Concubines and Courtesans contains sixteen essays on enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history. The essays consider questions of slavery, gender, social networking, cultural production, sexuality, Islamic family law, and religion in the shaping of Near Eastern and Islamic society over time.
Concubines and Courtesans contains sixteen essays on enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history. The essays consider questions of slavery, gender, social networking, cultural production, sexuality, Islamic family law, and religion in the shaping of Near Eastern and Islamic society over time.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Matthew S. Gordon is Professor of History at Miami University. He has written widely on Islamic and Middle East history. He is the author of Civilizations: Past and Present and co-author of The Rise of Islam and Understanding Islam. Kathryn A. Hain is a PhD candidate in Middle Eastern History at the University of Utah. She came to academia after seventeen years serving the church in Jerusalem and Amman.
Inhaltsangabe
* 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 Gülnu? * 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
* 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 Gülnu? * 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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