Near Eastern Studies

The Institute for Advanced Study, in partnership with Gorgias Press, presents the 2022 online lecture program.

Hilla N. Alouf-Aboody 

This presentation will explore the nature of the Elijah traditions in rabbinic literature and their...

The Institute for Advanced Study, in partnership with Gorgias Press, presents the 2022 online lecture program.

Ayad Al-Ani, Professor for Change Management and Consulting, Associate Member of the Einstein Centre Digital Future, Berlin, and...

The Institute for Advanced Study, in partnership with Gorgias Press, presents the 2022 online lecture program.

Maria Evangelatou, Professor of Mediterranean Studies in the History of Art and Visual Culture Department, at the University of...

Speaker: Stephane Ipert (Qatar National Library)

Stephane Ipert is the director of the distinctive collections (Heritage Library) in the Qatar National Library (QNL), a unique collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps and archival collections...

Björn Bentlage, Orientalisches Institut, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 

A rare find from the late Mamluk period offers new insights into the origins of a literary form and practice which, over the next centuries, would continue to...

The Institute for Advanced Study, in partnership with Gorgias Press, presents the 2022 online lecture program.

Christopher Clohessy, resident faculty member of Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI), and visiting lecturer at...

Ali Yaycıoğlu, Associate Professor of Ottoman & Middle Eastern history at Stanford and a Visiting Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University (2021-2022).

At the center of this talk is a fiscal codex (defter), housed in the Ottoman...

Paul Babinski, University of Copenhagen

How did orientalists read, learn languages, and produce dictionaries, editions, and other works? Annotated manuscripts in particular offer a glimpse into the orientalist’s study, showing the sources they...

International Symposium, Prince Baysunghur, Before & After: Timurid Manuscripts in Context. This inaugural symposium of the Persian Manuscripts Association and hosted by Near Eastern Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, celebrates...

International Symposium, Prince Baysunghur, Before & After: Timurid Manuscripts in Context. This inaugural symposium of the Persian Manuscripts Association and hosted by Near Eastern Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, celebrates...