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The Iranian World from the Sasanians to IslamTrinity Term 2018A weekly seminar will be held on Mondays at 5pm at Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford Week 1 - 23 April: Luke Treadwell (University of Oxford)Islamic kingship in the high Abbasid era: the reinvention of Sasanian tradition? Week 2 - 30 April: Peter Webb (University of Leiden)‘Let us go down, and there confound their language’: speech and identity in the late antique Middle East Week 3 - 7 May: Harry Munt (University of York)Pre- and early Islamic history in Iranian local histories Week 4 - 14 May: Rachel Wood (University of Oxford)Interpreting Sasanian sacred iconography after the Islamic conquest Week 5 - 21 May: Kianoosh Rezania (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)The Zoroastrian goddess Dēn in Islamic robe: her figure in Zoroastrianism and its transfer to Islam Week 6 - 28 May: Jaakko Hameen-Anttila (University of Edinburgh)What was the Middle Persian Book of Kings (Khwadaynamag)? Week 7 - 4 JuneNO SEMINAR Week 8 - 11 June: Robert Gleave (University of Exeter)“Rule over them as you do the People of the Book”: Zoroastrians and Zoroastrian customs in early Islamic legal sources