Shii News – Academic Items
1.Jan-Peter Hartung, ‘Approaching Taliban Ideology through Layers of Time’.
CSI ONLINE Monday Majlis on the 9th of December, 17:00-18:30 (UK time)
Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
Register please on this link:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rdu2srjgrGNVDIoeptFzTR__cmUbdwYS2
2. Nur Baba: A Sufi Novel of late Ottoman Istanbulby Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu
(Routledge, 2023).
3. Doha Residence Program in Advanced Arabic & Social Studies
Fall Semester 2025
A number of merit-based tuition waiver and housing support
The Language Center at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI) is pleased to announce its Fall semester 2025-2026 Doha Residence Program in Advanced Arabic Language and Social Studies.
The Program is a unique forum for academic and cultural exchange between the DI’s predominantly native Arabic- speaking graduate students and faculty (from across the Arab world) and their international non-native or heritage peers.
The DRP is offered for one semester on site in Doha. It meets the language, culture, and academic needs of advanced non-native and heritage graduate students who wish to strengthen their language and cultural skills, as well as prepare for specific challenges related to their academic areas of expertise. The Program is delivered entirely in Arabic and consists of a twin advanced language-training and academic components.
The language-training component prepares students to function professionally in Arabic and offers dedicated courses in language, translation, and content-based instruction. The program adapts to the academic needs of students as a base for linguistic and cultural acquisition, emphasizes productive and presentation skills, and develops higher levels of proficiency in speaking, listening, reading and writing.
The academic component gives fellows the opportunity to take advantage of the wide array of unique graduate-level courses the DI distinguished faculty teach in Arabic through its academic units: The School of Social Sciences and Humanities and the School of Public Administration and Development Economics. For more detailed information about the DI, please go to:
https://www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/EN/Pages/default.aspx
The Doha Residence Program is an important part of the DI’s mission to establish, maintain, and nurture intellectual links and two-way dialogues between its students, faculty, and the international learning and research community.
The DI aims to create an enduring legacy of intellectual innovation and education within the Arab world and beyond. It assumes and promotes the Arabic language as a tool of scientific inquiry, an official language in public discourse, and a primary language for teaching and research.
To Apply to the Doha Residence Program, click on the link below:
https://dilc.wufoo.com/forms/m1l744dv0cr3eir/
Semester Program Features:
- 6 credits of Intensive Arabic,
- A language partner,
- Option to audit graduate academic courses taught in Arabic,
- Option to have an academic partner,
- Cultural program
- Access to the DI and Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies rich conferences, symposia, and guest lectures.
Admission Requirements:
- Advanced level in Arabic,
- Tuition fees: 9,000 QAR (approximately 2,250€ or 2,465$),
- Housing: 11,000 per semester (approximately 2,650€ or 3,000$).
Program Dates:
- Application Deadline: March 15, 2025
- Start of Classes: August 24, 2025
- End of Program: December 04, 2025
* Reading Week Holiday: 26-30 October, 2025
4. Fellowship – Mongol Connections: A research network project and travelling seminar hosted at The Courtauld
We invite applications from early career (post-doctoral) and advanced doctoral levels for a three-year (2025-2027) travelling seminar project entitled Mongol Connections. Mongol Connections is made possible with support from Getty through its Connecting Art Histories initiative. We are seeking to develop a collaborative network of researchers and scholars in Art History and sister fields—anthropology, history, archaeology, among others—at different early career stages, to foster new connections between scholars across national and disciplinary boundaries, to stimulate and contribute to the burgeoning of a field in scholarship.
The Project
Mongol Connections (https://courtauld.ac.uk/research/mongol-connections/) approaches histories of the arts of the Mongol era (13-14th centuries) as intersecting, connecting, and competing histories of objects, artists, and technologies, across the Eurasian expanse of the Great Mongol State. The project aims to foster new connections between scholars beyond national and disciplinary boundaries, to stimulate a new field of scholarship which uses the Mongol case as a research tool for investigation into trans-Asian, and transnational perspectives on to the arts, and to surface new collaborative projects that can sustain beyond the lifetime of Mongol Connections.
