Shii News – Academic Items
1. The Egyptian Journal of History and Philosophy of Science (EJHPS)
EJHPS is a peer-reviewed academic journal committed to publishing high-quality research that examines the historical and philosophical dimensions of science. The journal emphasizes contributions that delve into the rich heritage of the history and philosophy of science, including Islamic science and its global influence. For further information, please visit our website: https://ejhps.journals.ekb.eg/.
In addition, EJHPS hosts a monthly online public talk via Zoom, featuring a distinguished scholar discussing a selected topic within their area of expertise. All the members of the list are welcome to give a talk, attend and to participate.
2. Hikmat International Institute
International Academic Course on Islamic Mysticism (ʿIrfān)
Intensive Online Summer School
First, we so excited to announce that registration is now open for our highly anticipated International Academic Course on Islamic Mysticism (ʿIrfān)!
In this unique and deeply enriching course, we will be joined by some of the world’s most renowned scholars to explore the profound spiritual and philosophical dimensions of Islamic Mysticism.
This is a rare opportunity to engage with essential topics such as the nature of the soul, divine love, unity, mystical nature of human and the cosmos, and much more — all within a structured academic framework.
🖥️ Live Online Sessions (August 4 – 23, 2025)
📜 Certificate upon completion
🎓 Limited number of scholarships available
We encourage you to register as soon as possible to secure your spot and, if needed, apply for a scholarship.
https://hikmat-ins.com/islamic-mysticism/
3. Invitation to Digital British Islam: Westminster Policy Seminar
Digital British Islam: Policy Seminar
Monday 7th July 2025
Committee Room 18, House of Commons
Houses of Parliament, St Margaret St, London SW1A 0AA
12:00 – 14:00
Sponsored by Ayoub Khan MP
During the event, Prof Gary R. Bunt (University of Wales Trinity Saint David) and Prof Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor (Coventry University) will share findings and policy recommendations from the Digital British Islam project on key areas including gender, religious authority and political agency. The event will highlight important findings around digital inclusion amongst Muslim communities and elements of social justice and equality online.
The Digital British Islam project is a collaboration between the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, University of Edinburgh and Coventry University.
Places are limited and require registering in advance to attend. Please book your place on this form no later than Thursday 3rd July 2025: https://forms.office.com/e/kxsmVbFpJw
If you have any further queries, please contact laura.jones@ed.ac.uk
4. CfP – KNOW Workshop on Scholarly Practice in the Post-Formative Period (Ghent, 2–4 June 2026)
The ERC project KNOW: Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures (1200–1800) invites proposals for its first international workshop:
Problem Areas, Disciplinary Boundaries, and Scholarly Practice in the Post-Formative Period
Ghent University, 2–4 June 2026.
Submission deadline: 31 July 2025.
We welcome contributions that examine how scholars navigated and redefined disciplinary boundaries in Islamic intellectual traditions in the post-formative period.
For further details and submission guidelines, please visit:
5. The School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews invites applications for a fully funded PhD scholarship in Global Digital Humanities,
a dynamic and rapidly evolving field at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary
research.
This award supports innovative doctoral research that either employs or
critically examines digital methodologies within the context of Modern
Languages.
You will join an intellectually vibrant and internationally connected research
environment that draws on expertise from eight language areas, Arabic,
Chinese, French, German, Italian, Persian, Russian, and Spanish, and
collaborates with the School of Computer Science. This is your opportunity to
gain advanced technical and analytical skills while contributing original
research to the evolving landscape of digital scholarship in the humanities.
We welcome proposals across a wide range of topics, including, but not limited
to:
* Digital Pedagogy
* Digital Publishing and Encoding
* Digital Preservation and Archival Practice
* Digital Storytelling
* Languages and Technology
* Memory Studies in the Digital Age
* Quantitative Literary Analysis
* Transmediation through Gaming
Find the full details and application information at
https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.st-andrews.ac.uk%2Fstudy%2Ffees-and-funding%2Fscholarships%2Fscholarships-catalogue-search%2F%3Fquery%3D%2522Digital%2520Humanities%2522&data=05%7C02%7C%7C99eff596e4e743225e5208ddbadc990f%7C2e9f06b016694589878910a06934dc61%7C0%7C0%7C638872178821681494%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=D%2BGclKSzVLgIKf0N2RUgfKbiEPTkappk2eTBzCZBbpI%3D&reserved=0,
which is updated regularly.
Questions to :
Dr Orhan Elmaz
Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Arabic
oe2@st-andrews.ac.uk
6. Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature
Text, Translation and Commentary of the Durr al-Majalis
M Daneshgar,
EUP, 2025
7. Sufism and Power in the Ottoman Empire
The Writings of Ismail Hakki Bursevi (1653–1725)
K N Atanasova,
EUP, 2025
8. Afghanistan: Volume 8, Issue 1.
Following a successful Subscribe to Open campaign, volume 8 of Afghanistan is entirely Open Access! Explore the latest issue for articles on the Afghan Jamiat-i Islami party, the ethnocultural alienation of Hazaras in Afghanistan, the latest books relating to Afghanistan and more.
