Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Reyhan Durmaz (University of Pennsylvania), Agents of Peace, Ministers of the Holy: Soldiers as Ritual Experts in the Early Medieval Middle East . Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. How do soldiers...

Houssem Eddine Chachia (Shawwaf Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University), Ambassadors of a Lost Homeland: The Diplomacy of Survival in the Andalusian–Morisco Experience (Thirteenth...

Maria Mavroudi (Professor of Byzantine History, University of California Berkeley): The Byzantine and Ottoman Intellectual Encounter, 14th-16th Centuries: Intellectuals in Greek and Arabic: Philosophy and the Sciences. Sponsored by the Center for Middle...

Maria Mavroudi (Professor of Byzantine History, University of California Berkeley): The Byzantine and Ottoman Intellectual Encounter, 14th-16th Centuries: Bureaucrats in Greek and Arabic: Archival Documents. Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern...

Maria Mavroudi (Professor of Byantine History, University of California Berkeley): The Byzantine and Ottoman Intellectual Encounter, 14th-16th Centuries: The Historiographical Stakes. Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard...

Amina Elbendary (American University in Cairo; Shawwaf Visiting Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations), Lives and Miracles: Narratives of Medieval Coptic and Muslim Saints. Co-sponsored by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program...

Rachel Goshgarian (Lafayette College), Where Is Armenia? A Pilgrimage to the Sources, a Traveling towards Thirteenth-Century Armenian Conceptions of the World and the Armenian(ate) Sphere. Co-sponsored by the Hrant Dink CMES Fund and the Department of...

Roy Mottahedeh (Gurney Research Professor of History, Harvard University) discusses his new book In the Shadow of the Prophet: Essays in Islamic History (Oneworld, 2023) with Khaled El-Rouayheb (James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and Islamic...

Paul Cobb (Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania), Crusade, Captivity, and Wonder: Johannes Schiltberger's Traveler Tales. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and...

A book talk on Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian: Eulogist for a Falling Homeland by author William E. Granara, Professor of the Practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern...