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Call for Papers: Ties of Kinship and the Early Islamic Empire, 6-8 December 2021

December 6, 2021 - December 8, 2021

From the organizers:

We invite submissions for an international conference on the language of kinship in Islamic(ate) societies before the modern period (622–1500 CE). The Embedding Conquest (EmCo) team has been investigating the social, political, administrative, religious, and economic ties that sustained strategies and mechanics of protection and dependency in the early Islamic empire, contributing to shaping imperial rule under the Umayyads and the Abbasids. As part of our project, we study how writers and document producers expressed vertical and horizontal relationships, including the use of family terms. We now invite other researchers to join in our conversation focusing on relational ties that were expressed primarily through or as kinship. This international meeting will be a venue for presenting new studies about practices, categories, and discourses through which kinship might

(i) connect individuals and groups to one another

(ii) contribute to binding an empire (or other large political entity) together.

For the full description of the conference and details on sending in your proposal, please check the upcoming events page on our websitehttps://emco.hcommons.org/events/event/call-for-papers-ties-of-kinship-and-the-early-islam…

N.B. Note that this is a different conference from the one advertised on H-net several weeks ago by the Embedding Conquest research team and for which we are still accepting proposals as well.

For additional information/ questions you can contact us at emco@hum.leidenuniv.nl

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Start:
December 6, 2021
End:
December 8, 2021
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