Join members of UCLA’s Islamic Studies Program for the third lecture in a series discussing the history and relevance of cities of the premodern Middle East as sites of cross-cultural encounter. Dr. Mohsin Ali will discuss the history and significance of medieval Baghdad with a special eye towards intercultural exchange from the eighth to the twelfth centuries.
For more information on this lecture series, a summer fellowship intended for Southern California-based history, religious studies, and social studies teachers, and for Zoom links for the synchronous lectures, please visit https://islamicstudies.ucla.edu/programs/sitesofencounter/.
This program has been developed in partnership with UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies and is co-sponsored by the UCLA History-Geography project.
Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies, Islamic Studies, UCLA History-Geography Project