Dear Colleagues,
We welcome papers for the following conference, to be held in Paris on 22-24 November 2023:
Texts as Living Objects
Reconsidering Dhayls as a Means for the Study of Authorshipand Knowledge Transmission in the Manuscript Age
“A History of Herat, from Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane” (Edinburgh UP) is now in print (30th Sep 2022). Part 1 is “imperial and local histories”: political-military history of the Mongol invasions of Khurasan, sieges of Balkh, Marw, Nishapur, Herat; establishment by Mongols of the (Tajik) Kartid dynasts at Herat; Kartid-Ilkhanid cooperation and clashes; Herat’s relations with Delhi Sultanate; independent Kartid rule until Tamerlane invasion of Iran.
Dear colleagues
I would like to draw your attention to my recently published book, History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature (Bloomsbury 2022). Here is a description:
2 x Three-Year Positions (m/f/d) at Doctoral or Post-Doctoral Level (TV-L 13, 65%-100%): 1: Jews and Christians in Arabia: Between the Qur’an and Early Islam 2: The Qur’an and Ethiopic Christianity
The Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Tuebingen invites applications for two three-year positions (m/f/d) at Doctoral or Post-Doctoral Level (TV-L 13, 65%-100%):
1) One three-year position on Jews and Christians in Arabia: Between the Qur’an and Early Islam.
The Islamic Manuscript Association
Fall 2022
Visit to a collection series
Highlights from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
at the University of Pennsylvania
Friday, 30 September at 10am EDT / 3pm GMT / 4pm EET (via Zoom)
Dear members,
Karl Stowasser's partial translation of al-Maqrīzī's Khiṭaṭ is now available for download (Open Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2268/237608):
Al-Maqrīzī: Book of Exhortations and Useful Lessons in Dealing with Topography and Historical Remains (al-Khiṭaṭ). Translated and annotated by Karl Stowasser (d. 1997). Parts I-II in 3 vols. Edited by Frédéric Bauden and Clopper Almon with an Introductory Essay by Frédéric Bauden. Liège, 2022.
Job No.: 640536
Location: Clayton campus, Melbourne, Australia
Employment Type: Full-time
Duration: 3-year and 3-month fixed-term appointment
The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is pleased to announce 2023-2024 fellowship programs for graduate students and scholars based in the U.S. and Canada:
ARIT Fellowships for Research in Turkey support projects in ancient, medieval, or modern times, in any field of the humanities and social sciences. Post-doctoral and doctoral dissertation fellowships may be held from one month to one academic year.
Fall 2022 AMECYS Graduate Student Discussion Series
