Inscribed in the cluster’s research on representations of the past from every historical period, this project seeks to assemble the texts of medieval Arab historians on the Arab conquest of North Africa. The publication of an anthology of translated texts will be accompanied by an historical commentary and explanation of the borrowings and successive re-writings. This work will allow for the study of connections between historical events and their re-appropriations in different periods: colonial, national construction, contemporary aspects of identity discourses (national, Berber, Jewish) in North Africa.
Project Leader
Hervé INGLEBERT , Director of the history department , University Paris Nanterre
Internal cluster partners
- Archeologies and Sciences of Antiquity (ArScAn) - UMR 7041
- French National Library (BnF)
Duration
5 years
Anis MKACHER
Title:
Postdoctoral fellow
Institution:
Labex Les passés dans le présent
, Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité, UMR 7041
Takes part in the project:
Memories of the Arab conquest of North Africa
Aroua LABIDI
Title:
Doctoral fellow at the cluster Pasts in the Present
Institution:
University Paris Nanterre
, Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité, UMR 7041
Takes part in the project:
Memories of the Arab conquest of North Africa
Hervé INGLEBERT
Title:
Professor (history)
Position:
Director of the history department
Institution:
University Paris Nanterre
, ArScAn
Leader of the project:
Memories of the Arab conquest of North Africa
,
Universal histories and universal museums
Bio
Hervé Inglebert’s main research field is about late antique cultural and religious evolutions. He also wrote about the Roman civilization. He works now on the Christianization concept, on late antique historiography and on the conceptions of universal history, from Antiquity until today. Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, he is the codirector of the historical collection Nouvelle Clio (PUF).