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1. Le Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien (CeRMI, UMR8041 CNRS) a le plaisir de vous annoncer la tenue de la XXVIIème Journée Monde Iranien, le vendredi 27 mars 2026 de 9h30 à 18h30 dans l’Auditorium du Pôle des Langues et Civilisations de l’Inalco, 65 rue des Grands-Moulins, 75013 Paris.
Vous pouvez consulter les détails de cette Journée sur le site du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/xxviie-journee-monde-iranien/

Nous espérons vous retrouver toutes et tous pour cette XXVIIème Journée qui cette année est organisée par nos collègues Matteo De Chiara (INALCO, CeRMI) et Davide Scarfagna (doctorant, INALCO, CeRMI).

Bien cordialement,

Denis Hermann,

Avec Justine Landau et Matteo De Chiara

 

 

 

 

 

2. Lisan-ı Türki

The Academy of Turkish Language and Turkic Culture

holds its online spring school:

Turkish & Ottoman Language Program

Join our comprehensive online language program this spring to explore the rich linguistic and historical heritage of the Turkish and Ottoman worlds. Whether you are an absolute beginner or an advanced researcher, our expert-led courses offer a tailored path to proficiency.

Turkish Language Stream

  • Elementary Turkish:A friendly foundation for absolute beginners focusing on daily life, essential vocabulary, and basic interactions.
  • Intermediate Turkish:Conducted primarily in Turkish (A2+), focusing on newspaper articles and novels through the Istanbul coursebook series.
  • Advanced Turkish:An immersive course designed to elevate vocabulary and grammar to a level of full comprehension of complex Turkish texts.

Ottoman Turkish Stream

  • Elementary Ottoman:Transition from modern Turkish to the Arabic script, learning to read printed texts and use specialized dictionaries.
  • Intermediate Ottoman:Deepen textual analysis with a focus on social sciences, manuscripts (Rika script), and various calligraphic styles.
  • Advanced Ottoman:An intensive survey of Ottoman historiography (15th–18th century), analyzing original primary sources and narrative strategies.

Our Faculty 

🔗 Learn more about all courses:

https://www.lisaniturki.com/

📝 Register here:

https://forms.gle/sYUJxWHHrBx56fyJ7

 

 

 

3. Al-Mahdi Institute:

Applications are now open for the Islam & Self-Development Programme (ISDP) running from 7th to 18th September 2026 at Al-Mahdi Institute, are now open! This 10-day residential programme is designed to challenge your perspective, enrich your spiritual journey, and help you gain a deeper understanding of Islam, yourself, and the world. Open to individuals from all backgrounds, the programme combines rigorous scholarship with meaningful self-development in a supportive learning environment, with no prior Islamic studies or Arabic required. Apply now to save £120 with our early bird offer and pay £480 instead of £600 until 26th March 2026! Learn more or secure your place on this transformative programme: https://almahdi.edu/isdp/

 

 

 

 

 

4. From Molecules to Memories – Barbara Huber Lecture Now Online

The recording of Dr. Barbara Huber’s plenary lecture (Colloquia Ceranea 2025), “From Molecules to Memories: Reconstructing Aromatic and Medicinal Practices in Ancient Arabia Through Biomolecular Archaeology,” is now available on the Ceraneum Centre YouTube channel:

Colloquia Ceranea VII playlist

 

 

 

 

 

5. Postdoctoral opportunity at Cambridge

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Modern Arabic Studies (Fixed Term)

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQX512/postdoctoral-research-associate-in-modern-arabic-studies-fixed-term

deadline: 17 April, 2026

 

 

 

 

6. ONLINE Lecture “(Il)Literate Africa? The Ajami Tradition, the Manuscript Heritage and the New Knowledge Factory in Sudanic Africa” by Amidu Olalekan Sanni (Lagos State University, Nigeria), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, 31 March 2026, 17:00 CET

The enormous wealth of manuscripts in formal Arabic and local languages in the modified Arabic script (ajami) provides evidence of extensive written traditions in Africa stretching back to centu-ries. What new insights have the ajami and the Sudanic African manuscript tradition offered in local and global (glocalized) scholarship and how can these be deployed to generate, transmit, and distribute new forms of knowledge in contemporary epistemic factory?

