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
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
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