Rachel Schine's guest appearances

Rachel Schine

Bottled Petrichor 

Abbasid History Podcast

Sohaib Saeed

Jonathan Brown

Peter Adamson

Ramon Harvey

Laury Silvers

Liana Saif

Dr Yakoob Ahmed

Abū Ḥanīfa

Arif Kamal

Hugh Kennedy

Muntasir Zaman

Elaine van Dalen

Yusuf Chaudhary

Emily Selove

Anees Lodhi

OwlTail

Join me as I discuss race and Islamic history with Dr. Rachel Schine, a graduate of the University of Chicago and current Postdoctoral Associate in Arabic Literature and Culture at the University of Colorado Boulder. Can we speak about race when we talk about the past? How are different peoples depicted in the Qurʼān, Ḥadīth, and other literature? How were differences between human explained? Were these differences ever used in polemically? How did ideals of beauty intersect with conceptions of race? And more!

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Sirat Delhemma

Dr. Rachel Schine speaks about understandings of race and blackness in premodern Islamic(ate) societies through the tale of Delhemma, a popular epic of rival families and 'Abd al-Wahhāb, the black offspring of Fāṭimah, the eponymous Delhemma (lit. "the one of high aspiration"), disowned by her husband.  Sponsored by IHRC bookshop. Visit shop.ihrc.org.

<p><a href="https://www.colorado.edu/alc/rachel-schine" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Dr. Rachel Schine</a> speaks about understandings of race and blackness in premodern Islamic(ate) societies through the tale of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhemma" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Delhemma</a>, a popular epic of rival families and 'Abd al-Wahhāb, the black offspring of Fāṭimah, the eponymous Delhemma (lit. "the one of high aspiration"), disowned by her husband.  Sponsored by IHRC bookshop. Visit <a href="shop.ihrc.org" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">shop.ihrc.org</a>.</p>

EP011 Dr. Rachel Schine on Race and Blackness in a medieval popular epic, Sirat Delhemma (C.11/12th CE)