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

<p><a href="https://www.colorado.edu/alc/rachel-schine" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">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" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">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.<br /> <br /> Sponsored by IHRC bookshop. Visit <a href="shop.ihrc.org" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">shop.ihrc.org</a>.</p>