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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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Call for application – Vekam Research Awards (deadline : 20 April 2023)

CALL FOR VEKAM RESEARCH AWARDS

Deadline for application: 20 April 2023

Koç University Vehbi Koç Ankara Studies Research Center (VEKAM), has issued a call for research awards in order to contribute to scientific studies that investigate Ankara and its environs in any disciplines and

areas without restrictions;

  • The social, institutional and economic history,
  • Cultural, social, geographical and environmental characteristics,
  • Historical, cultural, literal, artistic and urban development,
  • Tangible and intangible cultural heritage,
  • Diplomatic, cultural and economic relations with other cities and countries in history.
  • Urban issues related to historical processes and practices in the field of law, medicine and education,
  • Urban government and rural areas, development, growth, sustainability, tourism, natural resources, demographic and climate change issues.

Within the framework of the awards,  3 research projects will be provided financial support up to TRY 30,000.

Application Requirements:

  1. Applicant(s) must have at least a bachelor’s degree.
  2. The research award covers the studies that will be newly started and/or the studies that have started and are continuing and that are aimed to be completed at the end of two years at the latest from the date of commencement.
  3. Documentation, inventory, listing, digitization, etc. studies are out of the scope of this award application.
  4. The study/project prepared within the scope of the application can be a Master’s or PhD thesis.
  5. Applications can be made in either Turkish or English.
  6. Previously awarded project coordinators can apply again as project coordinators only after 5 years, however, researchers, experts, etc. can take part in the assignments.
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Appel à participation – Ma Thèse en 180 secondes – Égypte (Deadline : 30 avril 2023)

L’édition 2023 du concours MT180 en Égypte est lancée !

L’Égypte fait partie des 33 pays dans lesquels l’AUF soutient l’organisation du concours. Une finale nationale sera organisée en Égypte le 8 juin 2023, à l’Institut Français d’Égypte au Caire.

Le concours « Ma thèse en 180 secondes – MT180 » est un événement qui se déroule sur scène et devant un public et qui a pour but la présentation des travaux de recherche à l’oral, dans un langage accessible au grand public, en 3 minutes.

Envoyez-nous vos candidatures jusqu’au 30 avril 2023 !

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Call for Prize Nominations –The Bruce D. Craig Prize for Mamluk Studies (Deadline : March 30th 2023)

The editors of Mamlūk Studies Review invite submissions for:

The Bruce D. Craig Prize for Mamluk Studies

The Bruce D. Craig Prize, carrying a cash award of $1,000, is given annually by Mamlūk Studies Review for the best dissertation on a topic substantially focused on the Mamluk Sultanate submitted in English to any university during the preceding calendar year [note the expansion of eligibility]. In the event no dissertations are submitted, or none is deemed to merit the prize, no prize will be awarded.

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Call for paper – Journal of Religious Minorities under Muslim Rule (no deadline)

Journal of Religious Minorities under Muslim Rule

Editors-in-Chief: Abbas Aghdassi, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, and Aaron Hughes, University of Rochester, New York, USA

The Journal of Religious Minorities under Muslim Rule provides a primary venue for scholarly studies that examine religious minorities (such as Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Hindus, and other minoritarian Muslim groups) under majoritarian Muslim rule.

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Call for papers – CEMS Graduate Conference 2023, 30-31 May (Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Central European University, Vienna) (Deadline : 10 April 2023)

Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Central European University, Vienna

Call for Papers – CEMS Graduate Conference 2023, 30-31 May (Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Central European University, Vienna)

Keynote Speaker: Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers University, Newark)

Humans and Nature in the Mediterranean Landscape 

The consequences of global warming, pandemics, and ecological catastrophes serve as painful reminders of the contingency of human history on its natural environment. These issues have provided a forceful impetus to the study of history with environmental considerations in mind, leading to what scholars coined as an ecological turn. Since Fernand Braudel, several conceptualizations of the Mediterranean and its surroundings as a subject of historical research emphasized how common patterns of climate, geography, flora, and fauna give rise to shared models of ecology, agriculture, and social organization. Subsequently, environmental history, as well as various approaches centering on the environment in several other disciplines, inspired scholars working on a broad range of topics related to the history of the Mediterranean and led to the emergence of various perspectives on the problems of nature, landscape, sustainability, environment, and ecology.  

We would like to highlight chase the broad variety of approaches to these topics and to show that themes of nature, environment, and ecology are not only a concern of environmental historians, but they could serve as shared spaces of encounter between scholars arriving from an array of backgrounds and disciplines. To this end, we would like to encourage the application of any participants whose interest relates to these fields, even if they don’t consider themselves “environmental historians proper.” Also, we hope to grope toward a conceptualization of the relations between humans and nature, which complements the agricultural and rural focus of the discipline with a thematization of urban landscapes and spaces as parts of ecologies.  

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Call for paper – The Urgency of the Digital (IJIA special issue) (Deadline: June 1, 2023)

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA)

Special Issue: The Urgency of the Digital

Thematic volume planned for July 1, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: June 1, 2023

This special issue focuses on the critical and urgent use of digital tools, interfaces, media, and methods for the study and design of Islamic architecture, cities, and the built environment. Over recent decades, architectural historians, architects, and other specialists of the built environment have drawn increasingly on digitized databases, digital data, and processing software to reimagine the history, documentation, design, and construction of buildings, gardens, and cities wholesale. Representations of historical, contemporary, razed and never-built structures are now fully realizable, and massive corpora of information that once took many months or years to sort can now be analyzed in seconds. Yet, digital tools, infrastructures, and databases bring their own set of concerns. Databases, like all archives, do not merely contain information, they are information. And as such, they bear the marks of the epistemologies that shape them. Digital files are always remediated, meaning that they are the products of multiple human interventions, just as analogue media are. Some of the platforms that facilitate virtual reality simulations of architecture, cities, and transcontinental migrations enjoy an uncomfortable kinship with the pervasive governmental and private surveillance technologies in use today. Artificial intelligence (AI) has enormous potential to transform the way that architects, city planners, and historical preservationists work, and yet racial, gendered, ethnic, and religious biases in the datasets that machine-learning algorithms employ raise questions about the ramifications of these undertakings. Digital frameworks enable more expansive, multi-layered, and speculative investigations of buildings, cities, and spaces, but they also demand rigorous scrutiny.

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Call for paper – The Textile Museum Journal Centennial Volume (Deadline: April 30, 2024)

The Textile Museum Journal is seeking article proposals for our 52nd volume to be published in 2025. This volume will celebrate the centennial of The Textile Museum‘s establishment, and will be devoted to new research on textile objects in The Textile Museum Collection. Submissions may examine any aspect of textiles from all historic and pre-historic periods, and geographic regions, as well as topics related to fabric structures, textile iconography, weaving practices, constructing and wearing clothing, and other subjects. Articles may include case studies on individual textile objects or analyses of a group of textile objects, which forward a greater argument or investigation about these objects’ cultural and/or technical contexts of production.

We highly suggest engaging with The Textile Museum Collection well before the deadline for submission in order to develop research thoroughly.

Deadline for abstract submissions: April 30, 2024.

Deadline for full manuscript submissions: August 31, 2024.

Manuscripts should be submitted by email to the editorial assistant of The Textile Museum Journal at tmjournal@gwu.edu.

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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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Adhésion – Société des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les Mondes Musulmans

La SEMOMM, Société des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les Mondes Musulmans, est une association qui a pour objectif de fédérer, soutenir et représenter ceux qui contribuent à l’élaboration, la transmission et la diffusion des connaissances sur le Moyen-Orient et les Mondes Musulmans. Elle le fait notamment en contribuant à l’organisation d’un congrès biennal des études sur cette région et par l’organisation de conférences. Elle complète l’action du GIS Moyen-Orient, fédération d’institutions – tutelles et équipes et entend développer des partenariats avec les instances collectives nationales et internationales sur le champ.

