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Edmund Hayes started the topic Conference Call for Papers: Historicizing the Shiʿi hadith Corpus in the discussion
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Hosted by Leiden University Centre for Islam and Society (LUCIS) and Shiʿi Studies Unit, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London (IIS)
Date: June 24-26 2020
Location: Leiden University, the Netherlands
Convenors: Hassan Ansari, Edmund Hayes, Gurdofarid Miskinzoda
Abstract deadline: January 31st 2020
This conference will focus on…[Read more]
Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited Lamp with the Representation of the Griffin: the Christianisation of Pagan Motifs During late Antiquity in the group
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The paper deals with the so called griffin lamps. In the group of early Christian bronze lamps, a relatively large number of those with handles in the form of griffin-shaped protome have been preserved. Griffin lamps could be called the prototype of Late Antique production, owing to the manner in which stylistic and iconographic elements of the…[Read more]
Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited The Menorah as a Symbol of Jewish Identity in the Diaspora and an Expression of Aspiration for Renewing the Jerusalem Temple in the group
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Jewish relation to representational art is determined mostly by the Second Commandment: “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.” As science has observed, the…[Read more]
Edmund Hayes uploaded the file: Wurtzel, "Coinage of the Revolutionaris of the Late Umayyad Period" to
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A key article looking at numismatic evidence for Hashimi mobilization