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An author and scholar of Islam in South Asia will deliver the 2025 Thompson Lecture, sponsored by Kalamazoo College\u2019s religion department<\/a>, at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, April 17, in the Olmsted Room.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayesha Irani is an associate professor of Asian studies at the University of Massachusetts-Boston<\/a>. She specializes in Islam in South Asia, the literature and history of Bengal and Bangladesh, Sufism, Islamic art, translation studies and Middle Bangla codicology.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irani\u2019s lecture, titled \u201cThe Muhammad Avat\u0101ra: Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam,\u201d will draw from her book of the same name<\/a> and examine the Nabivamsa of Saiyad Sultan, the first Bangla language biography of the Prophet Muhammad, revealing the power of vernacular transition in the Islamization of Bengal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Paul Lamont Thompson Lecture, named for the K president who served from 1938\u201349, brings in speakers who enrich the ethical understanding of the College\u2019s position in society. The lecture was established by a gift from Thompson\u2019s sons and daughters-in-law to recognize the crucial role he played in guiding the College through the Depression and World War II.\u202f <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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