Concubines and Courtesans contains sixteen essays on enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history. The essays consider questions of slavery, gender, social networking, cultural production, sexuality, Islamic family law, and religion in the shaping of Near Eastern and Islamic society over time.
Über den Autor Matthew S. (Hrsg.) Gordon
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Matthew S. Gordon is Professor of History at Miami University. He has written widely on Islamic and Middle East history. He is the author of Civilizations: Past and Present and co-author of The Rise of Islam and Understanding Islam. Kathryn A. Hain is a PhD candidate in Middle Eastern History at the University of Utah. She came to academia after seventeen years serving the church in Jerusalem and Amman.
