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1.First Biennial International Conference of the Society of Iranian Archaeology: “Cultural Interactions, Continuity and Disruption”, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, 4-5 December 2019
The conference is dedicated to gather archaeologists focusing on Iran as their major field of research and to discuss their most recent findings and interpretations of past Iranian societies. Recent changes of socio-political perspectives especially in the Near East, encouraged the organizers to dedicate the conference specifically to past cultural interactions within Iran and between Iran and surrounding regions.
Deadline for abstracts: 21 May 2019. Information: http://congress.soia.org.ir/en/
2. Research Scholar on the History of the Pre-Modern Arabic World, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Junior and senior scholars with excellent knowledge of classical Arabic, and with suitable experience in the history of science, history of philosophy, history of medicine, or other relevant fields are invited to apply. Candidates should hold a doctorate in one of the above-mentioned fields and have at least two years of postdoctoral experience at the time the position begins (PhD awarded in 2017 or earlier).
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2019.
Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58265
3. Summer Course: “Art Treasures of Konya: Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture II”, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, 1-26 July 2019
The course will combine lectures and many field trips to monuments and museums in and around Konya, taking full advantage of the opportunity to study art in context. By the end of the course, students will have obtained an understanding of the stylistic, historical, and social importance of the medieval Islamic art and architecture of Konya and of its place in the broader framework of Islamic art history.
Deadline for application: 7 June 2019
Information: http://sempozyum.erbakan.edu.tr/arthistory/en/anasayfa
4. Two Summer Courses: “Intensive Arabic Language”, Noor Majan Arabic Institute in Ibri and Muscat, Oman, 9 June – 1 August or 18 August – 12 September 2019
Both locations represent a unique experience of the Sultanate and are equally rigorous in nature.
Information http://noormajan-institute.com/our-programs/program-dates/
5. The 26th I.R. Iran World Award for Book of the Year
On Tuesday February 5, 2019 an Award Ceremony was held in Tehran Iran, in which all the selected distinguished works and their authors were honored. This year, after the primary selection of more than 2,700 books in different fields of Islamic and Iranian Studies, 244 books were assessed, from which 9 books were selected as winners. The evaluated books have been written in English, French, German, Italian, Arabic, Georgian, Chinese, Greek, Turkish, Bengali and Finnish languages. The winners are from Germany, Russia, Lebanon, Italy, Ireland, Turkey and the USA.
The “World Book Award of the Year” winners are:
Gülru Necipoğlu. The Arts of Ornamental Geometry: A Persian Compendium on Similar and Complementary Interlocking Figures. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017
Allessandra Lazzari, Masasimo Vidale. Lapis Lazuli Bead Making at Shahr-I Sokhta: Interpreting Craft Production in the Urban Community of the 3rd Millennium BC. Rome: ISMEO (Italian Institute for Middle and Far East), 2017
Alexander Knysh. Sufism: A New History of Islamic Mysticism. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017
Maurice A. Pomerantz. Licit Magic: The Life and Letters of al-Sahib b. Abbad (d. 385/995). Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017
Moya Carey. Persian Art: Collecting the Arts of Iran for the V&A. London: V&A Publishing (Victoria and Albert Museum), 2018
George Archer. A Place Between Two Places: The Quranic Barzakh. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2017
Hussein Ali Abdulsater. Shi’i Doctrine, Mu’tazili Theology: al-Sharif al-Murtaa and Imami Discourse. Edinburgh University Press, 2017
Yousef Casewit. The Mystics of al-Andalus: Ibn Barrajan and Islamic Thought in the Twelfth Century. Cambridge University Press, 2017
Juliane Müller. Nahrungsmittel in der arabischen Medizin: Das Kitab al-Aiya wa-l-asriba des Naib ad-Din as-Samarqandi. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017
See: http://bookaward.ir/Home-En
6. DEADLINE EXTENDED: CFP Vol. on theme Slavery in the Middle East and North Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries
We are pleased to invite contributions to an edited volume on the theme of Slavery in the Middle East and North Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries. The volume will be edited by Janet Afary and Eric Massie and will be published by I.B. Tauris as part of its series on Sex, Marriage, and the Family in the Middle East (Series Editors: Janet Afary and Claudia Yaghoobi).
Articles addressing the following themes are particularly encouraged, but all articles related to slavery in the Middle East and North Africa during the 19th and 20th centuries will be considered:
- The social construction of mastery and slavery in slaveholding-enslaved relationships
- The social construction of freedom and dependency in the process of manumission
- The gendered experience of slavery and use and abuse of the enslaved’s sexuality
- The familial and social lives of enslaved and manumitted persons.
- Legal and customary practices regulating the familial and social lives of the enslaved
- Theorizations about the enslaved’s vulnerability in Middle Eastern contexts
Please notify us of your intention to contribute by April 15th. The article itself should be received by August 30th, 2019. It should be in English and not exceed 10,000-12,000 words. Additional information about formatting will be sent after we receive your notification.
Please direct any inquiries to:
Eric Massie
7. Call for Papers: Cambridge Graduate Middle East Conference: Languages of Legitimation in the Middle East
Conference Date: 6 – 7 June 2019
Conference Venue: Woolf Institute, Westminster College, Cambridge
Submission Deadline: 17:00 (GMT) 12th April 2019
This graduate conference is an opportunity for PhD students to share and discuss their original research employing primary sources in Middle Eastern languages on the question of legitimacy and legitimation in the Middle East across different disciplines, periods and localities. We are delighted to announce that Dr Yossef Rapoport will be delivering the conference’s keynote address on the topic of Tribalisation, Conversion and Tribal Genealogy as a ‘Language of Legitimation’ in the Egyptian Countryside.
Throughout history, communities in the Middle East have negotiated various networks of legitimation. A Weberian analysis maintains that political legitimacy may be categorised into traditional, legal-rational and charismatic legitimacies. The use of tradition to explain how various societal formations, from tribes to merchant guilds, sought to legitimise their practices has come under increasing criticism from scholars of the Middle East such as Roy Mottahedeh and Aziz al-Azmeh who emphasise the performative and prosaic nature of legitimation.
Paper proposals that consider legitimation as articulated through a plurality of everyday practices, beyond the formal political arena where discussions of legitimacy conventionally reside, are particularly encouraged. The conference aims to discuss these phenomena across time, place and through a wide variety of source materials. Beyond linguistics, we are open to the ways in which legitimacy is communicated through different modes of expression from poetry, liturgy, and laughter, to rhetoric, architecture and fashion.
To be considered for participation in this conference please submit the following in single PDF document to languageslegitimation@gmail.com by 17:00 (GMT) Friday 12th April 2019:
- A summary of the paper (max 300 words) including a provisional title, the research topic, the primary sources, theoretical framework, methodological approach, any preliminary results and further directions.
- A brief biography (max 100 words) detailing academic affiliation and research interests.
Please direct any enquiries to the aforementioned conference email address. Participation at the conference is free and open to all, but prior registration is required at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/languages-of-legitimation-in-the-middle-east-university-of-cambridge-conference-2019-tickets-58530042934 .
The organisers are grateful for the support of the School of Arts and Humanities, Cambridge, The Woolf Institute and the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge.
Conference Organisers: Calum Humphreys, Cora Kyler, William Ryle-Hodges, and Christopher Cooper-Davies.
8. The Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art at Tufts University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, are pleased to announce the final East of Byzantium events for 2018–2019.
Thursday, April 11, 2019, 6:15–7:45 pm
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Armenian Merchant Patronage of Early Modern Iran
A lecture by Amy Landau, Freer|Sackler, Smithsonian Institution, discussing the patronage of New Julfa’s Armenian merchant community.
Friday, April 12, 2019, 10:00 am–12:00 pm
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Image-making and Anxiety among New Julfa’s Armenian Artists, Theologians & Merchants
A workshop for students exploring how Armenian artists, theologians, merchants, among others, thought about images and image-making in early modern Iran. Led by Amy Landau, Freer|Sackler, Smithsonian Institution.
Advance registration is required for the workshop. Registration closes April 9. Additional information and registration at https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/image-making-and-anxiety/
East of Byzantium is a partnership between the Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art at Tufts University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, that explores the cultures of the eastern frontier of the Byzantine empire in the late antique and medieval periods.
For questions, contact Brandie Ratliff, Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture (mjcbac@hchc.edu).
9. CfP: Call for Papers: “Words Laying Down the Law: Translating Arabic Legal Discourse”
7-8 October 2019, Aga Khan Centre, London
The Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) invites papers in the disciplines of legal anthropology, law and comparative law, legal pragmatics, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, politics and translation studies for a two-day conference on translations of legal discourse in Arabic-speaking contexts.
Please send abstracts of 500 words (excluding bibliography) to ismc.governance@aku.edu by 31 May 2019. Notifications of acceptance decisions will be sent out by 30 June 2019.
A limited fund to support scholars who do not have access to institutional funding will be available to cover travel and accommodation costs. Please indicate if you need this financial support when applying.
For further information, see: https://www.aku.edu/govprogramme/conferences/Pages/home.aspx
10. PRIX MICHEL SEURAT
APPEL À CANDIDATURES 2019
Sociétés contemporaines du Proche-Orient
et du Maghreb
Le Prix Michel Seurat a été institué par le CNRS en juin 1988 pour « honorer la mémoire de ce chercheur du CNRS, spécialiste des questions islamiques, disparu dans des conditions tragiques.
Ce programme vise à aider financièrement chaque année un jeune chercheur, ressortissant d’un pays européen ou d’un pays du Proche-Orient ou du Maghreb, contribuant ainsi à promouvoir connaissance réciproque et compréhension entre la société française et le monde arabe ».
Depuis 2017, l’organisation du Prix a été déléguée au GIS « Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans », en partenariat avec l’IISMM-EHESS et Orient XXI.
D’un montant de 15 000 € en 2019, le Prix est ouvert aux titulaires d’un master 2 ou d’un diplôme équivalent, âgés de moins de 35 ans révolus et sans condition de nationalité, de toutes disciplines, travaillant sur les sociétés contemporaines du Proche-Orient et/ou du Maghreb.
Il a pour vocation d’aider un (ou une) jeune chercheur (ou chercheuse) à multiplier les enquêtes sur le terrain, dans le cadre de la préparation de sa thèse.
Les enquêtes doivent avoir lieu sur le terrain. La maîtrise de la langue du pays concerné est une condition impérative.
Date limite de dépôt des candidatures :
Lundi 15 avril 2019 (minuit, heure de Paris)
Constitution du dossier impérativement en langue française :
- un plan et un projet de recherche détaillés précisant de manière claire les enquêtes qui seront menées sur le terrain (10 pages maximum) ;
- un curriculum vitae ;
- une copie des diplômes obtenus, assortie le cas échéant de leur traduction en français ;
- une ou plusieurs attestations de personnalités scientifiques : attestations récentes et en rapport avec la candidature au Prix.
Adresser votre dossier uniquement par voie électronique impérativement aux deux adresses suivantes :
Règlement du 30 janvier 2018 à consulter, en annexe.
Conformément au Règlement européen général sur la protection des données (RGPD/GRPD) qui est entré en vigueur le 25 mai 2018, nous vous confirmons que vos données personnelles ne seront en aucun cas délivrées à des tiers et que la gestion se fait uniquement en interne.
Nous vous rappelons qu’il vous est possible de vous désabonner en nous envoyant un simple courriel à cyrielle.michineau@ehess.fr
11. Blogs You Should Be Adding to Your Bookmarks
See: http://hazine.info/blogs-you-should-be-adding-to-your-bookmarks/
- March 30, 2019
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.For progress on the Islamic Painted Page (IPP) database, see www.islamicpaintedpage.com.
