The Aga Khan Museum (AKM) in Toronto, Canada offers visitors a window into worlds unknown or unfamiliar: the artistic, intellectual, and scientific heritage of Muslim civilizations across the centuries from the Iberian Peninsula to China. Its mission is to foster a greater understanding and appreciation of the contribution that Muslim civilizations have made to world … Continue reading Call for Applications: Aga Khan Museum: Curator, Islamic Art History

University of Oxford Faculty of Oriental Studies Post-doctoral Researchers in Qur’anic Studies (2 posts) Four-year fixed term contract Grade 7: £31,604 to £38,833 p.a., full time This is an opportunity for outstanding scholars to join the research project Qur’anic Commentary: An Integrative Paradigm (QuCIP), funded by the European Research Council and directed by Nicolai Sinai. … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Oxford: Postdoctoral Researchers, Qur’anic Studies

The Department of History at Stanford University seeks to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor in the modern history of the Middle East and North Africa, with an emphasis on the Arab world from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era. Applicants will be expected to teach courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. … Continue reading Call for Applications: Stanford University: Assistant Professor, Modern History of MENA

The University of Cincinnati invites applications by advanced assistant and associate professors to fill the Inayat and Ishrat Malik Professorship in Islamic Studies. The position will begin in the fall of 2019. The search committee welcomes applications from scholars in the field of Islamic Studies, with research and teaching interests in such areas as Anthropology, … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Cincinnati: Assistant/Associate Professor, Islamic Studies

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities invites applications for a full professorship in “Islamic Law in the Past and Present," starting 1 October 2019. This professorship addresses religious jurisprudence (Fiqh), the methodology of law (Usul al-fiqh) and the philosophy of law in the classical canon of Islamic theology. It considers not only jurisprudence in the … Continue reading Call for Applications: Humboldt University, Berlin: Professor, Islamic Law

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities invites applications for a full professorship in Islamic Text Studies, starting 1 October 2019. The teaching and research focus of this professorship is on the Koran, as well as on the traditions of the Prophet’s teachings and life (Hadith and Sira). Both the historical contexts of the texts and … Continue reading Call for Applications: Humboldt University, Berlin: Professor, Islamic Text Studies

The Department of History at Furman University is seeking candidates for an open-rank, tenure-track position in any field of the history of the Middle East and the Islamic world. The chronological and geographical focus remain open, but the department is particularly interested in candidates with the ability to teach survey courses in Middle Eastern history, with … Continue reading Call for Applications: Furman University: Professor, Middle Eastern History

Two positions are available on a fixed term basis from 1st April 2019 (or as soon as possible thereafter) for a period of 2 years in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, College of Social Sciences and International Studies (SSIS) at the University of Exeter. The College wishes to recruit two Research Fellows to … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Exeter: Postdoctoral Fellow, Shi’a Islamic Studies

Brandeis University invites applications to fill the newly endowed Marash and Ocuin Chair in Ottoman, Mizrahi, and Sephardic Jewish Studies. This is a full-time faculty position to carry tenure in a department appropriate to the candidate’s discipline and area of research. The incumbent of the Chair will be a scholar of the history and culture of … Continue reading Call for Applications: Brandeis University: Chair in Ottoman, Mizrahi, and Sephardic Jewish Studies