IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1335: The Medieval Nile and Red Sea as a Passage of Transmission, IV: The Later Shifting Frontiers
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Adam Simmons, Department of History, Lancaster University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Adam Simmons, Department of History, Lancaster University |
| Paper 1335-a | Between Holy War and Symbiosis in the Horn of Africa: Ethiopia's Position between the Red Sea Sultanates and Mamluk Egypt, 1270-1543 (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Military History |
| Paper 1335-b | The (Vanishing) Frontier of Islam and Christianity (Language: English) Index terms: Demography, Geography and Settlement Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Paper 1335-c | The Nubian Frontier as a Refuge Area Warrior Society between c. 1200 and c. 1800 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Demography, Geography and Settlement Studies, Military History |
| Abstract | Following the initial Muslim expansion, the borders of Islam with the Christian kingdoms remained relatively stable. It was only after the thirteenth century that the Muslim forces pushed the frontier with Christianity further and further south. The cultural transmission of previous centuries was being threatened. How did the Christian kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia react and what was their role in the changing frontiers? This session seeks to address these issues of the shifting frontier between Islam and Christianity in the later middle ages. How close were the borders to being frontiers and can we even call them frontiers at all? |