IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 811: Medieval African Networks, III: From Ghana to Mali to Songhai
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | 2022 Dan David Prize Funding |
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| Organiser: | Felege-Selam Yirga, Department of History, Ohio State University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Verena Krebs, Historisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| Paper 811-a | Eunuchs, Empire, and the Culture of Power in Songhay and the Late Medieval Dār al-Islām (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Economics - Trade, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 811-b | The So-Called 'Tomb' of Askia Muhammad: Pilgrimage, Politics, and Colonial Myth (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Paper 811-c | Royal Ideology in Christian Ethiopian Chronicles of the 15th and 16th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Local History, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Political Thought |
| Abstract | The study of European-Asian interactions or the medieval Mediterranean has long been established within the field of Medieval Studies; in more recent years, the Indian Ocean has also become the subject of increasing scholarly attention. The integration of the role of networks, realms, and agents from the extensive continent of Africa into the concept of the 'Global Medieval', however, remains an ongoing challenge for the field. This series of sessions brings together scholars from all career stages and diverse backgrounds to address the topic and question of 'African Networks and Entanglements in the ‘Medieval World’' on a micro-, meso-, and macro level. The sessions centre the role of African realms, political entities, or agents as well as the economic, religious, cultural, intellectual, artistic, or diplomatic networks from West Africa to the Maghreb and the Horn to the Western Indian Ocean region. |