National Resource Centers
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
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Abstract: Of the many beautiful objects associated with Madinat al-Zahra and the Cordoban Umayyad caliphate, perhaps none are as celebrated as a series of ivory pyxides and caskets produced for members of the royal family. Several of them were made for royal mothers, formerly enslaved concubines who earned their freedom by bearing the caliph's children. Caliphal concubines
Thursday, March 27, 2025
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Directors: Sarah Ema Friedland, Rami Younis It is a story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world - what it once was, what it is now, and what it could have become. A discussion by Professor Laura Goffman, Department of History at the Univesity of Illinois followed this.
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The book explores how the centrality of sonic practices and experiences within Islamic traditions stems largely from the orality of the Qur’an and the importance of recitation, while arguing that sound can provide a productive point of entry to human cultures in general.
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a 2024 political drama film written, co-produced and directed by Mohammad Rasoulof. Its plot centers on Iman, an investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, who grapples with paranoia as nationwide political protests due to the death of a young woman intensify and his gun mysteriously disappears.
