The Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations invites applications from a historian of art and architecture with a primary focus on the study of the Islamic world before 1800 for an open-rank appointment that will begin in the fall of 2024. This is a fixed-term position for four years, renewable upon successful review. Candidates with …
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Call for Papers: Artificial Intelligence: Applications, Academic and Practical Legal Implications, Kuwait International Law School, January 30, 2024
From the organizers: Kuwait International Law School (KILAW) has decided to devote its tenth annual international academic conference to researching the legal problems posed by artificial intelligence, under the title: “Artificial Intelligence: Applications, Academic and Practical Legal Implications” on 1-2 May 2024. KILAW is honored to invite legal researchers from various Arab and international law schools and universities, … |
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Fellowship: Kamel Center at Yale Law School, 2024-2025
The Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at the Yale Law School invites applications for its 2024-2025 residency research fellowships. While the directors entertain applications from mid-career scholars working on specific writing projects, the fellowships are primarily designed to bring promising junior scholars to the Law School in order … |
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Postdoctoral opportunity in History of Islam/Arabic Studies, Leiden University, February 2024-2027
Scholars have long recognized that although Shiʿi claims emerged early in Islamic history, Imami Shiʿism took a couple of centuries to crystallise. Scholarship on Shiʿism has tended to focus on doctrine, but hitherto there has been little research into the institutions and social networks of early Imami Shiʿism. The project aims to propose the first …
Summer School: Persian in Yerevan with ASPIRANTUM, February 1, 2024
ARMACAD is pleased to announce scholarships for eligible students in Iranian Studies and associated disciplines to attend ASPIRANTUM’s 2024 summer school for the Persian language.Deadline: February 1, 2024For more details, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/scholarships/scholarships-for-persian-language-courses-from-armacad Students pursuing Undergraduate (BA), graduate (MA), and postgraduate (Ph.D.) programs, as well as researchers in Iranian Studies and related fields who are enrolled in … |
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Fellowship: UCHV Fellows in Law and Normative Thinking for Academic Year 2024-25, Princeton University, February 2, 2024
UCHV Fellows in Law and Normative Thinking for Academic Year 2024-25 The University Center for Human Values invites practitioners, faculty members of any discipline, independent scholars, and lawyers to apply for visiting residential fellowships for 2024-25. Scholars are expected to reside in or around Princeton or demonstrate to the program’s satisfaction the ability to be … |
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Call for Nominations: Islamic Law and Society CRN of the Law and Society Association, February 9, 2024
Nominations are now open for leadership of the Islamic Law and Society CRN of the Law and Society Association. As specified in the CRN by-laws, all members of the CRN may submit nominations, including self-nominations. Elections and Voting The current co-Chairs will call for nominations in January of the election year (hereinafter “election year”). All members … |
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Islamic Law Speaker Series:: Mohammed Allehbi (2023-2024 PIL-LC Fellow) Creating a new Criminal Law: The Military-Administrative origins of Siyasa The event will take place via Zoom. Visit here for the link. |
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Book talk: “Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire” Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 5:00pm to 6:30pm Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The CMES New Works in Middle East Studies series presents Nora Barakat Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University In the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman government … |
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Fellowship: The Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, Harvard Law School, 2024-2025
The Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World invites applications for the 2024-2025 Visiting Fellowship Program. The Program on Law and Society Visiting Fellowship Program provides opportunities for outstanding scholars and legal practitioners to undertake research, writing, and scholarly engagement on law and society in Muslim majority and minority contexts. We are particularly …
Call for Papers: MESA 2024, February 15, 2024
The 58th annual meeting will be held virtually November 11-15, 2024. The MESA 2024 Call for Papers will open January 10, 2024, and close at 11:59 AM (4:59 PM UTC) on February 15, 2024. Members organizing sessions for MESA 2024 may place an open call for participants. For more information, go here. Questions about the submission …
PIL–LC Research Fellowship Application, 2024-2025, February 15, 2024
In collaboration with the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School is pleased to invite applications for the 2024-2025 PIL–LC Research Fellowship (due: February 15, 2024). This newly offered fellowship is designed to provide an intellectual home to promising young scholars in Islamic legal …
Fellowships and Scholarships: American Center of Research, February 15, 2024
The American Center of Research is offering various fellowship and scholarship opportunities. The deadline to apply is February 15, 2024. Visit here for more details. The fellowships and scholarships include: ACOR-CAORC Post-Doctoral Fellowship ACOR-CAORC Graduate Student Fellowship S. Thomas Parker Memorial Fund Lawrence T. Geraty Travel Scholarship Jennifer C. Groot Memorial Fellowship Bert and Sally …
Summer Travel Grants: Harvard Center for African Studies, February 15, 2024
From the Harvard University Center for African Studies: The Center for African Studies offers funding to Harvard undergraduate students traveling to Africa for thesis research, internships, volunteer work, or study abroad. Grants require a minimum stay of eight weeks in Africa. Grant awards range from $2,500 – $5,000 and are intended to cover otherwise unfunded costs … |
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From Ekaterina Pukhovaia at the Leiden University (see here): Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that this spring Leiden University will host the first round of a series of online talks about Yemen. The series, running from January 2024 till June 2025 and sponsored by the Horizon-2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project EMStaD YEMEN, brings together experts … |
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Session 6 (21 February 2024, 18h CET) Looking for Libya in Coptic-Arabic historiographical sources, Perrine Pilette (CNRS, Paris, France) Link on demand at: [email protected]
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WED 21 FEB 2024 | 12.30-1.30 | via Zoom Event::Roundtable on Islamic Land Law The roundtable focuses on the transformation of the Ottoman land system in the 19th century, particularly examining the 1858 Land Code (Kanunname-i Arazi) and its impact on land laws in the Ottoman Empire’s successor states. With case studies focusing on Bosnia, … |
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Anthony Lester Fellowships, 2024-2025, Bard College, February 28, 2024
The Anthony Lester Fellowships support lawyers or law students undertaking practical fieldwork in human rights/ the rule of law. The fellowships honour the memory and legacy of Anthony Lester QC (Lord Lester of Herne Hill), one of Britain’s most distinguished human rights lawyers. As a young lawyer, he twice visited the American South during the …
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The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series presents “Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire” with Faisal Husain, Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State “Rivers of the Sultan” offers a history of the Ottoman Empire’s management of the Tigris … |
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On March 2 from 12-4pm US EST at the Program in Islamic Law’s office in Austin Hall and via Zoom, our SHARIAsource Lab will lead a Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes event . Join us for a chance to help write the next chapter in the history of the Arabic script where we bring our … |
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