Workshop "Slavery, Gender and the Shaping of the Family in Medieval Islam"

Jue, 15-09-2022; 00:00 hasta Vie, 16-09-2022; 00:00
Sede CCHS

Sala Menéndez Pidal 0E18

Organized by: Cristina de la Puente (ILC-CSIC), Karen Moukheiber y Serena Tolino

Reseach Project Gender, family, and slavery. Slavery and legal status in the shaping of Muslim families (Ministry of Science, PID2019-110663RB-100)

PROGRAM

Thursday 15

9:00 Words of Welcome from Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Director of the Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo.

Presentation

SESSION 1. FEMALE SLAVES IN THE HOUSEHOLDS

Moderator: Javier Castaño (ILC-CSIC)

9:30 Elizabeth Urban (West Chester University, Pennsylvania), “Slavery and Motherhood in Early Islamic History”

10:00 Pernilla Myrne (University of Gothenburg), “Free wives and Slave Concubines in Medieval Muslim Households: Status and Competition for sexual Attention”

10:30 Discussion

11:00 Coffee Break

 

SESSION 2. MUSLIM SLAVES IN THE CHRISTIAN TERRITORIES

Moderator: Ana Echevarría Arsuaga (UNED, Spain)

11:20 Teresa Witcombe (University of Bristol/British Academy, Oxford), “The lives and labour of enslaved Muslim women in thirteenth-century Castile'

11:50 Clara Almagro Vidal (UNED, Spain), “Under another Law: studying Muslim servants and slaves to military orders in medieval Iberia”

12:20 Discussion

13:20 Lunch

 

SESSION 3. SLAVERY AND ISLAMIC LAW

Moderator: Jan Thiele (ILC, CSIC)

14:30 Karen Moukheiber (University of Balamand), “Slave Marriages and the Family in early Ḥanafī Jurisprudence”

15:00 Laura Emunds (University of Bern), “The Mukātab/a’s Labour in Premodern Ḥanafī Jurisprudence”

15:30 Break

16:00 Ismael Salem Ould García (CSIC), “Cases of Prostitution in the Mudawwana of Saḥnūn and some Ambiguities in its Translation”

16:30 Cristina de la Puente (ILC-CSIC), “Ibn Rushd al-Ḥafīd (Averroës) on Slavery”

17:00 Discussion

 

Friday 16

SESSION 4. DOMESTIC SLAVES IN EGYPT

Moderator: Serena Tolino (University of Bern)

9:00 Jelle Bruning (University of Leiden), “Household Slavery in Papyri from Early Islamic Egypt”

9:30 Matthew Gordon (Miami University, Ohio), “The Trials of the Tulunid Household”

10:00 Discussion

10:30 Coffee Break

 

SESSION 5. SLAVES AT COURT

Moderator: Karen Moukheiber

11:00 Mika Paraskeva (University of Granada), “Qiyān or cultured Conbubines: The unofficial Family Members of Medieval Islamic Households”

11:30 Serena Tolino (University of Bern), “Court Eunuchs in the Fatimid Empire: Gender, Power and Family Structures”

12:00 Bárbara Boloix (University of Granada), “Concubines and Slave Women of the Alhambra: Identities, Agencies, and Social Status within the Nasrid Dynasty”

12:30 Discussion

13:00 Conclusions

13:30 Lunch

Workshop "Slavery, Gender and the Shaping of the Family in Medieval Islam"
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Dpto. de Estudios Judíos e Islámicos
Judíos y Musulmanes en la Trama Social Mediterránea: Fuentes y Contextos (REDMED)