Lecture: Ziek, zwak en misselijk: brieven met klachten en rampen uit middeleeuws Egypte
Project leader Petra gave a public lecture (in Dutch) on request letters on papyrus from Early Islamic Egypt in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. Read here an abstract (in Dutch) of this lecture.
EmCo guest: Christian Müller
LUCIS Spring Fellow and specialist in Islamic Law sat down with the EmCo team members to read the documents that they are studying and to discuss questions such as “What makes a document a legal document?”
Book launch: Change and Continuity in the Abbasid Egyptian Countryside (with LUCIS)
Find the programme here. Book launch of the volume “Authority and Control in the Countryside: From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (6th-10th Century)”, edited by Alain Delattre, Marie Legendre, and Petra Sijpesteijn. With presentations by, a.o., team…
Seminar talk: Coptic Ostraca from the Theban Region
Team member Eline gave a presentation on the “Coptic Protection Letters from Western Thebes” at this seminar organised by Renate Dekker. Take a look at the programme of this seminar, intended to bring this material to a wider public.
EmCo guest: Nicholas Sims-Williams
Specialist of Bactrian and Sogdian languages and documentary practice, Nicholas Sims-Williams, visited the EmCo team. Team member Reza presented and discussed his research on the concept and mechanisms of justice in the Bactrian documents. Nicholas Sims-Williams gave an introduction to…
EmCo Guest: Federico Morelli
On Thursday 6 and Friday 7 June, we invited Federico Morelli to be our guest. We would like to invite you to attend the programme: Thursday 6 June (Vrieshof 4, room 007) 10:00-12:30 Paper presentations Eline & Petra 12:45 Lunch (EmCo team +…
Conference talks: 29th International Congress of Papyrology
Team members Petra and Eline are giving papers at this conference, which is held every three years and which this year takes place in Lecce, Italy. Take a look at the website of the conference, where you can find the…
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
More details coming soon!
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…