Knowledge Commons | Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/digital-middle-east-islamic-studies/ Activity feed for the group, Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies. Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:33:36 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 d99e0277926a3faadfa65233783e0482 Nick Posegay deposited From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902154/ Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:00:47 -0400 This collection of essays celebrates 50 years since the founding of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library. Three generations of scholars contributed their research and memories from their time at the GRU, stretching back to 1974. Their work comprises 18 articles on medieval Jewish History, Hebrew and Arabic…[Read more]

]]> 0 eaf1384ee4af28f7036b1c07a6c33e3d Nick Posegay deposited The Illustrated Cairo Genizah in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900711/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:50 -0400 Almost one thousand years ago, the Jews of Old Cairo began to place their worn-out books and scrolls into a hidden storage room – a genizah – of their synagogue. Over the years, they added all sorts of writings to the pile, sacred and secular texts alike. When the chamber was emptied at the end of the 19th century, it held hundreds of tho…[Read more]

]]> 0 cba219797ad75452fbb3c5328a762fbe Nick Posegay deposited Five Qur’anic Papyri from the Michaelides Collection at the Cambridge University Library in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891762/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:00:08 -0400 The Michaelides manuscript collection at the Cambridge University Library contains approximately 700 papyrus fragments collected by George Michaelides in Egypt in the middle of the twentieth century. While a preliminary handlist exists for this collection, most of the papyri have not been fully described. Among them are five Qur’anic papyri that h…[Read more]

]]> 0 cba219797ad75452fbb3c5328a762fbe Nick Posegay deposited Five Qur’anic Papyri from the Michaelides Collection at the Cambridge University Library in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891761/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:00:08 -0400 The Michaelides manuscript collection at the Cambridge University Library contains approximately 700 papyrus fragments collected by George Michaelides in Egypt in the middle of the twentieth century. While a preliminary handlist exists for this collection, most of the papyri have not been fully described. Among them are five Qur’anic papyri that h…[Read more]

]]> 0 034248e8fb3466e4bca470b5dbd6e2bf Nick Posegay deposited An Early Arabic Translation of Exodus 15 from a Palestinian Melkite Psalter in the Cairo Genizah in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888909/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 03:00:15 -0400 This article presents an Arabic translation of Exodus 15 from the Cairo Genizah, preserved in two fragments of a Christian psalter (MSS CUL T-S NS 305.198 and T-S NS 305.210). The style of the psalter's Arabic script suggests that it was copied by a well-trained scribe in the late 9th or early 10th century. Such a date makes it the oldest…[Read more]

]]> 0 afbbbb61154f1b7f2af2e317de6ac85c Yusuf Sansarkan deposited Zîrîlerin Fâtımî Hilafetini Terkedip Abbasî Hilafetini Tanımaları Sürecinde Şii-Sünni Mücadelesi, Shiite Sunni Struggle in the Process of the Zirid's Abandonment of the Fatimid Caliphate by Recognizing the Abbasid Caliphate in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886670/ Mon, 20 May 2024 03:00:32 -0400 It is known that Berbers suffered from
central government after the conquests of the North Africa. Berbers who were
initially inclined to abandon Islam preferred to join political-religious
groups in time. In the 8th century, Khārijism was influential in North Africa.
In the 10th century, Ismā‘īlī Shī‘ism, which was another opposition group, w…[Read more]

]]> 0 a077bb7f3f6e9a4907dde020e9baaa2a Nick Posegay deposited Eleven Colophons by Ten Printers from Seven Cities in the Cairo Genizah in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886340/ Thu, 16 May 2024 03:00:42 -0400 While the Cairo Genizah is mainly known as a repository of medieval manuscripts, modern Genizah collections also contain thousands of folios from texts printed with moveable type between 1500 and 1900. Most of these imprints come from Europe, but almost all of them reached the Cairene Jewish community at some point before 1897. They are also among…[Read more]

]]> 0 e624fd049f8159b9f149fca8afaf4ea7 Jake Benson started the topic The Iranian Diaspora in Southeast Asia: Old Manuscript, New Perspectives in the discussion Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/digital-middle-east-islamic-studies/forum/topic/the-iranian-diaspora-in-southeast-asia-old-manuscript-new-perspectives-2/ Wed, 01 May 2024 13:39:46 -0400 https://www.leidenspecialcollectionsblog.nl/articles/persians-of-java-re-examining-the-cultural-context-of-indonesia

