Islamic History / Studies

Dear Colleagues,

The special issue "Reframing Islam in Southeast Asia" (guest editor: Dr. Chiara Formichi, Cornell University) in /Religions/ is open for submission.

The history of Islam in Southeast Asia has been traditionally narrated as one derivative of the Middle Eastern experience and, oftentimes, as a reality that largely belongs to the majority areas of the Indo-Malay sphere. 

The Midwest Association for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and the University of Louisville are pleased to announce a call for papers for the MAMEIS Annual Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, Friday, March 22, 2019. We welcome submissions from scholars based in the Midwest (broadly conceived) on this year's theme "Home, Displacement, Dispossession, and Refugees in the Middle East and Islamic World." We are soliciting new research on any topic in Middle East and Islamic Studies, but especially encourage abstracts that align with our conference theme.

In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the 11th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age:

IIluminations: Manuscript, Medium, Message

November 15–17, 2018

Medieval and Early Modern Spaces and Places: Experiencing the Court, 2019

The 1st International Conference on Medical Humanities in the Middle East at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar in Doha on Nov. 16-19, 2018 is accepting poster presentations and registration to attend until October 8, 2018. Visit the link for full information.

This month, Bloomsbury has launched a major online module on the Arcadian Library Online platform, Europe and the Ottoman World: Diplomacy and International Relations, which contains documents originating from between 1475 and 1877. This collection contains rare and important diplomatic correspondences, treaties and accounts of ambassadorial missions. Highlights include:

Conference: 2018 Byzantine Studies Conference/BSC

Call for Submissions: Muslim-American Writers at Home

ASPIRANTUM is pleased to announce its second International Persian Language 2 and 3 weeks winter school in Yerevan, Armenia to take place from December 02, 2018 to December 15, 2018 (2 weeks) and December 02, 2018 to December 22, 2018 (3 weeks).

This 14 or 21 days’ winter school offers participants to master skills in written and oral modern Persian, reading and interpreting Persian texts from different periods as well as rapidly deepening their knowledge in colloquial Persian.