Middle East Studies at Brown University invites applications for a two-year position as Visiting Assistant Professor in Iranian Studies. The position is open to all disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences. We especially welcome candidates who have wide knowledge of Iranian history and civilizations, thrive in an interdisciplinary environment, are interested in comparative and global perspectives, and have experience teaching and supervising undergraduates. The successful candidate will teach three classes a year and is expected to actively cultivate broad interest in Iranian Studies at Brown and to contribute to the intellectual life of the university. Additional funding for programming and research expenses will be considered.

For further information, please visit the Middle East Studies website (http://www.middleeastbrown.org/). On the post, see: https://watson.brown.edu/mes/news/2018/visiting-assistant-professor-iranian-studieshttps://watson.brown.edu/mes/news/2018/visiting-assistant-professor-iranian-studies .To contact the department, send an email to mes_director@brown.edu.

 

 

 

3. The Khalili Research Centre (University of Oxford) is offering a fully-funded graduate scholarship from the beginning of the academic year 2019–2020 for a student undertaking either doctoral research or a combined four-year programme consisting of a Master’s course proceeding to a D.Phil.

The Scholarship is awarded on the basis of academic merit and potential. The Scholarship will cover full course fees, and maintenance costs equivalent to the U.K.national minimum doctoral stipend.

Applicants should first consult the Further Particulars that may be downloaded at: https://krc.web.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/krc/documents/media/impei_grad_2019.pdf  Applicants, whether internal or external, should then apply to the University under the standard procedures for graduate degrees. The University’s application procedures are described at http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate.

Applications should be made on-line (www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/applyonline) and submitted before 12:00 noon on Friday 11 January 2019.

Applicants to the M.St., M.Phil. or D.Phil in Islamic Art and Archaeology at the Khalili Research Centre may also be considered for other fully-funded scholarships. For further details, please visit: https://krc.web.ox.ac.uk/article/courses

 

 

 

4. New Research Network: “Categories of Religion and the Secular in Islam” (CRSI)

CRSI is an interdisciplinary network for scholars interested in critical approaches to ‘religion’ and ‘the secular/non-religious’ as discursive categories in Islamic contexts.  We have created a community email list for discussion of these themes and circulation of academic notices, calls, publications, etc.  Look out for notice of our first workshop, to be held at Oxford in Spring 2019, supported by the British Association for Islamic Studies.

Contact Alex Henley (alex.henley@theology.ox.ac.uk) to join our listserv, which is open to academics and graduate students working on any period or region.

Further details here: https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/categories-religion-and-secular-islam-crsi

 

 

 

5. CFP – Inscriptions from the Islamic World (American University in Cairo, 6-8 September 2019)

 

Inscriptions in Arabic, Persian and Turkish constitute a remarkable source for the history of the Islamic world. The earliest Arabic inscriptions represent some of our earliest firmly dated Muslim sources for Islamic history, while in later periods inscriptions often constitute unique contemporary evidence for not just the building activities sponsored by rulers and high officials, but also raw historical data such as dates of rulers and events.

Even where such events are otherwise attested, the inscriptions offer us an insight into rulers’ self-representation through the titles and epithets they use, and thus into contemporary discourses about political legitimacy. Furthermore, Islamic inscriptions are not merely historical sources, but also represent one of the great achievements of Islamic art, adorning both major and minor buildings as well as other media such as gravestones and ceramics.

The field of Islamic epigraphy, despite great progress in the 19th and early 20th centuries, has been rather neglected in recent years, although individual scholars have continued to make significant contributions. Moreover, work has tended to focus mainly on Arabic inscriptions, with those in Persian and Turkish comparatively neglected; the earliest Arabic-script Turkish inscription has only recently come to light. Moreover, although historically the literary and epigraphic traditions in all three languages were closely intertwined, today they continue to be studied in isolation from one another.

The aim of this conference is to give a new impetus to the study of Islamic inscriptions by bringing together leading scholars from the fields of history, art and language. In addition to the issues raised above, contributions will consider how inscriptions convey meaning through their placement, script, language, and quotations from textual sources ranging from the Qur’an to poetry. It will also consider the purpose and characteristics of bilingual inscriptions.

