Challenging mainstream technocultural assumptions of a raceless future, Afrofuturism explores culturally distinct approaches to technology. This special issue addresses the intersection between African diasporic culture and technology through literature, poetry, science fiction and speculative fiction, music, visual art, and the Internet and maintains that racial identity fundamentally influences technocultural practices. The collection includes a reflection on the ideologies of race created by cultural critics in their analyses of change wrought by the information age; an interview with Nalo Hopkinson, the award-winning novelist and author of speculative fiction novels Midnight Robber and Brown Girl in the Ring, who fuses futuristic thinking with Caribbean traditions; an essay on how contemporary R&B music presents African American reflections on the technologies of everyday life; and an article examining early interventions by the black community to carve out a distinct niche in cyberspace.

Las lenguas adquieren, según la situación sociopolítica de un territorio multilingüe, un peso, una definición y un lugar concretos, y a menudo Ilegan a utilizarse como armas políticas. En el Egipto grecorromano, la llegada de la lengua griega unida al poder político ptolemaico creó unas circunstancias especialmenre interesantes desde muchas perspecrivas. En su rivalidad, Ia lengua egípcia y la griega buscaron a lo largo de siglos su acomodo y su espacio propio dentro del crisol cultural y religioso que era en aquel entonces el país del Nilo.

The comparative or connected study of localized intellectual traditions poses special challenges to the global turn in medieval studies. How can we enable conversations across language groups and intricate cultural formations, as well as disciplines? Practices of commentary offer a compelling opportunity: their visual layouts reveal assumptions about the relative status of text and gloss, while interpretive interlinear or marginal prompts capture the dynamic relationships among generations of teachers, students, and readers. The material traces of manuscript usage—from hastily scrawled marginal notes to vivid rubrication—illuminate the shared didactic and communicative practices developed within scholarly communities. By bringing together researchers working on specific cultures and discourses across Eurasia, this volume moves toward a global account of premodern commentary traditions.

From the Executive Editors: Unlike other, “mainstream” fields of Islamic studies, the scholarly exploration of Shiism began late and evolved slowly, an observation that applies, with some variations, to all three major subdivisions of Shiism—Zaydism, Ismailism and Twelver Shiism.1 One reason for the late and reluctant evolvement of Shii Studies was that the pioneers of Islamic studies in Europe were confined to a limited—and biased—range of sources when it came to the study of Shiism. Most of the works they were able to access came from places such as Istanbul and Cairo—important intellectual centers of Sunnism, where Shii texts were the exception—while the rich holdings of the libraries of Persia, the main repository for the religious-intellectual traditions of Twelver Shiism and Ismailism, were for a long time out of reach for Western scholarship, as was the case with the libraries of Yemen with their collections of Zaydi works. Unable to consult works by Shii authors first hand, Western scholars were exposed to the biased image of Shiism as presented in Sunni sources which they took at face value. The resulting overall negative image of Shiism prompted scholars to exclude this important branch of Islam from their scholarly endeavours, even when a lack of sources was no longer an issue. Moreover, although an ever growing number of scholars are nowadays engaged in the study of Shiism, there is up until now next to no institutional support for Shii Studies within the academic landscape of North America or Europe—be it in the form of a chair or university position or a research institution specifically devoted to Shii Studies. It is in an attempt to remedy this imbalance and to make a distinctive contribution to current scholarship on Shiism and its integration into the broader field of Islamic studies that Shii Studies Review was established, an international scholarly forum for research on Shiism with the goal of contributing to the discovery and examination of different intellectual traditions throughout the history of Shiism.2 Shiism as a field of academic inquiry is to be understood in the broadest sense here—the journal is dedicated to the study of Imami, Ismaili, Zaydi, and other trends related to Shii thought throughout history, up until the contemporary period. Taking an expansive view of the richly variegated Shii traditions in both thought and practice and their cultural and social contexts, it aims to serve as outlet for original studies, critical editions of classical and pre-modern texts, and book reviews on Shii law, ḥadīth, Qurʾānic exegesis, philosophy, kalām, ritual and practices, classical and contemporary literature, and other aspects of the history of Shiism. Moreover, Shii Studies Review will also serve as a forum to inform about ongoing initiatives to advance the scholarly inquiry of Shiism, and the rubric “Shii Treasures in North American and European Libraries” will showcase relevant manuscripts and manuscript collections. This first volume is dedicated to Professor Hossein Modarressi in recognition of his seminal contributions to the study of Shiism.3 1 Cf. the surveys by Etan Kohlberg, “Western Studies of Shiʿa Islam,” Shīʿism, Resistance, and Revolution, ed. Martin Kramer, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1987, pp. 31-46; Stefanie Brinkmann, “Ein Mangel an Quellen und fehlendes Interesse? Zum späten Einstieg der deutschen Schia-Forschung,” Orient: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur des Orients 4 (2009), pp. 25-43; Sabine Schmidtke, “The History of Zaydī Studies: An Introduction,” The neglected Šīʿites: Studies in the legal and intellectual history of the Zaydīs = Arabica. Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 59 iii-iv (2012), pp. 185-199; Khalil Andani, “A Survey of Ismaili Studies Part 1: Early Ismailism and Fatimid Ismailism,” Religion Compass 10 viii (August 2016), pp. 191-206 ; idem, “A Survey of Ismaili Studies Part 2: Post-Fatimid and Modern Ismailism,” Religion Compass 10 xi (2016), pp. 269-282 . 2 In addition to this, three book series specifically devoted to the study of Shiism have recently been launched by Brill, Leiden, namely “The Classical Shīʿah Library” and “The Modern Shīʿah Library” , both of which feature English translations of key Shii texts, as well as “Shii Islam: Texts and Studies”, which publishes original studies on all aspects of the history of Shiism, critical editions of classical and pre-modern texts, as well as collective volumes on Shii themes. 3 See Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought: Studies in Honor of Professor Hossein Modarressi, ed. Michael Cook, Najam Haider, Intisar Rabb, and Asma Sayeed, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, “Part IV: The Scholarly Output of Professor Hossein Modarressi”. 1 Cf. the surveys by Etan Kohlberg“Western Studies of Shiʿa Islam,” Shīʿism Resistance and Revolutioned. Martin Kramer Boulder Colorado: Westview Press 1987 pp. 31-46; Stefanie Brinkmann “Ein Mangel an Quellen und fehlendes Interesse? Zum späten Einstieg der deutschen Schia-Forschung” Orient: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Politik Wirtschaft und Kultur des Orients 4 (2009) pp. 25-43; Sabine Schmidtke “The History of Zaydī Studies: An Introduction” The neglected Šīʿites: Studies in the legal and intellectual history of the Zaydīs = Arabica. Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 59 iii-iv (2012) pp. 185-199; Khalil Andani “A Survey of Ismaili Studies Part 1: Early Ismailism and Fatimid Ismailism” Religion Compass 10 viii (August 2016) pp. 191-206 ; idem “A Survey of Ismaili Studies Part 2: Post-Fatimid and Modern Ismailism” Religion Compass 10 xi (2016) pp. 269-282 .

