Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam

by KeciaAli (Author), JeffreyK. (Author), Andrew J . (Author), Chaya (Author)

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2010
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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.

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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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 01 Oct 2010
ISBN 10: 0674050592
ISBN 13: 9780674050594

Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam

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