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Darrera modificació: 2016-12-30
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Barker, Hannah, "Purchasing a slave in fourteenth-century Cairo: Ibn al-Akfani's Book of Observation and Inspection in the Examination of Slaves", Mamluk Studies Review, 19 (2016), 1-23.
- Resum
- How were slaves bought and sold in Mamluk Cairo? The answer depends to a surprising degree on which genre of Mamluk texts we consult. This article is based on the genre of slave-buying advice, particularly the fourteenth century treatise of Ibn al-Akfānī which is published here for the first time. However, a contradiction becomes apparent when Ibn al-Akfānī's medical perspective on the slave market is compared with the legal perspective adopted by the genre of ḥisbah manuals. The medically-oriented slave-buying advice manuals considered it essential for a prospective slave buyer to inspect the slave's naked body before committing to purchase, while the legally-oriented ḥisbah manuals considered such an inspection inappropriate. To understand how such conflicting legal and medical norms were reconciled in practice, a third genre, the travel narrative, is added to the analysis.
- Matèries
- Història - Economia
Història de la medicina
Dret - Legislació
- URL
- http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/MSR_XIX_2016_Barker.pdf
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