Billets – APAMi

Le mécénat architectural des femmes dans le monde turco-mongol (XIII-XVe siècles)

Shâh-e Zende, Samarcande © Patlexpat, juin 2011.

Les femmes ont toujours joué un rôle non négligeable dans la vie politique et économique des sociétés du monde islamique. Toutefois, la place sociale qui leur est accordée varie selon le contexte géographique et temporel. Suite aux conquêtes mongoles, puis sous leurs successeurs, les femmes accèdent à une plus grande représentation dans l’espace public turco-iranien. Ces populations nomades d’origine turque venues des steppes de Mongolie, ont une organisation politico-sociale, qui repose sur un système de clans accordant aux femmes un rôle public aussi important qu’inhabituel pour les sociétés musulmanes de l’époque. Ainsi, lorsque que ces populations adoptent l’islam et la charia, les femmes des milieux aristocratiques se voient notamment dotées de fonds financiers personnels qui ont naturellement conduit à des actes de mécénat où elles apparaissent comme les commanditrices ou les représentantes de la dynastie (voir Coran, IV, versets 7 et 11).

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Job – Wayne State University, Art & Art History, Pre-Faculty, Fellow in Art History (deadline : June 25th, 2023)

Wayne State University, Art & Art History

Pre-Faculty Fellow in Art History

Institution Type:	College / University
Location:	Michigan, United States
Position:	Post-Doctoral Fellow

Job Description

POSITION: The College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts of Wayne State University is seeking qualified candidates for appointment as a Pre-Faculty Fellow in Art History in the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History, full-time, beginning no later than August 17, 2023. The Fellowship is part of the Wayne State Pathway to Faculty Program. The Pathway to Faculty program is an innovative initiative to diversify the professoriate at WSU. In this program, Pre-Faculty Fellows will be guided to and prepared for the acceptance of a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Art and Art History. This includes mentorship in research and teaching at the university level. This is a 2-year Pre-Faculty Fellowship with the opportunity to teach in the second year. The position transitions to a tenure-track position following a review and meeting milestones established by the fellow’s mentorship committee.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: During the pre-faculty fellowship, the successful candidate will be expected to conduct scholarly research and publish research findings related to their area of expertise. Areas of interest may include one of the following: (1) art, architecture, and visual culture of the Islamic world, with a focus on art of the Islamic Mediterranean, West Asia or South Asia; or (2) art, architecture, and visual culture of the Americas, with a focus on underrepresented groups. The successful candidate will conduct a program of scholarly research and publication while working closely with a mentorship committee and will contribute to other aspects of the intellectual life of the university. During the second year of the pre-faculty fellowship a typical teaching load consists of one course per year with an increase in the third year. Fellows will participate in the Wayne State Pathway to Faculty Program to ensure a successful transition to a tenure-track position. Once moved into a tenure-track position, the fellow will have the opportunity to teach courses in their areas of expertise along with introductory level courses from the department’s general education offerings.

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Call for applications – Qur’anic manuscripts, past and present: Cataloging and digital tools (deadline : May 3rd, 2023)

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Corpus Coranicum), and Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation (London) are delighted to call for applications for another international training course/workshop in the series :

Scriptorium: Workshops on the study of Oriental manuscripts

This training course/workshop will be organised under the title:

“Qur’anic manuscripts, past and present:
Cataloging and digital tools” (18-23 september 2023)

The last decades have seen important progress in the exploration of the textual history of the Qur’an and its manuscripts. During the workshop, introductions into paleography, codicology, collection history of Qur’anic manuscripts, as well as cataloging will be given. Particular attention will be paid to digital tools developed for the study of Qur’anic manuscripts.

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L’architecture des mosquées en Chine

En 2014, il y avait plus de 39 000 mosquées enregistrées auprès des départements des Affaires religieuses du Gouvernement populaire chinois, dont environ 24 300 situées dans la région autonome du Xinjiang au nord-ouest du pays. Ces mosquées ont été érigées pour permettre aux musulmans chinois, au nombre de 23 308 000 en 2010 soit 1,8% de la population chinoise, de pratiquer leur foi.

La manière dont l’architecture typiquement islamique de la mosquée s’est adaptée au contexte chinois est particulièrement intéressante, la Chine étant elle-même héritière d’une longue et pérenne tradition architecturale au moment où l’islam s’étend aux diverses régions de l’empire. De plus, la Chine n’ayant pas toujours été un territoire unifié, il semble évident que différentes traditions architecturales de mosquées chinoises aient vu le jour au cours des siècles.

