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26 March 2024
'The Geography of Injustice: East Asia's Battle between Memory and History' is out now


25 March 2024
Dr Lydia Wilson, an affiliated reasercher at this Faculty, has recent published an article in New Lines magazine investigating how works published in 1855 by Walt Whitman and Faris al-Shidyaq, one in English and the other in Arabic, were shaped by similar concerns with a newly emerging world.


14 March 2024
The Centre of Islamic Studies (CIS) invites submissions for ten-minute papers on any aspect of Arabic literature. Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words and brief biographical information to camstan.arablit@gmail.com by 31st March 2024. Participation is restricted to doctoral students. Funding will be available to offset travel and visa costs, and accommodation will be provided. Further information on travel reimbursements will be sent to participants upon acceptance of their proposal.


12 March 2024
The Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies has just published a new article by Dr Hajni Elias, Affiliated Lecturer in Chinese Art & Material Culture, titled "The Southwest Silk Road: artistic exchange and transmission in early China."


07 March 2024
Dr Mahbod Ghaffari has been awarded the 2024 Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence. Twelve prizes are awarded every year by the Vice Chancellor to individuals who make an outstanding contribution to the teaching programme in a Department, Faculty or the University as a whole.


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This publication explores the presence of the shared heritage and interdependence of poetry composed around the theme of wine in diverse literary traditions of the Islamic world. The specialist contributions discuss multiple aspects of the literary polyphony of wine in the pre-modern Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Ottoman Turkish, and Urdu literatures during the first millennium of the Islamic era. Presenting these together and in dialogue with one another, the volume offers a comparative perspective on a long, varied, but singularly mutual tradition.


Passed around a crescent - cover image