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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Topics in the Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms: Mental Disorder and the Body
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SUMMARY:Topics in the Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms: Mental Disorder and the Body
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>The CMES Director's Series </strong>is pleased to present</p><p><strong>Nicola Carpentieri</strong><br>Research Associate at the University of Manchester, UK<!--break--><drupal-media data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="cb10721d-aa88-4b2f-8dda-c9af6d84d6eb" data-align="right" alt="Nicola Carpentieri" data-view-mode="hwp_small"></drupal-media></p><p>Nicola Carpentieri is a research associate, responsible for transcribing and collating the commentaries. His academic interests include the transmission of knowledge between the Hellenic and the Arabo-Islamic intellectual traditions, literary hybridisation in the Muslim West (Iberia, Sicily and the Maghreb), medieval court poetry and the post-Classical qasida. Nicola graduated summa cum laude in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, in 2003. He obtained his PhD in Arabic &amp; Islamic Studies in 2012 from Harvard University. The title of his PhD thesis is <em>The Poetics of Aging: Al-Andalus and Sicily at the Twilight of Muslim Sovereignty</em>. At Harvard, Nicola's research focused on the intellectual history of Sicilian and Iberian Islam, particularly within the domain of court poetry. He is currently working on a thematic anthology of the Sicilian Arab poet Ibn Hamdis.</p><p><strong>Contact:</strong> <a href="mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu">Liz Flanagan</a></p>
LOCATION:CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA
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