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Tarek Masoud

Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance
Harvard Kennedy School
Tarek Masoud is the Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.... Read more about Tarek Masoud
John F. Kennedy School of Government
124 Mount Auburn St. 200N-246
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: 617-496-3036
2024 May 02

"Sultan Suleiman as King Solomon and Zahir al-Umar as Ahasuerus: The Ottoman Arab Culture of Palestinian Jews, 1517-1799" by Orit Bashkin

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Room 110 (Thompson Room), Barker Center

The Center for Jewish Studies and Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program are proud to present the inaugural lecture in the Series on Jewish-Muslim Interrelations: 

Sultan Suleiman as King Solomon and Zahir al-Umar as Ahasuerus: The Ottoman Arab Culture of Palestinian Jews, 1517-1799

 

Orit Bashkin, Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of Chicago

 

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Gareth Doherty

Gareth Doherty

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Program
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Gund Hall, 302
p: 617-496-4500
2020 Oct 22

Seminar: "The Prophet as a ‘Sacred Spring’: Late Ottoman Hilye Bottles" by Christiane Gruber

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

via Zoom

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Christiane Gruber, Professor and Chair in the History of Art, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor

AbstractAlong with the Prophet’s relics, verbal icons of Muhammad known as hilyes count among the most popular forms of devotional art during the late Ottoman period. While manuscript paintings and compositions...

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