Shii News – Academic Items
1.Online Lecture – AISEES-ARIT Lecture: Amanda Phillips, on the Studenica Silk (ca. 1400), March 29
JOINT LECTURE
THE AMERİCAN RESEARCH INSTİTUTE IN TURKEY AND
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN STUDIES
The Studenica Silk (ca. 1400): Object and Interpretation
by
Dr. Amanda Phillips
Fulbright Fellow, University of Virginia, Koç University
Wednesday March 29, 2023 7PM Istanbul Time
Postponed from February 15, 2023
Among the treasures in the monastery of Studenica in Serbia is a large silk hanging, woven for the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I (r. 1389-1402). It is the earliest known Ottoman textile, and is among the earliest works of Ottoman art of any sort. Although it is very well preserved, its initial production remains mysterious, as do its trajectories in the fifteenth century and later. This talk combines an overview of the silk’s historical context with a discussion of technology and material, and makes a brief foray into its later life in Studenica and elsewhere.
Registration:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86303428595?pwd=TzdoUVoxNnRtV0t3aWVCOC9hNTIwQT09
2. Teaching Associate in Islamic Studies, University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham Department of Theology and Religious Studies invites applications for a seven month (1 Sept 2023 – 31 March 2024) 0.7 fte post in Islamic Studies: https://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=ARTS103323. The successful candidate will convene, teach and mark the upper undergraduate level module/course ‘Muslims and Others: Ethics, Theology and History’ and teach the greater part of the Year 1 undergrad module ‘Interpreting Islam’. Full details are in the job advert and role profile linked from there. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
(Closing date: 28.4.23)
Best wishes,
Jon
_______________________________
Jon Hoover (he/him)
Head of Department and Associate Professor of Islamic Studies
Theology and Religious Studies, University of Nottingham
Home Page | @jhoover04 | Editor, HCMR | @UoN_TRS
3. Le Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien (CeRMI, UMR8041 du CNRS) a le plaisir de vous convier à la conférence :
« Errant roots of Afghan music: Music and musicians from Herat at home and abroad »
Présentée par : Michel GASCO et Nazir RAHGUZAR (Inalco / CeRMI)
le lundi 27 mars 2023 de 17h00 à 18h30
Auditorium du Pôle Langues et Civilisations de l’Inalco – salle 4.10,
65 rue des Grands-Moulins, 75013 Paris.
Entrée libre dans la limite des places disponibles.
4. Free online event, March 23rd–Tracing Sea Routes on Maps
Join us online for a conversation on the European and East Asian contexts of sea routes on maps with Sara Caputo (Magdalene College, Cambridge) and Elke Papelitzky (KU Leuven). The discussion will be moderated by Katherine Parker (Royal Geographical Society). The event is digitally hosted by the David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University.
March 23, 2023. Noon Pacific (7pm London).
Registration is free. Sign up here via Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tracing-sea-routes-on-maps-tickets-524105141587
5. American University – Postdoctoral Fellowship in Israel and Middle Eastern Studies
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65202
Closing date: 4/28/23
6. Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies welcomes the submission of papers for the May Issue 2023. The deadline for the manuscript submissions is March 30, 2023. The issue publication date is May Issue 2023. For more information, visit the Submission page. The papers can address but are not limited to, the following … Read More
See here for the papers of Volume,7, Number 1. February 2023 https://awej-tls.org/contents-23/
7. ITS Ramadan Discount
RAMADAN DISCOUNT 2023
In celebration of the holy month of Ramadan and the Eid, the Islamic Texts Society will be offering a 15% discount on all titles.*
Books from the ITS are an aid to deepening one’s worship in this holy month, and also make an ideal Ramadan and Eid gift for family, friends and loved ones.
In order to take advantage of this offer, please visit our website https://its.org.uk and enter the coupon code RAMADAN23 on the purchase page. This offer is valid from 16 March to 23 April 2023.
*Excluding Arabic-English Lexicon by E. W. Lane.
8. Online Classical Arabic and Summer Language Courses at CUA
I’m happy to share with you the 2023 summer language offerings of Catholic University’s Semitics Department in Arabic, Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, and Ethiopic, all taught online for ease of student access.
I’ll be teaching introductory Classical Arabic. All our courses are great opportunities for interested students to get a solid grounding in a new research language.
If you could share this announcement with your students or networks, we’d appreciate it. For more information, contact Dr. Andrew Gross at grossa@cua.edu or, regarding Arabic, me at weitz@cua.edu.
Lev Weitz
Associate Professor of History
Catholic University of America
9. 2023 Persian language summer school in Yerevan
ASPIRANTUM is organizing its fifth Persian language summer school in Yerevan, Armenia, to start on July 2, 2023.
For more details and to apply, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/persian-language-summer-school
10. State Documents from the medieval Islamicate World
21-22 June, Trinity College, Oxford
11. Closing a bank account in early 18th– century Isfahan
5 June 15:00 Spalding Room, FAMES, Pusey Lane, Oxford, OX1 2LE
https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/event/closing-a-bank-account-in-early-18th-century-isfahan
12. Blog – Interreligious Dialogue in Medieval Bamiyan
Arash Zeini
https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/article/interreligious-dialogue-in-medieval-bamiyan
13. Tracking the Qur’ān in European Culture
17 May 2023, 3PM. Spalding Room, FAMES, Pusey Lane, Oxford, OX1 2L
https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/event/tracking-the-quran-in-european-culture
14. Call for applications: “Qur’anic manuscripts, past and present: Cataloging and digital tools”
Berlin, 18-23 September 2023
Deadline: 3 April 2023
15. Women’s voices in the Ottoman Empire
S Faroqhi
Bloomsbury, 2023
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-in-the-ottoman-empire-9780755638260/?utm_campaign=IC-SOLUS_Sociology%20and%20culture_MAR_23_UK&utm_content=Women%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire%20cover&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Adestra
Get 25% off until the end of March with code WOMEN23UK
16. Online Lecture – “Christian landscapes in the Umayyad-period Northern Iraq” with Karel Nováček (Palacký University Olomouc) – March 22
As part of the webinar series Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Ottoman period, the Ifpo, the CEFREPA and Udine University are pleased to announce the second series of meetings that will focus on Iraq and Arabian Peninsula.
Next conference:
March, 22 | 5pm (GTM+3)
Christian landscapes in the Umayyad-period Northern Iraq with Karel Nováček (Palacký University Olomouc)
Research on the latest historical periods of the Middle East is characterized by various deeply pronounced discontinuities. The boundaries are drawn along historical events (for example between the pre-Islamic and Islamic eras), current political boundaries, confessional differences, and differences in the language of the extant sources, as well as along a drastic imbalance in the use of written sources and archaeological data. The monasticism of the Church of the East (East Syriac) in the territory of Northern Iraq witnessed a tremendous expansion from the late 6th to the 10th century and this subject is by no means marginal. Monasteries as a settlement form, a monastic landscape with its economic, social, and ideological implications, are nevertheless on the very periphery of scholarly interest. The virtually zero state of research contrasts with the developed research in Egypt, Palestine, Anatolia, or even in southern Iraq and the Gulf area. The lecture will sum up the topic on the basis of new or newly re-interpreted archaeological data.
For registration:
For further information:
https://www.ifporient.org/archaeology-mena-2/
17. Online Lecture – National Museum of Asian Art: Online Talk with Ali Ferdowsi – March 28, 12 pm EST
Join the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art on Tuesday, March 28 at 12 pm EST for The Art of Poetry: Sultan Ahmad and His Banquet of Intimates, an online talk with Ali Ferdowsi. Register here
Sultan Ahmad (reigned 1382–1410), the last of the Jalayerid rulers, is among the most enigmatic figures in the long and eventful history of Iran. Although menaced by the world-conqueror Timur (reigned 1370—1405), and often at war or on the run, he maintained an astonishingly active artistic circle. A warrior of legendary courage and prowess, he also composed more poems than almost any other ruler. He was cunning, paranoid, and merciless with his enemies, both real and perceived, but incongruously, he wooed and gathered some of the best artists—calligraphers, painters, musicians, and more—at his court and treated them with generosity and even humility. The primary venue in which he and his artistic peers gathered to present their creations was a form of convivium (or symposium) called majlis-i khass (private banquet) or bazm-i ushshaq (lovers’ banquet). In this presentation, Ali Ferdowsi takes a peek into these convivia as reflected in Sultan Ahmad’s poetry.
Ali Ferdowsi is a professor emeritus in history and political science at Notre Dame de Namur University. In addition to authoring dozens of papers in Persian and English, he is a translator of more than a dozen books into Persian, including Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise. He is the author of several books, including Dialogues: Interviews on Literature and Politics, Intellectuals and the Public Space, Hajj Sayyah and the Discovery of Freedom, and Chubak contra God. He is also the editor of Odes from Hafez: The First Discovered Manuscript from the Poet’s Lifetime and is the coeditor of Haft-Paykar or Divan Sultan Ahmad Jalayir.
Register here: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_itSzGsV-RgmzeGxg9brcpA
Find more information here: https://asia.si.edu/events-overview/talks/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D165137779
18. Discussion Panel (Online and In-Person) – The Abbasids in Baghdad and their links with Qatar (The Museum of Islamic Art in Doha) – March 20
Date: 20th March 2023 at 5pm
Location: Museum of Islamic Art, Doha (Auditorium)
The Abbasid caliphate was famous for its wealth, power, scientific achievements and global reach. Qatar lay within its sphere of influence, though not always within its political control. Although the historical sources are scanty, the archaeological record of Qatar reveals a peak of settlement during the early Abbasid period, especially in north Qatar, while finds recovered from excavations reveal an intimate engagement with the Abbasid world. This panel will explore the relationship between Qatar and the Abbasid heartlands of Iraq, using data recovered from archaeological sites in Qatar.
RSVP: whatsonatmia@qm.org.qa
You can also join via Zoom.
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qfu6prTgoH9ZmjVeBkFFrZgIKm_1Bg0JK
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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