Caliphate: The Surprising Afterlives of a Medieval Institution
Description or Abstract
As part of the Qahwa and Kalam series, Lennart Sundelin, professor of Middle East history in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations, delivered a talk titled Caliphate: The Surprising Afterlives of a Medieval Institution. The lecture briefly surveyed the origins and evolution of the medieval Caliphate and then turn to how the idea, memory and symbolism of the Caliphate have been used in varied places and times
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