I am giving a talk on my PhD research for Institute of Historical Research’s seminar for collecting and display on Monday evening, the 13th of May. In person and online at Senate House in London so do join in if you can.

history.ac.uk/events/collect…

TODAY!!
Online Lecture, 16.4.24 17:00 CET
Nomads’ Manuscripts Landscape
Webinar Series Dr. David Durand-Guédy (@CSMC_Hamburg): 'Persian Inshāʾ from Khurasan to Anatolia: A Glimpse through the Mar‘ashī Manuscript 11136'
ifi_oeaw Austrian Academy of Sciences Young Academy OeAW FWF
Register: 👇
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Anyone around Abu Dhabi is welcome to attend my talk, “Slavery and the Esoteric in the Indian Ocean,” at NYU Abu Dhabi. Thursday, April 18th, between 11:30-12:30pm:

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Chaand Raat Mubarak 🌙

Eid of the world! May your eid be blessed! / May your fortune’s shadow be permanent. (calligraphy: Mehmed Yesari)

Talk today about the Bellini portrait of Sultan Mehmed II: Seeing Objects Across Boundaries casaitaliananyu.org/events/seeing-…

'The Byzantine and Ottoman intellectual encounter, 14th–16th centuries: The historiographical stakes.'

By Maria Mavroudi

2024 Annual H.A.R. Gibb Lectures, 8-11 April 2024

CMES - Harvard University

In memory of Cornell Fleischer. 😔

cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/byzantin…

Impressing Leipzig’s “dīwān” in the eighteenth century: Georg Jacob Kehr’s two-page Arabic dedicatory preface to the Leipzig Senate, from his unpublished 1723 Latin study of the Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī. Leipzig University Library, ms B. or. 355. qalamos.net/receive/DE15Bo…

A miniature leaf-shaped mushaf from the 16th century, copied in Agra in Mughal India. #magnificentmushaf
[Sotheby's Arts of the Islamic World, 24th April 2024, lot 35]

On the occasion of the Arabic music day this year: a drawing of an ʿūd and qānūn in Kitāb al-Adwār by al-Urmawī (d. 1294).
Happy listening (and in this case: looking).
#يوم_الموسيقى_العربية

A fully-funded PhD studentship at the University of Cambridge to explore South Asian natural history collections at the University Museum of Zoology and University Herbarium, co-supervised across the faculties of history, zoology, plant sciences, and history of science!

April 8, 9, 11: Maria Mavroudi gives the annual H.A.R. Gibb lectures:

'The Byzantine and Ottoman intellectual encounter, 14th–16th centuries'

cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/byzantin…

Lisbon course coming! join us to delve into the #Arabic #manuscript collections of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa
Looking forward very much to working together with Walid Ghali and Dr. Éléonore Cellard
AKU-ISMC RUTTER ERC Project
#codicology #paleography #HistSci
#مخطوطات

Attention grad students! Spread the word and apply to the wonderful conference our grads are putting together, featuring keynotes from Mona Oraby and Omar Kasmani. Shout out to the indefatigable Ray Buckner for all his work on this. Linking to website below!

This Monday, I'll give the 3rd lecture in the Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series. I'm excited that the discussant will be Roxani E. Margariti, whose works on Aden (and Malabar) have set the field.
It is organized by Kate Pukhovaia; the inaugural speaker was Bernard Haykel!

Here’s the link to 50 free online copies to my recent article ‘Historical Convergences and Region Making in Sultanate Gujarat’ in South Asian Studies Thanks for reading! tandfonline.com/eprint/MRGQGJA…

📢This Thursday (in person): Don't miss out on the 'Beekeeping in the End Times' by Larisa Jašarević! The 20 first to come will receive a free copy of the book so share widely!

⏲️5 PM hosted at Queen Mary University of London BLOC.
#Beekeeping

Secure your spot now! isrf.org/events/book-la…

I am delighted to announce that I will be giving a talk on music and political self-fashioning in the early modern Deccan next month in my home department at @uchicago.

Such a fabulous conversation around my book last week for the New Books Network 📚 podcast. Thank you Khadeeja Amenda !