The political, social and intellectual history of the Mamluk and Mongol Empires : A Comparative Perspective

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Institute for Asian and African Studies

The Levtzion Center for Islamic Studies

and

Freie Universität Berlin

Institute of Islamic Studies

Research Unit Intellectual History of the Islamic World

announce

The first NEW FRONTIERS IN ISLAMIC STUDIES

German-Israeli Summer School

funded by the Einstein-Stiftung, Berlin

on the topic of

The political, social and intellectual history of the Mamluk and Mongol Empires :

A Comparative Perspective

to take place at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Edmond J. Safra Campus of the Hebrew University, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, Israel

during September 18-23, 2011

The Summer School will present and discuss perspectives aimed at broadening our understanding of the intellectual traditions of the 13th-15th centuries in the region between Nile and Oxus by studying them comprehensively from a double angle, viz. an intellectual-philosophical analysis combined with a social history approach (without forgetting the larger political narrative).

Conveners : Prof. Sabine Schmidtke (FU) and Prof. Reuven Amitai (HU). Coordinator : Dr. Leigh Chipman

The School is aimed at graduate (MA and PhD) students in Islamic Studies and adjacent fields. The School will be conducted in English ; reading knowledge of Arabic is required (knowledge of Persian is preferred, but not necessary).

Students coming from outside Jerusalem will receive full room and board. Attendance throughout the week of the Summer School is mandatory. The School will be considered equivalent to 2 academic credits (approval pending).

For further information and registration please contact Dr Leigh Chipman, e-mail : leigh.chipman@huji.ac.il Registration ends July 8, 2011.