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Cover; Concubines and Courtesans; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: Producing Songs and Sons; 1. Statistical Approaches to the Rise of Concubinage in Islam; 2. Abbasid Courtesans and the Question of Social Mobility; 3. A Jariya's Prospects in Abbasid Baghdad; 4. Visibility and Performance: Courtesans in the Early Islamicate Courts (661-​950 ce); 5. The Qiyan of al-​Andalus; 6. The Ethnic Origins of Female Slaves in al-​Andalus; 7. The Mothers of the Caliph's Sons: Women as Spoils of War during the Early Almohad Period
8. Concubines on the Road: Ibn Battuta's Slave Women 9. Slaves in Name Only: Free Women as Royal Concubines in Late Timurid Iran and Central Asia; 10. A Queen Mother and the Ottoman Imperial Harem: Rabia Gülnuş Emetullah Valide Sultan (1640-​1715); 11. Hagar and Mariya: Early Islamic Models of Slave Motherhood; 12. Between History and Hagiography: The Mothers of the Imams in Imami Historical Memory; 13. Are Houris Heavenly Concubines?; 14. Educated Slave Women and Gift Exchange in Abbasid Culture; 15. Remembering the Umm al-​Walad: Ibn Kathir's Treatise on the Sale of the Concubine
Epilogue: Avenues to Social Mobility Available to Courtesans and Concubines Acknowledgements; Index
edited by Matthew S. Gordon and Kathryn A. Hain.
Includes bibliographical references and index.