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Slaves could be used for sexual service by their owners, since Islam permits men to have sexual intercourse with their female slaves. Legal and literary documents show that those slaves used for sexual service were differentiated at slave markets from those who were intended mainly for domestic services. These slave girls were called "slaves for pleasure" (muṭʿa, ladhdha) or “slave-girls for sexual intercourse” (jawārī al-waṭ). Many female slaves became concubines to their owners and bore their children. Others were just used for sex before being transferred. The allowance for men to use contraception with female slaves assisted in thwarting unwanted pregnancies.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pernilla |first1=Myrne |title=Slaves for Pleasure in Arabic Sex and Slave Purchase Manuals from the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries |journal=Journal of Global Slavery |date=2019 |volume=4 |pages=196-197}}</ref> Slaves could be used for ] by their owners, since ] permits men to have ] with their female slaves. Legal and literary documents show that those slaves used for sexual service were differentiated at slave markets from those who were intended mainly for domestic services. These slave girls were called "slaves for pleasure" (muṭʿa, ladhdha) or “slave-girls for sexual intercourse” (jawārī al-waṭ). Many female slaves became concubines to their owners and bore their children. Others were just used for sex before being transferred. The allowance for men to use contraception with female slaves assisted in thwarting unwanted pregnancies.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pernilla |first1=Myrne |title=Slaves for Pleasure in Arabic Sex and Slave Purchase Manuals from the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries |journal=Journal of Global Slavery |date=2019 |volume=4 |pages=196-197}}</ref>


Early sources indicate that that sexual slavery of women was viewed as both a male privilege and a privilege for the victor over the defeated. Islamic legal texts state that sexual pleasure was a male privilege over women. Men were permitted to have as many concubines as they could afford. Some men purchased female slaves, whereas Muslim soldiers in the early Islamic conquests were given female captives as a reward for military participation. As the slaves for pleasure were typically more expensive, they were a privilege for elite men.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pernilla |first1=Myrne |title=Slaves for Pleasure in Arabic Sex and Slave Purchase Manuals from the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries |journal=Journal of Global Slavery |date=2019 |volume=4 |pages=203}}</ref> Early sources indicate that that sexual slavery of women was viewed as both a male privilege and a privilege for the victor over the defeated. Islamic legal texts state that sexual pleasure was a male privilege over women. Men were permitted to have as many concubines as they could afford. Some men purchased female slaves, whereas ] soldiers in the ] were given female captives as a reward for military participation. As the slaves for pleasure were typically more expensive, they were a privilege for elite men.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pernilla |first1=Myrne |title=Slaves for Pleasure in Arabic Sex and Slave Purchase Manuals from the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries |journal=Journal of Global Slavery |date=2019 |volume=4 |pages=203}}</ref>
==Islamic legal sanction== ==Islamic legal sanction==
In Islam, it is the male's ownership of a woman's sexual organs which makes sex licit. Islamic jurists also describe marriage as a kind of sale where the wife's private parts are purchased. However, there are some differences between the rights of a wife and female slave.<ref>{{cite book|author=Asifa Quraishi-Landes|title=Feminism, Law, and Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfkFDAAAQBAJ|date=15 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-13579-1|page=178|chapter=A Meditation on Mahr, Modernity, and Muslim Marriage Contract Law}}</ref> The term ''suriyya'' (concubine) was used for female slaves with whom masters enjoyed sexual relations. It was not a secure status as the concubine could be traded as long as the master had not impregnated her.<ref>{{cite book|author=Kecia Ali|title=Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith and Jurisprudence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=my4XCwAAQBAJ|date=21 December 2015|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=978-1-78074-853-5|page=51}}</ref> In Islam, it is the male's ownership of a woman's ] which makes sex licit. ] also describe marriage as a kind of sale where the wife's private parts are purchased. However, there are some differences between the rights of a ] and female slave.<ref>{{cite book|author=Asifa Quraishi-Landes|title=Feminism, Law, and Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfkFDAAAQBAJ|date=15 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-13579-1|page=178|chapter=A Meditation on Mahr, Modernity, and Muslim Marriage Contract Law}}</ref> The term ''suriyya'' (concubine) was used for female slaves with whom masters enjoyed sexual relations. It was not a secure status as the ] could be traded as long as the master had not impregnated her.<ref>{{cite book|author=Kecia Ali|title=Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith and Jurisprudence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=my4XCwAAQBAJ|date=21 December 2015|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=978-1-78074-853-5|page=51}}</ref>


Islamic law recognises two categories of concubines:<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saad |first1=Salma |title=The legal and social status of women in the Hadith literature |date=1990 |page=242|url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/508/1/uk_bl_ethos_443314.pdf}}</ref> Islamic law recognises two categories of concubines:<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saad |first1=Salma |title=The legal and social status of women in the Hadith literature |date=1990 |page=242|url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/508/1/uk_bl_ethos_443314.pdf}}</ref>
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*Captives: these were originally free people who are captured in battle.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saad |first1=Salma |title=The legal and social status of women in the Hadith literature |date=1990 |page=242 |url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/508/1/uk_bl_ethos_443314.pdf}}</ref> *Captives: these were originally free people who are captured in battle.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saad |first1=Salma |title=The legal and social status of women in the Hadith literature |date=1990 |page=242 |url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/508/1/uk_bl_ethos_443314.pdf}}</ref>


The concubines were owned by their masters. The owners could obtain the slave-girls through purchase, capture or receive them as a gift.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saad |first1=Salma |title=The legal and social status of women in the Hadith literature |date=1990 |page=242 |url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/508/1/uk_bl_ethos_443314.pdf}}</ref> Islam permits men to have sexual intercourse with them and there is no limit on the number of concubines they could keep, unlike in polygamy where there is a limit of four wives.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saad |first1=Salma |title=The legal and social status of women in the Hadith literature |date=1990 |page=243 |url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/508/1/uk_bl_ethos_443314.pdf}}</ref> The master could also sell her or gift her to someone else. The female slave was essentially a chattel. An owner's slave could also be inherited by an heir.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saad |first1=Salma |title=The legal and social status of women in the Hadith literature |date=1990 |page=245 |url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/508/1/uk_bl_ethos_443314.pdf}}</ref> While she was under her master's control the slave girl could not have sex with anyone else.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saad |first1=Salma |title=The legal and social status of women in the Hadith literature |date=1990 |page=245-246 |url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/508/1/uk_bl_ethos_443314.pdf}}</ref> The concubines were owned by their masters. The owners could obtain the slave-girls through purchase, capture or receive them as a gift.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saad |first1=Salma |title=The legal and social status of women in the Hadith literature |date=1990 |page=242 |url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/508/1/uk_bl_ethos_443314.pdf}}</ref> Islam permits men to have sexual intercourse with them and there is no limit on the number of concubines they could keep, unlike in ] where there is a limit of four wives.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saad |first1=Salma |title=The legal and social status of women in the Hadith literature |date=1990 |page=243 |url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/508/1/uk_bl_ethos_443314.pdf}}</ref> The master could also sell her or gift her to someone else. The female slave was essentially a chattel. An owner's slave could also be inherited by an heir.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saad |first1=Salma |title=The legal and social status of women in the Hadith literature |date=1990 |page=245 |url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/508/1/uk_bl_ethos_443314.pdf}}</ref> While she was under her master's control the slave girl could not have sex with anyone else.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saad |first1=Salma |title=The legal and social status of women in the Hadith literature |date=1990 |page=245-246 |url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/508/1/uk_bl_ethos_443314.pdf}}</ref>


==The issue of consent== ==The issue of consent==
The classical Islamic jurists make an analogy between the marriage contract and sale of concubines. They state that the factor of male ownership in both is what makes sex lawful with both a wife and female slave.<ref>{{cite book|author=Asifa Quraishi-Landes|title=Feminism, Law, and Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfkFDAAAQBAJ|date=15 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-13579-1|page=178|chapter=A Meditation on Mahr, Modernity, and Muslim Marriage Contract Law}}</ref> The classical Islamic jurists make an analogy between the marriage contract and sale of concubines. They state that the factor of male ownership in both is what makes sex lawful with both a wife and female slave.<ref>{{cite book|author=Asifa Quraishi-Landes|title=Feminism, Law, and Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfkFDAAAQBAJ|date=15 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-13579-1|page=178|chapter=A Meditation on Mahr, Modernity, and Muslim Marriage Contract Law}}</ref>


The Hanafi scholars allow the husband to have sex with his wife against her will, as long as he has paid her dowry.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ali |first1=Kecia |title=Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam |publisher=Harvard University Press |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=PeOeXlqzZ-cC&pg=PA83&lpg=PA83&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|page=83}}</ref> The Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali schools do not forbid a husband from forcing his wife to have sex nor do they expressly say anything in favour of it. For all Sunni law schools the concept of marital rape is an oxymoron.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ali |first1=Kecia |title=Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam |publisher=Harvard University Press |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=PeOeXlqzZ-cC&pg=PA120&lpg=PA120&dq=&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|page=120}}</ref> According to the Islamic jurists, rape is either a kind of zina or a property crime, which by definition cannot be committed by a husband or master, since he is the owner of his wife and slave's sexual capacity.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ali |first1=Kecia |title=Concubinage and Consent |journal=International Journal of Media Studies |date=2017 |volume=49 |page=149-150 |doi=10.1017/S0020743816001203}}</ref> The ] scholars allow the husband to have sex with his wife against her will, as long as he has paid her dowry.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ali |first1=Kecia |title=Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam |publisher=Harvard University Press |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=PeOeXlqzZ-cC&pg=PA83&lpg=PA83&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|page=83}}</ref> The ], ] and ] schools do not forbid a husband from forcing his wife to have sex nor do they expressly say anything in favour of it. For all Sunni law schools the concept of marital rape is an oxymoron.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ali |first1=Kecia |title=Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam |publisher=Harvard University Press |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=PeOeXlqzZ-cC&pg=PA120&lpg=PA120&dq=&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|page=120}}</ref> According to the Islamic jurists, rape is either a kind of zina or a property crime, which by definition cannot be committed by a husband or master, since he is the owner of his wife and slave's sexual capacity.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ali |first1=Kecia |title=Concubinage and Consent |journal=International Journal of Media Studies |date=2017 |volume=49 |page=149-150 |doi=10.1017/S0020743816001203}}</ref>


