• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Fanny Bessard (History/Trinity College, Oxford) , Christian Sahner (AMES/New College)
• Timing: Thursdays at 17:00-18:30 (BST)
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Thursday 29 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Byzantine Near East: Opportunities and Hesitations
  Scott Johnson (University of Oklahoma)

Thursday 6 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Monastic Documents and Islamic Governance in Abbasid Egypt
  Cecilia Palombo (Leiden University)

Thursday 13 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Manichaean Roads
  Étienne de la Vaissière (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)

Thursday 20 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Written Literature in the Kingdom of the Persian Sasanids
  Kevin van Bladel (Yale University)

Thursday 27 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Making of the Marwanid "Language Reform": Translations, Economic Incentives, and Scribal Training in the Umayyad State
  Marie Legendre (University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 3 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Applying the Lens of Unfreedom to Early Islamic History: Possibilities and Challenges
  Elizabeth Urban (West Chester University)

Thursday 10 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - "Those Who Pray Without Ceasing": Ascetic Reading and Recitation in the Qur'an
  Nora K Schmid (Oxford)

Thursday 17 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Prosopgraphy as a Tool for Microhistory and Macrohistory. A Close Examination of P. Lond. IV 1447
  Naïm Vanthieghem (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)

Thursday 27 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Goldsmith of Golden Ages: Masked Innovation by Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (Immolated in AH 139–140/757–758 CE)
  István Kristo-Nagy (Exeter)

Thursday 4 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - A Greek commemorative Inscription from Tafah (Lower Nubia): A Contribution to the History of Nubia in the Sixth/Seventh Centuries
  Adam Łajtar (Warsaw)

Thursday 11 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Flattery and Conflict in al-Buḥturī’s Poems for Ṣāliḥ ibn Waṣīf
  Gabrielle Russo (Cambridge)

Thursday 18 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Entangled urban history beyond Rome post-AD 500. Narratives from Gerasa on the Gold River
  Rubina Raja (Aarhus University/All Souls College, Oxford)

Thursday 25 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The History of Theology and the Social and Political History of the Church in Early Islam
  in collaboration with the MFO
  Bastien Dumont (Lorraine)

Thursday 1 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The First Mourners of Zion: From Iran to Jerusalem in the Ninth Century
  Eve Krakowski (Princeton)

Thursday 8 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road
  Xin Wen (Princeton)

Thursday 15 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Power and Science in Late Antique Iran: Zoroastrian Apologetic Discourse on Access to Universal Knowledge
  Samra Azarnouche (EPHE, Paris)

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Orienting the Global First Millennium: Iranosphere Perspectives
  Garth Fowden (Cambridge)

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Re-Framing the Umayyad Empire: Pastoralists, Plague, and Peripheries
  Andrew Marsham (Cambridge)

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Medieval Arabic Literature: What Do You Know, and What Can You Do with It?
  Julia Bray (Oxford)

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - “Behold! Quraysh is praying behind Bakr!” Kharijite Rebellion and Bakri Tribalism from al-Jazira to Iran 7th-9th c.
  Hannah-Lena Hagemann (Hamburg)

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Connected “Pagans” from Medieval Ethiopia: Monumental and Artifactual Evidence
  Alebachew Belay (Debre Berhan University)

Thursday 30 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Detecting Irrigation and Desertification in the Middle East and North Africa Since the Medieval Period
  Louise Rayne (Newcastle University)

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Charlemagne’s Jerusalem: Rhetoric, Exegesis and the Ninth-Century “Holy Land”
  Dan Reynolds (Birmingham)

Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Justinian Between East and West
  Peter Sarris (Cambridge)