Categories : Field-specific (academic)

The Al-Mahdi Institute (AMI) welcomes applications for the AMI Doctoral Scholarship to support talented students working on the study of Imāmī (Twelver) Shīʿism. Despite being one of the largest minority denominations, Imāmī Shīʿism is still a relatively small area of focus within Islamic studies. It is the aim of the AMI Doctoral Scholarship to promote and encourage the study of Imāmī Shīʿism in academia.

The Scholarship is open to students of all nationalities successfully admitted to a doctoral programme at universities based primarily – but not exclusively – in the United Kingdom and North America and who are writing their thesis in the English language. For students on doctoral programmes in the United Kingdom, the Scholarship is available at any point from the first year of the programme. For students based at universities in North America, the Scholarship is available at any point after qualifying exams have been successfully completed.

The value of the scholarship is £3,000 per year with scope for this to be renewed for a further two years.

Timeline of the application process:
Applications open on the 1st February, 2023 and close on the 1st of April 2023.
Applications shall be assessed by the committee throughout April 2023. During this process, the committee may request interviews with applicants.
Acceptance and rejection letters shall be sent out in the first week of May 2023.
Applicants must confirm their acceptance onto a doctoral programme by August 2023.
The Scholarship shall be paid directly to the student in the first week after the commencement of their programme.

Full details at:
https://www.almahdi.edu/ami-doctoral-scholarship

‘The Alawi legacy of heroes: from medieval history to the Syrian Civil War’
Middle Eastern Studies
Y. Friedman
59/1 (2023), 103-125
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00263206.2022.2044317

University of Chicago’s inaugural lecture in the Franklin Lewis Lecture Series
Prof. Paul Losensky
“Parts and Wholes, Beyts and Ghazals: Assemblage Theory and the Poetry of Sā’eb Tabrizi”,
Thursday, February 16 at 5:00 CT in person and on zoom:
https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/98791258773?pwd=VFlIeXFUdUNzcURVWHhyWUVsVVMrUT09

‘Shii News Chats’ aims to profile academics across the world whose research focuses on Shiism and Shii communities across the world. These thereby highlight the diversity of the researchers but also the diversity of the faith and its practitioners.

These can be found on the menu along the top of the site’s main page.

The second of these, with Simon Fuchs, lecturer in Islamic and Middle East Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany, is now available via this link.

Panels of special interest to ‘Shii News’ subscribers include:

‘Hadith: Sunni and Shi’i Constellations’;
‘Islamic Law Between History and Praxis’;
‘Sufism and Alid Devotion’;
‘New direction in Shiʿi Studies’