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On 25th February, the Caliphal Finances team offered their second lecture in the IMES Seminar Spring 2025 Lecture Series. Noëmie Lucas and Dalia Hussein shared their respective research…
On 10 February, our colleague Nik Matheou, Lecturer in Medieval Global History at the University of Edinburgh, honoured us by participating in the IMES Seminar Spring 2025 Lecture…
On 11th December last year, PI Marie Legendre and I, postdoc Eline Scheerlinck, left before sunrise for a three-hour train journey north to the Sir Duncan Rice Library…
On 13th January, the Caliphal Finances team kicked off the IMES Seminar Spring 2025 Lecture Series! PI Marie Legendre, Postdoc Eline Scheerlinck, and PhD student Georgi Obatnin offered…
It was another eventful year for the Caliphal Finances project! In January this year, the Caliphal Finances team welcomed its latest addition: post-doc Eline Scheerlinck, Research Fellow in Coptic Papyrology, who is…
At the end of November, I, postdoc Eline Scheerlinck, embarked on a two-day research trip to Manchester to study a fascinating Coptic document on papyrus housed in the…
The Caliphal Finances project is organising a lecture series hosted by our own department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (IMES) at the University of Edinburgh, starting in…
On 13th and 14th November, the Caliphal Finances team had the immense pleasure of hosting Matthew Gordon, Emeritus Professor of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and Eugénie Rébillard, researcher…
*** The call for contributions is now closed. If you have any questions please write to caliphalfinances@ed.ac.uk. *** Exciting news! The Caliphal Finances project is inviting authors to contribute…
Recently, our postdoctoral researcher, Noëmie Lucas, spent a few days in Paris for research, visiting the BULAC library and meeting with colleagues. Every researcher knows how isolating research…