The slave-girls who enslaved the free-born: Slave-girls and their masters in Islamic literature (Las esclavas que esclavizaron a los nacidos libres: Esclavas y sus amos en la literatura islámica)

Abstract: Slave-girls, and in particular singing slave-girls, hold a prominent place in Islamic literary sources. These sources provide quite a number of stories in which the masters of slave-girls fall deeply in love with them, and then, when faced with the prospect of separation or are indeed sepa...

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Main Author: Aram A. Shahin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centro Asociado de la U.N.E.D. 2014-09-01
Series:Revista de Humanidades
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Online Access:http://www.revistadehumanidades.com/articulos/56-the-slave-girls-who-enslaved-the-free-born-slave-girls-and-their-masters-in-islamic-literature