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Sharon Silzell
University of Arkansas at Monticello
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Medieval
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Specialties
The History Of The Arab Book
The Transmission Of Knowledge
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2015 | History | University of Texas at Austin
MA | 2011 | History | University of Texas at Austin
BA | 2007 | History | Colorado Mesa University
Abstracts
Mihna and Mushaf: Caliphal Power and the Written Qur'an Hafsa and al-Mushaf: Women and the Written Qur’an in the Early Centuries of Islam Sanctity and Sacrilege: Qur’an Codices in the Twelfth-Century Material Landscape Blood on the Text: The Mushaf and the Construction of the Sacred Reading an “Unreadable” Book: Kufic Qur’ans and the Articulation of Islam People and the Books: Cross-cultural Exchange in Early Islamic Qur’an Production