Arabic Pasts 2025

09 October 2025

Arabic Pasts 2025

Thursday 9-Friday 10 October

Paper by Arezou Azad: Continuities and Innovations in Medieval Writerly Culture of the Islamicate East: A Study of the Arabic and Persian Literary and Paraliterary Texts in the Bamiyan and Firuzkuh Papers.
Paper by Ed Shawe-Taylor: Abbasid Continuities and Seljuk Innovations: A Palaeographic Study of the Bamiyan and Firuzkuh Papers.
Paper by Nadia Vidro: A Judaeo-Arabic Bible commentary in the Bamiyan Papers and its Linguistic and Historical Implications.

For full details see the programme.

Other courses and events

Fifteenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference

05 August to 08 August

Programme Director Arezou Azad will deliver a paper on 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'.

Poster advertising the Reading and Analysing Persian Archival Sources from Afghanistan Summer School

Reading and Analysing Persian Archival Sources from Afghanistan

07 September to 11 September

Programme Director Arezou Azad will be lecturing at this Summer School.