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3rd "Reading Persian manuscripts" workshop chaired by Pejman Firoozbakhsh with scholars in Iran: Ali Safari (Mīrāth-i maktūb), Alireza Emami (U. of Tehran), Maryam Mirshamsi (Dehkhoda Lexicon Institute)

Alisher Begmatov (Berlin-Brandenburg Academie der Wissenschaften) introduces his doctoral work in which he has transcribed and translated hiterhto unpublished Sogdian documents

IE Programme Director Arezou Azad delivers David Patterson lecture: “Of panegyrics and commerce: Jews and Muslims in 11th century Afghanistan”

IE-sponsored Islamicate Manuscripts and Text Reading colloquium: Session 1: Jeremy Johns, Director of the Khalili Research Centre; Professor of the Art & Archaeology of the Islamic Mediterranean and Nadia Jamil, Senior Researcher in Arabic, ERC-DocuMult project, Khalili Research Centre on: Arabic deeds of sale and Islamic law in Christian Sicily

IE-sponsored Islamicate Manuscripts and Text Reading colloquium: Tommy Benfey, ERC-Go.Local Post-doctoral ResearcherIn Search of the Arkand: Astral Science between India, Sasanian Iran, and the Early Islamicate World

IE-sponsored Islamicate Manuscripts and Text Reading colloquium: Zhan Zhang, ERC-Go.Local Post-doctoral Researcher: Embryonic New Persian: two letters by a Jewish Sogdian in eighthcentury Khotan

IE-sponsored Islamicate Manuscripts and Text Reading colloquium: Zeynep Yurekli-Gorkay, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture: Book-picking from a Conquered Citadel in the Summer of 1517