The Sliver of the Oxus Borderland: Medieval Cultural Encounters between the Arabs and Persians

Speaker: Dr Manu P. Sobti, Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Chair: Dr Arup Banerji, Associate Professor of History, University of Delhi

A talk on a unique borderland condition on the Silk Road on the Oxus river, combining fieldwork with close reading of archival sources from across the Russian Federation, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, to unravel how conflict, reconciliation and interaction between medieval Arab and Persian communities created distinct urban forms along this geographically significant and politically critical divide