Shii News – Academic Items
1. CfP: seminar for ACLA, this year in Houston, TX, May 20-23, 2027
ACLA seminar, “The Best Companion: The Aesthetics of Book Love in Arabic Literature,” is now available on the ACLA website:
https://www.acla.org/seminar/05c7d866-cd74-46a7-8813-1779a18fd04e
The ACLA deadline for paper proposals is Sept 22, 2026.
2. Call for Contributions: Reframing Regions: Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East/North Africa in Comparative and Connected Perspectives [LASA Congress, Mexico City, Mexico, June 16-20, 2027
This roundtable brings together scholars working on the historical, cultural, and political connections between Latin America and the Caribbean and the Middle East and North Africa. Though scholarship on transnational and global Latin America has expanded considerably, exchanges between these regions remain relatively underexamined despite long histories of migration, commerce, diplomacy, religious exchange, political solidarity, and cultural production.
We invite participants to share works in progress, emerging research questions, methodological reflections, and conceptual approaches that illuminate the movements of people, ideas, texts, objects, and artistic practices across Latin America/the Caribbean and the MENA region from the early modern period to the present. We particularly welcome comparative and connected approaches, as well as work that considers these regions through the lenses of decolonial thought, translation, and transregional networks.
Rather than a series of formal paper presentations, the roundtable will center on conversation and collective exchange. Participants will offer brief interventions followed by an extended discussion among roundtable participants and audience members. We hope to foster a collaborative intellectual space in which scholars can share questions, approaches, and works in progress, identify connections across fields and regions, and explore possibilities for developing new research collaborations and conversations.
We welcome proposals from scholars at all career stages and from a range of disciplines, including history, anthropology, sociology, political science, religious studies, literary and cultural studies, media studies, art history, architecture, and related fields.
Submissions may describe a specific research project, a work in progress, a methodological or conceptual intervention, or a set of questions that would benefit from discussion in a roundtable setting. Submissions in Spanish as well as English will be considered for acceptance. Please reach out to elvira.blanco@columbia.edu by August 25.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Early modern and colonial encounters
- Migration, diaspora, exile, and transnational communities
- Comparative and connected histories of colonialism, nationalism, and state formation
- Anti-colonial thought, revolutionary movements, and political solidarities
- Literature, film, music, and other forms of cultural production across regions
- Translation, multilingualism, and the circulation of texts and ideas
- Religion, secularism, and identity
- Race, ethnicity, and indigeneity in comparative perspective
- Contemporary geopolitical, economic, and cultural relations between the regions
- Methodological and conceptual approaches to studying Latin America/the Caribbean and MENA in relation
Ali Noori PhD
Lecturer in Religion | Columbia University
Bahari Visiting Fellow (2026-27) in the Persian Arts of the Book | University of Oxford
alinoori@sas.upenn.edu | (404) 545 – 2785 | alinoori.net
3. The LOEWE Centre Dynamics of Religion (DynaRel) at Goethe University Frankfurt invites proposals for its first international annual conference, “Neighboring Textual and Intellectual Traditions: Dialogues, Polemics, and Translations.”
The conference examines textual and intellectual relationships between Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions from Late Antiquity to the present. It focuses on dialogue, polemics, and translation, asking how religious traditions relate to one another through processes of exchange, reception, appropriation, transformation, and demarcation. The Call for Papers may be of particular interest to scholars working on the medieval Islamic lands and their Jewish and Christian textual and intellectual contexts.
Contributions from both early-career and established scholars are welcome.
Conference: 1–3 February 2027
Venue: Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Conference language: English
Submission deadline: 31 August 2026
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words, together with a brief biographical note of no more than 100 words, to Selma Schwarz at schwarz.s@em.uni-frankfurt.de. Further information is available via the website link.
This announcement is submitted by Anja Glaser on behalf of the DynaRel Communications Team and the conference organisers.
Contact Information
Selma Schwarz
LOEWE Centre Dynamics of Religion (DynaRel), Goethe University Frankfurt
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words, together with a brief biographical note of no more than 100 words, by 31 August 2026.
