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New ZMO publication series: Texts in Context
The new ZMO online series Texts in Context
focuses on texts (written and oral) of different kinds, historical and
contemporary, from the ZMO regions of research. Each of the texts
published and presented here is introduced and accompanied by a short
essay that elaborates upon the relevant contexts and provides relevant
information upon the author. A main task of the essay is to lay out the
relevance and significance of the source text presented, providing also
some pointers to the relevant research fields and scholarly debates
within which the respective text has to be seen and understood.
Text in Context No 1 is “1992 – 1991 تاريخ من لا تاريخ لهم يوميات السجين أحمد سويدان (History of Those Who Have None.
Diaries of Prisoner Ahmad Suwaydan 1991 –
1992), prepared and introduced by ‘Abdallah Hanna and a foreword to the
introduction by Ulrike Freitag.
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Quiz: Wie viel wissen Sie über den Islam?
Wurde schon immer gen Mekka gebetet? Und welche Rolle
spielt Jesus eigentlich im Islam?
Testen Sie Ihr wissen mit dem Quiz unserer drei ZMO-Expert*innen Sonja
Hegasy, Noël van den Heuvel und Maria-Magdalena Pruß.
Das Quiz erschien in dem Format "Zehn Fragen, ein
Experte – das Wissenschaftsquiz", eine Kooperation von der
Leibniz-Gemeinschaft und t-online.
(Fotos: Oliver Möst, Samuli Schielke)
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July 2022, 5 pm, ZMO/Online
National Identity Building and the
Question of Language in Modern Oman
Lecture by Roberta Morano
(University of Leeds/Oman Research Fellow at ZMO)
This lecture appraises the impact
of the “Renaissance Narrative” built by Sultan Qaboos in the Seventies on
the transformation of the linguistic landscapes in Oman. The role played
by Sultan Qaboos in the building of a ‘new nation’ is undeniable,
although some scholars attribute a certain degree of mythological
construct to his political discourse. Nevertheless, Sultan Qaboos was
faced with the enormous task of having to bridge over the fragmentation
of early Omani society by building a new national identity that was
shared by its various ethno-linguistic communities and tribal groups.
Modern Oman is, in fact, the result of a great biocultural diversity
developed over centuries of internal and external displacement, maritime
trades and foreign incursions, but also of a very deep indigenous dichotomy,
i.e., Imamate versus Sultanate, the interior and the coast, tradition
versus modernity.
The event will be held in a hybrid format. Please register here to participate via Zoom. For participation on
site at ZMO, no registration is required.
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July 2022, 4 pm, FU Berlin/Online
Plant Matters: Thinking With Plots
and Landscapes From Uganda
Lecture by Sandra Calkins (FU
Berlin) as part of the Berlin Anthropology Seminar
This seminar series constitutes a
joint initiative by anthropologists from FU Berlin, ZMO, and Ethnologisches Museum. It intends to shape and
cultivate an inclusive platform and open regular meeting point for
exchange and discussion on current research by Berlin based
anthropologists. Please spread the word among colleagues, junior or
senior, who may be interested.
Please find a zoom
link under "more
info".
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11
July 2022, 4 pm, Online
Consultative Mechanisms and
Institutions in Late Ottoman Jeddah
Lecture by Ulrike Freitag
(ZMO) as part of The Historicity of Democracy Seminar.
This presentation reflects on
different types of consultation in late Ottoman Jeddah, the major port of
the province of the Hijaz. The presentation will not only engage with the
question of how Ottoman reforms at the urban, provincial and imperial
levels were implemented and who were the beneficiaries of these reforms,
which provided for particular portions of elected members in various
bodies. It will also point to less conspicuous forms of consultative and
elective mechanisms, namely when it came to the organisation of the urban
quarters, but also within bodies such as the guilds. An interesting issue
is the afterlife, and temporary revivals, of some of these practices in
Saudi Arabia.
