BOOKTALKInsecurities of Expulsion: Afro-Asian Entanglements in Transcontinental Uganda The talk explores the complex Afro-South Asian connections and politics in the post-colonial period.
Ideas concerning the structure, shape and configuration of the cosmos feature in some of the earliest extant written works of the Arabo-Islamic tradition, including the Qurʾān commentary of Muqātil b. Sulaymān (d. 150/767) and the biography of the Prophet of Ibn Isḥāq (d. 150/767).
This talk follows the lives of social outcasts and marginalized Black people who lived and moved across Southern Arabia in the first half of the twentieth century using deportation records, petitions, and criminal cases.
The Bene Israel are a Jewish community from western India who, over centuries, developed a distinctive identity in relation to other Jewish and nonJewish communities, translating their sounds, words, and practices to have uniquely Marathi Jewish meanings.
Ideas concerning women’s literary expression and cultural memory emerge from a rich yet often overlooked archive preserved in the nineteenth-century Urdu biographical compendia known as tazkira-i zenana.
