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Many thanks to all of the participants for our ‘AfterLives of Urban Muslim Asia‘ workshop, held yesterday (23rd May) at Darwin College, Cambridge. Some fascinating papers and great discussions.
We have three new videos for you on our videos and podcasts’ page; Public talks from Melissa Gatter and from Sadek Hamid – and the first in our new season of ‘From Konkan to Coromandel’ with Holly Shaffer.
The Centre of Islamic Studies is seeking to appoint a Research and Outreach Associate, to begin in October 2023. The post is a three-year, fixed-term position. Apply online
Drawn from archival research conducted in Yıldız’s imperial library, The Accidental Palace provides important insights into a decisive moment in the palace’s architectural and landscape history and demonstrates how Yıldız was inextricably tied to ideas of sovereignty, visibility, taste, and self-fashioning. It will appeal to specialists in the art, architecture, politics, and culture of nineteenth-century Turkey and the Ottoman Empire.
You can find The Accidental Palace: The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul on the Penn State University Press web site at this URL: https://www.psupress.org/
Take 30% off with code NR23 when you order through psupress.org
If you want to look back over the past year’s varied events then all of the 2020-21 CIS event videos are available on our ‘videos and podcasts’ page.
About the Centre
The Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge is a research and outreach centre that aims to promote a constructive and critical understanding of the role of Islam and Muslims in wider society. One important focus of our work is Muslims in the UK and Europe, although we are also interested in Islam and Muslim communities in other parts of the world. We aspire, through rigorous research and dynamic public outreach, to disseminate knowledge and facilitate informed discussion between academics, policy-makers, the media, business and the public with an interest in Islam in the contemporary world.
The Centre of Islamic Studies is part of the University of Cambridge and is supported by a generous donation from Alwaleed Philanthropies.
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