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Interdisciplinary Fellowships, Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music is an interdisciplinary center where scholars and artists engage in academic and creative work across a variety of fields at the intersection of religion and the arts.…
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The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam and Across the World (ed. Christiane Gruber)
The Image Debate is a collection of thirteen essays that examine the controversy surrounding the use of images in Islamic and other religious cultures and seek to redress some of the misunderstandings that have arisen.Visit site
Table of Contents: Stefano Carboni – Foreword Christiane Gruber – Idols and Figural Images in Islam: A Brief Dive into a Perennial Debate
Part 1: Pre-Modern Islam Mika Natif – ‘Painters Will Be Punished’: The Politics of Figural Representation Amongst the Umayyads Finbarr Barry Flood – Signs of Silence: Epigraphic Erasure and the Image of the Word Oya Pancaroğlu – Conditions of Love and Conventions of Representation in the Illustrated Manuscript of Varqa and Gulshah
Part 2: Beyond the Islamic world Alicia Walker – Iconomachy in Byzantium Steven Fine – The Image in Jewish Art Michael Shenkar – Religious Imagery and Image-Making in pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia Robert Decaroli – Conspicuous Absences: The Avoidance and Use of Images in Early South Asian Art
Part 3: Modern and Contemporary Islam Yousuf Saeed – The Figural Image in Islamic Devotional Art of the Indian Subcontinent James Bennett – The Shadow Puppet: A South-East Asian Islamic Aesthetic Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts – Enigma and Purpose: Visual Hagiographies of Urban Senegal Rose Issa – Figures of Protest in Contemporary Arab and Iranian Art Shiva Balaghi – Only for My Shadow: Figuration in Contemporary Iranian Art
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Asa Eger, ed. The Archaeology of the Medieval Islamic Frontiers: From the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea [University of Colorado Press, Louisville: 2019]
Table of Contents 1. A. Asa Eger (UNCG), “The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers – an Introduction” 3
Part I: Western Frontiers: The Maghrib and The Mediterranean Sea
2. Anthony J. Lauricella (U Chicago), “Ibadi Boundaries and Defense in the Jabal Nafusa (Libya)” 31
3. Renata Holod (U Penn) and Tarek Kahlaoui (Mediterranean School of Business), “Guarding a Well-Ordered Space on a Mediterranean Island” 47
4. Ian Randall (Brown), “Conceptualizing the Islamic-Byzantine Maritime Frontier.” 80
Part II: Southern Frontiers: Egypt and Nubia
5. Giovanni Ruffini (Fairfield), “Monetization across the Nubian Border: A Hypothetical Model” 105
6. Jana Eger (Mu, “ The Land of Tari' and Some New Thoughts about Its Location” 119
Part III: Eastern Frontiers: The Caucasus
7. Karim Alizadeh (Harvard): “Overlapping Social and Political Boundaries: Borders of the Sasanian Empire and the Muslim Caliphate in the Caucasus” 139
8. Tasha Vorderstrasse (U Chicago), “Buddhism on the Shores of the Black Sea: The North Caucasus Frontier between the Muslims, Byzantines and Khazars ” 168.
9. Kathryn Franklin, “Houses for Strangers and a Homeland on the Move: the Caravan- House and Political Economy in the Late Medieval Armenian Highlands (AD 1200- 1400)
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New version of the Islamic Painted Page Database
The University of Hamburg’s Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures and Islamic Painted Page are pleased to announce the launch of a new version of the Islamic Painted Page website to help users locate paintings, illuminations and bindings, and to signpost them onward to authoritative online and print publications.
As well as some refinements to the site, we are proud to report the database is now expanded to 42,000 references, of which 21,000 now include images. Altogether, the database now includes works from over 270 collections worldwide, and image facilities are now included for 50% of the content. Everything remains fully searchable by picture description as well as by place, date, accession number and other metadata.
Very grateful acknowledgement is made to the Smithsonian Freer Sackler Galleries; The Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Harvard Art Museums; Copenhagen David Collection; the Geneva Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, and Chester Beatty Library, for permission to include images from their collections on this latest version of the database. Together with previous permissions and Creative Commons policies, this enables the database to display images for works from twenty major collections so far.
The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures aims to enable the continued development of the Islamic Painted Page database, and the site is now hosted and supported by the University of Hamburg, although the database ownership and maintenance remain unchanged.
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An Ocean of Paper Database of Omani waraqas
An Ocean of Paper seeks to stimulate new research in the social history of the Sultanate by collecting, cataloging, and publishing the thousands of deeds (called waraqas) produced by Omanis in South Arabia and East Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These deeds, which exist in private and public collections in Oman and East Africa, recount transactions in money, property, and commodities between Omanis from different parts of the country who engaged in activities around the Indian Ocean. Individually, they tell stories of the lives, fortunes, and trajectories of Omani migrants; together, they constitute some of the richest written records we have on any community in the region, and promise to completely reshape the foundations of Omani social and economic history in the Indian Ocean.
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2020 SQCC Research Fellowship Program
Oman
The Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center (SQCC) supports and encourages advanced research on the Sultanate of Oman through the SQCC Research Fellowship Program. First launched in 2010, this annual fellowship…
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Grabar Travel Grant
Deadline-August 1
This competition is open to graduate students (doctoral candidates) who have been invited or accepted as participants in a scholarly conference or other professional meeting for the purpose of presenting…
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Adjunct Professor of Islamic Art-Lake Forest College
Chicago, IL
We seek an instructor to teach our Topics in Islamic Art course in Fall 2019. We understand that the field spans incredible historical breadth and geographical diversity, and thus, are open to balancing…
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The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum Visiting Scholars Program 2019/20
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Av. de Berna 45-A, 1067-001 Lisboa, Portugal
The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum announces the return of the visiting scholars programme, a project that promotes the study of a subject and/or one or more objects in the Founder’s Collection or…
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Decentring the Flâneur: global histories of walking the early modern city, November 15-16
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Decentring the Flâneur: global histories of walking the early modern cityA conference organised by Sussan Babaie (Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London) and Richard Wrigley (History…
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HIAA Sponsorship of CAA Panel, Chicago, February 12-15, 2020
Chicago
HIAA will sponsor a session at CAA’s Annual Conference in Chicago, February 12-15, 2020. We are now asking for proposals from HIAA members for the Session Soliciting Contributors category. This…
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The Hajji Baba Club Fellowship in the Field of Carpet Studies
https://www.hajjibaba.org/fellowship/
The Hajji Baba Club Research Fellowship seeks to encourage and support fundamental research in the field of carpet studies by established scholars and early-career scholars of outstanding promise. One…
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