IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1038: Slavery in the Medieval Islamic World, I: Ownership and Law
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 09.00-10.30
Organisers: | Thomas J. MacMaster, Department of History, Morehouse College, Georgia / School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh Magdalena Moorthy Kloss, Institut für Sozialanthropologie, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
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Moderator/Chair: | Magdalena Moorthy Kloss, Institut für Sozialanthropologie, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
Paper 1038-a | Abbasid Cities and Their Slave Markets, c. 750-950 (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Law, Social History |
Paper 1038-c | The Sacred Concept of Manumission in Islamic Law, 8th-12th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Law, Social History |
Abstract | These three papers look at three aspects of slavery in the Islamicate world. The first extends Michael McCormick's arguments by examining Arabic sources that compliment his thesis whilst the second examines the religious imperative given to the act of manumission. |