Conference Presentations by Ruslan Pavlyshyn
This conference will be held online on Zoom by the Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Society of... more This conference will be held online on Zoom by the Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Society of the University of Edinburgh on November 4 th to 6 th 2021. The theme of this year's conference is 'Sites of Encounter and Cultural Exchange', focusing on the history of cultural exchange and the spacesbe they physical, textual, or imaginedwhere interpersonal and intercultural contact occurs. This conference aims to bring together these multifarious 'sites of encounter' in order to gain a more complex understanding of the Mediterranean and West Asia in the period between 500 and 1500 C.E.
Translations by Ruslan Pavlyshyn
Nouvelles Chroniques du manuscrit au Yémen, 2021
This article investigates the evolution of political systems in North-Eastern Yemen in the course... more This article investigates the evolution of political systems in North-Eastern Yemen in the course of the last two millennia. By examining the main shifts of political power and their structural elements, it describes a typology of socio-political and economic formation that was particular to the Yemeni Highlands and that has been designated as ‘multi-polity’. The study concludes that a North Yemeni type of tribe is a non-primitive and highly developed political structure, which may be considered in some respects as an alternative to state organization.
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Conference Presentations by Ruslan Pavlyshyn
Translations by Ruslan Pavlyshyn