Shii News – Academic Items
1.Call for Contributors: History of the Qur’ān
The Qur’ān represents the focal point of Islam. Many studies have looked at its text, meanings, and interpretation. Yet, its transmission and historical development remain hitherto understudied. Recent studies have examined the relationship between the Qur’ān and its multiple modes of recitation, critically examining the notions of aḥruf and qiraʿāt. Other works have focussed on the question of tawātur in relation to these variances. There has also been a sustained interest in understanding the history of the Qur’ān through its manuscript tradition.
The aim of this edited volume is to bring together scholars working on these various approaches. We welcome any original article that contributes to our understanding of the Qur’ān’s transmission and history. Topics may include but are not limited to:
- Qur’ānic manuscripts
- Compilation and codification of the Qur’ān
- Non-Uthmānic codices
- Aḥruf
- Qiraʿāt
- The Qur’ān and the question of tawātur
- Pre-modern Muslim understanding of the Qur’ān’s transmission and history
- Contemporary approaches to the Qur’ān’s transmission and history
Scholars interested in contributing should send via email:
- An extended abstract (approximately 900 words) stating the main argument and a brief overview of the article.
- A short bio (150 words).
After acceptance, full articles are expected to be approximately 7,000-9,000 words. A roundtable for the authors of the accepted articles is planned prior to publication at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education.
The proposal submission deadline is 29th July 2022.
Final Papers are due 13th January 2023. Submissions and any enquires are to be sent to Dr F. Redhwan Karim at: redhwan.karim@mihe.ac.uk.
2. Live-Online: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Upcoming Event from Carnegie – Wahhabism and the World
Monday, May 23, 2022 | 10:00 am EDT
Register here.
Saudi religious affairs have long had implications beyond the kingdom’s borders. Over decades and throughout the Muslim world, religious leaders have promoted a specific Saudi version of Islam that has become known as Wahhabism. Now that the Saudi government is overhauling religious affairs at home, how will contemporary changes inside the kingdom reverberate in its network beyond its borders?
Join the Carnegie Middle East Program to discuss an in-depth study of how Saudi Arabia’s religious sector continues to influence Islam across the globe. The event will feature Peter Mandaville, editor of Wahhabism and the World and contributing author Stéphane Lacroix, for a critical discussion of the book’s main findings and potential policy recommendations.
Yasmine Farouk will moderate the discussion.
3. Oxford Interfaith Forum: Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts
Sacred Literature in Interfaith Contexts Reading Group
Topic: The Qur’an and Kafka: The Trial of Jesus and Josef K
Speaker: Professor Ismail Lala, Gulf University, Kuwait
Chair: Professor Emerita Glenda Abramson, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford, UK
Date: 25 May, 2022
Time: 18:00-19:00 BST| 19:00-20:00 CET | 10:00-11:00 PT | 13:00-14:00 ET
Venue: Online
Please register here for this session:
Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts Reading Group
Topic: Moral and Spiritual Courage: A Muslim Perspective.
Speaker: Professor Abdullah Antepli, Associate Professor of the Practice of Interfaith Relations at Duke Divinity School and Associate Professor of the Practice at Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, NC, USA.
Chair: Professor Clemence Boulouque, Carl and Bernice Witten Associate Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies, Columbia University, NY, USA.
Date: 2 June, 2022
Time: 18:00-19:00 BST | 10:00-11:00 PT | 13:00-14:00 ET
Venue: Online
Please register here for this session:
https://www.oxfordinterfaithforum.org/programs/thematic-international-interfaith-reading-groups/philosophy-in-interfaith-contexts/moral-and-spiritual-courage-a-muslim-perspective/
4. Open Access E-Book: Empires and Communities in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, C. 400-1000 CE
Rutger Kramer and Walter Pohl
Oxford, 2021
5. International Journal of Islamic Architecture 11.2 is out now! Special Issue
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture
Issue 11.2
Editorial
Hinterland Forces: Architectural Responses at the Margins
ANGELA ANDERSEN
Design in Theory Articles
Hinterland of a Hinterland: The Changing Capital Cities of Sultanate and Mughal Bengal
JAMES L. WESCOAT JR. AND RIO FISCHER
‘A Place of Our Own’: Puerto Rican Muslims and Their Architectural Responses as Quadruple Minorities
KEN CHITWOOD
NICOLE KANÇAL-FERRARI
BİRGÜL AÇIKYILDIZ
The Right to the Suburb: The ‘American Dream’ of Palestinian Citizens of Israel
GABRIEL SCHWAKE
ALVARO VELASCO PEREZ
Design in Practice Article
Ibb’s Grand Mosque: Heritage at Risk in Yemen’s Hinterland
MOHAMED SALEH AL-HAJ AND LILY FILSON
Book Reviews
Iran and the Deccan: Persianate Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation, Ed. Keelan Overton (2020)
LAURA E. PARODI
CHRISTINE WOODHEAD
Mediating Museums: Exhibiting Material Culture in Tunisia (1881–2016), Virginie Rey (2019)
TINA BAROUTI
Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul Ünver Rüstem, (2019)
GEORGE MANGINIS
What Is ‘Islamic’ Art? Between Religion and Perception, Wendy M. K. Shaw (2019)
ANNEKA LENSSEN
Exhibition and Film Festival Reviews
Fourteenth Annual Boston Palestine Film Festival, Online, October 16–25, 2020
REZA DAFTARIAN
JULIE TIMTE
Conference Précis
Regime Change, Historians of Islamic Art Association Biennial Symposium, Online, April 15–18, 2021
ALEXANDER BREY
6. CFP – Ars Orientalis vol. 54 – Deadline Nov. 1, 2022
Ars Orientalis, a peer-reviewed annual journal published jointly by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art and the Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, invites submissions of original, innovative articles on the arts of the broad geographic area of Asia, from the ancient period to the contemporary.
