IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1238: Slavery in the Medieval Islamic World, III: Slaves within the Household
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Thomas J. MacMaster, Department of History, Morehouse College, Georgia / School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh Magdalena Moorthy Kloss, Institut für Sozialanthropologie, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Lisa Nielson, Department of Music, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio |
| Paper 1238-a | Domestic Slavery as a One-Generational Phenomenon: Importation and Manumission in Medieval Damascus (Language: English) Index terms: Demography, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Onomastics, Social History |
| Paper 1238-b | Foreigners Twice Over: Slaves in the Itinerant Household of Ibn Battuta (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Social History |
| Abstract | This session continues the discussion of slaves within the household in the medieval Islamicate world. The first paper examines the types of roles that slaves might take within households in the Islamic west; the second closely reads the sources and argues that domestic slavery in 13th and 14th-century Damascus was one-generational; the third examines the slaves within a single itinerant household, that of the traveller Ibn Battuta. |