Shii News – Academic Items

1.HYBRID International Workshop “Jews, the Qur’an and Islam: Contacts and Influences”, EuQu, Copenhagen, 1-2 February 2023, 9:00 am CET

The workshop aims to explore how Jews approached the Qur’an and Islam from the Middle Age to the early modern period both in the lands of Islam and in Europe. Through various sources and textual genres ranging from polemics, exegesis to Qur’anic translations, we will discuss how Islam was perceived, how the Qur’an was used and how the Jews in some contexts were influenced by the material, textual and theological aspects of the Islamic tradition.

Programme: https://teol.ku.dk/arrangementer/arrangementer-2023/international-workshop-jews-the-quran-and-islam-contacts-and-influences/programme/;

Registration: https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Iqf-mpqzMoH9dWwLM8o4Igqhe0447XpYHh

2. HYBRID Webinar “A Hidden Empire: Ibadi Control of the Trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean Slave Trades, c. 760-1055 CE” with Kristina Richardson, New York University, 8 February 2023, 6:30 pm EST

When Muhallabi governors simultaneously ruled the province of Sind, they deployed the same strategies of settlement, conversion, and economic expansion along the Swahili Coast, where they developed a lucrative trade in East African slaves. The early Islamicate history of Black African enslavement is largely an Ibadi story. These slave trades probably exceeded that of later European merchants in the early modern Atlantic.

Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3Wr-WWodS6ePWn40CCgbyg?fbcli d=IwAR0zMM90tdjF78hg_pS7_JD40IS8zyeNjaEjnmolbGANQ-5DGfvIdKQ2MVs

3. Colloque “Penser les sciences humaines et sociales dans les mondes arabes : productions, circulations et réceptions contemporaines des savoirs”, Collège de France, Paris, 8-9 février 2023

Depuis la fin du XVIIIe siècle, si on prend en compte le voyage en Égypte et en Syrie de Volney, les sciences humaines et sociales (SHS) en Occident s’intéressent au monde arabe. On trouve différentes approches que l’on peut définir soit comme une vérification sur le terrain d’hypothèses théoriques, soit au contraire la formulation d’hypothèses théoriques à partir de l’enquête de terrain.

Information et programme : https://www.college-de-france.fr/agenda/colloque/penser-les-sciences-humaines-et-sociales-dans-les-mondes-arabes-productions-circulations-et

4. HYBRID Discussion “Indigenising Islam as a Minority: A South African Community with Southeast Asian Origins, and the Case of Shaykh Seraj Hendricks”, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 14 February 2023, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm SGT

Capetonian Muslims are indelibly impacted by South-east Asia, one of the main origins of Muslim South Africa, while deeply impacted by Western traditions. Shaykh Seraj Hendricks was a contemporary South African Sufi shaykh and Islamic scholar who drew from his own Western education and training from sages and savants in Mecca, many of whom also taught numerous South-East Asian Muslim religious authorities.

Information and registration: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/indigenising-islam-as-a-minority-a-south-african-community-with-southeast-asian-origins-and-the-case-of-shaykh-seraj-hendricks/

5. HYBRID 44th Annual Conference of the Middle East Librarians Commitee, MelCom Interna-tional, Koç University, Antalya, 25-27 April 2023

Topics will deal with library material from and on the Middle East: Librarianship, collection development and acquisition policies; Cataloguing policies and practices; Digital humanities & Middle Eastern collections; History of libraries, ownership and readership; Manuscripts, rare books and documents; Current issues of information science in Middle East area studies; The book market in the region; etc.

Deadline for registration: 5 February 2023.

Information: https://melcominternational.eu/index.php/forthcoming-conference/

6. 18th Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society: “Islamic Art in Exchange”, Museum Five Continents, Munich, 6-8 July 2023

The Colloquium wishes to continue discussions around transregional and global aspects of exchange in the material culture of the Islamic world as well as reception of Islamic art in other cultures. Through case studies it aims to gain a better understanding of the state of the art and concepts of the Global in the field of Islamic Art History and Archaeology, pertinent research questions, and their place within the broader discussions following the decolonial turn.

Deadline for abstracts: 12 March 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12241500/cfp-islamic-art-exchange-18th-colloquium-ernst-herzfeld

7. Scholarships for Advanced Arabic Training at the American University in Cairo

Applications are open for serious, advanced Arabic language learners from the USA and ALL parts of the world. The program is open both to those who can pay tuition and to those who qualify for scholarships on the basis both of merit and of availability.

Deadline for applications: 20 March 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/01/24/auc-scholarships-available-for-advanced-arabic-training

8. Palestine & Arabic Studies Program: “Arabic and Social/Political Courses”, Birzeit University

This program offers international students the opportunity to combine the study of the Arabic language with social science courses about Palestine and the Arab World. “Learn Arabic, live the culture”

Deadlines for application for Spring Term on 8 February 2023 and for Summer Term on 26 June 2023. Information: https://ritaj.birzeit.edu/be1/en/admission/international-students/pas

9. Doctoral Research Associate – The interdisciplinary Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics: Dynamics of Tradition and Innovation” (sub-project “Arabic-Ottoman translations of works of Qurʾanic exegesis (Tafsīr) as an expression of the inner-Islamic transfer of knowledge in the Eastern Mediterranean between 1400–1750”) at the University of Münster (WWU), Germany, is offering a position as a

Doctoral Research Associate

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiterin

(salary level TV-L E 13)

at the earliest possible date.

We are offering a fixed-term part-time position (65%) for 3 years.

Good reading skills in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish are essential. The position is thematically linked to the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group TRANSLAPT (https://go.wwu.de/translapt).

Application deadline: 9 February 2023.

Information: https://www.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/content/arabistikislam/translapt/cfa_en.pdf

10. Stateless: The Politics of Armenian Language in Exile

Talar Chahinian

Syracuse, 2023.

11. Call for Submissions:

Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) 2023 Biennial Book Award