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Forthcoming Events

Waning Cresent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam

Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)

This seminar will begin at 5pm in the Centre's Jerusalem Room. Prior booking is not required. All welcome.

26 Nov

2025

The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters

Professor Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi (Columbia University)

Professor Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi (Columbia University), a King Faisal Prize Laureate, will give the Centre's 2nd King Faisal Lecture, supported by the King Faisal Foundation. In this lecture Professor al-Musawi will draw on themes from his book…

27 Nov

2025

The Role of Media in a Changing World

Mr Nic Robertson (CNN International Diplomatic Editor)

This seminar will begin at 5pm in the Centre's Jerusalem Room. Prior booking is not required. All welcome.

3 Dec

2025

News & Notices

Lecture: Crafting Medieval Spain: the Torrijos ceiling in the Victoria and Albert Museum

Dr Mariam Rosser-Owen is Curator responsible for the Arab World collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She is a specialist in the Islamic Mediterranean, especially al-Andalus and the Maghrib, during the…

5 Jun

2023

A Literary History of Medicine - The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah

New Open Access resource available online

A Literary History of Medicine: The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah

https://brill.com/view/db/lhom

6 Mar

2020

Lecture: Picturing the court: Mughal artists and material culture in the 17th century

The lecture places the portraits in historical and art historical context, and show how the evolution of Mughal painting produces greater accuracy in the depiction of material culture. The portraits then become an important source of information…

Waning Cresent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam

The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters

The Role of Media in a Changing World

Lecture: Crafting Medieval Spain: the Torrijos ceiling in the Victoria and Albert Museum

A Literary History of Medicine - The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah

Lecture: Picturing the court: Mughal artists and material culture in the 17th century

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