Upcoming and Ongoing Events

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

Past events

Workshop

The Maqamat Tradition and the Pre-Modern Roots of Arab Modernism, a workshop at Silsila, NYU

New York University, 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

New York
6:30 pm
04.10.20
Workshop

CITIES WORKSHOP 4: SHIRAZ at Silsila: Center for Material Histories, NYU

4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

New York
9:30 am
12.06.19
Workshop

Writing as Intermediary. Text-Image Relations in Early Modern Islamic Cultures, Islamic Art and Archaeology, University of Bamberg, 10th to 12th October, 2019.

Universität Bamberg

Bamberg

10.10–10.12.19

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