IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 725: Constructing Borders: Emphasising Difference in Islamic Societies
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Maribel Fierro, Departamento de Estudios Judíos e Islámicos, Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo, Madrid |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Ann R. Christys, Independent Scholar, Leeds |
| Paper 725-a | Making Borders Clear in the Medieval Islamic West (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Paper 725-b | Cross-Dressing, Ambiguity, and Gender in al-Andalus (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Paper 725-c | The Borders of Authority, Legitimacy, and Power: Al-Ma'mun (reg. 813-833) and Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991) in Juxtaposition (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Religious Life, Theology |
| Abstract | When the people of Cordoba rebelled against the Umayyads in the year 202/818, the emir al-Hakam I asked to be anointed with an expensive perfume so that his head could be distinguished from the cut heads of other Cordobans if the rebels were to succeed. This panel presents different contexts in which similar definition of the border between two individuals or their ethnic and religious identities was imperative. They include women who dressed as men or had physical attributes that blurred the boundary between male and female and rituals and beliefs common to Christianity and Islam. |