Search Results - Slavery (Islamic law)

Status Distinctions and Sartorial Difference: Slavery, Sexual Ethics, and the Social Logic of Veiling in Islamic Law by Anchassi, Omar

“…Abstract This article explores how jurists articulated the distinction between free and enslaved Muslim women through sartorial norms in the formative and early post-formative periods of Islamic law…”
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Islamic Law and Gender Equality: Could There Be a Common Ground?: A Study of Divorce and Polygamy in Sharia Law and Contemporary Legislation in Tunisia and Egypt by Mashhour, Amira

“…This paper seeks to address whether or not there could be a common ground between applying Islamic Sharia law and gender equality through an examination of the textual Sharia rulings regarding…”
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Race, slavery, and Islamic law in the early modern Atlantic: Ahmad Baba al-Tinbukti's treatise on enslavement by Gratien, Chris

“…This paper examines one of the earliest intellectual works to directly address the intersecting issues of race and slavery that emerged with the rise of the plantation system that took root in the early modern Atlantic…”
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Islam and the Emancipatory Ethic: Islamic Law, Liberation Theology and Prison Abolition by Bashir, Haroon

“… Engaging Islamic law through a Liberation Theology framework, I claim that a serious engagement with prison abolition discourses is a natural continuation for a tradition with such a strong precedent of emancipatory impetus…”
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Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures by Bernard K. Freamon by Urban, Elizabeth

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From a Chicken in Every Pot to a Time of Scarcity: Rethinking Slavery in the Crimean Khanate by Yaşa, Fırat

“…This article, by focusing on Crimean slavery, aims to enhance our understanding of the social and economic nature of slavery that underwent a remarkable change between the conquest of Caffa (1475…”
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Individual law: an Islamic Sufi approach by Bidabad, Bijan

“… Islamic law approach is how human beings transcendence, and freedom may be formed wisely…”
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Slavery, Exchange and Islamic Law: A Glimpse from the Archives of Mali and Mauritania by Lydon, Ghislaine

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Social Transformation and the Spread of "Purified" Islamic Principles in the 19th-Century Sokoto Caliphate by Muci, Luigi Vittorio

“… The reform permeated almost all aspects of social and political life, from the rise of Quranic schools to the Sharia law in taxation practices and a regulation of the political economy of slavery…”
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Al-Walā` in Islamic Inheritance Law: Looking for Its Legal Effects by Marwa, Muhammad Habibi Miftakhul

“…). Islam provides gradual problem-solving methods regarding slavery; one of them is through inheritance. In Islamic Law terms, it called al-walÄâ…”
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Madkhali’s criticism of Sayyid Quṭb: a critique of the critique by Arikewuyo, Nafiu Ahmed

“… The core message of his works is establishing the supremacy of Islamic law in all facets of life and outright condemnation of the subsisting order of the day concerning the political and socio…”
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Historia de Mabrūka. Un siglo de incertidumbres sobre la esclavitud en Tetuán, Marruecos by Mateo Dieste, Josep Lluís, Medina, Lina, Daoud, Hasna

“…En este trabajo analizamos las incertidumbres del período final de la esclavitud en Marruecos a través de la historia de vida de Mabrūka, comprada en Tetuán en…”
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Osmanlı'da harem ve cariyelik: 19. yüzyıl / metin, Dr. T. Cengiz Göncü ; editör, Dr. İlona Baytar, Mehmet Ali Güveli by Göncü, T. Cengiz, Baytar, İlona, Güveli, Mehmet Ali

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"Paradise Is Under the Feet of Your Master": The Construction of the Religious Basis of Racial Slavery in the Mauritanian Arab-Berber Community by Esseissah, Khaled

“…Few stories about the practice of slavery in Mauritania have received much national and international press attention as a result of the arrest and trial of Birame Ould Abeid, the President of an anti…”
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A take on early child marriage in Iran: version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations by Dargahi, Shilan

“…This is an opinion piece on the practice of early child marriage in Iran, with a brief review of the causes and consequences of this practice. This piece…”
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Concubinage and Consent by Ali, Kecia

“… Apparently, one can simultaneously laud slave concubinage and anathematize rape. A surprising assertion about consent also appears in a recent monograph by a scholar of Islamic legal history who declares in passing…”
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Surviving Slavery: Sexuality and Female Agency in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Morocco by El Hamel, Chouki

“…The tragic hero of North African slavery is female. In Morocco in the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, female slaves, mainly black women…”
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"The Ignorant Do Not Belong to Any Particular Sect": Legal Practice and Social Identities in Colonial Zanzibar by Stockreiter, Elke E

“… The sultan enacted the abolition of slavery as a legal status in 1897, seven years after Zanzibar had become a British protectorate…”
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Ziba Khanum of Yazd: an enslaved African woman in nineteenth-century Iran by Lee, Anthony A.

“… She bore her master a son who, in accordance with Islamic law, should have inherited part of his father's wealth but did…”
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Maintaining Network Boundaries: Islamic Law and Commerce from Sahara to Guinea Shores by Lofkrantz, Jennifer, Lovejoy, Paul E.

“… Using specific case studies, we argue that the combination of the policies of Muslim governments, Islamic commercial law and the workings of commercial diasporas limited the trade in enslaved…”
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