Author: Joel L. Kraemer
Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, Vol. 10, 1987
A New Document in the Early History of the Quran (Codex Mashhad, an ʿUthmānic Text of the Qurʾān in Ibn Masʿūd’s Arrangement of Sūras)
Author: Morteza Karimi-Nia
Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 10 (2019)
Early Islamic Art, 650–1100: Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Volume I
Early Islamic Art, 650-1100 is the first in a set of four volumes of studies by Oleg Grabar. Between them, they bring together more than eighty articles, studies, and essays, work spanning half a century. Each volume takes a particular section of the topic, the three subsequent volumes being entitled: Islamic Visual Culture, 1100-1800; Islamic Art and Beyond; and Jerusalem. Reflecting on the many incidents of a long academic life, they illustrate one scholar’s attempt at making the order and a sense of 1400 years of artistic growth. They deal with architecture, painting, objects, iconography, theories of art, aesthetics, and ornament, and they seek to integrate our knowledge of Islamic art with Islamic culture and history as well as with the global concerns of the History of Art. In addition to the articles selected, each volume contains an introduction which describes, often in highly personal ways, the context in which Grabar’s scholarship developed and the people who directed and mentored his efforts. The present volume concentrates primarily on documents provided by archaeology understood in its widest sense, and including the study of texts with reference to monuments or to the contexts of these monuments. The articles included representing major contributions to the understanding of the formative centuries of Islamic art, focusing on the Umayyad (661-750) and Fatimid (969-1171) dynasties in Greater Syria and in Egypt, and on the Mediterranean or Iranian antecedents of early Islamic art. Historical, cultural, and religious themes, including the role of court ceremonies, the growth of cities, and the importance of the Qur’an, are introduced to help explain how a new art was formed in the central lands of the Near East and how its language can be retrieved from visual or written sources.
This book is translated into Persian and published in Iran. For more information on the translation please click here.
Iranian Journal of Islamic Studies (IJIS)
Authors are cordially invited to submit scholarly articles concerned with Islamic Studies to the Iranian Journal of Islamic Studies (IJIS), which will officially launch in March 2020. IJIS is a quarterly journal of The University of Religions and Denomination (URD). This journal will also submit applications for Web of Science and Scopes after its two first issues get published.
About the Journal
The Iranian Journal of Islamic Studies is mainly concerned to help promote understanding and dialogue among the Islamic Denominations so as to help prepare the ground for peaceful coexistence and friendship among Muslims all around the world. It will be devoted to the examination of all aspects of Islam and the Islamic world. Special attention will be paid to works on Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh), Islamic Theology (Kalam), history of Islam, politics, sociology, international relations, as well as ethics. Mr. Seyyed Abolhasan Navvab is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. For further information on IJIS, follow this link: http://ri.urd.ac.ir/news?newsCode=951
URD already publishes the journal of Religious Inquiries, which is covered in Web of Science. For more information on this journal, follow this link: http://ri.urd.ac.ir/
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Manuscripts submitted to this journal will be deemed as they have not been published and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the criteria of scholarly excellence. Our review process allows the authors and researchers an opportunity to use their expertise in a number of significant ways. Please note that IJIS uses Crossref™ to screen papers for unoriginal material. By submitting your paper to this journal you are agreeing to originality checks during the peer-review and production processes.
We are engaged to settle a website to get the articles for blind peer review; yet, until then, this journal accepts articles by direct email. Please send your submission to Ahmad Amid, the Managing Editor; email: urdjournals@gmail.com
Call For Applications Up To 5 Postdoctoral Fellowships For The Academic Year 2020/21
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
UP TO 5 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/21
(Location: Berlin / Closing Date: January 4, 2020)
The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for up to five postdoctoral fellowships for the academic year 2020/21 for the research program
EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE EAST—THE MIDDLE EAST IN EUROPE (EUME)
EUME seeks to rethink key concepts and premises that link and divide Europe and the Middle East. The program draws on the international expertise of a growing network of scholars in and outside of Germany and is embedded in university and extra-university research institutions in and outside of Berlin. EUME supports historical-critical philology, rigorous engagement with the literatures of the Middle East and their histories, the social history and life of cities and the study of Middle Eastern political and philosophical thought as central fields of research not only for area or cultural studies, but also for European intellectual history and other academic disciplines. The program explores modernity as a historical space and conceptual frame. EUME is interested in questions relating to ongoing transformation processes in Europe and the Middle East, in re-imaginations of the past and present that contribute to free, pluralistic and just societies.
The program puts forward three programmatic ideas:
1) supporting research that demonstrates the rich and complex historical legacies and entanglements between Europe and the Middle East; 2) re-examining genealogical notions of mythical ‘beginnings’, ‘origins’, and ‘purity’ in relation to culture and society; and 3) rethinking key concepts of a shared modernity in light of contemporary cultural, social, and political divisions and entanglements that supersede identity discourses as well as national, cultural or regional canons and epistemologies that were established in the nineteenth century.
