#  The 'Khitat' of al-Maqrizi: Narrating History on the Tempo of 'Kharab' 

 



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 **November 28, 2023** 

 05:00PM - 06:30PM EST 

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 **CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

 **Nasser Rabbat**  
Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT

 Nasser Rabbat is the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT. His interests include Islamic architecture, urban history, heritage studies, Arab history, contemporary Islamic art, and post-colonial criticism. He teaches lecture courses on Islamic architecture, the architecture of Cairo, and Islamic architecture and the environment and seminars on Orientalism and colonialism; Issues in Islamic Urbanism; Historiography of Islamic Architecture; Late Antiquity and the foundation of Islamic architecture; Reading Ibn Khaldun; (Re)constructing Memory; Urbicide; and Balancing Globalism and Regionalism in the Arabian Gulf cities.

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