Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam

Name: Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam
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ISBN: 9780674050594

ISBN-10: 0674050592

ISBN-13: 9780674050594

Edition: 2010

Authors: Kecia Ali

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What did it mean to be a wife, woman, or slave in a society in which a land-owning woman was forbidden to lay with her male slave but the same slave might be allowed to take concubines? Jurists of the nascent Maliki, Hanafi, and Shafils"i legal schools frequently compared marriage to purchase and divorce to manumission. Juggling scripture, precedent, and custom on one hand, and the requirements of logical consistency on the other, legal scholars engaged in vigorous debate. The emerging consensus demonstrated a self-perpetuating analogy between a husbandrs"s status as master and a wifers"s as slave, even as jurists insisted on the dignity of free women and, increasingly, the masculine rights…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/30/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Kecia Ali is Associate Professor of Religion at Boston University.