]]> a7a9ed0a6d34fc5ffc4188d8dfe0627a Gregor M. Schwarb deposited The Conceptual Framework of Muʿtazilī-Bahšamī Phenomenological Epistemology in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884672/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:59 -0400 Synoptic edition of the introductions to Kitāb al-Taḏkira fī aḥkām al-jawāhir wa-l-aʿrāḍ (‘Reminder about the properties of atoms and accidents’) by Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. Mattawayh and its commentary (Šarḥ), presumably by Abū Ǧaʿfar Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Mazdak. Taken together, these introductions offer a valuable summary outline of basi…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b0a01e54babc116b2a8f3f324d06dbb Priyadarshini Gupta started the topic Living in the Era of Neo-Orientalism-call for papers. Online Conference. in the discussion Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/digital-middle-east-islamic-studies/forum/topic/living-in-the-era-of-neo-orientalism-call-for-papers-online-conference-14/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 11:56:23 -0500 This is a call for papers for an interdisciplinary conference hosted by O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi-NCR, India [Deadline Extended] 

Title of the Conference: Living in the Era of Neo-Orientalism: Complicating Muslim Identities in a Post-9/11 World

Conference dates: 3rd and 4th of February, 2024

Mode of the conference: On…[Read more]

]]> 90e09f5de49d7e75294a9857e355e817 Nick Posegay deposited Hebrew Printing and Printers’ Colophons in the Cairo Genizah: Networking Book Trade in Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862096/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 03:00:03 -0400 The Cairo Genizah is famous as a source of manuscripts for the study of the medieval Mediterranean world, especially Jewish communities during the High Middle Ages. However, among the hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern manuscript fragments in Genizah collections are more than 12,000 moveable-type printed items, most of which come from Europe.…[Read more]

]]> 0 5eb839e4aa3d26b2411d9a0ed356e78c Jake Benson started the topic The Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database in the discussion Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/digital-middle-east-islamic-studies/forum/topic/the-archived-chester-beatty-library-islamic-seals-database-3/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 09:21:34 -0400 The Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database:
Screen Shots and Tips For Access 
Jake Benson, Research Associate for Persian Manuscripts
John Rylands Research Institute and Library
University of Manchester
22 April 2023
Since the Chester Beatty Library reformatted its website in 2019, it regrettably removed the Islamic Seal Database,…[Read more]

]]> e2cd46f1c9248f9693fe9811b25adc8b Christopher S. Rose deposited Trial by Virus: Colonial Medicine and the 1883 Cholera in Egypt in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841911/ Wed, 19 Apr 2023 02:23:38 -0400 This article explores how public health was transformed in Egypt soon after its occupation by Great Britain in 1882. Over the course of the nineteenth century, the Egyptian state had invested substantially in health to boost the nation’s economic and military strength, and, especially after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, to address E…[Read more]

]]> 0 ebaeab0167f5df90f699d2b9b7fb2f88 Jake Benson started the topic "Taking the Past into the Future": Hybrid Symposium, 11–12 May 2023 in the discussion Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/digital-middle-east-islamic-studies/forum/topic/taking-the-past-into-the-future-hybrid-symposium-11-12-may-2023-3/ Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:13:40 -0400 Taking the Past into the Future: Studying, Preserving, and Understanding Islamicate Manuscripts
Thursday 11 May, 10am-5pm and Friday 12 May 10am-4.30pm BST
University of Edinburgh
This two-day symposium hosted between the Centre for Research Collections (CRC) and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) will feature…[Read more]

]]> 4228b4df6fba35bb1d5abadabba5513f Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 16. Ziya Pasha, Reformist and/or Reactionary? Translations from the Hürriyet & Ḫarābāt in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1838376/ Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:24:08 -0400 This working paper presents a full and annotated translation of two titles by 19th-century Ottoman author-cum-statesman Ziya Pasha: (1) a newspaper article written in exile, modern in terms of format and reformist in terms of tenor and providing an staunch and iconoclastic critique of Ottoman language and literature, and (2) the versified preface…[Read more]

]]> 0 4168dc89d616684715ea66d2dee80127 Jake Benson started the topic Group for Arabic script manuscripts in the discussion Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/digital-middle-east-islamic-studies/forum/topic/group-for-arabic-script-manuscripts-2/ Sat, 21 Jan 2023 13:42:34 -0500 Greetings All,

