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The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University is pleased to present:
TUNISIA NEWSREEL 2023 – NOTES FROM THE GROUND
Doing Research in Tunisia: The Kairouan Collection and its Importance for Modern Islamic Studies
A presentation by
Conor Dube
Ph.D. Candidate in the Histories and Cultures of Muslim Societies,
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department, Harvard University
Thursday, March 30, 2023
3:00-4:00 PM (Tunis) - 10:00-11:00 PM (Boston)
This event will be held online.
Register in Advance to this webinar here:
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uIY1Av5WT0GnDv4cB9OkAw
Conor Dube is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, where his dissertation research focuses on the early history of Qurʾānic interpretation in the Islamic West. His other interests include the movement of Islamic scholars and scholarship and the growth of Islam in a late antique context. He holds a master’s degree in religious studies from New York University and a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University.
About the talk:
The manuscripts housed today at the National Laboratory for the Preservation and Conservation of Parchment and Manuscripts in Raqqada, Tunisia, originally discovered in the Great Mosque of Kairouan, form one of the most important surviving collections for understanding the growth of Islamic knowledge in its initial centuries. This talk will introduce the collection and its history, with a particular focus on the importance of the Kairouan manuscripts for understanding the rise of Qurʾānic studies in early Islamic North Africa. The lecture will also discuss the research process and the place of the Kairouan collection in modern scholarship.
