Concubines and courtesans : women and slavery in Islamic history / edited by Matthew S. Gordon and Kathryn A. Hain.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gordon, Matthew, editor.

Hain, Kathryn A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Courtesans--Islamic countries--History.

Courtesans.

Slavery--Islamic countries--History.

Slavery.

History.

Islamic countries.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 354 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

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 religion in the shaping of Near Eastern and Islamic society over time.

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.

A queen mother and the Ottoman imperial harem : Rabia G�ulnus Emetullah Valide Sultan (1640-1715) / Betul Ipsirli Argit

Are houris heavenly concubines/ Nerina Rustomji

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190622183

0190622180

OCLC:

966274194