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SUMMARY:Dr Ursula Bsees: Scholars at the periphery: Text production and th
 e transmission of knowledge in Early Islamic Egypt (7th-10th centuries) - 
 Dr Ursula Bsees \, Visiting College Research Associate Wolfson College and
  Erwin Schroedinger Postdoctoral Scholar Austrian Science Fund
DTSTART:20181024T120000Z
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CONTACT:Graham Allen
DESCRIPTION:This talk will first give a short survey of intellectual trend
 s and ideas that prevailed in Early Islamic Egypt\, taken exclusively from
  Arabic papyrus texts from between the 7th and 9th centuries CE. It will t
 hen focus on a specific text genre in order to trace the ways in which kno
 wledge was written down\, structured\, and passed on.
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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