Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam

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.

• | By (Author): Kecia Ali
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 29, 2010
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0674050592
• | ISBN-13: 9780674050594