Freedwomen and Kinship in Ibn Saʿd’s al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā

This article argues that Muḥammad Ibn Saʿd’s (d. 230/845) Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā presents early Islamic freedwomen as deeply embedded in kinship networks within their former enslavers’ households and within their wider societies. It first considers how the very organization of Ibn Saʿd’s text rev...

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Main Author: Urban, Elizabeth ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2024
In: Medieval encounters
Year: 2024, Volume: 30, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 237-262
Further subjects:B domestic labor
B Unfreedom
B freedwomen
B Gender
B Manumission
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