Categories : Field-specific (academic)

Zaydi Manuscript Tradition

ZMT provides a centralized platform and draws records of endangered manuscripts from an international network of partners contributing microfilms, photographs, and high-quality digital reproductions. Its goal is to provide free online access to 15,000 books by the end of 2020.

4e Journée d’études sur le chiisme contemporain

Avec le soutien du Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes (LEM), du Groupe Sociétés Religions Laïcités (GSRL) et de l’EPHE. Organisateurs : Constance Arminjon (EPHE – GSRL) et Rainer Brunner (CNRS – LEM). Lieu : Maison des sciences de l’homme – École Pratique des Hautes Études, 54 boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris, salle 33.

Iraq’s Sources of Emulation: Scholarly Capital and Competition in Contemporary Shiʿism

Religious knowledge is at the heart of the Shiʿi system of clerical authority known as the marjaʿiyya. Given the multiplicity of more or less well-established claimants to the position, this article explores the scholarly credentials of the contemporary marjaʿ[source of emulation; pl. marājiʿ].

Shiʿi Literature in the Late Ninth Century in: Light upon Light: Essays in Islamic Thought and History in Honor of Gerhard Bowering

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Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs

The Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs at the Weatherhead Center undertakes advanced research on the multifaceted and diverse manifestations of Shi’ism in the contemporary world. The study of Shi’ism, religious mobilization, and the challenges of sectarian conflict is more pressing now than ever in modern history.

LUSSI Seminar: The Shi’ites and the Qurʾan: The Origins of Islam between Apocalypse and Empire

It gives us great pleasure to announce the return of the Autumn Lecture Series in Shiʿi Studies starting in October 2019 organised by the Leiden University Shiʿi Studies Initiative (LUSSI). The autumn lecture series theme for this year is: “The Qurʾan and its Shiʿi Interpretations”.

Project MUSE – Introduction: Early Modern Islamic Cities

Perhaps the most significant result of these intertwined processes was the emergence of distinct publics and public spaces in the midst of early modern European urban life. These publics and public spaces were the result of complex interactions between political authorities and communities in the context of the emergent market economies and empire- and state-building projects.

Articles on Esfahan:
‘Cookery and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan’ – Sussan Babaie
‘Discursive Images and Urban Itineraries: Literary Form and City Experience in Early Modern Iran’ – Farshid Emami

Band59 (2019): Ausgabe3-4 (Sep 2019)

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Iranian Studies

Frequency: Yearly ISSN: 0021-0862 eISSN: 1475-4819 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00210862.2019.1659660

Book Launch – “The Rebel and the Imam in Early Islam” by Najam Haider

Eventbrite – Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations presents Book Launch – “The Rebel and the Imam in Early Islam” by Najam Haider – Wednesday, 16 October 2019 at Aga Khan Centre (Room 215, 2nd floor). Find event and ticket information.