{"id":4549,"date":"2021-02-23T02:52:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T02:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2021-02-23T02:52:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T02:52:49","slug":"margariti-to-discuss-foundational-legend-of-islams-arrival-in-india-in-carlos-museum-webinar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2021\/02\/23\/margariti-to-discuss-foundational-legend-of-islams-arrival-in-india-in-carlos-museum-webinar\/","title":{"rendered":"Margariti to Discuss Foundational Legend of Islam&#8217;s Arrival in India in Carlos Museum Webinar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/mesas.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/margariti.html\">Roxani Margariti<\/a>, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, will present research at an upcoming virtual event hosted by Emory&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/carlos.emory.edu\/\">Michael C. Carlos Museum<\/a>. Margariti will present with Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/mesas.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/kugle.html\">Scott Kugle<\/a>, Professor of South Asian and Islamic Studies, on the foundational legend of Islam&#8217;s arrival in India. The legend includes the miracle of the splitting of the moon (inshiqaq al-qamar), first alluded to in the Qur\u2019an as a divine sign and developed as a miracle of the Prophet Muhammad in the exegetical tradition. Margariti and Kugle will discuss how the interplay between the legend and the miracle story forms the subject of a fascinating 18th-century Indian painting that draws on the Mughal painting tradition and can be viewed at the exhibition <em><a href=\"https:\/\/carlos.emory.edu\/exhibition\/wondrous-worlds\">Wondrous Worlds: Art &amp; Islam Through Time &amp; Place<\/a><\/em>. The event will take place Tuesday, February 23, at 4pm. Register to attend <a href=\"https:\/\/emory.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_wkJfzqh2S3O6r6wtoUztqA\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Roxani Margariti, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, will present research at an upcoming virtual event hosted by Emory&#8217;s Michael C. Carlos Museum. Margariti will present with Dr. Scott Kugle, Professor of South Asian and Islamic Studies, on the foundational legend of Islam&#8217;s arrival in India. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-faculty","category-research","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}