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‼️Coming soon. Join us online or in person for a lecture by William Dalrymple on The Barmakids - A Bridge between the Indic and Islamic Worlds. Tuesday 24th September 2024 at 11:00 British Standard time/ 12 noon Central European time. Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Scan the QR code to register or write to us at [email protected].

Delighted to be co-hosting, with Continuing Education Direct , the 2nd Reza Hosseini Memorial Lecture which will be delivered this year by the wonderful multiple award-winning author William Dalrymple .

Join us for his fascinating and inspiring lecture on 'The Barmakids - Bridge between Islamic & Indic Worlds' and subsequent Q&A as part of the 'Stories to Connect' week organised by the Invisible East programme, University of Oxford.

🗓️Tuesday, 24th September 2024
📍MBI Al Jaber Auditorium, Corpus Christi College
⏰ 11 am BST

The event will be hybrid and live-streamed. Please join us!
Register early and here: https://bit.ly/3zesFfk

Delighted to offer research insights into medieval precedence on governance in Afghanistan side by side with current & future perspectives at this interdisciplinary conference in Cambridge. IE's Nabi Saqee will draw on examples from the Firuzkuh Papers.

‼️Our new short film 'Striking Gold' on challenges of heritage protection in Afghanistan & analysis of medieval documents is out, with rare footage of Afghan residents who find them. Watch here: bit.ly/46MCZHJ

Iranian Studies culminates in Mexico City - 1st time in Latin America. Invisible East featuring Th 15 Aug w/ roundtable on archives & documents from Iranian/Islamicate East world, co-hosted w/ Prof Tavakoli-Targhi & Elahe Omidyar Iranian Studies Center in Toronto

"Striking Gold: The Discovery of Medieval documents from Afghanistan" is about the discovery, safeguarding, deciphering, and analysis of the fascinating Firuzkuh Papers. Written in Afghanistan’s Ghalmin area of Ghur in the 12th-13th century CE, the Firuzkuh Papers reveal rare details of the lives of agriculturalists and other rural communities in the medieval Islamicate world, and how historians can learn of the interactions between local communities and the administration of the vast Ghurid empire that reigned over parts of today’s Iran, Afghanistan, and the Indian subcontinent in the 12th-13th century. With rare footage from the ground collected through interviews with local residents in the Ghalmin area of Afghanistan who found the documents, "Striking Gold" also tells a story of the extreme challenges of heritage protection and history writing in Afghanistan. "Striking Gold" was produced, directed, and edited in 2024 by the Invisible East programme in Oxford. We hope you enjoy the film, and remember to give us a thumbs-up if you do!

Striking Gold: The Discovery of Medieval documents from Afghanistan The film, "Striking Gold: The Discovery of Medieval documents from Afghanistan" is about the discovery, safeguarding, deciphering, and analysis of the fascin...

Our digital corpus is now live. Please check it out using the link below.

Invisible East Digital Corpus Invisible East is a research programme on the 8th-13th century Islamicate world in Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia.

Tomorrow our Digital Corpus will be live for everyone to explore and utilise. We are proud to bring you a short video that shows you just how to use and make the most of the site, no matter what you’re searching for.

How To | Invisible East Digital Corpus Welcome to our tutorial on navigating the Invisible East digital corpus. Here we have complied over 100 translated documents from 8th to 13th century. In thi...

Fondation Inalco and Inalco - Langues O' celebrate creation of new chair on Afghanistan with the Invisible East Director as the first scholar to hold the chair. Many congratulations to all!

And now at the School of Abbasid Studies at Ca' Foscari University. Not a bad room for the first papers. https://www.abbasidstudies.org/conferences/next-conference/

Fantastic insights with an incredible group of scholars from around the world & students at the Summer school at Sessa Aurunca, near Naples this week. Here some vignettes...there is a buzz around Afghanistan scholarship and it's not going to recede...

With the wonderful Shiva Mihan at IMC Leeds

Listening to Sholeh Quinn (UC Merced) on Timurud and Safavid chroniclers (15th-17th century) at International Medieval Congress Leeds. Panel sponsored by Middle East Medievalists.

MEM Dissertation Prize 2024 – Middle East Medievalists Categories Announcements MEM Dissertation Prize 2024 Post date 2024-05-01 Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is pleased to announce the 2024 iteration of its biennial prize for the best dissertation on the medieval Middle East (roughly 500–1500 CE). In an effort to recognize excellent doctoral r...

We are excited to announce a vacancy for the post of Director of the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan. If you're looking and interested please check it out. The application closes 26th June.
Use the below link to check out the listing.

emplois.diplomatie.gouv.fr

WEBINAR | Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents -

WEBINAR | Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents

WEBINAR | Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents Join Us, 13th June 12pm EST | 5pm GMT

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: 2024 Rethinking History: Return to Archives and Documents. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: 2024 Rethinking History: Return to Archives and Documents. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Very much looking forward to comparing notes on legal documents from around the Islamicate world with a fantastic group of scholars, in Paris, 4 June.

Happening today! Scan QR code to join

Please email us at invisible_east@ ames.ox.ac.uk if you'd like to join virtually. We are looking into offering a hybrid option.

Hello from the ⁦‪‬⁩ team on a glorious day in Oxford!⁦‪ ‬⁩ ⁦‪‬⁩ ⁦‪‬⁩

Please join us for this talk on medieval Persian documents by the wonderful Zahir Bhalloo!

Happy Nowruz and New Year 1403/2024!

Nowruz is it's the time when we celebrate nature and all it gives to us, life, health, prosperity, beauty, which are symbolised in the seven items we place on the 'haftsin' table, and the Invisible East team wishes that for everyone this will be the beginning of an amazing year.

Find out more! https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/vacancies?utm_source=sm&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=ht24-job-vacancies

WE ARE HIRING! Invisible East is looking for a Postdoctoral researcher and a Programme Coordinator to join the team: we look forward to receiving your application!

📆 Apply by 25 March 2024
👉 More information at https://buff.ly/3IsdaRY

Join us for this on 14 March! Just scan the QR code below

Join MEM with just $40 and support amazing opportunities for junior scholars, innovative panels and much much more on the medieval Islamicate world! Follow the link, it takes only 2 minutes. You may even win a prize if you sign up/renew before 29 February!

MEMbership Drive & Prize Draw – Middle East Medievalists Categories Announcements MEMbership Drive & Prize Draw Post date 2024-02-20 Membership prize open until 29 February 2024! It’s a leap year! As a cherished colleague, we invite you join us (if you are not a MEMber already) for a chance to win in our prize draw by registering for membership between ...

Join MEM with just $40 and support amazing opportunities for junior scholars, innovative panels and much much more on the medieval Islamicate world! Follow the link, it takes only 2 minutes.

MEMbership Drive & Prize Draw – Middle East Medievalists Categories Announcements MEMbership Drive & Prize Draw Post date 2024-02-20 Membership prize open until 29 February 2024! It’s a leap year! As a cherished colleague, we invite you join us (if you are not a MEMber already) for a chance to win in our prize draw by registering for membership between ...