• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Mondays, 5pm
• Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Islamic kingship in the high Abbasid era: the reinvention of Sasanian tradition?
  Dr Luke Treadwell (St Cross College, KRC)

Monday 30 April 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 'Let us go down, and there confound their language': speech and identity in the late antique Middle East
  Peter Webb (University of Leiden)

Monday 7 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Pre- and early Islamic history in Iranian local histories
  Harry Munt (University of York)

Monday 14 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Interpreting Sasanian sacred iconography after the Islamic conquest
  Rachel Wood (University of Oxford)

Monday 21 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Zoroastrian goddess Dēn in Islamic robe: her figure in Zoroastrianism and its transfer to Islam
  Kianoosh Rezania (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Monday 28 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - What was the Middle Persian Book of Kings (Khwadaynamag)?
  Jaakko Hameen-Anttila (University of Edinburgh)

Monday 11 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - "Rule over them as you do the People of the Book": Zoroastrians and Zoroastrian customs in early Islamic legal sources
  Robert Gleave (University of Exeter)