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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nThursday, October 05, 2023 4:30 pm to 6:3
 0 pm \n Zoom / UTM \n Maanjiwe nendamowinan 3230 \n 3359 Mississauga Rd, 
 Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6 \n\nSpeakers \nDr Adam Bursi \n\nDescription: \nM
 odern scholarship frequently imagines early Muslims as iconoclastic monoth
 eists whose religious practices did not include the sorts of relic and tom
 b veneration that were central to the ritual lives of other late antique g
 roups like Christians and Jews. This presentation brings together evidence
  of the importance for Muslims in the seventh to ninth centuries of severa
 l objects and spaces associated with prophets and other holy figures, suc
 h as the Prophet Muhammad’s hair and minbar, and the places where he pray
 ed and was buried. Not only objects or texts, but also places were transf
 ormed into sacred “traces” through their association with the Prophet Muha
 mmad. Utilizing early hadith and historical texts, this presentation outl
 ines how these different sanctified sites were ritually and materially ven
 erated—and debated—in the seventh, eighth, and early ninth centuries. Ad
 am Bursi received his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Cornell University\
 , and has worked and taught at the University of Tennessee, the Hill Muse
 um and Manuscript Library, and Utrecht University. His book Traces of the
  Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam is forthcoming with Edi
 nburgh University Press.→ Zoom link for the lecture will be posted here on
  October 2. \n\nSponsors \nMuslim Materialities Lecture Series \n3359 Miss
 issauga Rd, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6 \n\nCategories \n Lecture \n\nAudien
 ces \n U of T CommunityGraduate StudentsUndergraduate Students
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LOCATION:3359 Mississauga Rd, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
SUMMARY:Prophetic Pieces and Places: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Isla
 m
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.religion.utoronto.ca/events/prophetic-pieces-and-p
 laces-relics-and-sacred-spaces-early-islam
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