Sailors and Slaves in Medieval Maritime Asia: from baghdād to baghpūr

Name: Sailors and Slaves in Medieval Maritime Asia: from baghdād to baghpūr
Start: 2022-11-16T12:30:00+08:00
End: 2022-11-16T14:00:00+08:00

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November 16, 2022

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12:30 pm - 2:00 pm HKT

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ABSTRACT

This talk presents some of the preliminary ideas and findings of Dr. Ha Guangtian’s ongoing project which examines the role of multi-racial, multi-religious, and multi-lingual sailors and slaves in facilitating Muslim trans-regional trade in medieval maritime Asia. He asks what is entailed if we are to shift our attention away from trade and diplomacy; and how we are to reconstruct an alternative subaltern trans-regionalism where race, religion, and class intersect — in ways that may compel us to reconsider current paradigms centred on the trans-Atlantic world.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dr. Ha Guangtian is Assistant Professor of Religion at Haverford College and the author of Fragile Transcendence: Sound and Saint in Sino-Sufism, to be published in September 2021. He is currently working on a new project that examines the entwinement of sex and slavery in the making of Islam in maritime Asia.

ORGANIZER

The event is organized by the CRF Project “Infrastructures of Faith: Religious Mobilities on the Belt and Road [BRINFAITH]” (RGC CRF HKU C7052-18G), which is hosted by the ASIAR – Asian Religious Connections Research Cluster in HKIHSS.