Contact Email
URL
https://dynamiken-des-religioesen.uni-frankfurt.de/call-for-papers-erste-intern…
4. Call for submissions from Consequence Forum
For the Translations Feature in the spring 2027 issue, we invite previously unpublished translations from Farsi into English that examine the human, cultural, psychological, or historical consequences of war in Iran. We are particularly interested in work that moves beyond the battlefield to explore how violence is remembered, inherited, silenced, resisted, or reimagined, and how conflict reshapes memory, community, identity, and meaning across time.
We welcome:
1- Fiction and creative nonfiction up to 2,000 words
2- Up to five poems or ten pages of poetry
Submissions should include the English translation and the original Farsi text in a single Word document, along with brief author and translator biographies, a short cover letter, and confirmation that permission to translate and publish the work has been secured.
The reading period runs until October 15, 2026. Full submission guidelines are available here.
5. Call for Papers: ACLA Panel on the Question of National Allegory and Forms of Narrativity in the Global South
To propose a paper, please check this link.
The conference will be held in person at the University of Houston, May 20-23, 2027, and online, May 15 & 16, 2027.
If you have any questions about this panel, please reach out to either me (fshams@upenn.edu ) or Mohsen (mohsen.maleki@mail.utoronto.ca ).
Panel Abstract copied below:
“Beyond National Allegory: Forms of Narrativity in the Global South”
The emergence of the modern nation-state and the contested and uneven path of modernization generated a crisis of representation, giving rise to an extraordinary range of forms of narrativity throughout the Global South. Some writers depict this crisis-ridden era through nationalist narratives, while others frame it through allegories of ruin, exile, myth, apocalypse, fragmentation, oil, religion, the collapse of empires, or failed modernization. In his controversial essay “Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism”, Fredric Jameson argues that Third World literature must “necessarily” be national allegory, as in the Third World, the strict divisions between the libidinal-personal and the political-collective have not solidified. Aijaz Ahmad in “Jameson’s Rhetoric of Otherness and the National Allegory” reveals the problematic character of categories such as the Third World and the national allegory as master codes to explain “all” literary production.
Instead of asking whether Global South literature is or is not national allegory, this seminar asks how writers have navigated the shifting landscape of modernization and the turbulent formation and evolution of the nation-state through a diverse repertoire of narrative strategies and symbolic forms. If Jameson’s national allegory pinpoints one recurring strategy, what other allegorical modes arise from the heterogeneous experiences of colonization, partition, occupation, decolonization, oil extraction, ecological disaster, imperial collapse, migration, or religious tensions? As many of these nation-states brought together multiple linguistic, ethnic, and religious communities, what is the political significance of the narrative strategies through which writers have responded to the emergence of the nation-state and nationalism? How do these writers go beyond Jameson’s binary opposition of postmodernism and nationalism as the so-called cultures of the “first” and “third” world? What is the political significance of narrative strategies such as the recurring narrative of modernity as Fall? Going beyond Jameson’s “necessary” nationalist ideology, how do the writers of the Global South respond to what Ahmad calls “the multiplicities of intersecting conflicts based upon class, gender, nation, race, region, and so on,” and what narrative forms do they invent to capture this complex intersection? What other forms of collectivity beyond the category of the nation have these writers imagined? By mediating Jameson’s proposal through Ahmad, this seminar aims to show how “the national allegory” is one among many narrative strategies in the vast repertoire of allegorical responses through which writers have represented promises, contradictions, and failures of the modern nation-state and the modernization process. We welcome papers that examine the literary, cinematic, and artistic representations of modernity, modernization, and the nation-state across the Global South.
6. Hikmat International Institute is pleased to announce its
Each course consists of one live online session per week, providing an opportunity for sustained study, discussion, and direct engagement with the lecturer.
- Exploring and Understanding Islam in the West
Lecturer: Dr Chris Hewer
Schedule: Thursdays | 02:00 P.M UTC
This course explores Islam and the ways in which it has been understood and encountered in Western contexts, offering participants an opportunity to engage with important questions surrounding Islam, Muslim thought, and contemporary Western perspectives.
- Avicenna’s Metaphysics
Lecturer: Dr Jari Kaukua
Schedule: Wednesdays | 01:00 P.M UTC
An in-depth exploration of Avicenna’s metaphysics, covering key themes such as essence and existence, modal logic, the Necessary Existent, God’s knowledge of particulars, future contingency, and freedom of the will. The course brings classical Avicennian thought into conversation with contemporary philosophical questions.