There is no requirement in any of the Sunni law schools for the master to have his female slave's consent before he has sex with her.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ali |first1=Kecia |title=Concubinage and Consent |journal=International Journal of Media Studies |date=2017 |volume=49 |page=148 |doi=10.1017/S0020743816001203}}</ref> A slave, by legal definition, does not have the capacity to refuse consent.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Seedat |first1=Fatima |title=Sexual economies of war and sexual technologies of the body: Militarised Muslim masculinity and the Islamist production of concubines for the caliphate |journal=Agenda |date=2016 |volume=30 |issue=3 |page=34 |doi=10.1080/10130950.2016.1275558}}</ref> The Hanafis state that a man may force the woman to sexually satisfy him.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Islamic Jurisprudence According To The Four Sunni Schools Al Fiqh 'ala Al Madhahib Al Arba'ah|last=Al-jaziri|first=abd Al-rahman|last2=Roberts|first2=Nancy|publisher=Fons Vitae|year=2009|isbn=978-1887752978|location=|pages=|quote=The followers of Imam Abu Hanifah said: "The right of the sexual pleasure belongs to the man, not the woman, by that it is meant that the man has the right to force the woman to gratify himself sexually.}}</ref> It is mentioned in Kitab al-Maghazi that Uthman ibn Affan had sexual intercourse with a war captive, Zaynab bint Hayyan, and that she "detested" him.<ref>{{cite book|author=Rizwi Faizer|title=The Life of Muhammad: Al-Waqidi's Kitab Al-Maghazi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZknAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA462|date=5 September 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-92114-8|pages=462–}}</ref> There is no requirement in any of the Sunni law schools for the master to have his female slave's consent before he has sex with her.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ali |first1=Kecia |title=Concubinage and Consent |journal=International Journal of Media Studies |date=2017 |volume=49 |page=148 |doi=10.1017/S0020743816001203}}</ref> A slave, by legal definition, does not have the capacity to refuse consent.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Seedat |first1=Fatima |title=Sexual economies of war and sexual technologies of the body: Militarised Muslim masculinity and the Islamist production of concubines for the caliphate |journal=Agenda |date=2016 |volume=30 |issue=3 |page=34 |doi=10.1080/10130950.2016.1275558}}</ref> The Hanafis state that a man may force the woman to sexually satisfy him.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Islamic Jurisprudence According To The Four Sunni Schools Al Fiqh 'ala Al Madhahib Al Arba'ah|last=Al-jaziri|first=abd Al-rahman|last2=Roberts|first2=Nancy|publisher=Fons Vitae|year=2009|isbn=978-1887752978|location=|pages=|quote=The followers of Imam Abu Hanifah said: "The right of the sexual pleasure belongs to the man, not the woman, by that it is meant that the man has the right to force the woman to gratify himself sexually.}}</ref> It is mentioned in Kitab al-Maghazi that ] had sexual intercourse with a war captive, Zaynab bint Hayyan, and that she "detested" him.<ref>{{cite book|author=Rizwi Faizer|title=The Life of Muhammad: Al-Waqidi's Kitab Al-Maghazi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZknAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA462|date=5 September 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-92114-8|pages=462–}}</ref>


Muhammad and his Companions took for granted the allowance of having sex with female war captives. The consent of the women was irrelevant. Some modern Muslim writers seek to defend Islam by claiming that Islam permits men to have sex with female captives as a way of integrating them into society.<ref>{{cite book|author=Kecia Ali|title=Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith and Jurisprudence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=my4XCwAAQBAJ|date=21 December 2015|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=978-1-78074-853-5|page=60}}</ref> But in the case of the women from the Banu Mustaliq tribe who were captured by the Companions, their captors wanted to practice coitus interruptus during sex with them because if these women became pregnant their captors would not be able to return them in exchange for ransom. According to Kecia Ali, modern Muslim scholarship is silent on the question of what it means to accept that Muhammad implicitly permitted Muslim soldiers to rape the female captives.<ref>{{cite book|author=Kecia Ali|title=Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith and Jurisprudence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=my4XCwAAQBAJ|date=21 December 2015|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=978-1-78074-853-5|page=61}}</ref> ] and his Companions took for granted the allowance of having sex with female war captives. The consent of the women was irrelevant. Some modern Muslim writers seek to defend Islam by claiming that Islam permits men to have sex with female captives as a way of integrating them into society.<ref>{{cite book|author=Kecia Ali|title=Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith and Jurisprudence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=my4XCwAAQBAJ|date=21 December 2015|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=978-1-78074-853-5|page=60}}</ref> But in the case of the women from the ] tribe who were captured by the ], their captors wanted to practice ] during sex with them because if these women became pregnant their captors would not be able to return them in exchange for ransom. According to Kecia Ali, modern Muslim scholarship is silent on the question of what it means to accept that Muhammad implicitly permitted Muslim soldiers to rape the female captives.<ref>{{cite book|author=Kecia Ali|title=Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith and Jurisprudence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=my4XCwAAQBAJ|date=21 December 2015|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=978-1-78074-853-5|page=61}}</ref>


All four law schools also have a consensus that the master can marry off his female slave to someone else without her consent.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ali |first1=Kecia |title=Concubinage and Consent |journal=International Journal of Media Studies |date=2017 |volume=49 |page=149 |doi=10.1017/S0020743816001203}}</ref> A master can also practice coitus interruptus during sex with his female slave without her permission.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ali |first1=Kecia |title=Concubinage and Consent |journal=International Journal of Media Studies |date=2017 |volume=49 |page=149 |doi=10.1017/S0020743816001203}}</ref> A man having sex with someone else's female slave constitutes zina. If he marries off his own female slave and has sex with her even though he is then no longer allowed to have sexual intercourse with her, that sex is still considered a lesser transgression than zina and the jurists say he must not be punished. It is noteworthy that while formulating this ruling, it is the slave woman's marriage and not her consent which is an issue.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ali |first1=Kecia |title=Concubinage and Consent |journal=International Journal of Media Studies |date=2017 |volume=49 |page=150 |doi=10.1017/S0020743816001203}}</ref> All four law schools also have a consensus that the master can marry off his female slave to someone else without her consent.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ali |first1=Kecia |title=Concubinage and Consent |journal=International Journal of Media Studies |date=2017 |volume=49 |page=149 |doi=10.1017/S0020743816001203}}</ref> A master can also practice coitus interruptus during sex with his female slave without her permission.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ali |first1=Kecia |title=Concubinage and Consent |journal=International Journal of Media Studies |date=2017 |volume=49 |page=149 |doi=10.1017/S0020743816001203}}</ref> A man having sex with someone else's female slave constitutes ]. If he marries off his own female slave and has sex with her even though he is then no longer allowed to have sexual intercourse with her, that sex is still considered a lesser transgression than zina and the jurists say he must not be punished. It is noteworthy that while formulating this ruling, it is the slave woman's marriage and not her consent which is an issue.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ali |first1=Kecia |title=Concubinage and Consent |journal=International Journal of Media Studies |date=2017 |volume=49 |page=150 |doi=10.1017/S0020743816001203}}</ref>


==Sexual enslavement, the concept of honour and humiliation== ==Sexual enslavement, the concept of honour and humiliation==
Enslavement was intended both as a debt and form of humiliation. The sexual relationship between a concubine and her master was viewed as a debt of humiliation upon the woman until she gave birth to her master's child and the master's later death.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Willis |first1=John Ralph |title=Slaves and Slavery in Africa: Volume One: Islam and the Ideology of Enslavement |date=2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781317792130 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V5y3AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT43&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref> Becoming a slave meant losing one's honour and one's rights.<ref>{{cite book |last1=McMahon |first1=Elisabeth |title=Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa: From Honor to Respectability |date=2013 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781107328518 |page=18 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-cwhAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA18&dq}}</ref> Enslavement was intended both as a debt and form of ]. The sexual relationship between a concubine and her master was viewed as a debt of humiliation upon the woman until she gave birth to her master's child and the master's later death.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Willis |first1=John Ralph |title=Slaves and Slavery in Africa: Volume One: Islam and the Ideology of Enslavement |date=2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781317792130 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V5y3AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT43&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref> Becoming a slave meant losing one's ] and one's rights.<ref>{{cite book |last1=McMahon |first1=Elisabeth |title=Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa: From Honor to Respectability |date=2013 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781107328518 |page=18 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-cwhAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA18&dq}}</ref>


==Umm Walad (slave mother)== ==Umm Walad (slave mother)==
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==Forced conversion for concubinage== ==Forced conversion for concubinage==
Most traditional scholars require the conversion of a pagan slave-girl before sex, even through force if necessary.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Friedmann |first1=Yohanan |title=Tolerance and Coercion in Islam : Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=176-177}}</ref> The majority of jurists do not allow sexual intercourse with Zoroastrian or pagan female captives. They require a conversion of these women before sex can take place. Ibn Hanbal allowed sexual intercourse with pagan and Zoroastrian female captives if they are forced to become Musim. Many traditions state that the female captives should be forced to accept Islam if they do not convert willingly. Hasan al-Basri narrates that Muslims would achieve this objective through various methods. They would order the Zoroastrian slave-girl to face the qiblah, utter the shahada and perorm wudhu. Her captor would then have sex with her after one menstrual cycle. However, others add the condition that the slave-girl must be taught to pray and purify herself before the master can have sex with her.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Friedmann |first1=Yohanan |title=Tolerance and Coercion in Islam : Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=107}}</ref> Most traditional scholars require the conversion of a ] slave-girl before sex, even through force if necessary.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Friedmann |first1=Yohanan |title=Tolerance and Coercion in Islam : Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=176-177}}</ref> The majority of jurists do not allow sexual intercourse with Zoroastrian or pagan female captives. They require a conversion of these women before sex can take place. ] allowed sexual intercourse with pagan and ] female captives if they are forced to become Musim. Many traditions state that the female captives should be forced to accept Islam if they do not convert willingly. ] narrates that Muslims would achieve this objective through various methods. They would order the Zoroastrian slave-girl to face the ], utter the ] and perform ]. Her captor would then have sex with her after one menstrual cycle. However, others add the condition that the slave-girl must be taught to pray and purify herself before the master can have sex with her.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Friedmann |first1=Yohanan |title=Tolerance and Coercion in Islam : Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=107}}</ref>


The scholars significantly lower the threshold of conversion for the girls so that the master may be able to have sex with her as soon as possible. Only a few early scholars permitted sex with pagan and Zoroastrian slaves girls without conversion.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Friedmann |first1=Yohanan |title=Tolerance and Coercion in Islam : Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=108}}</ref> Al-Mujahid and Safiid bin al-Musayyab say the master can still have sex with his Zoroastrian or pagan female slave even if she refuses to convert.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Friedmann |first1=Yohanan |title=Tolerance and Coercion in Islam : Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=176-177}}</ref> The scholars significantly lower the threshold of conversion for the girls so that the master may be able to have sex with her as soon as possible. Only a few early scholars permitted sex with pagan and Zoroastrian slaves girls without conversion.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Friedmann |first1=Yohanan |title=Tolerance and Coercion in Islam : Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=108}}</ref> Al-Mujahid and Safiid bin al-Musayyab say the master can still have sex with his Zoroastrian or pagan female slave even if she refuses to convert.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Friedmann |first1=Yohanan |title=Tolerance and Coercion in Islam : Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=176-177}}</ref>


Imam Shafi'i claims that the Companions of Muhammad did not have sexual intercourse with Arab captives until they converted to Islam.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Friedmann |first1=Yohanan |title=Tolerance and Coercion in Islam : Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=177}}</ref> But Ibn Qayyim argues that the Companions of the Prophet had sexual intercourse with Arab captives, such as the women of the Banu Mustaliq tribe, without making the sex conditional on the conversion of the women. He also asserted that no tradition required the conversion of a slave-girl before her master can have sex with her.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Friedmann |first1=Yohanan |title=Tolerance and Coercion in Islam : Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=178}}</ref> ] claims that the Companions of Muhammad did not have sexual intercourse with Arab captives until they converted to Islam.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Friedmann |first1=Yohanan |title=Tolerance and Coercion in Islam : Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=177}}</ref> But ] argues that the Companions of the Prophet had sexual intercourse with Arab captives, such as the women of the Banu Mustaliq tribe, without making the sex conditional on the conversion of the women. He also asserted that no tradition required the conversion of a slave-girl before her master can have sex with her.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Friedmann |first1=Yohanan |title=Tolerance and Coercion in Islam : Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=178}}</ref>


==Sexual slavery in Pre-Islamic Arabia and Early Islam== ==Sexual slavery in Pre-Islamic Arabia and Early Islam==
The pre-Islamic Arabs used to practice female infanticide. They would bury their daughters alive upon birth. One of the motivations for fathers burying their daughters alive was the fear that when they grew up an enemy tribe could take them captive and dishonour them.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Giladi |first1=Avner |title=Some Observations on Infanticide in Medieval Muslim Society |journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies |date=1990 |volume=22 |issue=2 |page=192}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Munir |first1=Lily Zakiyah |title=Islam in Southeast Asia: Political, Social and Strategic Challenges for the 21st Century |date=2005 |publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |isbn=9789812302830 |page=192}}</ref> A study of the Arab genealogical text Nasab Quraysh records the maternity of 3,000 Quraishi tribesmen, most of whom lived in between 500 and 750 CE.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Majied |first1=Robinson |title=Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=11|isbn=9780190622183}}</ref> The data shows that there was a massive increase in the number of children born to concubines with the emergence of Islam.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Majied |first1=Robinson |title=Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=11|isbn=9780190622183}}</ref> An analysis of the data found that no children were born from concubines before the generation of Muhammad's grandfather.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Majied |first1=Robinson |title=Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=16|isbn=9780190622183}}</ref> There were a few cases of children being born from concubines before Muhammad but they were only in his father's and grandfather's generation. The analysis of the data thus showed that concubinage was not common before the time of Muhammad, but increased for men of his generation as a result of military conquests.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Majied |first1=Robinson |title=Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=17|isbn=9780190622183}}</ref> Due to these conquests, a large number of female slaves were available to the conquerors. Although there were more births, the attitude towards children born from slaves still remained negative.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Majied |first1=Robinson |title=Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=12|isbn=9780190622183}}</ref> Some early Arab Muslims discriminated against those people who were born fron non-Arab female slaves. However, there is no indication that these attitudes were ever acted upon.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Majied |first1=Robinson |title=Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=20-21|isbn=9780190622183}}</ref> The pre-Islamic Arabs used to practice ]. They would bury their daughters alive upon birth. One of the motivations for fathers burying their daughters alive was the fear that when they grew up an enemy tribe could take them captive and dishonour them.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Giladi |first1=Avner |title=Some Observations on Infanticide in Medieval Muslim Society |journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies |date=1990 |volume=22 |issue=2 |page=192}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Munir |first1=Lily Zakiyah |title=Islam in Southeast Asia: Political, Social and Strategic Challenges for the 21st Century |date=2005 |publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |isbn=9789812302830 |page=192}}</ref> A study of the Arab genealogical text Nasab Quraysh records the maternity of 3,000 ] tribesmen, most of whom lived in between 500 and 750 CE.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Majied |first1=Robinson |title=Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=11|isbn=9780190622183}}</ref> The data shows that there was a massive increase in the number of children born to concubines with the emergence of Islam.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Majied |first1=Robinson |title=Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=11|isbn=9780190622183}}</ref> An analysis of the data found that no children were born from concubines before the generation of Muhammad's grandfather.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Majied |first1=Robinson |title=Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=16|isbn=9780190622183}}</ref> There were a few cases of children being born from concubines before Muhammad but they were only in his father's and grandfather's generation. The analysis of the data thus showed that concubinage was not common before the time of Muhammad, but increased for men of his generation as a result of military conquests.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Majied |first1=Robinson |title=Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=17|isbn=9780190622183}}</ref> Due to these conquests, a large number of female slaves were available to the conquerors. Although there were more births, the attitude towards children born from slaves still remained negative.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Majied |first1=Robinson |title=Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=12|isbn=9780190622183}}</ref> Some early Arab Muslims discriminated against those people who were born fron non-Arab female slaves. However, there is no indication that these attitudes were ever acted upon.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Majied |first1=Robinson |title=Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=20-21|isbn=9780190622183}}</ref>
===Women of Hawazin=== ===Women of Hawazin===
The Banu Thaqif and Banu Hawazin tribes decided to go to war against Muhammad under the leadership of Malik ibn Awf.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mubarakpuri |first1=Saifur Rahman |title=When the Moon Split |publisher=Darussalam |page=259|isbn=9960897281}}</ref> Malik had the unfortunate idea of bringing the women, children and livestock with his army.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saron |first1=Mose |title=Studies in Islamic History and Civilization: In Honour of Professor David Ayalon |date=1986 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=9789652640147 |page=266}}</ref> He believed that by bringing their women and children with the army, all his soldiers would fight more courageously to defend them.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mubarakpuri |first1=Saifur Rahman |title=When the Moon Split |publisher=Darussalam |page=259|isbn=9960897281}}</ref> When Muhammad was informed that the Hawazin had brought their women, children and livestock with them, he smiled and said "Inshaa Allah, all these will become the booty of war for the Muslims."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mubarakpuri |first1=Saifur Rahman |title=When the Moon Split |publisher=Darussalam |page=260-261|isbn=9960897281}}</ref> The Banu ] and Banu ] tribes decided to go to war against Muhammad under the leadership of Malik ibn Awf.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mubarakpuri |first1=Saifur Rahman |title=When the Moon Split |publisher=Darussalam |page=259|isbn=9960897281}}</ref> Malik had the unfortunate idea of bringing the women, children and livestock with his army.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saron |first1=Mose |title=Studies in Islamic History and Civilization: In Honour of Professor David Ayalon |date=1986 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=9789652640147 |page=266}}</ref> He believed that by bringing their women and children with the army, all his soldiers would fight more courageously to defend them.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mubarakpuri |first1=Saifur Rahman |title=When the Moon Split |publisher=Darussalam |page=259|isbn=9960897281}}</ref> When Muhammad was informed that the Hawazin had brought their women, children and livestock with them, he smiled and said "Inshaa Allah, all these will become the booty of war for the Muslims."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mubarakpuri |first1=Saifur Rahman |title=When the Moon Split |publisher=Darussalam |page=260-261|isbn=9960897281}}</ref>


The Muslim army defeated the Hawazin and captured their women and children. The pagan soldiers fled.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mubarakpuri |first1=Saifur Rahman |title=When the Moon Split |publisher=Darussalam |page=262|isbn=9960897281}}</ref> The war booty which the Muslims obtained was 24,000 camels, more than 40,000 goats, 160,000 dirhams worth of silver and 6,000 women and children.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mubarakpuri |first1=Saifur Rahman |title=When the Moon Split |publisher=Darussalam |page=263|isbn=9960897281}}</ref> Muhammad waited ten days for the Hawazin to repent and reclaim their families and properties. However, none of them came. Finally, Muhammad distributed the war booty among the Muslim soldiers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mubarakpuri |first1=Saifur Rahman |title=When the Moon Split |publisher=Darussalam |page=264|isbn=9960897281}}</ref> The Muslim soldiers initially hesitated to have sex with the married female captives, until a verse was revealed giving them permission to have sex with them:<ref>{{cite book|author=أبي الفداء إسماعيل بن عمر/ابن كثير الدمشقي|title=THE EXEGESIS OF THE GRAND HOLY QUR'AN 1-4 Ibn Katheer VOL 2: تفسير ابن كثير &#91;انكليزي&#93; 1/4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MCxuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA41|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah دار الكتب العلمية|pages=40–41|id=GGKEY:47J6TBSZ6R8}}</ref> The Muslim army defeated the Hawazin and captured their women and children. The pagan soldiers fled.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mubarakpuri |first1=Saifur Rahman |title=When the Moon Split |publisher=Darussalam |page=262|isbn=9960897281}}</ref> The war booty which the Muslims obtained was 24,000 camels, more than 40,000 goats, 160,000 dirhams worth of silver and 6,000 women and children.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mubarakpuri |first1=Saifur Rahman |title=When the Moon Split |publisher=Darussalam |page=263|isbn=9960897281}}</ref> Muhammad waited ten days for the Hawazin to repent and reclaim their families and properties. However, none of them came. Finally, Muhammad distributed the war booty among the Muslim soldiers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mubarakpuri |first1=Saifur Rahman |title=When the Moon Split |publisher=Darussalam |page=264|isbn=9960897281}}</ref> The Muslim soldiers initially hesitated to have sex with the married female captives, until a verse was revealed giving them permission to have sex with them:<ref>{{cite book|author=أبي الفداء إسماعيل بن عمر/ابن كثير الدمشقي|title=THE EXEGESIS OF THE GRAND HOLY QUR'AN 1-4 Ibn Katheer VOL 2: تفسير ابن كثير &#91;انكليزي&#93; 1/4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MCxuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA41|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah دار الكتب العلمية|pages=40–41|id=GGKEY:47J6TBSZ6R8}}</ref>
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<blockquote>Imam Ahmad recorded that Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri said, "We captured some women from the area of Awtas who were already married, and we disliked having sexual relations with them because they already had husbands. So, we asked the Prophet about this matter, and this Ayah (verse) was revealed, Also (forbidden are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess). Consequently, we had sexual relations with these women."</blockquote> <blockquote>Imam Ahmad recorded that Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri said, "We captured some women from the area of Awtas who were already married, and we disliked having sexual relations with them because they already had husbands. So, we asked the Prophet about this matter, and this Ayah (verse) was revealed, Also (forbidden are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess). Consequently, we had sexual relations with these women."</blockquote>


