Shii News – Academic Items
1.CfP: The Journal of Religious Minorities under Muslim Rule provides a primary venue for scholarly studies that examine religious minorities (such as Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Hindus, and other minoritarian Muslim groups) under majoritarian Muslim rule. The journal covers a large temporal period, spanning from 7th century Arabia to 1922 (the end of Ottoman rule), in addition to a large geographic area from North Africa and al-Andalus in the West to Iran, some Central Asian lands, well into Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia in the East. The focus includes minority-minority, minority-majority, and minority-state relations. In addition to its broad temporal and geographic reach, this is an interdisciplinary journal which will appeal to those working in specific disciplines, including history, religious studies, literature, legal studies, and archaeology.
https://brill.com/view/journals/rmmr/rmmr-overview.xml
We would like to invite all authors to submit their papers directly to the editors-in-chief, Abbas Aghdassi (aghdassi@um.ac.ir) & Aaron W. Hughes (aaron.hughes@rochester.edu). If you have any questions before submitting, please contact us.
2. Armenian School of Languages and Cultures – ASPIRANTUM invites you to apply to the “Learn Persian through Early Classical Persian Prose” online course. This online course will start on March 6, 2023, and last till March 24, 2023.
https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-early-classical-persian-prose
The three weeks “Learn Persian through Early Classical Persian Prose” online course offers 60 hours of intensive Persian language classes from Monday to Friday each week during 15 days of teaching. Every day the participants will receive Persian language instruction through Classical Persian prose for 4 hours.
Texts to be read during the course:
Muqaddama-yi Šāhnāma-yi Abu-Mansuri
Tarjuma-yi Tafsir-i Tabari
Tarjuma-yi Tārix-i Tabari (Tārix-i Bal’ami)
Hudud-al-‘Ālam
Tārix-i Baihaqi (Muhammad b. Husein Baihaqi)
Tārix-i Sistān
Dānišnāma-yi ‘Alāyi (Avicenna)
Qābus-nāma (Keykavus b. Iskandar)
Bayān ol-adyān (Abu al-Ma’ali Mohammad b. Ne’mat Alavi Balkhi)
For more details and to apply, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-early-classical-persian-prose
3. Hugh Kennedy, Revisiting an old friend: a new translation of al-Balādhurī’s Futūḥ al-buldān. Monday Majlis on the 16th of January, 17:00-18:30 (UK time).
Zoom registration at:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElfuGpqjsiEtUyOrNh03xzLCScdqk18MZ2
4. La quatrième séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” aura lieu le jeudi 26 janvier 2023 (de 17h à 19h, salle 3.15).
Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Meryem Sebti (Directrice de recherche, CNRS, Centre Jean Pépin, UMR 8230) pour une conférence intitulée : « Des récits philosophiques de Sohravardi à la poésie de Saadi : l’influence de la doctrine avicennienne de
l’imagination. »
Orientation Bibliographique
- Meryem Sebti, « Le statut ontologique de l’image dans la doctrine avicennienne de la perception », Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 2005, p. 109-140.
- Fazlur Rahman, « Dream, Imagination and ‘ālam al-mithāl », Islamic Studies, vol. 3, juin 1964, p. 167-180.
- Roxanne Marcotte, « Suhrawardī’s Realm of the Imaginal », Ishraq: Islamic Philosophy Yearbook, 2011, p. 68-79.
- Nicolai Sinai, « Al-Suhrawardī on Mirror Vision and Suspended Images (Muthul Mu‘allaqa) », Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, vol. 25, 2015, p. 279-297.
- Lambertus W. C. Van Lit, The World of Image in Islamic Philosophy. Ibn Sīnā, Suhrawardī, Shahrazrī, and Beyond, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2018.
- Domenico Ingenito, Beholding Beauty. Sa‛di of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry, Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, Leyde, 2020.
Au plaisir de vous retrouver à l’occasion de cette séance, qui se déroulera en présentiel sur le site de l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris).
Ci-joint le programme 2022/2023 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” en format pdf. Retrouvez également les détails sur le site web du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/seminaires-de-recherche/societes-politiques-et-cultures-du-monde-iranien-2022-2023/
4. HYBRIDE Rencontres & débats : “Quel avenir pour les Kurdes ?”, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, 11 janvier 2023, 19h
Comment expliquer la montée de la violence à l’égard des Kurdes ? Quelle est l’histoire de ce peuple, et quelles sont ses revendications ? Quel avenir au Moyen Orient ?
Information et inscription : https://www.imarabe.org/fr/rencontres-debats/quel-avenir-pour-les-kurdes
5. HYBRIDE Séminaire “Droit et développement historique de la charia en islam”, Christian Mül-ler (CNRS, IRHT), Paris, 9 février 2023, 10h-12 h
Christian Müller est Directeur de recherche au CNRS, Responsable de la section arabe de l’Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT).
Inscription pour visioconférence : https://bbb.ehess.fr/b/fra-lzk-hvs-wue
6. HYBRIDE Séminaire “Les mobilités entre Venise et l’Empire ottoman dans la seconde moitié du XVe siècle : des déplacements humains aux adaptations du cadre légal”, Pauline Guena (CNRS, UMR 7303 Telemme), Sorbonne, Paris, 13 février 2023, 17h-19h
Le séminaire « Méditerranée médiévale » réunit des chercheurs spécialistes des mondes grecs, latins et musulmans du Moyen Âge, dans une perspective d’étude des relations en Méditerranée et de comparatisme. À raison d’une séance par mois, il alterne des présentations de travaux en cours liés à l’actualité de la recherche, et des séances consacrées à la question de la construction de normes partagées en Médi-terranée.
