CSI Monday Majlis: CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM PAPYRI FROM KHIRBET MIRD, PALESTINE: AN ARCHIVE FROM THE 7TH AND 8TH CENTURIES

ROBERT G. HOYLAND
CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM PAPYRI FROM KHIRBET MIRD, PALESTINE:
AN ARCHIVE FROM THE 7TH AND 8TH CENTURIES
Monday Majlis Online on the 18th of November, 17: 00-18:30 (UK time)
Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter

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Bio: Robert G. Hoyland is Professor of Middle East history and archaeology at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. He taught previously at the universities of Oxford and St Andrews, and has published widely on various aspects of the transition from the late Antique to the early Islamic period in the Middle East. He has also conducted fieldwork in many countries in the region, and is currently excavating an early Islamic Christian monastery in the UAE.
https://isaw.nyu.edu/people/faculty/isaw-faculty/robert-g.-hoyland

Abstract: In 1952-53, a trove of papyri in Greek, Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Arabic, dating to between 500 and 800 AD, were uncovered in a cave near the monastery of Khirbet Mird, 10 miles east of Bethlehem. Until recently none of the 1000 or so fragments were digitized, and so they have not received much attention, except for Adolf Grohmann's edition of 100 of these fragments. This has now started to change with digitization projects taking place in Leuven, where the Greek texts are housed, and Jerusalem, where the Aramaic and Arabic texts are stored. This talk will discuss the nature and content of these texts and the composition of the corpus as a whole, paying particular attention to the question of how Christian and Muslim documents came to be archived together in the same place and to the different ways in which the pasts of these two communities are preserved in these documents.

In the spirit of the label ‘Majlis’ and also to make the talks even more interesting, our speakers present the topic discussed as embedded in their own journey. You can watch the previous Majlises here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-, but we don’t record the Q&A in order to keep the discussion free. Please come and enjoy the talks and the discussions : ) If you’d like to be included in the CSI (Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter) mailing list, please write to me (I.T.Kristo-Nagy@ex.ac.uk).
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István T Kristó-Nagy https://arabislamicstudies.exeter.ac.uk/staff/kristo-nagy/