Tuesdays, 2 PM, KRC Lecture Room 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
25 April 2017: ʿAlā fuwīr Tuṭīla. Bilingual contracts and written culture during the Christian conquest of al-Andalus, Mr Rodrigo García-Velasco Bernal (University of Cambridge)
2 May 2017: The origins of royal funerary architecture in al-Maghrib al-Aqṣā, Mr Péter Tamás Nagy (Khalili Research Centre)
9 May 2017: The written culture in Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Spain, Dr Nuria Martínez de Castilla (Paris, EPHE)
16 May 2017: Light and Lighting in al-Andalus, Dr Tom Nickson (Courtauld Institute)
23 May 2017: Writing a New History of Western Islamic Architecture, Professor Jonathan Bloom (Boston College)
30 May 2017: Life beyond the medina of Cordoba: districts (rabad) and cemeteries (maqābir), Dr María Teresa Casal García (Madrid, CSIC)
6 June 2017: New (graphic) documents for the study of Almoravid and Almohad architecture, Professor Antonio Almagro Gorbea (Granada, CSIC)
13 June 2017: Berbers and Borderlands: state formation and urbanisation in early medieval Morocco, Dr Corisande Fenwick (University College London)