Concubines and Courtesans

Women and Slavery in Islamic History
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-062218-3
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 716 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gordon, Matthew S.

Hain, Kathryn A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.