IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 223: Constructing Borders: Emphasising Difference in the Medieval Islamic West
Monday 4 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Ann R. Christys, Independent Scholar, Leeds |
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Moderator/Chair: | Ann R. Christys, Independent Scholar, Leeds |
Paper 223-a | Making Borders Clear in the Medieval Islamic West (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
Paper 223-b | Cross-Dressing, Ambiguity, and Gender in al-Andalus (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
Paper 223-c | Children on the Religious Border: Maliki Jurists on Custody and the Religion of Children of 'Mixed Families' (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
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 definition of the border between individuals or their ethnic and religious identities was imperative. We consider women who dressed as men or had physical attributes that blurred the boundary between male and female, as well as legal definitions of difference between Christian and Muslim. |