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Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam

About Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam

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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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780674050594
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 272
  • Published:
  • October 29, 2010
  • Dimensions:
  • 166x243x22 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 606 g.
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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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