The Emergence of Islam in its Pre-Islamic and Byzantine Contexts, lecture by Nadia El Cheikh (American University of Beirut), University of Cambridge Byzantine Worlds Seminar via Zoom, December 2, 2020, 10:00am–12:00 pm (UK) 

Nadia El Cheikh is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Professor of History at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Dr. El Cheikh is a scholar of the Abbasid Caliphate and Byzantium, with women and gender as a focal point of her research. 

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.