Muhammad gave a girl called Zaynab bint Hayyan to Uthman ibn Affan. Uthman had sexual intercourse with her and she detested him. A woman was given to Abdurrahman ibn Awf. He resisted having sexual intercourse with her until her menses were over and then he had sex with her by virtue of her being his property. Jubayr bin Mu'tim also received a slave girl, who was not impregnated. Talha ibn Ubaydullah had sexual intercourse with the female captive given to him. Abu Ubaydah ibn Jarrah impregnated the slave girl he was given.<ref>{{cite book|author=Rizwi Faizer|title=The Life of Muhammad: Al-Waqidi's Kitab Al-Maghazi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZknAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA462|date=5 September 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-92114-8|pages=462–}}</ref> Muhammad gave a girl called Zaynab bint Hayyan to Uthman ibn Affan. Uthman had sexual intercourse with her and she detested him. A woman was given to ]. He resisted having sexual intercourse with her until her menses were over and then he had sex with her by virtue of her being his property. Jubayr bin Mu'tim also received a slave girl, who was not impregnated. ] had sexual intercourse with the female captive given to him. ] impregnated the slave girl he was given.<ref>{{cite book|author=Rizwi Faizer|title=The Life of Muhammad: Al-Waqidi's Kitab Al-Maghazi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZknAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA462|date=5 September 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-92114-8|pages=462–}}</ref>


A delegation from the Hawazin tribe came to Muhammad and converted to Islam. Once they had given allegiance to Muhammad they asked about their captured families and property. They said "Those who you have brought as captives are our mothers, sisters and aunts and they alone bring disgrace to peoples. O Prophet, we ask for your kindness and gerosity. Free our women." Muhammad gave them a choice between reclaiming their property or their women and children.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mubarakpuri |first1=Saifur Rahman |title=When the Moon Split |publisher=Darussalam |page=267|isbn=9960897281}}</ref> The Hawazin tribesmen responded that if they had to choose between reclaiming their property or their honour, they would choose their honour (their womenfolk).<ref>{{cite book|author=Ma'mar Ibn Rashid|title=The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muhammad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N8mlCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA68|date=15 October 2015|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-1-4798-0047-6|pages=68–}}</ref> A delegation from the Hawazin tribe came to Muhammad and converted to Islam. Once they had given allegiance to Muhammad they asked about their captured families and property. They said "Those who you have brought as captives are our mothers, sisters and aunts and they alone bring disgrace to peoples. O Prophet, we ask for your kindness and gerosity. Free our women." Muhammad gave them a choice between reclaiming their property or their women and children.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mubarakpuri |first1=Saifur Rahman |title=When the Moon Split |publisher=Darussalam |page=267|isbn=9960897281}}</ref> The Hawazin tribesmen responded that if they had to choose between reclaiming their property or their honour, they would choose their honour (their womenfolk).<ref>{{cite book|author=Ma'mar Ibn Rashid|title=The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muhammad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N8mlCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA68|date=15 October 2015|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-1-4798-0047-6|pages=68–}}</ref>


Muhammad returned their women and children to them.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ma'mar Ibn Rashid|title=The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muhammad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N8mlCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA68|date=15 October 2015|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-1-4798-0047-6|pages=68–}}</ref> The girl who had been given to Abdurrahman ibn Awf was given a choice to stay with him or return to her family. She chose her family. Likewise, the girls given to Talha, Uthman, Ibn Umar and Safwan bin Umayya were also returned to their families. However, the girl who had been given to Saad ibn Abi Waqas chose to stay with him. Uyanya had taken an old woman. Her son approached him to ransom her for 100 camels. The old woman asked her son why would he pay a 100 camels when Uyanya would leave her anyway without taking ransom. This angered Uyanya.<ref>{{cite book|author=Rizwi Faizer|title=The Life of Muhammad: Al-Waqidi's Kitab Al-Maghazi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZknAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA466|date=5 September 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-92114-8|pages=466–}}</ref> Muhammad returned their women and children to them.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ma'mar Ibn Rashid|title=The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muhammad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N8mlCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA68|date=15 October 2015|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-1-4798-0047-6|pages=68–}}</ref> The girl who had been given to Abdurrahman ibn Awf was given a choice to stay with him or return to her family. She chose her family. Likewise, the girls given to Talha, Uthman, ] and Safwan bin Umayya were also returned to their families. However, the girl who had been given to ] chose to stay with him. Uyanya had taken an old woman. Her son approached him to ransom her for 100 camels. The old woman asked her son why would he pay a 100 camels when Uyanya would leave her anyway without taking ransom. This angered Uyanya.<ref>{{cite book|author=Rizwi Faizer|title=The Life of Muhammad: Al-Waqidi's Kitab Al-Maghazi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZknAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA466|date=5 September 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-92114-8|pages=466–}}</ref>


==Overview of slave-concubines' experiences== ==Overview of slave-concubines' experiences==
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Many slaves went through a period of distress, when they were first enslaved, which was typically a violent occasion. Between the 800s and 1200s the four main ways to enslave a person were kidnapping, slave raids, piracy, and poverty. Islamic law only gave female slaves protection from sexual exploitation by anyone who was not their owner. The owner was obliged by Islamic law to provide his female slaves with food, clothing, and shelter.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pernilla |first1=Myrne |title=Slaves for Pleasure in Arabic Sex and Slave Purchase Manuals from the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries |journal=Journal of Global Slavery |date=2019 |volume=4 |pages=222-223}}</ref> The disciplinary hitting of the slave was considered to be for the master's own good.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ayesha S. Chaudhry|title=Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZFT1AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA105|date=20 December 2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-166989-7|pages=105–}}</ref> The slave owner was also encouraged to not use excessive violence. While some idealise the lives of elite female slaves, many in practice suffered from abuse by both their owners and others.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pernilla |first1=Myrne |title=Slaves for Pleasure in Arabic Sex and Slave Purchase Manuals from the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries |journal=Journal of Global Slavery |date=2019 |volume=4 |pages=222-223}}</ref> Because bearing her master's child could lead to freedom for a slave-girl, some female slaves had a motive to have sex with their owners. This angered the master's wives who would often punish such slaves.<ref>{{cite book|author=Janet Afary|title=Sexual Politics in Modern Iran|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rwYmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT82|date=9 April 2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-39435-3|pages=82–}}</ref> Many slaves went through a period of distress, when they were first enslaved, which was typically a violent occasion. Between the 800s and 1200s the four main ways to enslave a person were kidnapping, slave raids, piracy, and poverty. Islamic law only gave female slaves protection from sexual exploitation by anyone who was not their owner. The owner was obliged by Islamic law to provide his female slaves with food, clothing, and shelter.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pernilla |first1=Myrne |title=Slaves for Pleasure in Arabic Sex and Slave Purchase Manuals from the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries |journal=Journal of Global Slavery |date=2019 |volume=4 |pages=222-223}}</ref> The disciplinary hitting of the slave was considered to be for the master's own good.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ayesha S. Chaudhry|title=Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZFT1AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA105|date=20 December 2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-166989-7|pages=105–}}</ref> The slave owner was also encouraged to not use excessive violence. While some idealise the lives of elite female slaves, many in practice suffered from abuse by both their owners and others.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pernilla |first1=Myrne |title=Slaves for Pleasure in Arabic Sex and Slave Purchase Manuals from the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries |journal=Journal of Global Slavery |date=2019 |volume=4 |pages=222-223}}</ref> Because bearing her master's child could lead to freedom for a slave-girl, some female slaves had a motive to have sex with their owners. This angered the master's wives who would often punish such slaves.<ref>{{cite book|author=Janet Afary|title=Sexual Politics in Modern Iran|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rwYmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT82|date=9 April 2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-39435-3|pages=82–}}</ref>


The female slaves were traded as chattel.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pernilla |first1=Myrne |title=Slaves for Pleasure in Arabic Sex and Slave Purchase Manuals from the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries |journal=Journal of Global Slavery |date=2019 |volume=4 |pages=222-223}}</ref> Because female slaves were traded among men and many of them had been owned by up to thirty men consecutively, they had a great deal of knowledge about sexual intercourse and were able to tutor elite adolescent males about sexual techniques.<ref>{{cite book|author=Janet Afary|title=Sexual Politics in Modern Iran|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rwYmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT82|date=9 April 2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-39435-3|pages=82–}}</ref> Slave girls were seen as sexual commodities and were not allowed to cover themselves.<ref>{{cite book|author=Mehran Kamrava|title=Innovation in Islam: Traditions and Contributions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=06gwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA193|date=18 April 2011|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-26695-7|pages=193–}}</ref> Before being bought many women's bodies were examined. The Hanafis allowed potential male buyers to uncover and touch a female slave's arms, breasts and legs.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pernilla |first1=Myrne |title=Slaves for Pleasure in Arabic Sex and Slave Purchase Manuals from the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries |journal=Journal of Global Slavery |date=2019 |volume=4 |pages=218}}</ref> Umar prohibited slave girls from resembling free women by covering their hair.<ref>{{cite book|author=Khaled Abou El Fadl|title=Speaking in God's Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FU4QBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT198|date=1 October 2014|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=978-1-78074-468-1|pages=198–}}</ref> Slave women did not veil and like prostitutes were exempt from a lot of the gender restrictions upon upper class women. If a slave fornicated she also received less punishment than a respectable woman.<ref>{{cite book|author=Janet Afary|title=Sexual Politics in Modern Iran|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rwYmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT81|date=9 April 2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-39435-3|pages=81–}}</ref> The female slaves were traded as chattel.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pernilla |first1=Myrne |title=Slaves for Pleasure in Arabic Sex and Slave Purchase Manuals from the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries |journal=Journal of Global Slavery |date=2019 |volume=4 |pages=222-223}}</ref> Because female slaves were traded among men and many of them had been owned by up to thirty men consecutively, they had a great deal of knowledge about sexual intercourse and were able to tutor elite adolescent males about sexual techniques.<ref>{{cite book|author=Janet Afary|title=Sexual Politics in Modern Iran|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rwYmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT82|date=9 April 2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-39435-3|pages=82–}}</ref> Slave girls were seen as sexual commodities and were not allowed to cover themselves.<ref>{{cite book|author=Mehran Kamrava|title=Innovation in Islam: Traditions and Contributions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=06gwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA193|date=18 April 2011|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-26695-7|pages=193–}}</ref> Before being bought many women's bodies were examined. The Hanafis allowed potential male buyers to uncover and touch a female slave's arms, breasts and legs.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pernilla |first1=Myrne |title=Slaves for Pleasure in Arabic Sex and Slave Purchase Manuals from the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries |journal=Journal of Global Slavery |date=2019 |volume=4 |pages=218}}</ref> ] prohibited slave girls from resembling free women by covering their hair.<ref>{{cite book|author=Khaled Abou El Fadl|title=Speaking in God's Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FU4QBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT198|date=1 October 2014|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=978-1-78074-468-1|pages=198–}}</ref> Slave women did not veil and like prostitutes were exempt from a lot of the gender restrictions upon upper class women. If a slave fornicated she also received less punishment than a respectable woman.<ref>{{cite book|author=Janet Afary|title=Sexual Politics in Modern Iran|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rwYmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT81|date=9 April 2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-39435-3|pages=81–}}</ref>