A refereed journal with an international editorial and advisory board, the Shii Studies Review provides a scholarly forum for researchers specializing in all fields of Shii studies. Issued twice a year, the journal publishes peer-reviewed original studies, critical editions of classical and pre-modern texts, and book reviews on Shii law, ḥadīth, Qurʾānic exegesis, philosophy, kalām, ritual and practices, classical and contemporary literature, and other aspects of the history of Shiism. It is dedicated to the study of Imami, Ismaili, Zaydi, and other other trends in Shii thought throughout history. Taking an expansive view of the richly variegated Shii traditions in both thought and practice and their cultural and social contexts, the Shii Studies Review makes a distinctive contribution to current scholarship on Shiism and its integration into the broader field of Islamic studies.

Shii Studies Review, Volume Five (2021) Dedicated to the Memory of Sayyid Ḥasan al-Ṣadr al-Kāẓimī (b. 1272/1856, d. 1354/1935)

This text explores the relationship between race and technology. From Indian H-1B workers and Detroit techno music to karaoke and the Chicano interneta, this book uses case studies to document the use of technology - rupturing stereotypes such as Asian whizz kids and black technophobes. The cultural impact of new information and communication technologies has been a constant topic of debate, but questions of race and ethnicity remain a critical absence. TechniColor fills this gap by exploring the relationship between race and technology.From Indian H-1B Workers and Detroit techno music to karaoke and the Chicano interneta, TechniColor's specific case studies document the ways in which people of color actually use technology. The results rupture such racial stereotypes as Asian whiz-kids and Black and Latino techno-phobes, while fundamentally challenging many widely-held theoretical and political assumptions. Incorporating a broader definition of technology and technological practices--to include not only those technologies thought to create "revolutions" (computer hardware and software) but also cars, cellular phones, and other everyday technologies--TechniColor reflects the larger history of technology use by people of color. Contributors: Vivek Bald, Ben Chappell, Beth Coleman, McLean Greaves, Logan Hill, Alicia Headlam Hines, Karen Hossfeld, Amitava Kumar, Casey Man Kong Lum, Alondra Nelson, Mimi Nguyen, Guillermo Goméz-Peña, Tricia Rose, Andrew Ross, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, and Ben Williams.

The present volume is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Ramón Roca-Puig, on the centenary of his birth in 1906. Upon his death in 2001, this Catalan priest and scholar bequeathed his important papyrus collection to the famous Benedictine Abbey of Montserrat, where it is now entrusted to the care of Father Pius Tragan. This collection has now been catalogued and, since many pieces deserve full scholarly editions, a new series has been created for publishing such editions. This is the first volume of this series, and we have chosen to honour the previous owner of the Papyri Montserratenses Roca with one of his favourite pieces of which he himself published several sections. Special catalogues and editions of various other Oriental texts and objects belonging to the Abbey are planned to appear in the same series.

Volume Two of the journal "Uranos: Blätter für ungeschmälertes Menschentum" is lost. Fragments of the volume, containing some publications by Elisàr von Kupffer, are preserved in the Archiv Elisarion (www.elisarion.ch)