Annual ten-day seminars will bring together the selected team of scholars, conservators, archaeologists, and cultural heritage professionals from Mongolia, East, West, South and Central Asia, as well as Europe and North America, with leading subject specialists. The traveling network will convene, for about 10 days, in Mongolia (August/September 2025), Uzbekistan (July/August 2026) and the United Kingdom (March 2027), with the final trip timed to coincide with the opening of the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, London, on the art of the Mongol world, and its accompanying conference.
This is a unique and exciting opportunity for members of the travelling seminar to create a network of researchers of all career stages from multiple localities along the Mongol routes. Visits will include archaeological sites and museums, and pre-assigned scholarly presentations on site, as well as meetings and colloquia at leading academic institutions along the way. The travelling seminar offers an important opportunity for ECR and doctoral candidates to generate new collaborative and interdisciplinary research and build their experience working with partners in and outside academia. Prior to the first trip and between each one, the group will convene remotely to share reports, blogs, discussions, expanded bibliographies, image albums, and other forms of research and reflection related to our joint studies and travels.
Travel details
The extraordinary opportunity to travel to Mongolia and Uzbekistan will offer unexpected discoveries but also will require readiness to meet potential challenges of travelling long distances and sometimes along unpaved roads. A long journey by vans or four-wheel drives capable of navigating rough roads will be required to traverse part of the Gobi Desert, for example. Sleeping in ger camps and sharing mealtimes are part of the joy but are also at times demanding of everyone’s good cheers. The journeys are as comfortable as we can arrange and as exciting and richly instructive for the group as can be organised. The cost of economy flights to and from each destination, standard, shared accommodations, transportation to-from airports in main arrival cities, and most meals are covered during the travel period. Single person accommodations will be extra! The London visit, in early 2027, will serve as a capstone to the travelling seminars coinciding with the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, the accompanying conference, a gathering at The Courtauld, and including visits to nearby museums and private collections.
Applying to join Mongol Connections
Participants are expected to be in the early career stage after receipt of their PhD or be at the doctoral level. They are also expected to be available to join all three annual trips (2025, 2026 and 2027) and to contribute remotely to online discussions and resources for the three-year duration of the project. The participants who decide to pull out of the seminars will need to inform the project leader and the project manager at least two months in advance as the fluctuating numbers of travellers change the costs borne by the tour companies that organise the trips and affect the Mongol Connections budget. By applying to the scheme, you also consent to the sharing of your information within reason with the Getty for the purposes of project planning.Application is by CV and covering letter that includes a statement of up to 1500 words outlining how your knowledge and experience will contribute to the aims of the Mongol Connections project and how participation aligns with your research and professional goals. All application materials should be sent in PDF format to mongolconnections@courtauld.ac.uk and Amanda.Leong@courtauld.ac.uk using the subject line: Mongol Connections Application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
We will be having a short information session on 6th January 2025, 2 pm GMT where Professor Sussan Babaie, the lead on Mongol Connections, will introduce the traveling seminar and answer questions. Please email mongolconnections@courtauld.ac.uk for a zoom link to attend this information session.
Application materials:
Your CV + a covering letter that has your name, email, physical address, and your affiliation, if any. The letter is in effect a rationale for why you think you should be part ofMongol Connections project, how you can contribute to the development of this research network and how you envision participation in this travel seminar to impact your future research.
Deadline for receipt of applications is 13th January 2025, 5pm GMT.
Potential interviews for shortlisted candidates will be carried out between the 11th-21st February 2025. Recommendation letters from references will also be requested from shortlisted candidates.
Applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application by 24th February 2025.
For further information or an informal discussion about the project, please contact Professor Sussan Babaie: sussan.babaie@courtauld.ac.uk
5. Workshop – Christian Arabic intensive course at Westminster College, Cambridge, UK
Read Christian Arabic in Cambridge in January 2025! Join our intensive course at Westminster College, Cambridge, UK.
Sign up here: https://www.westminster.cam.ac.uk/biblical-languages/christian-arabic
Course dates: 20–25 January 2025.