– Browse the issue: https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fddlnk.net%2Fc%2FAQjSfRDG5JYHGPmorJQFIN61yKYB-aanNJDXWPw9IcNzuPn8j00EB295tfN-
9. CFP Workshop: Beyond Eurocentrism and Arabocentrism, 12–13 September 2025, University of Aberdeen, UK
The workshop is co-organized by Florian Zemmin, Nicola Carpentieri, Nile Green, Jakub Zbrzeżny, and myself, and will be hosted by the School of Divinity, History, Philosophy, and Art History at the University of Aberdeen, UK.
The workshop will cover travel and accommodation expenses for participants whose papers are accepted. The deadline is 30 July 2025.
The workshop hopes to foster a more nuanced and inclusive understanding of the Arabo-Islamic intellectual tradition, one that recognises its pluralistic foundations and the dynamic interplay of race, ethnicity, religion and language in shaping premodern knowledge production. We hope to inspire a richer, more inclusive understanding of the pluralistic foundations of Arabo-Islamic scholarship and its lasting impact on modern identity and historiography. The workshop invites contributions from the humanities and the social sciences on the nature of diversity throughout premodern Arabo-Islamic history to the modern times. Each paper should present a clear case study that effectively highlights its historical and cultural contexts.
Those interested in presenting papers are invited to submit an abstract (500 words, including references) and a short biography (150 words) through the digital portal on the full CFP on AGYA’s website:
Full information at:
https://agya.info/publications/calls/beyond-eurocentrism-and-arabocentrism
10. ‘The Ottomans and Diplomacy’, Newnham College Cambridge, 10-12 July.
Information, programme and registration:
https://newn.cam.ac.uk/research/skilliter-centre-ottoman-studies/conferences-and-workshops
11. International Conference “Minority Law in Arab States: Governing Religious Diversity”, Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) & Centre of Expertise for the Law of Arab and Islamic Countries, Hamburg, 14-15 July 2025
The conference foregrounds the complex interplay between legal autonomy and the governance of religious diversity. It brings together scholars from law, anthropology, political science, history and Middle Eastern studies as well as legal practitioners. The conference examines the complex interplay between legal pluralism, minority-state relations, gender and inter-religious relations. It analyzes the impact of colonial policies, regional conflicts, and reform movements on the development of minority law.
Deadline for registration: 7 July 2025. Programme: https://tinyurl.com/3xyfx948
12. Colloque: Diversité(s) en islam. Fondements et implications d’une pluralité complexe, Strasbourg, 8-9 septembre 2025
Information et programme : https://tinyurl.com/5cyz6uw7
13. Symposium “Ethnographic Experiments from and with the Arab World”, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar, 15-16 December 2025
This symposium seeks to critically engage with classical epistemological debates in anthropology by locating them within the diverse intellectual traditions shaping the Arab world and its shifting geopolitical realities. These debates include, but are not limited to, questions of scale and distance, ethnographic excess, critique, ethnographic refusal and the limits and possibilities of comparison in anthropology.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 August 2025. Information: https://tinyurl.com/mrxfr7xp
14. 28 Fellowships (10 Months) of the “French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme” at Seven Institutes of the Aix-Marseille, Cergy, Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes and Paris, 2026-2027
The Programme is open to all disciplines in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH) and to all other research fields interfacing with the SSH. FIAS awards fellowships to outstanding researchers of all career levels, from postdoctoral researchers to senior scientists. The minimum requirement is a PhD + 2 years of research experience at the time of the application.
Deadline for applications: 16 July 2025. Information: https://www.fias-fp.eu/fellowships/faq
15. New “MA in Politics of Energy, Infrastructure and Environment”, Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
This MA offers a multidisciplinary exploration of energy use, the transition to sustainable sources, and the environmental impacts of infrastructure and energy. Integrating perspectives from the humanities and social sciences, the course examines these critical issues with a particular focus on the Middle East, a region with paradigmatic struggles around environmental preservation and fossil fuel use.
Rolling deadline – _applications at any time.
Information: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/politics/energy-infrastructure-environment/
16. Hybrid Lecture Series: “Humanity, Sufi Thought, and Healing II” Lecture Series, Üsküdar University, Istanbul, 23-27 July 2025
The Institute intends for the lecture series to be a safe space wherein participants can ask the difficult ethical and theological questions and receive fulfilling answers from renowned scholars who have brought back pearls of wisdom from Sufi figures. Simultaneous English-Turkish translation will be provided.
Deadline for applications: 17 July 2025. Information: https://tinyurl.com/yma42wcr
17. Articles on “A Sociolinguistics of Islam: Exploring Multilingualism & Meaning in Faith” for a Special Issue of the “Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development”
This special issue seeks to foreground the theoretical and empirical orientation of Sociolinguistics of Islam by attending to how Islam, as faith, worldview, and cultural practice, shapes – _and is shaped by – _linguistic practices at various social, cultural, and political sub-strata.
Deadline for abstracts: 22 August 2025.
Information: https://ibrarspace.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/call-for-papers-1.pdf
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