Ep. 81: Slavery and Islam Part 4: Slave-Concubinage - Zaynab Ansari from ImanWire Podcast

Ep. 81: Slavery and Islam Part 4: Slave-Concubinage - Zaynab Ansari

1 hour 44 minutes Posted Sep 9, 2024 at 6:16 pm.

Introduction

A Review Culture: Framing the Discussion

An Overview of Slavery and Islam

Those Whom Your Right Hands Possess: An Ethical Framework

Insights Into the Qur'anic Pairing of Wives and Slave-Concubines

On the Context of Surah Nisaa

Was Slave-Concubinage Discouraged?

The Issue of Consent

The Battle of Hunain and Conduct of Armies

A Moral Imperative For Consent?

Legal Applications of Harm Vs Modern Notions of Consent

On Coercive Relations

The Prophet and Maria

Moving Forward as a Community

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"Those whom your right hands possess", a Qur'anic descriptor for female slaves, can evoke a number of charged emotions and thoughts that can be difficult to reconcile with our modern sensibilities today. What does slave-concubinage mean? How was it understood in the formative years of Islam?

In the final part of our series on slavery, Ustadha Zaynab Ansari, a resident scholar and instructor at Tayseer Seminary, reflects on this challenging topic.

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