IPP is a freely available database of Islamicate Arts of the Book which exists to help users locate paintings, illuminations and bindings, and to signpost them onward with links to authoritative online and print publications.
The database now exceeds 38,000 references, spanning 27,000 works in over 270 collections, all searchable by picture description as well as by place, date, accession number and other metadata. There is now better coverage of works all the way up to about 1900 CE; and the site is now able to present images for over 30% of all its entries.
IPP recently began a relationship with the University of Hamburg’s Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures that will enrich the database’s features and aims to extend the coverage of works published online as well as in print, especially including collections where Creative Commons, Public Domain or special permissions make it possible to display actual images. By the end of 2018, this already included digitised works from the British Library, Cambridge University Library, New York Public Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum fur Islamische Kunst, New York Public Library, Paris Bibliotheque Nationale, Royal Asiatic Society, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, and the Baltimore Walters Art Museum (with grateful acknowledgements).
2. The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture is pleased to invite applications for self-supported (unfunded) Associateships and for Harvard-funded Fellowships, to conduct advanced historical research in Islamic art, architecture, and archaeology at Harvard University.
AKPIA Associateships and Fellowships are intended principally for overseas scholars–preferably, but not exclusively, from Muslim countries–to support research in art and architectural history and archaeology. Our program’s Associateship and Fellowship positions are not intended to sponsor professional design, conservation, or urban development projects, nor are they intended to support research travel.
Recipients are expected to be in residence, except for one or two short research-related trips. Please note—we offer unfunded Associate positions, and a limited number of funded (or partially funded) Fellowships. We will consider applications of scholars who can provide partial funding, or who have no other outside funding. Application proposals may be for up to an entire academic year in duration.
DEADLINE All application materials must be received by April 1, 2019. Results will be announced by late May.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Please direct any inquiries about the AKPIA Associateships and Fellowships at Harvard University to agakhan@fas.harvard.edu.
For the AKPIA Associate/Fellowship Application form and further information, visit the AKPIA website: https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/fellowships-associateships
3. POS: Library of Congress, Chief of the African and Middle Eastern Division
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/527677600
Open & closing dates
03/18/2019 to 04/18/2019
4. The international conference Le lingue islamiche will take place July 2-3, 2019 at Roma Tre University. The event is co-organized by Roma Tre University, The University of Naples “L’Orientale” and the Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik – Freie Universität Berlin.
Abstracts for presentation (max 250 words, bibliography excluded) are welcome, and shall be sent to lingue.islamiche@uniroma3.it. The deadline for the submission is April 19, 2019. Notifications on accepted contributions shall be sent by May 5, 2019. Contributions in either English or French, official languages of the conference together with Italian, are strongly encouraged.
Conference topics are inspired by Bausani’s ideas on ‘Islamic languages’ as presented in his paper “Le lingue islamiche: interazioni e acculturazioni” (in Bausani A., Scarcia Amoretti B., (eds.), Il mondo islamico tra interazione e acculturazione, Roma, Istituto di Studi Islamici, 1981, pp. 3-19). Bausani presents the category of ‘Islamic languages’, defined as the functional system(s) arising in a number of Islamicate societies through simultaneous—often specialized—use of genetically distinct languages by the same speakers and authors.
In Bausani’s own words: “a typological system to which the concept of ‘Islamic languages’ can meaningfully be applied is based on cultural superstrata or ethnolinguistic substrata, where cultural, rather than linguistic, considerations hold. […] the concept of Islamic languages is close (although by no means identical) to what justify talking about ‘Balkanic languages’ notwithstanding the diverse genealogy of languages in the Balkan area. The issue of the importance of a cultivated linguistic superstratum, and therefore of the non-ethnic unity of all Islamic languages […] is doubtless present, at least potentially, in the conscience of Muslim peoples.”
Read more at http://host.uniroma3.it/docenti/lancioni/lli/ or contact us at lingue.islamiche@uniroma3.it
5. XXIème Journée Monde Iranien
22 mars 2019
Auditorium du Pôle Langues et Civilisations
Inalco, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013, Paris
Organisation
Oliver Bast (Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 / Mondes iranien et indien)
Full programme at:
6. Call for Papers: “The Efficacy of Financial Structures for Islamic Taxes and Dues”
The 7th Annual Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop
4th – 5th July 2019, at Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham, UK
Islam has institutionalised, endorsed, and at times even enforced different forms of paying dues with the objective of providing for different categories of social or individual needs and requirements. Both mandatory and recommended categories of taxes and dues that Islam promotes are classified under the generic title of ṣadaqāt, which include zakāt, khums, fidya, kaffāra, fiṭra, waqf etc.
In the contemporary age, Muslims reside in an array of governing models (from Islamic government models to secular states) and this raises important questions relating to the efficacy and the potential for the evolution of financial institutions for Islamic taxes and dues. These questions are pertinent for Muslims living in the West, wherein they are already subject to mandatory dues or state taxation structures, which are levied irrespective of a person’s religious identity.
The 7th annual Fiqhī workshop at the Al-Mahdi Institute seeks to facilitate scholarship by directly addressing questions that analyse the origins, current structures and further development of financial institutions for Islamic dues. The workshop encourages, and invites, paper proposals that survey at least one of the following areas:
- Historical and contextual studies regarding financial institutions for taxes and dues that were institutionalised and endorsed by Islam, and their efficacy for past and present Muslim societies.
- Critical analysis of textual and theological foundations used to derive rulings about financial institutions for Islamic taxes and dues.
- (Re)assessing potential developments in jurisprudential and theological approaches, affecting prospective efficacy of Islamic taxes and dues.
- Empirical research analysing grassroot performances and acceptance of financial institutions for Islamic taxes and dues. In particular, examining how taxes, dues and charity (ṣadaqa) are channelled through religious authority structures and their impact upon the ultimate beneficiaries.
The workshop is pleased to host presenters from both traditional seminary and academic backgrounds, presenting from a range of disciplines. As has become an effective format in our previous annual workshops, the Fiqhī debates will be positioned alongside contributions from broader theological, historical and anthropological approaches – thereby enriching a multidisciplinary understanding of contemporary outlooks dealing with theefficacy of financial structures for Islamic taxes and dues. Details of previous workshops held at AMI can be viewed here.. https://www.almahdi.edu/contemporary-fiqhi-issues-workshops/
Proposals for a single presenter should include the following:
- Contact information, and a brief bio of presenter
- Tentative title
- Abstract(s) (400-word limit)
The deadline for submission of proposals is 15th May 2019. Successful applicants will be notified by 22nd May 2019.
Accepted applicants from within the E.U. will be supported for their travel and hospitality during the workshop, with a further limited number of travel bursaries available for those applying from outside the E.U.
Proposals and queries should be sent by e-mail to: Muhammed Reza Tajri at tajrim@almahdi.edu
7. The Council For British Research in the Levant (CBRL) is pleased to announce our undergraduate dissertation* prizes for dissertations on topics relating to the Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus, Israel, Palestine and Jordan), ancient or modern, for the academic year 2019:
- Levantine archaeology or history: the CBRL Prize for a final-year undergraduate dissertation, or major research paper
- Contemporary Levantine studies: the CBRL Prize for a final-year undergraduate dissertation, or major research paper
(*major final-year research papers are acceptable from departments where there is no dissertation.)
Please find more information on the prizes, including how to nominate dissertations from your department at this site: http://cbrl.ac.uk/news/item/name/2019-undergraduate-dissertations-prizes-in-levantine-studies
We would be very grateful if you would bring this to the attention of undergraduate degree exam boards this summer and to staff who are examining undergraduate dissertations on topics relating to the Levant.
With thanks and very best wishes,
The team at CBRL
8. 2019 Symposium: Death and Dying in Medieval Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Friday & Saturday
April 5-6
Great Room, International House (1623 Melrose Ave.)
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Click here to view a PDF version of the full 2019 Symposium program:
https://marco.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DeathDyingProgram2019.pdf
9. Call for Papers
Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies
18-19 October 2019
This annual exploratory and informal workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies for investigating history writing in Arabic in the Middle East and North Africa in any period from the seventh century to the present
We are interested in papers that consider the practical and conceptual challenges of working on history writing in the region. Papers might elucidate the following sorts of questions:
- Through what practices of writing or otherwise encoding the past and of remembering and forgetting, have different groups in the Middle East and North Africa viewed their pasts?
- At different times and places, how have the significant contours, events and actors in their histories been seen? Was the significant past the same for court historians as for literary historians; for bureaucrats as for the military; for Sufis as for Muslim lawyers and Traditionists?
- How did non-Muslims and Muslims, men and women, adherents of different sectarian or juristic traditions, or speakers of different languages, within societies that became “Islamic” imagine the shape and meaning of their specific societies’ own pasts, and their relation to the universal history of the Islamic community?
- How have urban and rural people, workers and peasants, the religiously educated and the technocratic elite, developed different ways of writing, remembering, or commemorating particular events in, or the broad sweep of, local, national, or “Islamic” history?
- In what ways do educational institutions, museums, media organisations and proponents of heritage use history writing in Arabic to shape loyalties and senses of belonging in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe?
Contributions are invited from scholars at all career levels, addressing any period and any part of the Middle East and North Africa, broadly defined.
Arabic Pasts is co-organised by Sarah Bowen Savant (AKU-ISMC), Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) and James McDougall (Oxford).
Please send by 3 April an abstract of 300 words or less to sarah.savant@aku.edu. There is a small budget to provide some travel assistance for scholars outside of London.
Time and Venue
18-19 October 2019
Atrium Conference Room,
Aga Khan Centre,
10 Handyside Street,
London N1C 4DN
Booking
This event is free but booking is essential. Book your place soon.
10. I am very pleased to announce the online release of our digital edition of the ʿAyn al-Naẓar, a short Arabic treatise by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī (d. 722/1322) on three logical relationships essential to dialectical disputation. Collated from two manuscript witnesses held by the British Library, the edition is accompanied by an Introduction, Glossary, and Guide; and its features, accessed by hovering over the Arabic text or clicking on buttons, include line-by-line English translations, with glossary-linked Arabic terms; full critical apparatus for variants, scribal additions, substitutions, corrections, etc.; short glosses from the manuscript margins; and magnifiable folio images of one of the original manuscripts.
As co-creator Dr. Frederik Elwert explains: “A digital edition is not only an edition that is available online, it represents also a different approach to the very act of scholarly editing. As such, the edition consists of two parts: An XML file following the guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative which captures scholarly statements about the text, and a rule set that converts these abstract statements into a navigable web page.”
The online edition is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, and is hosted by the Digital Humanities at the Center for Religious Studies (DH@CERES), Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Links to the project description and the digital edition itself are below. Feedback is welcomed, and we ask that you kindly disseminate this announcement to any who might find it of interest.
Digital Edition:
https://pages.ceres.rub.de/ayn-al-nazar/
Project Description:
https://dh.ceres.rub.de/en/projects/project/ayn-al-nazar/
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Dr. Walter Edward Young
MA, PhD Islamic Studies
https://mcgill.academia.edu/WalterEdwardYoung
Society for the Study of Islamicate Dialectical Disputation
https://ssidd.org/
11. The Alwaleed Centre at the University of Edinburgh is pleased to announce the launch of a free 5-week online course entitled “The Sharia and Islamic Law: An Introduction”.
