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DESCRIPTION:Mauro Nobili\, Professor of History at the University of Illino
 is Urbana Champaign. Mauro Nobili will interrogate the underappreciated ro
 le of William Brown as a meticulous collector of primary sources by showca
 sing some the documents that are crucial from his book project titled Timb
 uktu\, the Queen of England\, and the French Invasion of the Sahara. This 
 project is a microhistory of an imperial encounter in the Niger Bend in th
 e 1850s\, shedding light on the agendas of a local scholar-cum-political l
 eader named Aḥmad al-Bakkāy (d. 1864) in the face of European imperiali
 sm.\n\nCONTACT: 262-2380\, asp@africa.wisc.edu\n\nURL: https://africa.wisc
 .edu/event/william-a-brown-arabic-manuscripts-and-the-study-of-nineteenth-
 century-west-africa/\n\nONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/97819133081
LOCATION:206 Ingraham Hall  (Also offered online)
SUMMARY:2025 William A. Brown Lecture: William A. Brown\, Arabic Manuscript
 s\, and the Study of Nineteenth-Century West Africa
URL;VALUE=URI:https://africa.wisc.edu/event/william-a-brown-arabic-manuscri
 pts-and-the-study-of-nineteenth-century-west-africa/
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