Stories to Connect Session 1

SESSION 1: AT THE INTERSECTION OF LITERATURE AND HISTORY I
Session Chair: Edmund Herzig
Enass Khansa (Beirut): Adaptations of Alf layla’s “Qiṣṣat Sayf al-Mulūk” in an Anonymous Escorial Manuscript
Julia Bray (Oxford): Hārūn and the Barmakids in Kitāb al-Aghānī and al-Faraj baʿd al shidda: the beginnings of a legend?
Arezou Azad (Oxford/Inalco-Paris): Persian stories on the Barmakids in Bodleian manuscript Ouseley 217: the Barmakids as models for Islamicate adminisitration?
Respondent: Teresa Witcombe (Oxford)