Shii News – Academic Items
1.International Conference “Law, Empire, and Gender in Muslim Societies”, University of Amsterdam, 19-20 December 2024
Academics who work in the field of legal history, gender history and/or social history (or a combination of these) are invited to share their research on the laws that were introduced in the Muslim territories during (French, Dutch, British, Russian, …) colonial rule that touch upon gender. Proposals may concern various periods and topics, ranging from property law and land tenure to criminal law and family law.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 July 2024. Information: https://ash.uva.nl/content/news/2024/06/call-for-papers-international-conference-on-law-empire-and-gender-in-muslim-societies.html?origin=KOq8zc9JRa%2BM7NabIsyXHg
2. Workshop “Knowledge in the Islamic Court: Evidence, Proof, Procedure Symposium”,
Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR), Rabat, 14-15 May 2025
Themes: How do qadis evaluate various evidentiary forms, and to what extent does this relate to discursive Islamic legal traditions? How are evidentiary forms produced and made probative before the qadi? What is the role of sensory perception? Etc. – Co-organizers: Dr. Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif (University of Bergen) and Dr. Ari Schriber (Utrecht University).
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2024.
Information: https://forms.gle/jk6unUFnTtEeVCNn8
3. Assistant Professor of Modern (post-1750) Social and/or Political History of the Middle East and North Africa, Indiana University, Bloomington
Postdoctoral candidates must be able to train graduate students and advanced undergraduates in the critical use of Arabic-language historical and cultural sources, including but not limited to oral histories, archival sources, and material culture; as well as in Arabic-language historiography. Additional professional competence in one or more modern Middle Eastern languages other than Arabic is also highly desirable, but not required.
Deadline for applications: 30 September 2024.
Information: https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/24648
4. 2025 Sir William Luce fellowship: call for applications
This residential fellowship (Apr-June 2025) carries a grant, accommodation and meals, and is a valuable research and publication opportunity for post-doctoral scholars, diplomats, politicians, or business executives, working on regional issues that particularly affect the Sudans, Gulf States, Yemen or Iran: more details are provided in the notice. The application deadline is Tuesday 1 October 2024.
For more information:
The Sir William Luce Papers series can be found at:
5. Summer 2024 funding: Laura Bassi Scholarship
The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed. The scholarships are open to every discipline and the next round of funding will be awarded in Summer 2024:
Summer 2024
Application deadline: 24 July 2024
Results: 10 August 2024
All currently enrolled master’s and doctoral candidates are eligible to apply, as are academics in the first five years of full-time employment. Applicants are required to submit a completed application form along with their CV through the application portal by the relevant deadline. Further details, including previous winners, and the application portal can be found at: https://editing.press/bassi
6. Scholarship to learn Persian in Yerevan with ASPIRANTUM – Winter school 2024
Deadline: August 5, 2024
For more details, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/scholarships/scholarships-for-persian-language-courses-from-armacad
You can see the profiles of our previous scholarship recipients here: https://www.instagram.com/aspirantumcom/
Students pursuing Undergraduate (BA), graduate (MA), and postgraduate (Ph.D.) programs, as well as researchers in Iranian Studies and related fields who are enrolled in universities or academic institutions in the countries specified below, can apply for the ARMACAD scholarship. The ideal candidates will be 19 – 39 years old by the program’s start.
This scholarship is only available to citizens of the following countries.
Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America.
For more details, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/scholarships/scholarships-for-persian-language-courses-from-armacad
7. The Khalili Collection ‘The Tale and the Image’ in three volumes
Volume One. History and epic paintings from Iran and Turkey (2022) and The Tale and the Image Volume Two. Illustrated manuscripts and album paintings from Iran and Turkey (2024).
Volume One. History and epic paintings from Iran and Turkey
Eleanor Sims with contributions by Manijeh Bayani and Tim Stanley
This volume is devoted to the Collection’s illustrated manuscripts and detached folios with historical and heroic epic subjects. Produced in Iran, India and Turkey, they date from the early 14th to the 20th centuries; many are of major artistic importance. A number of folios in the Collection come from manuscripts of Firdawsi’s Shāhnāmah. Among them are a single folio from the Ilkhanid ‘Great Mongol’ Shāhnāmah and 10 from the Shāhnāmah executed for Shah Tahmasp. Complete illustrated manuscripts of Firdawsi’s epic include a splendid copy, with 62 paintings, dated AH 1011 (AD 1602). The Collection also has illustrated folios from several dispersed but significant works of universal and dynastic history, including two from the earliest surviving illustrated copy of the Ẓafarnāmah of Sharaf al-Din Yazdi. One especially important painting is a later 15th-century vision of the Prophet Muhammad and his companions in the company of Moses and the Virgin and Child. The entries on 93 manuscripts and detached folios are accompanied by essays, including one reconstructing the Safavid Tārīkh-i Jahān-gushā-yi Khāqān-i Ṣāḥib-Qirān and its illustrations; on early copies of the Shāhnāmah; on Shāhnāmahs illustrated by Mu‛in Musavvir; and on two complete copies once in the Mughal royal library.
