Middle East Events
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/2/2023Illini Union, Second floor Author's corner -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/7/2023This talk will discuss the significance of Haydar Amuli’s (d. 790/1388) most important work, Jami’ al-asrar. Amuli was the most important medieval heir to the teachings of Ibn ‘Arabi and as a Twelver Shi'a, he recast Ibn 'Arabi's doctrines into a wider Shi'i cosmological framework.
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12:00 - 1:30 pm 3/30/2023306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St., Champaign, IL-61820Allison Lide has worked as a Montessori teacher in the US, Afghanistan, Morocco, and Austria. Her focus is on "restorative pedagogy" with children who have been through trauma. She co-founded the Garden of Flowers Montessori Preschool in Kabul in 2002 and is working on a book about the transformative process of implementing Montessori education in Afghanistan.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/31/2023306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign, IL-61820This lecture debates upon the definition and function of the term, ‘identity’ and ‘culture’ leading to the argument that identity encapsulates difference while culture is a phenomenon by which decolonization occurs. The later part of the presentation reads a few select South Asian works to reveal the nature of identity and culture and the multiple levels at which it exists