Manuscripts should be 8,000 to 12,000 words (including endnotes). Ars Orientalis is a digital publication with a print-on-demand option. The digital volume also allows for the incorporation of other media, such as video, sound, and 3D models. Visual material must include permissions for print and online reproduction.
We are currently accepting submissions for volume 54 to be published in Fall 2024. Articles must be received by November 1, 2022 to be considered.
For more information, please visit: https://asia.si.edu/research/ars-orientalis/submit/. To submit or request more information, please email managing editor Sana Mirza at ArsOrientalis@si.edu.
7. Consolidating Empire: Power and Elites in Jahangir’s India (1605-1627)
Corinne Lefèvre,
Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2022.
https://www.orientblackswan.com/details?id=9788178246499
8. Webinar – Black Muslim Portraiture in the Modern Atlantic – May 28
Please join us for a Zoom discussion on Sat, May 28th, 10am-3:30pm EST for Art & the Black Muslim Image.
A Zoom discussion on the essays from
“Black Muslim Portraiture in the Modern Atlantic”
The Muslim World Journal – Special Issue (Summer 2020)
These conversations focus on five Black art figures of Muslim heritage: (1) Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (2) Yarrow Mamout (3) Joseph Cinqué (4) Omar Ibn Sayyid and (5) The Bashi-Bazouk. They offer various interpretations, and this is precisely the reason this discussion is so vital. Then there’s the fact that these images are all men and Black, forcing us to question the male bias and racial assumptions in modern visual culture.
DISCUSSION PANELISTS
Zain Abdullah
Carl W. Ernst
Georgia Haseldine
Richard Brent Turner
James H. Johnston
Carol Eaton Soltis
Rebecca Hankins
Laura Macaluso
Timur Yuskaev
Nicolas Mumejian
Ellen McLarney
More info and register: https://islamicstudies.duke.edu/art-and-black-muslim-image
9. Islamochristiana is the annual scientific journal of PISAI (Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica) dedicated to Muslim-Christian dialogue. The journal publishes articles, documents and book reviews concerned with the theoretical and practical aspects of Christian-Muslim dialogue, both past and present. Members of BRISMES are able to access articles published in Islamochristiana Volume 47 (2021). If you are interested in receiving a copy of any of the articles listed here, please email office@brismes.org.
10. Student members of BRISMES presenting at the annual conference are encouraged to apply for the 2022 Conference Student Paper Prize. The aim of this prize is to support BRISMES student members in the development of peer-reviewed work. The prize winner will receive £300 and will be mentored through a review process at the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BJMES) by a senior member of the BRISMES academic community. Such a mentor will be identified on the basis of the disciplinary field and topic of the awarded conference paper. In addition, the desk review process will be skipped and the journal will commit to sending the paper directly to external reviewers for the final decision about publication.
11. Project Coordinator (Part Time, Fixed Term)
University of Cambridge
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies invites applications for a Project Co-ordinator to work with the research team of the ERC-funded project ‘Echoes of Vanishing Voices in the Mountains: A Linguistic History of Minorities in the Near East’ (ALHOME) under the direction of Professor Geoffrey Khan. The project aims to reconstruct the complex, socio-religious past of Aramaic-speaking and Kurdish-speaking communities in Western Asia through a study of the history and interrelationship of their languages.
Deadline | 29 May 2022
12. 32nd BATAS Spring Symposium
Symposium | 28 May 2022 | Emmanuel College Cambridge
Registration is open for the 32nd Spring Symposium of the British Association for Turkish Area Studies (BATAS) which will be held in-person in Cambridge.
More information
13. From ‘the Last Great War of Antiquity’ to ‘Futuhat’:
Eastern Mediterranean Between the Sasanians and Byzantium
Online Lecture | 31 May 2022 | London Society for Medieval Studies
Speaker: Khodadad Rezakhani (Leiden)
Founded in 1970/1, the London Society for Medieval Studies seeks to foster knowledge of, and dialogue about, the Middle Ages (c.500–c.1500 CE). Our fortnightly seminars showcase the latest advances in all areas of medieval studies, including history, art, politics, economics, literature and archaeology. All are welcome.
More information
14. Les webinaires de l’IFRI / IFRI Webinar SERIES
Regards sur les arts du monde iranien [période islamique]. Dialogues franco-iraniens
Insights into the art of the Persianate societies [Islamic period]. French-Iranian dialogues
Mardi 31 mai 2022 / Tuesday 31st May 2022
3.00 pm (Paris time) / 5.30 pm (Tehran time)
on Skyroom
Regards sur les arts du livre / In sights into the arts of the Book
Nomad artists, manuscripts and paintings: the circulation of pictorial models in Iran
by Nourane Ben Azzouna (associate professor, University of Strasbourg)
The transmission of models in illustrated Arabic manuscripts of Kalila wa Dimna
by Annie Vernay-Nouri (honorary chief curator, Bibliothèque nationale de France) and Aïda El Khiari (PhD candidate, Sorbonne-University)
Language: English
To participate, please register before May 30th:
https://webquest.fr/?m=131529_regards-sur-les-arts-du-livre
contact: sandra.aube@cnrs.fr
15. University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series
The final lecture for this season of the Women and Gender Forum titled:
‘Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature and the Arts’
Lecture 10: Qaisra Shahraz, The Muslim Women’s Arts Foundation: ‘Celebrating and Exploring the Lives of Women’
Date/time: Tuesday 24 May 2022, 17:00 London-UK time on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95182647227
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