3 April
5.15pm, Room G2, 19 George Square.
Prof. Andrew Newman (Edinburgh): Early Iranian and Arab Shi`i Discussions of Leadership Between Late Antiquity and Early Islam.
[Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies / Iran Heritage Foundation]
27 March
5.15pm, Room G2, 19 George Square.
Ayşe Çalık Ross (Kocaeli University): An 8th-century Turkic rebel against Islamic proselytising: Gülnar Hatun.
20 March
5.15pm, Room G2, 19 George Square.
Prof. Julia Bray (Oxford): Motifs in the legends of the pre-Islamic kings and tribes.
13 March
5.15pm, Room G2, 19 George Square.
Dr Harry Munt (York): Holy cities and regime change in the 8th-century Islamic world.
27 February
5.15pm, Room G2, 19 George Square.
Dr Kirill Dmitriev (St. Andrews): ‘Adi ibn Zayd al-‘Ibadi and the origin of the Arabic wine song.
20 February
5.15pm, Seminar Room 2, Crystal MacMillan Building
Dr Emanuele Intagliata (Edinburgh): Society and housing in Late Antique and early Islamic
Palmyra (4th–mid-8th c.).
13 February
5.15pm, Room G2, 19 George Square.
Simon Loynes (Edinburgh): Did Zechariah ‘signal’ to his people? The case of the term waḥy in Q 19:11; Mathew Barber (Edinburgh), Fatimid relations with the Yemeni Sulayhids: examining the Egyptian perspective.
6 February
5.15pm, Room G2, 19 George Square.
Dr Richard McClary (Edinburgh): Mosaics from the late Byzantine to early Islamic period.
30 January
5.15pm, Room G2, 19 George Square.
Dr Alain George (Edinburgh): The Great Mosque of Damascus in Umayyad Times: Towards a Reconstruction.
23 January
5.15pm, Room G2, 19 George Square.
Dr Nicolai Sinai (Oxford): From dietary antinomianism to dietary prohibitions: A chronological reconstruction of the emergence of the Qur'anic food taboos.