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SUMMARY:REMIO Guest Lecture: Medieval Afghanistan and the Religious Divers
 ity in the Dar al-Islam
DTSTART:20170109T171500Z
DTEND:20170109T184500Z
DTSTAMP:20260502T163641Z
UID:remio-guest-lecture-arezoud-azad-2671@ceres.rub.de
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DESCRIPTION:REMIO Guest Lecture by Arezou Azad (University of Birmingham\,
  UK)\n\nThe lands in present-day Afghanistan\, before the arrival of Islam
 \, enjoyed a distinct religious mix of Buddhists\, Zoroastrians\, Christia
 ns\, Jews\, and adherents to local cults who cohabited single spaces. Thes
 e societies flourished in large urban centres\, as well as rural metropoli
 ses and small towns. Diversity was\, no doubt\, a function of being situa
 ted at a crossroads of the so-called "silk road" trade networks\, which do
 ubled as pilgrimage routes.\n\nReligious diversity\, together with the lin
 guistic and ethnic mix in the region during the transition to Islamic rule
  in the eastern Islamic caliphate and its Muslim successor dynasties\, may
  account for a particular conversion pattern in new Islamic Afghanistan. T
 he lecture will discuss some new approaches to studying the religious hist
 ory of medieval Afghanistan and introduce a fascinating corpus of local hi
 stories and documentary records that will be used to ascertain the pattern
 s of conversion after the Islamic conquests and how conversion to Islam ha
 s been remembered in Afghanistan and the Persianate world.\n\nThe lecture 
 series is sponsored by the RUB Research School and CERES.\n\n\n
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/remio-guest-lecture-arezoud-azad/
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