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Frankfurt

The Mixed Courts of Egypt, 1876-1949

Between imperial internationalism and shared legal knowledge

How did the Mixed Courts of Egypt impact legal knowledge and societies on both sides of the Mediterranean? 150 years after these once highly influential institutions heard their first cases, the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory will dedicate a workshop to this question.

Call for papers - Asia

Aswat - Creation and Alternative Scientific Writings in the Arab World

Aswat, festival for Creation and Alternative Scientific Writings in the Arab World, is conceived as a meeting place between research, sound and visual creation communities, and a wider public, َAswat aims to show and discuss works made by/with researchers from all disciplines as well as documentary filmmakers working in and on the Arab world.

Arbil Governorate

Call for papers - Middle Ages

From the disconnected letters to the science of letters: a meeting of knowledges in the Middle East

In order to interpret the disconnected letters of the Qur’an (ḥurūf muqaṭṭa‘a), Muslim thinkers have based their work on esoteric concepts, sometimes handed down from Antiquity, which have flourished in Islamic lands under the name of the science of letters (‘ilm al-ḥurūf). This international symposium aims to study the various representations of the mysterious letters within the wider framework of the science of letters, and to put them in perspective against similar readings from languages and cultures close to Arabic. Part of the symposium will be held in the historic citadel of Erbil in the heart of ancient Mesopotamia, “the land of the two rivers”, the cradle of early writing.

Paris

Call for papers - Religion

Animals as Worshippers of God First of All

On Animal Piety in Islam

In this symposium, we aim to consider the religious figure of the animal in Islam, neither as an object of worship (an idol) nor a means of worshipping (sacrificial offering), but rather as a fully-fledged subject, a worshipper of God and a model for all worshippers. What are the origin and theological posterity of verses like, “Do you not see that God is glorified by all those in the heavens and the earth, even birds in rows?” (24:41) What does believing in animal worship of God imply for the definition of religion itself?

Call for papers - History

Christianity in Iraq at the turn of Islam: History & Archaeology

An international round table organized on May 4 and 5, 2019 at the University of Salahaddin (Erbil, Iraq) highlighted the interest for a collective work that will address the question of Christianity in Iraq at the turn of Islam. Les Presses de l’Ifpo launch a call for papers related to this theme.

Sousse

Call for papers - Thought

The unfinished in the arts

Le monde des arts s’offre au regard, peut-être beaucoup plus aujourd’hui que par le passé, comme une scène bigarrée où tous les possibles concourent à l’expression du monde, une expression subjective engageant un je, singulier ou pluriel, mais revendiquée comme telle, et quelle qu’elle soit : directe, donnée au figuré, sous enveloppe métaphorique, hybride, protéique ou … carrément inachevée. Le « non finito » dans l’art, s’il avait eu du temps, de Michel Ange, un aspect anecdotique, achève aujourd’hui de constituer une véritable mouvance tant dans les galeries d’art, les fabriques du livre, le septième art, les arts dramatiques avec des appellations souvent confondantes, devenues presque consacrées : esquisse, story board, rushes, work in process, mise en bouche, mise en espace, première (en parlant de théâtre), œuvre en devenir, etc...

Hammamet

Call for papers - Urban studies

Urban and architectural identities in Mediterranean cities

Identités urbaines et architecturales dans les villes méditerranéennes

The architectural and urban diversity characterising mediterranean city is inseparable from their identity. It seems clear at that this diversity and multiplicity of different identities shoud be considered as one of the greatest cultural and human values. The coexistence of forms in time and space, the blending of urban and architectural cultures, influences and contaminations, even the contrast and and contradictions of identity that are revealed in the mediterranean urban territory reflect the stratification of the city in its pragmatics implications and its identity meanings. Today, in a context of a competition and attractiveness betwen territories, several mediterranean cities are going through a period of profound changes. Faced with these transformations, the reference to "identity territories" (Troin, 2004) and the ability of the city to build an identity and speared it among the population are called into question.

Call for papers - Thought

Education in the Arabic peninsular - narratives, political issues and social dynamics (19th-21st centuries)

Arabian Humanities no. 13 - theme issue

Ce dossier d’Arabian Humanities vise à renouveler les études portant sur l’éducation dans la péninsule Arabique à partir d’une variété d’approches disciplinaires (histoire, éducation, sociologie, anthropologie, géographie…).

Cairo

Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

The emergence of the Ḥadīṯ as the authority of knowledge, 4th/10th and the 8th/14th century

2ᵉ Colloque de l'Idéo au Caire

One of the questions raised today by some Egyptian religious authorities is on the lawfulness and relevance of using intellectual tools foreign to the Islamic tradition to read and interpret the Qurʾān and texts of the classic Islamic heritage. Is it permissible and appropriate to use contemporary human sciences to study the texts of the Arab-Islamic patrimony or should it be limited to the Ḥadīṯ? IDEO would like to contribute to this debate by studying the emergence of the Ḥadīṯ as the authority of knowledge in the Islamic sciences between the 4^_ᵗʰ/10ᵗʰ and the 8ᵗʰ/14ᵗʰ century.

Call for papers - Sociology

The associative sector in Lebanon: economies and networks of dependency

Civil Society Review

The polysemic nature of the concept of civil society refers to a diversity of social actors other than the state, and to multiform practices, strategies, and modes of action. This has lead to a myriad of publications by practitioners and academics. This call for papers does not seek to further investigate the associative sector in Lebanon conceptually nor in practice. We rather seek to critically explore the underlying intricate relations, economies, and networks of dependency, as identified by actors.

Paris

Conference, symposium - Modern

Secrecy in the Middle East

Le cercle des chercheurs sur le Moyen-Orient, en partenariat avec l'Institut de recherches et d'études Méditerranée Moyen Orient (IREMMO) et le Centre Thucydide de l'université Paris 2, organise le mercredi 26 octobre prochain son grand colloque annuel à l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris. Il portera sur : « le Moyen-Orient du secret » et fera intervenir une vingtaine de spécialistes.

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