Unfree Lives
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Unfree Lives illuminates Yemen’s forgotten history of slavery, as well as the transregional dimensions of slave trading in the Red Sea and wider Indian Ocean world. By analyzing Arabic narrative and administrative sources, Magdalena Moorthy Kloss reconstructs the lives of women and men who were trafficked to Yemen as children and then placed in various subaltern positions — from domestic servant to royal concubine, from quarryman to army commander.
In this first in-depth study of unfree lives in Yemen, Moorthy Kloss argues that slaves and former slaves made significant contributions to social, economic and political processes in the medieval period. She highlights the gendered nature of slavery through a nuanced examination of the social identities of eunuchs and concubines. Unfree Lives also includes detailed information on slave trading between the Horn of Africa and Yemen in the 13th century, as well as an account of the little-known Najahid dynasty that was founded by Ethiopian slaves.
Magdalena Moorthy Kloss is an FWF Erwin Schrödinger Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin and an associate researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her research examines slavery, dependency and social hierarchies in Yemen through an interdisciplinary lens. She has published articles in the journals History and Anthropology and Der Islam, and a chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History (2023).
Acknowledgements
Preliminary Remarks
List of Maps
Introduction
1 Historical Context and Sources
1 The Najahids – a Dynasty of (Former) Slaves
2 The Rasulids
2 The Medieval Slave Trade to Yemen
1 Overview
2 The Unknown Origins of Slave Soldiers in Medieval Yemen
3 Trade Procedures to Rasulid Yemen
4 Import Taxes
5 Transport Charges and Travel Provisions
6 Trade Procedures in Yemen
7 Conclusion
3 Eunuchs
1 Eunuchs in Islamic Foundational Texts
2 The Eunuch Institution in the First Islamic Centuries
3 Terminology
4 Early Lives
5 Digression: Slave Names and the Loss of Origins
6 Beginnings in Yemen
7 Eunuchs in the Rasulid Military and Political Administration
8 Amirs
9 Governors and Representatives
10 Owners of Revenue Estates
11 Envoys
12 Treasurers and Paymasters
13 Supervisors of Mamluks
14 Eunuchs and Rasulid Women
15 Eunuchs as Educators of Royal Children
16 Scholarly and Religious Activities
17 Patronage of Pious Endowments
18 Conclusion
4 Female Slaves
1 Types of Female Slave Labour in Medieval Yemen
2 Concubines’ Biographies in al-Ḥakamī’s Chronicle
3 Rasulid Case Studies
4 Conclusion
5 Low-Ranking Slaves
1 Nūr al-maʿārif as Unique Source of Information on Low-Ranking Slaves
2 Kitchen Service
3 Employment in Palace Storage Facilities
4 Protective Services
5 Stable Duties
6 Craftsmanship and Other Specialized Work
7 Agriculture
8 Mining
9 Conclusion
Conclusions
Bibliography
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.8.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Global Slavery ; 16 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 1 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-69283-5 / 9004692835 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-69283-1 / 9789004692831 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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