Prof Fred Astren, of San Francisco University, has been invited to lead the first David Patterson Seminar of the new year at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
It will be held at Yarnton Manor on January 22.
He will speak on Between Muslim Triumphalism and Jewish Resistance -- Looking for Islamisation in the medieval Middle East.
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