Jews, Christians and Muslims as Collegues and Collaborators in the Abbasid Near East
From October to December there is a great new Virtual Forum for collaboration supported by Usaybia.net available. Check out all the interesting papers and project presentations! On the 8th of December Ed and Cecilia will present our Embedding Conquest project….
Workshop: Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early-Islamic Empire
Workshop: Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early-Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE This workshop aims to explore forms and functions of slavery represented in textual sources from the early-Islamic empire, ca. 600-1000 CE. Find more information here. Due to…
Working with collections
A roundtable on documentary sources, heritage politics, and civic engagement. In this two-day roundtable, we bring together a group of researchers and conservators in the fields of classics, papyrology, late antiquity, history and Area studies to discuss and reflect on…
Workshop: Networks and Ties of Exchange: Trade and Merchants across the pre-modern Middle East (600-1600 CE)
To register for this workshop, send an email to: emco@hum.leidenuniv.nl. This two-day workshop presents recent research about trade in the pre-modern period by looking at a variety of practices and institutions. Taking the Islamic Middle East as our observation point…
Call for papers: Expectations of justice
Call for papers Expectations of justice and political power in the Islamicate world (ca. 600-1500 CE) Leiden University, October 27-29, 2021 In the Islamicate world, as elsewhere, requests for just rule surface constantly as notions of justice are debated and…
Expectations of justice and political power in the Islamicate world (ca. 600-1500 CE)
Expectations of justice and political power in the Islamicate world (ca. 600-1500 CE) Leiden University, October 27-29, 2021 Speakers: Or Amir, Sean Anthony, Nasrin Askari (Keynote), Mustafa Banister, Enki Baptiste, Linda Darling, Sébastien Garnier, Hanna-Lena Hagemann, Najam Haider, Angela Isoldi,…
With kind regards: convention, standards and breaking the rules in letter-writing’
In 2022 we will organize a lecture series surrounding the theme: ‘With kind regards: convention, standards and breaking the rules in letter-writing’. Whenever one writes a letter, one engages with different kinds of conventions: social conventions dictating the interaction between…
CFP: A matter of speech: language of social interdependency in the early Islamicate empire (600 – 1500)
For the final conference of the Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (600-1000) project we will focus on the rhetoric of social dependency. How is language used to describe, establish, cancel, exploit, and manipulate relationships in…