CSA Fall Lecture Series 2025
Adil Mawani,"Devotion in Colonial Islam: Representations of Muhammad in Urdu Sira".
Event Details
Date
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Time
12-1 p.m.
Location
Description
This talk explores Sir Sayyid Aḥmad Ḵẖān’s al-Khut̤bāt al-Aḥmadīyah (1870) and how nineteenth-century Muslims in colonial North India reshaped the Prophet Muḥammad’s image through vernacular Urdu biographies. It highlights Sir Sayyid’s choices—writing in the UK, prioritizing English translation, and delaying the Urdu publication for two decades.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-4884 (voice only) or email info@southasia.wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Thursday, October 23, 2025, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.