A Christian Insurgency in Islamic Syria: The Jarajima (Mardaites), lecture by Christian Sahner (University of Oxford), University of Cambridge Byzantine Worlds Seminar via Zoom, February 3, 2021, 7:00–8:30 pm (UK) 

Christian Sahner is associate professor of Islamic History and Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford. His work explores the transition from Late Antiquity to the Islamic Middle Ages.

The Byzantine Worlds Seminar provides a venue for exploring the material and intellectual entanglements between the medieval worlds of the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. It is supported by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) and Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (SPBS).

Advance registration required.