Categories : Field-specific (academic)

‘Ottoman Archival Documents on the Shrines of Karbala, Najaf, and the Hejaz (1660s-1720s): Endowment Wars, the Spoils System, and Iranian Pilgrims’
Selim Güngörürler
JESHO, 64/2021, 897-1032

This study introduces and publishes an array of Ottoman archival documents on the shrines of Ahl al-Bayt imams in Iraq, the endowments dedicated to these shrines, and the Shiite-Iranian pilgrims visiting these sites as well as the Kaaba and the shrine of Muhammad in the Hejaz. Focusing on the later seventeenth and the early eighteenth centuries, it discusses the political-economic function of Islamic endowments, interconfessional contacts resulting from pilgrimage by Shiites in Sunni territory, and the potential use of Ottoman archives to enrich our knowledge on trans-Ottoman themes.

Discussion Forum on Divine Scriptures invites applications in three levels for a one-year fellowship in Islamic historical Theology beginning in August 2022.

DFDS 1 fellowship (Eligibility: The fellowship is open to 5 PhD students in the Biblical or Islamic Studies)
DFDS 2 fellowship (Eligibility: The fellowship is open to 3 scholars who have competed their PhD within the past three years in the Biblical or Islamic Studies.)
DFDS 3 fellowship (Eligibility: The fellowship is open to 2 Assistant Professors in the Biblical or Islamic Studies.)

Teaching load is six courses for the academic year, three per semester. Course units includes Historical methodology; Method of analyzing the history of Islam; Comparative History of the Divine Scriptures; History of Islamic thought; The structure of the transmission of Islamic heritage civilization and Historical analysis of religious texts (TPET)
The fellow will be expected to participate in the activities of the DFDS Programs one semester-long course. A complete application includes: a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, and a letter of recommendation. Please send your application for review by May 20, 2022 to ahmadi_mh@ut.ac.ir (Dr. Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi, Asso. Prof. University of Tehran and Executive Director of Discussion Forum on divine Scriptures (DFDS).

The applications will be considered by DFDS steering committee and the Approval applications will be sent out by June 17.
More Information: https://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir

https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/publications/shiistudies/seventh-shii-conference-2/

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“More than Mourners: Women and the Shaping of the Iranian Taʿziyeh”
Eleanor Lucy Deacon (University of Edinburgh)

Apr 21, 2022
12:30pm-2:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

On Zoom:
https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/97438384705
Meeting ID: 974 3838 4705

Webinar Series – From Konkan to Coromandel: Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture – Spring 2022
For further information and to register, see the above site.

This talk explores Isfahan through the lens of seventeenth century household anthologies (majmu’a). Thousands of manuscripts produced in Isfahan assembled urban objects ranging from portraits and letters from friends, to poems depicting the central square, to marriage contracts and talismans. Authors collected, curated, and bound together material generated by Isfahan’s culture of adab to learn how to act and relate to other residents of a diverse and ever-growing capital city. With these family collections, Professor Babayan tells a new history of Isfahan at the transformative moment it became a cosmopolitan center of imperial rule. Bringing into view people’s lives from a city with no extant state or civic archives, Kathryn Babayan reimagines the archive of anthologies to recover the dialogic relationship between the city and its residents.