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• 10.28.20

  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

• 11.04.20

  Lecture

  "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

• 11.11.20

  Lecture

  "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

• 11.18.20

  Lecture

  "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

• 11.24.20

  Lecture

  "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

• 12.01.20

  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

• 12.02.20

  Lecture

  "GOLD WORK: TECHNIQUES AND EXCHANGE ACROSS THE SAHARA" Sarah Guérin, University of Pennsylvania

  Online (from New York City)

  Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

  12:30 pm

• 12.09.20

  Lecture

  "AFRICA IN THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD - THE PROBLEM OF MARGINS IN ART HISTORY" Prita Meier, NYU

  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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  "TRANS-SAHARAN SLAVERY AND GNAWA GUINBRI: FROM CONCEALMENT TO EXHIBITION" Cynthia Becker, Boston University

  Online (from New York City)

  Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

  12:30 pm

  10.22.20

• Seminar

  Al Waleed bin Talal Seminar--"The Prophet as a ‘Sacred Spring’: Late Ottoman Hilye Bottles" by Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan)

  Cambridge, MA

  via Zoom, RSVP required

  4:00 pm

  10.22.20

• Lecture

  "RELATIONS BETWEEN THE MAGHREB AND THE BILĀD AL-SŪDĀN AT THE TIME OF THE BERBER EMPIRES" Mehdi Ghouirgate, Bordeaux-Montaigne University

  Online (from New York City)

  Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

  12:30 pm

  10.20.20

• Lecture

  "THE PALACE OF KING NJOYA - COLONIALISM, MODERNITY, AND ISLAM" Mark DeLancey, DePaul University

  Online (from New York City)

  Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

  12:30 pm

  10.14.20

• Special Event

  Virtual Research Panel, "Rethinking Turquerie: New Definitions and Approaches"

  Online, https://www.asecs2020.org/virtual-sessions

  American Society for 18th Century Studies, 10 am EDT

  10:00 am

  10.13.20

• Lecture

  "BROKER STATES & THE ARTICULATION OF MEDIEVAL AFRICA WITH THE ISLAMIC WORLD" François-Xavier Fauvelle, Collège de France

  Online (from New York City)

  Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

  12:30 pm

  10.07.20

• Lecture

  "ITEMS OF VALUE IN THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN" Stephanie Wynne-Jones, University of York

  Online (from New York City)

  Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

  12:30 pm

  09.30.20

• Conference

  Art History, Postcolonialism, and the Global Turn

  Online

  09.25–10.23.20

• Lecture

  "CONTINUITIES AND CROSSINGS - EAST AFRICAN ILLUMINATED QUR'ANS FROM FAZA AND SIYU" Zulfikar Hirji, York University, Toronto

  Online (from New York City)

  Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

  12:30 pm

  09.23.20

• Lecture

  "SWAHILI MOSQUES BETWEEN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN" Stéphane Pradines, Aga Khan University, London

  Online (from New York City)

  Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

  12:30 pm

  09.16.20

• Lecture

  "THE LOST ARCHIVE: TRACES OF A CALIPHATE IN A CAIRO SYNAGOGUE" Marina Rustow, Princeton University

  Online (from New York City)

  Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

  12:30 pm

  09.09.20

• Lecture

  Architects & Astrolabes: Islamic Art & Science in Medici Florence, with Dr Glaire Anderson, Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art, University of Edinburgh

  Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House (first floor, room 108)

  Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG

  7:00 pm

  06.10.20