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- H-ISLAMART: Publication - Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings  Ekhtiar, Maryam <maryam.ekhtiar@metmuseum.org> - H-ISLAMART: Lecture - Constructing the Imperial Image: Fath Ê¿Ali Shah’s Portraits and Early Qajar Politics, Francesca Leoni, 12 June  "Graves, Margaret Susanna" <marggrav@INDIANA.EDU> - H-ISLAMART: Meisterwerke aus dem Serail: Die Klebealben des Heinrich Friedrich von Diez, Museum für Islamische Kunst  Sammelkonto, ISL <isl@smb.museum> - H-ISLAMART: Broadcast - Genizah Research Unit on BBC Radio 3's The Essay  "Graves, Margaret Susanna" <marggrav@INDIANA.EDU> - H-ISLAMART: CFP - Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME), “Ritual and Local Traditions of Funerary in Islam: Historical and Contemporary Issues.”  F. Shirazi <fshirazi@uts.cc.utexas.edu> - H-ISLAMART: CFP reminder, 8th SOAS Conference on the Qur'an - deadline 1 June  "Graves, Margaret Susanna" <marggrav@INDIANA.EDU> - H-ISLAMART: Exhibition - Flora Islamica at the David Collection, Copenhagen  Kjeld v.Folsach <K.Folsach@davidmus.dk>