Concubines and Courtesans
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Concubines and Courtesans
Women and Slavery in Islamic History
Hain, Kathryn A. (PhD candidate in Middle Eastern History, PhD candidate in Middle Eastern History, University of Utah); Gordon, Matthew S. (Professor of History, Professor of History, Miami University)
Oxford University Press Inc
08/2017
368
Dura
Inglês
9780190622183
15 a 20 dias
Concubines and Courtesans 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 religion in the shaping of Near Eastern and Islamic society over time.
Introduction: Producing Songs and Sons Matthew S. Gordon Chapter 1: Statistical Approaches to the Rise of Concubinage in Islam Majied Robinson Chapter 2: Abbasid Courtesans and the Question of Social Mobility Matthew S. Gordon Chapter 3: A jariya's prospects in Abbasid Baghdad Pernilla Myrne Chapter 4: Visibility and Performance: Courtesans in the Early Islamicate Courts (661-950 CE) Lisa Nielson Chapter 5: The Qiyan of al-Andalus Dwight F. Reynolds Chapter 6: The Ethnic Origins of Female Slaves in al-Andalus Cristina de la Puente Chapter 7: The Mothers of the Caliph's Sons: Women as Spoils of War in the Early Almohad Period Heather J. Empey Chapter 8: Concubines on the Road - Ibn Battuta's Slave Women Marina A. Tolmacheva Chapter 9: Slaves Only in Name: Free Women as Royal Concubinesin Late Timurid Iran and Central Asia Usman Hamid Chapter 10: A Queen Mother and the Ottoman Imperial Harem: Rabia Gulnu? Emetullah Valide Sultan (1640-1715) Betul Ipsirli Argit Chapter 11: Hagar and Mariya: Early Islamic Models of Slave Motherhood Elizabeth Urban Chapter 12: Between History and Hagiography: The Mothers of the Imams in Imami Historical Memory Michael Dann Chapter 13: Are Houris Heavenly Concubines? Nerina Rustomji Chapter 14: Educated Slave Women and Gift Exchange in Abbasid Culture Jocelyn Sharlet Chapter 15: 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 Contributors Index
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Concubines and Courtesans 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 religion in the shaping of Near Eastern and Islamic society over time.
Introduction: Producing Songs and Sons Matthew S. Gordon Chapter 1: Statistical Approaches to the Rise of Concubinage in Islam Majied Robinson Chapter 2: Abbasid Courtesans and the Question of Social Mobility Matthew S. Gordon Chapter 3: A jariya's prospects in Abbasid Baghdad Pernilla Myrne Chapter 4: Visibility and Performance: Courtesans in the Early Islamicate Courts (661-950 CE) Lisa Nielson Chapter 5: The Qiyan of al-Andalus Dwight F. Reynolds Chapter 6: The Ethnic Origins of Female Slaves in al-Andalus Cristina de la Puente Chapter 7: The Mothers of the Caliph's Sons: Women as Spoils of War in the Early Almohad Period Heather J. Empey Chapter 8: Concubines on the Road - Ibn Battuta's Slave Women Marina A. Tolmacheva Chapter 9: Slaves Only in Name: Free Women as Royal Concubinesin Late Timurid Iran and Central Asia Usman Hamid Chapter 10: A Queen Mother and the Ottoman Imperial Harem: Rabia Gulnu? Emetullah Valide Sultan (1640-1715) Betul Ipsirli Argit Chapter 11: Hagar and Mariya: Early Islamic Models of Slave Motherhood Elizabeth Urban Chapter 12: Between History and Hagiography: The Mothers of the Imams in Imami Historical Memory Michael Dann Chapter 13: Are Houris Heavenly Concubines? Nerina Rustomji Chapter 14: Educated Slave Women and Gift Exchange in Abbasid Culture Jocelyn Sharlet Chapter 15: 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 Contributors Index
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