Join us on Sunday, May 31st at 2pm EST for Episode 31 of The Insight Interviews: “Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam”, featuring Dr. Adam Bursi. In this informative discussion, we explore Dr. Bursi’s book, Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam. Our conversation examines how early Muslims deployed sacred objects and spaces to inscribe and dispute Islam’s continuities with—and differences from—Judaism and Christianity. The book argues that prophets’ relics ritually and rhetorically shaped Muslim identities in the first centuries of Islam.
This instalment in our series ‘The Insight Interviews’, promises to be an engaging conversation.
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Adam Bursi is an associate acquisitions editor at Fortress Press. He received his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Cornell University, and has held research and teaching positions at the University of Tennessee, the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, and Utrecht University. He coedited the collection ‘His Pen and Ink Are a Powerful Mirror’: Andalusi, Judaeo-Arabic, and Other Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Ross Brann (Brill, 2020), and his articles have appeared in the journals Medieval Encounters, Arabica, Studies in Late Antiquity, and elsewhere.
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