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alusur-9394	Grant, Philip	Entangled Symbols: Silk and the Material Semiosis of the Zanj Rebellion (869–83)	2022	30	.pdf	application/pdf	15800	766	58	“This was the most humiliating stratagem ever employed against the profligate,” al-Ṭabarī reports, as other Zanj wished to be treated likewise, and a number rushed to go over to al-Muwaffaq. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which allows users to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the original authors and source. mailto:philipagrant%40gmail.com?subject= 574 • PhiliP Grant Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 30 (2022) when troops from two Zanj galleys sought safe conduct (amān) for themselves and their equipment, boats, and sailors, he “ordered that brocade robes of honour (khilaʿ dībāj)1 and jewel-bedecked belts and other gifts” be given to them, including “robes of red silk and white garments” (khilaʿ min khilaʿ al-ḥarīr al-aḥmar wa-l-thiyāb al-bayḍ); their sympathy thus won, the coopted rebels were posted in a place where their former comrades could see them.	cache/alusur-9394.pdf	txt/alusur-9394.txt