Knowledge Commons | Islamicate Studies | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/ Activity feed for the group, Islamicate Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:04:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 fe9a7eb45f9c74eb0d215a511490444d Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applications: Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA, apply by Jan. 15 in the forum Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/cf-applications-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga-apply-by-jan-15/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:02:29 -0500 <span style="font-weight: 400;">The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies. </span>

 

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:…[Read more]

]]> ac216fdcfc266e3190817d14e8e65dd9 Nick Posegay deposited From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902157/ Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:01:08 -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 cc0dfa02dd8821e984998352ec22eeee Nick Posegay deposited The Illustrated Cairo Genizah in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900714/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:01:17 -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 27c2e897a93e235c8077ffa4f817eb8f Nick Posegay deposited Five Qur’anic Papyri from the Michaelides Collection at the Cambridge University Library in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891767/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:00:33 -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 f09254050466c17189e88b787bb0d44e Nick Posegay deposited Five Qur’anic Papyri from the Michaelides Collection at the Cambridge University Library in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891765/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:00:29 -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 3e3552b4a3367f5f27a6a07bf5801d89 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 Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886671/ Mon, 20 May 2024 03:00:35 -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 3b4c495de76c50d08b7c8885973589e7 Nick Posegay deposited Eleven Colophons by Ten Printers from Seven Cities in the Cairo Genizah in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886342/ Thu, 16 May 2024 03:01:09 -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 a4436688b7c2939181feb91bffa21325 Jake Benson started the topic The Iranian Diaspora in Southeast Asia: Old Manuscript, New Perspectives in the discussion Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/the-iranian-diaspora-in-southeast-asia-old-manuscript-new-perspectives-3/ Wed, 01 May 2024 13:39:48 -0400 https://www.leidenspecialcollectionsblog.nl/articles/persians-of-java-re-examining-the-cultural-context-of-indonesia

]]> 2a68979f4c0067725baefd7a3865399d Gregor M. Schwarb deposited The Conceptual Framework of Muʿtazilī-Bahšamī Phenomenological Epistemology in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884673/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:29:01 -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 1e544267d0f4390cd797d657680c1103 Alexandre Roberts deposited Review of: Rustam Shukurov, Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650-1461 in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884671/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:55 -0400 Review of: Shukurov, Rustam. Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650–1461. London: Routledge, 2023.

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]]> 0 9d66078d893006a1d3a7cee135a7658c Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited برابری‌خواهی جنسیتی در شعر پروین اعتصامی؟ in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884560/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:19:27 -0400 در بررسی شعر فمنیستی فارسی معمولاً به نام فروغ فرخزاد، سیمین بهبهانی، طاهره قره‌العین، زندخت شیرازی و اخیراً ژاله عالم‌تاج قائم‌‌مقامی برمی‌خوریم و نام پروین اعتصامی (1285-1320ش) در چنین مباحثی مطرح نمی‌شود. آنچه پژوهشگران تا به اکنون دربارۀ شعر او در کانون توجه قرار داده‌اند جنبه‌های اجتماعی اشعار این شاعر و تلاش وی برای به تصویر کشیدن…[Read more]

]]> 0 c818e40480db72358fb4a574e8fc75fa Jörg Matthias Determann started the topic Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life in the discussion Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/islamic-theology-and-extraterrestrial-life-3/ Sun, 18 Feb 2024 11:08:01 -0500 Dear colleagues,

It is with profound gratitude that I announce the publication of a volume edited by Shoaib Ahmed Malik and me. It is entitled Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life: New Frontiers in Science and Religion (London: I.B. Tauris, 2024). Free review copies are available.

Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life: New…[Read more]

]]> 140296feaf186a979fd55b20352ebbb1 Pasha Mohamad Khan deposited ‘Abd al-Nabī Faḳhr al-Zamānī and the Courtly Storytellers of Mughal India in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870102/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 03:00:06 -0500 Report on the historical details of a number of neglected storytellers in Iran and South Asia from the 16th to 17th centuries CE, including Zain al-‘Ābidīn Takaltū Khān, ‘Ināyat Allāh Darbār Khān, Fusūnī Yazdī, Mīr Muḥammad Hāshim, Iskandar Qiṣṣah-khẉān, Ḥājī Qiṣṣah-khẉān Hamadānī, Niẓām Shīrāzī, Mīr Qiṣṣah, Muḥammad…[Read more]

]]> 0 3686013f2ce0ac9f1cdb8a98c4e7fc45 Pasha Mohamad Khan deposited A Handbook for Storytellers: The Ṭirāz al-akhbār and the Qissa Genre in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870100/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 03:00:02 -0500 Describes the storytelling techniques of the 17th-century storyteller (qissah-khwan) ‘Abd al-Nabi Fakhr al-Zamani Qazwini in South Asia and discusses the truth/falsehood binary in the context of the qissah/dastan genre.

