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November 14, 2018
2:30pm
Humanities Gateway 1010

    The talk presents and revisits a story of mass arrests and interrogations of many Muslims in China's Yangzi Delta region in 1782. Previous accounts of this story present this case as a simple matter of censorship and “Islamophobia” on the part of the Chinese officials involved. While not dismissing these earlier account, this talk presents new historical, textual, and philological evidence relating to the story and offers a different view of the tale and its historical significance.

Zvi Ben-Dor Benite is a Professor of History at NYU, where he is also Associate Vice-Chancellor for Global Network Faculty Planning.  His research centers on the interaction between religions in world history and cultural exchanges across space and time. His books include, as author, The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 2005) and, as editor, Middle Eastern Jewish Thought (Brandeis, 2013).

Sponsored by History Department, Jewish Studies Department and the Center for Asian Studies.