Dr. Paula Manstetten
Dr. Paula Manstetten defended succesfully her dissertation entitled Ibn ʿAsākir’s History of Damascus and the Institutionalisation of Education in the Medieval Islamic World before examiners Dr Yossef Rapoport (Queen Mary, University of London), and Dr Andrew Marsham (Queens’ College, University of Cambridge), supervisors Prof Hugh Kennedy (SOAS, University of London) and Prof Konrad Hirschler (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
The defence took place at SOAS, University of London, on December 14th, 2018.