]]> 0 1b849656f59e0454bc8122e9de9801f0 Pasha Mohamad Khan deposited Preface to a Romance (1866) in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870020/ Sun, 07 Jan 2024 03:00:04 -0500 Translation of Mīrzā Asad Allāh Ḳhān Ġhālib's 1866 Urdu preface to the dāstān Bostān-i Ḳhayāl.

]]> 0 fecfb44c3a3fd5b62c5d0538d06ec5c5 Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited The Persian Whitman: Beyond a Literary Reception (translated into Persian by Mostafa Hosseini) in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869836/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 03:01:04 -0500 ویتمن ایرانی: فراتر از پذیرش ادبی ــ که به پذیرش والت ویتمن، شاعر نامدار آمریکایی، در یک دورۀ تقریباً صد ساله در ایران معاصر می‌پردازد ــ دارای نُه فصل، مقدمه، مؤخره و ضمیمه است. کتابِ حاضر تحقیقی بینارشته‌ای است: از سویی ادبیات تطبیقی (پذیرش ادبی، تأثیرپژوهی و تصویرشناسی) و نقد ادبی (تاریخ‌گرایی نو)، و از سوی دیگر مطالعات ترجمه (ترجمه و ای…[Read more]

]]> 0 24769643285d9da863aee024ae4a350a Alexandre Roberts deposited Thinking about Chemistry in Byzantium and the Islamic World in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868374/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 03:00:16 -0500 This article investigates several discussions of “chemistry,” understood as an analysts’ category referring to theories and practices dealing with the structure and transformation of matter. By reading these texts (a treatise defending kīmiyāʾ by al-Fārābī, the famous passage from Ibn Sīnā’s Shifāʾ on transmutation, Ibn Taymiyyah’s fatwā…[Read more]

]]> 0 660f51364762c26b0a1eaaf03536b6be Alexandre Roberts deposited Thinking about Chemistry in Byzantium and the Islamic World in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867265/ Sat, 09 Dec 2023 03:00:19 -0500 The term “alchemy,” born out of early modern professional polemics among chemists, is problematic as a historical category. The present article shifts away from asking what pre-modern alchemy “really” was, to asking how medieval scholars writing in Greek and Arabic thought about the practice of treating and combining naturally occurring substan…[Read more]

]]> 0 f590a4aeb5e3e55f0f1bad7c187eb826 Nick Posegay deposited Hebrew Printing and Printers’ Colophons in the Cairo Genizah: Networking Book Trade in Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862098/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 03:00:08 -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 05e731d3861f6a32260f192865beaedd Lloyd Graham deposited A life in the balance: Divine judgement by weighing in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859630/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:04:09 -0400 This paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 21724264cefed806b46f01e4be003751 Nasrin Askari deposited Licit Magic – GlobalLit Working Papers 17. Persian Literary Criticism in India: Khān-i Ārzū’s Critique of Ḥazīn’s Poetry in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1847629/ Wed, 31 May 2023 02:26:57 -0400 In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, when a new style of Persian poetry was developing in the Persianate world, several erudite literary critics appeared in India, whose meticulous critiques of Persian poetry was unprecedented in the long history of Persian literature. A close study of the works produced by these critics reveals their vast…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca2f613e1cc2b04f8e812eb33872e0e9 Jake Benson started the topic The Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database in the discussion Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/the-archived-chester-beatty-library-islamic-seals-database-4/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 09:21:35 -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]

]]> 5c1c61e1b912bedbe5d97e7789d7277f Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 16. Ziya Pasha, Reformist and/or Reactionary? Translations from the Hürriyet & Ḫarābāt in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1838378/ Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:24:15 -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 7c4f5a84e94b0c5d29b9d4f12b54b831 Jake Benson started the topic Group for Arabic script manuscripts in the discussion Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/group-for-arabic-script-manuscripts/ Sat, 21 Jan 2023 13:42:25 -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/

]]> d56d8a3cbd1013f843a56360bd638f99 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 Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1830236/ Wed, 18 Jan 2023 02:23:46 -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 dfbeb5f707e31f1b01e3283eb5504e2e Salam Rassi deposited Scribal and Commentary Traditions at the Dawn of Print: The Manuscripts of the Near Eastern School of Theology as an Archive of the Early Nahḍa in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828751/ Sun, 08 Jan 2023 02:28:07 -0500 This article focuses on the Arabic manuscript collection of the Near Eastern School of Theology (NEST). The NEST library contains several manuscripts that were donated, copied, or read by important Christian-born intellectuals of the nahḍa. Given these men’s role in the emergence of modern publishing in the Middle East, I examine the int…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2ddac3dfb5428a411b53135963b912b Salam Rassi deposited Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World: ʿAbdīshōʿ of Nisibis and the Apologetic Tradition in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828603/ Sat, 07 Jan 2023 02:24:40 -0500 This book is the first monograph-length study and intellectual biography of ʿAbdīshōʿ of Nisibis (d. 1318), bishop and polymath of the Church of the East. Focusing on his works of apologetic theology, this study examines the intellectual strategies he employs to justify Christianity against Muslim (and to a lesser extent Jewish) criticisms. Bet…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8a5ce0edd76a849188a2554b8e7aef1 Alexandre Roberts deposited Heretics, Dissidents, and Society: Narrating the Trial of John bar ʿAbdun in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1822663/ Thu, 17 Nov 2022 02:24:54 -0500 This article analyzes narratives of a single series of eleventh-century events, the trial of Syrian Miaphysite (Jacobite) patriarch John bar ʿAbdun.

