Shii News – Academic Items
1. University of Toronto – Mississauga – Assistant Professor – History of Islamic Art and Architecture
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60314
All application materials, including reference letters, must be received by September 30, 2020
2. MOON AND SUN, a bilingual edition of translations of Rumi’s rubaiyat, is now available in both hardcover and eBook formats.
You can find more information and purchase the book here: https://zarahoushmand.com/moon-and-sun/
3. Tehran Islamic Studies Monitor (TehranISM)
TehranISM is a series of conversations addressing Islamic studies across the world. The aim of conversations is to link “Western” and “non-Western” study of Islam. In particular, it aims at engaging more Iranian scholars and students with the state of the art in global Islamic studies.
Each conversation will focus on one recently published work about Islam. The structure of each conversation consists of: 5 minutes “introduction” by the host; 15 minutes “comments” by the discussant; and 20-30 minutes “response” by the author and the Q&A period.
For full information, see: https://ftis.ut.ac.ir/en/tehranism
September 3, 11 am (EDT), 16 (BST), 19:30 (Iran daylight time)
The Qur’an and the Bible: Text and Commentary.
Author: Gabriel Said Reynolds (University of Notre Dame)
Discussant: Mohsen Goudarzi (University of Minnesota)
September 10, 10 am (EDT), 15 (BST), 18:30 (Iran daylight time)
Teaching and learning the sciences in Islamicate societies (800-1700)
Author: Sonja Brentjes (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
Discussant: Amir Mohammad Gamini (University of Tehran)
September 17, 10 am (EDT), 15 (BST), 18:30 (Iran daylight time)
A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī
Author: Konrad Hirschler (Freie Universität Berlin)
Discussant: TBA
September 24, 10 am (EDT), 15 (BST), 17:30 (Iran standard time)
Qur’anic Hermeneutics: Between Science, History, and the Bible
Author: Abdulla Galadari (Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi)
Discussant: Kurt Andres Richardson (University of Toronto)
October 1, 10 am (EDT), 15 (BST), 17:30 (Iran standard time)
Author: Marijn van Putten (Leiden University)
Discussant: Ala Vahidnia (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran)
Further inquiries: feyzbakhsh@ut.ac.ir
4. Monash University is starting an open-to-public online seminar series on the medieval Sufi master Ibn Arabi (d.1240), titled “The Hidden Treasure.”
It will meet on the first Saturday of every month, and the inaugural seminar will be delivered by Dr. Stephen Hirtenstein (Ibn Arabi Society, UK) on Sept.5 (at 10am in London time). The seminars will be composed of 30-minute presentations by the speaker followed by 30 minutes of question and answer with the audience. See the link and the attachment for more info and for free registration: https://www.monash.edu/arts/Ibn-Arabi-Interreligious-Research-Initiative/news-and-events/events/events/the-hidden-treasure-ibn-arabi-seminar-series2 The following talk will be delivered by Prof. Pablo Beneito (Uni. Murcia, Spain) on Oct.3, and the series will feature other distinguished experts on Ibn Arabi.
5. Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II: Live and Afterlives of an Iconic Image
Elizabeth Rodini
IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2020
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gentile-bellinis-portrait-of-sultan-mehmed-ii-9781838604813/
6. Le judaïsme persique
Le double sens de l’assimilation
de Reza ROKOEE
Editions du Cygne, 2020
http://www.editionsducygne.com/editions-du-cygne-judaisme-persique.html
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- September 07, 2020
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