Information and registration: https://tinyurl.com/48fvu8r9

 

 

 

 

7. 4th Colloquium des jeunes chercheurs en archéologie soudanaise: “Sensory Worlds of the Nile Valley – Past and Present”, INHA, Paris, 10 June 2026, 9:00 CET

This study day explores the multiple dimensions of the history of the senses and of perception in the Nile Valley, from ancient to contemporary periods. This theme invites us to move beyond traditional approaches through a refined reading of material, architectural, iconographic and textual sources. It opens up new avenues of reflection on daily, craft, social, cultural and ritual prac-tices.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 March 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/4vk4f5ew

 

 

 

 

 

8. Workshop “The Social Dynamics of Communal Affiliation in Early Islam”, Universiteit Leiden, 11-12 June 2026

Research on interactions between Muslims belonging to divergent groups has tended to focus on theological polemics or political violence, rather than day-to-day interactions. We therefore lack a deeper understanding of what it meant to belong to a Muslim group during this early period of the first/seventh to third/ninth centuries on a more practical level. This workshop aims to address these concerns.

Information and program: https://tinyurl.com/mp8d5je3

 

 

 

 

 

9. Conférence : “Réalité et fiction dans les littératures arabo-musulmanes”, Lyon, 24-26 novembre 2026

Axes: Théoriser la fiction. – Fiction / réalité et politique. – Esthétiques et poétiques du fictionne. – « Re » présentation de soi, de l’altérité. – Le fictionnel et le religieux. – Fiction du futur, imaginaires écologiques et reconfigurations du reel. Langues de participation : français, anglais et arabe.

Date limite : 20 juin 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/5cmey3fj

 

 

 

 

 

10. Workshop: “Populist Word Order Narratives” (Focus MENA Region), German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, 24-25 September 2026

This workshop welcomes papers on how populist world order narratives are produced, circulated, institutionalised, and contested, especially work linking domestic populist claims to visions of in-ternational hierarchy, geopolitical change, regional order, strategic autonomy, or anti-hegemonic politics.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2026: Information: https://tinyurl.com/3hc69x7j

 

 

 

 

 

11. Graduate Conference: “Archival Abundance and Silences in Islamic Studies“, Department of Religion, Princeton University, 2-3 October 2026

This conference will examine the enduring significance of archives and archival theory for the study of Islam and Muslim societies. How can scholars of Islamic Studies imagine the archive as more than a historical, visual, or textual repository? In what ways can we approach tradition as an archive of knowledge? How do archives reproduce existing power structures and racial epistemologies? How can scholars of religion interrogate and disrupt the limits of the archival record?

Deadline for abstracts: March 23, 2026.. Information: https://tinyurl.com/47r7be8x

 

 

 

 

 

12. “Food and Foodways across the Mediterranean World”, Mediterranean Seminar Spring 2026 Workshop, University of Oregon, Eugene, 22-23 May 2026

From the medieval Islamicate “Green Revolution” to the stream of spices coming in along the “Silk Roads,” to the culinary transformations of the Colombian Exchange, the Mediterranean has been a crucible of culinary innovation and food looms large in our image of the Mediterranean and in the mind of its inhabitants.

Deadline for registration: 13 May 2026. Information and program: https://tinyurl.com/57xt93p9

 

 

 

 

 

13. PhD Research Fellowship (4 Years) in Arabic, Department of Foreign Languages, Uni-versity of Bergen, Norway

The call prioritizes proposals focussing on the Arabian Peninsula and the western Indian Ocean,1500–1800 CE, with a focus on, for example, legal or historiographical sources in Arabic.

Deadline for applications: 15 April 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/32hw54dd

 

 

 

 

 

14. École d’été en islamologie IFI-Idéo « Sciences islamiques en dialogue : tradition azharienne et islamologie critique », Le Caire, 13-26 juillet 2026

Condition pour candidater : être francophone (une connaissance en français niveau B1 est souhaitable), être inscrit en thèse de doctorat en islamologie ou dans une discipline affiliée, justi-fier d’un niveau linguistique en arabe équivalent à B1.

Les candidatures doivent être adressées avant le 1er avril 2026.

Information : https://tinyurl.com/2p9kfvs5

 

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