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For the final conference of the Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (600-1000) project we will focus on the rhetoric of....
Read More »Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements
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According to a number of sources, Khadijah was born in 565 A.D. and died in 620, at the age of 55, but some historians say that she dies ten years later.....
Read More »Call for Papers: The Qurʾān and Syriac Christianity: Recurring Themes and Morifs
The three-day international conference pioneers in its focus on the relationship between the Qurʾān with Syriac Christianity. The event will bring together an...
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