Syriac and Arabia, Hugoye Symposium VI, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, April 24–25, 2020

Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute is holding its sixth Hugoye symposium in April 2020 at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. This year’s topic is Syriac and Arabia. While there has been much on the contribution of Syriac to the Abbasid translation movement, research on the connections between Syriac and Arabic before Islam and during the early years of Islam is in its infancy. This workshop aims to bring together scholars who cross the Syriac studies and Arabic/Islamic studies divide in the hope of forming a framework for the study of the Syriac-Arabic interface.