• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Edmund Herzig , Asli Niyazioğlu , Christian Sahner
• Timing: Tuesdays at 17:30, Weeks 1-8
• Web Address: https://ongc.web.ox.ac.uk/event/the-oxford-pre-modern-middle-eastern-history-seminar
• Organising department: Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Tuesday 19 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - The Beginnings of Islam
  Lena Salaymeh (Oxford), Respondent: Khaled Abou El Fadl (UCLA)

Tuesday 26 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Before Sufism: Early Islamic Renunciant Piety
  Christopher Melchert (Oxford), Respondent: Michael Cooperson (UCLA)

Tuesday 2 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Explorations into the Origins of Islam: Religious and Philosophical Worldviews of the Quranic Mushrikūn
  Ahab Bdaiwi (Leiden/Cambridge), Respondent: Nicolai Sinai (Oxford)

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Beyond the Mystical: how Hafiz’s poetry can help historians read post-Mongol Iran
  Dominic Brookshaw (Oxford), Respondent: Paul Losensky (Indiana)

Tuesday 16 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Redeeming Books: Christian-Muslim Relations through the Colophons of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts
  David Zakarian (Oxford), Respondent: Heghnar Watenpaugh (UC Davis)

Tuesday 23 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Ottoman Historiography and Topographical Illustration in Manuscripts attributed to Matrakçı Nasuh
  Zeynep Yürekli (Oxford), Respondent: Serpil Bağcı (Hacettepe)

Tuesday 2 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - The Language of Politics in Wā’iẓ Kāshifī’s Futuwwatnāma-i sulṭānī
  Neguin Yavari (Columbia/Oxford), Respondent: Alan Strathern (Oxford)

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Tribes, bandits, & minstrels: A shared popular culture as a response to Ottoman and Safavid power
  Ali Aydın Karamustafa (Oxford), Respondent: Edmund Herzig (Oxford)