For those interested, please join our new group devoted to Arabic script manuscripts, to share images, consult with colleagues on codicology, readings, deciphering notations and seal impressions, etc. https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/

]]> e6cc913262eb86e22a4099cb85f028ba Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 14. A Lion Walks into a Hammam... Mollā Lüṭfī (d. 1495) on Majāz/Allegory in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1830234/ Wed, 18 Jan 2023 02:23:39 -0500 A discussion of majāz or allegory that is commonly ascribed to the 15th-century Ottoman polygraph Mollā Lüṭfī and that builds on the works of al-Sakkākī and al-Qazwīnī.
The author gives two alternative overarching classifications: a linguistic vs. cognitive allegory classification, and a metaphor vs. hypallage classification that is supplemen…[Read more]

]]> 0 c2bac3448507097fc6317fb0af344a0a Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 12. "The World's Richest yet Most Unfortunate Language" - Four Texts by Abdurrauf Fitrat on Uzbek Language & Literature in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1788809/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:24:34 -0400 This working paper presents in full translation four texts of the Uzbek early 20th-century jadid reformist Abdurrauf Fitrat. Identifying educational reform as the main key to progress, he advocated for the emancipation and nationalisation of the Chaghatay/Uzbek language as a tool to educate the masses rather than to serve the interests of a…[Read more]

]]> 0 13d03b6728e6bf79da6d4b62fefdb3bf Charles Häberl deposited Meryay, Standing at the Boundary in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1788504/ Mon, 25 Jul 2022 02:23:40 -0400 The Mandaean proselyte Meryay, best known from her representations in the Canonical Prayerbook, the Great Treasure (Genzā Rabbā), and the Book of John (Drāši d-Yaḥyā), serves as an illuminating example of the sort of figure who partially and ambiguously bridges the interests and concerns of differently constituted religious communities, allowi…[Read more]

]]> 0 ebedadfa04623be891a1ab6c4cb65f2a Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 11. Sitting in on an Ottoman Madrasa Course in Rhetoric. Gürānī's Interlinear Translation-cum-Commentary of the Preface of al-Qazwīni's Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782894/ Mon, 30 May 2022 02:23:39 -0400 This working paper presents a 16th- or 17th-century Ottoman translation-cum-commentary of the preface and introduction of one of the classics of Islamicate rhetoric, al-Qazwīnī’s Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ (The Key’s Digest), a 14th-century work on rhetoric based on al-Sakkākī’s 13th-century seminal Miftāḥ al-ʿUlūm (The Key of Sciences). This part…[Read more]

]]> 0 04997fcebfc07488261f1ba1a2a55edc Nick Posegay deposited Searching for the Last Genizah Fragment in Late Ottoman Cairo: A Material Survey of Egyptian Jewish Literary Culture in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782562/ Thu, 26 May 2022 02:23:59 -0400 The Cairo Genizah is well known as a repository for hundreds of thousands of manuscripts that the Jewish residents of Fustat (Old Cairo) produced and consumed in the premodern period. Foreign “collectors” acquired most of these manuscripts for European libraries in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the majority arriving at the Cam…[Read more]

]]> 0 16078c875a68f207431ab02d97ce685c Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 9. Sugary Gratitude, Strolling Cypresses, Clouds Pouring Grass. Ḥalīmī on Paranomasia, Simile, and Metonymy in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1776601/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 02:23:39 -0400 The translation of a short treatise on paranomasia, simile, and metonymy, by the foremost Persian-Turkish lexicographer of the 15th century, Lütfu’llāh el–Ḥalīmī. The text combines a rather dense and elliptic prose style with a remarkably lucid and clear-cut typology of seven types of tajnīs, seven types of tashbīh, and nine types of majāz, ofte…[Read more]

]]> 0 6b115a106cc875dee5fc5dcd5ab889f0 Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 8. Rūmī's Drivel, Sayyids' Chicanery, Poets' Doggerel. Three Azerbaijani Texts by Ākhūnd-Zāde in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765714/ Tue, 11 Jan 2022 02:23:38 -0500 In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the second centennial of Ākhūndzade's birth, three Azerbaijani texts in translation by the Molière of Azerbaijan. The texts—one poem, one letter, and one prose text—reflect Ākhūndzāde's sharp, sometimes vitriolic, take on Rūmī ’s teaching (a dangerous, incomprehensible word jumble), most poetry and po…[Read more]

