A Travelogue
The Sultanate of Oman
with Professor Yahya Michot
Thursday, May 5, 2011
noon
Hartford Seminary
A recent Hartford Seminary visit to the Sultanate of Oman gave Prof. Yahya Michot the opportunity to discover two beautiful cities of Arabia: Muscat, the present capital of the Sultanate, with its Portuguese fortresses, and Nizwa, the ancient chief city of the Ibâdî imamate, with its amazing Islamic architecture. This trip was also the occasion to renew old, almost forgotten ties. The host for the trip, the al-Amana Centre, continues the work of the American Mission founded in Oman in 1891 by the Rev. Samuel Zwemer, the same Samuel Zwemer who, twenty years later, would create The Muslim World journal now edited by Hartford Seminary. Zwemer was its first editor (1911-1948).
Michot will talk about his visit to Oman, and illustrate it with slides.
Yahya Michot is Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary. He is editor of The Muslim World journal and director of the Seminary's International Ph.D. program. Before joining Hartford Seminary in September 2008, Dr. Michot was Islamic Centre Lecturer in the Faculty of Theology at Oxford University in Great Britain and a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.
There is no charge for this event. Feel free to bring your own lunch.
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