The Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop aims to foster an interdisciplinary community of scholars working on the past and present of the Middle East. It takes as its founding premise the idea that the “Middle East” as an object of inquiry must fundamentally engage notions of boundaries, mobility and transformation. Our goal is to … Continue reading Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop
Mariam Sheibani, Visiting Fellow, ILSP: SHARIAsource, Harvard Law School This paper explores the tensions between conservative and innovative strains in Islamic law in twelfth-century Ayyūbid Damascus. The newly restored refugee capital of Damascus inherited the Shāfiʿī traditions of both Khurāsān and Iraq, which had developed autonomously throughout the tenth and eleventh centuries. While formal attribution … Continue reading SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Between Legal Conservatism and Legal Change: Fault Lines in Ayyūbid Damascus
As part of the Centre of South Asian Studies seminar series, Dr. Ali Altaf Mian of Seattle University will be presenting on "Contesting Courts: Islamic Law in Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia." This session will be chaired by Dr. Iza Hussin (Department of Politics and International Studies). Drinks will be served at the Centre afterwards. … Continue reading Cambridge Lecture: Islamic Law in Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia
Applications are invited for Fellowships of up to 6 months, for research into the Persian Arts of the Book. Research areas may include but are not limited to studies in Art History, Codicology, Calligraphy, Miniature Painting, the History of Islamic Book Production and Scribal Practices, Manuscript Cataloguing, and the Editing and Translation of Texts. Academics … Continue reading Call for Applications: Bodleian Libraries Fellowships in the Persian Arts of the Book
The Institute seeks a scholar with a very good knowledge of the field as a whole and excellent proficiency in at least one language of the MENA region. In their own research, applicants should have historical expertise (preferably in political, social or economic history) oriented towards questions of the present, as well as a high … Continue reading Call for Applications: Bern University: Professor, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut seeks an established scholar of prominent standing in his/her field of specialization for visiting appointment to the Alfred H. Howell Endowed Chair in History and Archaeology. The applicant will be a recognized senior academic specializing in Medieval or Modern Middle Eastern History and/or … Continue reading Call for Applications: American University of Beirut: Chair, History and Archaeology
The Stanford Center for Law and History invites paper submissions from graduate students for its second annual conference, which will center on the theme of the upcoming centennial of the 19th Amendment. SCLH’s goal is to bring together faculty, postdocs, and students for workshops, conferences, and lectures examining the relationships between law and history, broadly … Continue reading Call for Papers: Legal Histories of the 19th Amendment
The Department of History and Archaeology at the American University of Beirut invites applications for a full-time faculty position in modern Middle East history, with a focus on the Arabic-speaking world, to begin August 15, 2019. The position is tenure-track and open to all ranks (assistant, associate, and full professor). The position is open to … Continue reading Call for Applications: American University of Beirut: Professor, Modern Middle East/Arab History
The Sixth Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies 15 - 16 April 2019 (Arrival and Registration from 14 April) University of Nottingham Call for panels and papers Following BRAIS’s successful conferences in Edinburgh (2014), London (2015 and 2016), Chester (2017) and Exeter (2018), the organisers invite proposals for whole panels or individual … Continue reading Call for Papers: British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) 2019 Conference
Workshop Description: The study of Ibadi communities has grown rapidly over the past two decades, as demonstrated by a stream of new publications in Arabic, English, and French on different aspects of Ibadi history, law, hadith scholarship, and theology. Underlying most of these studies is a rich body of manuscript material and many Ibadi manuscript … Continue reading Call For Papers: Ibadi Manuscripts and Manuscript Cultures
Ehsan Yarshater Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Yale Program in Iranian Studies at The MacMillan Center, Yale University The Yale Program in Iranian Studies accepts applications for the Ehsan Yarshater Fellowship in Iranian and Persian Studies for 2019-20 (renewable for one year). The Post-Doctoral Associate will teach one course during the year, either in the Fall … Continue reading Call for Applications: Yale University: Postdoctoral Fellow, Iranian Studies
To support the mission of the Society to foster the study of books and other textual artifacts in traditional and emerging formats, and in keeping with the value which the Society places on the field of bibliography as a critical interpretative framework for understanding such artifacts, the BSA funds a number of fellowships designed to … Continue reading Bibliographical Society of America Fellowships
The American Society for Legal History and the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School are pleased to invite applications for the tenth biennial Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History (June 9-22, 2019). The purpose of the Hurst Institute is to advance the approach to legal scholarship fostered by J. Willard … Continue reading Call for Applications: Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History
