21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies

London 21-26 August 2006

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Writing 'True Stories'

Muriel Debie, Arietta Papaconstantinou

14.00 22/08/2006

Andre Binggeli Converting the Caliph: eschatological expectations in Christian hagiography and historiography during Early Islam
Stephen Davis Variations on an Egyptian female martyr legend: history, hagiography, and the gendered politics of Medieval Arab religious identity
Derek Krueger Early Byzantine historiography and hagiography as different modes of Christian practice
Joel Walker A saint and his hagiographer in late antique Iraq: St George of Izla and Babai the Great ( C;628 C.E.)
Nancy Khalek Hagiographical 'topoi' in an early Islamic conquest narrative: the Futuh al-Sham of Al-Azdi
Thomas Sizgorich 'Become infidels or we will throw you into the fire': the martyrs of Najran in early Muslim historiography, hagiography and Qur'anic exegesis
Catherine Cubitt (respondent)
Hugh Kennedy (respondent)