Shii News – Academic Items
1.Hybrid: Prof. Nahyan Fancy “What kind of ‘ilm is medicine?”
Mon 13 May 2024 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
KCL Kings Building K-1.14 (London)
Join the Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine project for our first colloquium in our series ‘Ancient Philosophy of Medicine’.
On the May 13th, Professor Nahyan Fancy will join us from The University of Exeter to speak on “What kind of ‘ilm is medicine? Reflections of the Canon and Epitome Commentators on Avicenna’s Definition of Medicine and its Implications”.
The talk can be attended in person in London ( Kings Building K-1.14, Strand Campus) or online on Zoom (link will be sent on the day of the event).
Abstract: Ibn Sīnā begins the Canon of Medicine by defining medicine as “a science (ʿilm) through which one knows (yataʿarraf minhu) the states of the human body from the perspective of what makes [the body] healthy and [what] makes it leave [the state] of health.” In the course of this opening discussion he also stresses that all of medicine is a theoretical science, including its practical parts. Yet, later in the same lesson, Ibn Sīnā maintains that for some medical matters the physician qua physician may only conceptualize them (taṣawwur) without passing judgment (taṣdīq) on whether they exist. The physician qua physician should accept such judgments from the scholar of natural science (al-ʿilm al-ṭabīʿī). Dimitri Gutas, in his oft-cited chapter from 2003, cited this latter passage as a reason for why physicians in Islamic societies were unable to critique or overthrow Galenic humoral theory since it was deemed off-limits to them. In this presentation, I shall examine the discussions of four Canon commentators and four Epitome commentators on the definition of medicine and what types of investigations fell under the purview of those engaged in medicine (whether as practicing physicians, teachers, or commentators on medical works). We shall see that the thirteenth century commentators had already come to understand the Avicennan definition and passage on what is permissible for physicians qua physicians in a way that did not limit their investigations into medical theory. We will see how this led them to revise humoral theory and even engage in debates over the connection of the soul to the body, and its implications for the number and role of chief organs.
Location
KCL Kings Building K-1.14
to register: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/sowerbyproject/1238399
2. Art of the Book: Persian Miniatures of Shahnameh (1977)
A documentary film by Iraj Gorgin
PERSIAN DUTCH NETWORk
3. The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures
Ceyhun Arslan
4. ONLINE Muslim Worlds Network Seminar Series: “The Foreignness of Writing Recontextualizing the Anthropology of Islam” by Emilio Spadola (Colgate University), European Association of Social Anthropologists, 8 May 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm CET
Drawing on my current book project, this talk revisits the decade from the Iranian Revolution to the end of the Cold War, a key period of Islamic revival and expanding global commerce and communications, on the one hand, and anthropologists’ theorization of Islam’s modernity and conceptual incorporation of Islamic texts, on the other.
Registration: https://univr.zoom.us/j/89405417840 ; Meeting ID: 894 0541 7840
5. Panel “Vernacularising Law & Order in the Eastern Mediterranean (1791-1849)”, SeSaMO Conference, Cagliari, Italy, 3-5 October 2024
The panel intends to explore those spaces of hybridasation and contamination in the Eastern Mediterranean where law and order were vernacularised in their various forms. In doing so, the panel aims at bringing back into a shared conversation Modern Greek, Ottoman Turkish, Egyptian and Levantine Arabic.
Deadline for abstracts: 7 May 2024.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/attachments/sesamo-2024-cfp.pdf
6. HYBRID International Conference “Zakāt: Implementation & Impact in the Contemporary World”, Center for Islam in the Contemporary World, Shenandoah University, 21-23 February 2025
Topics: Qualitative and quantitative studies of the impact of zakāt in a defined region or community. – Does the intention to pay zakāt affect or interrupt consumer spending? – Perceptions and realities of the relationship between zakāt and modern taxation. – Case studies on the spiritual, psychological impact and financial impact on the receivers of zakāt. – Positive and negative social and spiritual impact of various means
of zakāt solicitation. Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 24 June 2024. Information: https://www.contemporaryislam.org/zakatconference.html
7. Eight Presidential Internships at the Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
The program provides recent graduates of US-type Liberal Arts colleges and universities with the opportunity to work in a university setting while learning about and experiencing the cultures and languages of Morocco.
Qualified graduates from all nationalities and cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Deadline for applications: 5 May 2024. Information: https://aui.ma/presidential-internship-program
8. HYBRID Summer 2024 Intensive Program of the “Sijal Institute for Arabic Language and Culture”, Amman
Our summer program moves beyond pure language study by fully incorporating Arab cultures into the curriculum with lectures, film screenings, cultural activities and language partnerships. Our communicative, proficiency-based curriculum integrates Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Levantine dialect to get students
interacting as native speakers do, even from the earliest proficiency levels.
