Kurdish vernacular Literature in the Persianate Cosmopolitan: A Case Study in Early Modern Islamic Cultural History (16th February 2024)
Kurdish vernacular Literature in the Persianate Cosmopolitan: A Case Study in Early Modern Islamic Cultural History Abstract: In recent years, the notion of a ‘Persianate cosmopolitan,’ characterized by the literate and literary use of Modern Persian, has gained traction in cultural histories of the early modern world. The notion was inspired, of course, by Sheldon […]
Persian Miniature Schools: Based on the Matenadaran illustrated Persian manuscripts（19th February 2024）
Persian Miniature Schools: Based on the Matenadaran illustrated Persian manuscripts Speaker Yvette Tajarian （Mesrop Mashtots Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts） Date and Time 19th February 2024（Mon）16:30～17:30 Venue Collaboration Room 3, Bldg. 18, the University of Tokyo, Komaba （3-8-1, Komaba, Meguro-ward, Tokyo） Application for participation Please be sure to apply for participation in advance from the […]
The Ibadi Berber Communities in the Maghreb: Challenges and Progress (20th February 2024)
Lecture summary: We will invite Ms. Marianne Aringberg Laanatza, a researcher at Uppsala University in Sweden, to give a lecture titled “The Ibadi Berber Communities in the Maghreb: Challenges and Progress.” Speaker Marianne Aringberg Laanatza （Senior Lecturer and Researcher on Middle East and North Africa Associated to Lund, Stockholm and Uppsala University Executive advisor at […]
First Japanese translation of Prof. Rashid Khalidi’s book published
In December 2023, Hosei University Press published a Japanese translation of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Prof. Rashid Khalidi. Hiroyuki Suzuki (UTCMES), Kensuke Yamamoto (University of Shizuoka), and Miyuki Kinjo (Ritsumeikan University) translated the book, and UTCMES provided a grant for the publication.
Symposium: “Between Empire and Nation: Another layer surrounding Palestine/Israel” (16th December 2023)
The University of Tokyo Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (UTCMES) will co-host a symposium with Society for Palestine/Israel Studies and JSPS Projects (21H04387, PI: Taro Tsurumi; 22H03831, PI: Taizo Imano) . This symposium is free of charge and open to public participants. We sincerely look forward to your participation. Date and Time 10:00-18:00, 16th December […]
The Great Islamic Pilgrimage (Hajj) Today （9th October 9th 2023）
On Monday, October 9th, UTCMES Project Assistant Professor Fuga Kimura will give an explanation of the current state of pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in 2023, including an overview of the doctrine and the Saudi government’s pilgrimage policy, at the Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University（IAAMES). Date and time: October 9, […]
Fifty Years After the Oil Shock (5th October 2023)
The University of Tokyo Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (UTCMES) will co-host a seminar with JSPS Project “Protest on the Street, and Reconsider the Nation: from the view points of space, violence and resonance” (21H04387, PI: Keiko Sakai) and JIME Center, IEEJ (Institute of Energy Economics, Japan). This symposium is free of charge and open […]
Historiographical research on hadith studies and hadith scholars: on the discrepancies between ‘local’ values and empirical research（18th September 2023）
Historiographical research on hadith studies and hadith scholars: on the discrepancies between ‘local’ values and empirical research Abstract: This lecture examines the historical process of the formation and development of hadith scholarship and the use and penetration of hadith authority through socio-historical studies on the hadith scholars who called themselves ‘hadith scholars’ between the 10th […]