Historian Arthur Zárate explores ʿAlam al-Ruh (The World of the Spirit), a little-studied Egyptian periodical that reveals how Islam intersected with mid-twentieth-century debates over spirits, jinn, miraculous healing, science, and the unseen. Drawing on this remarkable source held at the Penn Libraries, Zárate considers how encounters with the unseen—and the ways people determined their authenticity—changed over time.
Date:
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Location:
Class of '55 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Campus:
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center