Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam

by Kecia Ali

Book Overview

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"