Slavery and the Shaping of the Premodern Muslim Family.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

de la Puente, Cristina.

Series:

Dependency and Slavery Studies

Dependency and Slavery Studies ; v.28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery.

Families--Islamic countries.

Families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2026.

Summary:

Slavery and the Shaping of the Muslim Family delves into the wide-ranging and complex subject of slavery within the familial sphere of Islamic societies.For too long, secondary literature has treated the family and slavery as separate domains, overlooking the ways in which enslaved individuals were deeply embedded in domestic life.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction: Asymmetrical Dependencies and the Muslim Family

Fluid Households: Variations and Transformations of Family Structures

Themes and Contributions of the Volume

Part I: Legal Frameworks and Domestic Norms

Part II: Female Slaves in Male-Authored Literature and Discourses

Part III: Slavery, Religion and Foreignness

Part IV: Slaves Among Saints and Peasants

Open Questions and Research Gaps

Bibliography

The Marriage of the Slave Without Permission: Religion in the Law (Second-Fifth/Eighth-Eleventh Centuries)

1 Marriage of a Slave and the Owner's Permission: Two Doctrines

1.1 Doctrine A and its Followers

1.1.1 The Ḥanafīs

1.1.2 The Mālikīs

1.1.3 Differences Between Ḥanafīs and Mālikīs

1.1.4 The Imāmīs

1.1.5 The Ismāʿilīs

1.2 The Beginnings of Doctrine A

1.3 Doctrine B and its Followers

1.3.1 The Shāfiʿīs

1.3.2 The Ḥanbalīs

1.3.3 The Ẓāhirīs

1.3.4 The Zaydīs

1.4 Questioning

2 Tradition: The Advent of Religious Morality

2.1 Prophetic Traditions

2.2 Companions

2.3 A Divided Doctrine, but Imbued with Religious Moralism

2.4 The Hadith of Jābir in fiqh

2.5 Clarifying a Complex Process

2.6 The ahl al-ḥadīth

2.7 A Belated Discussion

3 Conclusion: For or Against a Statutory Morality?

Appendix

The Successors

Sources

Secondary Literature

Regulating Slave Marriages in al-Jāmiʿ al-kabīr: Gender, Labour, and Ties of Dependency Within the Familial Household in Ninth Century Ḥanafī Jurisprudence

1 Contextualizing the Source and its "Author(s)"

2 Kafā᾽a and the Need to Establish a Servile Household Hierarchy

3 Guardianship and Dower

4 Marrying Off Female Slaves: Consent and the Choice to Maintain or End a Marriage.

5 Status and Custody of Children Born to Slave Marriages

6 How to End Slave Marriage and why

7 Conclusion

Rayḥān and his Uncle: Dependency and Kinship in a Lease Contract on Papyrus

1 Introduction

2 P.Hamb. inv. A.P. 135 Verso: Annotated Edition and Translation

2.1 Text

2.2 Translation

2.3 Notes to the Edition and Translation

3 Legal Status Versus Social Identity

4 Slaves as Active Legal Parties

5 Concluding Remarks

Bound with the Family: Slaves in the Family Setting of Early Modern Crimean Khanate

2 Family and Slavery in the Early Modern Crimean Khanate

3 Nasta, a Resilient umm al-walad

4 Gendered Agency

5 Slavery, Gender and Knowledge

6 Conclusions

Unpublished Primary Sources

Female Slaves, Family and Society in Arabic Literary Sources of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries

1.1 A Literary Corpus

1.2 The Wider Literary Background

1.3 Documents and Historical Questions

1.4 Is Literature Social History?

2 Topoi

2.1 Slave or Free? To what Effect?

2.2 Matrons and Pensioners

2.3 Emotional Labour

2.4 Emotion Work

3 Conclusion

Free Wives and Slave Concubines in Muslim Households, c. 900-1300: Sex, Status, and Family Dynamics

1 Slave Concubinage and Family Dynamics

1.1 Women's Perspectives

1.2 Men Exercising their Right

2 Free Wives and Female Slaves in Arabic-Islamic Erotic Manuals

2.1 Tenth Century: Sexual Slavery and Pleasure

2.2 Twelfth Century: Sexual Slavery and Male Health

2.3 Fourteenth Century: Sexual Slavery and Hadith

3 Concluding Remarks.

Bibliography

From the Cradle to the Court: Domestic Ties and Legal Agency in the Umm al-Walad's World

1 Introduction: Ownership, Enslavement and Dependency in the Pre-Modern World

2 Who Holds Power? Decoding (Inter-)Agency Through the Lens of Intersectionality

3 Maternity Under Constraint: Navigating Gendered Dependency and the Path to Freedom

4 Reading Between the Lines: The umm al-walad's Agency in the shurūṭ Literature

5 Intersecting Spaces: Concluding Reflections on Slavery and Motherhood Between the Household and the Court

Christian Slaves in Andalusi Muslim Households. Slavery, Religion and Language in the Umayyad Period (Second-Fourth/Eighth-Tenth Centuries)

1 Introduction: Christian Slaves in Andalusi Households

2 The Religious Affiliation of Slaves According to Legal Sources

2.1 Captivity and Christianity

2.2 The Conversion of Slaves

3 Christian Slaves in Umayyad al-Andalus Through Non-Legal Sources

3.1 Slavery: A Path to Forced Assimilation?

3.2 Slavery and Linguistic Continuity

4 Conclusions

The Price of Freedom: Captivity and Community in Thirteenth-Century Toledo

1 The Price of Freedom

2 Legal Precedent

3 Captive Communities

Unpublished Sources

In the Household of a Nasrid Rural Family: Kinship, Family Life, and Dependency Gender Relations in Everyday Life (Thirteenth Century)

2 Social and Family System at the Nasrid Rural Areas: Marriage and Degrees of Kinship

3 Male and Female Functions, Agencies, and Dependency Bonds in Private Domestic Spaces.

4 On the Family Diet: Another Issue of Gender Inequality?

Webliography

Sanctity, Ties of Dependency and iṭʿām al-ṭaʿām in Eleventh/Seventeenth Century Tunisia: Insights from a Bio-Hagiographical Source

2 Nūr al-armāsh. An Exceptional Source of Information: Insights on the Author, the Text, and the Main Protagonist

3 'Soft,' 'Compact,' and 'Volatile' Relations of Dependency

3.1 'Soft' Dependencies: The fuqarāʼ and the faqīrāt, a Solid but Dynamic Group

3.2 'Compact' Dependencies: Servants of the Saint

3.3 'Volatile' Dependencies to the Saint and the Zawāyā

4 Locations of Personal Interactions: A Topography of Relationships of Dependency

5 Food, Conviviality and Relationships: An Exercise in Sharing Between Individuals and the Saint

6 Some Concluding Remarks

List of Contributors

Index.

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ISBN:

3-11-223122-8

9783112231227

OCLC:

1577288863