ENIS/MIDA summer school 2020: ESR 1 Mohamed El-Moursi

<p>Since the birth of the autobiographical genre, which is generally linked to the Renaissance, and the emergence of the individual as a political subject and measure of everything, &lsquo;Abd All h&rsquo;s Memoirs (Kitāb al-Tibyān or The Memoir of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Buluggīn, 1073-1090), appears as an extraordinary object. Former prince of the Taifa of Granada, &lsquo;Abd Allāh was dethroned in 1090 by the Almoravids, who exiled him to Aghmat (current Morocco), where he wrote a justification of his actions, his reign and his dynasty.</p> <p>This video illustrates briefly the research carried out by Mohamed el-Moursi (Marie Curie Fellow of the ITN-MIDA 813547) who is studying the expression of the self in these pre-modern Memoirs.&nbsp;</p>