Laura Menin: Quest for Love in Central Morocco (29/04/25)

Middle East Studies Research Seminar Series

with Laura Menin (University of Sussex)

Quest for Love in Central Morocco: Young Women and the Dynamics of Intimate Lives (book presentation)

 

29 April 2025 (16.00-18.00) – Room 1.2, Faculty of Arts, Rozier 44, 9000 Gent

contact: middleeast@ugent.be

Fokkelien Kootstra: AlUla Inscriptions Analysis Project (18/03/25)

Middle East Studies Research Seminar Series

with Fokkelien Kootstra

AlUla Inscriptions Analysis Project(AICAP): Preliminary Findings of the 2024 Field Season

 

18 March 2025 (16.00-18.00) – Room 1.2, Faculty of Arts, Rozier 44, 9000 Gent

contact: middleeast@ugent.be

 

 

 

Nir Shafir (UC San Diego) – The Order and Disorder of Communication in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (12/12/24)

Middle East Studies Research Seminar Series

with Prof. Dr. Nir Shafir (UC – San Diego)

In the seventeenth century, Muslims in the Ottoman Empire became embroiled in a polarizing cultural war over the permissibility of everyday practices like worshipping at saints’ graves, smoking tobacco, and an odd medical procedure called “chickpea cauterization.” This talk traces this widespread religious and political polarization to the rise of a new “communication order,” focusing, in particular, on the advent of “pamphlets”: short, mobile, and polemical tracts, all copied by hand. The talk paints a new picture of the entire ecosystem of books in the manuscript culture of the early modern Ottoman Empire and how it fell into supposed disorder as middling readers stoked polemics, falsified authorship, and fashioned new reading publics.

 

12 December 2024 (16.00-18.00) – Room 1.2, Faculty of Arts, Rozier 44, 9000 Gent

contact: middleeast@ugent.be

 

 

 

Mohamed Maslouh: The curious Case of Printed Rifāʿī Literature (14/11/24)

Middle East Studies Research Seminar Series

with Mohamed Maslouh  (Ghent University)

The curious Case of Printed Rifāʿī Literature: the construction of the Rifāʿiyya’s Image Between Print and Manuscript Tradition

 

14 November 2024 (16.00-18.00) – Room 1.2, Faculty of Arts, Rozier 44, 9000 Gent

contact: middleeast@ugent.be

 

 

 

Aymon Kreil: The Common Language of the Human Heart (24/10/24)

Middle East Studies Research Seminar Series

with Aymon Kreil (Ghent University)

‘The Common Language of the Human Heart’: Forms as Universals in Hassan Massoudy’s Calligraphy

 

24 October 2024 (16.00-18.00) – Room 1.2, Faculty of Arts, Rozier 44, 9000 Gent

contact: middleeast@ugent.be