The 2020 IQSA Annual Meeting is just one day away! Find all the IQSA sessions, meetings, and events in the 2020 Program Book, now available online at this link. Questions? Email contactus@iqsaweb.org!
Monthly Archives: November 2020
RSVP for the IQSA Graduate Student Roundtable
Attention all graduate students and early career scholars!
Every year the International Qur’anic Studies Association hosts a Graduate Student Luncheon at the IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). This event is a valuable opportunity for emerging scholars to mingle with established experts in Qur’anic studies in a more relaxed setting.
In keeping with this year’s new Annual Meeting format, this event will take place virtually as a Graduate Student Roundtable over Zoom on December 3, 2020 from 11am to 12pm EST. To participate, visit the SBL Annual Meeting Page and choose Register for the Annual Meeting. Then, complete a New Registration under the Affiliate Members category, and choose International Qur’anic Studies Association when prompted. Then, use the Virtual Meetings Platform to find the event and obtain login information. This event is free for anyone who has registered for the Annual Meeting.
In addition, please RSVP at this link so the organizers can get a headcount of participants.
IQSA is committed to fostering community in Qur’anic studies by supporting students on their path to professional success and encouraging collaboration across generations, all of which are vital to the advancement of knowledge in our field. We hope you join us for this valuably opportunity!
© International Qur’anic Studies Association, 2020. All rights reserved.
Prepare for the 2020 IQSA Virtual Annual Meeting!
The 2020 IQSA Annual Meeting held for the first time in a new virtual format is just 10 days away! Please see below for some friendly reminders for participants and attendees as you prepare to attend.
Membership & Registration
Current IQSA membership is required and verified by staff upon registration for the IQSA Annual Meeting. However, SBL/AAR membership is not required to attend the IQSA Annual Meeting. You can renew your IQSA membership HERE.
To register for this year’s meeting, visit the SBL Annual Meeting Page and choose Register for the Annual Meeting. Then, complete a New Registration under the Affiliate Members category, and choose International Qur’anic Studies Association when prompted.
Dates and Times
The virtual meeting schedule is extended to avoid potential timing conflicts, time zone limitations, and religious and Thanksgiving holidays. The meeting will take place Monday – Thursday over two weeks. The new dates are November 30 – December 3 and December 7 – 10, from 9AM to 9PM EST. All times on the conference schedule are listed in Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5).
Program Platform
The SBL and AAR Virtual Annual Meetings Platform is now live on your computer! You can search and browse all of the sessions and publishers who are participating. After you log in, you can start to build your own schedule. Much more functionality will be unveiled once the Virtual Annual Meeting starts! To log into the Virtual Annual Meetings Platform, you will use your registration Reference Number as your username, and your last name as your password. Download the Mobile App to access the Virtual Annual Meeting on your mobile device!
IQSA Virtual Events
IQSA will still hold its Annual President Address, Business and General Meetings, Graduate Student Roundtable, and a closing session. To participate, members must be registered for the Annual Meeting through SBL/AAR.
Presidential Address
11/30/2020
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Asma Hilali, University of Lille, Panelist (40 min)
Fred Donner, University of Chicago, Respondent (20 min)
Business Meeting
12/02/2020
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
*Members Only
General Meeting
12/02/2020
11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Open to Public
Graduate Student Roundtable
12/03/2020
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Closing Session
12/10/2020
1:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Questions or concerns? For registration and logistics, email information@annual-meetings.org. For IQSA specific questions, email contactus@iqsaweb.org. We look forward to seeing our members and affiliates next month for this exciting event!
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Call for Papers–Islamic and Jewish Studies around the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Ignaz Goldziher and his Correspondents
Date:
November 12-13, 2021
Convenors:
Kinga Dévényi (Corvinus University of Budapest, and The Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Sebastian Günther (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Sabine Schmidtke (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ)
Topic: When Ignaz Goldziher passed away on November 13, 1921, he left behind a corpus of scientific correspondence of over 13,000 letters from about 1,650 persons, in ten languages. His Nachlass, including the letters as well as his hand-written notes and works, was bequeathed to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The corpus, which is freely accessible in its entirety in digital form (https://konyvtar.mta.hu/index_en.php?name=v_3_2_1_goldziher and https://amirmideast.blogspot.com/2018/06/ignaz-goldziher-correspondence-archive.html?m=1) constitutes the single most important source informing about the history of Arabic, Jewish, and Islamic studies and cognate fields during Goldziher‘s time. Selected portions of the Goldziher correspondence are available in critical editions, while other portions have been consulted for studies on the history of the field, but the bulk of the material has as yet remained untapped.
The conference aims to focus on the correspondence between Ignaz Goldziher and colleagues from different countries preserved in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, addressing aspects of the history of the discipline as seen through the letters. Papers examining specific aspects of Goldziher’s contributions to Islamic and Jewish studies from a wider history of science point of view are also welcome.
