Shiʿi Piety: Theory and Materiality from Premodern to Postmodern, Early-career workshop
Shiʿi Piety: Theory and Materiality from Premodern to Postmodern, Early-career workshop funded by the Juynboll Stichting and LUCIS Organized by EmCo team member, Edmund Hayes, at which EmCo member Reza Husseini discussed “Representations of the Shiʿa-Sunni conflict in Mughul Historiography:…
Lunch talk: Networks of Protection. Travel documents in Early Islamic Egypt
Lunch talk: Networks of Protection. Travel documents in Early Islamic Egypt Next week’s Ancient World Lunch Talk at Leiden University will be given by EmCo team member Eline Scheerlinck, PhD candidate in Papyrology who will be speaking on Networks of…
We are reading Ed’s chapter!
We are reading Ed’s draft Chapter 1 of his soon to be published book, “Agents of the Hidden Imam: the Birth Pangs of Twelver Shiism”.
Documents and Digital Analysis in Assessing the Early Islamic Tradition
EmCo team member Ed Hayes, and our research trainee Munirah Eskandar presented a paper entitled “Documents and Digital Analysis in Assessing the Early Islamic Tradition,” in the Colloquium, Whither Islamicate Digital Humanities? Analytics, Tools, Corpora, at the Royal Netherlands Academy…
EmCo guest: Hugh Kennedy
One of the speakers at the workshop on Acts of Protection, Hugh Kennedy, presented and discussed two of his current research projects: the economy of the Abbasids and the concept of sultan.
Emco guest- Prof. Hugh Kennedy
On 23.1.2019 we will host Prof. Hugh Kennedy (https://soas.academia.edu/HughKennedy), who will discuss with us two of his current research projects: The economic history of the Central Islamic World, c.750-1050 The changing meaning of the term “sultan” in the early…
Workshop: Acts of Protection in the early Islamic Empire
Eline and the rest of the Emco team are organising a workshop with international specialists on the theme: Acts of Protection in the early Islamic Empire. The goal of this workshop will be to explore the relevance of arrangements of protection,…
Call for Papers: “The Ties that Bind”: Mechanisms and Structures of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire, 2-6 December 2019
Send in your abstracts for our conference in Leiden, 3-6 December 2019! Deadline: 31 January 2019. “The Ties that Bind”: Mechanisms and Structures of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire, 3-6 December 2019 As part of the…
Call for Papers: Workshop “Acts of Rebellions and Revolts in the early Islamic Empire”, 6-8 November 2019, Leiden University
Workshop “Acts of Rebellions and Revolts in the early Islamic Empire”, 7-8 November 2019, Leiden University As part of the ERC-funded project, “Embedding Conquest, Naturalising Muslim Rule (600-1000)”, at Leiden University, this conference aims to bring together both…
EmCo guests: Michael Macdonald and Ahmad Al-Jallad
On the occasion of the PhD defense of dr Fokelien Kootstra, the EmCo team had a round table discussion with one of the examination committee members, Michael Macdonald, and co-supervisor, Ahmad Al-Jallad, on the epigraphic habit of late antique Arabia….