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BRINFAITH Religion and Empire Lecture Series
Sailors and Slaves in Medieval Maritime Asia: from baghdād to baghpūr
Dr. Ha Guangtian
(Haverford College)
Date/Time: November 16, 2022, 8:00 pm (HK Time)
English: English
Enquiry: asiar@hku.hk
BRINFAITH Religion and Empire Lecture Series
Sailors and Slaves in Medieval Maritime Asia: from baghdād to baghpūr
Dr. Ha Guangtian
(Haverford College)
Date/Time: November 16, 2022, 8:00 pm (HK Time)
English: English
Enquiry: asiar@hku.hk
Title:
Sailors and Slaves in Medieval Maritime Asia: from baghdād to baghpūr
Speaker:
Dr. Ha Guangtian (Haverford College )
Date/Time:
November 16, 2022, 8:00 pm (HK time)
Language:
English
Enquiry:
Title:
Sailors and Slaves in Medieval Maritime Asia: from baghdād to baghpūr
Speaker:
Dr. Ha Guangtian (Haverford College )
Date/Time:
November 16, 2022, 8:00 pm (HK time)
Language:
English
Enquiry:
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.
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.
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