Tolino, Serena (September 2023). What Can We Learn about Slavery from a Manual for Judges and Notaries? In: 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.
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Other |
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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 |
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: |
28 Mar 2024 19:29 |
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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