The most fortunate female captives were women like Safiyya and Juwayriah who were freed from slavery and married Muhammad. The lives of female captives depended on whether her tribe could ransom her or if her captor chose to marry her. If neither of the two happened such women suffered because their captors owned their bodies and lives. If they were unattractive the captors would keep them as servants and if they were beautiful the captors were allowed to keep them as their concubines. The captors were also allowed to sell her. Due to this some female captives committed suicide.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saad |first1=Salma |title=The legal and social status of women in the Hadith literature |date=1990 |page=245-246 |url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/508/1/uk_bl_ethos_443314.pdf}}</ref> There is an account of a woman called Sakhra, who was a female captive from the Banu Amir tribe. She committed suicide by throwing herself to the ground from a camel.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Violet Rhoda Jones|author2=Lewis Bevan Jones|title=Woman in Islām: A Manual with Special Reference to Conditions in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nlDaAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Hyperion Press|isbn=978-0-8305-0107-6}}</ref> The most fortunate female captives were women like ] and ] who were freed from slavery and married Muhammad. The lives of female captives depended on whether her tribe could ransom her or if her captor chose to marry her. If neither of the two happened such women suffered because their captors owned their bodies and lives. If they were unattractive the captors would keep them as servants and if they were beautiful the captors were allowed to keep them as their concubines. The captors were also allowed to sell her. Due to this some female captives committed suicide.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saad |first1=Salma |title=The legal and social status of women in the Hadith literature |date=1990 |page=245-246 |url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/508/1/uk_bl_ethos_443314.pdf}}</ref> There is an account of a woman called Sakhra, who was a female captive from the ] tribe. She committed suicide by throwing herself to the ground from a camel.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Violet Rhoda Jones|author2=Lewis Bevan Jones|title=Woman in Islām: A Manual with Special Reference to Conditions in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nlDaAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Hyperion Press|isbn=978-0-8305-0107-6}}</ref>


==Socio-economic variations in historical concubinage== ==Socio-economic variations in historical concubinage==
While Muslim cultures acknowledged concubinage, as well as a polygamy, as a man's legal right, in reality these were usually practiced only by the royalty and elite sections of society.<ref>{{cite book|author=Junius P. Rodriguez|title=Slavery in the Modern World: A History of Political, Social, and Economic Oppression &#91;2 volumes&#93;: A History of Political, Social, and Economic Oppression|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N70GiNB8aQ4C&pg=PA203|date=20 October 2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-788-3|pages=203–}}</ref> The large-scale availability of women for sexual slavery had a strong influence on Muslim thought, even though the "harem" culture of the elite was not mirrored by most of the Muslim population.<ref>{{cite book|author=Kecia Ali|title=Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith and Jurisprudence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=my4XCwAAQBAJ|date=21 December 2015|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=978-1-78074-853-5|page=52}}</ref> While Muslim cultures acknowledged concubinage, as well as a polygamy, as a man's legal right, in reality these were usually practiced only by the royalty and elite sections of society.<ref>{{cite book|author=Junius P. Rodriguez|title=Slavery in the Modern World: A History of Political, Social, and Economic Oppression &#91;2 volumes&#93;: A History of Political, Social, and Economic Oppression|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N70GiNB8aQ4C&pg=PA203|date=20 October 2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-788-3|pages=203–}}</ref> The large-scale availability of women for sexual slavery had a strong influence on Muslim thought, even though the "]" culture of the elite was not mirrored by most of the Muslim population.<ref>{{cite book|author=Kecia Ali|title=Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith and Jurisprudence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=my4XCwAAQBAJ|date=21 December 2015|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=978-1-78074-853-5|page=52}}</ref>
===Andalusia=== ===Andalusia===
In Muslim society in general, monogamy was common because keeping multiple wives and concubines was not affordable for many households.<ref>{{cite book|author=Amira K. Bennison|title=Almoravid and Almohad Empires|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=19JVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA155|date=1 August 2016|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-4682-1|pages=155–}}</ref> The practice of keeping concubines was common in the Muslim upper class. Muslim rulers preferred having children with concubines because it helped them avoid the social and political complexities arising from marriage and kept their lineages separate from the other lineages in society.<ref>{{cite book|author=Amira K. Bennison|title=Almoravid and Almohad Empires|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=19JVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA156|date=1 August 2016|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-4682-1|pages=156–}}</ref> In Muslim society in general, ] was common because keeping multiple wives and concubines was not affordable for many households.<ref>{{cite book|author=Amira K. Bennison|title=Almoravid and Almohad Empires|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=19JVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA155|date=1 August 2016|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-4682-1|pages=155–}}</ref> The practice of keeping concubines was common in the Muslim upper class. Muslim rulers preferred having children with concubines because it helped them avoid the social and political complexities arising from marriage and kept their lineages separate from the other lineages in society.<ref>{{cite book|author=Amira K. Bennison|title=Almoravid and Almohad Empires|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=19JVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA156|date=1 August 2016|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-4682-1|pages=156–}}</ref>


===Ottoman Empire=== ===Ottoman Empire===
The Ottoman rulers would keep hundreds, even thousands, of concubines. Female war captives were often turned into concubines for the Ottoman rulers. Ambitious slave families associated with the palace would also frequently offer their daughters up as concubines. Circassian and Georgian women were systematically trafficked to eastern harems. This practice lasted into the 1890s.<ref>{{cite book|author=Junius P. Rodriguez|title=Slavery in the Modern World: A History of Political, Social, and Economic Oppression &#91;2 volumes&#93;: A History of Political, Social, and Economic Oppression|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N70GiNB8aQ4C&pg=PA203|date=20 October 2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-788-3|pages=203–204}}</ref> Fynes Moryson noted that some Muslim men would keep their wives in various cities while others would keep them in a single house and would keep adding as many women as their lusts permitted. He wrote that "They buy free women to be their wives, or they buy "conquered women" at a lesser price to be their concubines."<ref>{{cite book|author=John Witte|title=The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X1EQCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA283|date=5 May 2015|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-10159-3|pages=283–}}</ref> Ottoman society had provided avenues for men who wished to have extramarital sex. They could either marry more wives while wealthy men could possess slaves and use them for sex.<ref>{{cite book|author=Mehrdad Kia|title=Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=byETWDb0ekEC&pg=PA206|year=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-33692-8|pages=206–}}</ref> The ] would keep hundreds, even thousands, of concubines. Female war captives were often turned into concubines for the Ottoman rulers. Ambitious slave families associated with the palace would also frequently offer their daughters up as concubines. ] and ] women were systematically trafficked to eastern harems. This practice lasted into the 1890s.<ref>{{cite book|author=Junius P. Rodriguez|title=Slavery in the Modern World: A History of Political, Social, and Economic Oppression &#91;2 volumes&#93;: A History of Political, Social, and Economic Oppression|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N70GiNB8aQ4C&pg=PA203|date=20 October 2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-788-3|pages=203–204}}</ref> ] noted that some Muslim men would keep their wives in various cities while others would keep them in a single house and would keep adding as many women as their lusts permitted. He wrote that "They buy free women to be their wives, or they buy "conquered women" at a lesser price to be their concubines."<ref>{{cite book|author=John Witte|title=The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X1EQCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA283|date=5 May 2015|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-10159-3|pages=283–}}</ref> Ottoman society had provided avenues for men who wished to have extramarital sex. They could either marry more wives while wealthy men could possess slaves and use them for sex.<ref>{{cite book|author=Mehrdad Kia|title=Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=byETWDb0ekEC&pg=PA206|year=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-33692-8|pages=206–}}</ref>


Research into Ottoman records show that polygamy was absent or rare in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Irwin|title=The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 4, Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bNeaBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT531|date=4 November 2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-316-18431-8|pages=531–}}</ref> Elite men were required to leave their wives and concubines if they wished to marry an Ottoman princess. Writing in the early 18th century, one visitor noted that from among the Ottoman courtiers, only the imperial treasurer kept female slaves for sex and he was perceived by others as lustful.<ref>{{cite book|author=Mehrdad Kia|title=Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=byETWDb0ekEC&pg=PA199|year=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-33692-8|pages=199–}}</ref> Research into Ottoman records show that polygamy was absent or rare in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Irwin|title=The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 4, Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bNeaBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT531|date=4 November 2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-316-18431-8|pages=531–}}</ref> Elite men were required to leave their wives and concubines if they wished to marry an Ottoman princess. Writing in the early 18th century, one visitor noted that from among the Ottoman courtiers, only the imperial treasurer kept female slaves for sex and he was perceived by others as lustful.<ref>{{cite book|author=Mehrdad Kia|title=Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=byETWDb0ekEC&pg=PA199|year=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-33692-8|pages=199–}}</ref>


