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The Qur’ans of Harar: An Ethiopian manuscript tradition

Dr Sana Mirza

At the nexus of trade routes linking the highlands of Ethiopia to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, the city of Harar has been a major centre of Islamic learning. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of manuscripts were produced within the city from the…

15 Jun

2021

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A Literary History of Medicine - The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah

New Open Access resource available online

A Literary History of Medicine: The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah

https://brill.com/view/db/lhom

6 Mar

2020

Lecture: Picturing the court: Mughal artists and material culture in the 17th century

The lecture will put the portraits in historical and art historical context, and show how the evolution of Mughal painting produces greater accuracy in the depiction of material culture. The portraits then become an important source of…

14 Nov

2019

Journal of Islamic Studies Issue 30 Number 1, January 2019

The latest issue of the Journal of Islamic Studies contains articles by Essam Ayyad, on An Historiographical Analysis of the Arabic Accounts of Early Mosques: With Special Reference to Those at Madina, Baṣra and Kūfa, Liana Saif, on Ikhwān al-…

The Qur’ans of Harar: An Ethiopian manuscript tradition

A Literary History of Medicine - The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah

Lecture: Picturing the court: Mughal artists and material culture in the 17th century

Journal of Islamic Studies Issue 30 Number 1, January 2019

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