Black knights : Arabic epic and the making of medieval race
Schine, Rachel2024
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A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature In 'Black Knights', Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their European neighbors during the Middle Ages. Unlike in European vernaculars, Arabic-language ideas about ethnic difference emerged from conversations extending beyond the Mediterranean, from the Sahara to the Indian Ocean. In these discourses, Schine argues, racialized blackness became central to ideas about a global, ethnically inclusive Muslim world. Schine traces the emergence of these new racial logics through popular Islamic epics, drawing on legal, medical, and religious literatures from the period to excavate a diverse and ever-changing conception of blackness and race.
Main title:
Black knights : Arabic epic and the making of medieval race / Rachel Schine.
Author:
Schine, Rachel, author
Imprint:
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2024.
Collation:
367 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780226836171 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
5459488
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