]]> 0 18c4a20d10fd16b5d815f668588caa15 Nick Posegay deposited Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764073/ Thu, 30 Dec 2021 02:25:22 -0500 In the first few centuries of Islam, Middle Eastern Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike all faced the challenges of preserving their holy texts in the midst of a changing religious landscape. This situation led Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew scholars to develop new fields of linguistic science in order to better analyse the languages of the Bible and…[Read more]

]]> 0 bedffba4eede0ce617f6ad1ba36839ac Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 6. Nevāʾī's Meter of Meters. Introduction & Partial Translation in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1756815/ Thu, 28 Oct 2021 02:23:39 -0400 Are you tripping over your own feet, incapable of advancing even a single metre, when it comes to understanding the technicalities of the feet and metres of pre-modern Islamicate poetry? Then you should probably not consult Nevāʾī’s Meter of Meters, since you are better off with the works of a Wheeler Thackston or a Finn Thiesen... If, howe…[Read more]

]]> 0 89ec7ab6a74374ece337f18f78c87495 Till Grallert deposited Catch Me If You Can! Approaching the Arabic Press of the Late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean through Digital History in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1752432/ Tue, 21 Sep 2021 02:25:36 -0400 The essay explores the use of digital history for the systematic study of the periodical press in the late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean (1906 –1918) as a discursive field. It evaluates the methodological and practical challenges of digital history as rooted in the socio-technical infrastructures of the Global North when applied to the Global S…[Read more]

]]> 0 0abde8f1f53e13f5dc6a7255549610c2 Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 5. Enderūnlu Ḥasan-i Yāver's Poetry's Artistry, or How to "Turn Words into Licit Magic" in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1750082/ Thu, 26 Aug 2021 02:26:54 -0400 Purportedly in response to a request by his unnamed beloved one, the late 18th-century Ottoman poet Ḥasan-i Yāver wrote Poetry’s Artistry, a 441-verse mathnawī that offers some hands-on advice for trying one’s hand at poetry. As tashbīh, jinās, kināya, taḍādd, taḍmīn, ilmām, iltifāt, tardīd, ishtibāh, tawriya, īhām, takhmīs, tarkīb-band,…[Read more]

]]> 0 1013ab56a084dc4193608c1bda07fffa Nick Posegay deposited “A Survey of Personal-Use Qurʾan Manuscripts Based on Fragments from the Cairo Genizah” in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745153/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 02:34:40 -0400 The Cairo Genizah is a repository of texts spanning more than a millennium of Jewish history, including thousands of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts now held in collections around the world. Among these are fragments from at least 25 separate Qur'an manuscripts in Arabic script, all of which lack any traces of Hebrew writing. Their…[Read more]

]]> 0 7dc3a953346ac94e5a37491ff48fa02c Nick Posegay deposited The Marking of Poetry: A Rare Vocalization System from an Early Qurʾān Manuscript in Chicago, Paris, and Doha in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1735080/ Fri, 16 Apr 2021 02:23:39 -0400 This paper provides updated digital images of four Qurʾān fragments from Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum (OIM) that appeared in Nabia Abbott’s Rise of the North Arabic Script, and calls attention to features of their paleography and vocalization which are not apparent from her original black-and-white plates. In doing so, it demonstrates tha…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ce76c783c98615f5576be8aa49db6c4 Charles Häberl deposited Mandaic and the Palestinian Question in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1732769/ Fri, 26 Mar 2021 02:23:42 -0400 In his 1875 description of the language, Theodor Nöldeke describes Mandaic as among the purest of the Aramaic languages and the furthest from Western Aramaic, particularly with respect to its lexicon. As Mandæans identify their faith with that of John the Baptist and his community of followers, this observation is not without relevance for a…[Read more]

]]> 0 9b7b0d1aa4fff94863a1f5cfdd656545 Nick Posegay deposited 'An Arabic Qurʾān, That You Might Understand': Qurʾān Fragments in the T-S Arabic Cairo Genizah Collection in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1731569/ Tue, 16 Mar 2021 02:25:03 -0400 The Arabic-script Qurʾān fragments of the Cairo genizah collections have not yet drawn much interest among Arabic and genizah scholars. This paper aims to bring them to the attention of a broader audience by presenting the palaeographic features (§3) and vocalisation systems (§4) of eleven Arabic-script Qurʾān fragments from the Cambridge Unive…[Read more]