This conference is organised jointly by the AUC’s Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, and the Centre for Anatolian and East Mediterranean Studies at the University of St Andrews. It will be held at AUC’s Tahrir Campus in downtown Cairo on November 6 – 8, 2019. The conveners intended to publish selected contributions as edited volume.

http://conf.aucegypt.edu/IIW

 

 

 

6. Workshop on Scriptural Hermeneutics and Exegesis was held in Paderborn University on 16-17 November 2018

At the kind invitation of Zentrum für Komparative Theologie und Kulturwissenschaften (ZeKK), the Workshop on Scriptural Hermeneutics and Exegesis was held in Paderborn University on 16-17 November 2018 under the high patronage of the Dean of Zentrum für Komparative Theologie und Kulturwissenschaften (ZeKK), Prof. Klaus Von Stosch. This workshop was attended by Professors from  Germany and Iran.

For further details and panel synopses, see:

http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/p/37/Workshop-on-Scriptural-Hermeneutics-and-Exegesis/

 

 

7. Conference: “Pilgrimage and the Senses”, University of Oxford, 7 June 2019

This interdisciplinary conference hosted at the University of Oxford aims to shed light on how sensory perception shapes and is shaped by the experience of pilgrimage across cultures, faith traditions, and throughout history.

Deadline for abstracts: 20 January 2019. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3112523/cfp-pilgrimage-and-senses-conference-oxford-7-june-2019

 

 

 

8. 26th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) in Cooperation with the Section Islam Studies of the DMG, University of Hamburg, 3-5 October 2019

Mind the date! Website with detailed information will soon be available.

Deadline for abstracts of panels on 15 February 2019 and papers on 30 April 2019. Information: davo@geo.uni-mainz.de

 

 

 

9. Fellowship on Gender, Human Rights and Refugees in the Middle East, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University

Position for a Fellow whose work is at the intersection of gender, human rights, and refugees in the Middle East. This is an endowed position with primary responsibility in conducting policy-relevant research on these topics.

Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Information: https://jobs.rice.edu/postings/16664

 

 

 

10. Assistant Professor with Expertise in East or Southeast Asia or the Middle East, Department of Historical and Political Studies, Arcadia University

Thematic specialization in one or more of the following areas is desired: international political economy, global governance, conflict management, or environmental politics and sustainable development. We welcome candidates with training in Political Science, History, Anthropology, and other related disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields.

Consideration of applications will begin 14 December 2018. Information: https://faculty-arcadia.icims.com/jobs/2352/assistant-professor-in-the-department-of-historical-%26-political-studies/job

 

 

 

11. 8 PhD Scholarships in Cultural Studies at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), University of Giessen, Germany

The GCSC encourages applications which make a significant contribution to the study of culture in various historical contexts, including contemporary phenomena. An international research perspective, i.e. international study experience, is an advantage. Scholarships are offered for one year with the possibility of two extensions, each of one year.

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2019. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3112516/8-phd-scholarships-cultural-studies-gcsc-giessen-university

 

 

 

12. Funding Opportunities for 2019-2020 and Research Awards by the “Council of British Research in the Levant”

CBRL offers research grants for fellowships, project awards and travel grants.

Information: http://cbrl.ac.uk/news/item/name/we-are-now-accepting-applications-for-funding

 

 

 

13. American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) offers a Mughal Persian summer program for students interested in reading texts from the 16^th through 18^th centuries. The program is designed for students and scholars interested in the Mughal Empire, Comparative Empire Studies, and the larger Persianate World—encompassing Persia, Ottoman Empire, Mughal India, Afghanistan and Central Asia. The program lasts for two months from June to August 2019. For the summer of 2019, AIIS is holding a special Mughal Persian archival workshop for students and scholars—including scholars from local Indian educational institutions, libraries and archives—at the conclusion of the program. Students should have the equivalent of one year (or an intensive summer program) of prior Persian, Urdu or Arabic by the time the program starts.

Summer students should apply for FLAS or other funding if available at their institutions to cover the costs of the program. AIIS has some funding available for summer students who cannot procure their own funding. This funding is allocated on the basis of the language committee’s ranking of the applicants. The application deadline is December 31, 2018. Applications can be downloaded from the AIIS web site at www.indiastudies.org. For more information: Phone: 773-702-8638. Email: aiis@uchicago.edu.