- The Abrahamic Twelvefold: Authority, Anthropology, and Covenant
Lecturer: Dr Kurt Anders Richardson
Schedule: Tuesdays | 04:00 P.M UTC
A cross-tradition exploration of authority, anthropology, and covenant in Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Persian intellectual traditions. Drawing on scriptural, theological, philosophical, and mystical sources, the course examines themes including human nature, mortality, covenant, religious authority, and contemporary questions concerning ecology, technology, and human destiny.
Registration Deadline: September 1, 2026
For full course descriptions, schedules, lecturer information, and registration, please visit:
https://hikmat-ins.com/weekly-live-courses/
7. The Mohamed Ali Foundation Fellowship Advisory Panel welcomes applications for the 2027 Mohamed Ali Foundation fellowships, the residencies for which will run from 26 April-25 June 2027.
The Mohamed Ali Foundation is a UK charity whose aims include advancing the education of the public in the history of the Islamic World, of Egypt and of the Mohamed Ali Family in particular, especially the period of reign of Khedive Abbas Hilmi II (1892-1914).
In 2018 the Mohamed Ali Foundation announced the launch of this Fellowship Programme, and which is established to devote scholarly attention to the Abbas Hilmi II Papers held at Durham University and to make the collection’s strengths more widely known to scholars. It is hoped that the fellows’ work will foster deeper understanding of an important period of Egyptian history, and of a transformative era in East -West relations.
The fellowship programme is based at Durham University and managed by an international Advisory Panel comprising academic subject specialists. The programme began in 2019 with the residency of the first fellow Dr Pascale Ghazaleh of the American University in Cairo: her inaugural lecture and the lectures of subsequent fellows are now available online. More fellowships will be awarded over the next years. An Advisory Panel, chaired by Professor Anoush Ehteshami of the Institute for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies will appoint one or two fellows each year.
Fellows will be early career (post-doctoral) or established scholars. The nature of the collection will often require good reading knowledge of Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, French, and English. The online catalogue of the collection indicates the languages of each file of material.
Fellows will research the Abbas Hilmi II Papers, on an agreed topic, and deliver a lecture at Durham University. Each lecture will ultimately form a chapter in a volume of high quality and original research to be edited by Dr Ghazaleh. In the interim the lectures will be published in the university’s Middle East Papers series. The breadth of material in the Abbas Hilmi II Papers will reward an interdisciplinary approach. In order to guide candidate fellows an outline plan of this volume is now provided in the fellowship application documentation. This is not intended to be prescriptive and the Advisory Panel will consider alternative suggestions so long as they are well-grounded in the Abbas Hilmi II Papers and this is evidenced in the application proposal.
The Fellowship, tenable jointly in IMEIS and Grey College, entitles the holder to full access during their residency to departmental and other University facilities such as Computing and Information Services and the University Library. Accommodation is provided at Durham during the Easter term (28 April-27 June 2025), but there is flexibility to arrange residencies in different terms to suit fellows’ availability, and fellows may be permitted to reside in Cairo or Istanbul for the duration of the fellowship and using the digitised collection which is freely accessible online. All fellows will visit Durham, if only briefly, in order to deliver their lecture in June. Lectures and other activities elsewhere during the fellowship will be encouraged.
Fellows who reside at Durham will also be encouraged to take a full part in academic and collegiate life, delivering the already mentioned lecture and perhaps also contributing to seminars.
Fellows will be awarded an honorarium upon completion of their fellowship, and accommodation and all meals will be provided for the duration of the fellowship; a research travel grant is also available to each fellow.
In this, the final year of the fellowship programme, the panel is particularly interested in applicants working on the following topics:
- Infrastructure in its social and political context;
- The use of new technologies in promoting and publicising the Khedive to a wide audience;
- Gender dynamics within the Khedival family and Egyptian society at large during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries;
- The Khedive’s estate and holdings, with a focus on the management of these assets through such mechanisms as waqf;
- The nationalist movement and its relation to the Khedive;
- Political activism, especially by secret organizations using e.g. assassination as a means of protest
Applicants are advised to familiarise themselves with the online catalogue of the Abbas Hilmi II Papers, or the collection itself, and to review the outline plan of the edited volume provided below. More detailed information on the fellowship programme is also provided.
