MESA 2023 Travel Grants for Graduate Students and Contingent/Precariously Employed, September 13, 2023

From MESA: MESA’s Travel Grant program awards $500 grants to students and to precariously employed or contingent faculty who have no other institutional support to attend the conference. This year, we have received 140 applications from students and from contingent faculty/precariously employed. So that we can offer the maximum number of travel grants, the Board

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Religions: “A Critique of the Modern Discourse of Maqāṣid,” September 15, 2023

From the organizers: The open access journal Religions (ISSN 2077-1444) is pleased to announce a new Special Issue entitled “A Critique of the Modern Discourse of Maqāṣid”. Dr. Mohamed Mosaad Abdelaziz Mohamed is serving as Guest Editor for this issue. The submission deadline is 15 September 2023 and papers may be submitted immediately or at

Talk: A Conversation on Justice with Guantánamo Bay Survivor Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Harvard Divinity School, September 18, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

From the organizers: Join us for a wide-ranging conversation on themes from Mohamedou’s life around justice, faith, his 14-year imprisonment and the constructs that enable the continued existence of Guantánamo Bay Monday, September 18th 2023 12:30pm ET @ James Room East in Swartz Hall Hosted by Harvard Divinity School Muslim Association Questions? Contact [email protected]

Call for Abstracts: Thematic Dossier on the Indian Ocean, September 30, 2023

Call for Abstracts: Thematic Dossier on the Indian Ocean Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists announces a thematic dossier on Indian Ocean histories guest edited by Jyoti Balachandran, to be published in 2025. To that end, we are soliciting original research articles that employ the Indian Ocean as their analytical framework to trace and

Position opening: Tenure-track assistant professor in 19th century Middle East history, Yale University, October 1, 2023

The Yale University Department of History seeks to make a tenure-track assistant professor appointment in the history of the nineteenth-century Middle East. We encourage applications from scholars working in any area of the Middle East, including the Persianate world, excluding Egypt. Applicants must have expertise in, and be able to teach, the long nineteenth century