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B.D. Kochnev Memorial Seminar
B.D. Kochnev Memorial Seminar in Central Asian and Middle Eastern Numismatics
Seventh Meeting, March 14, 2015
Hofstra University, Calkins Hall 206
Seminar is free and open to public
Please RSVP to Aleksandr.Naymark@hofstra.
Session 1
10:00 – 11:00 am
Dmitrii Markov (New York), Aleksandr Naymark (Hofstra University)
“A Hoard of Archaic Greek Coins from the Banks of Amu-Darya. Preliminary Report”
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Workshop: Iran and Islam
Iran and Islam: Early Encounters. Formation of Islam and Transformation of Iranian Religious Traditions
12 March 2015 09:00–13 March 2015 18:00, Workshop Room: FNO 02/ 40-46
Contact: Kianoosh Rezania
For more information, see the workshop schedule
Additional Information:
There is no doubt that the contact of Islam with other religions in the very homeland of Islam as well as in the conquered lands played a significant role in its formation. In contrast, the evolving Islam must have challenged the existing religions, transformed them or stimulated them to do so. A great dynamic of renovation and repositioning of religious traditions can be expected in the first centuries of Islam. Therefore, a more in-depth study of this vibrant dynamic of mutual exchange between Islamic and especially Iranian religious traditions is a desideratum which our symposium intends to address.
This workshop will be held in English.
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Sasanian royalist ideology
Sasanian royalist ideology and Zoroastrian millennialism
Lecture by François de Blois, University College London, at the Ancient India and Iran Trust, Cambridge, Friday 06March, 5.30pm.
François de Blois has published widely on Semitic and Iranian languages and on the history of religions in the Near East in pre-modern times. Notably, he contributed to the multi-volume work Persian Literature, which had been initiated by C.A. Storey and published by the Royal Asiatic Society. He served as Professor of Iranian Studies at Hamburg University from 2002 to 2003. Currently he is a research fellow at University College London where he is engaged in a major project on al-Biruni’s Chronology and other Arabic texts on non-Islamic calendars. He is also a teaching fellow for Aramaic and Middle Iranian languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has been a frequent contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Islam.
All welcome. Refreshments from 5pm.
Ancient India & Iran Trust
23 Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge CB2 8BG
Scholarships seem to be available to those who wish to study for an MSc in Persian Civilization at Edinburgh. For more information, see this link.
University of Vienna
Tuesday-Friday, 2–5 August 2016
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The International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) is pleased to announce that the Eleventh Biennial Iranian Studies Conference will be held in Vienna, Austria from August 2-5, 2016 at the University of Vienna. Onsite registration begins on the 2nd and the program extends until the evening of the 5th.
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Afghanistan Digital Library
The immediate objective of the Afghanistan Digital Library is to retrieve and restore the first sixty years of Afghanistan’s published cultural heritage. The project is collecting, cataloging, digitizing, and making available over the Internet as many Afghan publications from the period 1871–1930 as it is possible to identify and locate.
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open.marginalis
open.marginalis, a curated aggregation of medieval marginalia, explores tumblr as a platform for digital scholarship.
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Yarshater Lectures at SOAS
‘In the rays of light of imperial favour’: The visual arts of early fifteenth-century Timurid Herat.
Four lectures by Professor David J. Roxburgh of the Department of History of Art and Architecture and Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History, Harvard University:
- 15 January Timurid Herat: The City as a Setting for Art and Literature
- 16 January The Timurid-Ming Embassy of 1419-22: Art after China
- 19 January Modelling Artistic Process: The Kitābkhāna and ΄Arzadāsht
- 20 January Baysunghur’s Books: Codifying Form and Aesthetic Value
For more information, see the series’ SOAS webpage or the poster.
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Early Islamic Balkh
Early Islamic Balkh: History, landscape and material culture
16th–17th January 2015, Wolfson College, Oxford
The Balkh Art and Cultural Heritage Project (2011-2015) has been investigating the early Islamic history and archaeology of the city of Balkh, in Northern Afghanistan. Synonymous with ancient Bactra, the “Mother of Cities” continued to flourish after the coming of Islam, becoming one of the most important urban centres of the eastern Islamic world, at the junction of India, China and Transoxiana. This conference presents the interdisciplinary research of the Project’s international collaborative team, and hosts a discussion of the state of research on Balkh in the 7th-12th centuries C.E.
For more information, see here.