Timbuktu Talks: Ahmad b. al-Qāḍī al-Timbuktāwī: Pilgrimage, Intellectual Exchange, and Condemnation of the Enslaved Religion of the Blacks of Tunis
- Sponsor
- Department of History
- Speaker
- Ismael M. Montana
- Contact
- Mauro Nobili
- nobili@illinois.edu
- Originating Calendar
- History Department Public Events
Please join us for an event in the Timbuktu Talks series with Ismael M. Montana (Northern Illinois University) titled "Ahmad b. al-Qāḍī al-Timbuktāwī: Pilgrimage, Intellectual Exchange, and Condemnation of the Enslaved Religion of the Blacks of Tunis."
This will be a hybrid event.
His talk will draw on his recently published book, Blacks of Tunis in al-Timbuktāwī’s Hatk al-Sitr: A West African Jihadist’s Perspective on Bori, Religious Deviance, and Race and Enslavement in Ottoman Tunisia, with Translation and Critical Annotation (Brill, 2024). The book offers the first complete English translation of Hatk al-Sitr and analyzes the interplay of indigenous African religious practices, jihad, and the questions of race and enslavement within the broader context of the African diaspora in the Islamic world.About the Speaker:
Ismael M. Montana, Ph.D. (2007), is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University and a historian of slavery in Ottoman Tunisia and the western Mediterranean world. He is the author of The Abolition of Slavery in Ottoman Tunisia (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013) and co-editor of Slavery, Islam, and Diaspora (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2009). His most recent book is Blacks of Tunis in al-Timbuktāwī’s Hatk al-Sitr: A West African Jihadist’s Perspective on Bori, Religious Deviance, and Race and Enslavement in Ottoman Tunisia, with Translation and Critical Annotation (Brill, January 2024).