Gastvortrag Prof. Dr. Alan Mikhail (Yale University) zum Thema "Columbus the Muslim"Veranstalter: Lehrstuhl für Neuere Geschichte unter Einbeziehung der Landesgeschichte Donnerstag, 4.7.2019: 16:00 - 18:00 Uhr; KR12/02.18Prof. Dr. Alan Mikhail
(Yale University)
zum Thema
Columbus the Muslim
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.
Alan Mikhail hat 2018 auf Nominierung von Prof. Dr. Cornel Zwierlein, derzeit Heisenberg-Stipendiat an der Universität Bamberg, einen Anneliese-Maier-Forschungspreis der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung erhalten.
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