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Marriage and slavery in early Islam /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ali, Kecia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Transacting marriage
  • Maintaining relations
  • Claiming companionship
  • Untying the knot
  • Marriage and dominion.