Department News
Marina Rustow Featured on University’s Homepage.
March 12, 2024
Marina Rustow, Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and Professor of Near Eastern Studies and History, has been featured on the University homepage in a section titled “Exceptional Faculty.” It cites Rustow’s use of “machine learning to decipher thousands of Arabic and Hebrew fragments preserved in a medieval…
Bozluolcay Wins Syrian Studies Association Dissertation Prize
Nov. 17, 2023
Murat Bozluolcay has been awarded the Syrian Studies Association Dissertation.
Zangieva Wins Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship
Nov. 15, 2023
Fourth-year Ph.D. student Alika Zangieva has been awarded the 2024 Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship in Turkish Studies at the University of Vienna.
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In the Presence of Prophets and Martyrs: Religion and Cultural Memory in fifteenth-century Bukhara
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The Circulation of the "Kutub al-Mutawassiṭāt" Astronomical Curriculum, 9th-13th Centuries
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