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Center for Middle Eastern Studies: Book Launch

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A talk by William Granara (Harvard) on his new book Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World (I.B. Tauris, 2019); co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Committee on Medieval Studies.

Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Seminar in Islamic Studies

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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...

Center for Middle Eastern Studies Postdoctoral Lectures

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Nathanael Aschenbrenner (CMES Byzantine Postdoctoral Fellow), Universal Monarchy Between Sultan and Pope: Reorienting Constantinople in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean and Siren Çelik (CMES Byzantine Postdoctoral Fellow), Manuel II Palaiologos (1350...

CMES-Medieval Studies Lecture on Medieval Middle Eastern Studies

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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...

Center for Middle Eastern Studies Lecture

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Siren Çelik (Byzantine Postdoctoral Fellow, CMES), Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425): A Byzantine Emperor in a Time of Tumult.

Center for Middle Eastern Studies Lecture

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Rocco Rante (Louvre Museum, Paris), The Importance of Middle Eastern Archaeology to Middle Eastern History.

Center for Middle Eastern Studies Lecture

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Maryam Kamali (Harvard CMES), The Collapse of the Khwarazmshah Dynasty in Iran: Reasons and Consequences.

Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies

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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...

Thinking Islam Within Religious Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures

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A symposium celebrating the career of William Graham, Murray A. Albertson Research Professor of Middle Eastern Studies; featuring presentations by Ali Asani, Diana Eck, Mohsen Goudarzi, Elizabeth Lee-Hood, Tarek Masoud, Jane McAuliffe, Roy Mottahedeh...

Center for Middle Eastern Studies

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Alex Metcalfe (Lancaster University), Conquest and Conversion in Medieval Muslim Sicily.

H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lecture Series

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Nasser Rabbat (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Designing Transcendence: Light in Islamic Architecture. Sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lecture Series

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Nasser Rabbat (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), The Historian and the City Between Ibn Khaldun and al-Maqrizi. Sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies.