This project aims to explore ethnonyms and their contextualization in Yemeni sources from the 9th and 10th centuries CE, mainly based on texts of al-Ḥasan al-Hamdānī (ca. 280 H/893 CE – 334 H/945 CE). By a historical anthropological approach, I examine the strategic use of ethnonyms by the authors, and how inter-ethnic differentiations were constructed in the textual sources.
PhD-Project:
Odile Kommer
Supervisors:
Andre Gingrich, Maria-Christina Lutter
Duration:
24.04.2013 – 28.2.2019
Financing:
AAS/DOC-team-fellowship; FWF/SFB VISCOM