Given the scarcity of accessible sources, as well as their variety, the
presentation will stress the types of materials consulted, as these point
to the necessity for historians to cast their nets very widely.
The online seminar is free and open to the public upon registration: https://forms.gle/A8AJDvdaQyUiG5qD8
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12
July 2022, 5 pm, ZMO/Online
Thinking of a Moral Economy with
Ibn Khaldun
Lecture by Abdulkader Tayob
(University of Cape Town)
EP Thompson argued that the bread
riots in eighteenth-century England were inspired by norms and
obligations that contradicted an emerging capitalist market. He used the
concept of a moral economy to explain the actions and motivations of the
rioters. The idea of a moral economy has gained some currency to reflect
on how religious traditions inspire moral economies, but contemporary
religious moral economies are not as extensively studied. Given this
lacuna, the presentation deliberates on an Islamic moral economy through
the work of Ibn Khaldun, the fourteenth-century historian and
philosopher. It presents Ibn Khaldun’s analysis of the different ways in
which individuals seek sustenance guided by practical but also moral and
religious considerations. Ibn Khaldun’s reflection on ‘moral economy’
combines economic considerations with a framework that includes divine beneficence,
rational reflection, human strategies and follies.
The event will be held in a hybrid format. Please register here to participate via Zoom. For participation on
site at ZMO, no registration is required.
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14
July 2022, 5 pm, ZMO/Online
Manufacturing Stability: Class and
Property Contestations in an Egyptian Steel Town
Lecture by Dina Makram-Ebeid (The
American University in Cairo) as part of the ZMO Colloquium
In everyday discourse in Egypt,
having stability (‘istiqrar) has come to mean
various things: access to marriage, the making of a family, a steady
income, a stable job and in specific cases, the ability to pass on
tenured jobs to one’s offspring. Through ethnographic research in Helwan,
an industrial city in the south of Cairo, the paper explores how new
forms of property relations emerged under the conditions of late
capitalism. It probes how tenured jobs in public factories acted as a
potential property right that informed the contestation of class at the
intersection of the different discourses of stability. The paper looks at
the life trajectories of fathers and sons working side by side on the shopfloor of a steel plant and highlights how the
aspirations for a good life through the preservation of family legacies
became a claim for privilege consolidation that complicated class
politics and gave the discourses of stability broader and more political
meanings.
The event will be held in a hybrid format. Please register here to participate via Zoom. For participation on
site at ZMO, no registration is required.
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19 July 2022, 5
pm, ZMO/Online
Wide Awake: Nocturnal Life in
Eighteenth-Century Istanbul
Lecture by Avner Wishnitzer (Tel Aviv University)
The dark half of the day, indeed
of history, has rarely attracted the attention of historians of the
Middle East. The assumption was, presumably, that everyone went to sleep
and therefore, that there was nothing worthy of attention going on in the
dark. It is as though history itself hibernates at night, as if it
unfolds only in broad daylight. In fact, the night in the early modern
Ottoman Empire created unique conditions for economic, criminal,
political, devotional, and leisurely pursuits that were hardly possible
during the day. It offered livelihood and brotherhood, pleasure and
refuge; it allowed confiding, hiding, and conspiring. Common to most of
these opportunities was their being out of sight, and hence,
unacknowledged. To be “in the dark” not only involved the insecurity of
not knowing, but also the promise of not being known, and the benefits of
pretending not to know. This hide-ability had far-reaching consequences
on Ottoman state and society in the Early Modern period.
The event will be held in a hybrid format. A link for online participation
can be found soon under "more info".
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orient bulletin. History
and Cultures in Asia, the
Middle East and Africa
In the latest ZMO orient bulletin,
(No. 41, June 2022), ZMO research fellows report about their recent
activities such as doing fiieldwork,
organising lecture series or starting new projects. Heike Liebau reflects
in a short text about the discussion on cooperations with
and support for scholars from Ukraine and Russia.
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