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Séminaire EPHE-PSL : Introduction à la codicologie arabe (6-10 mars 2023)

Le cours intensif « Introduction à la codicologie arabe » à l’EPHE (6 ECTS) est consacré à l’étude des caractéristiques matérielles du livre manuscrit en caractères arabes depuis les débuts de l’islam jusqu’à l’époque contemporaine.

Il est une invitation à s’éloigner de l’analyse du texte pour prendre en compte l’histoire de l’objet-livre dans son contexte spécifique de production et transmission. L’idée principale est d’apprendre à regarder, à lire, et à traiter les manuscrits d’une autre façon, avec d’autres yeux.

La nature de ce cours est éminemment pratique : travailler en bibliothèque quatre après-midis, de lundi à jeudi, avec des manuscrits originaux : les deux premiers jours à la BULAC – Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations, et les deux suivants à la BnF – Bibliothèque nationale de France. Une connaissance de la langue arabe est souhaitable, mais pas obligatoire.

Du 6 au 10 mars 2023, de 9h à 12h et de 14h à 17h, en Sorbonne et dans des bibliothèques parisiennes. Inscription requise à l’avance auprès de nuria.decastilla@ephe.sorbonne.fr (au plus tard le 10 février 2023).

Retrouvez le programme détaillé du séminaire sur le fichier ci-dessous :

Call for Applications – MA in Muslim Cultures at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) in London (deadline : 27 janv. 2022)

Applications are welcome for the MA in Muslim Cultures at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) in London.

The MA programme provides expert insight and deep understanding of Muslim cultures and civilisations, both in the historical and contemporary worlds. AKU-ISMC’s programme gives students the skills to engage critically, in original and creative ways, with the challenges faced by Muslim societies.

To help ensure that students are fulfilling the objectives of this course, AKU-ISMC’s teaching is student-centred and our academics, who are leaders in their fields, seek to enhance learning through a multi-faceted approach that applies a framework of world cultures, humanities and social sciences to the study of Muslim contexts.

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Call for Manuscripts and Book Proposal : I.B.Tauris and the British Institute at Ankara – Contemporary Turkey academic book series

The Contemporary Turkey monograph series is a joint initiative by the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA), internationally renowned for its support of independent academic research, and leading publisher of Middle East and Turkish Studies I.B. Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Academic.

The series publishes cutting-edge research monographs and edited collections from a new generation of scholars working on modern Turkey across the social sciences and humanities. In bringing to light new data and insights directly from the field, this series is distinguished by its emphasis on innovative approaches that challenge established ways of examining Turkey.

Key areas of focus include (but are not limited to):

Society and politics
Political economy
Alternative histories
Gender studies
Contentious politics and social movements
Nationalism and politics of identity

Find out more about the BIAA at www.biaa.ac.uk, and their joint series with I.B. Tauris at www.bloomsbury.com/biaa-series and https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/contemporary-turkey/.

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Bourse – IRMC : AAC Bourse Tunisie 2023

L’IRMC lance un appel à candidatures pour l’obtention d’une bourse de recherche de moyenne durée (1 à 3 mois), pour des sujets de recherche portant impérativement sur la Tunisie.

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Call for papers -Spiced Islam and Textual Circulations: India, Indonesia and the Indian Ocean

Prof. Jajat Burhanuddin and Mahmood Kooria are organizing an international conference at UIN Jakarta in Indonesia on 28-29 November 2022 on Islamic connections between India and Indonesia across the Indian Ocean world. As a first step in what is going to be long-term conversations between colleagues and institutions from both the countries and the broader academia, the inaugural session focuses on textual circulations between both subcontinents. We aim for the event to be a transdisciplinary platform and therefore invite papers from historians, philologists, anthropologists, scholars of religions and regions and others whose research is related to the Islamic interactions between South and Southeast Asia with an emphasis on the role of texts in the socio-cultural transformations.

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Call for paper – Mamluk Symposium II, 1-2 June 2023 (deadline : 1 December 2023)

MAMLUK SYMPOSIUM II : SCIENCE, THOUGHT, ART, AND INSTITUTIONS

1–2 JUNE 2023

İslam Tetkikleri Enstitüsü on Twitter: "The Mamluk Symposium II, which is organized by the Institute of Islamic Studies, will be held in Istanbul on 1–2 June 2023. We welcome abstract submissions until

Organized by Istanbul University, İslam Tetkikleri Enstitüsü, İslami İlimler Araştırma Vakfı (İSAV)

The era of Mamluk rule was a time of intellectual and artistic flourishing. From 1250 to 1517, the Mamluk elite established madrasas, dervish lodges, hospitals, and observatories across the lands they ruled in Egypt, Syria, and the Hijaz, including in the great cities of Cairo, Damascus, Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and Aleppo. Scholars, scientists, thinkers, artisans, and Sufis from all over the Muslim world relocated to the Mamluk realm, further nourishing its intellectual and cultural dynamism. Meanwhile, pilgrims, students, and other visitors to Mamluk lands brought what they learned there back to their homes, thereby helping to spread Mamluk accomplishments in various fields to other parts of the Muslim world, including both newer territories like Anatolia and the Balkans as well as older centers of learning, trade, and governance like the Maghreb, Andalusia, Iran, Transoxiana, and India.