Information: https://www.sijal.org/summer-intensive
9. Articles on “Constructing the ‘European Muslim Crisis’: Discourse, Policy, and Everyday Realities” for a Special Issue of the Journal “Religions”
We are currently in search of scholarly articles that explore the ways in which Muslims residing in Europe navigate their religious identities and engage in religious practices within the context of varying national models of secularism, church-state relations, and multiculturalism.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024.
Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/7R53832XG8
10. Articles on “Gulf Nationalism” for a Special Issue of the “Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (SEN) “, Guest-edited by Dr Betul Dogan Akkas and Dr Hamdullah Baycar
SEN invites scholars to submit their empirical or theoretical pieces for the special issue of Nationalism in the Gulf. This special issue will consider traditional and new studies about Gulfi/Khaliji nationalism and will target being a reference source for scholars studying the region.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2024.
Information: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/17549469/call-for-papers/gulf-nationalism
11. Zahra Institute: Speaker Series: The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy, and Privilege
For the final event of the Spring Speaker series, Zahra Institute welcomes Nilay Özok-Gündoğan (Florida State University), a historian of the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East whose research centers on the questions of modern state-making, property regimes, and intercommunal conflict and coexistence in the borderlands of modern empires. In this talk, she will discuss the nature of Kurdish nobles’ dominion over their territories. She will illustrate how the original agreement between the Ottoman state and Kurdish nobles manifested on the ground from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.
Speaker Series: The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy, and Privilege
When: 2:00 pm Eastern (1 p.m. Central), Wednesday, May 1st
Where: https://zoom.us/j/98030942408?pwd=aU1aaGw4V0F6T2hQenI0YnlJeGR2QT09
12. Muslims in the UK and Europe Postgraduate Symposium 24 June, Cambridge UK
We are extending our deadline for submissions to our forthcoming symposium ‘Muslims in the UK and Europe Postgraduate ‘ until the 3rd of May. We are looking for submissions from current Masters and PhD candidates to present their research on issues pertaining to Muslims of the UK and Europe, from any discipline. This postgraduate symposium, taking place on Monday 24th June 2024 at the Moller Centre in Cambridge, will be a platform for students to present and exchange current research on any topic in this field in a dynamic forum. Papers should present, analyse or interpret research findings, data or material. Participants are expected to attend all sessions. Expenses within the Uk will be fully covered by the Centre.
To apply please submit a 500-word abstract, with curriculum vitae outlining current research interests, to cis@cis.cam.ac.uk by 3 May 2024.
Successful candidates will be notified by 10 May 2024 and invited to submit draft papers of no more than 3000 words by 10 June 2024.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Regards
Neil Cunningham
Programmes Manager
Centre of Islamic Studies
University of Cambridge
13. Orsolya Varsányi
Arabic Christian Notions of Human and Divine Free Will: In ʿAmmār al-Baṣrī’s Kitāb al-masāʾil wa-l-ajwiba
Monday Majlis Online on the 6th of May, 17:00-18:30 (UK time)
Register please on this link:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwldequqz4iH9bYCtALGH1wZeqjwx_c-ZT8
14. Prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, jeudi 16 mai 2024, 17h, à l’INALCO
Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier à laprochaine séancedu séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, qui se tiendra le jeudi 16 mai 2024, 17h-19h, en salle 3.15 à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 3e étage).
Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir M. Simon Berger, historien spécialiste de l’Eurasie centrale médiévale et de l’Empire mongol, et chercheur postdoctorant CNRS au CeRMI (Sociétés et cultures de l’Afghanistan), pour une conférence intitulée : « Sources persanes et historiographie mongole: Écrire et réécrire l’histoire des débuts de l’empire gengiskhanide ».
Résumé
Le récent travail de critique des sources de l’histoire de l’Empire mongol a mis en lumière, par-delà les cloisonnements artificiels en corpus linguistiques, l’existence d’un substrat historiographique en langue mongole, plus ancien. Contrairement à l’idée reçue, la célèbre Histoire Secrète des Mongols n’aurait donc pas été le seul texte historique rédigé en mongol, par des Mongols. D’autres sources mongoles ont existé et ont été employées par les chroniqueurs, tant persans que chinois, pour rédiger leurs œuvres dans leurs langues respectives, bien souvent sur commande des élites gengiskhanides. La comparaison de deux textes écrits en persan, le Tārīkh-i Jahāngushā de ‘Alā’ ad-Dīn ‘Aṭā Malik Juvaynī et le Majma‘ al-ansāb de Muḥammad Shabānkāra’ī, permet d’accéder indirectement à l’une de ces sources. Celle-ci donne à voir de la fondation de l’Empire mongol et de Chinggis Khan une image bien différente de celle forgée par l’historiographie impériale officielle à partir des années 1250 et passée ensuite dans les travaux des historiennes et des historiens.
