The ERC-Projekt “The Early Islamic Empire at Work” is holding a conference from 7-8 October 2016 on “Regional and Transregional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire”.
Key Themes are:
- Conceptualization of regional and transregional elites from a comparative perspective
- Transregional and imperial elites
- Regional elites
- Regional: North Africa and Egypt; the Arab Peninsula, Syria, the Jazīra, and Iraq; Iran and Greater Khurāsān