Free Fathers, Slave Mothers and their Children : a Contribution to the Study of Family Structures in Al-Andalus

This article seeks to make a brief study concerning a very concrete matter: the family of a free man, whose concubine had his child or became pregnant by him. We will attempt to answer the following questions: 1) what is the legal source of the family structure that is established; 2) what is a slav...

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Autor: Puente, Cristina de la
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Palabra clave:Slavery
Concubines
Slave Mothers
Umm Walad
Muslim Family
Islamic Law
Al-Andalus
Malikis
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spelling Free Fathers, Slave Mothers and their Children : a Contribution to the Study of Family Structures in Al-AndalusPuente, Cristina de laSlaveryConcubinesSlave MothersUmm WaladMuslim FamilyIslamic LawAl-AndalusMalikisThis article seeks to make a brief study concerning a very concrete matter: the family of a free man, whose concubine had his child or became pregnant by him. We will attempt to answer the following questions: 1) what is the legal source of the family structure that is established; 2) what is a slave-mother (umm walad) and how is she juridically defined through her rights and obligations; and 3) what is the legal situation of children born within a relation of concubinage? Despite all the deficiencies that can be attributed to Arabic Medieval legal sources, such as the certain fact that they are composed within an urban medium and do not reflect what exists beyond it, they still happen to be the works that offer the most fertile information for social history and the only ones that make it possible to study how “islamisation” and “arabisation” of the institutions influenced the evolution of family structures family in Islamic societies. The legal sources offer plentiful and detailed information about the presence of slaves within family structures.. This article is the result of the Ministry of Science and Innovation R+D project, “Sexual taboos and family structures: sharia and sexual ethics in the pre-modern Islamic world (3th/9th-7th/13th centuries)” (FF12010-16314).Peer reviewedUniversidad de LleidaMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)Puente, Cristina de la [0000-0002-2452-8278]Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]201920192013info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/192150reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Ingléshttps://www.raco.cat/index.php/ImagoTemporis/article/view/292948Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/1921502026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Free Fathers, Slave Mothers and their Children : a Contribution to the Study of Family Structures in Al-Andalus
title Free Fathers, Slave Mothers and their Children : a Contribution to the Study of Family Structures in Al-Andalus
spellingShingle Free Fathers, Slave Mothers and their Children : a Contribution to the Study of Family Structures in Al-Andalus
Puente, Cristina de la
Slavery
Concubines
Slave Mothers
Umm Walad
Muslim Family
Islamic Law
Al-Andalus
Malikis
title_short Free Fathers, Slave Mothers and their Children : a Contribution to the Study of Family Structures in Al-Andalus
title_full Free Fathers, Slave Mothers and their Children : a Contribution to the Study of Family Structures in Al-Andalus
title_fullStr Free Fathers, Slave Mothers and their Children : a Contribution to the Study of Family Structures in Al-Andalus
title_full_unstemmed Free Fathers, Slave Mothers and their Children : a Contribution to the Study of Family Structures in Al-Andalus
title_sort Free Fathers, Slave Mothers and their Children : a Contribution to the Study of Family Structures in Al-Andalus
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Puente, Cristina de la
author Puente, Cristina de la
author_facet Puente, Cristina de la
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
Puente, Cristina de la [0000-0002-2452-8278]
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Slavery
Concubines
Slave Mothers
Umm Walad
Muslim Family
Islamic Law
Al-Andalus
Malikis
topic Slavery
Concubines
Slave Mothers
Umm Walad
Muslim Family
Islamic Law
Al-Andalus
Malikis
description This article seeks to make a brief study concerning a very concrete matter: the family of a free man, whose concubine had his child or became pregnant by him. We will attempt to answer the following questions: 1) what is the legal source of the family structure that is established; 2) what is a slave-mother (umm walad) and how is she juridically defined through her rights and obligations; and 3) what is the legal situation of children born within a relation of concubinage? Despite all the deficiencies that can be attributed to Arabic Medieval legal sources, such as the certain fact that they are composed within an urban medium and do not reflect what exists beyond it, they still happen to be the works that offer the most fertile information for social history and the only ones that make it possible to study how “islamisation” and “arabisation” of the institutions influenced the evolution of family structures family in Islamic societies. The legal sources offer plentiful and detailed information about the presence of slaves within family structures.
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