Application Process
The application period for the 2027 fellowship begins in August 2026.
Applicants are required to undertake the following:
- Complete the Application Form
- Send a copy of your Project Proposal (2-3 pages) alongside a copy of your CV (Curriculum Vitae) in support of your application to maf.fellow@durham.ac.uk
*Please note you will be required to complete both stages of this process in order for your application to be considered.
The deadline for 2027 Fellowship programme applications to be received is Tuesday 20 October 2026.
Enquiries can be directed to maf.fellow@durham.ac.uk
8. CFP: Byzantium from the Margins: Critical Perspectives on the Historiography of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Panel at the International Congress on Medieval Studies
Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture Sponsored Panel
62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
May 13–15, 2027
Organizers: Catherine McNally (MIT) and Andy Chen (Harvard)
This panel will bring into conversation emerging scholars working across Byzantine studies to reevaluate inherited historiographical traditions and to reflect on the epistemological conditions through which Byzantium has historically been construed. Papers will reexamine the twentieth-century historiographical frameworks that have shaped the study of the medieval Eastern Mediterranean, with particular attention to the scholarly marginalization of communities that resist clear confessional, ethnic, or imperial categorization. Long governed by disciplinary models rooted in nationalism, positivism, and colonialism, Byzantine historiography has often privileged imperial centers rooted in doctrinal orthodoxy at the expense of peripheral, typically heterodox communities that complicate fixed notions of empire. However, disciplinary predispositions towards normative accounts which present Byzantium as monolithic become untenable when confronted with the reality of the medieval Eastern Mediterranean’s fractured geopolitical landscape, linguistic hierarchies, and diverse forms of social organization.
The papers may come from relevant disciplines in Byzantine, Islamic, and eastern Mediterranean studies such as, but not limited to, history, art and architectural history, and comparative literature, with a preference for those incorporating innovative technological applications and/or integrating understudied archives into their approach.
Abstracts of 300 words are due September 15, 2026, and must be submitted using the conference portal (https://icms.confex.com/icms/2027/prelim.cgi/Session/8539 ). The session will take place in-person.
Please submit any questions to Catherine McNally at csmcn@mit.edu.
Questions that papers might address could include (but are not limited to):
How did particular political, economic, and social conditions in the twentieth century predispose scholars towards certain perspectives and conclusions in Byzantine studies? What methodological prejudices can the reevaluation of historiographical commonplaces reveal and resolve?
Funding
The Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse session participants up to $800 maximum for scholars based in North America and up to $1400 maximum for those traveling from outside North America. Funding is through reimbursement only; advance funding cannot be provided. Eligible expenses include conference registration, transportation, and food and lodging. Receipts are required for reimbursement.
Contact Information
Panel Organizers: Catherine McNally (csmcn@mit.edu ) and Andy Chen (achen1@g.harvard.edu )
Contact Email
9. The Great Lakes Adiban Society (GLAS) invites submissions for its tenth annual workshop, scheduled to take place in Kalamazoo, MI, on October 3-4, 2026. We welcome works in progress that would benefit from extensive discussion and feedback, and especially encourage graduate students to participate.
The Society aims to provide a regional forum for scholars of Islamicate adab to meet and share their work, particularly on the medieval and early modern periods. We leave our parameters of language and genre intentionally open in order to invite as wide a collaboration as can be useful, but as a group we are generally interested in the literary production of the broad complex of premodern Muslim societies across the Eastern Hemisphere. This includes the major Islamicate languages of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu, as well as many others (Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Hebrew, Spanish, etc.) that participate in similar literary conventions.
Those who wish to participate can apply by filling out our online application before August 30, 2026.
Please note that each accepted participant will be given 45 minutes to present and discuss their work; because of this, we have limited space and may have to turn down some submissions if we receive too many. In such an event, preference will generally be given to graduate students, junior scholars based in the Great Lakes region, and works in progress. This year we have funds to cover the usual meals—Friday dinner through Sunday lunch—plus accommodation for two nights at a local hotel.
All applicants can expect to hear back from us by early September when the schedule is finalized.