Contact Email
URL
https://www.westminster.cam.ac.uk/biblical-languages/christian-arabic
6. Jabbari, A., ‘From Persianate Cosmopolis to Persianate Modernity: Translating from Urdu to Persian in Twentieth-Century Iran and Afghanistan’, Iranian Studies (2022), 55, 611–630
Open Access at: https://doi.org/10.1017/irn.2022.21
7. HYBRID Research Colloquium “Histories of Ottoman Political Thought: New Perspectives” by Prof. Kaya Sahin (Ohio State University), Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, 17 December 2024, 16:00 CET
Information and registration: https://www.ieg-mainz.de/en/institute/dates-and-press/events
8. Workshop “Calligraphie et inscriptions aux frontières du monde islamique”, Sorbonne Université, 22-23 janvier 2025
Cette rencontre est organisée en deux temps : une table-ronde réunira d’abord un chercheur, une calligraphe et un tailleur de pierre, dans un échange portant sur les modus operandi. Une journée d’études rassemblera ensuite archéologues, historiens de l’art et épigraphistes travaillant sur les inscriptions sur les rives de la mer Noire, la Péninsule Ibérique, et le monde indo-persan.
Information, programme et inscription : https://callfront.hypotheses.org/7068
9. Winter Workshop of the Mediterranean Seminar: “The Multilingual Mediterranean”, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 28 February – 1 March 2025
The workshop’s aim is to bring together scholars working on the history of multilingualism in the Mediterranean region. Our theme, “the multilingual Mediterranean,” encompasses such topics as language contact zones, multi-lingual art forms and media, and the relationships between language and identity. Our hope is to attract contributions from scholars working on several geographical contexts and historical periods in the Mediterranean world.
Information and programme: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-the-multilingual-mediterranean-the-winter-2025-mediterranean-seminar-workshop-28-february-1-march-urbana-champaign?e=82aeb6c61d
10. “The Ottoman Demographic and Family History Symposium (ODFHS)”, Binghamton University, SUNY, 21-22 March 2025
This conference aims to bring together scholars, archivists, and practitioners interested in the demographic, genealogical, and family history of various populations in the Ottoman Empire over its long history.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 December 2024. Information:
https://networks.h-net.org/group/discussions/20052075/call-abstracts-symposium-binghamton-universit
11. HYBRID Conference “Reclaiming History: Islam and Cultural Patrimony in the 21st Century”, Abu-Sulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University, Faifax, VA, 2 Days in Mid-April 2025
We are calling for papers to address the phenomenon of cultural destruction with an eye to understanding the nature of such loss in places such as, but not limited to, Afghanistan, Bosnia, China, Gaza, India, Iraq, Lebanon, Mali, Myanmar, the Palestinian Territories, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen ; as well those efforts to redress the crimes of looting and to restore cultural patrimony as an act of reconciliation.
Deadline for abstracts: 3 January 2025. Information: https://islamicstudiescenter.gmu.edu/articles/21477
12. „46th Annual Conference of MELCom International“ – The European Association of Middle East Librarians, Sorbonne Nouvelle University Library, Paris, 20-22 May 2025
The conference sessions will deal with library material from and on the Middle East: Librarianship, collection development and acquisition policies. – Cataloguing policies and practices. – Catalogues and bibliographies. – Electronic resources and digitisation projects. – Digital humanities & Middle Eastern collections. – Cooperation projects between libraries holding Middle Eastern collections. – History of libraries, ownership and readership. Etc.
Deadline for abstracts and registration: 19 January 2025.
Information: https://melcominternational.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/MI_2025_Circular_1_EN.pdf
13. Workshop “Crisis and Preaching: Lexis, Framing, Timings in the Middle East (19th – 21rst Century)”, Institut français de Jordanie, Amman, 26-27 May 2025
Is preaching consubstantial with crisis? How have the various religious traditions present in the Middle East approached the notion of crisis? This workshop aims to identify what “constitutes a crisis” for particular religious actors at a given moment in contemporary Middle Eastern history. It will examine the preaching efforts of the different religious traditions, as well as the transformations of religious discourse in the Middle East.
Deadline for abstracts: 12 January 2025. Information: https://predicmo.hypotheses.org/1262
14. Conference “Signatures and Seals: Identification and Validation Marks in the Medieval Near East”, IFAO, Cairo, 20-21 October 2025
Scholars are invited to submit papers on stamps and seals – regardless of their material or carrier – and on the various types of signatures on medieval documents from the Near East. Papers on the many languages spoken in this cultural area are welcome, and the various disciplines of the humanities can be addressed (archaeology, diplomacy, sociology, etc.).
Deadline for abstracts: 24 December 2024.
