What Can We Learn about Slavery from a Manual for Judges and Notaries?

Tolino, Serena (September 2023). What Can We Learn about Slavery from a Manual for Judges and Notaries? In: Anchassi, Omar Walid; Emunds, Laura; Rowitz, Laura Elena (eds.), Source of the Month, "Project TraSIS: Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies".

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In this blog post I focus on the relevance that shurūṭ manuals written for judges and notaries have for understanding practices related to slavery, and legal practices more generally. Shurūṭ works are works that reproduce standardised legal contracts or judicial rulings in a range of domains for easy use by legal professionals. The blog post focuses on a source entitled Jawāhir al-ʿuqūd wa-muʿīn al-quḍāh wa-l-muwaqqiʿīna wa-l-shuhūd (“The Essences of Contracts and a Guide to Judges, Notaries and Witnesses”), composed in the ninth/fifteenth century by Shams al-Dīn al-Minhāji al-Asyūṭī (d. 880/1475) and specifically on the chapter devoted to ummahāt al-awlād (lit. ‘mothers of the child’), a term referring to female enslaved people who bear their master’s child.

Item Type:

Other

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institut für Studien zum Nahen Osten und zu muslimischen Gesellschaften

UniBE Contributor:

Tolino, Serena, Anchassi, Omar Walid, Emunds, Laura, Rowitz, Laura Elena

Subjects:

200 Religion > 290 Other religions
900 History > 960 History of Africa

Funders:

[42] Schweizerischer Nationalfonds

Projects:

[UNSPECIFIED] TraSIS: Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies

Language:

English

Submitter:

Serena Tolino

Date Deposited:

18 Sep 2023 08:43

Last Modified:

21 Jun 2024 11:31

Uncontrolled Keywords:

slavery, gender, islamic law, notarial manuals, Muslim jurists, Egypt

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/186356

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/186356

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