Summer Term 2012 Programme
In the Lecture Room - All welcome

 

Thursday 3 May, 6.15 - 7.45 p.m.
Jan Loop (The Warburg Institute), Islam and the Enlightenment. An introduction.

Wednesday 9 May, 4.15 - 5.45 p.m.
Rolando Minuti (Florence), Islam in Montesquieu’s writings and thought.

Monday 14 May, 4.15 - 5.45 p.m.
Jonathan Israel (Princeton), An Islamic Radical Enlightenment? The Philosophes and their perceptions of the Arabic world.

Thursday 17 May, 6.15 - 7.45 p.m.
Maurits van den Boogert (Leiden), Sir James Porter (1710–1776) and his 'Observations on the Religion, Law, Government, and Manners of the Turks' (1768)

Tuesday 29 May, 6.15 - 7.45 p.m.
Simon Mills (Cambridge), Joseph White (1745-1814) and Arabic Studies in eighteenth-century England.