Name: MESA Conference 2025
Start: 2025-11-23T08:30:00+0000
End: 2025-11-23T10:30:00+0000

MESA has been the hub for scholarly exchange on the Middle East and wider Islamicate world for nearly 60 years. This year Invisible East Programme Director, Arezou Azad, will be be delivering a paper on taxation in medieval Khurasan.

23 November 2025

MESA 2025

Sunday, 23/11/25 8:30-10:30 am EST

Paper by Arezou Azad The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Tax Collection and Peasant Resistance in Medieval Khurasan.

In the panel III-15 The Political Economy of Islamic Taxation: Understanding Medieval States from the Abbasids to the Ghurids and Mamluks, chaired by Lorenzo Bondiolo.

For full details see the preliminary 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'.

Reading and Analysing Persian Archival Sources from Afghanistan

07 September to 11 September

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