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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, October 17, 2025 3:00 pm to 5:00 
 pm \n Zoom / 200B \n Bancroft Building \n 4 Bancroft Ave, Toronto ON M5S 
 1C1 \n\nSpeakers \nAbbey Stockstill (University of Virginia) \n\nDescripti
 on: \nAbstractThe medieval Islamic west, comprising present-day southern 
 Spain and much of North Africa, is distinguished by a preponderance of th
 e color red (aḥmar) in its architecture. In this talk, Dr. Stockstill exp
 lores why that is, and questions what it means when one color predominate
 s over any other in a monumental setting. She traces the color’s increasin
 g usage from the Almohad dynasty’s capital at Marrakesh—commonly referred 
 to as “the red city” (madīnat al-aḥmar)—to the Nasrids’ famed red fortress
  in Granada, the Alhambra, as a facet of eschatological attitudes toward
  prophecy and jihad. Although contextualized by the region’s particular hi
 storical circumstances, the color’s usage should be understood as grounde
 d in medieval works of optics and philology, part of a complex aesthetic 
 milieu that pervaded the Arabic-speaking world.Abbey Stockstill is Associa
 te Professor and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Chair in Archite
 ctural History at the University of Virginia. Her recent book, Marrakesh 
 and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Mediev
 al Maghrib (Pe\nsylvania State University Press, 2024), traces the city’
 s developing morphology as an expression of a dynamic ethnosocial conceptu
 alization under the twelfth-century Almoravid and Almohad dynasties. Her c
 urrent work, a critical theory of color in the architecture of the mediev
 al Arabic world, has been supported by the Center for Advanced Study in t
 he Visual Arts and the J. Paul Getty Museum  Zoom Registration \n\nSponsor
 s \nMichael E. Marmura Lecture Series in Arabic Studies,Department for Ne
 ar & Middle Eastern Civilizations,Department of Art History \n4 Bancroft 
 Ave, Toronto ON M5S 1C1 \n\nCategories \n Lecture \n\nAudiences \n U of T
  CommunityGraduate StudentsUndergraduate Students
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LOCATION:4 Bancroft Ave, Toronto ON M5S 1C1
SUMMARY:'Ahmar in the Maghrib: Landscape, Identity, and Color in the Isla
 mic West'
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.religion.utoronto.ca/events/ahmar-maghrib-landscap
 e-identity-and-color-islamic-west
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