IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1035: The Medieval Nile and Red Sea as a Passage of Transmission, I: The Coming of Islam
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Adam Simmons, Department of History, Lancaster University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Alexandros Tsakos, Institutt for Arkeologi, Historie, Kultur - og Religionsvitenskap, Universitetet I Bergen |
| Paper 1035-a | Cairo - Aswan - Ibrim (- Dongola?): Task and Journey of a Messenger from Islamic Egypt to Christian Nubia in Summer 760 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Daily Life, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Paper 1035-b | Forgetting Sudanese Christianity: Wrongfully Depicting Nubians and Ethiopians in Crusader Songs (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
| Paper 1035-c | 'Sail to Suakin, and then go twelve days through the desert': Two Episodes in Ethiopian-European Long-Distance Contact in the 15th Century (Language: English) |
| Abstract | Nubia and Ethiopia were thriving Christian kingdoms upon the arrival of the Islamic expansion in the seventh century. This session analyses different roles that the rise of Islam had on the Christian kingdoms. How did these two religions co-exist along the Nile Valley? How did they communicate? These papers seek to address this requirement for adaptation. Following initial contacts, the session closes with a paper looking at the role Islam had on the memory of the Christian kingdoms in the psyche of the greater Christian world. Above all, transmission remained important across the borders of Islam and Christianity. |