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Silsila: Center for Material Histories "THE GHULAMS OF MOSUL. SLAVES & OTHERS IN THE PRODUCTION OF MEDIEVAL ART"

October 17, 2019
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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Each semester Silsila: Center for Material Histories, a New York University center dedicated to material histories of the Islamicate world, holds a series of lectures and workshops, which are open to the public. Full details of our Autumn 2019 program, listed below, can be found at: http://as.nyu.edu/silsila/events.html

Lectures take place at 4 Washington Square North, New York, and begin at 6.30pm, but please note that rsvp is essential to ensure a place.

To rsvp please visit http://as.nyu.edu/silsila/events/2019-2020.html.

Ruba Kana’an teaches Islamic art and architecture at the University of Toronto. Her research and publications focus on the intersections between art, artists, art production, and law in Muslim contexts. Her experience spans the worlds of academia, museums, architectural practice, and community-based art education.

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Details

"THE GHULAMS OF MOSUL. SLAVES & OTHERS IN THE PRODUCTION OF MEDIEVAL ART"

Ruba Kana’an, University of Toronto

Part of the Silsila fall 2019 Lecture Series, Bonded

Muslim and non-Muslim slaves, sometimes referred to as ghulams, loom large in the context of medieval Syria and the Jazira. Their contribution to material culture is known from a broad variety of signatures on objects. This paper explores how notions of personhood and the valorization of human bodies of slaves and others in Muslim legal texts can change our understanding of the range of actors in the production and trade of art objects.