The Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago invites #applications for a tenure-track assistant #professor specializing in the study of #Islamicate #SouthAsia to begin July 1, 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. Research expertise may be in any period between the tenth century and 1947, and may focus on any region of South Asia, including #Afghanistan.

Information and application:
https://apply.interfolio.com/129027

Contact:
salc@uchicago.edu

#Astrology-specific #introduction: I practice astrology of #questions. I study the #traditional foundations of technical charts of the #moment in #Mesopotamian / #Babylonian, #Egyptian, and #Hellenistic systems with #medieval #Jewish and #Islamicate techniques in the lineages of William #Lilly, Geoffrey #Cornelius, John #Frawley, Project #Hindsight, and others.

I have studied with @hawk, Adam #Elenbaas, @kirastrology, and other colleagues in https://stoat.zone/directory.

🔗: https://taalumot.space/astrology

I have a little article on the history of translation in #Iranian cultures in Sonja Brentjes's new book on #sciences in #Islamicate societies:

Zeini, Arash. 2022. Multiple translation activities: Translation in Iranian cultures. In Sonja Brentjes (ed.), Routledge handbook on the sciences in Islamicate societies: Practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th centuries. Routledge.

https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-on-Science-in-the-Islamicate-World-Practices-from-the/Brentjes/p/book/9781138047594

His most famous work is #Muqaddima, which includes his theory on 'asabiyya, or in-group solidarity. His ideas were considered to precede modern sociological ideas postulated by Western thinkers such as Comte.

His statue was designed by Zubair al-Turki and located at Habib Bourguiba Street at #Tunis, capital of modern-day #Tunisia.

Source:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ibn-Khaldun
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
https://www.safarway.com/en/property/statue-of-ibn-khaldun

#Islam #Islamicate #Muslim #Arab #History #Sociology #Philosophy

His most famous work is #Muqaddima, which includes his theory on 'asabiyya, or in-group solidarity. His ideas were considered to precede modern sociological ideas postulated by Western thinkers such as Comte.

His statue was designed by Zubair al-Turki and located at Habib Bourguiba Street at Tunis, capital of modern-day Tunisia.

Source:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ibn-Khaldun
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
https://www.safarway.com/en/property/statue-of-ibn-khaldun

#Islam #Islamicate #Muslim #Arab #History #Sociology #Philosophy

His most famous work is #Muqaddima, which includes his theory on 'asabiyya, or in-group solidarity. His ideas were considered to precede modern sociological ideas postulated by Western thinkers such as Comte.

His statue was designed by Zubair al-Turki and located at Habib Bourguiba Street at #Tunis, capital of modern-day #Tunisia.

Source:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ibn-Khaldun/Later-years
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
https://www.safarway.com/en/property/statue-of-ibn-khaldun

#Islam #Islamicate #Muslim #Arab #History #Sociology #Philosophy

The Ibn Khaldun Memorial is a statue created in remembrance of the great Arab-Muslim philosopher, jurist and historian, Walī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Ibn Khaldūnn al-Ḥaḍramī, or simply known as Ibn Khaldun.

He was born in #Tunis under Hafsid Sultanate in the middle of the 8th century AH/14th century CE, and died in Cairo, Egypt at the age of 73.

#Islam #Islamicate #Muslim #Arab #History #Sociology #Philosophy

The Ibn Khaldun Memorial is a statue created in remembrance of the great Arab-Muslim philosopher, jurist and historian, Walī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Ibn Khaldūnn al-Ḥaḍramī, or simply known as Ibn Khaldun.

He was born in Tunis under Hafsid Sultanate in the middle of the 8th century AH/14th century CE, and died in Cairo, Egypt at the age of 73.

#Islam #Islamicate #Muslim #Arab #History #Sociology #philosophy