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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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.