The course begins on 6th May, but prospective students can now sign-up via the course homepage: www.futurelearn.com/courses/an-introduction-to-the-sharia-and-islamic-law
Delivered via the FutureLearn platform, this groundbreaking course will explore some of the diverse roles that the Sharia and Islamic law have played in Muslim life, both historically and today, encouraging students to think critically about the nature of religious law and its many manifestations.
12. Call for Paper Proposals: The 3rd Great Lakes Adiban Workshop at IU Bloomington
The Great Lakes Adiban Society (GLAS) invites submissions for its third annual workshop, scheduled to take place at Indiana University Bloomington, on September 28–29, 2019. We welcome papers that are works in progress and would benefit from extensive discussion and feedback, and especially encourage graduate students to participate.
The Society aims to provide a regional forum for scholars of Islamicate adab, particularly of the medieval and early modern periods, to meet and share their work. We leave our parameters of language and genre intentionally open in order to invite as wide a collaboration as can be useful, but as a group we are generally interested in the literary production of the broad complex of premodern Muslim societies across the Eastern Hemisphere. This naturally includes the major Islamicate languages of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu, as well as many others (Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew, Spanish, etc.) that participate in similar literary conventions.
Those who wish to participate can apply by filling out our online application at tinyurl.com/GLAS2019 by June 21, 2019. Please note that each accepted participant will be given 45 minutes to present and discuss their work; because of this, we have limited space and may have to turn down some submissions if we get too many. In such an event, preference will generally be given to scholars in the Great Lakes region, per the mission of this organization. While all participants are asked to cover the costs of travel and lodging, we will provide breakfasts, lunches, and at least one dinner over the course of the workshop. In addition, we hope to be able to offer small grants ($250) to offset graduate student travel expenses.
If you have any questions, please feel free to write Cameron Cross at kchalipa [at] umich.edu. We look forward to hearing from you!
- March 23, 2019
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Post-doctoral researchers on the “European Qur’an”
The Université de Nantes, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Università di Napoli l’Orientale, the University of Kent and the University of Amersterdam are hiring post-doctoral researchers to join our project “The European Qur’an: Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion (1150-1850)” (EuQu).
For further details, see
The project also has a number of fully funded PhD positions in our ERC project on the European Qur’an (EuQu).
Particularly, they are looking for a candidate to write a thesis on The Qur’an and Anti-Trinitarianism, which assesses the significance of the Qur’an and of Islam for the radical Reformation and in anti-Trinitarian movements between the 16th and the 18th century. This PhD will be co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Martin Mulsow (Erfurt) and Dr Jan Loop, Senior Lecturer in History, Rutherford College, W2.W1, The University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NZ
More details can be found here:
https://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/search/FN05ERCHIS01
2. College of William and Mary – Visiting Assistant Professor in Middle
Eastern History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58343
3. International Conference on “Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions: Intellect, Experience and More” of the Aquinas and ’The Arabs’ International Working Group, Università di Pisa, 22-25 May 2019
See program at http://richardctaylor.info/aaiwg/2019-2/pisa/
4. International Conference of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) on “Women and Gender Studies in the Middle East”, Beirut, 6-10 March 2021
The conference will be held in partnership with the American University of Beirut and Lebanese American University. The call is open to topics on gender and women’s studies in the social sciences and humanities: politics, economics, history, sexualities, culture, arts, digital humanities etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 October 2019. Contact: Angie Abdelmonem (angie.abdelmonem@asu.edu)
5. Visiting Assistant Professor of the History of the Modern Middle East, Western Washington University
One-year Visiting Instructor/Assistant Professor of History beginning on 16 September 2019, through 15 June 2020. The position is open to historians of the Middle East. Qualifications: ABD in History or related field, by 15 September 2019.
Application review begins 15 April 2019; position is open until filled.
Information: http://employment.wwu.edu/cw/en-us/job/496597/visiting-assistant-professor-of-the-history-of-the-modern-middle-east
6. Prize for Best Article, Council for British Research in the Levant
The award recognises excellent research and scholarship that engages with current and emerging issues in the Levant that advances our understanding of the region. We are looking for original unpublished articles from scholars in different stages of their careers and from different disciplines: anthropology, sociology, politics, religion and theology, language and linguistics cultural studies, etc.
7. Nominations for Book Awards and other Awards of the Middle Studies Association (MESA) 2019
The MESA Awards annually recognizes outstanding contributions in scholarly achievement, mentoring of students and faculty, service to the profession, innovations in undergraduate education and teaching, and academic freedom.
Deadline of nominations: 1 April 2019. Information: https://mesana.org/awards
8. CfP: Workshop: Menstruation and Menopause in Islamic Legal Cultures
11-12 July 2019
Centre for the Study of Islam
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
University of Exeter
Workshop Topic:
Islamic legal literatures outline a series of ritual regulations to be observed by menstruating women and girls, as well as women and girls experiencing postpartum and intermenstrual bleeding. There are also a series of complex regulations concerning puberty and the beginning of menstruation, and also its end and the menopause. These regulations build on references to menstruation in Quran and hadith literature, elaborated primarily in the genres of Quranic exegesis (tafsir), hadith commentary (sharh al-hadith) and law (fiqh). There is also extensive anthropological and historical evidence of Muslim practice in relation to menstruation and the menopause. Menstruant and menopausal women are portrayed in different forms of writing outside of the specifically religious genres – including poetry, belle lettres, historical and biographical works. There is also material and documentary evidence of the practices associated with menstruation and menopause in Muslim societies and communities.
The workshop will bring together researchers examining different aspects of menstruation and menopause – from the ritual and religious to the social and cultural – from different methodological perspectives, and across different time periods. Contributions using a variety of theoretical insights from ritual, gender, sexuality, textual, anthropological and historical studies are particularly welcome. Presentations can cover premodern and modern formations of ritual practice around menstruation and menopause. The workshop will be a combination of formal papers (20 minutes presentation, 10 minutes of questions), and extended textual/source reading sessions (up to 1 hour). We envisage a workshop of 10-12 papers/text presentations and a total of around 15 attendees, though this will depend on selected abstracts.
To Contribute:
Presentation proposals are invited from scholars at all career stages, though early career scholars (near completion, or recently completed, doctoral students) are particularly encouraged to submit presentation proposals. Proposals should be in the form of a 200 word abstract in English. For paper proposals this abstract should outline your main argument and field of enquiry. For textual/source reading sessions, the abstract should introduce the text and explain how it contributes to our understanding of the topic. Our aim is to cover (economy) return fares, other travel expenses and (where necessary) visa costs for all participants from workshop funds. Please submit abstracts to csi@exeter.ac.uk before Monday 6th May 2019. Applicants are welcome, in their accompanying emails, to outline their educational background and research expertise. Selection will be made both on the basis of quality and coverage of research topics and presentation formats.
The workshop is co-convened by Dr Shuruq Naguib (Lancaster University) and Professor Robert Gleave (University of Exeter) and is supported by the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (Exeter). Further information can be obtained by emailing csi@exeter.ac.uk.
9. Mejlis Institute Summer School in Languages (Armenian, Persian, Turkish) and Connected Histories
Yerevan, Armenia
July 15 – August 15, 2019
Mejlis Institute is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the 2019 intensive summer program that will take place between July 15 and August 15, lasting four weeks. The program will consist of three parallel language courses – Armenian, Persian and Turkish – and a series of seminars devoted to topics in connected histories of Armenia, Iran and Anatolia from the medieval period onwards.
The program is primarily, though not exclusively, targeted at advanced undergraduate and graduate students wishing to study either Armenian, Persian or Turkish and interested in topics of intercultural connections. While applicants of different levels will be considered, preference will be given to those who have already achieved the intermediate or advanced levels. Apart from learning in the classroom, students will be able to practice their language skills in conversations with fellow participants from Armenia, Turkey and Iran.
MA and PhD students engaged in research and interested in working on particular sources will also be given an opportunity to receive additional guidance on individual basis.
Application deadline: May 1, 2019
Program fee 1400 USD, financial aid options available
For more information please visit https://mejlisinstitute.org/overview-1
10. The Bodleian Libraries are now accepting further applications for Bahari Visiting Fellowships in the Persian Arts of the Book to be taken up during the academic year 2019-20.
Fellows are hosted in the Visiting Scholars’ Centre at the Weston Library, where they join a lively research environment.
Details of the Fellowship terms and application process can be found on the Fellowships webpage: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships .
A list of current Visiting Fellows and Affiliated Scholars in academic year 2018-19 can be found at: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/current-and-past-fellows/2018-19-visiting-fellows
Applications for these Fellowships should be made by the deadline of 9.00am, Friday 26 April 2019
For further information, please email: fellowships@bodleian.ox.ac.uk .
11. Post-doc: Cultural and religious history of Muslims and Christians in the Iberian Peninsula and/or the Maghreb (9th to 16th centuries) (Barcelona)
For further information: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/389511
12. Brill Publications 2018 in Open Access:
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1.Yale University conference: “The Caspian Sea in the History of Early Modern and Modern Eurasia.”
This three-day workshop, held from March 29-31, 2019, will query the use of the Caspian as a geographic frame of historical research and seeks to bring together scholars of Russian, Iranian, Caucasian, and Central Asia history working on the 16th – 20th centuries.
The conference website may be found here: https://campuspress.yale.edu/caspian/schedule/
2. Conference on “Claiming and Making Muslim World: Across and Between the Local and the Global,” Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, 3-5 April 2019
Panellists at the conference present their perspectives on the study of predominantly Muslim societies of Asia and Africa, as well as regional interconnections. Scholars specifically address the notion of Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds, exploring religious affiliations and practices, extending to social, economic and cultural modalities of life.
See program at: http://www.zmo.de/veranstaltungen/2019/Conferences/ConferenceProgramme_ClaimingAndMakingMuslimWorlds_Final.pdf
3. Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University
This twelve-months position will focus on the culture, history, politics, economics or religion of Iran and the Persian Gulf region in the 19th – 21st century, with preference for the cultural aspects of the above, starting in September 2019.
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2019.
Information:https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=10521
4. Articles on “Arab Women’s Travel Writings, or Travel Writings by Arab Women” for Special Issue of a Journal
Interested scholars are invited to send proposals for original scholarly papers, not previously published, about travel writings by Arab women as well as papers about travel, or the theme of travel, in Arab Women’s writings.
Contact: Dr. Nawar Al-Hassan Golley, Prof. in Literary Theory and Gender and Women’s Studies, American University of Sharjah (nhgolley@aus.edu)
5. Arabic Language and Culture Program (SINARC) at the Lebanese American University in Beirut
a) Intensive Summer Arabic Program June 6 to July 19, 2019
The Arabic Language and Culture Program (SINARC) at the Lebanese American University’s Beirut Campus invites applicants for its six-and-a-half-week program of intensive Arabic language instruction at all levels: Elementary, Upper Elementary, Intermediate, Upper Intermediate and Advanced. Each level provides a total of 20 hours per week of intensive classroom instruction. This includes fifteen hours of Modern Standard Arabic plus five hours of Levantine Dialect per week.
The six-and-a-half-week Intensive Summer Program provides the opportunity for students to be immersed in Arabic language and culture and to travel and learn about historic and cultural sites around Lebanon. Students can also join LAU volunteers working with dozens of NGO’s engaged in relief work across the country
Students who register for and successfully complete any of the intensive courses receive eight hours of university credit. On the basis of student performance, LAU provides letter grades, which can be transferred to the students’ home institutions for credit evaluation.
