Vocabularies of Enslavement & Unfreedom

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By Elizabeth Urban For the results I presented in my first and second essays, I used the search function on al-Maktaba al-Shamela to search for the key terms mawlāh and … Continue reading Vocabularies of Enslavement & Unfreedom

The case of the free woman who was enslaved

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Umayyad Cordoba Years 300/912-309/921 and 312/924-314/926, when Aslam b. ʽAbd al-ʽAzīz was the judge in Cordoba. The source is literary (biographical dictionary of Cordoban judges) and based on oral information. … Continue reading The case of the free woman who was enslaved