Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Salahaldini Abdourhamane, Poetry In Praise of The Prophet: Bilingual Manuscripts and Their Performance in Timbuktu

Event Type

Lecture

Sponsor

Center for the Study of Manuscript Cultures University of Hamburg Germany, Center of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Center for African Studies

Location

306 Coble Hall 801 S. Wright St. Champaign IL 61820

Date

Nov 14, 2024   4:00 - 5:00 pm  

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CSAMES events

The talk focuses on the performance of devotional poetry in Arabic and Songhay during the festival of Prophet Muhammad's Birth in Timbuktu, Mali.