Dadoyan to Speak at CUNY on Armenians in Medieval Islamic World

On Thurs., Oct. 13, Dr. Seta Dadoyan will give a lecture entitled “Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World” at the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC) at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. The lecture will be co-sponsored by MEMEAC and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR).

Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World (Transaction Publishers) is the first of a large three-volume work by Dadoyan. The book chronicles the Armenian experience in the medieval Islamic world and takes the reader through the paradigmatic interactions with other populations in the region. Being an Armenian, Dadoyan argues, means having an ethnic ancestry laden with narratives drawn from the vast historic Armenian habitat. Contradictory trends went into the making of Armenian history, yet most narratives fail to reflect this rich texture, which Dadoyan addresses by linking Armenian-Islamic history.