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Invisible East at IMC Leeds 2023

27 June 2023
The Invisible East team goes to IMC Leeds 2023
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Format, Style and Politeness Strategies in Middle Persian Official Letters from 7th-Century Egypt

22 May 2023
Narges Nematollahi looks at the format and linguistic style of Middle Persian documentary letters exchanged between Sassanid state officials in Egypt
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Arezou Azad is the new President of the Middle East Medievalists

27 February 2023
Read the statement released by Arezou Azad at the start of her term.
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Interreligious Dialogue in Medieval Bamiyan

06 February 2023
Arash Zeini discusses the panegyric poem dedicated to Siman-Tov ben Abī Nasr ben Dāniyāl
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The Invisible East goes to Schools in Afghanistan

31 January 2023
Our work with schools in Afghanistan
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The Historian of Islam at work. Essays in honor of Hugh N. Kennedy

27 November 2022
Edited by Maaike van Berkel and Letizia Osti
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Rural Administration, Society and Economy in the Bamiyan Area - Part 2

15 November 2022
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Arezou Azad in conversation with Theodora Zampaki

14 November 2022
The Digital Orientalist Theodora Zampaki's interview to Arezou Azad, Director of the Invisible East programme
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Rural Administration, Society and Economy in the Bamiyan Area - Part 1

11 November 2022
A blog by the PI of the Invisible East programme, Dr Arezou Azad, on rural administration in the wider Bamiyan area in the 12th and early 13th centuries CE, based on an analysis of barāt documents (receipts) in the "Bamiyan Papers."
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A Hard Row to Hoe: Landowning and Land Management in the Medieval Islamic World (622-1250 CE), from Ferghana to the Fayyum

04 October 2022
A Hard Row to Hoe: Landowning and Land Management in the Medieval Islamic World