Concubines and courtesans : women and slavery in Islamic history /

Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History contains sixteen essays on enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history. The essays consider questions of slavery, gender, social networking, cultural production, sexuality, Islamic family law, and reli...

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Other Authors: Gordon, Matthew (Editor), Hain, Kathryn A. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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505 0 |a Introduction : Producing songs and sons / Matthew S. Gordon -- Statistical approaches to the rise of concubinage in Islam / Majied Robinson -- Abbasid courtesans and the question of social mobility / Matthew S. Gordon -- A jariya's prospects in Abbasid Baghdad / Pernilla Myrne -- Visibility and performance : courtesans in the early Islamicate Courts (661-950 CE) / Lisa Nielson -- The Qiyan of al-Andalus / Dwight F. Reynolds -- The ethnic origins of female slaves in al-Andalus / Cristina de la Puente -- The mothers of the caliph's sons : women as spoils of war in the early Almohad Period / Heather J. Empey -- Concubines on the road : Ibn Battuta's slave women / Marina A. Tolmacheva -- Slaves only in name : free women as royal concubines in late Timurid Iran and Central Asia / Usman Hamid -- A queen mother and the Ottoman imperial harem : Rabia Gülnus Emetullah Valide Sultan (1640-1715) / Betul Ipsirli Argit -- Hagar and Mariya : early Islamic models of slave motherhood / Elizabeth Urban -- Between history and hagiography : the mothers of the imams in Imami historical memory / Michael Dann -- Are houris heavenly concubines? / Nerina Rustomji -- Educated slave women and gift exchange in Abbasid culture / Jocelyn Sharlet -- Remembering the Umm al-Walad : Ibn Kathir's treatise on the sale of the concubine / Younus Y. Mirza -- Epilogue : Avenues to social mobility for courtesans and concubines / Kathryn Hain. 
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