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

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. Drawing on works of fiqh (positive law), tafsīr (Qurʾān commentary) and ḥadīth (Prophetic and non-Pr...

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Main Author: Anchassi, Omar (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2021
In: Islamic law and society
Year: 2021, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 125-155
Further subjects:B Slavery
B ʿUmar
B Veiling
B Modesty
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