Conference: Negotiation in Conquest: wars, treaties and recollections of the rise of the Caliphate
The great conquests of the seventh and eight centuries brought under Arab-Muslim control an area that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian subcontinent. Military conquests on this scale are remarkable enough; the establishment of a stable empire in…
EmCo guest: Étienne de La Vaissière
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CFP: “Acts of Excommunication” in the Late Antique and Early Islamicate Middle East. March 12-13, 2020, Leiden University
CFP: “Acts of Excommunication” in the Late Antique and Early Islamicate Middle East. March 12-13, 2020 As part of the ERC-funded project, “Embedding Conquest, Naturalising Muslim Rule (600-1000)”, at Leiden University, this conference aims to bring together both senior and…
Arabic Numismatics – an introductory seminar
This seminar offers an introduction to the study of Arabic Numismatics. The lectures will provide an overview of the relevant aspects of Arabic coins. Arabic coins contain a mine of information: besides the basic chrono-topic details – the city and…
Workshop: Acts of Rebellions and Revolts in the Early Caliphate
This workshop aims to bring together both senior and junior scholars to present research which illuminates the political and social dynamics implicit in the act of rebellion and revolt across the caliphate. This workshop aims to examine the act of…
EmCo guest: Jack Tannous
Jack Tannous is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University. His research focuses on the Syriac-speaking Christian communities of the Near East in this period, and he is also interested in a number of other, related areas, including Eastern Christian Studies…
Workshop: Acts of Excommunication
“Acts of Excommunication” in the Late Antique and Early Islamicate Middle East Scholars of Judaism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Islam often study excommunication in separate silos, developing separate vocabularies and models. However, during the early Islamic period, these communities shared space…
EMCO Guest: Maaike van Berkel
Maaike van Berkel is a social and cultural historian of the Middle East, with a particular interest in literacy, court culture, governance and urban organization. She is the head of the Department of History, Art History and Classics at Radboud…
EmCo guest: Paul Cobb
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Workshop: Contesting Empires
Contesting Empires: Sogdiana, Bactria and Gandhara between the Sasanians, the Tang, Turkic rulers, the Umayyads and the early Abbasids (ca. 600-1000 CE) In the mid-seventh century, the regions of Sogdiana, Bactria and Gandhara witnessed continuous contests between different political powers:…