How to apply: http://sinarc.lau.edu.lb/apply/application-summer.php
Application deadline: May 10, 2019
Deposit deadline: May 29, 2019
For further information: sinarc@lau.edu.lb
b) Fall and/or Spring semesters’ Intensive Arabic Language and Culture Program
SINARC runs full fall and/or spring semester intensive programs in Arabic language and culture. Each semester program runs for fifteen weeks, following the LAU calendar, and offers language instruction at all levels, elementary through advanced in Modern Standard Arabic and Levantine Dialect. Upon successful completion of the program students earns fifteen credits that are transferable to their home institution. The program’s per week offerings include six contact hours of Modern Standard Arabic, three contact hours of writing skills, three contact hours of Levantine Dialect, and three contact hours of one of several culture-based courses on the Middle East that are offered at LAU. These courses may cover areas such as gender, political studies, sociology, history, literature, art, architecture, music and theater.
Formal instruction in language is enhanced by the engagement with language partners and is enriched through immersion in an authentic cultural context. Cultural activities are abundant on campus during the fall and spring semesters, and SINARC students are encouraged to attend and participate in all of them. SINARC also organizes a series of excursions to historical and cultural sites in Lebanon.
For more information and to apply, visit the SINARC website: http://sinarc.lau.edu.lb/
6. CALL FOR PAPERS
Afkar: The Undergraduate Journal of Middle East Studies
Volume 1, Issue 1
The editorial board at Afkar is excited to announce the Call for Papers for the Inaugural Issue of Afkar: The Undergraduate Journal of Middle East Studies . The deadline for submission is May 15, 2019.
Afkar is an international, peer-reviewed, and student-run academic journal focusing on the study of politics, history, culture and society in the Middle East and North Africa. The journal offers undergraduate students an interdisciplinary platform to publish their academic work, and welcomes manuscripts from wide range of fields within the humanities and social sciences, including history, political science, anthropology, sociology, literature, art history, religious studies and geography. Every issue contains novel scholarly work in the form of academic research articles and short essays. The journal also features a book review section with critical discussions of new publications by scholars in Middle East studies.
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For our inaugural issue, we are looking for submissions according to the following categories:
- Research papers: Research papers should be based on original research with a careful analysis of relevant primary-source material. They should be between 4,000-8,000 words and not exceed 30 double-spaced pages.
- Short essays : Short essays should provide a discussion of contemporary or historical issues in/of the region. They do not need to include an analysis of primary-source materials, but should be based upon original ideas and arguments. They should be between 1,500-3,000 words.
- Book reviews: Book reviews should provide close and critical readings of new publications by scholars in Middle East studies. They should evaluate the strength and weaknesses of the author’s argument, and situate the work within the larger literature of the subject in question. They should be between 700-1,500 words.
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All manuscripts should be sent to afkarjournal.submissions@gmail.com by May 15, 2019. Please make sure that the manuscript conforms to our stylistic guidelines, to be found at https://afkarjournal.com/submission-guidelines/ .
For enquiries please email afkarjournal.info@gmail.com .
Afkar relies on a broad definition of “the Middle East and North Africa” that includes Iran, Turkey, the Caucasus, Sudan and Mauritania. It also accepts submissions related to Muslim South and Central Asia, as well as the diasporic communities of these different regions.
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1.Call for Papers:
Muslims in the UK and Europe
Postgraduate Symposium 6-7 June 2019
Organised by the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge Centre of Islamic Studies invites applications from current Masters and PhD candidates to present their research on issues pertaining to Muslims in the UK and Europe, from any discipline. The postgraduate symposium, taking place from 6-7 June 2019, will be a platform for students to present and exchange current research on any topic in this field in a dynamic forum. While historical or theoretical context is valuable, we also invite papers to present, analyse or interpret research findings, data or material.
The symposium will take place at The Moller Centre, Cambridge. Accommodation will be covered by the Centre of Islamic Studies and bursaries will be available for travel within the UK.
To apply please submit a 500-word abstract, with curriculum vitae outlining current research interests, to cis@cis.cam.ac.uk by 22 March 2019.
Successful candidates will be notified by 29 March 2019 and invited to submit draft papers of no more than 3000 words by 26 May 2019.
Click http://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/activities/conferences/annual-graduate-symposia/ to read about the Annual Muslims in the UK and Europe Postgraduate Symposium.
For more information on the Centre of Islamic Studies see:
2. Persian and Iranian Studies in memory of Heshmat Moayyad (1927-2018)
A two-day Conference on 8th and 9th March 2019 at the University of Chicago which brings together 16 of Prof. Moayyad’s former students or colleagues whose work intersected in various ways with his own.
Professor Moayyad was one of the early founders of Iranian Studies in
North America; he established the teaching of Persian literature at the University of Chicago, inaugurated and directed for decades our weekly Persian Circle (anjoman-e soxan) and sponsored a literary “mahfel” in Persian for the Iranian community — a series of Poetry and Short Story evenings (shab-e she`r) at the University of Chicago.
This conference recognizes, celebrates and evaluates his legacy; remembers his gentleness and humor, and focuses attention on many of the scholarly topics with which he passionately engaged.
The program details can be found here:
https://cmes.uchicago.edu/page/persian-and-iranian-studies-honor-professor-heshmat-moayyad
3. Vacancy: Research Associate at the Orient-Institut Istanbul – Standing Working Group Iran and Beyond: Breaking the Ground for Sustainable Scholarly Collaboration (IRSSC)
The Orient-Institut Istanbul is currently seeking a doctoral or postdoctoral researcher to work on a project in the framework of the
Standing Working Group Iran and Beyond: Performance of Culture, Religion and Body as Strategies of Self-Empowerment in the Islamic Republic Iran
for the following position, available immediately (April, 1 2019):
Research Associate (90%), 37 hrs / week for 36 months (salary based on the salary scale of German institutions in Turkey for locally hired personnel; currently about 6,375 TL net per month)
About the project
The Standing Working Group IRSSC, funded by a grant of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, seeks to explore possibilities and limits of cooperation of German and Turkish scholars with Iranian colleagues and academic institutions by employing innovative research topics in an interdisciplinary framework. Cultural, social and religious connections in the transregional continuum stretching from Anatolia to Iran and beyond to Pakistan are in the focus of attention. Creative appropriation of practices and discourses under the conditions of an authoritarian state aiming at social and individual self-assertion happens in a relationship of tension and in reciprocity with hegemonically enforced norms and practices. These are for example related to Shiite Islam, e.g. concerning body habitus, religious ritual, gender roles as well as active and passive access to music. Conditions of modern-day mediality and the multiplication of social interaction caused by it help create a larger, internally more differentiated and hybrid repertoire of behavior in dealing with ruling institutions as well as with an international public, e.g. via social media. These questions will be investigated with methods of cultural and social studies in relation to the cultural areas of music, religion and (body-modifying) therapeutic and non-therapeutic medicine. One of the chief aims of the Standing Working Group is to set up an international research network integrating scholars from the region, especially from Iran, into international processes of scholarly communication and production.
Requirements
Applicants are expected to hold a master degree (PhD preferred), ideally in social sciences or humanities. Those interested in or working on issues of Sociology of Medicine, Medicine, Science and Technology Studies, Ethnomusicology or Cultural Anthropology/Cultural Studies (with a focus on religious topics) in Iran or Pakistan are especially encouraged to apply. Candidates have to be willing and able to conduct ethnographic fieldwork in Iran.
Candidates from Medicine, Science and Technology Studies or Sociology of Medicine, should have an interest in conducting a comparative analysis of the human genome project in Turkey and Iran, in particular its bio(geo)political factors and impacts on health policies.
Additionally, coordinating and organizing skills are beneficial. Academic Turkish and English skills are required, Persian is preferable. Workplace of the project will be at the Orient-Institut Istanbul, Beyoğlu.
The Orient-Institut Istanbul is an independent turcological and regional scholarly research Institute of the Max Weber Foundation. Much of our work is conducted in cooperation with universities and independent academic institutions, both in Turkey and abroad. The Institute also contributes to the scientific exchange between Germany and Turkey.
The Orient-Institut Istanbul is committed to raising the number of women in research. Female researchers are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants with disabilities are treated with preference given comparable qualification.
Application
Applications should be submitted as one single pdf document including a letter of motivation, the outline of a proposed project (one page), academic CV and certificates. Please include the contact information for two academic referees.
Application deadline: March 18, 2019
Please submit your complete application to:
Prof. Dr. Raoul Motika
Director of the
Orient-Institut Istanbul
Susam Sokak 16 D.8
34433 Cihangir-Istanbul
Turkey
For any question about the application, please contact:
PD Dr. Judith Haug at haug@oiist.org (Musicology)
PD Dr. Rober Langer at langer@oiist.org (Religious Studies)
Dr. Melike Şahinol at sahinol@oiist.org (Human, Medicine and Society)
4. PRIX MICHEL SEURAT
APPEL À CANDIDATURES 2019
Sociétés contemporaines du Proche-Orient
et du Maghreb
Le Prix Michel Seurat a été institué par le CNRS en juin 1988 pour « honorer la mémoire de ce chercheur du CNRS, spécialiste des questions islamiques, disparu dans des conditions tragiques.
Ce programme vise à aider financièrement chaque année un jeune chercheur, ressortissant d’un pays européen ou d’un pays du Proche-Orient ou du Maghreb, contribuant ainsi à promouvoir connaissance réciproque et compréhension entre la société française et le monde arabe ».
Depuis 2017, l’organisation du Prix a été déléguée au GIS « Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans », en partenariat avec l’IISMM-EHESS et Orient XXI.
D’un montant de 15 000 € en 2019, le Prix est ouvert aux titulaires d’un master 2 ou d’un diplôme équivalent, âgés de moins de 35 ans révolus et sans condition de nationalité, de toutes disciplines, travaillant sur les sociétés contemporaines du Proche-Orient et/ou du Maghreb.
Il a pour vocation d’aider un (ou une) jeune chercheur (ou chercheuse) à multiplier les enquêtes sur le terrain, dans le cadre de la préparation de sa thèse.
Les enquêtes doivent avoir lieu sur le terrain. La maîtrise de la langue du pays concerné est une condition impérative.
Date limite de dépôt des candidatures :
Lundi 15 avril 2019 (minuit, heure de Paris)
Constitution du dossier impérativement en langue française :
- un plan et un projet de recherche détaillés précisant de manière claire les enquêtes qui seront menées sur le terrain (10 pages maximum) ;
- un curriculum vitae ;
- une copie des diplômes obtenus, assortie le cas échéant de leur traduction en français ;
- une ou plusieurs attestations de personnalités scientifiques : attestations récentes et en rapport avec la candidature au Prix.
Adresser votre dossier uniquement par voie électronique impérativement aux deux adresses suivantes :
Règlement du 30 janvier 2018 à consulter, en annexe.
Conformément au Règlement européen général sur la protection des données (RGPD/GRPD) qui est entré en vigueur le 25 mai 2018, nous vous confirmons que vos données personnelles ne seront en aucun cas délivrées à des tiers et que la gestion se fait uniquement en interne.
