• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Alain Fouad George
• Timing: Thursdays, 17:15
• Organising department: Khalili Research Centre for the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East

Tuesday 25 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - ʿAlā fuwīr Tuṭīla. Bilingual contracts and written culture during the Christian conquest of al-Andalus
  Mr Rodrigo García-Velasco Bernal (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 2 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The origins of royal funerary architecture in al-Maghrib al-Aqṣā
  Mr Péter Tamás Nagy (Khalili Research Centre)

Tuesday 9 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The written culture in Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Spain
  Dr Nuria Martínez de Castilla (Paris, EPHE)

Tuesday 16 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Light and Lighting in al-Andalus
  Dr Tom Nickson (London, Courtauld Institute)

Tuesday 23 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Writing a New History of Western Islamic Architecture
  Professor Jonathan Bloom (Boston College)

Tuesday 30 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Life beyond the medina of Cordoba: districts (rabad) and cemeteries (maqābir)
  Dr María Teresa Casal García (Madrid, CSIC)
• 15:30 - Glassmaking in Umayyad and post-Umayyad al-Andalus
  Dr Chloe Duckworth (Newcastle University)

Tuesday 6 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - New (graphic) documents for the study of Almoravid and Almohad architecture
  Professor Antonio Almagro Gorbea (Granada, CSIC)

Tuesday 13 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Berbers and Borderlands: state formation and urbanisation in early medieval Morocco
  Dr Corisande Fenwick (University College London)
• 15:30 - ‘How were the traces of their edifices erased?’ Archaeological / ethno-historical survey of Jerba, Tunisia
  Professor Renata Holod (University of Pennsylvania)

Thursday 12 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Acculturated natives who rebel. Revivalist, Ottomanist and Pan-Arabist engagements with early Islamic art (1876-1930s)
  Dr Nadia Ali (Wolfson College, Empires of Faith Project)

Thursday 19 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The ʿAbbasid envoy and the giant’s bones: notes on the authorship of Ibn Fadlan’s Kitab
  Dr Luke Treadwell (St Cross College, KRC)

Thursday 26 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Late medieval pottery from Ephesus
  Dr Georgi Parpulov (Wolfson College, British Museum)

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - L’architecture palatiale ziride et hammadide et son influence sur l’architecture normande en Sicile
  Professor Lamia Hadda (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) )

Thursday 9 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Geometry and architecture in Islamic Jerusalem: a Sufi way
  Dr Archie G. Walls (independent scholar)

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Ways of seeing’: Preparing the new Albukhari Foundation Galleries of the Islamic World
  Dr Ladan Akbarnia (British Museum)

Thursday 23 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - An impossibility? Writing a book on Persian Pottery
  Professor Oliver Watson (Wolfson College, KRC)

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Iran: collecting and curating
  Ms Fuchsia Hart (Wolfson College, V&A Museum)

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The Language of the Qur’an in light of the Arab Grammarians and Early Qur’anic Manuscripts
  Marijn Van Putten (Leiden University)

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The Great Mosque of Damascus and the medieval Islamic mosaic industry
  Beatrice Leal (University of Oxford)

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The archaeology of the San‘ā’ palimpsest: New reflections from the perspective of codicology
  Eléonore Cellard (Collège de France)

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The Management of Architectural Heritage in the Mamluk Sultanate
  Doris Behrens Abouseif (SOAS)

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Origins of Hebrew calligraphy: from Abbasid Baghdad to Fatimid Cairo
  Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (University of Oxford)

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Manuscrits Coraniques de l’Afrique, une étude comparative
  Constant Hamès (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The ‘Mosque of the Prophet’ and Beyond: A Tentative Reconstruction of the Early Islamic topography of Madina al-Munawwara (622-750) Based on Written Sources
  Aila Santi (American University of Beirut)

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Artistic and Architectural patronage of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan
  Gulfishan Khan (Aligarh Muslim University)