Shii News – Academic Items
1.Ben-Gurion University of the Negev – Iranian studies or Gulf studies
The position will begin on 1 October 2024. The deadline for application is 8 October 2023.
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65522
2. Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests
Edited by Josephine van den Bent,
Floris van den Eijnde and
Johan Weststeijn
Brill, 2022
3. A Bibliography of Islamic Criminal Law
Olaf Köndgen
Brill, 2021
4. CfP: Al-Karmil
Editor-in-Chief: Roy Vilozny,
Editors: Arin Salamah-Qudsi, Reuven Snir,
and Yehudit Dror,
Managing Editor: Rawand Sliman-Baraky
A forum for the study of Arabic language and literature as well as Islamic civilization in general, from the pre-Islamic period to the present. Al-Karmil: Studies in Arabic Language and Literature welcomes contributions in Arabic or in English.
5. New Brill series: Iran and the Caucasus Monographs is a double-anonymous peer-reviewed book series that covers recent findings in Irano-Indian, Caucasian, Near-Eastern, Armenian, and Turkic studies. The focus will be on linguistics and philology, history, archaeology, anthropology, history of religions, art history, as well as ethnopolitical and security issues concerning the said regions.
6. New Methodological Perspectives in Islamic Studies
Volume Editors: Aaron W. Hughes and Abbas Aghdassi
Brill, 2023
https://brill.com/display/title/64129
7. Sufis and Their Lodges in the Ottoman Ḥijāz
Ḥasan b. `Alī al-`Ujaymī’s (d. 1113/1702) Khabāyā al-zawāyā “Secrets of the Lodges” & Risāla fī ṭuruq al-ṣūfiyya “Treatise on Sufi Orders”
Naser Dumairieh
Brill, 2023
https://brill.com/display/title/63423
8. Chaire Professeur Junior “Arts et patrimoine de l’Afghanistan”, recrutement INaLCO
Information: Recrutement Chaire Professeur Junior “Arts et patrimoine de l’Afghanistan”, INaLCO
Appel aux candidatures: clôture le 27/08/2023
Mise en place par la loi de programmation pour la recherche, la chaire de professeur junior (CPJ) constitue une nouvelle voie de recrutement permettant d’accéder à un emploi de titulaire dans le corps des professeurs de universités et assimilés ou de directeurs de recherche. Le recrutement s’effectue sur un projet de recherche et d’enseignement porté par un titulaire de doctorat ou de diplôme équivalent.
Chaque lauréat signera une convention de recherche et d’enseignement avec l’établissement ainsi qu’un contrat de pré-titularisation dont la durée ne peut être inférieure à trois ans et ne peut être supérieure à six ans.
https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/cand_CPJ.htm
Profil du poste CPJ “Arts et patrimoine de l’Afghanistan” (réf. Galaxie 4225):
=>Contrat de pré-titularisation de 5 ans (procédure de titularisation selon les conditions spécifiées dans le profil du poste)
=>Prise de fonction: le 01/12/2023
Détails (FR/ENG):
http://www.inalco.fr/concours-recrutement/chaire-professeur-junior-arts-patrimoine-afghanistan
Attention:
! Le dépôt de candidature se fait uniquement par voie électronique sur la plateforme Galaxie des personnels du supérieur:
https://galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/antares/can/index.jsp
9. Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visual Symbols Draw from the Same Well
Oxford Interfaith Forum
We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Ori Soltes from the Center for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University, USA, to lead a session of the International Interfaith Reading Group on ART in Interfaith Contexts.
Topic: Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visual Symbols Draw from the Same Well
Abstract: This image-rich talk will introduce some of the many examples of how symbols in the visual art of the Abrahamic traditions draw from a pagan vocabulary that precedes all of them as well as from each other; how they converge and diverge across history and geography; and how they continue to appear in the modern and contemporary art of a world that often defines itself to be secular.
Speaker: Professor Ori Soltes, Centre for Jewish Civilization, Georgetown University, USA.
Chair: Revd Canon Dr Joanna Collicutt, King’s College London, UK. Revd Canon Dr Joanna Collicutt is a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, an associate lecturer at Ripon College Cuddesdon, and an associate priest in an Oxfordshire parish.
Date: 10 July, 2023
Time: 18:00-19:00 BST | 19:00-20:00 CEST | 10:00-11:00 PDT | 13:00-14:00 EDT
Venue: Online
For registration, please, go to: https://www.oxfordinterfaithforum.org/thematic-international-interfaith-reading-groups/art-in-interfaith-contexts/sacred-signs-how-jewish-christian-and-muslim-visual-symbols-draw-from-the-same-well/
10. Cartography in the European Enlightenment — NOW ONLINE FOR FREE ACCESS
The History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Chicago Press are pleased to announce the online publication of Cartography in the European Enlightenment, edited by Matthew H. Edney and Mary S. Pedley, volume 4 of The History of Cartography (Chicago, 2019). The Press has added the volume — all 1,764 pages with 1,000,000 words and 984 full-color illustrations, in 479 entries written by 214 experts — to the other volumes of the series already online for free public access (1–3 and 6).
Goto https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html to access all the volumes; the links to each volume, with volume 4 newly added, are at left.
