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Institute of Iranian Studies, University of St Andrews, 8-9 March 2013Conference ProgrammeFriday 8 March9.15: Ali Ansari, Welcome9.30-10.30: Panel 1 - Political History of the early Islamic EastAleksandr Naymark: The Fate of Bukhar Khudas: a pre-Islamic Dynasty in IslamicMawaraannahrMinoru Inaba: Across the Hindukush of the early Islamic period11.00-13:00 Panel 2 - Cities in early Islamic Khurasan and TransoxianaHugh Kennedy: Early Islamic urbanism in Transoxania: textual and archaeologicalapproachesTim Williams: Merv: recent research into the development of the Islamic city,from the 8th to 13th centuries CEFanny Bessard: Integration of Transoxiana within the globalised economy of theUmayyad and early Abbasid caliphates (8th-9th C.)Andrew Peacock: Fami’s History of Herat and the tradition of localhistoriography in Khurasan14.00-15.00: Panel 3 - The transition to an Islamic societyFiruza Melville: Traces of pre-Islamic in Islamic marriage in Persianliterature and BeyondArezou Azad: Female public figures in mediaeval Balkh15.30-17:00: Panel 4 - Art and material cultureDeborah Klimburg-Salter: Zone of Transition: The Art of Northern Afghanistan inthe 8th centuryRobert Hillenbrand: Content versus context in Samanid epigraphic potteryOya Pancaroglu: The Material Culture of Medieval Nishapur in a ComparativePerspectiveSaturday 9 MarchPanel 4: Political History of the 11th and 12th centuriesCarole Hillenbrand: The life and times of al-KunduriEdmund Bosworth: The Ghurids in KhurasanJuergen Paul: Rural notables, local lords? Remarks on the ra’is in 12thcentury eastern IranDeborah Tor: Sultan and Caliphate in the Seljuq Period11:45-12:45: Panel 6 – Kingship and literature in the ninth and tenthcenturiesGhazzal Dabiri: Genealogy and Quranic Symbols: Constructing Kings as MoralTypes in 9-10th century Iranian HistoriographyLouise Marlow: The king and his kh?ssa in a Samanid work of advice: relationsand Responsibilities14.00-15:00: Panel 7 - The Court and its Literature in the Eleventh centuryRoy Mottahedeh: The Ghaznavid Court Sarah Savant: Al-Tha’?lib?’s MemorableThim?r al-qul?b f? al-mu??f wa-l-mans?b: A Portrait of an Eleventh-CenturyCultural Broker15.30-17:00 Panel 8 - Islam in the mashriqTeresa Bernheimer: The 'Alids in Eastern Iran and Transoxiana, c. 750-1150Christopher Melchert: The early spread of Hanafism in Khurasan LutzRichter-Bernburg: Nâser-e Khosrow revisitedFor further details and information about registration see http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~iranian/transoxiana.html