422 pages; fully illustrated in colour; section on inscriptions with translations; hardback with dust jacket (slipcased); 36 x 26cm; 2022; ISBN 978-1-874780-80-9
Volume Two. Illustrated manuscripts and album paintings from Iran and Turkey
Volume Two. Part One
J.M. Rogers with contributions by Manijeh Bayani and Emily Shovelton
Volume Two. Part Two
J.M. Rogers with contributions by Manijeh Bayan, Emily Shovelton, Behnaz Atighi Moghaddam and Tim Stanley
This volume, which is in two parts, is mainly devoted to the Collection’s illustrated manuscripts and detached folios with painted illustrations – primarily romantic poetry and anthologies – and single page compositions – mostly portraiture and genre painting – from Iran and Turkey, dating from the 14th to the mid-19th centuries. Many items are of major artistic importance.
Illustrated Persian manuscripts include several copies of the Khamsah of Nizami and a Divan of Hafiz dated AH 975 (AD 1567–8) with superbly illuminated margins and two exquisite paintings, one by Muhammadi and the other by ‘Abdallah al-Mudhahhib al-Shirazi.
The large group of detached folios from Iran includes several of the late 15th century in the style of Muhammad Siyah Qalam (otherwise best represented in albums in the Topkapı Palace Library). Particularly strong in drawings from 17th-century Isfahan, it includes works by its most famous painters, Riza-yi ‘Abbasi, Muhammad Qasim, Mu’in Musavvir, and the eclectic artists Muhammad Zaman, ‘Ali Quli Jubbah-dar and Shaykh ‘Abbasi.
Ottoman paintings include two folios from the Siyer-i Nebi (‘Life of the Prophet’) made for Sultan Murad III, and an exquisite 16th-century drawing of a dragon in foliage in the style of Süleyman the Magnificent’s court painter, Shah Quli.
Set two parts; 583 pages plus bibliography and index (the set); fully illustrated in colour, section on documentary inscriptions with translations; hardback with dust jackets (slipcased); 36 × 26 cm; ISBN: 978-1-874780-81-6
Available to purchase here:
For more information on Khalili Publications:
https://www.khalilicollections.org/publications/
8. Omar T. Nasr and Tim Corbett, PaRDeS: Diversifying Modern Austrian History: Exploring Parallels and Intersections between Jewish and Muslim Histories in Austria, in: Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany 29 (2023): 137-148
Open access here:
https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62207
9. Iran through maps 20. The Lar Valley (Central Alborz)
Les nomades de la vallée du Lâr (Alborz central)
The Nomads of Lâr (Central Alborz)
عشایر کوچ نشین لار (البرز مرکزی)
Depuis les Seljoukides jusqu’en 1978, la vallée du Lâr, fut la capitale (d’été) de l’Iran.
From the Saljuks until 1357, the Lâr valley was the (summer) capital of Iran.
از سلجوقیان تا سال ١٣٥٧ دره لار پایتخت (تابستانی) ایران بود.
Source et analyse en Français : Bernard Hourcade. La vallée du Lâr (Alborz central), capitale de la Perse/ Iran (1046-1978). CNRS, CeRMI, 2019. (Power point, d’une conférence) https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04605445
Source and summary in English : Bernard Hourcade. The Lâr valley (central Alborz), capital of Persia/Iran (1046-1978). CNRS, CeRMI, 2019. (Pdf of the Power Point of a lecture) La vallée du Lâr (Alborz central), capitale de la Perse/ Iran (1046-1979)
منبع : دره لار (البرز مرکزی)، پایتخت ایران (١٣٥٧ ٤٢٥.( CNRS، CerMI2019
.(پاور پوینت، یک سخنرانی(.
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04605445
IRANCARTO.CNRS.FR CARTORIENT.CNRS.FR
CeRMI Centre de Recherche sur le Monde iranien. https://cermi.cnrs.fr
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