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Record Nr.

UNISA996472044703316

Autore

Urban Elizabeth (Assistant Professor of the Islamic World)

Titolo

Conquered populations in early Islam : non-Arabs, slaves and the sons of slave mothers / / Elizabeth Urban [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2020

ISBN

1-4744-2322-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 217 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture

Disciplina

297.5/7409021

Soggetti

Muslim converts

Islam - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2020).

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Text -- 1 Introduction: Why Muslims of Slave Origins Matter -- 2 Insiders with an Asterisk: Mawālī and Enslaved Women in the Quran -- 3 AbūBakra, Freedman of God -- 4 Enslaved Prostitutes in Early Islamic History -- 5 Concubines and their Sons: The Changing Political Notion of Arabness -- 6 Singers and Scribes: The Limits of Language and Power -- 7 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.