Bildev Talks

Ibrahim is a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).He completed his undergraduate studies in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University (2008).Then he studied Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Sibawayh Center in Cairo, Egypt (2008–2010).

And did his MA in Arabic Studies at the American University in Cairo (2013). At the same time he was the Middle East Librarian & Specialist there. Later he was a dissertation fellow at the American Research Center in Egypt (2017–2019).

And last year was in Istanbul a member at Koç University Research Center of Anatolian Civilization (ANAMED).

In his talk Ibrahim Mansour will share his research experience and challenges he faced while focusing on the Arabic word tadbīr (“governance” or “management”) as an key term for his history of the Shadhili order. He will present it in comparison with the opposite way, whether human tadbir is needed while relying on God (isqat al-tadbir). He will also explore how the Shadhilis were interacting with other intellectuals and scholars. In doing so, it will argue that the boundaries restricting them and discourses surrounded intellectual life in the late medieval period.