Shii News – Academic Items
1.Call for book proposals – The Ottoman Empire and the World
I.B.Tauris and the British Institute at Ankara are seeking book proposals for academic book series under new editorship and advisory board: The Ottoman Empire and the World.
Series Editor:
Christopher Markiewicz, University of Birmingham, UK
Editorial Advisory Board:
Amila Buturović, York University, Canada
Emine Fetvacı, Boston College, USA
Joshua M. White, University of Virginia, USA
Stefan Winter, The Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
For more information, or to submit a proposal, please contact:
Christopher Markiewicz, Series Editor, c.markiewicz@bham.ac.uk
Rory Gormley, Senior Commissioning Editor, rory.gormley@bloomsbury.com
2. Islamic Manuscript and Print Culture: from the Middle East to South Asia
Faculty: Nur Sobers-Khan
Description:
This course provides broad historical overview of Islamic manuscript and print culture, featuring sessions on the historical background and material context of manuscript production, the rise of typographic print and lithography in the Middle East and South Asia, as well as a critical view of 19th-century colonial collecting practices and the formation and conceptualization of ‘special collections’ in Western institutions today vis-à-vis the Islamic world.
The course will open by setting the historical context of Islamic manuscript production, from early Quran manuscripts in the 7th-9th centuries, starting with the rise and development of Arabic script and also examined other forms of early written production, such as Arabic block printing from the 9th century CE, to both decenter the focus on the birth of printing in Europe and also to explore the phenomenon of the co-existence of print techniques and large-scale scribal manuscript production in Islamic societies, a theme which recurs in the 18th-19th century. To provide the wider context of manuscript culture and production, students will also be introduced to the history of the formation of manuscript libraries in the Islamic world and the role they played in premodern knowledge production.
Students will be introduced to the development of Islamic courtly manuscript culture in the early modern period and the flourishing of manuscript illumination and figural illustration, as well as receive an overview of how to describe and date Islamic manuscript bindings, papers, locate colophons, seals and inscriptions, which often have a close connection to the historical libraries and courts foregrounded in the course. After a thorough exploration of manuscript production, we will turn to the rise of print in the Muslim context in the Middle East and South Asia, exploring the first experiment in typography and the role of missionary presses, then moving on to examine the technology of lithography and how it facilitated a transition from manuscript to large-scale production in the nineteenth century, with particular attention to India and Iran. The course will conclude with a discussion of colonial histories of collecting in the Middle East and South Asia, and an overview of the European and North American repositories that house large Islamic manuscript, lithograph and rare printed book collections and examine the history and provenance of a selection of these collections with an eye to providing a critical account of the history of collecting.
Requirements:
Circumstances permitting, we will use the UCLA Islamic manuscript collections in handling sessions for our course. If possible, we can include a visit to view manuscripts in LACMA’s collections as well.
Years taught: 2022
Department of Information Studies, UCLA
232 GSEIS Building Box 951520
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520
3. The deadline for application for the LUCIS Summerschool on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World 2022 (Leiden, August 23-Sept 2) has been pushed forward to June 27. Applicants will be informed about selection before July 1. More information can be found here.
4. Online Event | Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s ‘You Have Not Yet Been Defeated’
Date: Wednesday, 22 June 2022
Time: 16:00 – 17:30 BST
Location: Online via Zoom (registration required)
Registration: www.brismes.ac.uk/events/outreach-and-pedagogy/you-have-not-yet-been-defeated
About the book
Alaa Abd El-Fattah is arguably the most high-profile political prisoner in Egypt, if not the Arab world, rising to international prominence during the revolution of 2011. A fiercely independent thinker who fuses politics and technology in powerful prose, an activist whose ideas represent a global generation which has only known struggle against a failing system, a public intellectual with the rare courage to offer personal, painful honesty, Alaa’s written voice came to symbolize much of what was fresh, inspiring and revolutionary about the uprisings that have defined the last decade. Collected here for the first time in English are a selection of his essays, social media posts and interviews from 2011 until the present. He has spent the majority of those years in prison, where many of these pieces were written. Together, they present not only a unique account from the frontline of a decade of global upheaval, but a catalogue of ideas about other futures those upheavals could yet reveal. From theories on technology and history to profound reflections on the meaning of prison, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated is a book about the importance of ideas, whatever their cost.
