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 engaged in vigorous debate. The emerging consensus demonstrated a self-perpetuating analogy between a husband's status as master and a wife's as slave, even as jurists insisted on the dignity of free women and, increasingly, the masculine rights of enslaved husbands. Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam presents the first systematic analysis of how these jurists conceptualized marriage-its rights and obligations-using the same rhetoric of ownership used to describe slavery. Kecia Ali explores parallels between marriage and concubinage that legitimized sex and legitimated offspring using eighth- through tenth-century legal texts. As the jurists discussed claims spouses could make on each other-including dower, sex, obedience, and companionship?they returned repeatedly to issues of legal status: wife and concubine, slave and free, male and female. Complementing the growing body of scholarship on Islamic marital and family law, Ali boldly contributes to the ongoing debates over feminism, sexuality, and reform in Islam.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-13
9780674050594
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96869993
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2010
Subject
Law, Zoology, History
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam
Type
Textbook
Author
Kecia Ali
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
235 mm
Item Width
156 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Title_Author
Kecia Ali
LeafCats
2228, 378
Topic
Islam, Religious History
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