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• 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

• 12.21.20

  Special Event

  AMCA Online Conversation with Hala Auji (moderated by Pamela Karimi & Elizabeth Rauh)

  Instagram

  Online, 12 pm EST

  12:00 pm

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• 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

  11.24.20

• Special Event

  Iconoclasm, Then and Now. A discussion of Aaron Tugendhaft’s The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet, with Christiane Gruber

  ANAMED, Koc University, Istanbul

  6:30 pm Istanbul | 4:30 pm Berlin | 9:30 am Chicago | 10:30 am Michigan

  11.23.20

• 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

  11.18.20

• Special Event

  Islamic Art on the Margins, A Conversation between Imran bin Tajudeen & Sana Mirza

  The Middle East and Islamic Studies Program at University of California Riverside

  Online

  5:00 pm

  11.16.20

  Sponsored by HIAA

• Lecture

  The Masonic Muhammad: Modern Franco-Iranian Visual Encounters in Prophetic Iconography, by Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan)

  Los Angeles (Online)

  Center for Near Eastern Studies, Islamic Studies, Fowler Museum at UCLA

  12:00 pm

  11.16.20

• 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

  11.11.20

• Lecture

  Reconquest of Hagia Sophia: Contested Museum, Conquered Monument, by Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir

  Online

  Temple University, Philadelphia

  11:30 am

  11.11.20

• Roundtable

  Hagia Sophia’s Conversions: Reflections on the Political, Temporal, and Aesthetic Dimensions of Heritage, with Emily Neumeier

  Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen (Online)

  RSVP email to Cziesielsky@mmg.mpg.de

  6:00 pm

  11.10.20

• Lecture

  Radical Alternatives: Temporal and Spatial Mediations in Contemporary Iranian Art, by Pamela Karimi (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)

  The Courtald Institute of Art, London

  Online (5pm, GMT)

  5:00 pm

  11.10.20

• Lecture

  In Relief and in the Round: Sculptural Works at the Mughal Court (Dr. Devangana Desai Endowment Lecture) by Asok Das

  Online

  Will air on the CSMVS Mumbai Youtube channel Sunday, 5.30 pm IST

  5:30 pm

  11.08.20

• 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

  11.04.20

• 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

  10.28.20