Research Seminars @ Illinois

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Timbuktu Talks lecture with Ismael M. Montana

Feb 6, 2026   2:00 pm  
Department of History
Lecture
Sponsor
Department of History
Speaker
Ismael M. Montana
Contact
Mauro Nobili
E-Mail
nobili@illinois.edu
Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

Ismael M. Montana (Northern Illinois University) will give a lecture titled "Ahmad b. al-Qāḍī al-Timbuktāwī: Pilgrimage, Intellectual Exchange, and Condemnation of the Enslaved Religion of the Blacks of Tunis." 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 (Brill, 2024). 

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