Categories : Field-specific (academic)

Submit your scholarly work to the 14th Razavi Book of the Year Festival, an international event dedicated to recognizing and celebrating outstanding contributions to Islamic culture, history, and Razavi studies.

The festival welcomes works published by non-Iranian publishers between March 21, 2021, and March 19, 2025. Submissions are evaluated based on their alignment with the festival’s themes, which include:

• Imam Riḍā’s (P.B.U.H.) Life, Teachings, and Legacy

• Islamic Ethics, Jurisprudence, Philosophy, and Theology

• Razavi Culture and Lifestyle

• Social Sciences, History, and Anthropology related to Imam Riḍā

• Pilgrimage Studies and Razavi Endowments

• Children’s and Adolescents’ Literature on Razavi Teachings

• Interfaith Dialogue and Comparative Theology, especially from the perspective of Islam and Shi‘a studies

The best international work will be awarded €2,000, along with the festival sculpture and a letter of commendation. Selected authors will also be invited to attend the closing ceremony in Mashhad, Iran, with all expenses covered by the festival’s secretariat.

We kindly ask you to consider sharing this invitation with other scholars or academic colleagues who may have relevant contributions or interest in these topics.

The submission deadline is March 19, 2025.

For futher information:
https://library.razavi.ir/ketabsal/en/307080/14th-intl-festival-razavi-book-year

Call for Papers: Islamic Perspectives on Prophecy and Revelation

The deadline for abstract submissions is 7th March 2025.

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Including:
Edmund Hayes, “The Epistolary Imamate: Circular Letters in the Administration of the Shiʿi Community”;
Georg Leube, “Local Elites during Two Periods of Civil Strife: Al-Ashʿath b. Qays, Muḥammad b. al-Ashʿath, and the Quarter of Kinda in Seventh-Century Kufa”;
Nimrod Hurvitz, “Rulers, Ḥanābila, and Shiʿis: The Unravelling Social Cohesion of Fourth/Tenth-Century Baghdad”;
Paul Walker, “Resistance to and Acceptance of the Fatimids in North Africa: A Shiʿi Dynasty in Negotiation with Both Adherents and Enemies”

9 December 2024 – When does a group become a group? Remarks on the ‘birth’ of Shi’i Sufism, academic reification, and the issue of confessional identity
With Dr. Alessandro Cancian (Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies)
13 January 2025 – Ismaili Cosmology : Nature and Religion
With Dr. Daryoush Mohammad Poor (Associate Professor and the Interim Head of the Constituency Studies Unit at the Institute of Ismaili Studies)
3 March 2025 – Reconstructing the Higher Thought of Muhammad b. ‘Abd al-Karīm al-Shahrastānī (d.548/1153): Eclecticism or Intellectual Synthesis?
With Dr. Toby Mayer (Senior Research Associate at the the Institute of Ismaili Studies)
11 April 2025 – Expressions of Islamic Syncretism in the Ismaili Traditions – The Case of the Nizari Ismailis of Central Asia
With Dr. Hakim Elnazarov (Head of the Central Asian Studies at the Institute of Ismaili Studies)

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/banquet-of-the-brethren-an-ismaili-guide-to-spiritual-hermeneutics-9780755653928/