Stories about "Ali Akhtar"
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Bates announces eight faculty promotions, including tenure, for 2018–19
Friday, August 10, 2018 8:00 am
The faculty promotions offer "outstanding examples of the consequential scholarship and creative work going on at Bates," says Dean of the Faculty Malcolm Hill.
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Why the sultans read Socrates
Friday, February 16, 2018 1:14 pm
Ali Akhtar's first book explores how medieval caliphates were ruled, and how ancient thought influenced the rulers and their people.
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Bates College lectures to explore intersections of religion, trade, culture in Mediterranean
Friday, November 8, 2013 3:34 pm
The Bates College lecture series "Byzantium and Islam: Art, Poetry and Sound at the Crossroads of the Mediterranean Sea" resumes Nov. 14.
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Ali Humayun Akhtar, assistant professor of religious studies and of classical and medieval studies
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:40 am
Ali Humayun Akhtar studies the complex interactions among political, religious and intellectual establishments in Europe and the Islamic world in medieval and early modern times.
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Bates announces new tenure-track faculty teaching in autumn 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:29 am
Six new tenure-track members of the faculty began teaching at Bates in autumn 2012, representing dance, economics, German, neuroscience and psychology, religious studies, and classical and medieval studies.