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To graduate students working on premodern Islamic history:We are seeking to bring together a small group of scholars working in the field of Islamic history before 1800, including around eight advanced graduate students from a range of universities in North America and Europe.  The group will meet regularly, initially at one-year intervals, for a couple of days a time on the campus of Princeton University.  The agenda will be to discuss each other’s unpublished work (in the form of pre-circulated papers), and to consider major issues, new trends, and new books.  Within the field of Islamic history to 1800, there are no prior limitations with regard to period, region, or theme.  The basic expenses of the participants (including travel and accommodation) will be funded.  If you are a graduate student in the field with a well-defined dissertation topic, fluent in English, and interested in joining the group, please submit an application by February 28, 2015.  Your application should consist of a c.v., a cover letter setting out your interests and fields of expertise, two writing samples (papers or chapters, published or unpublished), and contact information for two referees.  These materials should be assembled in the form of a single PDF, and sent to: nesevents@exchange.princeton.edu.  Please name the file “lastname, firstname, Holberg application.pdf”.  Preliminary inquiries can be addressed to Michael Cook (mcook@princeton.edu).  It is intended to hold the first meeting of the group on June 9-10, 2015.Antoine Borrut (Maryland)Michael Cook (Princeton)Khaled El-Rouayheb (Harvard)Jack Tannous (Princeton)