Orientations bibliographiques
- Christopher P. ATWOOD, « How the Secret History of the Mongols Was Written », Mongolica 49, 2016, p. 22-53.
- Christopher P. ATWOOD, « The Indictment of Ong Qa’an: The Earliest Reconstructable Mongolian Source on the Rise of Chinggis Khan », Historical and Philological Studies on China’s Western Regions 9, 2017, p. 272-306.
- Christopher P. ATWOOD, « Rashīd al-Dīn’s Ghazanid Chronicle and Its Mongolian Sources », in May, D. Bayarsaikhan et C. P. Atwood (dir.), New Approaches to Ilkhanid History. Leyde : Brill, 2020, p. 53-121.
- Jean AUBIN, « Un chroniqueur méconnu : Šabankara’i’ », Studia Iranica10, no 2, 1981, p. 213-224 ; reéimpr. in Jean AUBIN, Études sur l’Iran médiéval. Géographie historique et société (éd. Denise Aigle). Paris : Association pour l’avancement des études iraniennes, 2018, p. 143-154.
- Stefan KAMOLA, « Chapter 3: Mongol Dynastic History, 1302-1304 », in Idem, Making Mongol History. Rashid al-Din and the Jami‘ al-Tawarikh. Édimbourg : Edinburgh University Press, 2019, p. 59-90.
- Charles MELVILLE, « Jahāngošā-ye Jovayni », Encyclopædia Iranica XIV, fasc. 4 (2008), p. 378-382 ; disponible en ligne : http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/jahangosa-ye-jovayni
Pour rappel, vous retrouverez le programme 2023-2024 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” sur le site du CeRMI :
15. Lecture – “The Garden of Laylī-u-Majnūn’s Phantasma: Temporal Architectonics in the Illustrations of a Bodleian Copy of the Khamsa of Niẓāmī,” Mahroo Moosavi, VIAHSS – May 3
The next VIAHSS lecture will take place on Friday, May 3, 2024, at 12:00 New York/17:00 London/18:00 Firenze and Berlin/19:00 Istanbul/19:30 Tehran.
Mahroo Moosavi (Max-Planck Institute, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz; Museum of Islamic Art, Pergamon Museum, Berlin) will present “The Garden of Laylī-u-Majnūn’s Phantasma: Temporal Architectonics in the Illustrations of a Bodleian Copy of the Khamsa of Niẓāmī.”
To attend, please make sure to register in advance here: https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtd-6rqDMqG9No4bWPS-Fmnkd8cdrY2MPM__;!!HXCxUKc!zIaa0WL-QcmUel9nIt2aQpAfaKmUKyAIJWLsLoYnJAUteHVshmzxGVDrMS3_L6CW_0qyCaPsg01jMKyp$. Upon registration, you’ll receive the link to access the lecture.
16. The International Journal of Islamic Architectureand its Award Jury are pleased to announce the 2024 winners of the Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan Article Award:
Award Winner
Roberto Fabbri, ‘The Contextual Linkage: Visual Metaphors and Analogies in Recent Gulf Museums’ Architecture’, The Journal of Architecture 27: 2-3, 2022, pp. 372–97.
Honourable Mention
Sami Zerari, Vincenzo Pace, and Leila Sriti, ‘Towards an Understanding of the Local Interpretations of the Arab Mosque Model in the Saharan Regions. Re-exploration of the Ziban in South-Eastern Algeria’, ArcHistoR 10, 2023, pp. 97–129.
In honour of Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan’s contributions to the field of Islamic architecture, the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) is pleased to offer this award in recognition of ground-breaking scholarship on the subject published in peer-reviewed journals. The Award winner will receive a cash prize of $1000 and a 2-year subscription to IJIA, and the honourable mention winner will receive a 2-year subscription to IJIA. We are extremely grateful to the members of the 2024 jury, Professors Kishwar Rizvi, Leïla el-Wakil, and James L. Wescoat Jr., for their time and expertise in judging submissions for this year’s award, and to the chair of the Award Committee, Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi.
The Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan Article Award will be offered every two years. Papers published in English in a peer reviewed journal in 2024 or 2025 will be eligible for the 2026 award. For the criteria by which papers will be judged and the submission process, see our website.
Contact Information
Mehreen Chida-Razvi
Chair, Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan Article Award
International Journal of Islamic Architecture
Contact Email
URL
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture
17. The American University in Cairo – Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in History of Islamic Art and Architecture
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67153
Closing date: July 22, 2024
18. Kenyon College – Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67163
Incl Islamic Art
Closing date: July 24, 2024
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