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