Luckyn-Malone

Research Topic: Creating agricultural knowledge in al-Andalus: the cognitive and social processes underlying the evolution of the discipline. 2010: Borders and Gates or Open Spaces? Knowledge Cultures in the Mediterranean during the 14th and 15th Centuries - Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, December 17-19 2010: Mediterrneos Conference CCHS-CSIC, Ma... drid, December 13-15 I spent several years working on the emergence of Sufism in the central Islamic world, culminating in my MPhil dissertation. My research focused on Abu l-Husayn al-Nuri, a close companion of Junayd, and how his life had been portrayed in the Arabic biographical dictionaries. Luckyn-Malone, P. (2008). Abu l-Husayn al-Nuri (d. 295/907): His Portrayal in the Arabic Biographical Tradition. MPhil dissertation, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge. (Unpublished) Through my work at the Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in Cambridge, I joined a small team aiming to establish an international organization dedicated to Islamic manuscripts.Read More