Thursday, February 04
06:30 pm
Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins
Elizabeth Urban is Associate Professor of History at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, where she specializes in the first two centuries of Islamic history. She particularly seeks to understand how Islam transformed from a small and relatively egalitarian Arabian piety movement into the official doctrine of a hierarchical Near Eastern empire. Her talk draws and expands upon her first book, Conquered Populations in Early Islam (Edinburgh UP, 2020), which analyzes how Muslims of slave origins—enslaved persons, freed persons, and their descendants—joined the nascent Islamic community and articulated their identities within it.
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