Conquered populations in early Islam : non-Arabs, slaves and the sons of slave mothers / Elizabeth Urban.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Urban, Elizabeth (Assistant Professor of the Islamic World), author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture.

Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim converts.

Islam--History--To 1500.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 217 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh University Press 2020

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book traces the journey of new Muslims as they joined the early Islamic community and articulated their identities within it. It focuses on Muslims of slave origins, who belonged to the society in which they lived but whose slave background rendered them somehow alien.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Text

1 Introduction: Why Muslims of Slave Origins Matter

2 Insiders with an Asterisk: Mawālī and Enslaved Women in the Quran

3 AbūBakra, Freedman of God

4 Enslaved Prostitutes in Early Islamic History

5 Concubines and their Sons: The Changing Political Notion of Arabness

6 Singers and Scribes: The Limits of Language and Power

7 Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2020).

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)

ISBN:

9781474423229

1474423221

OCLC:

1312727412

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access