On my last day in the archive, I came across the story of a Greek Christian man captured by Maltese pirates. He claimed the protection of his religion but the pirates didn’t believe him, so they made him undress to see if he had been circumcised. 1/
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Finding that he had, they took him as a slave. He fought his case and eventually (5 years later) the grand master determined that he was a Christian forced to convert to Islam as a teen and so not fit for slavery. That’s not the end of the story, however. 2/
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Because he spoke and could read Arabic he was closely watched by the Inquisition, and despite his marriage to a Christian woman in Malta, he was brought up on charges of apostasy. The incident with the pirates reminds me of how and where difference 3/
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Is being located in the body. And how Islam is being pathologized, ritualized in bodies, marking them forever as other and suspicious. And that the integrity of the Latin Christian body is simultaneously being articulated. 4/4
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Absolutely. I follow with great interest the framing of circumcision as male genital mutilation in Europe. What was interesting in the Med context was that it was firmly a sign of renegade Muslim identity & meant something different than Jewish circuncision.
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