Akbar Crosses the Ganges on an Elephant, Folio from an Akbarnama
Jagan, Nand, Gwaliari. ca. 1590-95. India.
Victoria & Albert Museum, IS.2:58-1896
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Upcoming HIAA Symposia
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2021 Biennial SymposiumRegime Change
- University of Michigan
- Ann Arbor
- 04.15–04.17.21
Call for Papers submission deadline is 12.01.19. Learn more
Upcoming events
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Lecture
"THE TARIKH AL-FATTASH AND THE MAKING OF THE CALIPHATE OF HAMDALLAHI" Mauro Nobili, University of Illinois
Online (from New York City)
Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories
12:30 pm
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"BECOMING MUSLIM. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ISLAMISATION AND TRADE IN EASTERN ETHIOPIA" Timothy Insoll, University of Exeter
Online (from New York City)
Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories
12:30 pm
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"DETERMINANT INDETERMINACIES - ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF A SENEGALESE SUFI SAINT" Allen F. Roberts, UCLA
Online (from New York City)
Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories
12:30 pm
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"PAPERS OF ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS AS GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATORS" Anne Regourd, CNRS, Paris
Online (from New York City)
Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories
12:30 pm
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"TIMBUKTU, THE SCHOLAR, AND RULERS: AḤMAD BĀBĀ TINBUKTI'S JALB AL-NI'MA WA DAF' AL-NIQMA BI MUJĀNABAT AL-WULĀT AL-ẒALAMA (HOW TO OBTAIN BLESSING AND AVOID DIVINE ANGER BY AVOIDING UNJUST RULERS)" Shamil Jeppie, University of Cape Town
Online (from New York City)
Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories
12:30 pm
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Seminar
Al Waleed bin Talal Seminar--"Competing with the Saints: Dynastic Burial Practices and Cults in the Medieval Western Maghrib" by Amira Bennison (University of Cambridge)
Cambridge, MA
via Zoom, RSVP required
3:00 pm
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