Rachel Schine: Black Knights | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780226836171 | Black Knights | Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race | Schine

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"Black Knights is the first book to offer a broad, theoretically grounded exploration of race in the creative literature of the Islamic Middle Ages (ca. eighth to fourteenth centuries). Rachel Schine reveals how the creators of popular epics of the period were already adept at incorporating and assimilating ethnic and color difference, in some ways more nuanced and less provincial than Christian European epics of the period. Schine moves comparatively, across regions and across time, demonstrating that the creators of these texts treated Blackness and race-key components in these grand Muslim social narratives-with a high degree of sophistication. She samples Arabic literature's large body of popular epics that feature many Black heroes, alongside Abrahamic scriptural and interpretative materials, Hellenistic philosophical and geographical sources, legal debates, and medical treatises, allowing her to discuss how these texts became key expressions of racial thought from their earliest beginnings in the eighth century. She shows how these writers used their Black characters to suggest aspirational and inclusive histories of Islam and the Islamic world community during the Middle Ages, with implications for today"--

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Religion & Theologie
Religion:	Nichtchristliche Religionen
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780226836171
ISBN-10:	0226836177
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Schine, Rachel
Hersteller:	The University of Chicago Press
Maße:	229 x 153 x 24 mm
Von/Mit:	Rachel Schine
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.11.2024
Gewicht:	0,546 kg

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