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Book Launch
Professor Dionisius Agius: The Life of the Red Sea Dhow: A Cultural History of Seaborne Exploration in the Islamic World
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomFew images are as evocative as the silhouette of the Arab dhow as, under full sail, it tacks to windward on glittering waters of Red Sea before moving across the face of the rising or setting sun. In this authoritative new book, Dionisius A. Agius, one of the foremost scholars of Islamic material culture, offers…
Professor Alka Patel Booklaunch: Iran to India: The Shansabānīs of Afghanistan, c. 1145-1190 CE
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomDr. Bora Keskiner: Yāqūt al-Musta’simī and the Practise of Naql in Islamic Calligraphy
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomLeena Dhingra Book Launch: Exhumation – The Life and Death of Madan Lal Dhingra
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomJoin us at 6.30pm on Monday 13th December for the book launch of Leena Dhingra's Exhumation: The Life and Death of Madan Lal Dhingra. On 17th August 1909, Madan Lal Dhingra was executed in Pentonville Prison for the assassination of Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, a high-ranking official from the British India office. Viewed as a…
Book Launch – ‘Cartooning China: Punch, Power, and Politics in the Victorian Era’ By Dr Amy Matthewson
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomThursday 19th May at 6.30pm Cartooning China" Punch, Power, and Politics in the Victorian Era explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841 to 1901. This talk will give an overview of the book by taking a look at…
Dr Hannah K. Bartos Book Launch: Modern Transnational Yoga: The Transmission of Posture Practice
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomPlease join us at 6.30pm on Friday July 8th for the book launch of Modern Transnational Yoga: The Transmission of Posture Practice by Dr Hannah Bartos. When you register, please specify whether you plan to attend at the Society ‘in person’ or ‘online only’. You can register by emailing Matty Bradley at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org Free and open to…
Book Launch – Dr Jennifer Griggs (Fondazione per le scienze religiose): Medieval Mysticism in Syriac
Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomBook Launch Dr Joshua Ehrlich: The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomFree and open to all at 14 Stephenson Way, NW1 2HD To join online email Matty: mb@royalasiaticsociety.org The East India Company is remembered as the world's most powerful, not to say notorious, corporation. But for many of its advocates from the 1770s to the 1850s it was also the world's most enlightened one. Joshua…