Friday, January 3, 9:30–11:30 a.m.
American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions
21. Power, Influence, and Intrigue: Court Politics in the Medieval Islamic World
Palmer House, LaSalle Room 3
Chair: Michael Bonner, University of Michigan
Papers: Court Politics and the Wielding of Power: The Shadowy
Figure of Ishaq B. Ibrahim
John P. Turner, Swarthmore College
A Double-Edged Sword: The Revitalized Abbasid Wazirate of the Eleventh and
Twelfth Centuries
Eric J. Hanne, Florida Atlantic University
The Soft One and Hard Politics: The Role of al–Mustansir's Mother in the
Fatimid Court of the Eleventh Century
Rachel T. Howes, University of California at Santa Barbara
Singing His Praises: The Use of Biography as Political Propaganda in Early
Modern Morocco
Stephen Cory, University of California at Santa Barbara
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