Historians have demonstrated that white men used sexual violence as a weapon of terror after the Civil War to re-establish and strengthen supremacy. Freedwomen’s testimonies against this also been analysed key site resistance in which women crafted alternative narratives about race, gender, freedom. Little attention has paid roles freedmen played these processes, however. This article examines ...

al-ghallābī is rated as among the shī‘ī authors of the third/eighth century, through whom many historical traditions have been related in shī‘ī and sunnī sources. examining the status of al-ghallābī’s traditions in the two major sects (of shī‘a and sunnī), this writing is intended to find the reason for the permeation of his traditions into the sources belonging to the sunnīs – who are very cau...