Revisiting Race and Slavery through ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti’s ‘Aja’ib al-athar

Dahlia E. M. Gubara is an assistant professor in the Civilization Studies Program, American University of Beirut. She studied Islamic and comparative law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and history at Columbia University, New York, where her doctoral dissertation explored the Cairene mosque-seminary of al-Azhar and the orders of knowledge in the long eighteenth century. Her work bridges the fields of Islamic studies and African and Middle Eastern history and is concerned primarily with the production, transmission, and consumption of knowledge in, and about, the Islamic tradition.