]]> 0 1719bfb0201b689f2db6f127b5f8eb72 Nick Posegay deposited Connecting the Dots: The Shared Phonological Tradition in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew Vocalisation in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1731561/ Tue, 16 Mar 2021 02:24:10 -0400 This article presents new data on links between the various medieval vocalisation traditions of Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic. These include the identification of overlaps in the Aramaic terminology used by Jewish Masoretes and Syriac Christian grammarians and in the phonological theories that underlie them, as well as connections between Syriac and…[Read more]

]]> 0 c044f6550c3154efe9b849ffa21776ee Ceyda Elgul deposited Lives in Turkish: A Database of Biography in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1709586/ Thu, 24 Sep 2020 02:24:53 -0400 "Lives in Turkish" is an ongoing research project held at Boğaziçi University Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies. We trace the journey of life-writing in Turkish, collect metadata and visuals about biographical publications and biography subjects introduced to the Turkish reader since the early 1800s. Our aim is to propose a c…[Read more]

]]> 0 96eb9ce3da51ab290cb93c6599a420ac Gregor M. Schwarb deposited A Hamaḏānian Patchwork in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1707582/ Tue, 08 Sep 2020 02:24:15 -0400 Among the numerous Jewish uṣūl al-dīn compositions in the Second Firkovitch Collection at the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg there is one that I have labelled “A Hamaḏānian Patchwork”. You might just as well call it “A Persian Carpet”. It is another magnificent specimen of “diachronic intertextualities”.
The treatise, which is…[Read more]

]]> 0 e505f0509f54387069eae860f54da181 Ismail Royer deposited Pakistan's Blasphemy Law and Non-Muslims - Urdu in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1690945/ Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:26:10 -0400 This is an Urdu translation of the work "Pakistan's Blasphemy Law and Non-Muslims"

]]> 0 9e86f940c796a06e4541c4693b5f04ec Charles Häberl deposited A Turk Invented the First International Auxiliary Language in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1686904/ Mon, 11 May 2020 16:26:26 -0400 English translation of Midhat Sertoğlu, İlk Milletlerarası Dili Bir Türk İcat Etmişti, originally published in Hayat Tarih Mecmuası 1 (1966): 66–68

]]> 0 9dfeb8e4b0d7ac1ce6eb61c13523b7d5 Charles Häberl deposited The Mandaean Book of John in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677706/ Thu, 06 Feb 2020 16:25:21 -0500 Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic…[Read more]

]]> 0 e37c8ed10f28322a31ed6775aa5190a4 Edmund Hayes started the topic Conference Call for Papers: Historicizing the Shiʿi hadith Corpus in the discussion Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/digital-middle-east-islamic-studies/forum/topic/conference-call-for-papers-historicizing-the-shi%ca%bfi-hadith-corpus-2/ Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:35:46 -0500 Hosted by Leiden University Centre for Islam and Society (LUCIS) and Shiʿi Studies Unit, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London (IIS)

Date: June 24-26 2020

Location: Leiden University, the Netherlands

Convenors: Hassan Ansari, Edmund Hayes, Gurdofarid Miskinzoda

Abstract deadline: January 31st 2020

This conference will focus on…[Read more]

]]> ac16bfa1c1128f50994ea30fcf1e3693 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Qurʾān in Hebrew script in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633212/ Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:25:57 -0500 Qurʾān in Hebrew script produced for a students' exercise in a seminar entitled "One Language, Many Scripts: Allographic Traditions Used for Writing Arabic" with reference to Johannes den Heijer, Andrea Schmidt and Tamara Pataridze (eds.), Scripts Beyond Borders: A Survey of Allographic Traditions in the Euro-Mediterranean World (Louvain: P…[Read more]

]]> 0 9825fac6383dcb505a53a76555970138 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited The Undotted Qurʾān in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633202/ Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:25:31 -0500 Undotted consonantal skeleton of the Quranic text produced for a students' exercise. The display is constrained by the limitations of the font and by no means meant to reproduce scribal practices of early Qurʾān manuscripts! Full document available on request (gs50[at]soas.ac.uk).

