Dr. Rachel Schine
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In medieval Arabic chronicles, the ethnicity of qiyān (enslaved entertainers) is often unstated unless the woman becomes an umm walad (mother of an owner's child), at which point it still
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A thread on how a reception studies approach can help us understand racialization in premodern Arabic literature…(warning, it's long) Anyone who studies Classical Arabic literature knows that it is extremely
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I'm going to have to go thru my whole book MS and change my Qur'an translations from Arberry to M.A.S. Abdel Haleem aren't I?I've waffled between the two the whole
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Did the aghribat al-'arab ("crows of the Arabs") write on their blackness? A short thread...https://twitter.com/AntarIbnShadad/status/1011510642656923648 Lists of the aghribat al-'arab, or "crows of the Arabs," a
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This thread is going to proceed roughly chronologically re: topic discussed. It's a mix of (English only) primary sources in translation and secondary sources that you can use to teach
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