Nous vous rappelons qu’il vous est possible de vous désabonner en nous envoyant un simple courriel à cyrielle.michineau@ehess.fr
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Cyrielle Michineau
Secrétaire générale du GIS Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans
email : cyrielle.michineau@ehess.fr
contact.gis@ehess.fr / direction.gis@ehess.fr
http://majlis-remomm.fr/
English version : http://majlis-remomm.fr/en/
https://www.facebook.com/GISMoyenOrient
5. La direction de Mondes iranien et indien a le plaisir de vous inviter à la XXIème Journée Monde iranien. En espérant vous y retrouver nombreux …
XXIème Journée Monde Iranien
22 mars 2019
Auditorium du Pôle Langues et Civilisations
Inalco, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013, Paris
Organisation
Oliver BAST (Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 / Mondes iranien et indien)
For full information, see:
6. Loyola University – Maryland – Visiting Assistant Professor/Lecturer
in Middle Eastern/North African History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58322
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1.Silsile-nâme-î Varşova
Genealogy of Warsaw (1692)
Illustrated Genealogy of Prophets and Rulers
The Transcription of the Ottoman Illustrated World History, Its Translation into Modern Turkish and Facsimile of Manuscript nr. BOZ 183 in Polish National Library
edited by MEHMET TÜTÜNCÜ- ÖMER ERDEM – SEVDE NUR GÜLDİKEN
This manuscript written in Ottoman Turkish preserved at the National Library in Warsaw, Poland, the Biblioteka Ordynacji Zamojskiej1 (Zamoyski Family Library) in Warsaw (Rps. BOZ 183), is an important addition to our knowledge about Ottoman Illustrated World Histories. It consists of thirty-five folios, each measuring 24 x 35,5 cm.
There is a note at the beginning about the former owners of the manuscript. As stated in this note, the manuscript was completed during the reign of Sultan Suleiman II (r. 1098-1102/1687-1691).Hence, by the time of the reigns of Sultan Ahmed II or Sultan Mustafa II, the manuscript must have already left Ottoman lands and have been brought to Europe where it was acquired by the eminent English mathematician, astronomer, and theologian Sir Isaac Newton.3 Newton’s interest in Islam and his endeavor to discover the date of the creation of the world by calculating the life span of the prophets is well known. This manuscript details the life span of every prophet. Evidently this was an important work for Newton. After his death the manuscript was removed from his inheritance. Later it was bought by the collectors
This work comprises names and biographies of more than 650 illustrious persons and their genealogical connections with each other from the time of Adam to 1700 CE. What makes it important is that 205 of them are illustrated with portraits. The illustrations are presented chronologically and are, to a certain extent, interrelated. It thus presents an ideal source to learn about the affinities and the genealogy of the reigning dynasties and prophets. Because of all the afore-mentioned qualities, we named this work, which does not bear any title, the Genealogy of Warsaw (Silsile-nâme-î Varşova).
In the portrait section of the work, the names of the people portrayed are sometimes written below the Arabic inscription in pencil in French and in English. These are additions to notices written in different hands of the respective owners of the manuscript (Newton, Barnard, Jaubert etc.). In the Genealogy, some lineages can be followed carefully along lines. These are the Israelites, the Turks, the Prophet Mohammed followed by the Caliphs
ISBN 978-90-6921-01 5-5
Haarlem, SOTA 2019, 184 pages
Price € 120 excl. Shipping costs
For ordering : sotapublishing@gmail.com
Sample pages and more information
https://www.academia.edu/38440983/Silsilenamei_Varsova_ISBN_9789069210155.pdf
2. LECTURER IN TURKISH, CENTER FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES, BROWN UNIVERSITY
The Center for Language Studies (CLS) at Brown University seeks a dynamic
language professional for a full-time position as Visiting Lecturer in Turkish
beginning July 1st, 2019. This is a one-year renewable appointment contingent
upon a successful review, the continued needs of the department, and
availability of funding. The teaching load is 6 courses per academic year (2
semesters).
Requirements are: 1. Master’s degree or equivalent in Turkish language,
literature, linguistics, or language pedagogy; 2. Fluency in another Turkic
language is desirable; 3. Proficiency in spoken and written English; 4.
Ability to teach a first-year undergraduate seminar on a topic pertaining to
contemporary Turkey, tied to the candidate’s discipline and research, is
especially welcome; 5. Familiarity with and commitment to innovative methods
of language instruction.
Please submit a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching
philosophy and a teaching portfolio, if portfolio is available, as well as
three reference letters by April 15, 2019. Any questions may be emailed to
Jane Sokolosky, CLS Director, at languages@brown.edu .
Diversity and inclusion are integral to Brown University’s academic code and
practice. As an educational institution and as an employer, Brown is
recognized for valuing AA/EEO, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with
Disabilities. The University actively encourages applications of women,
persons of color, and persons with disabilities. The search will remain open
until the position is filled.
Please access the job description and apply here:
https://apply.interfolio.com/60025
3. Workshop on “Alternative Archives in Muslim Asia”, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 5-6 July 2019
In hidden corners of now-minority Muslim communities, traces of old textual circulations remain. Many sources survive in non-traditional archives, where the apparatus for accessing them is often poorly developed. This workshop aims to build a network of scholarship and archival practice that accelerates the recovery of these texts, rebuilds their trans-national context, and brings their stories of neglected Islamic traditions to life.
Deadline for abstracts: 7 March 2019.
4. W1-Professor of Turkish Studies, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
The Institute is interested in candidates with a strong record in research and teaching related to early modern and modern developments in the Ottoman Empire and/or Turkey. Knowledge of Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and Persian will be particularly welcome.
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2019.
Information: https://www.euraxess.de/de/node/380075
5. Research Fellowship: Society and Culture, Bussol
Applicants should hold a PhD and have 5 to 7 years of research and/or academic experience with a focus on the social and cultural field of the Middle East with a particular focus on the Gulf states. Excellent language skills in English are essential while a working knowledge of Arabic and French is desirable.
Information: https://www.bussolainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Research-Fellow-Society-and-Culture-003.pdf
6. Postdoc Research Associate, Orient-Institut Istanbul
Applicants interested in issues of Sociology of Medicine, Medicine, Science and Technology Studies, Ethnomusicology or Cultural Anthropology/Cultural Studies (with a focus on religious topics) in Iran or Pakistan are especially encouraged to apply. Candidates have to be willing and able to conduct ethnographic fieldwork in Iran. Academic Turkish and English skills are required, Persian is preferable.
Deadline for applications: 18 March 2019. Contact for Religious Studies: PD Dr. Rober Langer (langer@oiist.org); for Human, Medicine and Society Dr. Melike Şahinol (sahinol@oiist.org)
7. Fellowships for Visiting Scholars, Orient-Institut, Beirut
The Orient-Institut Beirut awards 3-month fellowships to established scholars who have attained distinction in their fields and wish to make use of the facilities of the OIB to work on an article, research paper, or book free from other academic obligations.
Applications are accepted by 1 April and 1 October of each year but should be submitted at least six months prior to the proposed stay in Beirut.
Information: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/scholarships/hans-robert-roemer-fellowships/
8. ASPIRANTUM Armenian School of Languages and Cultures in Yerevan organizes International Persian Language Summer School in Yerevan, Armenia to take place from July 07 to August 17 (6 weeks) or July 07 to July 27 (3 weeks), 2019.
This 42 or 21 days summer school offers participants to master skills in written and oral modern Farsi, reading and interpreting Persian texts from different periods as well as rapidly deepening their knowledge in colloquial Persian.
During the summer school several cultural trips will be offered, which will transform your stay in Armenia into an unforgettable, academically oriented endeavour.
On the first day (July 07, Sunday) the program will be launched in Garni, built by king Tiridates I in the first century AD as a temple to the god Mithra/Mihr. In the evening the group will travel to Yerevan for an opening dinner.
Classes will start on July 8th and will include lectures, seminars and presentations. Two times a week classes of Persian language will be followed by a lecture on different topics of Iranian linguistics, literature and history.
This Persian Language Summer School is designed for students, at least 18 years-old, who not only want to make well-grounded progress in their knowledge of the Persian language, but also to deepen their knowledge of Iranian Studies and Iran.
The 6 weeks summer schools offers an intensive Persian language course spanning 120 hours, divided into 30 days of instruction and focusing on grammar, reading, speaking, and writing. Another 20 hours is devoted to lectures on Iranian linguistics, literature and history.
The 3 weeks summer schools offers an intensive Persian language course spanning 60 hours, divided into 15 days of instruction and focusing on grammar, reading, speaking, and writing. Another 5 hours is devoted to lectures on Iranian linguistics, literature and history.
Upon request the summer school duration may be changed to 4, 8 or 10 weeks.
Scholarships
There are several scholarships available to participate in ASPIRANTUM’s Persian language summer school (https://aspirantum.com/scholarships).
Soudavar Memorial Foundation offers one full scholarship in the amount of $3590 for the 6 weeks summer school. To be eligible for this scholarship applicants must be students or researchers engaged in academic activities related to Iranian Studies as a whole. Nationals of any country can apply for this scholarship. If you want to be considered for this scholarship please check the application details here: https://aspirantum.com/scholarships/soudavar-full-scholarship-for-farsi-persian-language-summer-school.
Up to $300 five scholarships will be offered by International journal Iran and the Caucasus editorial to participants, whose research interests are in the fields of Iranian linguistics. Details: https://aspirantum.com/scholarships/iran-and-the-caucasus-scholarships-for-persian-language-courses
Up to $300 five scholarships will be offered by ARMACAD to participants whose research interests are in the fields of modern economic and political relations of Iran and Armenia (or other countries in the Caucasus region). Details: https://aspirantum.com/scholarships/scholarships-for-persian-language-courses-from-armacad
Students from the United States may apply to Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Program (FLAS) through their own University. Details: https://aspirantum.com/scholarships/foreign-language-and-area-studies-flas-fellowships-program-for-us-students
ASPIRANTUM will provide applicants with an official letter of invitation to support scholarship and travel grant applications.
For questions and inquiries please contact persian@aspirantum.com or whatsapp
Dr. Khachik Gevorgyan +374-91-557978
9. The Board of Directors of Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is pleased to request submissions for its biennial prize for best book on the medieval Middle East (ca. 500-1500 CE).
In an effort to recognize excellent research in the field, a shortlist will be announced in October and the prize will be awarded at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association in New Orleans, Louisiana, in November 2019.
Books published between July 1, 2017 and March 30, 2019 will be eligible for this year’s prize. Authors must be current members in good standing of Middle East Medievalists to be considered. To join MEM or renew your membership, please visit our MEMbership page.
Deadline for submissions is April 1, 2019. Publishers are asked to supply the committee chair with one hard copy of each submission as well as an electronic copy that can be accessed by all members of the committee.
For submission details, please contact the committee chair:
Dr. Zayde Antrim
Department of History
Trinity College
300 Summit St.
Hartford, CT 06106
10. Full-time cataloger position at the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library. The position will be devoted to cataloging the extensive collection of Islamic manuscripts (over 60,000) which have been digitized in Mali. The position is open until filled.
Information for the position can also be viewed online at https://apps.csbsju.edu/employment/default.aspx?page=jobs.
Questions can be directed to David Calabro, at Dcalabro001@csbsju.edu.
David M. Calabro, Ph.D.
Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Saint John’s University
Collegeville, MN 56321-7300, USA
(301) 325-0771 (cell)
11. Discovery of a fragment of a hitherto-undocumented Irish translation (from Gerard of Cremona’s Latin, of Ibn Sina’s (Avicenna’s) Canon.
- March 05, 2019
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1.Program and Registration info for School of Mamlūk Studies Conference, Tokyo, 15-17 June 2019
The Sixth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies will be held at Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) June 15-17, 2019.
The conference will be conducted in two parts and will be preceded by a three-day intensive course on Mamluk Archival Materials from June 12-14, 2019, taught by Professor Emad Abu Ghazi, Cairo University.
For information, see: http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms-conference.html
Those who wish to attend the conference must register via the following website:
https://goo.gl/forms/n0AiqSihzYNkTun03
The deadline for registration is April 30, 2019.
