Seminar: City and Countryside as Understood in Medieval Arabic-Persian Dictionaries

Date: 

Thursday, March 28, 2019, 3:00pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

CMES, Room 102

On March 28, 2019, Harvard's own Professor Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Research Professor of History, presented his new philological research on terms for city and countryside in medieval Arabic-Persian dictionaries for the Alwaleed bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies. This lecture was co-sponsored and hosted by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. 

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Roy Mottahedeh Seminar