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Stringing the Necklace: Arabic Poetry as Arab History
WebinarRespondent: Bernard Haykel (Near Eastern Studies) Virtual Seminar - Open to the public. Registration required. https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kHfJdPfpRsaoCBejQRtxow(link is external) A digital copy of Arabs is available for PU ID holders here: https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/11223550(link is external)
Translating Islamic Piety with Greek Aljamiado: The case of Şânî’s Compendium
via Zoom - Registration RequiredThis talk will engage an early codex of Greek Aljamiado—i.e., Greek in the Arabic script: the Compendium of Şânî in the Greek Tongue, written in the mid-seventeenth century. Translating and adapting several Arabic and Turkish sources into rhymed Greek couplets, Şânî wrote this work for his fellow Greek-speaking Muslims, who were otherwise excluded from the […]