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Une statue féminine au palais Omeyyade de Mshatta

Torse de femme, c.743/44, Calcaire, Mshatta, Jordanie, 72 cm / 52 cm, Jordan Archeological Museum, Amman, J.16585

Construits sous la dynastie Omeyyade (661-750), les « châteaux du désert » (qusur) demeurent aujourd’hui encore sujets à question quant à leur fonction réelle. Ils semblent cependant liés d’une manière ou d’une autre à des figures du pouvoir, notamment du fait de la présence de décors souvent signifiants. Le torse de femme du musée d’Amman provient lui du Qasr al-Mshatta, en actuelle Jordanie, vraisemblablement bâti pour le calife al-Walid II entre 743 et 744 (H. 133). Ce qasr présente une superficie deux fois plus importante que celle moyenne des autres châteaux du désert, ainsi qu’un plan original. Les bâtiments se déploient autour d’un axe longitudinal entre le massif d’entrée et celui palatial, au nord du complexe. C’est dans une salle au bout de cet axe qu’a été retrouvé le torse, pièce sur laquelle s’ouvre un portique à 3 arches, et dont la typologie proviendrait de l’architecture impériale romaine, évoquant une possible salle du trône. 

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Call for Prize Nominations – L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies for 2023 (Deadline: March 31, 2023)

The American Institute for Maghrib Studies 
announces the L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies for 2023
Submission deadline: March 31, 2023

http://aimsnorthafrica.org/annual-book-prize/ 

Established in 2013, the L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize is awarded annually to the outstanding book in the area of North African studies. The winning work reflects the innovative intellectual achievements in North African studies exemplified by Garrett Professor in Foreign Affairs and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, L. Carl Brown. The prize carries an honorarium of $500.00. No cash prize offered for honorable mention. The winner will be invited to give a brief presentation at the annual AIMS business meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).

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Prix de thèse – Prix Marcel et Paul Pescheteau des Amis du musée national de la Céramique (date limite : 31 mars 2023)

Afin d’encourager la recherche dans le domaine des arts du Feu (céramique, verre, émail) et de permettre aux meilleurs travaux scientifiques de trouver le plus grand rayonnement, la Société des Amis du musée national de Céramique décernera pour la première fois en 2023, un prix récompensant l’auteur d’une thèse ayant contribué à l’étude et à l’approfondissement des connaissances en la matière, toutes périodes et territoires confondus et quelle que soit la discipline universitaire dans laquelle elle a été soutenue.

Ce prix annuel de 8000 € doté par la société de vente aux enchères Pescheteau–Badin est destiné à éditer la thèse du lauréat dans une collection intitulée «Les Arts du Feu» créée par les Presses Universitaires de Rennes avec lesquelles la Société des Amis du musée national de Céramique a passé un accord.

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Call for paper – Journal of Ankara Studies (deadline : February 28, 2023)

Koc University Vehbi Koc Ankara Studies Research Center (VEKAM)  publishes an interdisciplinary biannual refereed journal called the Journal of Ankara Studies since 2013.The first part of the journal contains original research articles centered around Ankara and its environs while the second part is feature opinion articles on this subject. In publishing this journal, the Center aims, in line with its mission, to compile any academic studies which reveal new data on Ankara and it’s environs through scientific research and to support and release them to the public. Journal of Ankara Studies makes up for the huge lack of research about the capital by publishing articles in both Turkish and English.

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Call for application – Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Rare Materials Research Fellowship (deadline : February 1st 2023)

The University of Michigan Library invites applications for fellowships for research in residence.

The Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Rare Materials Research Fellowship is open to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to our special collections, including the Islamic Manuscripts Collection held in the Special Collections Research Center.

Our fellows are awarded:

$1,500 for a project requiring a residence of one week or more

$3,000 for a project requiring a residence of three weeks or more

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