Concubines and courtesans : women and slavery in Islamic history

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Concubines and courtesans : women and slavery in Islamic history

edited by Matthew S. Gordon and Kathryn A. Hain

Oxford University Press, c2017

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Concubines and Courtesans contains sixteen essays that consider, from a variety of viewpoints, enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history. The essays bring together arguments regarding slavery, gender, social networking, cultural production (songs, poetry and instrumental music), sexuality, Islamic family law, and religion in the shaping of Near Eastern and Islamic society over time. They range over nearly 1000 years of Islamic history - from the early, formative period (seventh to tenth century C.E.) to the late Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal eras (sixteenth to eighteenth century C.E.) - and regions from al-Andalus (Islamic Spain) to Central Asia (Timurid Iran). The close, common thread joining the essays is an effort to account for the lives, careers and representations of female slaves and freed women participating in, and contributing to, elite urban society of the Islamic realm. Interest in a gendered approach to Islamic history, society and religion has by now deep roots in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. The shared aim of the essays collected here is to get at the wealth of these topics, and to underscore their centrality to a firm grasp on Islamic and Middle Eastern history.

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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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