{"id":14374,"date":"2015-06-15T06:30:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T05:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-journals.internal\/?p=14374"},"modified":"2015-06-12T16:56:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T15:56:14","slug":"early-islamic-history-a-workshop-in-honour-of-professor-g-r-hawting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/2015\/06\/15\/early-islamic-history-a-workshop-in-honour-of-professor-g-r-hawting\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Islamic History: A Workshop in Honour of Professor G. R. Hawting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>Gerald Hawting came to SOAS in 1963 to study for an undergraduate degree in History, &#8220;with special reference to the Near and Middle East&#8221;. When he retired as Professor in the History of the Near and Middle East in 2009, he had spent almost half a century at SOAS, studying, teaching researching, and writing about the origins and early History of Islam. On Friday, April 10th, 2015, colleagues and students came together for a special workshop, &#8220;Early Islamic History in Review: A Workshop in Honour of Professor Hawting&#8221;. The workshop was organised by Dr Teresa Bernheimer (History Department, SOAS) and Professor Andrew Rippin (University of Victoria, Canada), who also co-edited a Festschrift for Professor Hawting, published as a special issue of the <em>Bulletin of SOAS<\/em> (volume 78, issue 1, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>The workshop was broadly divided into two parts: &#8220;Qur-an and sira&#8221; (biography of the Prophet Muhammad) in the morning, and &#8220;History and Historiography&#8221; after lunch. All together ten papers were read, all relating in some way to Hawting&#8217;s work (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/history\/events\/10apr2015-early-islamic-history-in-review-a-workshop-in-honour-of-gerald-hawting.html\">click here for the full workshop programme<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The day was a great success, with many fruitful discussion on the state of the field and on the importance of Hawting&#8217;s work to the study of early Islam. it also provided valuable context to the special issue of the <em>Bulletin of SOAS<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A selection of articles from the special issue are available to read for free until the end of August (<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displaySpecialArticle?jid=BSO&amp;bespokeId=12848\">Click here for direct access to the articles<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Some\u00a0pictures from the day are included below. Dr Bernheimer and Professor Rippin would like to thank the contributors to the special issue and everyone involved in making the workshop a success.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog-journals.internal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hawting-Workshop-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14462\" src=\"http:\/\/blog-journals.internal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hawting-Workshop-1-664x496.jpg\" alt=\"Hawting Workshop 1\" width=\"664\" height=\"496\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog-journals.internal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hawting-Workshop-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14463\" src=\"http:\/\/blog-journals.internal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hawting-Workshop-2-664x496.jpg\" alt=\"Hawting Workshop 2\" width=\"664\" height=\"496\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald Hawting came to SOAS in 1963 to study for an undergraduate degree in History, &#8220;with special reference to the Near and Middle East&#8221;. 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