===Indian subcontinent=== ===Indian subcontinent===
Ovington, a voyager who wrote about his journey to Surat, stated that Muslim men had an "extraordinary liberty for women" and kept as many concubines as they could afford.<ref>{{cite book|author=Sudha Sharma|title=The Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=peT3CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59|date=21 March 2016|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-93-5150-567-9|pages=59–}}</ref> Akbar had a harem of at least 5000 women and Aurangzeb's harem was even larger.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bano |first1=Shadab |title=Marriage and Concubinage in the Mughal Imperial Family |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=1999 |volume=60 |page=354}}</ref> The nobles in India could possess as many concubines as they wanted.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bano |first1=Shadab |title=Marriage and Concubinage in the Mughal Imperial Family |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=1999 |volume=60 |page=357}}</ref> Ismail Quli Khan, a Mughal noble, possessed 1200 girls. Another nobleman, Said, had many wives and concubines from whom he fathered 60 sons in just four years.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bano |first1=Shadab |title=Marriage and Concubinage in the Mughal Imperial Family |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=1999 |volume=60 |page=361}}</ref> Francisco Pelseart describes that noblemen would visit a different wife each night, who would welcome him along with the slave girls. If he felt attracted to any slave-girl he would call her to him for his enjoyment while the wife would not dare to show her anger. The wife would punish the slave-girl later.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ruby Lal|title=Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B8NJ41GiXvsC&pg=PA40|date=22 September 2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-85022-3|pages=40–}}</ref> Ovington, a voyager who wrote about his journey to ], stated that Muslim men had an "extraordinary liberty for women" and kept as many concubines as they could afford.<ref>{{cite book|author=Sudha Sharma|title=The Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=peT3CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59|date=21 March 2016|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-93-5150-567-9|pages=59–}}</ref> ] had a harem of at least 5000 women and ]'s harem was even larger.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bano |first1=Shadab |title=Marriage and Concubinage in the Mughal Imperial Family |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=1999 |volume=60 |page=354}}</ref> The nobles in India could possess as many concubines as they wanted.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bano |first1=Shadab |title=Marriage and Concubinage in the Mughal Imperial Family |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=1999 |volume=60 |page=357}}</ref> Ismail Quli Khan, a Mughal noble, possessed 1200 girls. Another nobleman, Said, had many wives and concubines from whom he fathered 60 sons in just four years.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bano |first1=Shadab |title=Marriage and Concubinage in the Mughal Imperial Family |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=1999 |volume=60 |page=361}}</ref> ] describes that noblemen would visit a different wife each night, who would welcome him along with the slave girls. If he felt attracted to any slave-girl he would call her to him for his enjoyment while the wife would not dare to show her anger. The wife would punish the slave-girl later.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ruby Lal|title=Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B8NJ41GiXvsC&pg=PA40|date=22 September 2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-85022-3|pages=40–}}</ref>


Lower class Muslims were generally monogamous. Since they hardly had any rivals, women of the lower and middle class sections of society fared better than upper class women who had to contend with their husbands' other wives, slave-girls and concubines.<ref>{{cite book|author=Sudha Sharma|title=The Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=peT3CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA61|date=21 March 2016|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-93-5150-567-9|pages=61–}}</ref> Shireen Moosvi has discovered Muslim marriage contracts from Surat, dating back to the 1650s. One stipulation in these marriage contracts was that the husband was not to marry a second wife. Another stipulation was that the husband would not take a slave girl. These stipulations were common among middle-class Muslims in Surat. If the husband took a second wife the first wife would gain an automatic right of divorce, thus indicating the preference for monogamy among the merchants of Surat. If the husband took a slave-girl the wife could sell, free or give away that slave-girl, thereby separating the female slave from her husband.<ref>{{cite book|author=Suraiya Faroqhi|title=The Ottoman and Mughal Empires: Social History in the Early Modern World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DvalDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA244|date=8 August 2019|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-78831-873-0|pages=244–}}</ref> Lower class Muslims were generally monogamous. Since they hardly had any rivals, women of the lower and middle class sections of society fared better than upper class women who had to contend with their husbands' other wives, slave-girls and concubines.<ref>{{cite book|author=Sudha Sharma|title=The Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=peT3CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA61|date=21 March 2016|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-93-5150-567-9|pages=61–}}</ref> Shireen Moosvi has discovered Muslim marriage contracts from Surat, dating back to the 1650s. One stipulation in these ] was that the husband was not to marry a second wife. Another stipulation was that the husband would not take a slave girl. These stipulations were common among middle-class Muslims in Surat. If the husband took a second wife the first wife would gain an automatic right of divorce, thus indicating the preference for monogamy among the merchants of Surat. If the husband took a slave-girl the wife could sell, free or give away that slave-girl, thereby separating the female slave from her husband.<ref>{{cite book|author=Suraiya Faroqhi|title=The Ottoman and Mughal Empires: Social History in the Early Modern World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DvalDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA244|date=8 August 2019|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-78831-873-0|pages=244–}}</ref>


There is no evidence that concubinage was practiced in Kashmir where, unlike the rest of the medieval Muslim world, slavery was abhorred and not widespread. Except for the Sultans, there is no evidence that the Kashmiri nobility or merchants kept slaves.<ref>{{cite book|author=Mohibbul Hasan|title=Kashmīr Under the Sultāns|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EUlwmXjE9DQC&pg=PA244|year=2005|publisher=Aakar Books|isbn=978-81-87879-49-7|pages=244–}}</ref> In medieval Punjab the Muslim peasants, artisans, small tradesmen, shopkeepers, clerks and minor officials could not afford concubines or slaves.<ref>{{cite book|author=Surjit Singh Gandhi|title=History of Sikh Gurus Retold: 1469-1606 C.E|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qw7-kUkHA_0C&pg=PA19|year=2007|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-269-0857-8|pages=19–}}</ref> But the Muslim nobility of medieval Punjab, such as the Khans and Maliks, kept concubines and slaves.<ref>{{cite book|author=J. S. Grewal|title=The Sikhs of the Punjab|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2_nryFANsoYC&pg=PA11|date=8 October 1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-63764-0|pages=11–}}</ref> Female slaves were used for concubinage in many wealthy Muslim households of Punjab.<ref>{{cite book|author=J. S. Grewal|title=The Sikhs of the Punjab|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2_nryFANsoYC&pg=PA12|date=8 October 1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-63764-0|pages=12–}}</ref> There is no evidence that concubinage was practiced in ] where, unlike the rest of the medieval Muslim world, slavery was abhorred and not widespread. Except for the Sultans, there is no evidence that the ] nobility or merchants kept slaves.<ref>{{cite book|author=Mohibbul Hasan|title=Kashmīr Under the Sultāns|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EUlwmXjE9DQC&pg=PA244|year=2005|publisher=Aakar Books|isbn=978-81-87879-49-7|pages=244–}}</ref> In medieval ] the Muslim peasants, artisans, small tradesmen, shopkeepers, clerks and minor officials could not afford concubines or slaves.<ref>{{cite book|author=Surjit Singh Gandhi|title=History of Sikh Gurus Retold: 1469-1606 C.E|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qw7-kUkHA_0C&pg=PA19|year=2007|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-269-0857-8|pages=19–}}</ref> But the Muslim nobility of medieval Punjab, such as the ] and Maliks, kept concubines and slaves.<ref>{{cite book|author=J. S. Grewal|title=The Sikhs of the Punjab|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2_nryFANsoYC&pg=PA11|date=8 October 1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-63764-0|pages=11–}}</ref> Female slaves were used for concubinage in many wealthy Muslim households of Punjab.<ref>{{cite book|author=J. S. Grewal|title=The Sikhs of the Punjab|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2_nryFANsoYC&pg=PA12|date=8 October 1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-63764-0|pages=12–}}</ref>


Court cases from 19th century Punjab show the courts recognising as legitimate the sons of Muslim zamindars (landlords) born from their concubines.<ref>{{cite book|author=Punjab (India)|title=The Punjab Civil Code (part I) and Selected Acts, with a Commentary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PZVeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA244|year=1869|publisher=Punjab Print. Company|pages=244–}}</ref> The Nawab of Bahawalpur, according to a Pakistani jouralist, kept 390 concubines. He had only had sex with most of them once.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Timothy Weiss|author2=Timothy F. Weiss|title=Translating Orients: Between Ideology and Utopia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AgVgnKIvtOQC&pg=PA190|date=1 January 2004|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-8958-8|pages=190–}}</ref> Marathas captured during wars with the Mughals had been given to their soldiers from the Baloch Bugti tribe. Their descendants became known as "Mrattas" and their women were traditionally used as concubines by the Bugtis. They became equal citizens of Pakistan in 1947.<ref>{{cite book|author=Anatol Lieven|title=Pakistan: A Hard Country|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mak4DgAAQBAJ|date=6 March 2012|publisher=PublicAffairs|isbn=978-1-61039-162-7|page=362}}</ref> Court cases from 19th century Punjab show the courts recognising as legitimate the sons of Muslim ] (landlords) born from their concubines.<ref>{{cite book|author=Punjab (India)|title=The Punjab Civil Code (part I) and Selected Acts, with a Commentary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PZVeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA244|year=1869|publisher=Punjab Print. Company|pages=244–}}</ref> The ], according to a Pakistani jouralist, kept 390 concubines. He had only had sex with most of them once.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Timothy Weiss|author2=Timothy F. Weiss|title=Translating Orients: Between Ideology and Utopia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AgVgnKIvtOQC&pg=PA190|date=1 January 2004|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-8958-8|pages=190–}}</ref> ] captured during wars with the Mughals had been given to their soldiers from the Baloch ] tribe. Their descendants became known as "Mrattas" and their women were traditionally used as concubines by the Bugtis. They became equal citizens of ] in 1947.<ref>{{cite book|author=Anatol Lieven|title=Pakistan: A Hard Country|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mak4DgAAQBAJ|date=6 March 2012|publisher=PublicAffairs|isbn=978-1-61039-162-7|page=362}}</ref>