Inscription : https://pantheonsorbonne.zoom.us/j/97713251308?pwd=ZDk5UkpyVWd5U1VqTjlVWWY2TEE5QT09#success
7. HYBRIDE Séminaire “Normes partagées ou infrastructures en conflit ? À la recherche d’une bonne « formule » pour aborder les ambiguïtés dans les relations entre chrétiens et musulmans dans l’espace méditerranéen médiéval”, Daniel König (University Konstanz), Sorbonne, Paris, 27 Mars 2023, 17h-19h
Le séminaire « Méditerranée médiévale » réunit des chercheurs spécialistes des mondes grecs, latins et musulmans du Moyen Âge, dans une perspective d’étude des relations en Méditerranée et de comparatisme. À raison d’une séance par mois, il alterne des présentations de travaux en cours liés à l’actualité de la recherche, et des séances consacrées à la question de la construction de normes partagées en Méditerranée.
Inscription : https://pantheonsorbonne.zoom.us/j/97713251308?pwd=ZDk5UkpyVWd5U1VqTjlVWWTEE5QT09#success
8. HYBRIDE Séminaire “Autour de la question de compétence : principes et pratiques des rela-tions judiciaires entre Byzantins, Génois et Vénitiens (XIIIe-XVe siècle)”, Romain Goudjil (UMR 8167 Orient & Méditerranée), Sorbonne, Paris, 19 juin 2023, 17h-19h
Le séminaire « Méditerranée médiévale » réunit des chercheurs spécialistes des mondes grecs, latins et musulmans du Moyen Âge, dans une perspective d’étude des relations en Méditerranée et de comparatisme. À raison d’une séance par mois, il alterne des présentations de travaux en cours liés à l’actualité de la recherche, et des séances consacrées à la question de la construction de normes partagées en Médi-terranée.
Inscription : https://pantheonsorbonne.zoom.us/j/97713251308?pwd=ZDk5UkpyVWd5U1VqTjlVWWY2TEE5QT09#success
9. International Workshop “Positionality in the Study of Islamic Theology”, Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology and Freie Universitaet Amsterdam, September 2023
The scope of the workshop encompasses both reflection upon the positionality of the researcher in their specific field of study, the place of researchers within the wider fields of Islamic theology and Islamic studies, as well as the wider discourse on disciplinary boundaries between Islamic theology and other fields of research and study. It includes history, literature, and anthropology etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12159796/call-paper-international-conference-%E2%80%9Cpositionality-study
10. “Annual Conference of Ibn Khaldon Center on Interdisciplinary Research”, Qatar University, 30 September 2023
Themes include “Islamis Sciences and Natural Science”. This theme seeks to create connections between natural knowledge and Islamic sciences, and to use Islamic text to frame related natural sciences’ topics. Integrating Islamic sciences with natural sciences can offer significant intellectual gains in terms of getting new perspectives and methodological insights. The Center will reimburse authors with accepted manuscripts for their travel expenses and accommodation.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2023.
Information: conf-IbnKhaldon@qa.edu.qu
11. Symposium “The Western Mediterranean and the Global Middle Ages”, The American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain, UCLA, Los Angeles, 20-21 October 2023
What sorts of alternative frameworks can enhance scholarly assessment of the intertwined histories of the individuals, groups, institutions, and political entities active within the Western Mediterranean and beyond? How can global approaches help scholars resist the deep-seated, largely Euro- or Christo-centric legacies that have long influenced work on the Iberian Peninsula, Maghreb, and broader Western-Mediterranean environment?
Deadline for abstracts: 19 February 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-the-western-mediterranean-and-the-global-middle-ages-20-21-october-los-angeles?e=82aeb6c61d
12. Cluster of Excellence for Doctoral Researchers: “Contestations of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS), Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies (BGTS)
The BGTS offers a rigorous and dynamic English-language PhD programme for exceptionally talented and motivated graduate students in the field of global and transregional studies, bringing together a broad spectrum of disciplines and methodological approaches.
Deadline for application: 28 February 2023. Information:
https://www.scripts-berlin.eu/about-us/jobs-grants/anhaenge/221219_BGTS-2023_Pre-announcement.pdf
13. 12 PhD Positions in Islamic Studies, Stockholm University and other Swedish Universities
The doctoral students will be admitted within one of the following research subjects: Religious Studies, History of Religions, Subject Didactics and Systematic Theology.
Information: https://lnu.se/en/research/PhD-studies/religion/graduate-school-in-islamic-studies/
14. PhD Research Grants for 2023/2024, Orient-Institut Istanbul
The purpose of the grants is to provide support for research in Turkey to PhD candidates not living in Turkey. If the fellowship is not, or only partially, spent in Istanbul, a close connection to the institute is required. Upon consultation this may also be arranged through supervision by members of the Orient-Institut’s Scientific Advisory Board or other scholars associated with the institute.
Deadline for applications: 22 January 2023. Information: https://www.oiist.org/en/scholarship/
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