events
2025
The Manichean, the Ismāʿīlī and the Scott: “Bilawhar wa-Būdhāsaf” from “Kitāb al-Budd” to “Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ”
Kirill Dmitriev
Conference paper
13 September 2025 – 14:20
AGYA International Workshop
Beyond Eurocentrism and Arabocentrism:
Race, Ethnicity, and Knowledge Production in the Arabo-Islamic ‘Golden Age’
12–13 September 2025
Aberdeen, Scotland
2024
Vom indischen Buddha zum europäischen Josaphat: Arabische Quellen des Romans
Barlaam und Josaphat
From India to the Arab world and back to India: Kitāb Bilawhar wa-Būḏāsaf and its transmission in Arabic sources
Kirill Dmitriev
Lecture
Sheikh Zayed Chair of Arabic & Islamic Studies
21 May 2024 – 16:00
College Hall / B1
2023
Kitāb Bilawhar wa-Būḏāsaf and early Arabic book printing:
Ms. 1633 of the Hamdani collection revisited
Kirill Dmitriev
Presentation
Freie Universität Berlin: Forschungskolloquium des Seminars für Semitistik und Arabistik
7 December 2023 – 12:00
Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Barlaam and Josaphat in Arabic Sources
Kirill Dmitriev
Presentation
25 March 2023 – 11:00
The Burn, Scotland, UK
2022
Body Image and Identity in the Arabic Versions of the Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat
Kirill Dmitriev
Presentation at the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants Congress
Utrecht, The Netherlands
7 July 2022 – 14:00–15:30
2021
Kirill Dmitriev
Public lecture at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
11 May 2021 – 16:00
Kirill Dmitriev
Public lecture at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
11 May 2021 – 16:00
Kirill Dmitriev
New Research on the Pre-Modern Middle East
Webinar of the Centre for Anatolian and East Mediterranean Studies
University of St Andrews
26 March 2021 16:00 – 18:00
2020
Kirill Dmitriev
Forschungskolloquium des Orientalischen Instituts Leipzig
01 December 2020 15:30 – 17:00
2019
Secrecy as a Narrative Strategy in the Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany, 26 July 2019
The Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat in Arabic Literature
Tbilisi State University, 11 June 2019
The Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat in Arabic literature. An outline of a new research project.
University of St Andrews, UK, 24 May 2019
2017
‘Buddha: The Story of a Christian-Muslim Saint’
Meteora, Greece, 20 – 23 July 2017