Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race by Schine, Rachel

Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race

A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how...
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Author: Rachel Schine
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Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race by Schine, Rachel

Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race

$125.53

Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race

$125.53
Author: Rachel Schine
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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. The result is a theoretically nuanced case for the existence and malleability of racial logics in premodern Islamic contexts across a variety of social and literary formations.

Author: Rachel Schine
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 11/19/2024
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780226836171

About the Author
Rachel Schine is assistant professor of Arabic and history at the University of Maryland.

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