]]> 0 3015371ea628fce3a973419e55ca7eed 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 Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1788811/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:24:40 -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 a1b3e4045cd5d93ef7e4eacde71cfc99 Aqil Visram started the topic Open Library Courses in Islamic Studies in the discussion Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/open-library-courses-in-islamic-studies-3/ Mon, 18 Jul 2022 20:36:11 -0400 Dear members of the Islamicate Studies group,

Recently, the Marvel Cinematic Universe launched its inaugural Muslim superhero series, Ms. Marvel, starring Iman Vellani. According to Forbes, Ms. Marvel “is the highest scoring Disney Plus Marvel series ever.” I was very excited by this as I’m an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto…[Read more]

]]> f14fc9a29cad2f244c859863b4c3946c Alexandre Roberts deposited Byzantine-Islamic Scientific Culture in the Astronomical Diagrams of Chioniades on John of Damascus in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1786943/ Wed, 13 Jul 2022 02:26:22 -0400 Scientific diagrams could and did appear in unexpected places. This essay discusses such an example: the diagrams that the thirteenth- to fourteenth-century scholar George-Gregory Chioniades added to a manuscript of John of Damascus's Fountain of Knowledge as part of his commentary on the text. I argue that the diagrams were a very important, if…[Read more]

]]> 0 25c367549655a04d9e016d58f4b1ad1c 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 Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782896/ Mon, 30 May 2022 02:23:46 -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 aba068d86fa92910eb0b8f7c990d5c48 Nick Posegay deposited Searching for the Last Genizah Fragment in Late Ottoman Cairo: A Material Survey of Egyptian Jewish Literary Culture in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782563/ Thu, 26 May 2022 02:24:03 -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 85f48d2c63280c0a847fd08a324dfc6c 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 Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1776603/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 02:23:47 -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 0b6b323cc6ba74140573cdcdcb895974 Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Roger Sedarat. Emerson in Iran: The American Appropriation of Persian Poetry in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1769486/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 02:24:36 -0500 Through the case of Emerson’s appropriation of Persian poetry this volume provides a thought-provoking example of how the literary founding father of a nation is cosmopolitan and receptive of foreign cultures in what might seem a purely “nationalistic” agenda. It will appeal to those in the field of Persian literature, comparative liter…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c6f4a8e0d03777fe0c98c05970420cb 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 Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765716/ Tue, 11 Jan 2022 02:23:45 -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 4a1dcb2af8ce19bf1ed40f403370bec4 Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Persian Huck: On the Reception of Huckleberry Finn in Iran in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764601/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 02:25:52 -0500 First translated into Persian in 1949, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is among the most popular works of American fiction in Iran. Although the anti-US policy of the post-1979 political system has tried to erase the manifestations of the previous period’s American influence, Iranian interest in Huckleberry Finn has been inc…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb7be0d77355f36d8106837b5d0de670 Christopher S. Rose deposited Implications of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic (1918–1920) for the History of Early Twentieth-Century Egypt in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760215/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 02:24:12 -0500 The “Spanish influenza” pandemic that struck Egypt in fall 1918 resulted in the death of eleven out of every one thousand people. Despite the mass suffering caused by the pandemic, it has been largely ignored by historians. I describe how the Egyptian public health service was unprepared for a major health crisis because resources were red…[Read more]

]]> 0 c7e940d7f35878759e870392fcddb5fe Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic - GlobalLit Working Papers 6. Nevāʾī's Meter of Meters. Introduction & Partial Translation in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1756817/ Thu, 28 Oct 2021 02:23:46 -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 3ad94b38a5196fb0b7a1a90d0055777e James Ryan deposited "A Turk Named O'Brien": Bedtime Stories of the Early Turkish Republic from the Memoirs of Sevim Sertel O'Brien in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1754497/ Sat, 09 Oct 2021 02:23:48 -0400 This article examines the unpublished memoirs of Sevim Sertel O'Brien, a journalist and daughter of prominent journalists and intellectuals Sabiha and Zekeriya Sertel. The memoirs, written in English and told as bedtime stories to O'Brien's Turkish-American children in the 1950s and 1960s, provide a unique lens on the early history of the Turkish…[Read more]

