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An Ethics Framework for Brain-Computer Interface Devices

A neuroprosthetic speech device that reads the brain of a mute patient, allowing them to communicate once more, is surely a good thing. But it also raises key ethical questions on the origin and transcription of that speech.

7 Feb

2023

Social cohesion and integration of minorities in post-conflict Muslim societies

Dr Salma Mousa (Yale University)

8 Feb

2023

Russian colonialism and the Ismailis: The exploration and annexation of the Pamirs, 1879 - 1905

Dr Alexander Morrison (University of Oxford)

15 Feb

2023

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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-…

An Ethics Framework for Brain-Computer Interface Devices

Social cohesion and integration of minorities in post-conflict Muslim societies

Russian colonialism and the Ismailis: The exploration and annexation of the Pamirs, 1879 - 1905

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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