==History of sexual enslavement== ==History of sexual enslavement==
===Sexual enslavement of non-Muslim women by Muslim men=== ===Sexual enslavement of non-Muslim women by Muslim men===
In Andalus the concubines of the Muslim elite were usually non-Muslim women from the Christian areas of the Iberian peninsula. Many of these had been captured in raids or wars before being gifted the elite Muslim soldiers as war booty or sold as slaves in Muslim markets.<ref>{{cite book|author=Amira K. Bennison|title=Almoravid and Almohad Empires|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=19JVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA156|date=1 August 2016|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-4682-1|pages=156–}}</ref> Berber pirates trafficked French, Italian, Spanish and Portugese women to North Africa. Christian females were enslaved more than any other religious demographic.<ref>{{cite book|author=Amanda L. Capern|title=The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aHm6DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT22|date=30 October 2019|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-00-070959-9|pages=22–}}</ref> It is difficult to track down the experienced of European female slaves because they would have accounted for 5 percent of the slaves trafficked to North Africa and even fewer women were freed from slavery than men between the 16th and 19th centuries. During those centuries, at least 50,000 to 75,000 European girls were forcibly taken and most of them never returned home.<ref>{{cite book|author=William Henry Foster|title=Gender, Mastery and Slavery: From European to Atlantic World Frontiers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aaAcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA57|date=18 December 2009|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-0-230-31358-3|pages=57–}}</ref> One male English slave narrated an account of a young English girl who was given as concubine to the Moroccan king, Mulley Ismail. She tried to resist his sexual advances. He then ordered his black slaves to whip and torture her until she gave in.<ref>{{cite book|author=William Henry Foster|title=Gender, Mastery and Slavery: From European to Atlantic World Frontiers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aaAcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA58|date=18 December 2009|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-0-230-31358-3|pages=58–}}</ref> In ] the concubines of the Muslim elite were usually non-Muslim women from the Christian areas of the ]. Many of these had been captured in raids or wars before being gifted the elite Muslim soldiers as war booty or sold as slaves in Muslim markets.<ref>{{cite book|author=Amira K. Bennison|title=Almoravid and Almohad Empires|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=19JVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA156|date=1 August 2016|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-4682-1|pages=156–}}</ref> ] pirates trafficked ], ], ] and ] women to North Africa. Christian females were enslaved more than any other religious demographic.<ref>{{cite book|author=Amanda L. Capern|title=The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aHm6DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT22|date=30 October 2019|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-00-070959-9|pages=22–}}</ref> It is difficult to track down the experienced of European female slaves because they would have accounted for 5 percent of the slaves trafficked to North Africa and even fewer women were freed from slavery than men between the 16th and 19th centuries. During those centuries, at least 50,000 to 75,000 ] girls were forcibly taken and most of them never returned home.<ref>{{cite book|author=William Henry Foster|title=Gender, Mastery and Slavery: From European to Atlantic World Frontiers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aaAcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA57|date=18 December 2009|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-0-230-31358-3|pages=57–}}</ref> One male ] slave narrated an account of a young English girl who was given as concubine to the Moroccan king, ]. She tried to resist his sexual advances. He then ordered his black slaves to whip and torture her until she gave in.<ref>{{cite book|author=William Henry Foster|title=Gender, Mastery and Slavery: From European to Atlantic World Frontiers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aaAcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA58|date=18 December 2009|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-0-230-31358-3|pages=58–}}</ref>


Enslaved European men also narrated accounts of women who "apostasised." The life stories of these women were similar to Roxelana, who rose from being a Christian slave-girl into the chief advisor of her husband, Sultan Suleyman of the Ottoman Empire. There are several accounts of such women of humble birth who associated with powerful Muslim men. While the associations were initially forced, the captivity gave women a taste for access to power. Diplomats wrote with disappointment about apostate women who wielded political influence over their masters-turned-husbands. Christian male slaves also recorded the presence of authoritative convert women in Muslim families. Christian women who converted to Islam and then became politically assertive and tyrannical were regarded by Europeans as traitors to the faith.<ref>{{cite book|author=William Henry Foster|title=Gender, Mastery and Slavery: From European to Atlantic World Frontiers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aaAcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA59|date=18 December 2009|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-0-230-31358-3|pages=59–}}</ref> Enslaved Christian women lost all hope of returning home through ransom once they entered a Muslim household. The women were forced to enter a life of sexual subjugation to their new husbands. There is also evidence that many "privileged" female captives wanted to escape if they were given the chance. There is an account of an Irish mother who attacked her Algerian male captors when she learnt that her enslavement meant that she was going to be separated from her children forever. She was later subdued.<ref>{{cite book|author=William Henry Foster|title=Gender, Mastery and Slavery: From European to Atlantic World Frontiers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aaAcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA60|date=18 December 2009|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-0-230-31358-3|pages=60–}}</ref> Enslaved European men also narrated accounts of women who "apostasised." The life stories of these women were similar to ], who rose from being a Christian slave-girl into the chief advisor of her husband, ] of the ]. There are several accounts of such women of humble birth who associated with powerful Muslim men. While the associations were initially forced, the captivity gave women a taste for access to power. Diplomats wrote with disappointment about apostate women who wielded political influence over their masters-turned-husbands. Christian male slaves also recorded the presence of authoritative convert women in Muslim families. ] women who converted to Islam and then became politically assertive and tyrannical were regarded by Europeans as traitors to the faith.<ref>{{cite book|author=William Henry Foster|title=Gender, Mastery and Slavery: From European to Atlantic World Frontiers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aaAcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA59|date=18 December 2009|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-0-230-31358-3|pages=59–}}</ref> Enslaved Christian women lost all hope of returning home through ransom once they entered a Muslim household. The women were forced to enter a life of sexual subjugation to their new husbands. There is also evidence that many "privileged" female captives wanted to escape if they were given the chance. There is an account of an ] mother who attacked her ] male captors when she learnt that her enslavement meant that she was going to be separated from her children forever. She was later subdued.<ref>{{cite book|author=William Henry Foster|title=Gender, Mastery and Slavery: From European to Atlantic World Frontiers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aaAcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA60|date=18 December 2009|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-0-230-31358-3|pages=60–}}</ref>


The Muslim Sultanates in India before the Mughal Empire captured large numbers of non-Muslims from the Deccan. The Muslim masters would impregnate their non-muslim slaves and the children they fathered would be raised as Muslims. Non-muslim girls were socially ostracised by their own communities for the sexual relationships Muslim soldiers and nobles would have with them, therefore, many of them preferred to convert to Islam.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hardy |first1=Peter |title=The Muslims of British India |date=1972 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=9}}</ref> When Muslims would surround Rajput citadels, the Rajput women would commit jauhar to save themselves from being dishonoured by their enemies. In 1296 around 16,000 women committed jauhar to save themselves from Alauddin Khalji's army.<ref>{{cite book|author=Kaushik Roy|title=Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia: From Antiquity to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vRE3n1VwDTIC&pg=PA182|date=15 October 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-01736-8|pages=182–}}</ref> Rajput women would commit it when they saw that defeat and enslavement was imminent for their people.<ref>{{cite book|author=Margo Kitts|title=Martyrdom, Self-sacrifice, and Self-immolation: Religious Perspectives on Suicide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XHhUDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA143|year=2018|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-065648-5|pages=143–}}</ref> In 1533 in Chittorgarh nearly 13,000 women and children killed themselves instead of being taken captive by Bahadur Shah's army.<ref>{{cite book|author=Margo Kitts|title=Martyrdom, Self-sacrifice, and Self-immolation: Religious Perspectives on Suicide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XHhUDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA144|year=2018|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-065648-5|pages=144–}}</ref> For them sexual intercourse was the worst form of humiliation. Rajputs practised Jauhar (collective suicide) mainly when their opponents were Muslims.<ref>{{cite book|author=M. S. Naravane|title=The Rajputs of Rajputana: A Glimpse of Medieval Rajasthan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lF0FvjG3GWEC&pg=PA45|year=1999|publisher=APH Publishing|isbn=978-81-7648-118-2|pages=45–}}</ref> The ] in India before the Mughal Empire captured large numbers of non-Muslims from the ]. The Muslim masters would impregnate their non-muslim slaves and the children they fathered would be raised as Muslims. Non-muslim girls were socially ostracised by their own communities for the sexual relationships Muslim soldiers and nobles would have with them, therefore, many of them preferred to convert to Islam.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hardy |first1=Peter |title=The Muslims of British India |date=1972 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=9}}</ref> When Muslims would surround ] citadels, the Rajput women would commit ] to save themselves from being dishonoured by their enemies. In 1296 around 16,000 women committed jauhar to save themselves from ]<nowiki/>i's army.<ref>{{cite book|author=Kaushik Roy|title=Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia: From Antiquity to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vRE3n1VwDTIC&pg=PA182|date=15 October 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-01736-8|pages=182–}}</ref> Rajput women would commit it when they saw that defeat and enslavement was imminent for their people.<ref>{{cite book|author=Margo Kitts|title=Martyrdom, Self-sacrifice, and Self-immolation: Religious Perspectives on Suicide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XHhUDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA143|year=2018|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-065648-5|pages=143–}}</ref> In 1533 in ] nearly 13,000 women and children killed themselves instead of being taken captive by ]'s army.<ref>{{cite book|author=Margo Kitts|title=Martyrdom, Self-sacrifice, and Self-immolation: Religious Perspectives on Suicide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XHhUDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA144|year=2018|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-065648-5|pages=144–}}</ref> For them sexual intercourse was the worst form of humiliation. Rajputs practised jauhar (collective suicide) mainly when their opponents were Muslims.<ref>{{cite book|author=M. S. Naravane|title=The Rajputs of Rajputana: A Glimpse of Medieval Rajasthan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lF0FvjG3GWEC&pg=PA45|year=1999|publisher=APH Publishing|isbn=978-81-7648-118-2|pages=45–}}</ref>


