Conquered populations in early Islam : non-Arabs, slaves and the sons of slave mothers / / Elizabeth Urban [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Urban Elizabeth (Assistant Professor of the Islamic World)
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| Titolo: |
Conquered populations in early Islam : non-Arabs, slaves and the sons of slave mothers / / Elizabeth Urban [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh University Press, 2020 |
| Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2020 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 217 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 297.5/7409021 |
| Soggetto topico: | Muslim converts |
| Islam - History - To 1500 | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | History |
| Essays | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Conquered populations in early Islam |
| ISBN: | 1-4744-2322-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996472044703316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Serie:
Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture.