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The Medicean project aimed to the establishment of exiled Moriscos in the marshes of Pisa and Siena was previously known only through brief references, and so far it was not even possible to ascertain its actual realization. Based on the... more
Prophet Noble Drew Ali, founder of the first Islamic organization in America and the Moorish Divine & National Movement, explicitly claims that the Moors (so-called "Blacks") of America were descendants of the ancient Moabites. Ali made... more
This essay maps a shared field of blackface performance, tattooing, writing, and printing that I call inkface. By relating the histories of racial thought and the technologies of reading and writing, the inkface concept enables a rich... more
" Th e Moors? " interrogates the fi gure of " the Moor " in some of its medieval and modern textual and cinematic incarnations. Th is essay discusses the fi gure's historical evolution and instability and comments on its particular social... more
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The very first Muslim political representatives were appointed during the period of British colonial rule, as 'communal' representatives. For over fifty years following the establishment of the Ceylon Legislative Council in 1833, the... more
Etat des recherches sur le royaume vandale et leurs rapports complexes avec leurs sujets romains et les Maures soumis ou non.
Written in undergrad for HIST 395, the research and historiography workshop for history majors. My first major research work. Presented at the MARCUS conference at Sweet Briar College in the Fall of 2013.
Part I of this paper seeks to address much of the poor scholastic academic research in regards to Noble Drew Ali, founder of the Moorish Science Temple of America, the very first Islamic organization in the United States of America. Was... more
Though commonly thought of as an Arab, the Islamic prophet was actually an Arabized person of only partial Arab descent. It was his non-Arab lineage that distinguished his tribe- the Quraish- and gave them leadership over the Arabs.
The supposed research by Way-El can lead one speechless at the pure absurdity of it. The overall image that emerges from his writing is: lazy, empty rhetoric, conspiracies, and bordering on pure fantasy. This article is a critical review... more
“Timely, inventive, and wide-ranging, Bassi has assembled a fascinating collection of encounters between Shakespeare and Italy, most of which will be unfamiliar to Anglophone readers—and to most Italian ones as well. At once a gifted... more
Trans-Imperial Threads in the Early Modern Atlantic. Academic Historiography and Decolonial Activism in Germany and Switzerland Neither the Holy Roman Empire nor the Swiss Confederacy held colonies overseas. For this reason, studies on... more
""""By the systematic use of the decrees of the Roman Holy Office, the article aims to show the way in which deported groups of morisco refugees flee to the Italian mainland – a special attention is turned to the Pontifical States – and... more
At first glance the typical medieval Islamic map of ‘the West’—Surat al-Maghrib— strikes us as nothing more than a quaint abstraction of circles, triangles, and oblong shapes ornately adorned with vivid pigments. Closer study presents a... more
MOCKING AND MIMING THE ‘MOOR’: STAGING OF THE ‘SELF’ AND ‘OTHER’ ON SPAIN’S BORDERS WITH MOROCCO Sina Lucia Kottmann The age-old mélange of Muslim and Christian cultures has left manifold visible and invisible traces on the landscapes... more
The essay discusses the appearance of Moors, Muslims, Jews, Turks, heretics and conversos in the retablos of the Crown of Aragon territories, though focusing on Sardinian painting. It is examined how, after the Edict of Expulsion and... more
With the fall of the Western Roman Empire there was a commercial brake among the Atlantic Roman provinces and the Mediterranean. This strong set back was a main factor for a less demand that gave way to the decay or even ending of the... more
Rudolf Steiner presented the Ilkley Conference on Waldorf Education at Ilkley from the 4th-18th August, 1923. He promised his audience: “I shall try to show what Anthroposophy has to say on the subject of education and describe the... more
RESUMO Esta pesquisa analisa o processo de marginalização dos mouros à época de Afonso X, rei de Castela e Leão (1252-1284), quando os movimentos de reconquista e repoblación marcavam fortemente esta sociedade, que consolidava uma... more
Scholars have suggested that sailors of the Ottoman Empire visited the Americas before Columbus, and they brought Islam to the native tribes. Other scholars reject this scenario. However the history of one American Indian Tribal Nation,... more
The reading mauro in that text of of Isidore's Etymologies is not the dative of the adjective maurus, but the nominative of the third declension of a noun referring to the Moor or Berber horse first, and later perhaps also to horses of... more
La Corse proto-médiévale est mal connue, peu de sources la traitant entre le Ve et le XIe siècle. Une approche synthétique de ces références permet cependant de dégager une évolution chronologique. À la fin de l’Antiquité, c’est un espace... more
El passat 8 d’agost de 2012 la comparsa de Contrabandistes d’Ontinyent, amb la col· laboració de la Societat de Festers, va iniciar un cicle de conferències que tenien l’horitzó posat en la propera capitania contrabandista. La idea... more
Festive entertainments featuring ‘Moors’ and ‘Christians’ are still staged with more than a thousand performance locations worldwide. Halfway between history and myth, this tradition unites customs, characters, and meanings, going beyond... more
RELATAREA CUCERIRII GRANADEI DE CĂTRE REGII CATOLICI FERDINAND DE ARAGON ȘI ISABELA DE CASTILIA, DUPĂ CRONICA DE LOS REYES CATOLICOS A LUI HERNANDO DEL PULGAR.
Festivals of Moors and Christians are celebrated in great profusion in Southern Spain. These festivals, combining religious ceremony and secular entertainment, are widely divulged in books, newspapers, on the Internet, and on local and... more
2ª circular CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL «LA DANSA DELS ALTRES» «LA DANZA DE LOS OTROS»: Alteridad y juego en la fiesta popular: moros, cristianos y otras figuras del diferente en el teatro, la música y la danza de la tradición. Fecha: 7-9 de... more
The term Arabia refers not only to the Arabian Peninsula and its people who speak the Arabian language (that is, the Bedouins), but also to the people who were “Arabized,” such as the Egyptians and the Sudanese who live along the Lower... more
Moorish, Social Imagination, History, Anthropology, Europe
R. Lehmann, M. Viebrock, C. W. Karl, H.-J. Schmidt, D. Wengerowsky, Farbstoffanalysen – HPLC-ESI-MS, GC-MS, LC-MS und ATR-IR-Farbstoffanalysen an der Flickentunika der Moorleiche von Bernuthsfeld, F.A.N.-Post Mitteilungsblatt des... more
From September 2011 to August 2013, I undertook my fieldwork in Salt, a small town of 30,000 inhabitants in Girona, the northern region of Catalonia. A significant number of African immigrants live in this location. Of these, the majority... more