Come to the film screening of the 2011 movie A Separation—about marriage, divorce, crime, and regret—directed by Oscar Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi (for The Salesman, 2017). A Separation won the … Continue reading SHARIAsource Film Screening – Study Break :: A Separation
The American University in Cairo invites applications and nominations for the position of Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. The School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HUSS) is made up of nine departments: Applied Linguistics; Arab and Islamic Civilizations; Arts; English and Comparative Literature; History; Philosophy; Political Science; Psychology; and Sociology, Egyptology and … Continue reading Call for Applications: American University in Cairo: Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences
What is the Fellowship? The Salzburg Global Seminar is an independent non-profit designed to create future leaders. It runs the Lloyd Cutler Fellows Program, which brings together 55 of the nation’s top law students for a two-day program with leading academics and practitioners in the fields of private and public international law. The aim is … Continue reading Call for Applications: Salzburg Cutler Fellows in International Law
The Institute of lslamic-Theological studies is searching for a University assistant ("post doc"). We are a young team and are offering an excellent working environment, flexible working hours and good training opportunities. Duration of employment: 4 year/s Extent of Employment: 40.0 hours/week Job grading in accordance with collective bargaining agreement: §48 VwGr. B1 lit. b … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Vienna: Postdoc, Islamic Theology
The Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to invite applications for one PhD scholarship in any area within its expertise. The scholarship will be funded by IMES and will cover tuition fees for the PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Applications for both the Scholarship and the PhD must … Continue reading PhD Scholarship in Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh
Event Summary: This symposium focuses on relationship breakdown where there is no state recognised marriage. This may include couples in a religious-only marriage, those whose ceremony was conducted by a non-religious belief organisation, those who are cohabiting, or a range of other relationship types which fall outside of the ambit of a state recognised marriage. … Continue reading UK Family Law Conference: “Relationship Breakdown: Informal and Legal Solutions”
Princeton University seeks a collaborative, service-oriented subject specialist to shape & enrich its top-rated library collections and provide outstanding library services in the interdisciplinary field of Near Eastern Studies. This librarian is a key member of the area studies & humanities team in the Collection Development Department. Responsible for identifying & acquiring materials from & … Continue reading Call for Applications: Princeton University: Near Eastern Studies Librarian
The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH) at Harvard University identifies and supports outstanding scholars whose work responds to the growing interest in the encompassing study of global history. We seek to organize a community of scholars interested in the systematic scrutiny of developments that have unfolded across national, regional, and continental boundaries and who … Continue reading Harvard Global History Postdoctoral Fellowship
Conference: 11-12 April 2019, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands In Muslim minority contexts, particularly in the UK and Europe, some of the prevalent discourses on religious-only Muslim marriages share an underlying assumption of a homogenous, legally recognised and culturally streamlined form of Muslim marriages found in Muslim majority contexts. However, this depiction does not represent … Continue reading Call for Papers: Muslim Marriages: Plurality of Norms and Practices
We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for our Fourth Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies, hosted by the University of Cambridge at St John's College on 9-10 April 2019. Deadline: 30 December 2018. We welcome proposals that engage with any aspect of Iranian studies within the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Subjects include … Continue reading Call for Papers: Symposia Iranica
The organising committee of the McGill Institute of Islamic Studies Graduate Student Symposium welcomes abstract submissions to their ninth annual symposium, to be held on 4-5 April, 2019 at McGill University. Our aim is to provide an opportunity for graduate students based in various parts of the world and approaching the study of Islamicate thought … Continue reading Call for Papers: McGill Islamic Studies Graduate Student Symposium
The European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS) is one of Europe’s largest conferences in Iranian Studies. It is held every four years and organized by the Societas Iranologica Europaea (SIE). The ninth edition of the conference will be hosted by the Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, in Germany, taking place from 9–13 September … Continue reading Call for Papers: European Conference of Iranian Studies
Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy is accepting applications for a Fellow for the Middle East. The Fellow will lead a research program focusing on women, human rights and refugee issues within the region. The position will be responsible for producing original, substantive, policy-relevant research to bring together diverse viewpoints addressing the issues of … Continue reading Call for Applications: Rice University: Policy Fellow, Middle East
The Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, with a starting date of July 1, 2019. Applicants must hold a PhD in a humanities or social science discipline with a research focus on Islamic Studies, or have a … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Alberta: Assistant Professor, Islamic Studies
