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Research seminars | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology
See our full calendar of events taking place across the School or view individual seminar schedules by topic.
Campus Connections and Ruptures: Muslim Students in the United States | Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World | Literatures Languages and Culture
A special seminar by Dr Shabana Mir (American Islamic College, Chicago)
The qamīṣ in Sūrat Yūsuf: A Prolegomenon to the Material Culture of Garments in the Formative Islamic Period | Journal of Qur'anic Studies
Garments both reveal and cover. The recurring appearance of Yūsuf's qamīṣ, or shirt, in the twelfth sura of the Qur'an clearly functions as a literary device unifying the plot and signifying, in th...
Dreams in the Islamic ‘Merits Literature’ of Palestine and Syria and Local Patriotism: Mamluk and Ottoman Texts | Holy Land Studies
Dreams in the classical period of Islam played an important role in the representation of Islamic thought and knowledge. This article distinguishes between the official view in Islam, whose approac...
Virtual Bookshelf | School of Divinity | School of Divinity
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The War on the Edge of the World: Hunnic Origins and the Palus Maeotis | Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies
This article looks at the Hunnic origin tale found in some Constantinople-based historians in late antiquity. In their accounts, the Huns are described as trapped for generations in the Palus Maeot...
Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy: Mullā Ṣadrā on Existence, Intellect, and Intuition. By Ibrahim Kalin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 315 + xxii. £45.00. | Journal of Qur'anic Studies
Before entering into his survey of the major philosophical opinions, from both the Greek and earlier Islamic worlds, he first makes mention of two authors qualified by him as indirect sources, ... Pages: 128 - 135. Centre of Islamic Studies, SOAS.
Leif Steinberg and Philip Wood (eds), What Is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field | Journal of Qur'anic Studies
Similar processes had occurred earlier in Islamic history – and elsewhere in other traditions. ... Pages: 115 - 121. Centre of Islamic Studies, SOAS. Published in print: May, 2023.
Ian Parker and Sabah Siddiqui (eds), Islamic Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Islam: Cultural and Clinical Dialogues | Psychoanalysis and History
Ian Parker and Sabah Siddiqui (eds), Islamic Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Islam: Cultural and Clinical Dialogues. ... She uses the Islamic view of the human heart to question the limits of some psychoanalytic concepts, particularly the notion of
Subject guides | Library | Library
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