13 Nov 2017
5.15pm, Room G2, 19 George Square.
Farshid Kazemi and Aurangzeb Haneef (Edinburgh): The Object-Voice: The Acousmatic Voice in the New Iranian Cinema The Tafsir of Sufyan al-Thawri (d. 778).
06 Nov 2017
5.15pm, Room G2, 19 George Square.
Mariz Tadros (Sussex): Egypt and the 2013 rupture and beyond: reflections on unruly politics
30 Oct 2017
5.15pm, Room G2, 19 George Square.
Majied Robinson (Edinburgh): Marriage and the Origins of Mecca.
23 Oct 2017
5.15pm, Room G2, 19 George Square.
Carole Hillenbrand
(Edinburgh)
Mary the mother of Jesus in Islam
16 Oct 2017
5.15pm, Room G2, 19 George Square.
Nacim Pak-Shiraz (Edinburgh): New Directions in Iranian Cinema.
09 Oct 2017
5.15pm, Room G2, 19 George Square.
Yuthika Sharma (Edinburgh): Picturing the Later Mughals: Shah Alam II and Bazgasht Imagery in British Delhi.
02 Oct 2017
5.15pm, Room G2, 19 George Square.
Anthony Gorman (Edinburgh): Behind Bars: Reflections on a History of the Middle Eastern Prison.
25 Sep 2017
5.15pm, Room G2, 19 George Square.
Ines Asceric-Todd (Edinburgh): The Evolution of Islamic Chivalry (futuwwa) from the ʿAbbasids to the Ottomans.
18 Sep 2017
5.15pm, Room G2, 19 George Square.
James Dickins (Leeds): Types of Connotation, and their Implications for Arabic/English Translation.
History of Christianity Seminar: Semester 1, 2017
All seminars are in the Althaus Reid Room at 4.10 unless otherwise noted.
27th November Dr Tom Brown, Hon. Fellow in History, University of Edinburgh
Local Ravenna elites and their use of saints