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Concubines and courtesans : (Record no. 23090)

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fixed length control field 161209s2017 nyua b 001 0 eng
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780190622183 (hardback : alk. paper)
Terms of availability $99.00
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency IDSK
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency IDSK
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
Language code of original eng
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 306.36209767
Edition number 23
Item number G6621c
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Concubines and courtesans :
Remainder of title women and slavery in Islamic history /
Statement of responsibility, etc. edited by Matthew S. Gordon and Kathryn A. Hain.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Oxford University Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice [2017]
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent ix, 354 pages :
Other physical details illustrations ;
Dimensions 25 cm
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introduction : Producing songs and sons / Matthew S. Gordon -- Statistical approaches to the rise of concubinage in Islam / Majied Robinson -- Abbasid courtesans and the question of social mobility / Matthew S. Gordon -- A jariya's prospects in Abbasid Baghdad / Pernilla Myrne -- Visibility and performance : courtesans in the early Islamicate Courts (661-950 CE) / Lisa Nielson -- The Qiyan of al-Andalus / Dwight F. Reynolds -- The ethnic origins of female slaves in al-Andalus / Cristina de la Puente -- The mothers of the caliph's sons : women as spoils of war in the early Almohad Period / Heather J. Empey -- Concubines on the road : Ibn Battuta's slave women / Marina A. Tolmacheva -- Slaves only in name : free women as royal concubines in late Timurid Iran and Central Asia / Usman Hamid -- A queen mother and the Ottoman imperial harem : Rabia Gülnus Emetullah Valide Sultan (1640-1715) / Betul Ipsirli Argit -- Hagar and Mariya : early Islamic models of slave motherhood / Elizabeth Urban -- Between history and hagiography : the mothers of the imams in Imami historical memory / Michael Dann -- Are houris heavenly concubines? / Nerina Rustomji -- Educated slave women and gift exchange in Abbasid culture / Jocelyn Sharlet -- 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 A.Hain.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History 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.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Courtesans
Geographic subdivision Islamic countries
General subdivision History.
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650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Slavery
Geographic subdivision Islamic countries
General subdivision History.
9 (RLIN) 3530
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Gordon, Matthew,
Relator term editor.
9 (RLIN) 3531
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hain, Kathryn A.,
Relator term editor.
9 (RLIN) 3532
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          Institute of Development Studies Kolkata Institute of Development Studies Kolkata 28/12/2020 IDSK   306.36209767 G6621c 8507 28/12/2020 28/12/2020 Textual Documents