Shii News – Academic Items
1. Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe
Routledge, 2021
Isabelle Dolezalek and Mattia Guidetti, eds.,
Online-book presentation in the frame of “ReSIA – Research Seminar in Islamic Art” (SOAS University of London, convened by Professor Anna Contadini) on 3 March 2022, 6 pm UK time. Registrations with Matty Bradley: mb@royalasiaticsociety.org by 2 March.
2. CfP: A Matter of Speech: Language of Social Interdependency in the Early Islamicate Empire
For the final conference of the ERC project Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (600-1000) we will focus on the rhetoric of social dependency. How is language used to describe, establish, cancel, exploit, and manipulate relationships in the early Islamicate empire? We want to examine how relationships between individuals, and between and within groups, are referred to, and how other forms of solidarity underwriting social cohesion are cultivated and perpetuated.
What words, expressions and visual tools are used to frame social relationships? And how are they employed to initiate, operationalise and maintain those relationships? How are connections between groups and individuals defined and how are those formulations implemented to shape and manage, but also end, such associations? How is language employed to establish ties by labelling relationships in organised ways and invoking commonalities and shared experiences that confirm the presence or absence of connections and how are these used to realise tactical goals?
For more information see our website: https://emco.hcommons.org/events/event/cfp-a-matter-of-speech-language-of-social-interdependency-in-the-early-islamicate-empire/
The Conference will take place 8-10 December 2022 at Leiden University
The deadline for the CfP is 1 April 2022.
3. AKU-ISMC
Introduction to the Study of Islam and Muslims
Online Short Course
March 21-31 over six sessions
For information and to book, see:
4. Tracing Arab and Muslim Women’s Resistance to Colonialism and Imperialism
By Shatha Almutawa
American University, USA
Wednesday 02 March 2022, 17:00 GMT on Zoom:
https://zoom.us/j/94799815277
Abstract: This lecture explores the role of Arab and Muslim women in resistance movements in lands colonized by the British, the French, the Dutch, and the Portuguese. Women experienced significant changes to their lifestyles, freedoms, and safety under colonialism in Egypt, Algeria, the Arabian Peninsula, India, and beyond. They participated in armed and non-violent resistance movements against the violence, humiliation, and erasure that colonizers inflicted on their communities. The widespread colonization of Muslim populations led Muslims and non-Muslim Arabs to unite despite cultural, linguistic, religious, and geographical differences. As a result, ideas of a “Muslim world” and Arab nationalism emerged in the works of historians, activists, politicians, and theologians.
This lecture traces the voices and actions of women in the midst of these international movements and transnational transitions.
Bio: Shatha Almutawa holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the American University. Her research has focused on Islamic intellectual history, Islamic philosophy, Postcolonialism, literary studies of Islamic traditions, and women and gender in Islam. Her publications include “‘The Death of the Body Is the Birth of the Soul’: Contradictory Views on the Resurrection in Rasa’il Ikhwan Al-Safa” in Studia Islamica (2018); and a chapter on the status of women in the United Arab Emirates in the book Women’s Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Citizenship and Justice (2005). She is currently completing work on a critical edition and translation of Epistle 42 of Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa (OUP/ Institute of Isma’ili Studies).
5. Discussion Forum on Divine Scriptures (DFDS) 9th meeting.
Prioritization in religious research: text access, text interpretation, or text testing?
Dr. Mohammad Hassan Ahmadi, University of Tehran
Wednesday Mar. 2 ,2022 – 4:00 PM, Tehran zoom
Join us for registration and More information via:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/ChiWkBj2mW0Ln9Ld7QpAJQ
Best wishes,
—
Dr. Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi
Asso. Prof. University of Tehran
Islamic Historical Philology
Executive Director of Discussion Forum on divine Scriptures(DFDS)
Website:http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/
Phone : +98 (0)9127580228
Email: ahmadi_mh@ut.ac.ir
6. Open Access Publication – Sehen im Vergleich. Transformationen von Blicken in der persischen und westeuropäischen Buchmalerei
Vera Beyer
arthistoricum.net, 2022
https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/590?lang=en
7. Webinars Series – Islamic Manuscript Studies, first lecture of the series : “Types of Authorship and its Relations in Arab Heritage” – 13 March 2022 / 1:00–2:30pm (time in Doha and Istanbul)
What is Islamic manuscript studies? Which subjects are most studied in the field? What are the latest developments in studying the Islamic manuscript culture? What are the current resources and research literature?
These and many other questions about the Islamic manuscript culture are in the heart of a lecture series organized jointly by Qatar National Library and the Center for Manuscript Studies at Fatih Sultan Mehmed Waqf University in Istanbul. The talks will be held monthly by renowned international experts in Islamic codicology and manuscript studies, addressing scholars and the general audience alike. Lectures will be conducted online via Zoom in English or Arabic with simultaneous translation.
The March lecture is entitled “Types of Authorship and its Relations in Arab Heritage” and will be delivered by Professor Kamal Arafat Nabhan, Professor of Information Science, who authored the reference book The Genius of Arabic Authorship: Text Relations and Scientific Communication, a pioneering book that won international prizes and taught as part of academic courses in several Arab universities for postgraduate studies.
For more information you can contact : Steohane Ipert or Mahmoud M. Gomaa
To register to attend (QNL lectures are free) : https://ssl.eventilla.com/event/eKdN1
8. The Journeys of Kalila and Dimna: Itineraries of Fables in the Literature and Arts of the Islamic World(Leiden: Brill, 2022)
Eds., Eloïse Brac de la Perrière, Aïda El Khiari and Annie Vernay-Nouri.
https://brill.com/view/title/60393
9. Iranian Studies Āvānegār Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Friday, April 8, 2022 at 11:00am Pacific Time via Zoom
Āvānegār, a collaborative documentary narrated by Dr. Mohsen Mohammadi (Director of Indo-Persian Music at UCLA) explores the history of transcription of Iranian music, based on decades of research in various archives in Iran, Europe, and the United States. Rare historical documents and sources are presented in the film, and several historical notations of Iranian music are performed. Exclusively for the film, Dr. Reza Vali (Professor of Composition at Carnegie Mellon University) arranged a five-movement piece that is performed by an ensemble of notable American musicians. Moreover, several prominent Iranian musicians are featured, including (in Persian alphabetical order) Navid Afghah, Ali Bahramifard, Kazem Davoudian, Siroos Jamali, Siamak Jahangiri, Layla Ramezan, and Behzad Ravaqi. This film is dedicated to the memory of Mohammad-Taghi Massoudieh (1927–1999), whose publications are invaluable and incomparable sources for researchers, musicians, composers, and all who are interested in Iranian music.
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