Introduction: Producing Songs and Sons
Matthew S. Gordon
Chapter 1: Statistical Approaches to the Rise of Concubinage in
Islam
Majied Robinson
Chapter 2: Abbasid Courtesans and the Question of Social
Mobility
Matthew S. Gordon
Chapter 3: A jariya's prospects in Abbasid Baghdad
Pernilla Myrne
Chapter 4: Visibility and Performance: Courtesans in the Early
Islamicate
Courts (661-950 CE)
Lisa Nielson
Chapter 5: The Qiyan of al-Andalus
Dwight F. Reynolds
Chapter 6: The Ethnic Origins of Female Slaves in al-Andalus
Cristina de la Puente
Chapter 7: The Mothers of the Caliph's Sons: Women as Spoils of War
in the
Early Almohad Period
Heather J. Empey
Chapter 8: Concubines on the Road - Ibn Battuta's Slave Women
Marina A. Tolmacheva
Chapter 9: Slaves Only in Name: Free Women as Royal Concubinesin
Late
Timurid Iran and Central Asia
Usman Hamid
Chapter 10: A Queen Mother and the Ottoman Imperial Harem: Rabia
Gülnu?
Emetullah Valide Sultan (1640-1715)
Betul Ipsirli Argit
Chapter 11: Hagar and Mariya: Early Islamic Models of Slave
Motherhood
Elizabeth Urban
Chapter 12: Between History and Hagiography: The Mothers of the
Imams in
Imami Historical Memory
Michael Dann
Chapter 13: Are Houris Heavenly Concubines?
Nerina Rustomji
Chapter 14: Educated Slave Women and Gift Exchange in Abbasid
Culture
Jocelyn Sharlet
Chapter 15: Remembering the Umm al-Walad: Ibn Kathir's Treatise on
the Sale
of the Concubine
Younus Y. Mirza
Epilogue: Avenues to Social Mobility for Courtesans and
Concubines
Kathryn Hain
Contributors
Index
Matthew S. Gordon a professor of Middle East and Islamic history at
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). His publications include The
Breaking of a Thousand Swords: A History of the Turkish Military of
Samarra (2000) and The Rise of Islam (2005), and a series of
articles on gender and slavery in early Islamic society. He is
coeditor of the Yaqubi Translation Project and, with Antoine
Borrut, an editor of the online journal al-Usur
al-Wusta.
Kathryn A. Hain came to academia after seventeen years serving the
church in Jerusalem
and Amman. She currently serves as the assistant professor of
History and World Christianity at Northwest Christian University.
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