March
19 ,
2004
Barbara
Daly Metcalf to Speak on Islamic Politics
Barbara Daly Metcalf, the Alice
Freeman Palmer Professor of History at the University of Michigan,
will give a lecture Thursday, March 25, at 4:30 pm in Kendade
Hall, Room 305. The talk is titled "The Poet and the Laulana:
Debating Islamic Politics in Interwar India." Metcalf is
a historian of South Asia who focuses on social reform movements
and Islam. She is the author of Islamic
Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860-1900 and A Concise History of India and
is editor of Moral Conduct and Authority: The Place of Adab
in South Asian Islam and Making Muslim Space in North America
and Europe.
The lecture is sponsored by the Asian studies and history departments,
the dean of faculty's office, and the College's Purington Fund,
as well as the political science department at Amherst College
and the women's studies department at Smith College. It is free
and open to the public.
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