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9. Family Ties between Muslim Men and High-Status Non-Muslim Women (Seventh–Ninth c. CE).

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Sahner, Christian C.

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*MUSLIMS, *SOCIAL status, *MUSLIM women, *INTERMARRIAGE, *FAMILIES, *ARABIC literature
Abstract

This article explores unions between elite Muslim men and elite non-Muslim women from the conquered populations during the seventh to ninth centuries CE. It considers cases from a range of geographic settings, including the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, the Fertile Crescent, and Iran. It examines these unions in their immediate historical contexts as well as literary artifacts of much later periods. With respect to the former, it argues Muslim conquerors often used elite non-Muslim women to cement their alliances with indigenous elites and as instruments to humiliate and abase these elites. With respect to the latter, it argues that stories of aristocratic non-Muslim women constitute a neglected but important feature of conquest narratives and they show how elite non-Muslim lineage remained prized among Muslims long after the conquests were over. Finally, as the article argues, the phenomenon demonstrates that many in early Muslim society considered maternal lineage to be very important, even if social standing was technically based mainly on the father. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2024
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41. Arab Christians and the Qur'an from the Origins of Islam to the Medieval Period

Author

Sahner, Christian C.

Subjects
Arab Christians and the Qur'an from the Origins of Islam to the Medieval Period (Essay collection) -- Beaumont, Mark, Books -- Book reviews, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
Abstract

Arab Christians and the Qur'an from the Origins of Islam to the Medieval Period. Edited by MARK BEAUMONT. History of Christian-Muslim Relations, vol. 35. Leiden: BRILL, 2018. Pp. xiv + [...]

Published
2021

42. What Is Islamic History? Muslims, Non-Muslims and the History of Everyone Else.

Author

Sahner, Christian C

Subjects
*HISTORY of Islam, *ISLAMIC historiography, *MUSLIM history, *MUSLIMS, *SUNNITES
Abstract

This is a work of historical criticism, not a research article or a book review. It re-examines what we mean by 'Islamic' when we speak about the discipline of 'Islamic history', the standard term for the history of the lands where Muslims were politically and, in some senses, culturally dominant, especially during the Middle Ages. It investigates the consequences of this implicitly religious label for who is included in the grand narrative (Muslims, chiefly Sunnīs) and who is not (non-Muslims and Muslim minorities). It then proposes an alternative approach that favours geography and political periodisation as ways of organising how we think about the past in a more neutral fashion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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50. The Crescent and the Scimitar

Author

Sahner, Christian C.

Subjects
The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live in (Book) -- Kennedy, Hugh, Books -- Book reviews, Philosophy and religion
Abstract

THE GREAT ARAB CONQUESTS: HOW THE SPREAD OF ISLAM CHANGED THE WORLD WE LIVE IN by HUGH KENNEDY Da Capo, 421 pages, $27.95 STANDING ON THE SHORES of the Atlantic [...]

Published
2008

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