Chair and discussant
- John Chalcraft (London School of Economics)
Speakers
- Nicola Pratt (University of Warwick)
- Sherif Azer (University of York)
5. The Iranian Studies Collective
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6. PhD Position in Arabic Lit and Cultural Studies at UiO
A PhD position in Arabic Literary and Cultural Studies is available at the University of Oslo. The deadline for application is 1st of September.
7. Residence Program in Advanced Arabic & Social Studies
Spring Semester 2023
A limited number of merit-based tuition waiver and housing support
The Language Center at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI) is pleased to announce its Spring semester 2022 – 2023 Residence Program in Advanced Arabic Language and Social Studies.
The Program is a unique forum for academic and cultural exchange between the DI’s predominantly native Arabic- speaking graduate students and faculty (from across the Arab world) from one side and their international non-native or heritage peers from the other side.
The Residence Program is offered for one semester on site in Doha. It meets the language, culture, and academic needs of advanced non-native and heritage graduate students who wish to strengthen their language and cultural skills, as well as prepare for specific challenges related to their academic areas of expertise. The Program is delivered entirely in Arabic and consists of a twin advanced language-training and academic components.
The language-training component prepares students to function professionally in Arabic and offers dedicated courses in language, translation, and content-based instruction. The program adapts to the academic needs of students as a base for linguistic and cultural acquisition, emphasizes productive and presentation skills, and develops higher levels of proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, writing, and translation.
The academic component gives fellows the opportunity to take advantage of the wide array of unique graduate-level courses the DI distinguished faculty teach in Arabic through its academic units: The School of Social Sciences and Humanities, the School of Economics, Administration and Public Policy.
The Residence Program is an important part of the DI’s mission to establish, maintain, and nurture intellectual links and two-way dialogues between its students, faculty, and the international learning and research community.
The DI aims to create an enduring legacy of intellectual innovation and education within the Arab world and beyond. It assumes and promotes the Arabic language as a tool of scientific inquiry, an official language in public discourse, and a primary language for teaching and research.
Semester Program Features:
⦁ 6 credits of intensive Arabic;
⦁ Option to audit graduate academic courses taught in Arabic if eligible;
⦁ Option to have an academic partner;
⦁ Option to a language partner;
⦁ Access to the DI rich conferences, symposia, and guest lectures.
Admission Requirements:
⦁ Advanced level in Arabic;
⦁ Tuition fees: QAR 9,000 (approximately €2,250 OR $2,465) Per semester.
⦁ Housing: QAR 11,000 (approximately €3,000 OR $2,650) Per semester.
Program Dates:
⦁ Application Deadline: July 20, 2022
⦁ Start of Classes: January 8, 2023
⦁ End of Classes: April 20, 2023
To Apply to the Doha Residence Program, click on the link below:
https://dilc.wufoo.com/forms/znatdf40sd7rqv/
8. The Afghanistan Wars
William Maley
I B Tauris, 2022
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/afghanistan-wars-9781352011005/
9. The Shahnameh, a critical edition
Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh
8-volume set
Mazda, 2022
http://www.mazdapublishers.com/book/the-shahnameh
10. Persian, Kurdish and Assyrian Periodical Press in the Ottoman Empire
The Turkish-language journal Kebikec has recently made available its 52nd issue that appeared in December 2021. This issue includes contributions on Persian, Assyrian and Kurdish periodical press in the Ottoman Empire. You can download the complete issue from the following academia link of the journal.
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- June 18, 2022
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