Tuesday, February 8 from 12:15–1:15 pm ET
For centuries, mosques have been a site for Muslim worship, study, socializing, and so much more. They have also been hotly contested, fiercely guarded, and debated with great animosity.
What can legal disputes tell us about the history of Muslim worship? How did battles over mosques and endowments redraw the lines of sectarianism—and secularism—in South Asia?
Following a series of court cases and legal contests involving congregational sites from across the subcontinent, in The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship (I. B. Tauris, 2021), historian Sana Haroon (University of Massachusetts Boston) shows how mosques became sites of social influence and control across the nineteenth and into the twentieth century.
Join us on Tuesday, February 8 from 12:15–1:15 pm ET to hear more.
Archaeologist Mudit Trivedi (Anthropology, Stanford University) and legal scholar Adnan Zulfiqar (Rutgers Law School) will be joining as discussants.
Elizabeth Lhost (History, Dartmouth College) will moderate the conversation.
Register online to attend: https://dartgo.org/conversations-haroon
Event attendees may use the following discount codes when purchasing a copy of the book from the publisher MCSA35UK (for UK and Europe orders) and MCSA35US (for US orders).
The Conversations on South Asia Series is sponsored by the Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund, the Asian, Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program, and the Department of History at Dartmouth College.
All are welcome to attend.