Arabic - Scrolls into codices: Jilyani's pict...

Marco Bertagna gives a talk for the History of the Book seminar series on 1st March 2019. 

Jane Stevenson, Senior research Fellow, Campion Hall, Oxford, gives a talk fo the History of the Book seminar series on 1st February 2019. 

Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary gives a lecture for the Humanitas lecture series on Interfaith Studies. 

Jane Clark is a teacher who lives in Oxford. She has been studying Ibn 'Arabi's thought for nearly thirty years as a student of the Beshara School, and in 2000 took a degree at Oxford in order to read him in the original Arabic. She is particularly interested in the way that his ...  Show more

This is a series of walk throughs of Arabic texts around telling jokes in Islam. I attended a tafseer class recently in which we wen't through the permissibility and wisdom around joking in Islam. The lecture really touched me so I wanted to repackage the Arabic texts as short ...

Dr Joseph Moshenska, Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at University College, discusses his new book, Iconoclasm as Child's Play. Drawing on a range of sixteenth-century artifacts, artworks, and texts, as well as on ancient and modern theories of iconoclasm and of play, Ico ...  Show more