This international conference takes place within the framework of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Prize.
Submission of abstracts:
The convenors invite the submission of abstracts for consideration to be sent to Uta Nitschke (nitschke@ias.edu) by January 31, 2021.
Conference location:
Depending on the situation in fall 2021, the conference will either be held virtually, in person or hybrid in Göttingen.
© International Qur’anic Studies Association, 2020. All rights reserved.
IQSA Annual Meeting Student Roundtable
Attention all graduate students and early career scholars!
Every year the International Qur’anic Studies Association hosts a Graduate Student Luncheon at the IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). This event is a valuable opportunity for emerging scholars to mingle with established experts in Qur’anic studies in a more relaxed setting.
In keeping with this year’s new Annual Meeting format, this event will take place virtually as a Graduate Student Roundtable over Zoom on December 3, 2020 from 11am to 12pm EST. To participate, visit the SBL Annual Meeting Page and choose Register for the Annual Meeting. Then, complete a New Registration under the Affiliate Members category, and choose International Qur’anic Studies Association when prompted. Then, use the Virtual Meetings Platform to find the event and obtain login information.
IQSA is committed to fostering community in Qur’anic studies by supporting students on their path to professional success and encouraging collaboration across generations, all of which are vital to the advancement of knowledge in our field. We hope you join us for this valuably opportunity!
© International Qur’anic Studies Association, 2020. All rights reserved.
Website Launch—Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online
On October 20, 2020, Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online launched. Khamseen is a free and open-access online platform of digital resources to aid the teaching of Islamic art, architecture, and visual culture. It is sponsored by the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC) at the University of Michigan through the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Khamseen currently offers a collection of short-form video presentations on a range of topics in the scholarly discipline of Islamic art history. These presentations are intended to support educators, particularly those who face limited access to institutional and archival resources, and to bring new voices, perspectives, methodologies, artworks, and objects into classrooms. Besides catering to undergraduate and graduate students, the materials provided here are also intended to help educate and inspire interested audiences outside of academia. Through this platform, we seek to take the study of Islamic art out to the world, reaching a truly international level of engagement and learning thanks to the possibilities of integrated digital technologies.
Visit the Khamseen website and follow us on our socials: @khamseenislamicart (Instagram), @TeamKhamseen (Twitter), and @KhamseenIslamicArt (Facebook).
Those interested in contributing to Khamseen may submit their ideas here.
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IQSA Call for Nominations
Dear IQSA members, affiliates, and friends,
I am writing as the chair of the nominating committee in order to solicit recommendations for suitable persons for leadership positions within IQSA.
It is with great pleasure that I can report that over the past years, based on your recommendations and those of the nominations committee, IQSA has made great steps towards implementing our essential goal of ensuring diversity regarding gender, culture, geographical location and status. We are continuously working in this direction looking for people who are (or are willing to be) actively involved in IQSA works.
It is in light of these considerations that I would like you to submit your recommendations for leadership positions for IQSA (alba.fedeli@uni-hamburg.de) by November 30, 2020. Among this year’s positions are president elect and chair of nominating committee. Your suggestions will be treated with utmost discretion and remain anonymous. You can simply suggest names, or perhaps add a few words what motivates your suggestions!
A hybrid slate election will follow this Call for Nominations from November 30—December 10, 2020. All active IQSA members will receive instructions on participating in the coming weeks. Inactive IQSA members can renew lapsed membership at this link.
Thank you for helping to advance IQSA’s mission through your continued support!
Kind regards,
Alba Fedeli
Universität Hamburg
Chair, IQSA Nominations
Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 6 no. 8 (2020)
In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 6, no 8), Waleed Rikab (Rice University) reviews Daniel Beck’s Evolution of the Early Qurʾān: From Anonymous Apocalypse to Charismatic Prophet (New York: Peter Lang, 2018).
In his review, Rikab writes “Recent scholarship, especially following the contributions of Angelica Neuwirth and Nicolai Sinai, has increasingly stressed that the Qurʾān is better understood through an examination of the Late Antique period and the multiple religious traditions that were active in the Hijaz and the shām region, which included Christian, Jewish, and Manichean traditions. In ‘Evolution of the Early Qurʾān’, Daniel Beck offers a new contextualization of several early Meccan sūrahs in the Qurʾān against this Late Antique background, and situates his contribution in correcting tendencies among scholars to see these early sūrahs either as obscure, or as secondary to the later corpus, or as representing fossilized relics of earlier traditions….”
Want to read more? For full access to the Review of Qur’anic Research (RQR), members can log in HERE. Not an IQSA member? Join today to enjoy RQR and additional member benefits!
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