2. Arabic Collections Online المجموعات العربية على الانترنت
http://dlib.nyu.edu/aco/
UPDATE 2/25/19 : More than 10,000 books now available on Arabic Collections Online,
[Columbia 3411, American University of Beirut 2339, Princeton University Libraries 1354, NYU 1834, The American University in Cairo 361, Cornell 742]
3. “Neoplatonism & Aristotelianism in Early Arabic Philosophy” is the topic of the Twelfth Annual Summer International Live Video Workshop to be held 18-21 June 2019 at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Organized by Prof. Sarah Pessin of the University of Denver and Prof. Richard Taylor at Marquette University, this workshop has a unique structure that (i) provides the opportunity for engaging with three major scholars expert in the main topic and (ii) provides opportunity for contributed papers by other scholars and graduate students to share their own work on philosophy in the Abrahamic traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam with formal presentations of 30 min. followed by 15 min. of discussion. Up to 16 contributed papers may be selected.
The three keynote presenters on “Neoplatonism & Aristotelianism in Early Arabic Philosophy” are Dr Michael Chase (CNRS, Paris), Sarah Pessin (University of Denver) and Richard Taylor (Marquette University). They will prepare video presentations in advance and attendees at the conference will review and discuss the presentations in preparation for live video discussions with the keynote presenters.
For further information on the structure of the workshop and how to apply to attend or to present a contributed paper, see
https://academic.mu.edu/taylorr/The_Abrahamic_Traditions/2019_Summer_Conference_Milwaukee.html
Note, no travel, housing or meals funding is available for this event. Participants must cover their own costs.
RICHARD TAYLOR
4. St Cross College (Oxford) is hosting a workshop to celebrate the career of Professor Emilie Savage-Smith and her outstanding contribution to the history of science in Islam on 29 March 2019. Further details can be found in the programme below.
Best regards,
Yossef Rapoport (y.rapoport@qmul.ac.uk), Ignacio Sánchez, Simon Swain
Programme:
Participants
Silke Ackermann, Cristina Álvarez-Millán, Charles Burnett, Anna Caiozzo, Catherine Delano-Smith, Evelyn Edson, Nahyan Fancy, Lesley Forbes, Geert Jan van Gelder, Monica Green, Peregrine Horden, Jeremy Johns, Maja Kominko, Francesca Leoni, Daniel Nicolae, Peter Pormann, Venetia Porter, Yossef Rapoport, Ignacio Sánchez, Simon Swain, Selma Tibi, Uwe Vagelpohl, Kathy van Vliet
9:30-10:00 Reception and Greetings
Magic and Art
10:00-10:30 Francesca Leoni, “Rolled up Blessings: Printed Islamic Talismans”
10:30-11:00 Venetia Porter, “The use of magical symbolism in the work of Middle Eastern artists”
11:00-11:30 Anna Caiozzo, “From the Magician King to the Learned Sovereign, Occult Sciences and Princely Imagery in the Illustrated Copies of Firdawsi’s Shah-nameh”
Coffee break 11:30–12:00
Transmission of Medical Knowledge
12:00-12:30 Monica Green, “Medicine as a One-Way Street: The Transference of Islamic Medicine to Latin Europe”
12:30-13:00 Charles Burnett, “The Question of Genre in Greek, Arabic and Latin Medical Texts”
Lunch 13:00-14:30
Medical Commentaries
14:30-15:00 Daniel Nicolae, “Ibn Jumayʿ’s Commentary on the Canon of Medicine: How to Busy Oneself with the Art of Medicine”
15:00-15:30 Peter E. Pormann, “Ibn al-Nafīs’ Earlier Commentary on the Aphorisms (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Pococke 294)”
15:30-16:00 Nahyan Fancy, “The Educational Landscape of Post-Classical Physicians: What can be Gleaned from Arabic Commentaries on the Canon of Medicine and Epitome?”
Coffee break 16:00-16:30
Collaborative Scholarship
16:30-17:00 Evelyn Edson, “Collaboration, Collusion, Cooperation: Working with Emilie Savage-Smith”
17:00–17:30 Closing remarks: Yossef Rapoport, Ignacio Sánchez, Simon Swain
5. For nearly 60 years, the American Institute of Indian Studies has provided funding to pre- and post-doctoral scholars and artists in pursuit of knowledge about India. The 2019 AIIS Fellowship competition is now open.
- Junior Fellowships are for graduate students conducting research for their doctoral dissertations in India.
- Senior Long- and Short-term Fellowships are for those holding the PhD degree.
- Performing and Creative Arts Fellowships are available to accomplished practitioners of the arts to conduct their projects in India.
https://www.indiastudies.org/research-fellowship-programs/
6. Postdoc position (24 months) for the project: “Avicenna East & West I: Commentaries on the Qaṣīdat al-nafs” (FRS-FNRS; UCLouvain, Belgium)
Project Description
The aim of this project on the commentaries on the Qasidat al-nafs attributed to Avicenna is twofold: (1) to provide a better understanding of how Avicenna’s theory on the soul was received, interpreted and transformed in this tradition of commentaries; and (2) to document the attitude towards Avicenna’s legacy, and falsafa in general, in Islamic society
Sub-projects:
(1) Edition and analysis of the commentaries by Baḥrānī (d. 672/1274); ‘Afīf al-Dīn Tilimsanī (d. 690/1291); Qayṣarī (d. 751/1350)
(2) Comparative analysis of the commentaries by Dāʼūd al-Anṭākī (d. 1599) and ʻAbd al-Raʼūf al-Munāwī (d. 1621)
(3) General analysis of the commentary tradition on the Qaṣīdat al-nafs
The position is available as soon as possible (July 1, 2019 at the latest), for a period of 12 months, renewable once (= 2 years total). Candidates interested to apply for a shorter period or to start later than July 1, 2019, are invited to mention it in their cover letter. Candidates who are about to complete their PhD can apply but the PhD must be in hand at the start of the employment.
Working location: Institut supérieur de philosophie, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
Please send your application (letter of motivation, CV, names and contact info of 2 academic referees, and a sample of your writing) to info-fite@uclouvain.be
For enquiries, contact C. Bonmariage (cecile.bonmariage@uclouvain.be )
Extended deadline: Review of the applications will start on March 5, 2019 and will continue until the position is filled.
See: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380372
7. Position Announcement: Non-Tenure Track Professorial Lecturer
The School of International Service (SIS) at American University
Mustafa Barzani School for Global Kurdish Studies
The School of International Service (SIS) at American University (AU)
invites applications for a full-time, non -tenure track faculty appointment for Fall 2019. Rank is dependent on experience and stature in the field.
This appointment is a 9 -month term position with successive renewable
re-appointment for additional one -year term and will commence on Monday, August 26, 2019 and run through May 31, 2020.
We are seeking candidates at all career stages who have a PhD or its equivalent, and who specialize in one or more of the following thematic areas:
- Kurdish history, culture, politics, and international relations;
- Peaceful coexistence between the global Kurdish community and other states and peoples; and
- Cooperation and conflict resolution within the global Kurdish community.
The successful candidate will assume duties as early as July 1, 2019 but no later than August 26, 2019. We will give first consideration to applications received by April 1, 2019, but will consider applications until the position is filled. Candidates should submit the following materials on Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/60489:
A comprehensive Curriculum Vitae, a personal statement outlining relevant scholarship or experience, a plan for research while holding the fellowship, and teaching experience. Candidates will be asked to submit the names and contact information for three professional references who will receive from Interfolio a request for a confidential letter of recommendation. If applicable, we encourage applicants to submit any sample teaching materials and student evaluations from courses the applicant has taught in the past.
Compensation and benefits are competitive. Queries about the search may be sent to sisfacultyaffairs@american.edu . Queries about the online application system may be sent to help@interfolio.com .
- March 02, 2019
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks to fill the position of Middle East & Islamic Studies Librarian. For details see https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/15606 .
2. Workshop on “Women and Gender in the Premodern Mediterranean” during the 18th Berkshire Conference on the “History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities”, 21-23 May 2020, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
The workshop aims to facilitate a comparative discussion on women from different social, religious, and geographical contexts of the Mediterranean world. Scholars whose work focuses on Christian, Jewish, or Muslim women, across social hierarchies, and geographical locations are most welcome.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 March 2019.
Information: https://berksconference.org/big-berks/2020-berkshire-conference/call-for-papers/. Contact: alexandra.guerson@utoronto.ca
3. Research Scholar in the History of the Premodern Arabic World, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Junior and senior scholars with excellent knowledge of classical Arabic, and with suitable experience in the history of science, history of philosophy, history of medicine, or other relevant fields are invited to apply. Candidates should hold a doctorate in one of the above-mentioned fields and have at least two years of postdoctoral experience at the time the position begins (PhD awarded in 2017 or earlier).
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2019.
Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58265
4. PhD Scholarship in Religious Studies, University of Copenhagen
The PhD candidate will employ qualitative research methods, such as semi-structured interviews and textual analysis. Project descriptions need to show awareness of the relevant research literature, provide a suitable theoretical framework, and convincingly show the methodological and practical feasibility of the imagined PhD project. Applicants need to hold a two-year master’s degree (120 ECTS) or the equivalent.
Deadline for applications: 4 March 2019.
Information: https://professorpositions.com/announcement,a3196.html
5. Six Early Stage Researcher Positions, University of Aberdeen
Applicants from across the social sciences and humanities, including anthropology, cultural and literary studies, education, history, legal theory and socio-legal studies, philosophy, politics, religious studies, sociology, and theology are welcomed. Themes include: ‘Radicalisation’, ‘Extremism’ and the Role of ‘Civil Society’; Conceptualizing Secularism, Post-Secularism and Religion Itself; The Politics of ‘Religious Pluralism’, etc.
Deadline for applications: 5 March 2019.
Information: https://cisrul.blog/funding/politico/the-politics-of-religious-pluralism/
6. Visiting Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
The Lectureship invites applicants trained in any relevant discipline (for example, Religious Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, History, Philosophy and Theology, Anthropology). Areas of specialization may include any field within Islamic studies, including ethics, modern and contemporary thought and practice, religion and politics, gender studies, scripture and interpretation.
Deadline for applications: The search committee will begin its review on 1 March 2019; the position will remain open until filled. Information: https://career.wellesley.edu/postings/2701
7. Full-time Faculty Position in Arabic Language and Culture, National Chengchi University, Taipei
Qualifications: Ph.D. in Arabic Linguistics; Arabic Culture; Computer Science; Information and Communication Technology in Learning; or relevant fields. Specialized writings and publications; research achievements and cross-disciplinary research given high priority. Competence in English-taught courses.
Deadline for applications: 28 February 2019. Information: arabic@nccu.edu.tw
8. International Politics Summer School (Focus Middle East and North Africa), St Antony’s College, Oxford, 4-17 August 2019
This year the focus will be on the international relations of the region, with special attention to recent changes in the structure and dynamics of inter-state politics. The course is designed for postgraduate students but will be accessible to upper-level undergraduates and professionals as well.
Applications will be reviewed on a first come, first served or rolling basis until 15 April 2019. Information: https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/international-politics-summer-school
9. Articles for “Handbook of Contemporary Islam” (Springer)
We are looking for authors who can contribute critical literature reviews on trans-national movements including: Taghlibi Jamaat, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizbut Tahrir, and others. Potential authors should be able to write about the movement transnational and just not in one or two countries.
Contact: Ronald Lukens Bull, PhD (rlukens@unf.edu)
10. NGOabroad: Volunteers for Aid Programs in the Middle East or North Africa
Volunteers are invited to participate in programs in Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Palestine and Morocco on helping in schools with Syrian refugees, in a micro-finance program, in psycho-social peace building and women’s or youth empowerment; agriculture; or education, etc. Seasoned professionals and students both needed.
