About this Event
[PLEASE NOTE - The course is BOTH in person ONSITE in London and for those who can not attend in person can purchase the LIVE ONLINE STREAMING ticket to watch it from their device and those coming in person, should you not decide to attend person on the day or half the day, you will still recieve a link to the live online streaming, irrespective but are encouraged to attend in person if you have registered for that ticket, as this helps with allows room allocation, respectively for fellow participants].
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Islamic Courses present:
INTENSIVE WEEKEND COURSE: 'THE LAST MUGHAL, THE EAST INDIA COMPANY TO MODERN INDIA'
This weekend course with celebrated author and historian William Dalrymple who will charter the events that lead to the fall of the last Mughul, arrival of the East India Company, through the British Empire and to modern Indian subcontinent today. He will be presenting a series of lectures taking from his award winning titles 'The Last Mughal: The Fall of Delhi, 1857' and the 'The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company' and others .
And with Yayha Birt*, research director and community historian as host chair interlocutor.
About the presenter: William Dalrymple is one of Britain’s great historians and the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Hemingway and Kapuściński award-winning Return of a King. His most recent book, The Anarchy, was long-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2019, and shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History, the Tata Book of the Year (Non-fiction) and the Historical Writers Association Book Award 2020. It was a Finalist for the Cundill Prize for History and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Bronze Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. A frequent broadcaster, he has written and presented three television series, one of which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA. He has also won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, The Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the FPA Media Awards, and been awarded five honorary doctorates. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held visiting fellowships at Princeton, Brown and Oxford. He writes regularly for the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the Guardian. In 2018, he was presented with the prestigious President’s Medal by the British Academy for his outstanding literary achievement and for co-founding the Jaipur Literature Festival. He was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect. William lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi.
Host/Chair: Yahya Birt is a research director at the Ayaan Institute in London, where he works on Muslim minorities. In 2022, his report, Ummah at the Margins: The Past, Present and Future of Muslim Minorities was published. He is also a community historian who has taught at the University of Leeds. He has an M.Phil. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford. He has published over a dozen peer-reviewed articles on Islam in Britain and his co-authored books include British Secularism and Religion (2016), Islam in Victorian Liverpool (2021), The Collected Poems of Abdullah Quilliam (2021) and Our Fatima of Liverpool (2023). In 2022, he published his first poetry collection, Pandemic Pilgrimage. He is a founding co-editor of the Oxford British Muslim Studies series at the Oxford University Press. Currently, he is working with Dr. Fozia Bora on the history of Bradford's Somali Village, an ethnographic show of 100 Somali men, women, and children at the city's Lister Park in 1904. And, with a great set of dedicated colleagues, he is launching the Muslim Historical Society of Britain in 2024, God willing. He lives in West Yorkshire with his family and cat. He likes walking and being grumpy about the state of the world. He can be reached on Twitter @ybirt.
AUDIENCE: Open to all members of the public and with no course requirements or prerequisites.
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All welcome, limited spaces, pre-registration required!
DEADLINE FOR BOOKINGS APPLY after which prices increase
For more information call/tel: 07956735301 or email: [email protected]
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* Please note, time and resources have been set aside to ensure the programme runs in a smooth and professional manner for the maximum benefit of participants and thus unless the programme has been postponed or cancelled, there are NO REFUNDS as part of the terms and condition policy.
*Lunch and refreshments can be purchased at cafe's or restaurant's near to the venue and NOT included in ticket price.
*The course is BOTH in person ONSITE in London and for those who can not attend in person can purchase the LIVE ONLINE STREAMING ticket to watch it from their device and those coming in person, should decide not to attend person on the day or half the day, you will still recieve a link to the live online streaming, irrespective but are encouraged to attend in person if you have registered for that ticket, as this helps with allows room allocation, respectively for fellow participants
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Birkbeck, University of London, Malet St, London, United Kingdom
GBP 40.00 to GBP 70.00
