Date: Friday, December 6 
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: Online

Join Rachel Schine, Assistant Professor of Arabic & History at the University of Maryland, and Kristina Richardson, Professor of History and Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia, for a discussion on Schine's book Black Knights. In this work, she explores how the medieval Arabic-speaking world developed distinct racial concepts, shaped by transregional exchanges from the Sahara to the Indian Ocean. She examines how racialized blackness became central to envisioning an inclusive Muslim world, drawing insights from Islamic epics, legal, medical, and religious texts to illustrate the fluidity of racial ideas in premodern Islamic societies.