Week of Events
Workshop: The Middle East Beyond Borders, Fall 2020
Below is the message from the event coordinators. *** Dear MEBB colleagues, We hope your semester is off to a good virtual start. We are very excited to welcome you to a new season of Middle East Beyond Borders! This year we (Lucy Ballard and Chloe Bordewich) will be your coordinators with the continued support … Continue reading Workshop: The Middle East Beyond Borders, Fall 2020
Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor – Late Antiquity and/or Early Islam, University of Toronto, November 30, 2020
Assistant Professor - Late Antiquity and/or Early Islam Date Posted: 09/22/2020 Closing Date: 11/30/2020, 11:59PM EDT Req ID: 437 Job Category: Faculty - Tenure Stream (continuing) Faculty/Division: University of Toronto Scarborough Department: Department of Historical and Cultural Studies Campus:University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) Description: The Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) invites applications for … Continue reading Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor – Late Antiquity and/or Early Islam, University of Toronto, November 30, 2020
Seminar: Sirat ‘Antar and Formation of Arab Tribal Identity in Mamluk Egypt by Yossef Rapoport, The Department & Program in Near Eastern Studies (Princeton University), November 23, 2020 @ 12:00 – 1:20 pm
Seminar: Sirat ‘Antar and Formation of Arab Tribal Identity in Mamluk Egypt by Yossef Rapoport, The Department & Program in Near Eastern Studies (Princeton University), November 23, 2020 @ 12:00 – 1:20 pm
Topic: NES Seminar Series #12 Sirat 'Antar and formation of Arab tribal identity in Mamluk Egypt Speaker: Yossef Rapoport, Queen Mary University of London Respondent: Marina Rustow, Princeton University _____________________________________________________________ Yossef Rapoport is a historian of the social, economic, and legal history of the medieval Middle East, and a professor of Islamic history at Queen … Continue reading Seminar: Sirat ‘Antar and Formation of Arab Tribal Identity in Mamluk Egypt by Yossef Rapoport, The Department & Program in Near Eastern Studies (Princeton University), November 23, 2020 @ 12:00 – 1:20 pm
Online Talk: Translating Islamic Law: Mobility, History, Solidarity by Iza Hussin, Centre for Ethics (University of Toronto), November 23, 2020 @ 12:30 – 1:45 pm
Online Talk: Translating Islamic Law: Mobility, History, Solidarity by Iza Hussin, Centre for Ethics (University of Toronto), November 23, 2020 @ 12:30 – 1:45 pm
Translating Islamic Law: Mobility, History, Solidarity Translation encapsulates a series of distinct moves in the study of Islamic law, each with its own ethical and methodological implications. These implications are often obscured when we emphasise textual and discursive translation, at the expense of institutional and material processes. This paper discusses the work that translation does … Continue reading Online Talk: Translating Islamic Law: Mobility, History, Solidarity by Iza Hussin, Centre for Ethics (University of Toronto), November 23, 2020 @ 12:30 – 1:45 pm
Online Lecture: Ibn Iyās and his narrative voice(s) by Anna Kollatz, Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, November 26, 2020 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Online Lecture: Ibn Iyās and his narrative voice(s) by Anna Kollatz, Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, November 26, 2020 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
On November 26, 2020, 4-5 pm CET (10-11 am ET), Anna Kollatz will speak on some aspects of her recent research on Ibn Iyās: Ibn Iyās and his narrative voice(s) In this talk, Kollatz would like to discuss my approach to Ibn Iyās as a historical author and a narrator on history. Though his Badāʾiʿ … Continue reading Online Lecture: Ibn Iyās and his narrative voice(s) by Anna Kollatz, Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, November 26, 2020 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am