Marriage and slavery in early islam
Auteur :
Ali, Kecia
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674050594
Date de publication :
30 oct. 2010
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.