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<p>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 consensu
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- Author
- Ali, Kecia
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674050594
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Religion, Law, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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