Applications accepted on a rolling basis. Information: http://ngoabroad.com/MENA/
- February 23, 2019
- by Andrew Newman
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1.Instructor – (Non-Tenure Track) in Arabic
The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Studies at Temple University has a one-year non-renewable opening for an Arabic language instructor for the academic year 2019-2020.
Qualifications
The position requires native or near-native fluency in Modern Standard Arabic, a graduate degree in a field related to second or foreign language teaching, and at least two years of college-level experience teaching Arabic and an interest in and ability to teach a survey course on modern Arabic literature in translation.
Application Instructions
An application should include a vitae and cover letter discussing the applicant’s qualifications and approach to teaching, two confidential letters of reference on department letterhead from colleagues and/or supervisors familiar with the person’s teaching, and transcripts from all post-secondary institutions the applicant has attended.
Temple University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer.
Application Process
This institution is using Interfolio’s Faculty Search to conduct this search. Applicants to this position receive a free Dossier account and can send all application materials, including confidential letters of recommendation, free of charge.
Deadline: Apr 1, 2019
Apply via: https://apply.interfolio.com/60407
2. Call for papers and panel proposals for the Co-IRIS section at the 13th Pan-European Conference on International Relations.
Section 44: “The Unseen IR: Islam and the Study of the ‘International’“
Islam has played a major role in world affairs since its inception. Today, the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation represents the second largest inter-governmental organisation of sates after the UN. A number of Muslim majority countries like the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Turkey under the AKP, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Malaysia: all claim to follow an Islamic approach to their domestic and foreign policy. Islam as an intellectual force, has received little sustained attention in the fields of Political Science and International Relations specifically. This Section aims to address the nature and goals of international relations, foreign policy and diplomacy from multiple Islamic perspectives. Those perspectives challenge and contribute to international practices and they represent their respective perceptions of the ‘International. The section is an effort to include Islamic civilization and Muslim majority countries in the contemporary international platform and the analysis of the “unseen” in the study of International Relations. We welcome both individual papers as well as full panel submissions. Proposed panel themes include but are not limited to:
– The seen and unseen in Islamic International Relations Theory
– Islam and international relations
– Islam and Foreign Policy Analysis
– Islam and Diplomacy
– The visual in the international relations of Islamic countries
Please find the full call for contributions here, https://coiris.net/2018/12/20/the-unseen-ir-islam-and-the-study-of-the-international/. Deadline for submissions is 28 February 2019.
Abstracts are to be submitted electronically via the online submission system here, https://www.czech-in.org/cmportalV15/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FcmportalV15%2Fportal%2FPEC19%2Fnormal.
Please, read the Abstract Submission Guidelines prior to making your submission and visit the official EISA PEC 2019 website and the official Co-IRIS website for further updates. Do not hesitate to contact us or the conference organizers with any questions you may have.
Nassef Manabilang Adiong, PhD
https://nassef.info / +63.915.806.3184 / contact@nassef.info
International Relations & Islamic Studies Research Cohort (Co-IRIS)
The Philippine International Studies Organization (PHISO)
3. THE CULTURAL TURN IN ARABIC LITERARY PRODUCTION
Columbia University
April 19-21, 2019
Sponsored by:
Columbia University’s MESAAS Department, Middle East Institute, SoF/Heyman Center, EVPAS,
Division of Humanities/ Faculty of Arts and Sciences , EALAC Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Center for Chinese Literature and Culture (CCLS), and Arabic Studies Seminar
Dartmouth College
Brill Academic Publishers
Dr. Aziz Shaibani/Arab-American Educational Foundation
In Memory of Barbara Harlow (1948-2017)
Day 1: Friday, April 19 – Faculty House/Garden Room 2, 1st Floor
| 8:45 – 9:20am | Refreshment |
| 9:20 – 9:50am | Welcome and opening Remarks
Mushin J. al-Musawi, Columbia University |
| 9:50 – 11:45am | Panel 1: Mapping Arabic Literature as World Literature
Chairperson: Elizabeth M. Holt, Bard College § “Worlding Arabic: Cultural Criticism, Philology and Weltliteratur” Waïl S. Hassan, University of Illinois § “Is there a Canon in this Corpus? Or What ‘belongs’ in the Library of Arabic Literature?” Shawkat M. Toorawa, Yale University § “Comparativism and the Foundations of World Literature” Yaseen A. Noorani, University of Arizona § “Between the Twilight of Empire and the Dawn of Decolonization: Arabic Literature, World Literature, Comparative Literature” Shaden M. Tageldin, University of Minnesota |
| 11:45 – 11:55am | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 11:55 – 13:15pm | Panel 2: Arabic and Chinese Literary and Artistic Production in Cross-Cultural Encounter/Translation
Chairperson: Lydia Liu, Columbia University § “Mapping the Evolution of Nahdawi Literary Production about China” Peiyu Yang, McGill University § “Taha Husayn and The Days in China Across the 1949 Divide” Michael Gibbs, College of William & Mary § “Artistic Encounters between Baghdad and Beijing after the 1958 Iraq Revolution” Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, American University of Beirut |
| 13:15 – 2:30pm | Lunch Break at Faculty House |
| 2:30 – 4:15pm | Panel 3: Exile, Identity, and Engagement in Arabic Literature
Chairperson: Shaden M. Tageldin, University of Minnesota § “Impossible Exiles: Palestinians in Arab Culture” Ahmad Diab, UC Berkeley § “Twists, Turns and Trajectories of Palestinian Literary Production” Refqa Abu-Remaileh, Freie Universität § “Al-Ādāb and its Ilitizām,” Qussay Al-Attabi, Kenyon College § “The Future Can’t Breathe in a Refugee Camp: Reading Taḍāmun and Iltizām in Women’s Novels of War” Michelle Hartman, McGill University |
| 4:15 – 4:25pm | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 4:25 – 6:15pm | Panel 4: The Islamic and the Secular Turn in Arabic Literary Production
Chairperson: Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Georgetown University § “The Secularization of Islamic Symbols and Figures in the Poetry of ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī and Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb Ruwa Alhayek, Columbia University § “The Cultural Translatability of Taqwā in the Early Sources” Erin Atwell, University of Chicago § “Exploring the Conceptual Relation Between al- Ījāz (Brachylogy) and Balāghah (Eloquence)” Hany Rashwan, Birmingham University § “Pre-Modern Arabic Literary Anthologies and the Social Imaginary: The Construction of Social, Cultural, and Political Paradigms,” Nuha Alshaar, American University of Sharjah |
| 6:15 – 7:00pm | Keynote Address: Nadia al-Bagdadi, Central European University |
| 7:00 – 9:00pm | Dinner – Faculty House |
Day 2: Saturday, April 20 – Knox Hall Room 509
| 9:30 – 11:15am | Panel 5: The Comparative/Transnational Poetics and Politics of Literature I
Chairperson: Wail S. Hassan, University of Illinois § “The Perception of Chekhov in the Arabic World and His Impact on Its Modern Literary Tradition” Maria Swanson, United States Naval Academy § “Magical Realism and the Specters of Postcolonial Present: Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World and Hoda Barakat’s The Kingdom of this Earth” Philip Raad, American University of Beirut § “From Istanbul to Baghdad: Engagements with Arabic Literature in the Ottoman World, 1500-1700” Murat Umut Inan, Social Sciences University of Ankara § “Arabic Poetry in the 21st Century: A Poetics of Translation and Exophony” Huda Fakhreddine, University of Pennsylvania |
| 11:15 – 11:25am | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 11:25 – 13:20pm | Panel 6 Managing/Publishing Arabic Literature (in Arabic)
Chairperson: Anna Ziajka-Stanton, Penn State University § Belal Fadl, Al-Masry al-Youm § Abdo Wazen, Al-Hayat and Independentarabia § Yassin Adnan, Macharif § Nouri al-Jarrah, Al-Markaz al-Arabi lil-Adab al-Jughraphi § Samuel Shimon, Banipal § Mbarek Sryfi, University of Pennsylvania |
| 13:20 – 2:30pm | Lunch Break |
| 2:30 – 4:20pm | Panel 7: The Multi-thematic Configuration of Classical Poetry and Poetics
Chairperson: Shawkat M. Toorawa, Yale University § “The Achievement of Classical Arabic Allegorical Form: The ‘Ayniyyah of Abū Dhu’ayb al-Hudhalī” Jaroslav Stetkevych, University of Chicago § “Harb al-Basus as Mythic Matrix in Arabic Culture: Towards A Theory of Cultural (re)Production” Clarissa Burt, United States Naval Academy § “Labīd and Lubad: Lexical Excavation and the Reclamation of Myth in al- Ma’arrī’s Luzūmiyyāt” Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Georgetown University § “Mourning over Algerian Palatial Ruins: Ibn Ḥammād al-Ṣanhājī (d. 1230) on Qalʿat Banī Ḥammād” Nizar F. Hermes, University of Virginia |
| 4:20 – 4:30pm | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 4:30 – 6:5pm | Panel 8: The Comparative/Transnational Poetics and Politics of Arabic Literature II
Chairperson: Yaseen Noorani, University of Arizona § “The Maqāmah Turn in West African Literary Tradition” Sulaiman Adewale Alagunfon, Freie Universität § “Between Cultural Appropriation and Literary Crossing: The Arabic Literature of ‘Europeans’ in Protectorate Tunisia” Benjamin Koerber, Rutgers University § “Towards an Arab Transnational Poetics of the New World” Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Purdue University. § “Words across genres and histories: Zaynab Fawwaz’s feminist locutions” Marilyn Booth, University of Oxford |
| 6:5 – 6:15pm | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 6:15 – 7:45pm | Panel 9: On Writing: Experience, Process, Perception (in Arabic)
Chairperson: Tarek El-Ariss, Dartmouth College § “War and Displacement” Hoda Barakat, Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College § “Khitab al-Takfir” Chokri Mabkhout, University of Manouba, Tunis § “Writing the Political” Ezzedine C. Fishere, Dartmouth College § “Literature and Perception” Aziz Shaibani, Baylor College of Medicine/Arab-American Educational Foundation |
Day 3: Sunday, April 21 – Knox Hall Room 509
| 9:30 – 11:30am | Panel 10: Revisiting the Modern(ist) and the Post-Colonial in Arabic Literature
Chairperson: Joelle Abi Rachid, SoF-Heyman Center, Columbia Univ. § “Passionate Confessions: Sex, Sin, and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century Aleppo” Peter Hill, Oxford University § “Medicine in Literature” Mònica Rius Piniés, University of Barcelona § “Invisible Hands: Crime, Fiction, and the Arabic Typewriter, 1890-1920” Hannah Scott Deuchar, New York University · “Housewife Novels, Everyday Life, and the Postcolonial State in Egypt” Shir Alon, University of Oklahoma § “All that Remains: Ruins as Sites of Becoming” Alexa Firat, Temple University |
| 11:30 – 11:40am | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 11:40 – 1:40pm | Panel 11: The Contemporary and Techno-Digital Turn in Arabic Literary Production Chairperson: Michelle Hartman, McGill University § “Zakariyya Tamir and Khalid Khalifa: Political Dissent as Affiliation and Marginality in Syria after 2011” § “Transmission and Transit in Contemporary Arabic Literature: Naql and Its Limits” § “Glossing the Glossary: Digital Approaches to Paratexts and Power in Arabic Literature” § “Cultural Disbelief & New Narratives: Contemporary Arabic Fiction (Re)Writing the Old Tale” § “In medio stat virtus’: On Hybridity, or the Rebellion Against Labels: Reconsidering Some Aspects of Modern and Contemporary Arabic Literature” |
| 1:40 – 2:25pm | Keynote Address: Mahdi Arar, Birzeit University (in Arabic) |
| 2:25pm | Closing Remarks
Muhsin J. al-Musawi, Columbia University
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Organizers: Muhsin al-Musawi (Columbia University), Elizabeth Holt (Bard College), Tarek El-Ariss (Dartmouth College), Nizar F. Hermes (University of Virginia), and Anna Ziajka-Stanton (Penn State University)
4. PhD Conference on “Sacred Locations – Spaces and Bodies in Religion”, Central European University & University of Szeged, 13-15 June 2019
The conference invites contributions on the conceptualization, interpretation, management or instrumentalization of religion with regard to space, geographical or personal. Applications from PhD students and advanced Master’s students from all fields of humanities and social sciences are welcomed.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2019.
