This book traces the journey of new Muslims as they joined the early Islamic community and articulated their identities within it. It focuses on Muslims of slave origins, who belonged to the society in which they lived but whose slave background rendered them somehow alien.
This book traces the journey of new Muslims as they joined the early Islamic community and articulated their identities within it. It focuses on Muslims of slave origins, who belonged to the society in which they lived but whose slave background rendered them somehow alien.
Produktdetails
Produktdetails
Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
Elizabeth Urban is Assistant Professor of the Islamic World in the Department of History at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. She has published articles in Interdisciplinary Humanities and Journal of Qur'anic Studies and peer-reviewed chapters in edited volumes published by Peeters, OUP and Brill. This is her first book.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Text 1. Introduction: Why Muslims of Slave Origins Matter 2. Insiders with an Asterisk: Mawali and Enslaved Women in the Quran 3. Abu Bakra, Freedman of God 4. Enslaved Prostitutes in Early Islamic History 5. Concubines & Their Sons: The Changing Political Notion of Arabness 6. Singers & Scribes: The Limits of Language and Power 7. Conclusions Bibliography Index
List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Text 1. Introduction: Why Muslims of Slave Origins Matter 2. Insiders with an Asterisk: Mawali and Enslaved Women in the Quran 3. Abu Bakra, Freedman of God 4. Enslaved Prostitutes in Early Islamic History 5. Concubines & Their Sons: The Changing Political Notion of Arabness 6. Singers & Scribes: The Limits of Language and Power 7. Conclusions Bibliography Index
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