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Islam &#38; the Islamic World: Seminars &#38; Events After Rome Seminar: Aspects of the History and Archaeology of the Fifth to Seventh CenturiesThursdays at 5pm, Trinity College (in Danson Room except for Week 6)1 May (Week 1)Bryan Ward-Perkins (Trinity College, Oxford):‘An Introduction to the European Research Council Cult of Saints Project’To celebrate the launch of this project there will be a brief drinks reception after the seminar8 May (Week 2)Maria Lidova (Wolfson College and ‘Empires of Faith’ project):The Imperial Theotokos: Revealing the Concept of Early Christian Imagery in S. Maria Maggiore15 May (Week 3)George Gereby (Central European University, Budapest):Polemical narrative theology: the Protevangelium of James on the female, Jews, and the Nativity22 May (Week 4)Sylvain Destephen (Paris X, Nanterre):Local martyrs and civic cults in Asia Minor29 May (Week 5)Mar Marcos (Universidad de Cantabria):Flavius Constantius, the Urban Prefect, and the Church of Rome (AD 418–419)5 June (Week 6)Fanny Bessard (SOAS, London):Shaping the early Islamic city in Mā warā’ al-nahr (Central Asia), social and economic dynamics (8th–11th CE)NB: This week only the seminar will meet in Trinity’s Sutro Room12 June (Week 7)Marie Legendre (Oriental Institute, Oxford):A meaningful silence: Landowning in early Islamic Egypt between the ‘grands domaines’ and Abbasid caliphal estates 19 June (Week 8)James Howard-Johnston (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)The Grand Strategy of the Sasanian EmpireConvenors: James Howard-Johnston and Bryan Ward-Perkins&#160;Seminar on Abrahamic ReligionsMondays, 5.30–7 pm, in the Oriental InstituteConvenors: Professor Martin Goodman, Dr Mark Edwards, and Dr Nicolai Sinai28 April (Week 1)Professor Carlos Fraenkel (LMH):Violence and intolerance in the Abrahamic Religions5 May (Week 2)Katherine Perry (Pembroke) and Anna Chrysostomides (St Antony’s):Violence in Luke 22:35–8 and Christian martyr descriptions from the early Islamic descriptions12 May (Week 3)James Bergida (Blackfriars) and Jonathon Wright (St Stephen’s House):Usury as bloodless warfare in the arguments of Ambrose and post-biblical interpretation of Simeon and Levi19 May (Week 4)Sam Baddeley (St Peter’s) and Lucy Parker (Lincoln):Irenaeus’ Against Heresies and outsiders in Christian hagiography26 May (Week 5)Kim Czajkowski (Merton) and Cecilia Palombo (Pembroke):Pagans on Jewish misanthropy and anti-Jewish polemics in Coptic-Arabic Christian homilies2 June (Week 6)Anthony Rabin (Wolfson) and Marten Krijgsman (St Cross):Forcible circumcision in the Second Temple period and the ethics of war in Deuteronomy9 June (Week 7)Charlotte Klingelhoeffer (Regent’s Park) and Dr Nicolai Sinai (Pembroke):Tertullian against heresies and Qu’ranic polemic against Judaism 16 June (Week 8)Dr Sinai and Professor Fraenkel:Conclusionsinfos:www.ocla.ox.ac.uk/sect_iiw_eve.shtml