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Khalili Research SeminarDate and place:Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, OxfordTuesdays 2.00–4.30 pm in Trinity Term 2013Program23 April (Week 1)Harry Munt:Why write local history in the early Islamic centuries?30 April (Week 2)Mahmoud Hawari:Hishām’s Palace in context: landscape archaeological survey and excavations in the hinterland of Khirbat al-Mafjar7 May (Week 3)Umberto Bongianino:Fātimid architecture in Cyrenaica: David Whitehouse’s excavations at Ajdābiya14 May (Week 4)Michael Macdonald:Ignorance on the internet. A new corpus of Jāhilī writing from Arabia21 May (Week 5)James White:Provincial power-play: a Safavid-era manuscript of ‘The Man in the Panther’s Skin’28 May (Week 6)Francesca Leoni:The good, the bad and the ugly: representations of good and evil in Islamic art4 June (Week 7)Elise Morero:Islamic rock crystal – technological perspectives11 June (Week 8)Marie Legendre:Byzantine capitals, Umayyad dukes and the Egyptian dīwān: local administration and the formation of the Islamic stateInfos:http://www.ocla.ox.ac.uk/sect_iiw_eve.shtml