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SUMMARY:Ali Al-Sharafi’s Oeuvre as Something Other Than Simply Local or 
 Global - Sonja Brentjes [gloknos lecture] - Sonja Brentjes (Max Planck Ins
 titute for the History of Science\, Berlin)
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CONTACT:Samantha Peel
DESCRIPTION:*gloknos Annual Lecture Series – Sonja Brentjes (Max Planck 
 Institute for the History of Science\, Berlin) – 9 June 2021 | 17:00-18:
 30*\n\n*Abstract:*\nIn this talk\, Sonja will present two atlases and a wo
 rld map by ‘Ali al-Sharafi\, a man born in Sfax and perhaps died in Qayr
 awan\, both towns today belonging to Tunisia. He is famous among experts f
 or his cartographic works but badly understood. The limited accuracy of th
 e data he provided and the imprecise execution of the technical aspects of
  his maps made him for some a third-grade scholar at best. Others lamented
  his ignorance of presentations of the New World. A third group pointed to
  his explicit references to the Malik school of law as his religious and l
 egal home. But the persona that ‘Ali al-Sharafi constructed in his three
  works is much more complex. The methods and tools that he used are fascin
 ating\, even if not completely comprehensible. His usage of classical sour
 ces of Arabic geography and mapmaking\, Majorcan and Italian sea charts an
 d atlases\, formats and ornamentations of North African Qur’ans and Iber
 ian Hebrew bibles\, calligraphic patterns of Muslim tombstones of Sfax and
  many more cultural objects shows him as a versatile master of the multi-c
 ultural world of the early modern Mediterranean.\n\n*Speaker:*\nSonja Bren
 tjes is a retired historian of science in Islamicate societies and Christi
 an Europe\; she is a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the 
 History of Science\, Berlin.\n\nHer research includes the history of the m
 athematical sciences\, mapmaking\, institutions\, cross-cultural exchange 
 of knowledge and the involvement of the arts in the sciences. Among her re
 cent publications are _Teaching and Learning the Sciences in Islamicate So
 cieties\, 800-1700_ (Brepols\, 2018)\, and Brentjes\, S.\, Edis\, T. and R
 ichter-Bernburg\, L. _1001 Distortions: How (Not) to Narrate the History o
 f Science\, Medicine and Technology in Non-Western Cultures_ (Ergon\, 2016
 ).\n\n*Attendance is free but spaces may be limited\, so please "email":ma
 ilto:sjp229@cam.ac.uk to reserve a space in the Zoom audience. Please be a
 ware that we will take a recording of this event\, which may include any q
 uestions and responses delivered by the audience.*\n\n*See the full 2021 l
 ecture series online "here":http://gloknos.ac.uk/research/activities/the-g
 loknos-annual-lecture-series*\n\n*gloknos is initially funded for 5 years 
 by the European Research Council through a Consolidator Grant awarded to D
 r Inanna Hamati-Ataya for her project ARTEFACT (2017-2022) ERC grant no. 7
 24451.*
LOCATION:Zoom
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