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Author Urban, Elizabeth (Assistant Professor of the Islamic World), author.

Title Conquered populations in early Islam : non-Arabs, slaves and the sons of slave mothers / Elizabeth Urban.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (x, 217 pages))
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture
Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture.
Note Print version record; resource not viewed.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Islam -- History -- To 1500.
Muslim converts.
Islam -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1500.
Convertis musulmans.
History -- Essays.
HISTORY / Middle East / General
Muslim converts
Islam
History
Chronological Term To 1500
Indexed Term History
Essays
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Conquered populations in early Islam. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020] 9781474423212 (DLC) 2020288245
ISBN 9781474423229 (webready PDF)
1474423221
9781474423236 (epub)
147442323X
1474423213 (hardcover)
9781474423212 (hardcover)
Standard No. AU@ 000068335591
DKDLA 820120-katalog:999905786305765
UKMGB 020076488

 
    
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