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Scholar Updates Roundup
he Islamicate East: New Approaches to Texts and History announced that “Teresa Bernheimer (LMU, Munich) will be joining Arezou Azad and Hugh Kennedy as a series editor. Teresa is a historian of the Middle East in the period ca 600 to 1200 CE, and is particularly interested in the formation of Islam in the context of Late Antiquity and beyond.… CONTINUE READING
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University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law associate professor, and past Program in Islamic Law affiliate Rabiat Akande, SJD, “has been named the 2025 Wilson H. Elkins Professor by the University System of Maryland (USM). She is the first professor from Maryland Carey Law to receive the honor.”
Scholar Updates Roundup
Scholar Updates Roundup
Scholar Updates Roundup
Scholar Updates Roundup
Scholar Updates Roundup
“Mahmood Kooria, lecturer of History and Classics at the University of Edinburgh, has won the 2024 Infosys Prize in Humanities and Social Sciences. He has been recognised for his pioneering research into maritime Islamic laws and culture, and the role they played in shaping economic, political and cultural transformation in the Indian Ocean region.”