Reading and Analysing Persian Archival Sources from Afghanistan
07 September to 11 September
Programme Director Arezou Azad will be lecturing at this Summer School.
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'.
Seventeenth Meeting of the School of Abbasid Studies
14 July to 18 July
Programme Director Arezou Azad will lead a response and discussion session and give a book talk.
Leeds International Medieval Congress 2026
07 July
Panel hosted by Invisible East, Middle East Medievalists and the IMEMS, exploring fragmentology
Paris launch for the series The Islamicate East: New Approaches to Texts and History & Ancient and Medieval Afghanistan
17 June
Afghanistan Through the Ages - Voices in Stone, Script, and Story
03 June
'Pashto Across Borders: Language Planning and Identity in Afghanistan and Pakistan (20th-21st Centuries)' with Mohammad Ali Dinakhel
Book launch - Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East
20 May
Launch of Yossef Rapoport Book, featuring Arezou Azad as discussant
Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents
13 May
Nima Asefi speaks on 'Documents from Turbulent Times: Studying Middle Persian Collections from the Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Periods-Opportunities and Challenges'
Virtual Book Launch hosted by The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies
27 April
Join us for a virtual launch event for 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan' and 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'
Arezou Azad delivers Heshmat Moayyad Lecture
08 April
Treasures of the Medieval Islamicate World: Stories of Empire and the Everyday
28 March
Join us for our Saturday course with Oxford Lifelong Learning - booking essential!
Oxford book launch
03 March
Join us to celebrate the publication of new books in The Islamicate East series
