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Michael Payne
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
7th-13th Centuries
Arabic
Middle East/Near East Studies
Medieval
Islamic Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iraq
Iran
Arabian Peninsula
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Syriac (advanced)
Persian (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2020 | Religious Studies | Brown University
MA | 2014 | CMES | University of Chicago
BA | 2011 | NELC | University of Chicago
Abstracts
Atoning for Karbala: Sacrifice, Ritual, and Memory in the Martyrdom of al-Husayn Zandaqa, Race, and the Reactionary Politics of al-Jahiz Poets and Other Animals in the Race-Making of al-Jahiz Translating Race in the Medieval Middle East: Graeco-Arabic Conceptions of Human Difference and Their Diffusion