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• Invisible Persons, Invisible Texts: Translation and Translators in Medieval and Modern Afghanistan and the West
• Religious, Land, and Head Taxes in the Middle Persian Documents from Early Islamic Iran by Tommy Benfey
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• "No One Can Give You Protection". The Reversal of Protection in a Persian Decree Dated 562/1167.
• The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates, Hugh Kennedy (2022)
• Pejman Firoozbakhsh, Persian Settlement Contract from 473/1080 (2022)
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• Arash Zeini is awarded the 2022 AIS book prize
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• A Hard Row to Hoe: Landowning and Land Management in the Medieval Islamic World (622-1250 CE)
• A Hard Row to Hoe: Landowning and Land Management in the Medieval Islamic World (622-1250 CE), from Ferghana to the Fayyum
• Law of the Land: Legal Documents from the Eastern Islamicate World
• Injustice, Corruption, and Partisanship in the Eastern Seljuq Lands of the Early Twelfth Century
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• Arezou Azad in conversation with Theodora Zampaki
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• The Historian of Islam at work. Essays in honor of Hugh N. Kennedy
• Revisiting an old friend: a new translation of al-Balādhurī's Futūḥ al-buldān
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• Closing a Bank Account in Early 18th-Century Isfahan
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• Interreligious Dialogue in Medieval Bamiyan
• Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents
• Shamim Homayun
• Arezou Azad is the new President of the Middle East Medievalists
• The Arabic documents from early Islamic Khurasan
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• MOOC: Afghanistan - From Buddhism to Islam
• Presence and Silence: The Iran Archives in the German Foreign Office
• The Village and the Archive: On Documents in Iranian Languages (11th-13th century)
• Format, Style and Politeness Strategies in Middle Persian Official Letters from 7th-Century Egypt
• Michael Allaway
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• From Bactrian to Arabic: Changes in Seals and Sealing Practices as Observed in the Documents from Bactria
• Invisible East at IMC Leeds 2023
• Jews in old Ghor and Bamiyan (in Persian): Part 1
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• Invisible East at ECIS 10
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• The Conceptualization of Religion and Incipient Secularity in Late Sasanian Iran (Thomas Benfey)
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• In Search of Urban Geopolitics: Deep Mapping Tehran's Lalehzar District, 1880-1960
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• Persian Qutbshahi Documents from India
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• Les Cahiers de Bamiyan: Lire et interpréter les documents persans de l’Afghanistan médiéval
• Eloise Stevens
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• Happy Nowruz 2024
• Ed Shawe-Taylor awarded Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize
• Professor Richard Bulliet speaking about Caravans on 10 May 2024 (hybrid)
• Thinking about Caravans Talk by Richard Bulliet
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• Mateen Arghandehpour
• William Dalrymple, "The Barmakids - A Bridge between Islamic and Indic Worlds"
• Invisible East Launches film, Striking Gold
• Nadia Vidro
• Stories to Connect: Stories and History in the Islamicate World
• Document of the Month 11/24: A Hidden Threat
• The Long Road to Kabul: Reflections on the Making of the Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan
• On writing a new childrens' book on the BarmaKIDS (part 1): "The Real Jafar"
• Arezou Azad, Interpreting Economies in Khurasan in the 11th–13th Century CE through Documentary Sources (2024)
• On writing a new childrens' book on the Barmakid Jafar (part 2): Hero or Villain?
• Thomas Benfey, Windādag's Orders: Ten Unpublished Middle Persian Ostraca from Chāl Ṭarkhān-ʿEshqābād (2024)
• Pejman Firoozbakhsh, Manuscript of a Persian Qaṣīda from about the Year 400/1007 (2024)
• Hayley Smith
• Fīrūzkūh Papers: Pre-Mongol Persian Documents from Today’s Afghanistan
• How to Explore the Invisible East Digital Corpus (IEDC)
• Association for Iranian Studies Fourteenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference
• Document of the Month 12/24: A Lost Arabic Papyrus
• Emma Lennox
• Document of the Month 1/25: An Early Calligraphic Signature
• Leeds International Medieval Congress 2025
• The Islamicate East series welcomes new editor
• Thomas Benfey, Middle Persian Documents and the Making of the Islamic Fiscal System: Problems and Prospects
• Document of the Month 2/25: A Land Sale Deed in Old Uyghur
• The Yarkand Documents: From a Garden to a Digital Corpus
• Tenth Biennial Convention of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies
• Document of the Month 3/25: A Female Farmer with a Strong Voice
• Nowruz in Balkh and Bamiyan
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• نوروز در اسناد بامیان
• 6th Congress of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
• Document of the Month 4/25: A Judeo-Arabic Bible Commentary
• Document of the Month 5/25: A Versatile Amulet
• The Invisible and the Visible: Sogdians and their Silks
• Arezou Azad's Fragment of the Month for the Geniza Research Unit
• Invisible Treasures
• Document of the Month 6/25: “She Smells with a Fragrant Nose"
• Document of the Month 7/25: Invisible East Qur’ans