10. We are pleased to announce that Digital Collections, the online collections platform of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (State Museums of Berlin), is now available with a brand-new interface and new features.
The Museum for Islamic Art’s collection can be explored directly through Digital Collections, with dedicated filters that allow you to discover objects from our collection.
More than 12,500 objects from the Museum for Islamic Art are currently available online, with detailed information about each object. The collection is continuously expanded and updated by our team.
The platform includes a download feature, making it easier to access available images with the Creative Commons License.
You can access Digital Collections directly, or reach the collection through the Research module of the Online Portal Islamic·Art, which also offers stories, insights, and background information about objects from the Museum for Islamic Art.
Contact Information
Museum für Islamische Kunst (im Pergamonmuseum)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 6
D-10117 Berlin
Contact Email
URL
https://search.smb.museum/en?sammlungen=Museum+f%C3%BCr+Islamische+Kunst
11. The journal Arts (ISSN 2076-0752, IF 0.5) is currently running a Special Issue entitled “Islamic Art Past and Present in Aesthetic-Critical Perspective”. Dr. Valerie Gonzalez is serving as Guest Editor for this issue.
Please visit the Special Issue website at:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/464A809POE
The submission deadline is 28 February 2027. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline, as papers will be published on an ongoing basis if accepted for publication following peer review. Submitted manuscripts should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office
in advance (arts@mdpi.com).
Arts is an open-access journal publishing peer-reviewed papers under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0). This allows all published papers to be freely and permanently available online. Open access increases the visibility and discoverability of your research, and is supported by authors, institutions, and funding organizations from around the world.
Contact Information
Valerie Gonzalez
Contact Email
Valerie.gonzalez152@goglemail.com
URL
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/464A809POE
12. Call for Papers
Environments of Healing: Art, Nature, and Medicine in Medieval Communities, East and West
International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK
5–8 July, 2027
This panel will explore the relationships between art, medicine, and nature in western and eastern communities across the Middle Ages. Medieval art historians have studied medical images for as long as the discipline has existed, but scholarship has often treated medical art as merely representing natural and cosmological phenomena. Moving beyond iconography, this panel invites papers that consider how images and objects actively mediated bodies, environments, and medical practices
The connection between medieval healers and nature was complex; nature inflicted illnesses but also provided cures. Visual art played a central role in communicating and negotiating this fraught relationship. Art was used to teach and record medical knowledge, but art objects were also employed as apotropaic, protective, and powerfully curative in themselves.
Potential themes include, but are not limited to:
- Cosmological medical diagrams
- Illustrated herbal manuscripts
- Apotropaic and curative amulets, stones, and scrolls
- Natural materials and motifs in hospitals and pharmacies
- Animals and insects in medical manuscripts
- Depictions of healers, patients, and remedies
Submissions are due on Friday, September 11, 2026, to zka5@case.edu and ceh160@case.edu. Please ensure your submission includes:
- Your name
- Your current affiliation
- Paper title
- Abstract (max 250 words)
- An updated CV
Decisions will be announced by Monday, September 28. If accepted, this session will take place in person at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds, 2027.
Questions and concerns can be directed to the co-coordinators:
Zoe Appleby, zka5@case.edu, Doctoral Candidate, CWRU
Claudia Haines, ceh160@case.edu, Doctoral Candidate, CWRU
13. ONLINE Lecture “The Suppressed Mother: Sarah and Khadījah in Muslim and Jewish Tra-ditions”, by Zohar Hadromi-Allouche, Islamic Studies and Islamic Theology, University of Helsinki, 17 September 2026, 17:00 – 19:00 CET
This talk will examine the construction of two prominent matriarchal figures: Sarah and Khadījah. Through examining the construction of each character through reception history, from Late Antiquity to modern times, this talk will demonstrate the systematic suppression of feminine authority across literary, religious, and scholarly traditions, with special emphasis on modern and academic writings.