Information: https://religion.ceu.edu/crs-szeged-phd-conference-13-15-june-2019
5. NEW Deadline:
26th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), combined with the Section of Islamic Studies of the DMG: “History, Politics and Culture in Middle East and North Africa”, University of Hamburg, 3-5 October 2019
The organizers of the Congress call upon scholars of all relevant disciplines, who are engaged in research on the contemporary Middle East and its relations to other regions. The conference’s understanding of the Middle East comprises all countries of the Middle East, North Africa and the entire Islamic World.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2019.
Contact for submissions: Amke Dietert (amke.dietert@ googlemail.com). Information: https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/en/voror/veranstaltungen/2019-davokongress.html
6. Assistant or Associate Professor at the Department of History, American University in Cairo
This is a five-year position, beginning fall 2019. All specializations and areas of study are welcome. The successful candidate must have a PhD in hand by the start of the appointment. The department is eager to review the applications of individuals with a strong research program, and demonstrated commitment to teaching.
Deadline for application: 15 March 2019.
Information: https://aucegypt.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=105709
7. Post-doctoral Fellowship on the History of Gender Studies, Tel Aviv University
Preference will be given to candidates whose research focuses on the history of gender studies. Candidates must have received their PhD from an accredited institution of higher learning, no earlier than 1 October 2014 and no later than 1 October 2019.
Deadline for applications: 28 February 2019.
Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58163
8. Workshops on “Women and Politics: MENA Experiences”, June 2019 in Abu Dhabi, October 2019 in Rabat
Call for Applications for early-career scholars who would like to participate in workshops on the following themes: women’s representation in legislatures, local government, the executive, and the judiciary as related to factors such as such gender quotas, decentralization, and institutional change. The organizers will cover participation costs for up to 20 qualified applicants.
Deadline for applications: 15 March 2019.
Information: http://web.apsanet.org/mena/2019-workshops/
9. Articles on “Muslims under Suspicion – Interdisciplinary Insights into Policies of Preventing so-called Islamist Extremism in Europe” for Special Issue of “Islamophobia Studies Yearbook”
The wide range of preventive measures against so-called Islamist extremism can be understood as an ensemble of different practices including inter-religious dialogue and education as well as surveillance of suspected groups and the persecution of persons deemed to be dangerous. How far contribute such preventive measures to the manifestation of inequalities in fields such as education, law, labour, security etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2019.
Contact: Sindyan Qasem (sindyan.qasem@posteo.de)
10. NEW deadline
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.
Deadline for applications extended: 15 April 2019.
Information: https://www.diyar.nomos.de/en/
Contact: Tabea Becker-Bertau (diyar@ergon-verlag.de)
11. 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
For all deadlines and additional information:
https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/en/voror/veranstaltungen/2019-davokongress.html
12. Mathal: Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Multidisciplinary Studies (IMEMS) http://ir.uiowa.edu/mathal
ISSN: 2168-538X
Mathal is a journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Multidisciplinary Studies. It is an Open Access, double-blind peer-reviewed international journal published by Iowa Research Online, University of Iowa, USA. Current acceptance rate is 5.7. The main objective of Mathal is to provide an intellectual platform for scholars of Islamic thought and Islamic societies throughout history and throughout the world to share their ideas with the widest audience and in the shortest time possible. Mathal aims to promote critical multidisciplinary studies in humanities and social sciences and to become a repository of knowledge on the Islamic civilization and the Middle East.
The journal publishes research papers in the humanities (arts, history, literature, philosophy…), social sciences (sociology, economics, political science…), natural sciences (biology, physics, astronomy, chemistry…), abstract sciences (mathematics, computational sciences…), and practiced sciences (law, medicine, engineering). Scholars from the aforementioned disciplines with research and teaching interests in area studies, Islamic studies, and Judaic studies are especially welcome to submit their works. Mathal publishes original papers, review papers, case studies, empirical research, technical notes, and book reviews.
Since one of the journal’s primary goals is the dissemination of knowledge and scholarly inquiries, authors retain exclusive rights to their work, allowing them to republish their work on their personal websites or with other journals.
Because Mathal is an online Open Access journal, accepted articles are published as soon as the peer-review and revision processes conclude. Mathal does not limit the length of articles or the size of digital files at this time.
In Mathal, authors may publish articles in most languages including English, Arabic, Hebrew, French, Persian, Spanish, Turkish, and Urdu.
For more information and/or to submit your work, please visit the following websites:
Mathal: http://ir.uiowa.edu/mathal
IMEMS Listserv: https://list.uiowa.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=IMEMS
Mathal is indexed in the Global LOCKSS Network.
Complete metadata for all articles in Mathal is available via OAI
http://ir.uiowa.edu/do/oai/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=dcq&set=publication:mathal.
Mathal is hosted by the University of Iowa Libraries’ Institutional Repository (Iowa Research Online).
- February 19, 2019
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The British Association for Islamic Studies invites you to the Association’s Sixth Annual Conference for the will be held at the University of Nottingham from 15-16 April 2019.
With nearly 150 presentations covering the full range of Islamic studies and showcasing the latest developments in the field, we invite you to register online as soon as possible.
For information and to register, see : http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2019
2. The Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies (TIMES) Forum invites proposals for individual papers on any aspect or sub-discipline of Islamic and/or Middle Eastern Studies for its 3rd Annual Symposium on Wednesday 12th June 2019 at the University of Birmingham, supported by the Theology & Religion Department, UOB. The keynote speaker will be Prof Charles Burnett, professor of the History of Islamic Influences in Europe.
TIMES Forum was set up in 2015 by researchers from a range of disciplines at the University of Birmingham and Birmingham City University. Our membership has steadily grown since, with members from different disciplines and institutions in the Midlands and beyond meeting to share their research. With the aim of promoting and providing a platform for post-graduate research on Islam and the Islamic world (broadly conceived), we invite proposals for papers that will be 20 minutes in length. We welcome papers from PhD candidates and ECRs on a wide variety of subjects relating to the Islamic and Middle Eastern world including, but not limited to the following:
- Philosophy, Theology & Qur’anic studies
- History – medieval and modern
- Law
- Politics and Social Policy
- Arts and Architecture
- Literature, Language & Translation
- Culture & Sociology
- Intellectual History
- Sufism
- Economics and Finance
CfP forms can be downloaded from: https://timespgforum.com/times-symposium-2019
All completed forms should be sent by email attachment to timesforum@contacts.bham.ac.uk by Wednesday 27th February 2019.
Follow TIMES on Twitter: @TIMES_Forum
3. Call for Papers: “Persian as a lingua francain the Ottoman Empire” (Workshop)
University of Hamburg, 12-13 July, 2019
Deadline: February 28, 2019
We are pleased to announce that Hamburg University will host the Workshop: “Persian as a lingua francain the Ottoman Empire” on 12-13 July 2019. This workshop aims to bring together scholars with expertise in Persian and Turkish language contacts, who are interested in the manifold facets of the language, literature and history underlying the knowledge production of the respective traditions. Moreover, it aims to provide a forum for discussion and collaboration between scholars of Ottoman, Iranian and Arabic Studies.
The theme of the workshop is the circulation of Persian knowledge in the Ottoman realm, which was near ubiquitous. It is widely acknowledged that from the 11 to 19 century, Persian was an important and highly influential language of literature, education, partly also of administration and diplomacy, in large regions of theEastern Islamic world. The dynamics and dissemination of Persian knowledge as a language of literature, and a lingua franca, and its surprising vitality and continuity, have not yet been studied sufficiently.
Workshop papers could address the following questions, among others:
Why/how and in which contexts was Persian used in the Ottoman Empire?
What was the importance of Persian for the cultural identity of ‘experts of knowledge’ and Ottoman poets?
Should Persian language and literature be considered as a part of “cultural transfer” or rather as an inalienable part of Ottoman culture?
What was the role of Persian for the ‘transfer of knowledge’ within the Ottoman Empire and beyond?
Application Procedure
We encourage inter-disciplinary submissions, including but not limited to history, literary studies, manuscript studies etc.
Abstracts should address one or more of the issues and questions mentioned above. The working language of the workshop will be English. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words for paper presentations of 20 to 25 minutes.
Please submit your abstract to ludwig.paul@uni-hamburg.de, ani.sargsyan@uni-hamburg.de by 15 March.
The selection of papers will take place until the end of March; applicants will be informed by early April.
For questions regarding the organization, please contact Professor Ludwig Paul ludwig.paul@uni-hamburg.de or Ani Sargsyan at ani.sargsyan@uni-hamburg.de
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Ahmet Baris Ekiz
PhD Student
Middle East Studies
University of Michigan
4. Fixed-term Arabic Teaching Associate Position in Cambridge (UK), for 12 months from September 2019.
See https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/about-us/jobs/teaching-associate-arabic-fixed-term
5. The Dr. Shawky Salem Conference Grant (SSCG)is an annual grant established by Dr. Shawky Salem and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
The aim of the grant is to enable one expert in library and information sciences from the Arab Countries (AC) to attend the Annual IFLA Conference.
What does the grant cover?
The grant is to meet up to a maximum of USD 1,900 the cost of travel (economy class air transportation) to and from the host country of the conference, registration, hotel costs and a per diem allowance.
Eligibility
- The grant is available to a librarian of Arab nationality, not exceeding 45 years
- The applicant should not have attended an IFLA conference previously
- The applicant should have at least 5 years of experience in LIS profession
- The applicant must have the approval of his / her organization to attend the IFLA WLIC 2019
How to apply?
Download the 2019 application (available in Arabic & English) below. Additional information is available on the Dr. Shawky Salem Conference Grant (SSCG) webpage.
IFLA will act as administrator to the grant and will provide the Secretary of the jury.
Important Dates
The deadline for receiving applications is 31 March 2019.
The selection of a grantee will be made by 30 April 2019 by a jury consisting of members appointed by Dr. Salem and by IFLA. The grantee will be informed of his or her selection by the Secretary of the Jury in May 2019.
For more information and to apply, visit:
https://www.ifla.org/funds-grants-awards/SSCG
6. 31st Exeter Gulf Conference, at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (Exeter, UK) on 1-2 July 2019The call for papers is available online:/<http://bit.ly/2FyHfgC>/https://bit.ly/2E63j3S
Deadline for application:*31 March 2019*.
7. The Rev. Dr. David D. Grafton, Hartford Seminary’s Interim Academic Dean and Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations, will present a five-part series on Islam at the John P. Webster Library at First Church, West Hartford, in March and April, 2019.
For further information, see: https://www.hartsem.edu/2019/02/interim-academic-dean-david-d-grafton-to-present-series-on-islam/
- February 16, 2019
- by Andrew Newman
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