Elizabeth Urban

Conquered Populations in Early Islam

Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers

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Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the journey of new Muslims as they joined the early Islamic community and articulated their identities within it. It focuses on Muslims of slave origins, who belonged to the society in which they lived but whose slave background rendered them somehow alien.

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Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781474423212
• ISBN-10: 1474423213
• Artikelnr.: 57375472

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Urban is Assistant Professor of the Islamic World in the Department of History at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. She has published articles in Interdisciplinary Humanities and Journal of Qur'anic Studies and peer-reviewed chapters in edited volumes published by Peeters, OUP and Brill. This is her first book.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Text
1. Introduction: Why Muslims of Slave Origins Matter
2. Insiders with an Asterisk: Mawali and Enslaved Women in the Quran
3. Abu Bakra, Freedman of God
4. Enslaved Prostitutes in Early Islamic History
5. Concubines & Their Sons: The Changing Political Notion of Arabness
6. Singers & Scribes: The Limits of Language and Power
7. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index