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Mushegh Asatryan was awarded the Graduate Student Paper Prize by the Middle East Medievalists Association

Mushegh Asatryan was awarded the Graduate Student Paper Prize by the Middle East Medievalists Association

| March 30, 2012

Mushegh Asatryan (Religious Studies, Yale University, USA) was awarded the Graduate Student Paper Prize by the Middle East Medievalists Association for his essay “Bankers and Politics: Eighth Century Kufan Moneychangers and Their Role in the Shi`a Community,” which he presented at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Mushegh is the first [...]

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LECTURE – Divine Man or Man of God? by Professor Mushegh Asatryan, Trinity College, USA

LECTURE – Divine Man or Man of God? by Professor Mushegh Asatryan, Trinity College, USA

| November 10, 2011

Department of Language and Culture Studies Trinity College presents Professor Mushegh Asatryan Visiting Lecturer, Trinity College “Divine Man or Man of God? Early Islamic Sources on the Idea of the Divinity of the Imams.” Monday, November 14, 2011 4:15PM Rittenberg Lounge Mushegh Asatryan is a visiting Lecturer in Language and Culture Studies at Trinity College. [...]

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Mushegh Asatryan at Conferences in USA

Mushegh Asatryan at Conferences in USA

| April 30, 2010

In March 2010, Mushegh Asatryan, a Doctoral Candidate in Religious Studies at Yale University, working on a dissertation about early Shi’ite extremism, participated in the 220th Annual Conference of the “American Oriental Society” in St. Louis. He presented a paper titled “Who were the Mufaddaliyya? A Study of an Extreme Shi’ite Sect”. In October 2010, [...]

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