IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1511: Entanglements in Afghanistan
Thursday 6 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | 'Invisible East' Project, University of Oxford |
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| Organiser: | Hugh Kennedy, Department of the Languages & Cultures of the Near & Middle East, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London |
| Moderator/Chairs: | Hugh Kennedy, Department of the Languages & Cultures of the Near & Middle East, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London Majid Mahdi, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1511-a | The Rural Administration of Khurasan According to Documents (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Paper 1511-b | Newly-Discovered Fragments from a Medieval Islamic Historical Work: History and Historiography in Samanid Central Asia (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Paper 1511-c | Unveiling the Corpus of Firuzkuh Documents from Medieval Afghanistan (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Abstract | This session will look at the complex and social interactions in the areas of modern Afghanistan, eastern Iran, and Central Asia from the 10th to the 13th century. This is an area of multiple entanglements, linguistic, religious, political, and social. The Invisible East project, based at the University of Oxford, has been using hitherto unpublished documents discovered in the area in the last decade, to provide a completely new discourse about these area using, not high status chronicles as has previously been done, but primary source documentation of landholdings, taxation, family relationships, and economic affairs. This session will illustrate the workings and methods of the project and introduce a whole new body of original source material. |