Shii News – Academic Items
1. Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop’s Door
A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World
Rudi Matthee
Hurst, 2023
https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/angels-tapping-at-the-wine-shops-door/
2. Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages
Un/suitable for Divine Service?
Ninon Dubourg
Amsterdam Univ Press, 2023
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463721561/disabled-clerics-in-the-late-middle-ages
(This is a study focusing on Europe)
3. The Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University of Edinburgh is looking to appoint a Fellow in Contemporary Indonesia as a Global Muslim Society.
This is a full time, two year post and further details can be found here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CYQ884/fellow-in-contemporary-indonesia-as-a-global-muslim-society
Closing date: 19 April, 2023
4. COLLOQUE
Qu’est-ce que le Qur’ān européen?
Définitions, descriptions, représentations (XIIe-XIXe s.)/
Conference “What is the European Qur’ān?”
11 – 12 Mai 2023
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme
Nantes – France
5. Brill – Bibliography of Arabic Books Online
https://bibliographies.brill.com/BABO/
6. Brill – Index Islamicus Online
https://bibliographies.brill.com/IIO/
7. Workshop “al-Sirat al-Mustaqim: Methods of Perfection in Akbari Thought” | UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, April 29, 2023
With Claude Addas, Pablo Beneito, Denis Gril, Alexander Knysh, James W. Morris
(in French and English)
More info and registration here:
https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/isp/cdwm/evenements/al-sirat-al-mustaqim-methods-of-perfection-in-akbari-thought.html
8. Vacancy for Managing Editor for the Review of Middle East Studies
https://www.academia.edu/100139155/Managing_Editor_for_the_Review_of_Middle_East_Studies_RoMES_
9. Edinburgh University Press: Free access to issue 1 of Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics
https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/arabic/1/1
Arabic is the sole or joint official and/or national language of 23 countries, and the number of native speakers of Arabic in the Arab world exceeds 300 million. The Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics is the first journal to focus exclusively on the relation between language and society in the Arab world.
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10. Hybrid Conference – “Taking the Past into the Future: Studying, Preserving, and Understanding Islamicate Manuscripts”(CRC+IASH) – May 11-12, University of Edinburgh
Event date: Thursday 11 May, 10am-5pm and Friday 12 May 10am-4.30pm (UK time)
This two-day symposium hosted between the Centre for Research Collections (CRC) and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) will feature presentations and discussions on topics including:
- Curating and Preserving Islamic Manuscripts Today
- Colonial Contexts: Questions of Provenance and Related Material Evidence
- Buying, Selling and Dismembering Islamicate Manuscripts
- The Texts and Subtexts of Early Islamicate Manuscripts
- Creating and Reading Manuscripts as Devotional Materials
With contributions from specialist guests both local and international.
Please join us online. You will find the full programme, including Zoom registration links here (opens as PDF).
Event information: https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/event/taking-past-future-studying-preserving-and-understanding-islamicate-manuscripts
11. Hybrid: The Circle for Late Antique and Medieval Studies presents a discussion with Professors Almut Hintze, Martin Schwartz and Peter Jackson Rova on the oral traditions in Zoroastrianism.
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
12:00 pm — 1:30 pm (EST)
For information and to register on Zoom:
12. The British Association for Islamic Studies is delighted to circulate the final programme for its 2023 Annual Conference taking place at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London, on Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 May.
With keynotes from Professor Sarah Bowen-Savant and the KITAB Project Team (ISMC), and Professor Ousmane Kane (Harvard University), our two-day programme features a wide variety of papers reflecting the rich diversity of Islamic Studies sub-disciplines.
You can view the full programme here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2023
You can register for the conference online here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2023/brais-2023-registration
13. Scholarship on the Middle East in Political Science and International Relations: A Reassessment
Andrea Teti and Pamela Abbott
This article maps and analyses publication patterns of Middle East Studies-related scholarship in 13 ‘top’ Political Science & IR journals, providing a more precise analysis of the marginality of ‘regional’ scholarship in Political Science. This marginalisation particularly stark at three different levels: 1. the use of qualitative evidence, 2. the use of qualitative methods and 3. the use of non-positivist or Marxian theoretical frameworks, all of which are rare-to-non-existent. Read more
14. Research Associate in Kurdish Language and the History of Northern Mesopotamia (Fixed Term)
University of Cambridge
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the field of Kurdish Language and History of Northern Mesopotamia. The Postdoctoral Research Associate would work in 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) supervised by Professor Geoffrey Khan.
Deadline | 19 April 2023
15. Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Middle Eastern and Islamic History, c. 600-1700
University of St Andrews
We wish to appoint an Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) within the School of History. The position will be full-time (36.25 hrs per week), on a fixed term contract held from 1 September 2023 to 31 December 2024. You will be a scholar with a growing international reputation in the Islamic history of the Middle East (c. 600-1700) and a commitment to delivering high-quality teaching.
Deadline | 24 April 2023
16. Research Associate “Gender, Family, Life-writing: Narratives of Religious Identity in the Global Middle East”
University of Oxford
The Faculty of History proposes to appoint four postdoctoral researchers for the fixed-term period of thirty-six months, starting from 01 June 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter, to work on the ERC Consolidator Grant ‘Moving Stories – Sectarianisms in the global Middle East’. The project aims to explore a number of new approaches in the examination of this topic under the leadership of the Principal Investigator (PI), Professor John-Paul Ghobrial.
Deadline | 1 May 2023
17. Call for Applications – Middle East Mediterranean Summer Summit
Seminar & Forum | 17-26 August 2023 | Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland)
The Middle East Mediterranean (MEM) Summer Summit, ogranized by Università della Svizzera italiana, offers the opportunity to bring together young people from the MEM region, who do not usually have opportunities to meet, by providing them with a safe space to imagine and experiment with common projects, to develop new narratives and to transform challenges into opportunities.
Deadline | 30 April 2023
18. The History and Development of Kurdish Studies
Keynote Lecture & Reception | 24 April 2023, 16:00 | LSE Middle East Centre
Professor Martin van Bruinessen will deliver a keynote lecture on the history and development of Kurdish Studies followed by a drinks reception with live music. This event is part of a series of activities surrounding the LSE Middle East Centre’s inaugural Kurdish Studies Conference.
19. Language and Ecology in Southern and Eastern Arabia
Zoom Lecture | 26 April 2023, 17:30 | IASA, the British Yemeni Society and the MBI Al Jaber Foundation
Professor Janet Watson, Professor Dawn Chatty and Dr Jack Wilson will speak on their contributions to the recently published book Language and Ecology in Southern and Eastern Arabia (eds: Janet Watson, Jon Lovett and Roberta Morano) which explores the way in which indigenous languages reflect the close relationship between people and their environment.
20. The 2023 Giulio Regeni Memorial Lecture
Lecture | 3 May 2023, 18:00 | Cambridge University Italian Society
To honour the memory of Giulio Regeni 7 years after his kidnap and murder in Cairo, the Cambridge University Italian Society invites Prof. John Chalcraft – Professor of Middle East History and Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) – to deliver the annual Giulio Regeni Memorial Lecture.
The topic of the lecture will be ‘Popular Mobilisation in Gramscian Perspective’.
- April 15, 2023
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