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Major Funding Award by the Gerda-Henkel-Foundation

The Special Programme of the Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung “Islam, the Modern Nation State and Transnational Movements” will fund my new research project on the global intellectual history of the Iranian Revolution.

You can release their press release from 16 November 2017 here (in German)

https://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/gewalt-in-der-geschichte-kulturerhalt-in-nepal-und-der-iran-vor-und-nach-der-revolution?page_id=97062

[simonwolfgangfuchs]

Three New Reviews Published

Recently, three books reviews by me have been published:

1) Review of Elvire Corboz, Guardians of Shi'ism. Sacred Authority and Transnational Family Networks (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), Review of Middle East Studies (2017)

https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2017.61

2) Review of Michael Farquhar, Circuits of Faith: Migration, Education, and the Wahhabi Mission (Stanford University Press, 2016), in BSOAS 80,2 (2017): 382-384

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X17000593

3) Review of Seema Alavi, Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire, in Die Welt des Islams 57 (2017): 223-226

https://doi.org/10.1163/15700607-00572p04

(03 October 2017)

[simonwolfgangfuchs]

CFP: Conference "Global Muslim Encounters: Homogenisation and Diversity across Time and Space"

9 December 2016 - 10 December 2016, University of Cambridge, UK

This two-day interdisciplinary conference aims to take a fresh look at how Muslims negotiated the internal diversity of Islam in various spatial and temporal settings since ca. 1250. Bringing together historians, art historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and scholars of comparative literature and Islamic studies who work on Islamic communities all across the globe, our aim is to analyse how Muslim travellers, scholars, state officials and migrant workers made sense of radically different forms of practical piety and religious thought they encountered while being on the move.

Abstracts are due on July 15.

For further information, please visit: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26819

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Netanyahu: Iran Nuclear Deal ‘Seems to Be Getting Worse’

Netanyahu: Iran Nuclear Deal ‘Seems to Be Getting Worse’

By: Sharona Achwartz

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday accused negotiators for the U.S. and five world powers of speeding up their concessions to Iran in order to reach an agreement over its nuclear program by a June 30 deadline.

“To our regret, the reports arriving from the major powers attest to an acceleration of their concessions in the face of this Iranian obduracy,”…

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