Concubines and Courtesans

Concubines and Courtesans

Women and Slavery in Islamic History

Gordon, Matthew S.; Hain, Kathryn A.

Oxford University Press Inc

11/2017

368

Dura

Inglês

9780190622183

15 a 20 dias

626

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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 Guelnu?
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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