Call for Applications: Harvard Divinity School: Faculty Position, Islamic Studies

Harvard Divinity School Sperry Room, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA

Harvard University’s Faculty of Divinity seeks to make a full-time, tenure track appointment in Islamic Studies. We are particularly interested in a candidate with scholarly expertise either in: Islam in the Americas, Islam in Southeast Asia, or Quranic Studies. The candidate should be competent in the appropriate research languages and conversant with the broader, global … Continue reading Call for Applications: Harvard Divinity School: Faculty Position, Islamic Studies

Conference: “Constructing the ‘Public Intellectual’ in the Premodern World,” University of Manchester

Chancellors Hotel Manchester, United Kingdom

Constructing the ‘Public Intellectual’ in the Premodern World A two-day conference co-hosted by the Genealogies of Knowledge project, the Division of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, and the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester, UK. 5th-6th September 2019 | Chancellors Hotel, Manchester

Call for Applications: Research Fellow, Max Planck Foundation Office

The Max Planck Foundation Office in Heidelberg, Germany is hiring a Senior Research Fellow with a specialization in constitutional and/or sharīʿa principles. Job Summary The Research Fellow will implement project activities, including facilitating workshops and giving presentations on the topic of (Comparative) Constitutional Law and its role in fragile states. Key Responsibilities Under the supervision … Continue reading Call for Applications: Research Fellow, Max Planck Foundation Office

Call for Applications: Postdoc History of Islamic Art, University of Vienna

The University of Vienna seeks to fill the position of a Postdoc in the History of Islamic Art. A full post-doc position as university assistant is available at the Institute of Art History from October 1, 2019 (according to university contract regulations, 40 hours per week). The position is limited to four years. Please send … Continue reading Call for Applications: Postdoc History of Islamic Art, University of Vienna

Call for Applications: Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship

Harvard University Cambridge, MA

Radcliffe fellows are exceptional scientists, writers, scholars, public intellectuals, and artists whose work is making a difference in their professional fields and in the larger world. Based in Radcliffe Yard—a sanctuary in the heart of Harvard University—fellows join a uniquely interdisciplinary and creative community. A fellowship at Radcliffe is an opportunity to step away from … Continue reading Call for Applications: Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship

Conference: “Negotiation in Conquest: Wars, Treaties and Recollections of the Rise of the Caliphate,” Leiden University

Leiden University Leiden, Netherlands

Negotiation in Conquest: wars, treaties and recollections of the rise of the caliphate Date Thursday 12 September 2019 - Saturday 14 September 2019 Location Gravensteen Pieterskerkhof 6 2311 SR Leiden Room 0.11 The great conquests of the seventh and eight centuries brought under Arab-Muslim control an area that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the … Continue reading Conference: “Negotiation in Conquest: Wars, Treaties and Recollections of the Rise of the Caliphate,” Leiden University

Conference: “Democracy and Good Governance in Muslim-Majority Countries: Lessons from the Last 20 Years”

Copley Formal Lounge

20th Annual Conference of the Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy The Georgetown University's Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and the University of Denver's Center for Middle East Studies, and the Center for Global Policy are hosting a conference entitled "Democracy and Good Governance in Muslim-Majority Countries: Lessons from the Last 20 Years." Featuring Keynote Speaker Carl Gershman, … Continue reading Conference: “Democracy and Good Governance in Muslim-Majority Countries: Lessons from the Last 20 Years”

Call for Papers: Digital Methods and Resources in Legal History

In order to provide an opportunity for the critical discussion of digital methods and resources in legal history, and in order to learn about the vast array of such methods and resources, the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History will be holding a conference on "Digital Methods and Resources in Legal History" on March 19-20, 2020. … Continue reading Call for Papers: Digital Methods and Resources in Legal History

Call for Applications: Professor of Islam in Africa, University of Chicago Divinity School

The University of Chicago Divinity School seeks scholar(s) in the study of Islam in Africa for an appointment date of July 1, 2020. Rank and salary are open. We welcome applications at the assistant professor, associate professor, and full professor rank. We are particularly interested in candidates with scholarly expertise in Islamic religious thought and practice in Africa … Continue reading Call for Applications: Professor of Islam in Africa, University of Chicago Divinity School

Call for Applications: Assistant Professor, University of Southern California in Los Angeles

University of Southern California in Los Angeles

The Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles seeks to fill the Farhang Foundation Junior Chair in Iranian Studies at the Assistant Professor rank (tenure track). We are looking for a specialist of modern Iran with a social science orientation. Applicants with training in anthropology, sociology, political economy, … Continue reading Call for Applications: Assistant Professor, University of Southern California in Los Angeles

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