BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6064-0deb9743cb58392513887d16ae6abf57@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260711T020530Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T114500 SUMMARY:Faculty Scholars in Residence Lecture Series: Jyoti Balachandran DESCRIPTION:\nConstructing the Self: Insights from an Early Modern Musli m Intellectual'\;s Notebook\n\nQutb al-Din Muhammad al-Nahrawali al-M akki(d. 1582)\, a Muslim intellectual from Gujarat\, India\, rose in the ranks of his scholarly community to become the pre-eminent jurist in Me cca. For several decades of his life in Mecca\, he carried with him a da ftar or notebook in which he kept an account of several of his journeys to Medina\, Cairo and Istanbul\, jotted down recollections\, poetry\, ex cerpts from other books\, and included material on a variety of other su bjects. This talk is a preliminary foray into what al-Nahrawali'\;s n otebook reveals about the author\, his friendships\, his rivalries and h is place in the elite community of Mecca\, al-Nahrawali'\;s adopted h ome. It will show that underlying the random assortment of notes is a co mmentary on the complicated nature of belonging and identity in the earl y modern Muslim scholarly world.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la. psu.edu/event/faculty_scholars_in_residence_lecture_series_judith_sierra -rivera_6685/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Constructing the Self: Insights from an Early Modern Muslim Intellectual's Noteb ook

Qutb al-Din Muhammad al-Nahrawali al-Makki(d. 1582), a Mus lim intellectual from Gujarat, India, rose in the ranks of his scholarly community to become the pre-eminent jurist in Mecca. For several decade s of his life in Mecca, he carried with him a daftar or notebook in which he kept an account of several of his journeys to Medina, Cairo and Istanbul, jotted down recollections, poetry, excerpts from other boo ks, and included material on a variety of other subjects. This talk is a preliminary foray into what al-Nahrawali's notebook reveals about t he author, his friendships, his rivalries and his place in the elite com munity of Mecca, al-Nahrawali's adopted home. It will show that unde rlying the random assortment of notes is a commentary on the complicated nature of belonging and identity in the early modern Muslim scholarly w orld.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/faculty_scholars_in_residence_lecture_se ries_judith_sierra-rivera_6685/

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