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2024 Apr 25

Book talk: "Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought"

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The CMES Director's Series presents a book talk with

Hayrettin Yücesoy
Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies (JIMES); Director of Graduate Studies; Resident Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Humanities (Spring 2024), Washington University, St Louis

Please note: this talk now starts at 5pm.

Discussants: Cemil Aydin, Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and

Huseyin Yilmaz, Associate Professor, History and History of Art, George Mason University

Cengiz Sisman, Professor of History, University of Houston

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