IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1338: Slavery in the Medieval Islamic World, IV: Concubinage and Slavery in the Islamicate World
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 16.30-18.00
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 Lisa Nielson, Department of Music, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio |
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Moderator/Chair: | Thomas J. MacMaster, Department of History, Morehouse College, Georgia / School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh |
Paper 1338-a | Slavery, Gender, and Music in Kitab al-Aghani: Revisiting the Cultural Boundaries of Women Musicians in Medieval Islam (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Music, Sexuality |
Paper 1338-b | Concubinage and Sexual Slavery in Medieval Arab-Islamic Erotic Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Sexuality, Social History |
Paper 1338-c | Gender, Ethnicity, and Slavery in Early Islamic Music Discourse (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Music, Social History |
Abstract | This session will concentrate on the interdependence between slavery and concubinage in the medieval Islamicate world. The first paper reexamines assumptions regarding the musical performances of enslaved women, the second looks through the prism of medieval erotic literature, and the final paper examines issues of gender, ethnicity, and slavery in the study of music in the medieval Muslim regions. |