[Bilimsel Haber] Call for Papers: Political Legitimacy in the Islamic West

[Onur Inal]

Dear all,

Please see below for details of a workshop we are holding here in Cambridge
UK, of particular interest to historians of al-Andalus and the
medieval Maghrib. Please forward to any colleagues you think may be
interested or
other relevant lists you are on.

Yours,

James

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Political Legitimacy in the Islamic West

Workshop by the Department of Middle East Studies, University of Cambridge
:: 13-14 September 2011

Sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust

Call for papers - deadline for abstracts 4 February 2011

The workshop will investigate the strategies of legitimation used by Muslim
rulers in Islamic Spain and the western Maghrib during the medieval
and early modern periods to analyse how they justified and presented
their rule to their subjects and to visitors from the Islamic east and
Christian Europe.  It aims to explore issues of religio-political
identity and regional unities and divisions of both historical and
contemporary relevance to shed light on an
understudied period of this crucial Mediterranean regions' history.
The chronological focus of the workshop will be on the 13th to 15th
centuries CE, but the organisers also welcome contributions that make
comparisons with earlier and later periods.

For full details see http://islamicwest.ames.cam.ac.uk
<http://islamicwest.ames.cam.ac.uk/>

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Dr. James Brown, Research Associate
Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge