123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Social Divisions and Cultural Transformations in Early Islamic History

AHA Session 96

Saturday, January 3, 2009: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Riverside Suite (Sheraton New York)

Chair:

Roy P. Mottahedeh, Harvard University

Commentator:

R. S. Humphreys, University of California at Santa Barbara

Poetry as Propaganda: The Rise of a New Cultural Form in Umayyad Damascus
Abigail Krasner Balbale, Harvard University

Did Hammad al-Rawiya Destroy the Arabic Poetic Tradition? His Entry in Kitab al-Aghani
Sarah Mirza, University of Michigan

Scholars and Charlatans on the Baghdad-Khurasan Circuit from the Ninth to the Eleventh Centuries
Jonathan A. C. Brown, University of Washington

Legal School Affiliation among Competing Social Actors in Ninth-Century Egypt
Ahmed El Shamsy, Harvard University

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