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Conquered Populations in Early Islam : Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers / Elizabeth Urban.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and CulturePublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474423229
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BP170.5 .U733 2020
  • BP170.5 .U733 2020
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Text -- 1 Introduction: Why Muslims of Slave Origins Matter -- 2 Insiders with an Asterisk: Mawālī and Enslaved Women in the Quran -- 3 AbūBakra, 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: Explores the ways in which new Muslims of slave origins were integrated into early Islamic societyChoice Outstanding Academic Title, 2020Brings together three separate groups (freedmen, slave women and the children of enslaved mothers) as parts of the same prism of unfreedomRecovers enslaved women's voices and treats them as important agents of historical changeCombines close textual analysis with large-scale demographic study to provide multiple levels of understandingExplores the transformation of Islam from a small piety movement to an imperial doctrine upholding the distinction between conquerors and conqueredChallenges simplistic notions of ethnicity and shows the categories of 'Arab' and 'non-Arab' are historically contingentThis 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 background of slavery 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Text -- 1 Introduction: Why Muslims of Slave Origins Matter -- 2 Insiders with an Asterisk: Mawālī and Enslaved Women in the Quran -- 3 AbūBakra, 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

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Explores the ways in which new Muslims of slave origins were integrated into early Islamic societyChoice Outstanding Academic Title, 2020Brings together three separate groups (freedmen, slave women and the children of enslaved mothers) as parts of the same prism of unfreedomRecovers enslaved women's voices and treats them as important agents of historical changeCombines close textual analysis with large-scale demographic study to provide multiple levels of understandingExplores the transformation of Islam from a small piety movement to an imperial doctrine upholding the distinction between conquerors and conqueredChallenges simplistic notions of ethnicity and shows the categories of 'Arab' and 'non-Arab' are historically contingentThis 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 background of slavery 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.

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