• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Wednesdays at 5pm
• Web Address: http://www.oxcis.ac.uk/seminars.html
• Organising department: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

Wednesday 14 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Transmission of Qur’anic Readings in Early Islam: The Curious Case of Kufa
  Dr Ramon Harvey (Cambridge Muslim College)

Wednesday 21 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Unbroken Chain of Social Memory: Hadith Transmission Network
  Dr Recep Şentürk (Fatih Sultan Mehmet University)

Wednesday 28 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - From Khwarazm to Cairo via Rum: Islamic learning and texts in the Turkish world of the fourteenth century
  Dr Andrew Peacock (University of St Andrews)

Wednesday 4 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Modes of Education and the Transmission of Adab in the Late Medieval Muslim World
  Dr Talal Al Azem (Oxford University)

Wednesday 11 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Sufis v. Tablighis: Contesting the Dargah of Shaikh Nizamuddin Awliya in the 21st Century
  Professor Bruce Lawrence (Duke University)

Wednesday 18 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - How Ibn Khaldun got it all wrong: learning and writing in Bedouin society
  Professor Charles Stewart (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Wednesday 25 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Battle of Manzikert 1071: history transmitted, transformed and transfigured
  Professor Carole Hillenbrand (University of St Andrews and University of Edinburgh)

Wednesday 2 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Stars at the Emperor’s Court – Michael Scotus and the Transmission of Knowledge of the Heavens in the 13th Century
  Dr Silke Ackermann (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford)