£53.27

Harvard University Press Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam

Price data last checked 17 day(s) ago - will refresh soon

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

This is the usual price. Wait for it to drop, or tell us your number.

£53 today · usual range £41–£54 · best ever £41

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey
↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next
↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range
↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 74 days · 74 data points (no recent data)

Historical
Generating forecast…
£54.45 £39.60 £42.84 £46.08 £49.32 £52.56 £55.80 26 April 2026 14 May 2026 01 June 2026 19 June 2026 08 July 2026

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 74 days • 4 price levels

Days at Price
Current Price
7 days 31 days 31 days · current 5 days 0 8 16 23 31 £41 £52 £53 £54 Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £52 (31 days, 41.9%)

Price range: £41 - £54

Price levels: 4 different prices over 74 days

Description

What did it mean to be a wife, woman, or slave in a society in which a land-owning woman was forbidden to lay with her male slave but the same slave might be allowed to take concubines? Jurists of the nascent Maliki, Hanafi, and Shafi‘i legal schools frequently compared marriage to purchase and divorce to manumission. Juggling scripture, precedent, and custom on one hand, and the requirements of logical consistency on the other, legal scholars engaged in vigorous debate. The emerging consensus demonstrated a self-perpetuating analogy between a husband’s status as master and a wife’s as slave, even as jurists insisted on the dignity of free women and, increasingly, the masculine rights of enslaved husbands. Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam presents the first systematic analysis of how these jurists conceptualized marriage―its rights and obligations―using the same rhetoric of ownership used to describe slavery. Kecia Ali explores parallels between marriage and concubinage that legitimized sex and legitimated offspring using eighth- through tenth-century legal texts. As the jurists discussed claims spouses could make on each other―including dower, sex, obedience, and companionship–they returned repeatedly to issues of legal status: wife and concubine, slave and free, male and female. Complementing the growing body of scholarship on Islamic marital and family law, Ali boldly contributes to the ongoing debates over feminism, sexuality, and reform in Islam.

Product Specifications

Format
hardcover
Domain
Amazon UK
Release Date
01 October 2010
Listed Since
22 March 2010

Barcode

No barcode data available

Similar Products You Might Like

Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines: Interfaith Relations and Social Power in Medieval Iberia (The Middle Ages Series)
95% match

Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines: Interfaith Relations and Social Power in Medieval Iberia (The Middle Ages Series)

University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications

£45.63 08 Jul 2026
Sexuality in Islam
94% match

Sexuality in Islam

Routledge

£170.75 21 Jun 2026
Echo of Silence: A Comprehensive Research Study on Early Child Marriage (ECM) in Iran (Social Issues, Justice and Status)
94% match

Echo of Silence: A Comprehensive Research Study on Early Child Marriage (ECM) in Iran (Social Issues, Justice and Status)

£167.96 24 Jun 2026
Islam and the Abode of War: Military Slaves and Islamic Adversaries (Variorum Collected Studies)
94% match

Islam and the Abode of War: Military Slaves and Islamic Adversaries (Variorum Collected Studies)

Routledge

£124.08 06 Jul 2026
Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World: Gender and Sex in Arabic Literature
94% match

Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World: Gender and Sex in Arabic Literature

I. B. Tauris & Company

£130.00 13 Jul 2026
Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality: 38 (Sexual Cultures)
94% match

Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality: 38 (Sexual Cultures)

NYU Press

£30.94 15 Jul 2026
Routledge Muslim Family Law in Western Courts - Academic Book
94% match

Routledge Muslim Family Law in Western Courts - Academic Book

Routledge

£52.66 15 Jul 2026
Iranian Romance in the Digital Age: From Arranged Marriage to White Marriage (Sex, Family and Culture in the Middle East)
94% match

Iranian Romance in the Digital Age: From Arranged Marriage to White Marriage (Sex, Family and Culture in the Middle East)

I. B. Tauris & Company

£84.29 23 Jun 2026
An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade
94% match

An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade

University of North Carolina Press

£102.83 04 Jul 2026
Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Marriage: An Introduction
94% match

Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Marriage: An Introduction

Routledge

£111.71 15 Jul 2026
Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (The Middle Ages Series)
94% match

Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (The Middle Ages Series)

University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications

£47.91 07 Jul 2026
The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam (Princeton Series on the Middle East)
94% match

The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam (Princeton Series on the Middle East)

Markus Wiener Publishers

£81.82 04 Jul 2026
Women and Islam: Myths, Apologies, and the Limits of Feminist Critique
94% match

Women and Islam: Myths, Apologies, and the Limits of Feminist Critique

Lexington Books

£92.00 08 Jul 2026
Slavery in the History of Black Muslim Africa
94% match

Slavery in the History of Black Muslim Africa

NYU Press

£74.00 07 Jul 2026
Non-Muslims in the Early Islamic Empire: From Surrender to Coexistence (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)
94% match

Non-Muslims in the Early Islamic Empire: From Surrender to Coexistence (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

Cambridge University Press

£42.00 15 Jul 2026
Marital and Sexual Lifestyles in the United States: Attitudes, Behaviors, and Relationships in Social Context (Haworth Marriage and the Family)
94% match

Marital and Sexual Lifestyles in the United States: Attitudes, Behaviors, and Relationships in Social Context (Haworth Marriage and the Family)

Routledge

£45.63 16 Jul 2026
Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform
94% match

Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform

Scarecrow Press

£100.89 30 Jun 2026
Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian Women's Movement: 14 (Cambridge Middle East Studies, Series Number 14)
94% match

Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian Women's Movement: 14 (Cambridge Middle East Studies, Series Number 14)

Cambridge University Press

£81.58 06 Jul 2026
Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris
94% match

Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris

Cornell University Press

£104.00 19 Jun 2026
Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)
94% match

Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)

Greenwood

£54.26 03 Jul 2026
Curating Lived Islam in the Muslim World: British Scholars, Sojourners and Sleuths (Routledge Islamic Studies Series)
94% match

Curating Lived Islam in the Muslim World: British Scholars, Sojourners and Sleuths (Routledge Islamic Studies Series)

Routledge

£111.79 13 Jul 2026
Women in the Islamic World: From Earliest Times to the Arab Spring
94% match

Women in the Islamic World: From Earliest Times to the Arab Spring

Markus Wiener Publishers

£45.50 02 Jul 2026
Women, Islam and Everyday Life: Renegotiating Polygamy in Indonesia (ASAA Women in Asia Series)
94% match

Women, Islam and Everyday Life: Renegotiating Polygamy in Indonesia (ASAA Women in Asia Series)

Routledge

£144.75 15 Jul 2026
Polygamy, Policy and Postcolonialism in English Marriage Law: A Critical Feminist Analysis (Law, Society, Policy)
94% match

Polygamy, Policy and Postcolonialism in English Marriage Law: A Critical Feminist Analysis (Law, Society, Policy)

£51.96 18 Jun 2026