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Wild. Right after Cory Booker went viral for speaking on the "wretched truth about America," he just voted to keep arming a government that just officially achieved The Deadliest Conflict Ever for Journalists & executed and buried 15 paramedics and their emergency vehicles

This is a fantastic opportunity - until March 31, second monographs after the PhD as well as PhD dissertations can be nominated for the Islamic Studies Research Award of the Annemarie Schimmel-Foundation. Both Awards come with a prize money of €5000! For details ⤵️

Are there other volumes available?

“Songs of the Sufi” screening | The Institute of Ismaili Studies The Aga Khan Centre will host an exclusive showing of Songs of the Sufi (2023) on 20 February.

www.iis.ac.uk/events/songs... This is happening tomorrow at the Aga Khan Centre! I’ll be introducing producers @katherineschof8.bsky.social and Kamran Anwar and chairing the Q&A.

THE INDIAN LISTENER, Vol. IV. No. 2. (7th JANUARY 1939) - Google Play <strong><u>The Indian Listener</u></strong> (<strong>fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English</strong>) published by <strong>The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,</strong>started on <s...

Just discovered this amazing resource for historians of modern South Asia: "The Indian Listener", official organ of the All India Radio, listing full programs w/ names of artists, books, music, discussions etc. for all major Indian cities, including Delhi, Lahore, Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras.

This is happening (soon) at the Aga Khan Centre!

What's happening at Cardiff is utterly insane

Adieu to the Chronicler of our times

Wales, Land of Song? first the closure of the junior department at RWCMD, now this.

Lecturer in the Anthropology of Music at King's College London Apply for the Lecturer in the Anthropology of Music role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

🚨 JOBS KLAXON

Thrilled to announce we're hiring @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Music Dept:

Anthropologist/ethnographer of popular music in the Global South and/or diasporas.

Job details below. Deadline 16 Feb 25.

Please circulate! #anthropology #music #musicology

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO459/l...

Reminder that you can still submit an abstract for the panel “Sensing the Past: New Perspectives on Early Modern and Modern South Asia” I am putting together with @nehavermani.bsky.social for this year’s ECSAS in Heidelberg.

Deadline: January 30, 2025.

ecsas2025.com/call-for-pan...

CfP | Informal Workers in India Visit the post for more.

Southasiasky : SEWA India is sponsoring research projects on women's informal work in India. More info here: npei.in/cfp-informal...

Shocking research that shows that academic outputs written for academic audiences were framed in academic language. The problem isn’t with academics: it’s with lazy journalists using computers to speed read abstracts rather than putting the time and effort in to read themselves.

My department is hiring a Lecturer in Religions of Premodern South Asia and we’re working with several programs at the university on longer-term plans for a permanent position. This is renewable up to 3 years.

puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Thanks! 🙏

Thanks for this! Would love be added if possible

The Persian Meters A list of the Persian poetic meters, drawn from Wheeler M. Thackston's textbook

Last year, after enjoying a rare opportunity to visit Wheeler Thackston at his home, I launched this page as a quick reference on the Persian poetic meters as he presents them in his textbook. I've been gradually adding features, including links to example poems for given meters.

Thanks! Would also love to be added to this if possible!

Open Islamicate Texts Initiative

Hey Bsky-verse!

@openiti.bsky.social is on Bsky now!

Follow to stay up to date on our latest work on Islamic digital humanities, OCR & HTR for Persian, Arabic, Urdu, & Ottoman Turkish, corpus building, digital paleography, & more digital fun!

More here too: openiti.org

Afghanistan: Vol 7, No 2

Hey all, I’ll do the intro thing: my name is Will and I wrote a book about language and revelation among some mystics and messiahs in early modern Afghanistan. The book—*Singing with the Mountains*—was the subject of an open-access forum with some awesome scholars.
www.euppublishing.com/toc/afg/7/2

Real scholarly generosity here, #Earlymodern library and research fellowships for all!

Islamic Sensory History "Islamic Sensory History" published on 25 Jul 2024 by Brill.

A project long in the making: an Open Access collection of translated Arabic and Persian texts from c.600-1500 CE on varied aspects of sensory history throughout the Islamic world. Includes Qur’an, hadith, al-Jāḥiẓ, Ibn Sīnā, al-Ghazālī, Rūmī & many more
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muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic... Because I haven’t posted it yet and also I have a bunch of new followers - here is my recent article on Amir Khusraw and Mughal histories of music!

Ah yes I see now! Thank you! 🙏

Please add me if possible! Thanks!

Thanks for this - Would love to be added if possible!

Listening in Many Tongues conference Join the South Asian Studies Unit as they explore ideas of translation in conversation, such as those concentrating on Ismaili and Sufi studies in Persian and South Asian vernaculars on 21-22 October.

The programme for our conference next week is finally out!

www.iis.ac.uk/events/liste...

Listening in many tongues | call for conference papers | News Given the scholarly remit of the South Asian Studies Unit at IIS, we particularly invite papers focusing on Ismaili and other Shiʿi-related contexts in South Asia.

Please share widely! The CFP is out for our upcoming conference at the IIS: Listening in Many Tongues: Multilingual Interpretive Communities and Acts of Translation in Early Modern South Asia. www.iis.ac.uk/news/2024/ma...

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

I have a chapter on Amir Khusraw out now in this great festschrift in honour of my teacher, Dr John Baily. Please do check it out (and let me know if you have access issues)