Tolino, Serena (21 September 2023). Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies. Perspectives from Legal and Intellectual History (Unpublished). In: Fourth European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies / 29th International Congress of DAVO. University of Vienna. 21-23 September 2023.
In this speech I introduced a panel in which we presented the first results of TraSIS: Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies. Three Concepts from Islamic Legal Sources, a research project based at the Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies at the University of Bern and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. In this panel, we start from the assumption that a simple slavery/freedom binary does not take into account how different forms of slavery functioned in different historical and social contexts. To do this, we focus on three different concepts of slavery and dependency in the Islamic world, namely the umm al-walad (a female slave who has given birth to her master's child), the kitāba (a contract between a master/mistress and a slave, according to which the slave is obliged to pay a certain sum of money during a certain period in exchange for freedom), and the kafāla (originally a legal guarantee in commercial law, which in the 20th century became an instrument either for the guardianship of children, especially in the Maghreb, or for the control of labour migration in the Gulf, Lebanon and Jordan).
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Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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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 > 950 History of Asia 900 History > 960 History of Africa |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Serena Tolino |
Date Deposited: |
26 Sep 2023 07:29 |
Last Modified: |
26 Sep 2023 07:29 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
slavery, islamic law, dependency, islamic intellectual history |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/186585 |
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