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Fellowship – The Asian Division’s Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship (deadline : January 16, 2023)

(The following is a post by Jonathan Loar, South Asia Reference Specialist, Asian Division)

It’s fellowship season! The Library’s Asian Division is happy to announce that it is now accepting applications for the 2023 Florence Tan Moeson Research Fellowship Program. Please note that the fellowship application is accepted only via email submission. In order to apply, the applicant must download the application form and follow the enclosed instructions. The deadline for the 2023 application season is midnight January 16, 2023 US Eastern Time.

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Call for proposals – AIMS Annual Conference, 2023 (deadline : September 19, 2022)

The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) is seeking proposals for its annual conference for 2023, with ideas for 2024 and 2025 welcome. The annual AIMS conference is a signature event that brings together delegations of scholars from the US, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and occasionally individual scholars from other countries, as appropriate. The AIMS conferences are held in late spring/early summer at one of the three overseas research centers – Tangier, Oran, or Tunis.

AIMS members interested in proposing a theme with resonance across the countries of the Maghrib are encouraged to submit a formal proposal for the 2023 conference by September 19, 2022; ideas and proposals for 2024 and 2025 conferences are also welcome.

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Protéger et exprimer le pouvoir dans les décors d’architecture défensive du monde

Tour Yedi Kardeş, Diyarbakır, XIIe siècle. © Görsel Numarası https://www.kulturportali.gov.tr/medya/fotograf/fotodokuman/634/yedi-kardes-burcu

Prédire, comprendre et influer sur les forces cachées régissant le monde sont des préoccupations constantes en contexte islamique. Cet intérêt porté aux forces occultes a conduit à la production d’une large gamme d’objets employant à la fois une multitude d’héritages pré-islamiques, ainsi que le texte coranique. Cette production a souvent eu un une visée particulière dans les contextes de conflits militaires, afin de s’assurer la victoire ou de prévenir une mort subite lors des combats.

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Call for Paper – Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Making of the Modern Middle East: Global Histories 1800–1939, 25–26 May, 2023, University of Warwick, Global History and Culture Centre (deadline : 20 June, 2022)

CALL FOR PAPERS: Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Making of the Modern Middle East: Global Histories 1800–1939, 25–26 May, 2023, University of Warwick, Global History and Culture Centre

This conference will explore the role played by discoveries and debates about the ancient past in the development of ideas about the Middle East in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. What competing imperial, national, and transnational narratives about the present and future of this geopolitically crucial region were fed by archaeology, philology, and history? How were these emergent disciplines themselves forged through Middle Eastern contexts they purported to study? How were temporalities of modernity and progress constructed in relation to the ruptures, continuities and heuristic challenges suggested by the excavation and exegesis of traces of ancient civilisations? Were there overlaps between how this region was simultaneously transformed by the construction of new transportation networks, the unearthing of oil in commercial qualities, transforming its present and future, and archaeological projects which dug up new dimensions to its past? How did the return of the remains of the past assist Western and Eastern empires, and new Middle Eastern countries in understanding their own national destinies?

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Un mihrab portatif au Musée du Louvre

**Mihrab (محراب) portatif, Egypte, Xe-XIe**
Bois sculpté (micocoulier)
19,7 cm x 10,9 cm
Paris, Musée du Louvre, DAI, MAO 421
© 2009 Musée du Louvre / Hughes Dubois

La dynastie des Fatimides (969-1171) est au pouvoir en Égypte au moment de la réalisation de cet objet religieux. Revendiquant ses liens avec la famille du Prophète, en tant que descendants d’Ali son gendre et cousin, les Fatimides placent le chiisme au cœur de leur politique en opposition au sunnisme du califat abbasside. D’abord implantés au Maghreb et en Ifriqiya (Afrique du Nord actuelle), ils conquièrent le Caire (al-Qahira) en 969 et en font leur capitale. A l’acmé de leur pouvoir, leur territoire couvre le Maghreb et l’Ifriqiya, la Sicile, la Syrie et le Hijaz (péninsule arabique).

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