Cartography in the European Enlightenment explores all aspects of mapping in the long eighteenth century, approximately between 1650 and 1800, give or take a decade as necessary, in Europe, Europe’s overseas empires and trading companies, in Russia, and in the Ottoman Empire. It is arranged by major mapping practices (geographical mapping, property mapping, marine charting, etc.) and by major communities of map consumers (military, civil government, the emergent public). It is the starting point for anyone seeking to learn more about mapping at a time when maps served as a foundational metaphor for the organization of knowledge.
Enjoy! And please share this FREE resource across other intellectual and social media!
Contact Information
Matthew Edney
Director, History of Cartography Project
Contact Email
URL
https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html
11. The Islamic College – Open Evening
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/study/open-evening/
Date: 14th July 2023
Time: 6:30 pm – 9 pm
Venue: The Islamic College, 133 High Road, Willesden, London, NW10 2SW
12. With Brush and Qalam; Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin – July 2023 to October 2023
With Brush and Qalam
Chinese Arabic Calligraphy by Haji Noor Deen
06.07.2023 to 22.10.2023
Pergamonmuseum
With the solo exhibition of the most important contemporary representative of Sini calligraphy, the Museum für Islamische Kunst (Museum for Islamic Art) is showing selected works by Haji Noor Deen in Berlin for the first time.
Sini calligraphy is the artistic script used by the Muslim minority in China. Its history reaches back to the 14th century. The distinctive feature of Sini calligraphy is the melding of techniques and styles from the Arabic and Chinese lettering traditions.
Arabic calligraphy follows a centuries-old tradition involving strict rules with precisely defined proportions for the letters. Sini calligraphy, on the other hand, is completely free of rules. The top priority is the perceived beauty and balance of the composition. Even the direction of the writing can be freely chosen, either from top to bottom, as in Chinese, or from right to left, as in Arabic.
Haji Noor Deen is a master of Sini calligraphy. Inspired by calligraphic traditions from China to Istanbul, the artist creates works with expressive lines that at first glance appear Chinese, but on closer inspection go far beyond that.
The artist’s painting tools reflect this diversity. Haji Noor Deen paints the Arabic letters with a brush that is characteristically used for Chinese calligraphy. He equally appreciates the qalam, the reed pen of Arabic calligraphy. He also uses completely new tools, such as cloth-covered wooden spatulas that he produces himself. With masterly skill, he creates artworks of great aesthetic power that surprise and affect the viewer.
A special exhibition of the Museum für Islamische Kunst – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Link tot the exhibition https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/with-brush-and-qalam/
13. CFP – The Materiality of Pious Texts: The Qur’an and Devotional Manuscripts, CIHA, Lyon, France – June 23 – 28, 2024
We invite paper proposals for the session “The Materiality of Pious Texts: The Qur’an and Devotional Manuscripts” at the 36th Congress of the Comité international d’histoire de l’art (CIHA), June 23 – 28, 2024, in Lyon, France.
Both the Qur’an and Islamic devotional manuscripts have traditionally been studied as texts and artistic achievements, but rarely as material objects. Concerns about how to handle and dispose of Qur’anic matter – how to use the manuscript, where to place it, when to touch it – or whether it is permissible to perfume it, ingest it or sell it, were among the anxieties of the first centuries of Islam. Formative to the Qur’an’s physical manifestation as codices, scrolls or inscribed artefacts, these debates shaped its sacrality in the material realm and affected the use of Islamic devotional manuscripts in which passages of the Qur’an appear next to other pious texts, prayers or illustrations of holy places. Art history has been rarely concerned with such phenomena, or with the corporeality of sacred and pious texts in general.
This session aims to interrogate the materiality of pious texts and the roles they played in shaping artistic forms embedded in a diverse range of practices, at the time of their production or in their afterlives: Qur’anic calligraphy, calligrams, and emblematic inscriptions in books and scrolls, but also on tablets and panels of various materials, interspersed or combined with devotional texts and images presented in diagrammatic or iconified forms. By moving away from archaeological taxonomies and the study of styles and repertoires, we hope to create space for approaching pious texts through their materiality, their use, and the range of physical reactions they elicited. Meanings – whether religious, political, or aesthetic – can be found not just in how texts looked, but also in how they functioned, and it is through the lens of materiality that previously neglected ideas and behaviors can be examined.
With that in mind, we call for papers that explore the materiality of pious texts of any kind, focusing on how they were shaped, what aesthetic ideas were embedded in them, and what kind of engagement their forms triggered, be it at the time of their making, consumption, alteration, or reuse. As their meanings shifted throughout their spatial and temporal circulation, within and beyond Muslim communities, these texts projected multifaceted statements of faith and efficacy that are yet to be unpacked. Later interventions such as manipulations of their constitutive elements, amendments to their illustrations, or smudging and erasures, also reflect practices and beliefs, often echoing ideologies. In no way limited to these aspects, this session seeks papers that re-instate the role of makers, beholders and users of texts within art history. As such, it encourages cross-disciplinary research – bridging religious studies, anthropology and visual culture – to re-establish the relation between art history, material culture and religion.
Submission:
Please submit your proposal by 15 September 2023 via this link: https://livebyglevents.key4register.com/key4register/AbstractList.aspx?e=148
- Title of the proposed paper (concise and reflecting the contents of the paper).
- Paper Proposal: An abstract of 350 to 500 words, in English or French, including 4 to 6 key words and a possible short bibliography.
- CV of 500 characters with first name, last name, title, status, institution of affiliation and the link to the personal or professional page.
Funding:
Applicants are responsible to secure their own funding. Please consult this page regularly: https://www.cihalyon2024.fr/en/call-for-grants
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