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Sasanian Sacred Iconography after the Sasanians

University of York

About the Lecture How are we to understand motifs created after the Islamic conquest that refer to Sasanian sacred iconography? Images with Zoroastrian connotations were commissioned and used by non-Zoroastrians in the centuries immediately after...

Approaches to Islamic Studies in North American Universities

Summer Institute for Scholars - 2018 Call for Papers Approaches to Islamic Studies in North American Universities July 11-13, 2018 Herndon, Virginia Background In 2012, the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) published Observing the Observer:...

World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies

Rectorate of the University of Seville Calle San Fernando, 4, Seville, Spain

The Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation welcomes the Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES). WOCMES Seville 2018 will be held in the capital of Andalusia on 16-22 July 2018, serving as a meeting point to present, debate...

CfP: Sharia and the Secular

University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Proposals should be sent to isgsc@cmes.ucsb.edu and must be received by July 30, 2018 About the Conference The SoCal Islamic Studies Graduate Student Consortium invites papers exploring the theme of “Sharia and the Secular.” Does Sharia rule Muslims’...

URD Intensive Course on Shia Studies

Introduction The University of Religions and Denominations with its experience of organizing six intensive international courses on Shia Studies in Iran (Qom) and attracting more than a hundred participants from 42 countries, is organizing the first Shia Studies...

€320

Conceptualizing Sectarianization

University of Bern

About the Conference Conceptualizing Sectarianization: Perspectives on the Dynamics of Ethno-Religious Difference in Studying the Middle East and North Africa Demarcating a given community on the basis of its confessional identity or religious denomination has...

The Reach of Empire – The Early Islamic Empire at Work

Universität Hamburg

About the Conference As the ERC project “The Early Islamic Empire at Work – The View from the Regions Toward the Center” nears its end, its final conference shall invite participants to examine the reach...