Online Talk: Hermeticism in Islam: from the Sabians of Harran to al-Suhrawardi
The “Between Athens & Alexandria. Platonism, 3rd-7th c. CE” research project cordially invites you to its next online event: […]
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Postdocs: Interactive Histories, Co-Produced Communities
Call for Applications Postdoctoral Fellows/Research Associates to participate in the research project Interactive Histories, Co-Produced Communities: Judaism, Christianity and Islam Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ, USA) and University of […]
Online Lectures: Monasteries and Ribats as seat of religious devotion and power
This looks like an interesting couple of talks for anyone looking at esoteric religious movements at the fringes of the late-antique/early medieval west. As our informant puts it: ‘the Islamic […]
11th Enoch Seminar, Apocalypticism: History, Method, and Reception
Registration is open for the 11th Enoch Seminar, Apocalypticism: History, Method, and Reception. When: May 23-27, 2021 Where: Online Chairs: Loren Stuckenbruck, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Gabriele Boccaccini Registration is now […]
new book: A Prophet Has Arrived
Ad for an important new sourcebook via AGADE: A Prophet Has Appeared. The Rise of Islam through Christian and JewishEyes, A Sourcebookby Stephen J. Shoemaker (Author)March 2021Hardcover, 320$90.00, £74.00Paperback$34.95, £29.00Pages: […]
Conference on Cosmic Ascent in Theory and Practice: Call for Papers
A conference in June of this year at Trinity College, Dublin on all aspects of cosmic ascent narratives. Papers are very welcome from scholars working on any aspect of this […]
A new book on ‘Imperial Eschatology’ and early Islam
A new book is out, which may be worth checking out for those interested in the intersections between politics, eschatology, and religious currents of late antiquity: Stephen J. Shoemaker, The […]
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