Thursday, March 30th, 2023 Slavery as Depicted in the Sharia Court Records of Aleppo, 956-1027 AH / 1550-1619 CE

DateTimeLocation
Thursday, March 30, 20234:00PM - 6:00PMExternal Event, This event takes place in the Natalie Zemon Davis Room, 2098 Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street.
No registration is required.

Series

Seminar in Ottoman & Turkish Studies

Description

This presentation will discuss on-going work on the nature of slavery as revealed in the sharia court records of Aleppo. It will include statistical information on aspects such as regional origins, gender, prices, manumission, and runaways. It will also focus on a couple of interesting case studies and suggest some very preliminary conclusions.


Speakers

Thabit A.J. Abdullah
Professor at the Department of History, York University


Main Sponsor

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Co-Sponsors

Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

Department of History

Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

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