November 2023

Talk: “The ‘Khitat’ of al-Maqrizi: Narrating History on the Tempo of ‘Kharab’” by Nasser Rabat, CMES, Harvard University, November 28, 2023

November 28, 2023 @ 17:00 - 18:30

From the CMES website: Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 5:00pm to 6:30pm; Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The CMES Disaster Studies Initiative presents Nasser Rabbat Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT Nasser Rabbat is the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for …

Talk: “Locusts of Power” by Samuel Dolbee, CMES, Harvard University, November 29, 2023

November 29, 2023 @ 18:00 - 19:30

From the CMES website: Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 6:00pm to 7:30pm; Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series is pleased to present Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor of History, Family Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Studies of the Middle East, Vanderbilt University Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt …

Prize: Nominations for the Mark Tushnet Prize in Comparative Law, AALS, November 30, 2023

November 30, 2023

The Section on Comparative Law invites Nominations for the Mark Tushnet Prize in Comparative Law to recognize scholarly excellence in any subject of comparative law by an untenured scholar at an AALS Member School. The Prize will be given to the author(s) of a scholarly article judged to have made an important contribution in the field …

Seminar: “Ineffability and Adequation: Symmetries between ‘Ayn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī’s Theory of Language, Ontology and Mystical Epistemology” by Nicholas Boylston, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University, November 30, 2023

November 30, 2023 @ 12:00 - 13:30

Date: Thursday, November 30, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:30pm; Location: TBD Nicholas Boylston, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center RSVP here.

December 2023

Call for Papers: EMPIRE: In Theory and In Middle East History, American University in Cairo, December 1, 2023

December 1, 2023

From the organizers: For most of recorded history, empires and imperial regimes have existed in one form or another and have shaped the lives of peoples of the Middle East. …

Book discussion: “Interviewing and Interrogation: A Review of Research and Practice Since World War II,” United Nations Headquarters, New York, December 5, 2023

December 5, 2023

From the organizers: We are very pleased to announce the publication today of ‘Interviewing and Interrogation: A Review of Research and Practice Since World War II‘ (585 pp., co-edited by Drs. Gavin …

Call for Papers: Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies, December 14, 2023

December 14, 2023

From the organizers: The British Association for Islamic Studies is delighted to announce that it will be hosting its 2024 Annual Conference at the stunning Cloth Hall Court, University of Leeds, on Monday …

Webinar: Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya (7th-16th centuries): Shedding light on some Islamic sites and buildings in Cyrenaica, December 20, 2023

December 20, 2023 @ 12:00 - 13:00

Session 4 (20 December 2023, 18h CET) Shedding light on some Islamic sites and buildings in Cyrenaica, Zuha Sad al-Sadiq (Omar al-Mukhtar University, El-Beyda, Libya) Link on demand at: [email protected]

January 2024

Fellowship September 2024-May 2025: Crown Center for Middle East, Brandeis University, January 1, 2024

January 1, 2024

The Crown Center for Middle East Studies invites applications for a one-year faculty leave residential fellowship for scholars of the contemporary Middle East and North Africa. The fellowship is open to all disciplines—particularly politics, economics, history, religion, sociology, or anthropology—for the 2024–2025 academic year. Successful applicants must be tenure track or tenured professors (or equivalent) …

Panel on Islamic Law and Constitutionalism: AALS 2024 Meeting, January 4, 2024 @ 8:00 – 9:40 a.m.

January 4, 2024 @ 08:00 - 09:40

Islamic Law and Constitutionalism (Thursday, January 4th, 2024 – 8am to 9:40am) Presenters: Marzieh Tofighi Darian (Princeton University), “Abusive Islamic Judicial Review” Safa Ben Saad (Université de Sherbrooke), “Islamic constitutionalism: a stillborn model” Bahman Khodadadi (Yale Law School), “Judge vs. Legislator in Islamic Constitutionalism: A Case Study of Iran” Said Kaymakci (Catholic University): “Searching for a …