Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire - The Design of Difference

Informationen zum Autor Madeline C. Zilfi is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland. Her previous publications include The Politics of Piety: The Ottoman Ulema in the Post-Classical Age (1988)! and she was also the co-editor of Women in the Ottoman Empire: Middle Eastern Women in the Early Modern Middle East (1997). Klappentext Examines gender politics through slavery and social regulation in the Ottoman Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Zusammenfassung This book examines gender politics through slavery and social regulation in the Ottoman Empire. In a challenge to prevailing notions! it shows that throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries female slavery was not only central to Ottoman practice! but a critical component of imperial governance and elite social reproduction. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; 1. Empire and imperium; 2. Currents of change; 3. Women and the regulated society; 4. Telling the Ottoman slave story; 5. Meaning and practice; 6. Feminizing slavery; 7. Men are kanun, women are shari'ah.

Product details

• Authors: Madeline Zilfi, Madeline C. Zilfi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521515832
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51583-2
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic C; Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous