Noha Abou Khatwa (AUC)
Female Agency under Mamluk Rule: Umm al-Sultan Reinvented
This research explores who Khawand Baraka (Umm al-Sultan Sha‘ban) is in the eyes of the Mamluk sources, what the details of her unpublished waqf tell us about her personality and identity, and what her Qur’an manuscripts say about her artistic agency and self-expression.
This lecture will be held online on Zoom. Please register using the following link:
https://uni-bonn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMufuiorTwuGtMjB3wviiQMajiR6hkhVImP
Contact the organizer: anna.kollatz@uni-bonn.de