Séminaire: Programme, SCORE Lecture Series, Hiver 2024-2025

The SCORE Online Lecture Series “Rethinking Social Contention: Rebellion, Banditry and Martyrdom in the Pre-Modern Islamicate World” has been taking place since January 2022. The lectures deal with different aspects of the phenomenon of rebellion within and outside the early Islamic world. It is the aim of the SCORE team to invite a wide array of experts on rebellion from different fields of expertise.

The online lecture series will take place on Tuesdays from 4.00 to 5.30 pm CET on Zoom. To register, please send an e-mail to score.aai@uni-hamburg.de.

15 October 2024
Elsa Cardoso (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid):
The Bāb al-Sudda of Cordoba between Power, Rebellion, and Execution

19 November 2024
Giulia Casella (University of Hamburg):
Unspoken Rebellion on the Red Sea: The Case of Kāleb and Abraha in the Sixth Century

10 December 2024
Philip Grant (University of California, Irvine):
Was the Zanj Rebellion a ‘Slave Revolt’?

14 January 2025
Edmund Hayes (Leiden University):
Legitimate Punishments in Early Islam: Execution, Exile, Excommunication (with Special Attention to the Imami Shiʿa)

11 February 2025
Hassan Bouali (University Paris Nanterre):
Rebellion and State-Building in Early Islam: The Case of the Zubayrid Caliphate

Poster [pdf]