Jennifer Oldstone-Moore

C. Scott Littleton

Matthew S. Gordon

Malcolm David Eckel

Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Islam

The Library of Eastern Religions

Kathryn A. Hain

Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History contains sixteen essays on enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history. The essays consider questions of slavery, gender, social networking, cultural production, sexuality, Islamic family law, and religion in the shaping of Near Eastern and Islamic society over time.

Women and Slavery in Islamic History

Concubines and Courtesans

Chase F. Robinson

Everett K. Rowson

Michael Fishbein

The Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī (3 vols.) contains a translation of the writings of Abū al-`Abbās al-Ya`qūbī, a Muslim polymath of the third/ninth century. The works include the History (Ta’rikh); the Geography (Kitab al-buldan); a new translation of his essay (Mushakalat al-nas) and a set of fragments.

An English Translation

The Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī (Volume 3)

Matthew S. Gordon

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