Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam

Informationen zum Autor Kecia Ali is Associate Professor of Religion at Boston University. Klappentext Jurists of the nascent Maliki, Hanafi, and Shafi'i legal schools frequently compared marriage to purchase and divorce to manumission. This title presents an analysis of how these jurists conceptualized marriage - its rights and obligations - using the same rhetoric of ownership used to describe slavery. Zusammenfassung Jurists of the nascent Maliki! Hanafi! and Shafi'i legal schools frequently compared marriage to purchase and divorce to manumission. This title presents an analysis of how these jurists conceptualized marriage - its rights and obligations - using the same rhetoric of ownership used to describe slavery.

Product details

• Authors: Kecia Ali, Ali Kecia
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2010
• EAN: 9780674050594
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05059-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Islam, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Middle East / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, RELIGION / Islam / History, Middle East, Religion & beliefs, History of Religion, Middle Eastern history, Gender studies, gender groups, Systems of law: Islamic law, LAW / Islamic