Concubines and Courtesans
Subtitle: Women and Slavery in Islamic History
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780190622183
Subjects: Slavery; Islamic countries, history
Description: Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History 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.