Concubines And Courtesans: Women And Slavery In Islamic History

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.

• | Author: Matthew Gordon, Kathryn A. Hain
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 27, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 369 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 0190622180
• | ISBN-13: 9780190622183