EUME supports and rests upon interconnected research fields and themes:
TRAVELLING TRADITIONS: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON NEAR EASTERN LITERATURES
directed by Friederike Pannewick (Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies/Department for Arabic Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg) and Samah Selim (Rutgers University) reassesses literary entanglements and processes of translation and canonization between Europe and the Middle East.
CITIES COMPARED: URBAN CHANGE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND ADJACENT REGIONS
directed by Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi (both Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin) contributes to the debate on plurality, migration, citizenship and civil society from the historical experience of conviviality and socio-cultural, ethnic, and religious differences in the cities around the Mediterranean.
TRADITION AND THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY: SECULARISM, AUTHORITARIANISM AND RELIGION FROM MIDDLE EASTERN PERSPECTIVES
directed by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva) tries to rethink key concepts of modernity in the context of experiences, interpretations, and critiques from the Middle East in order to contribute to a more inclusive language of culture, politics and community.
POLITICS OF CHANGE, ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE PRESENT, AND PROCESSES OF CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
are research themes that emerged during the last years and are represented by the work of several EUME Fellows and members of the Collegium (e.g. Cilja Harders, Friederike Pannewick, Rachid Ouaissa).
These research fields and themes mark the framework for the fellowship program that constitutes EUME. Since 1997, more than 280 scholars from and of the Middle East have been EUME Fellows, who, by their scholarly projects, engagement, and their questions relating to the order of knowledge, society and politics, shape the academic program of EUME.
FELLOWSHIPS
The fellowships are intended primarily for scholars in the humanities and social sciences who want to carry out their research projects in connection with the Berlin program. Applicants should be at the postdoctoral level and should have obtained their doctorate within the last seven years. Fellows gain the opportunity to pursue research projects of their own choice within the framework of one of the above-mentioned research fields and in relation to the overall program Europe in the Middle East – the Middle East in Europe. Successful applicants will be fellows of EUME at the Forum Transregionale Studien, and associate members of one of the university or non-university research institutes listed below or connected to the Forum Transregionale Studien.
The fellowships start on 1 October 2020 and will end on 31 July 2021. Postdoctoral fellows will receive a monthly stipend of 2,500 € plus supplements depending on their personal situation. Organisational support regarding visa, insurance, housing, etc. will be provided. Fellows are obliged to work in Berlin and to help shape the seminars and working discussions related to their research field. Scholars are also invited to apply with own funding. The working language of EUME is English.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
An application should be made in explicit relation to one of the research fields and consist of
– the application cover sheet (please download the form here);
– a curriculum vitae (including a list of publications);
– a project description (no longer than 5 pages), stating what the scholar will work on in Berlin if granted a fellowship; and
– the names of two university faculty members who can serve as referees (no letters of recommendation required).
The application should be submitted by e-mail as one PDF file in English and should be received by January 4, 2020, sent to:
Europe in the Middle East – the Middle East in Europe (EUME)
c/o Forum Transregionale Studien
Attn: Georges Khalil
Wallotstrasse 14, 14193 Berlin
Fax +49 30 – 89 001 440
In case of questions, please consult the FAQ or write an email to eume@trafo-berlin.de.
INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE EAST—THE MIDDLE EAST IN EUROPE (EUME) has been initiated in 2006 as a joint research program of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. It builds upon the previous work of the Working Group Modernity and Islam (1996-2006). Since 2011 EUME is continued at the Forum Transregionale Studien.
In scholarly terms EUME is directed by a Collegium that currently consists of Ulrike Freitag (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin), Cilja Harders (Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin), Kader Konuk (Institut für Turkistik, Universität Duisburg-Essen), Nora Lafi (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin), Rachid Ouaissa (Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg), Friederike Pannewick (Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg), Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva), Samah Selim (Rutgers University), and Stefan Weber (Museum for Islamic Art, Berlin).
The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien (Forum) is a research platform that promotes the internationalization of research in the humanities and social sciences. The Forum provides scope for collaboration among researchers with different regional and disciplinary perspectives and appoints researchers from all over the world as Fellows. In cooperation with universities and research institutions in Berlin and outside, it carries out research projects that examine other regions of the world and their relationship to Germany and Europe systematically and with new questions. The Forum currently supports the following research programs and initiatives: Europe in the Middle East – the Middle East in Europe (EUME), Prisma Ukraïna: Research Network Eastern Europe, Re:Constitution: Exchange and Analysis on Democracy and the Rule of Law in Europe. Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship and 4A Lab: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics are programs that are closely connected to the Forum.
The Forum is a founding member of the Academy in Exile and of the consortium of MECAM: Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb to be established in Tunis in 2020.
