Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam
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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, precedent, and custom on one hand, and the requirements of logical consistency on the other, legal scholars...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674050592
ISBN13:9780674050594
Release Date:October 2010
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"
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