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Mar 25 2025 -

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Stefano Nicastro

A hybrid seminar by Stefano Nicastro (PhD candidate in History) examining the significance of physical infrastructures and administrative roles of the Mamluk Dīwān and the Genoese funduq in business and administrative spaces.

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Mar 10 2025 -

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Caliphal Finances Team 3

A hybrid seminar by members of the Caliphal Finances Team titled 'Accounting practices in the multilingual administration of the Abbasid era'.

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Feb 25 2025 -

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Caliphal Finances Team 2

A hybrid seminar by members of the Caliphal Finances Team titled 'People and Money: The agents of Abbasid taxation from the village to the caliph'.

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Feb 10 2025 -

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Nik Matheou

A hybrid seminar by Dr Nik Matheou (School of History, Classics and Archaeology) examining administration systems in Ilkhanid Ani between the years of 1256 to 1335.

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Jan 28 2025 -

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Simon Loynes

A hybrid seminar by Dr Simon Loynes (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) exploring the clear lack of the root w-ḥ-y schematics of revelation in medieval tafsīr.

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Jan 13 2025 -

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Caliphal Finances Team 1

The first IMES Research Seminar of 2025 - a hybrid event hosted by members of the Caliphal Finances Team discussing the significance and journey of the multilingual papyri that are housed in the University Collections of the University of Aberdeen.

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Nov 25 2024 -

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Peter Shambrook

Join us for a hybrid seminar by Dr Peter Shambrook (Balfour Project), entitled 'Turning over old stones: Palestine Mandate Papers 1914-1939 reappraised'.

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Nov 21 2024 -

IDEALS in Gaza: A Surgeon's Experiences

An in-person talk by Consultant Plastic Surgeon Victoria Rose on her time spent working in hospitals in Gaza, performing essential reconstructive surgery on victims of the conflict there.

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Nov 11 2024 -

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Benjamin Weineck

Join us for a hybrid seminar by Dr Benjamin Weineck (University of Heidelberg), entitled 'Ambivalent Subjects: The Ottoman State and Its Non-Sunni Muslim Population'.

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Nov 04 2024 -

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Ferenc Péter Csirkés

Join us for a hybrid seminar by Dr Ferenc Péter Csirkés (University of Birmingham), entitled 'Turkic languages and ideology in the Safavid, Ottoman and Mughal empires, and the Uzbek Khanates of Central Asia'.

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