Categories : Field-specific (academic)

WEBINAR

TO COMMEMORATE THE MARTYRDOM OF IMAM ALI (a.s.)

SUNDAY 24th APRIL 2022

2:00 PM UK / 9.00 AM EST / 6.00 PM PAKISTAN / 6.30 PM MUMBAI

TO BE HOSTED ON ZOOM

MEETING ID: 853 7235 2626

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85372352626

Chair: Professor Justin Jones
Speakers:
Gulamabbas Lakha, ‘Building Back Better: Imām ʿAlī’s (as) Teachings on Resilience’
Dr. Mohammad Faghfoory, ‘“I Am the City of Knowledge and Ali is its Gate”: Ali ibn Abi Talib and Realization of the Prophetic Hadith’

ORGANISER & SPONSOR: THE AHMED FAMILY

‘Ottoman Archival Documents on the Shrines of Karbala, Najaf, and the Hejaz (1660s-1720s): Endowment Wars, the Spoils System, and Iranian Pilgrims’
Selim Güngörürler
JESHO, 64/2021, 897-1032

This study introduces and publishes an array of Ottoman archival documents on the shrines of Ahl al-Bayt imams in Iraq, the endowments dedicated to these shrines, and the Shiite-Iranian pilgrims visiting these sites as well as the Kaaba and the shrine of Muhammad in the Hejaz. Focusing on the later seventeenth and the early eighteenth centuries, it discusses the political-economic function of Islamic endowments, interconfessional contacts resulting from pilgrimage by Shiites in Sunni territory, and the potential use of Ottoman archives to enrich our knowledge on trans-Ottoman themes.