| Description |
1 online resource (1 electronic resource (x, 217 pages)) |
| Series |
Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture |
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Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture.
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| Contents |
List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Text -- 1. Introduction: Why Muslims of Slave Origins Matter -- 2. Insiders with an Asterisk: Mawdli and Enslaved Women in the Quran -- 3. Aba. Bakra, 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 |
| Summary |
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. How did these Muslims at the crossroads of insider and outsider find their place in early Islamic society? How did Islamic society itself change to accommodate these new members? By analysing how these liminal Muslims resolved the tension between belonging and otherness, Conquered Populations in Early Islam reveals the shifting boundaries of the early Islamic community and celebrates the dynamism of Islamic history |
| Analysis |
History |
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Essays |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Islam -- History -- To 1500
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Muslim converts.
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History -- Essays.
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HISTORY / Middle East / General
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Muslim converts
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Islam
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History
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020716587 |
| ISBN |
9781474423229 |
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1474423221 |
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9781474423236 |
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147442323X |
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