Information: https://www.ifao.egnet.net/recherche/manifestations/ma1655/
15. Conference „Philosophy and Poetry in Islamic Contexts“, University of Erlangen, 14-17 January 2026
Themes: Different historical periods, ranging from pre-Islamic poetry to contemporary poetic forms that address philosophical questions, as well as aesthetic theories and mystical perspectives. – The classical period, marked by dialogues between philosophy and poetry, and the modern period, focusing on the influence of European philosophy on poets in Islamic contexts. – Christian, Jewish and other non-Islamic poetic traditions in Islamic contexts.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2025. Information:
16. POSTS:
Berliner Institut für Islamische Theologie
Position: Research fellow (m/f/d) in the field of Islamic Law in History and the Present (1/2 part-time employment, E 13 TV-L-HU, temporary for 4 years)
Qualifications: Completed academic degree in in Islamic theology or Islamic studies; interest in research on Islamic law and related topics such as comparative law, ethics and philosophy of law; knowledge of Islamic and legal research methods; very good knowledge of German, English and Arabic.
Deadline for applications: 27 December 2024. Information: https://is.gd/iV6nIo
Assistant Professor Interested in Socio-Legal Aspects of Contemporary Middle East/North Africa and/or Middle East/North African Diasporas (Criminology, Law and Justice), University of Illinois, Chicago
We seek an exceptional emerging interdisciplinary scholar with broad and innovative theoretical and teaching interests in any socio-legal aspects of this region and its diaporas including incarceration/carcerality, repression, human rights, international law, militarism, securitization, and state violence.
Deadline for applications: 30 December 2024.
Information: https://uic.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/12531?c=uic
Postdoc Fellowship in Modern Middle East Studies (2 Years), Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University
We seek a scholar whose research and teaching focuses on Ottoman Palestine, Mandatory Palestine, and/or Palestine/Israel. We welcome applicants from any discipline in the humanities, broadly defined. Preference given to scholars conducting research in two or more languages.
Deadline for applications: 15 Januaray 2024. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29312
Assistant/Associate Professor of Middle East Politics, George Washington University, Washington, DC
We seek a professor with expertise in Middle East politics and the ability to teach courses on Iran and U.S.-Iran relations. Speciality in Iranian politics; International relations, comparative politics, Middle East politics. Fluency in Persian is required.
Deadline for applications: 20 December 2024. Information: https://www.gwu.jobs/postings/116111
Ph.D. Research Grants of the Orient-Institut Istanbul 2025/26
The purpose of the grant is to provide support for research in Turkey to Ph.D. candidates not living in Turkey. The research grant consists of a monthly stipend of € 1,200for the duration of usually ten to twelve months. Short term grants of up to 90 days may also be made available. Travel expenses of a journey to and from Turkey will be reimbursed. Good command of Turkish or another source language necessary for the proposed project is obligatory.
Deadline for applications: 2 January 2025.
Information: https://oiist.org/en/ph-d-research-grant-announcement-2025-26/
17. 2nd Wadjih F. al-Hamwi Prize for the Best First Book in Mediterranean Studies (2024)
The Prize covers scholarly and trade publications published from 2021 to 2023 inclusive. The committee is most interested in books that break new ground conceptually or methodologically, are comparative and/or inter-disciplinary, that emphasize intercultural/interregional/interreligious contact. Books from any period and from any Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines are welcome.
Deadline for applications: 31 December 2024. Information: www.mediterraneanseminar.org/book-prize-2024
18. Summer School “Citizenship and Religious Pluralism”, Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies, Cairo, 15-25 July 2025
We welcome students enrolled in doctoral studies or having defended their theses on the theme of citizenship and religious pluralism in 2023 or 2024, from all the universities in the Mediterranean basin that are working on this issue within their discipline (political science, law, history, philosophy, theology, economics). Each student will present the current state of their research, including their research questions, hypotheses, and findings.
Deadline for application: 1 February 2024.
Information: https://www.ideo-cairo.org/en/anawati-chair/summer-school-citizenship/
19. Bāyazīd: The Life and Teachings of the Mystic Abū Yazīd al-Basṭāmī (d. ca. 234/848)
Based on the Earliest Sources
Brill, 2024
Annabel Keeler
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- December 07, 2024
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