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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: Columbus the Muslim
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Columbus lived the vast majority of his life in a Mediterranean world in which the Ottoman and Mamluk Empires dominated the eastern part of the sea and were in constant economic\, political\, and confrontational interaction with the Christian states of Europe. This talk considers the importance of Islam in shaping Columbus's life and voyages. In doing so\, it thinks critically about the role of Islam in the Spanish decision to send him across the ocean and in the early history of the Spanish Caribbean. It furthermore uses this Muslim history of Columbus to suggest ways of analyzing early modern periodization and the place of Islam in the making of the modern world.\n\nAlan Mikhail is professor of history at Yale University.  He is a historian of the early modern Muslim world\, the Ottoman Empire\, and Egypt. His publications include Under Osman’s Tree: The Ottoman Empire\, Egypt and Environmental History (University of Chicago Press\, 2017)\; The Animal in Ottoman Egypt (Oxford University Press\, 2014)\; Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History (Cambridge University Press\, 2011)\; and the edited volume Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa (Oxford University Press\, 2013).\n\nFree and open to the public. \n\nThis event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/40920
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CATEGORIES:Environment,History,Lecture,Middle East Studies
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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