ORGANIZERS:

Yohanan Friedman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ella Tasseron-Landau, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shaul Shaked, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

This series of conferences, the first of which was held in 1980, deals with various aspects of the transition from the pre-Islamic Near East to early Islam, as well as the emergence of the political, social and cultural institutions of Islam in the early centuries of its history.