For more information on the Forum Transregionale Studien, please visit:
www.forum-transregionale-studien.de
For more information on EUME and its research fields, please visit:
www.eume-berlin.de
For information on the research institutions participating in EUME, please visit:
– Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, FU Berlin
www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de
– Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, FU Berlin
www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/polwiss/
– Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
www.zmo.de
– Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, FU Berlin
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/friedrichschlegel
– Institute of Islamic Studies, FU Berlin
www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/en/e/islamwiss
– Museum for Islamic Art
www.smb.museum/isl
– Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies, FU Berlin
www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/en/e/semiarab
– Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg
www.uni-marburg.de/cnms
– Institut für Turkistik, Universität Duisburg-Essen
www.uni-due.de/turkistik/
Sardar Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari: The Chief Commander of Freedom
According to unpublished document
One of the difficulties in understanding the history of Iranis the lack of focus on the role of women in different periods. In the turbulent history of our beloved homeland, there were women who have struggled in all different fields and very aspects against foreign and domestic enemies by their own ingenuity, adequacy, and cleverness to compensate for some inefficiencies and ineffectiveness of the rulers. The continuity and perpetuity of the names and characters in the history, requires timely and adequate progression and deconstruction of the individuals and this does not only involve men, but women, who, with their courageous work, have been able to identified as an effective historical element in a nation or country. Women who have raised against the indecent elements of the society and have played an efficient role in Iran`s accomplishments.
The unfortunate circumstances of Iran in the past decades have affected the lives of women and men alike, but it is evident from the documents that the role and struggles of women in the context of historical and social developments have not received the attention it deserves. In many of the existing texts, women are called as sisters, mothers, and daughters of prominent men instead of having their own names and real identities. This practice has caused the researchers a great deal of problems.
In this book, the life of one of the greatest and most celebrated women in contemporary Iranian history has been studied. Sardar (The chief commander)Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari, who is briefly referred to as Bibi Maryam, is a legendary figure who is considered as a prominent and influential woman among all courageous Bakhtiari commanders.
A set of extremely important documents about her role in the WWI, supporting Germany, the Ottomans and their allies, which resulted in her receiving medals, gifts and letters from the German, Ottoman and Austrian emperors along with the regent of Iran and Haj Agha Noorollah Najafi Isfahani (Constitutional Leader of Isfahan), are published in this book for the first time.
In this book, some documents and pictures are published for the first time, including the images of Sardar Bibi Maryam, her medals, the documents of her presence in WWI and the Constitutional Revolution, her correspondence with the scholar and religious authorities of her time and other documents that could be of use to the interested researchers.
A General And Bibliographical Dictionary Of The Fine Arts
Containing Explanations Of The Principal Terms Used In The Arts Of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, And Engraving, In All Their Various Branches; Historical Sketches Of The Rise And Progress Of Their Different Schools; Descriptive Accounts Of The Best Books And Treatises On The Fine Arts; And Every Useful Topic Connected Therewith.
Winter courses in Iran
The University of Religions and Denominations (Qom, Iran) is the sole specialized university of religions in Iran which has been active for more than two decades and with the goal of creating peace, peaceful coexistence and mutual understanding and dialogue has connected with several institutions and universities across the world
The International Department of the university has a successful history of organizing academic conferences and short courses in which many professors and students from across the world have participated. For more information regarding the university please visit the following site: www.urd.ac.ir
The International Short Course Center of URD organizes courses twice a year in summer and winter. We are proud to announce the following courses for winter 2020:
Winter 2020 Courses
Course Dates
The 10th International Intensive Course on Shi‘a Studies
13-17 February 2020
Cultural Tour
18-21 February 2020
The 1st International Intensive Course on Mysticism and Sufism in Islam and Iran
22-26 February 2020
For more information or to reply to this email please contact us at: iisc@urd.ac.ir
Theater State and the Formation of Early Modern Public Sphere in Iran
Studies on Safavid Muharram Rituals, 1590-1641 CE
The book follows a thematic approach with the interplay between theoretical and historical themes in the presentation of material. The first part of the book opens with a description of the current discourse of ritual studies and public sphere in contemporary academic discourses.
While challenging the modernization assumptions dominant in historical and social theory, the section introduces the basic conceptual framework of the following historical chapters. Those not interested in theory can skip this section and move to the second part where I deal more with history, though in these chapters I continue to apply theory to various historical case studies. In the second part, the chapters that deal specifically with Muharram are divided into macro-micro historical analysis of the Safavid rise to power in the early sixteenth century and the historical emergence of Muharram rituals under their reign.
The final four chapters (excluding Chapter Seven, the conclusion) focus on Safavid Muharram rituals and, based on available primary sources, an attempt is made to underline the ambiguous performative processes in the course of the rituals.
Review: The Use and Abuse of Evidence: The Question of Provincial and Roman Influences on Early Islamic Law
Author: Wael B. Hallaq
Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 110, No. 1 (Jan. – Mar. 1990)