]]> 0 5eab5d00d19616f7ba165434c5c38f3d James Ryan deposited "'Unveiling' The Tramway": The Intimate Public Sphere in Late Ottoman and Early Republican Istanbul in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1754494/ Sat, 09 Oct 2021 02:23:38 -0400 With the introduction of the horse-drawn tramway in 1871, the citizens of Istanbul were forced to reckon with a new type of public space—the crowded confines of the tramcar. This article focuses on the removal of a curtain that separated men and women on public transit in 1923, analyzing the discourses that shaped the decision and the way in w…[Read more]

]]> 0 dbb669702d00eb3cbb0f113eb166ae8d Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited «دوک همت» در دستان عنکبوت دورگه: پذیرش خلاق پروین اعتصامی از شعر والت ویتمن in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1751843/ Tue, 14 Sep 2021 02:27:22 -0400 پروین اعتصامی (۱۲۸۵ـ ۱۳۲۰)، شاعر نامدار معاصر، در شعرهایش از منابع متعددی بهره برده‌است؛ اما نکته­ جالب توجه این است که او در تمام این برداشت‌های ادبی، اشعار خود را کاملاً از آثار پیشین متمایز می‌کند. پروین عناصری را که از آثار دیگران وام گرفته ­است‌ هنرمندانه با عناصر شعر خود و سنت ادبی فارسی درمی‌آمیزد و آن را از آن خود می‌کند؛ به ­گ…[Read more]

]]> 0 7d5f5fe6c4291716d6cfb38a34a680d2 Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited ‘The Female Rumi’ and Feminine Mysticism: ‘God’s Weaver’ by Parvin Iʿtisami in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1751038/ Wed, 08 Sep 2021 02:24:27 -0400 Parvin Iʿtisami (1907–1941), the first important twentieth-century woman poet of Iran, was well versed in classical Persian poetry. Her knowledge of English language and education at the American school for girls as well as her father’s translations from foreign literature contributed to her appreciation of modern ideas, including women’s rights…[Read more]

]]> 0 f7b003dc090d46fef25e15e595eeb794 Jörg Matthias Determann started the topic Call for papers: Online conference on Islamic Perspectives on Exotheology in the discussion Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/call-for-papers-online-conference-on-islamic-perspectives-on-exotheology/ Thu, 02 Sep 2021 08:13:09 -0400 Dear colleagues and friends,

I hope this reaches you well.

Shoaib Ahmed Malik of Zayed University recently suggested to me the organization of an online conference on Islamic Perspectives on Exotheology. I am quoting from our call for papers (CFP) below:

“There have been many developments in the nascent field of Islam and science in the past f…[Read more]

]]> eb7e225bfd368fe7158dba42dab49254 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 Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1750084/ Thu, 26 Aug 2021 02:26:59 -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 45766f242486fd7084bce0c62ecd8f58 Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Niloofar Haeri. Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748478/ Thu, 05 Aug 2021 02:25:01 -0400 Through offering an ethnography of a group of educated, middle-class women who “had been attending weekly Qur’an and classical poetry classes for years” (xii), the volume shows that poetry and prayer are companions in the cultural history of Iran. It attempts to answer the question, “What does this companionship mean for forms of religio…[Read more]

]]> 0 ab1063caf3549e1fa649bb54813da189 Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Reza Taher-Kermani. The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748474/ Thu, 05 Aug 2021 02:23:41 -0400 Building on the author’s PhD thesis on “the British cultural and imaginative engagements with Persia in the nineteenth century” (vi), the volume charts “the diversity of perceptions associated with Persia in Victorian literary culture” (2). It focuses on poetry as the medium through which to survey the Victorian conception of Persia. It consists…[Read more]

]]> 0 f4506778cabef410732e69c5ddcd60f1 Nick Posegay deposited “A Survey of Personal-Use Qurʾan Manuscripts Based on Fragments from the Cairo Genizah” in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745155/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 02:35:06 -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 aa113c27da95e8b34cd65dc3ab13e280 Peter Matthews Wright started the topic CFP for Muslim Futurism Conference in the discussion Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/cfp-for-muslim-futurism-conference/ Sat, 03 Jul 2021 18:56:55 -0400 Deadline is August 1st.

]]> f4f468f92efa8ee9ffe0b790cc67c107 Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy (2021) in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739545/ Wed, 26 May 2021 02:24:35 -0400 Drawing on archival research, this article introduces several Russian poems by the Arabic mahjar poet and writer Mikhail Naimy (Mīkhāʿīl Nu’aymah) (1889-1988) for the first time to scholarship. By examining the influence of Russian literature on Naimy’s literary output, we shed light on the role of multilingualism in generating literary identit…[Read more]

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