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Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam
Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam
Author: Kecia Ali
What did it mean to be a wife, woman, or slave in a society in which a land-owning woman was forbidden to lay with her male slave but the same slave might be allowed to take concubines? Jurists of the nascent Maliki, Hanafi, and Shafi?i legal schools frequently compared marriage to purchase and divorce to manumission. Juggling scripture, precede...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674050594
ISBN-10: 0674050592
Publication Date: 10/15/2010
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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