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DACII Lecture: "Tamerlane the Great as a Model of an Islamic Ruler"
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The Dean's Advisory Committee on International Initiatives is pleased to present Aleksandr Naymark, Fine Arts/Art History at Hofstra University, who will speak on "Tamerlane the Great as a Model of an Islamic Ruler: His Real and Imaginary Heritage in Post-Soviet Central Asia." The lecture is part of the 2011-2012 CLAHS Lecture and Performing Arts Series on International Understanding and Global Culture: Islamic Worlds. Support for this event was provided by the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, a CLAHS Department Diversity Award, the Virginia Tech Russian Club, and the Departments of Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, Political Science, and Religion and Culture.
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