Seminar Series, Michaelmas Term 2022

Middle Eastern Studies

Programme of talks

Talks begin at 5:15pm in Teaching Room 10 (The Old Common Room)

• Thursday, 20th October, 2022
  Precarious Prestige: Representation and Social Reality of the tujjār in Baghdad (892-945)
  Fanny Bessard, University of Oxford 
   
• Thursday, 3rd November, 2022
  Men Loving Men in Nasrid Granada: Male Bonding in the Writings of Ibn al-Khatib (d. 1374 CE) and his Contemporaries
  Allen Fromherz, Georgia State University
   
• Thursday, 17th November, 2022
  Persian's Eastern Frontier: Arabo-Persian Texts in Late Imperial China, 14th-18th Centuries
  Dror Weil, University of Cambridge
   
• Thursday, 1st December, 2022
  Writing Arabic Literature in a Persianate World: The Case of Ibn Maʿṣūm al-Madanī (d. 1119/1707)
  James White, University of Cambridge

For further information, contact:

Dr Lorenzo Bondioli (E-mail: lb932@cam.ac.uk)
Prof. Amira K. Bennison (E-mail: knb21@cam.ac.uk)