]]> 0 2d33cd3ca8cccdd487a40869104f9b34 Bashar H. Malkawi deposited Bashar H. Malkawi, The Contents and Features of Dispute Settlement under US-Jordan FTA: An Appraisal in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628825/ Sat, 12 Jan 2019 16:27:22 -0500 In the area of dispute resolution, the U.S. FTAs with Arab countries share some commonalities. However, the US – JO FTA clearly differs from other U.S. FTAs with Arab countries. Areas of difference include treatment of perishable goods, appeal, panel report, and implementation of panel report. The dispute settlement mechanism in the US – JO FTA…[Read more]

]]> 0 fc85dda95752d869028bf0510b31fee7 Bashar H. Malkawi deposited ANATOMY OF THE CASE OF ARAB COUNTRIES AND THE WTO in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628819/ Sat, 12 Jan 2019 16:27:08 -0500 Arab countries are attempting to broaden their engagement in the multilateral trading system in a manner that has many implications. Not only have some Arab countries either acceded or are in the pipeline of acceding to the World Trade Organization (WTO), but their new commitments coincide with reorientations in their economic strategies. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 ddb6946bf9a3a7a5657eaec4713c1ad8 Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Literature as a Tribunal: The Modern Iranian Prose of Incarceration in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627180/ Sun, 23 Dec 2018 16:25:21 -0500 This essay examines the development of prison memoirs in modern Iranian prose, with a focus on how literary texts function as a tribunal, delivering forms of justice missing from the existing legal system. It constructs from the prison memoirs of a range of dissident writers (Dashti, ʿAlavi, and Baraheni) a genealogy of prison consciousness in…[Read more]

]]> 0 e152e64203adf60d6ae4547804f00567 Ismail Royer deposited Pakistan's Blasphemy Law and Non-Muslims in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1617252/ Sat, 01 Sep 2018 16:41:36 -0400 Section 295-C of Pakistan’s penal code prohibits insulting the Prophet and carries a mandatory death penalty. This law was passed based on a claim of ijma‘ (consensus among Islamic scholars) that such an offense is subject to a hadd (divinely fixed) punishment. Nearly half of those charged under this statute crimes of hadd are Christians, who mak…[Read more]

]]> 0 32e119c8fd25c073fb2eb405b6b7684a Joakim Parslow started the topic CfP: Future Histories of the Middle East and South Asia (edited volume) in the discussion Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/digital-middle-east-islamic-studies/forum/topic/cfp-future-histories-of-the-middle-east-and-south-asia-edited-volume-2/ Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:27:31 -0500 CfP: Future Histories of the Middle East and South Asia (edited volume)

Apologies for cross-posting

Contributions are invited for an edited anthology tentatively titled Future Histories of the Middle East and South Asia. The anthology will be open to articles dealing with future histories and science fiction across time periods written in any of…[Read more]

]]> 0c0eb84e9c1edd5e3968abb9f1ef6006 Ghenwa Hayek posted an update in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies: MEHAT 2018 is looking for graduate students whose […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1598814/ Sun, 28 Jan 2018 19:13:33 -0500 MEHAT 2018 is looking for graduate students whose scholarship is at the intersection of digital humanities and Middle Eastern studies. Apply, and circulate widely:

Call for Papers
33rd Annual Middle East History & Theory Conference
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 4-5, 2018
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]]> 0 affbdbfd3f8bdfa1cd870fcd80bbbe82 Will Hanley posted an update in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies: https://twitter.com/mia_out/status/942731751310479360 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1592744/ Mon, 18 Dec 2017 13:11:12 -0500 https://twitter.com/mia_out/status/942731751310479360

]]> 1 7d9b99e30216de253ead13822159c187 Will Hanley posted an update in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies: https://twitter.com/VHTroyansky/status/942456545169719296 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1592697/ Sun, 17 Dec 2017 19:08:18 -0500

#Map of Women Patrons' Structures in Ottoman #Istanbul – built over four and a half centuries by Ottoman women: https://t.co/VygApHWW4S. Part of an upcoming exhibition in SALT Galata.

— Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (@VHTroyansky) December 17, 2017

]]> 0 5537dbd46739b4778e9a3a8349ef2006 Will Hanley posted an update in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies: The Kitab project has won an ERC consolidator grant. […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1592420/ Wed, 13 Dec 2017 23:58:50 -0500 The Kitab project has won an ERC consolidator grant. https://erc.europa.eu/node/2653

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