Middle Eastern Studies Seminar Series, University of Manchester
Middle Eastern Studies Seminar Series
in association with the
Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World
Time: 4:30 - 6:00 pm
February 20th SLLC Board Room W313
Dr Andrew Marsham, University of Manchester
“The inauguration of the caliph in early Islam: from the time of the Prophet to the Samarra caliphate (6th-9th centuries CE)”
March 12th Samuel Alexander A101
Dr Kamran Rastegar, University of Edinburgh
“Literary Modernity Between Arabic and Persian Prose: Jurji Zaydan’s Riwayat in Persian Translation”
April 16th SLLC Board Room W313
Dr Moshe Behar, University of Manchester
“What’s in a name? Terminological Formations and the Case for ‘Arabised Jews’”
April 30th SLLC Board Room W313
Prof Chase Robinson, University of Oxford
“Caliphate and rulership in the tenth and eleventh centuries”
May 14th Samuel Alexander A101
Prof Mayer Gruber,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
“Body Language in the Ancient Semitic World”
Please contact Dr. Dominic Parviz Brookshaw for further information.
