Sicília islâmica medieval - Palestra com Nuha Alshaar

Na quinta-feira dia 28 de novembro de 2024, às 18h (horário de Portugal continental), decorre online a sessão do Seminário Permanente de Estudos Islâmicos dedicada ao tema:

Islamic Sicily: the Fatimids and a multicultural legacy

Palestra com Nuha Alshaar (Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, The Institute of Ismaili Studies)

A palestra será dada em inglês online - The lecture will be given online in English

Resumo

The Islamic legacy in Sicily represents a major epoch and an integral part of its cultural and architectural landscape. Many studies that have assessed the rich Muslim contribution have examined this period through the lens of ‘Arabo-Norman’ construct, which tends to privilege the Norman component. However, scholars have recently highlighted the need to explore the rich heritage of the Islamic period in Sicily in its own right at greater depth. This paper aims to engage with the works of scholars including Alex Metcalfe, Anneliese Nef, Mirella Cassarino, Jeremy Johns, and Leonardo Chiarelli inter alia and analyze the different ways in which Islamic legacy has been discussed by these authors. The aim is to go beyond the ‘Arabo-Norman construct,’ and put forward a methodological framework that gives more space to the island’s Arabic and Islamic history in order to expand our knowledge of Sicily’s Islamic past. The various aspects of the intellectual activities that took place during the rule of the Fāṭimids of Ifrīqiya (909–965) and their Kalbid allies (948–1053) in Sicily will be explored. The paper will also touch on the continuation of this legacy as well as the infiltration of Arabo-Islamic philosophical themes at the court of Frederick II (r. 1220–50) in Palermo. This approach in the study of Muslim Sicily will show the long- and short-term impacts of Arab-Muslim traditions in Sicily and their role in the production of knowledge on the island. It will also allow for a better understanding of why Sicily was a cultural hub that competed with major intellectual centres of the time, such as Qayrawān and al-Andalus, in the transmission of ideas from East to West.

A palestra será dada em inglês online - The lecture will be given online in English

A oradora

Nuha Alshaar, ( Phd University of Cambridge), Professor of Arabic and Islamic studies. She has been teaching at the American University of Sharjah, The University of Lisbon and the Institute of Ismaili Studies. Nuha focuses on Islamic intellectual history, ethics, political thought, the Qur’an and ethics, the philosophy of religion, and classical literary traditions (adab). She is the author of Ethics in Islam: Friendship in the Political Thought of Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī and his Contemporaries (Routledge 2015). With Wilfred Madelung, Carmela Baffioni, and Cyril Uy, she co-authored On God and the world: An Arabic critical edition and English translation of Epistles 49-51 (Oxford University Press, 2019). She is also the editor of The Qur’ᾱn and Adab: The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam (Oxford University Press in Association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2017).

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O Seminário Permanente de Estudos Islâmicos decorre no contexto da Linha de Investigação Herança e Espiritualidade Islâmica da Área de Ciência das Religiões da Universidade Lusófona e está associado às atividades do novo centro de investigação LusoGlobe da Universidade Lusófona, contando, além disso, com as parcerias da Fundação Islâmica de Palmela e da MIAS-Latina.

Coord. Fabrizio Boscaglia: fabrizio.boscaglia@ulusofona.pt