Information and registration: https://tinyurl.com/4ea2x7es
14. Panel on “Byzantium from the Margins: Critical Perspectives on the Historiography of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean” at the “62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies”, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 13-15 May 2027
This panel will reevaluate inherited historiographical traditions and reflect on the epistemological conditions through which Byzantium has historically been construed. Papers will reexamine the twentieth-century historiographical frameworks that have shaped the study of the medieval Eastern Mediterranean, with particular attention to the scholarly marginalization of communities that resist clear confessional, ethnic, or imperial categorization.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/9vpkhpxa
15. Conference “Literatures of the Global South: Space, Place, Environment” (Focus Middle East), University of Toronto, 2-4 June 2027
Space: How complicated minor spaces – such as the home, field, or street index – material ties across regions? – Place: How does a shared experience of neocolonialism shape literary produc-tions across the Middle East and Latin America? – Environment: How do characters perceive envi-ronmental collapse, and how might the latter inspire new forms of thinking the self and its belonging to a greater collectivity?
Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/yvb7hx49
16. Associate Professor or Professor in the History of Political Thought and Institutions (Focus MENA), Stanford University, California
We invite applications from scholars working in any time period and region, and encourage candidates whose work brings non-Western, transnational, comparative, or global perspectives.
Qualification: – Ph.D. in History or a closely related field. – Outstanding record of research and publication. – A demonstrated commitment to excellent teaching and mentoring. – Capacity to sus-tain a world-class research program.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/3vbv2zy3
17. General Membership (7 Months) at the School for Historical Studies (Focus Islamic World), Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
Accepted Members receive access to the extensive resources of the Institute, including offices, access to libraries, subsidized restaurant and housing facilities, and some administrative services. Applicants must have a substantial record of publication and a Ph.D. awarded no later than 31 July 2026. Scholars are not required to hold a current institutional affiliation. Qualified candidates of any nationality are invited to apply.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/3zxzu8sd
18. Mellon Fellowship (1 Academic Year) for Assistant Professors at the School for Historical Studies (Focus Islamic World), Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
The accepted fellow receives access to the extensive resources of the Institute, including offices, access to libraries, subsidized restaurant and housing facilities, and some administrative services.
Qualification: – Received Ph.D. between 1 January 2020 and 31 July 2026. – Currently Assistant Professors at a college or university in the U.S. or Canada. – Able to return to the current institution after the fellowship.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/3zxzu8sd
19. Three Postdoctoral Fellowships (1-2 Years) at the School for Historical Studies (Focus Islamic World), Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
The accepted fellow receives access to the extensive resources of the Institute, including offices, access to libraries, subsidized restaurant and housing facilities, and some administrative services.
Qualification: – Received Ph.D. between 1 July 2024 and 31 August 2026. – One opening for a scholar in the field of Medieval Studies. – Two openings for scholars in the field of Europe & the World post 1800. – At least one writing sample published in a peer-reviewed source.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/3zxzu8sd
20. Doha Residence Program in Advanced Arabic & Social Studies Spring 2027, Language Center at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI), 10 January – 29 April 2027
This immersive, semester-long program offers a unique opportunity for international non-native and heritage Arabic-speaking graduate students to deepen their linguistic, cultural, and academic profi-ciency while engaging in a vibrant intellectual exchange. The program is delivered entirely in Arabic, ensuring maximum language exposure and practice.
Deadline for applications: 1 September 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/ujusn7w8
21.Articles for “The Journal of World Religions and Interfaith Harmony (JWRIH)” (Focus Islam)
JWRIH welcomes original research papers on a wide range of religious, philosophical, and theolog-ical topics: – Interfaith Harmony & Dialogue (Muslims, Christians, Jews, etc.). – Comparative Reli-gion & World Religions. – Philosophy of Religion & Theological Studies. – Ilm ul-Kalam (Islamic Systematic Theology). – Orientalism & Occidentalism. – Religious Ethics, Morality, and Contemporary Society. – Sociology and Anthropology of Religion. – Historical Perspectives on Religious Co-existence.
Deadline for contributions: 31 August 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/3dra7b7u
22.Articles for the “Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG)”, Sec-tion Islamic Studies
The ZDMG invites the submission of original and innovative contributions to the field of Islamic Studies. We particularly welcome articles with a historical orientation grounded in philological anal-ysis. Contributions should focus on pre-modern Muslim societies (up to approximately 1800 CE) and address topics such as history, religion, culture, law, literature, or social structures.
Deadline for contributions: 15 October 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/y8rxpjj8
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