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The slave-girls who enslaved the free-born:
Slave-girls and their masters in Islamic literature
Aram A. Shahin
James Madison University (USA)
Revista de Humanidades, 23 (2014). p. 23-60. ISSN 1130-5029
The slave-girls who enslaved the free-born: Slave-girls and
their masters in Islamic literature
Las esclavas que esclavizaron a los nacidos libres: esclavas
y sus amos en la literatura islámica
Aram A. Shahin
Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
James Madison University (USA)
[email protected]
Recibido: 11 de marzo de 2014
Aceptado: 17 de julio de 2014
Abstract
Slave-girls, and in particular singing slave-girls, hold a prominent place in Islamic
literary sources. These sources provide quite a number of stories in which the
masters of slave-girls fall deeply in love with them, and then, when faced with the
prospect of separation or are indeed separated from them, humble themselves and
risk losing their honour, all of their wealth, and even their own lives in order to
be reunited with the girl whom they love. In some stories, intelligent and learned
slave-girls take the initiative to preserve their relationships with their masters who
are often depicted as inept and clueless. In the end, the girl is typically given her
freedom and marries her master. Although the men are the legal masters of the
slave-girls, it seems that there is an inversion of the master/slave roles in the tales
and that it is the slave-girl who controls the destiny of both.
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Resumen
Las esclavas, y en particular las que cantan, han ocupando un lugar destacado
en las fuentes literarias islámicas. Estas fuentes proporcionan un buen número de
historias en las que los amos de las esclavas se enamoran profundamente de ellas,
y luego, cuando se enfrentan a la perspectiva de la separación o de hecho están
separados de ellas, se humillen y se arriesgan a perder su honor, toda sus riqueza,
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Las esclavas en algunas historias, inteligentes y sabias toman la iniciativa para
preservar sus relaciones con sus amos, que a menudo son descritos como ineptos e
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Aunque los hombres son los dueños legales de las esclavas, parece que hay una
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inversión de los papeles de amo / esclavo en las historias y que es la esclava quién
controla el destino de ambos.
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Para citar este artículo: Shahin, Aram A. (2014). The slave-girls who enslaved
the free-born: Slave-girls and their masters in Islamic literature. Revista de
HumanidadesQS,661
Sumario: 1. Introduction. 2. A Recurring Story of Regret and Generosity. 3. Love
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1. INTRODUCTION
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