Islamic History / Studies

Dear colleagues,

I invite paper proposals for the International Workshop: “Gender, Fashion, and Embodiment in Islam” at University of Hamburg, Germany:

Call for Chapters

Proposals Submission Deadline: December 26, 2018
Full Chapters Due: March 10, 2019
Final Revised Chapter Submission Date: May 21, 2019

The Governance Programme at the Aga Khan Univer

7-8 December 2018, King’s College London

Sponsored by the Wellcome Trust and supported by the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies (CLAMS) at King’s.

Friday, 7 December:Council Room (K2.29)

09:30-09:45: Registration

09:45: Opening Remarks: Dionysios Stathakopoulos

09:50: Introduction: Petros Bouras-Vallianatos

10:00-12:40: Session I, Chair: Dionysios Stathakopoulos (King’s College London)

With the rise of global history and art history, there is an ever-more intense interest in the Mongol period as a historiographical watershed. The so-called Pax Mongolica lasted less than two hundred years, but both the size and the scope of the Mongol empire were unprecedented. At its fullest extent, the Mongol states claimed territories from Hungary to Korea, and they reconfigured the basic zones of Afro-Eurasian trade and contact.

Power, Economic Development and Morality: Paradoxes and Challenges

Ibn Haldun University invites paper proposals for the 5th International Ibn Khaldun Symposium, Power, Economic Development and Morality: Paradoxes and Challenges, to be held on 27^th - 28^th April, 2019, in İstanbul

While many studies on Ibn Khaldun focused on Asabiyyah and the role of kinship and tribal bonds in establishing dynasties, little attention has been given to his views on the role of accumulating wealth and conspicuous consump