The womenfolk of enemies were captured both to humiliate their men and to use the beautiful maidens for various purposes.<ref>{{cite book|author=Sudha Sharma|title=The Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yF4lDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT57|date=21 March 2016|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-93-5150-565-5|pages=57–}}</ref> Beautiful female captives were mostly used for sex.<ref>{{cite book|author=Dr.Y P Singh|title=Islam in India and Pakistan - A Religious History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pbqfCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT72|date=20 February 2016|publisher=Vij Books India Pvt Ltd|isbn=978-93-85505-63-8|pages=72–}}</ref> After the period of Akbar's rule enslavement of women continued to be used to punish their men. Jahangir explicitly ordered the destruction of the domain of the rebellious zamindar of Jaitpur and the capture of his women. Thus, his daughters and wives were captured and brought to the harem. Manucci records that, during Mughal rule, when faujdars would enter rebellious villages they would take the most attractive girls and present them to the king. The rest would either be sold or kept for themselves.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bano |first1=Shadab |title=Marriage and Concubinage in the Mughal Imperial Family |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=1999 |volume=60 |page=354}}</ref> Ahmad Shah Abali's army captured Maratha women to fill Afghan harems.<ref>{{cite book|author=Khushwant Singh|title=The Illustrated History of the Sikhs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AytuAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-567747-8|page=68}}</ref> The Sikhs attacked Abdali and rescued 2, 2000 Maratha girls.<ref>{{cite book|author=Rishi Singh|title=State Formation and the Establishment of Non-Muslim Hegemony: Post-Mughal 19th-century Punjab|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EPCICwAAQBAJ&pg=PT78|date=23 April 2015|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-93-5150-504-4|pages=78–}}</ref> The womenfolk of enemies were captured both to humiliate their men and to use the beautiful maidens for various purposes.<ref>{{cite book|author=Sudha Sharma|title=The Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yF4lDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT57|date=21 March 2016|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-93-5150-565-5|pages=57–}}</ref> Beautiful female captives were mostly used for sex.<ref>{{cite book|author=Dr.Y P Singh|title=Islam in India and Pakistan - A Religious History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pbqfCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT72|date=20 February 2016|publisher=Vij Books India Pvt Ltd|isbn=978-93-85505-63-8|pages=72–}}</ref> After the period of Akbar's rule enslavement of women continued to be used to punish their men. ] explicitly ordered the destruction of the domain of the rebellious zamindar of ] and the capture of his women. Thus, his daughters and wives were captured and brought to the harem. ] records that, during Mughal rule, when faujdars would enter rebellious villages they would take the most attractive girls and present them to the king. The rest would either be sold or kept for themselves.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bano |first1=Shadab |title=Marriage and Concubinage in the Mughal Imperial Family |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=1999 |volume=60 |page=354}}</ref> ]<nowiki/>s army captured Maratha women to fill Afghan harems.<ref>{{cite book|author=Khushwant Singh|title=The Illustrated History of the Sikhs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AytuAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-567747-8|page=68}}</ref> The Sikhs attacked Abdali and rescued 2, 2000 Maratha girls.<ref>{{cite book|author=Rishi Singh|title=State Formation and the Establishment of Non-Muslim Hegemony: Post-Mughal 19th-century Punjab|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EPCICwAAQBAJ&pg=PT78|date=23 April 2015|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-93-5150-504-4|pages=78–}}</ref>


===Sexual enslavement of Muslim women by non-Muslim men=== ===Sexual enslavement of Muslim women by non-Muslim men===
Muslim historical sources see the capture and concubinage of non-muslim women as legitimate violence against women. However, the same practice was criticised when Christians captured Muslim women. In the eleventh century Christians began an aggressive policy towards Muslims in Andalus. Christian military leaders captured Muslim women and included eight year old Muslim virgins as part of their war booty.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Gleave|title=Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur'an to the Mongols|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZD0kDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA171|date=14 April 2015|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-9424-2|pages=171–}}</ref> When Granada passed from Muslim rule to Christian rule, thousands of Moorish women were enslaved and trafficked to Europe.<ref>{{cite book|author=Amanda L. Capern|title=The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aHm6DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT22|date=30 October 2019|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-00-070959-9|pages=22–}}</ref> Muslim women were kept as concubines by Christian men.<ref>{{cite book|author=Margaret C. Schaus|title=Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zb22AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA593|date=20 September 2006|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-135-45967-3|pages=593–}}</ref> Muslim historical sources see the capture and concubinage of non-muslim women as legitimate violence against women. However, the same practice was criticised when Christians captured Muslim women. In the eleventh century Christians began an aggressive policy towards Muslims in Andalus. Christian military leaders captured Muslim women and included eight year old Muslim ] as part of their war booty.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Gleave|title=Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur'an to the Mongols|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZD0kDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA171|date=14 April 2015|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-9424-2|pages=171–}}</ref> When ] passed from Muslim rule to Christian rule, thousands of Moorish women were enslaved and trafficked to Europe.<ref>{{cite book|author=Amanda L. Capern|title=The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aHm6DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT22|date=30 October 2019|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-00-070959-9|pages=22–}}</ref> Muslim women were kept as concubines by Christian men.<ref>{{cite book|author=Margaret C. Schaus|title=Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zb22AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA593|date=20 September 2006|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-135-45967-3|pages=593–}}</ref>


For both Christians and Muslims, the capture of women from the other religion was a show of power, while the capture and sexual use of their own women by men of the other religion was a cause of shame. Many women would convert to their master's religion.<ref>{{cite book|author=Amira K. Bennison|title=Almoravid and Almohad Empires|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=19JVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA156|date=1 August 2016|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-4682-1|pages=156–}}</ref> In one case an Algerian woman, Fatima, was captured and enslaved. She converted to Christianity and refused the ransom which the Turks had sent for her release. Other enslaved Muslim women had more "harrowing" experiences in being converted to Christianity.<ref>{{cite book|author=K. Bekkaoui|title=White Women Captives in North Africa: Narratives of Enslavement, 1735-1830|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kyB9DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA10|date=24 November 2010|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-0-230-29449-3|pages=10–}}</ref> For both Christians and Muslims, the capture of women from the other religion was a show of power, while the capture and sexual use of their own women by men of the other religion was a cause of shame. Many women would convert to their master's religion.<ref>{{cite book|author=Amira K. Bennison|title=Almoravid and Almohad Empires|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=19JVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA156|date=1 August 2016|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-4682-1|pages=156–}}</ref> In one case an Algerian woman, Fatima, was captured and enslaved. She converted to Christianity and refused the ransom which the ] had sent for her release. Other enslaved Muslim women had more "harrowing" experiences in being converted to ].<ref>{{cite book|author=K. Bekkaoui|title=White Women Captives in North Africa: Narratives of Enslavement, 1735-1830|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kyB9DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA10|date=24 November 2010|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-0-230-29449-3|pages=10–}}</ref>


In India, the Hindu elites and rulers would take revenge by taking Muslim women into their own harems.<ref>{{cite book|author=Dr.Y P Singh|title=Islam in India and Pakistan - A Religious History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pbqfCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT72|date=20 February 2016|publisher=Vij Books India Pvt Ltd|isbn=978-93-85505-63-8|pages=72–}}</ref> Rana Kumbha captured Muslim women. Under Medini Rai in Malwa, the Rajputs took Muslim and Sayyid women as slave girls.<ref>{{cite book|author=Arvind Sharma|title=Hinduism as a Missionary Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YJAeAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA101|date=1 April 2011|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-3212-0|pages=101–}}</ref> According to Manucci, the Marathas and Sikhs would also capture Muslim women because 'the Mahomedans had interfered with Hindu women.'<ref>{{cite book|author=Dr.Y P Singh|title=Islam in India and Pakistan - A Religious History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pbqfCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT72|date=20 February 2016|publisher=Vij Books India Pvt Ltd|isbn=978-93-85505-63-8|pages=72–}}</ref> In India, the Hindu elites and rulers would take revenge by taking Muslim women into their own harems.<ref>{{cite book|author=Dr.Y P Singh|title=Islam in India and Pakistan - A Religious History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pbqfCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT72|date=20 February 2016|publisher=Vij Books India Pvt Ltd|isbn=978-93-85505-63-8|pages=72–}}</ref> ] captured Muslim women. Under ] in ], the Rajputs took Muslim and ] women as slave girls.<ref>{{cite book|author=Arvind Sharma|title=Hinduism as a Missionary Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YJAeAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA101|date=1 April 2011|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-3212-0|pages=101–}}</ref> According to Manucci, the Marathas and ] would also capture Muslim women because 'the Mahomedans had interfered with Hindu women.'<ref>{{cite book|author=Dr.Y P Singh|title=Islam in India and Pakistan - A Religious History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pbqfCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT72|date=20 February 2016|publisher=Vij Books India Pvt Ltd|isbn=978-93-85505-63-8|pages=72–}}</ref>


===Sexual enslavement of Muslim women by Muslim men=== ===Sexual enslavement of Muslim women by Muslim men===
Islamic jurists had completely forbidden the enslavement of Muslims. However, Muslims have still at times enslaved Muslims from other ethnic groups.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ali |first1=Kecia |title=Sexual Ethics and Islam : Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence |date=2016 |publisher=Oneworld Publications |page=53}}</ref> The caliph Muhammad II of Córdoba gave orders that the Berber houses in Cordoba be looted and that Berber women be captured and sold in Dar-al Banat.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Gleave|title=Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur'an to the Mongols|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZD0kDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA166|date=14 April 2015|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-9424-2|pages=166–}}</ref> The Andalusian ruler of Malaga, Ibn Hassun, unsuccessfully attempted to kill his daughters before the Berber Almohads could capture them. He committed suicide but his daughters survived. These girls were then sold and some of them were taken as concubines by Almohad military commanders.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Gleave|title=Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur'an to the Mongols|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZD0kDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA168|date=14 April 2015|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-9424-2|pages=168–}}</ref> In India attitudes towards women ignored their religious background if they belonged to enemies or rebels. Sher Shah was reported to have sold the wives of rebellious zamindars.<ref>{{cite book|author=Sudha Sharma|title=The Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yF4lDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT64|date=21 March 2016|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-93-5150-565-5|pages=64–}}</ref> Islamic jurists had completely forbidden the enslavement of Muslims. However, Muslims have still at times enslaved Muslims from other ethnic groups.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ali |first1=Kecia |title=Sexual Ethics and Islam : Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence |date=2016 |publisher=Oneworld Publications |page=53}}</ref> The caliph ] gave orders that the Berber houses in ] be looted and that Berber women be captured and sold in Dar-al Banat.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Gleave|title=Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur'an to the Mongols|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZD0kDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA166|date=14 April 2015|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-9424-2|pages=166–}}</ref> The Andalusian ruler of ], Ibn Hassun, unsuccessfully attempted to kill his daughters before the Berber ] could capture them. He committed suicide but his daughters survived. These girls were then sold and some of them were taken as concubines by Almohad military commanders.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Gleave|title=Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur'an to the Mongols|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZD0kDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA168|date=14 April 2015|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-9424-2|pages=168–}}</ref> In India attitudes towards women ignored their religious background if they belonged to enemies or rebels. ] was reported to have sold the wives of rebellious zamindars.<ref>{{cite book|author=Sudha Sharma|title=The Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yF4lDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT64|date=21 March 2016|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-93-5150-565-5|pages=64–}}</ref>


A large number of free Baloch women were kidnapped in the first half of the 20th century by slave traders and sold across the Persian Gulf. For example Yuri bint Lapek was abducted after raiders killed her husband.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Suzuki |first1=Hideaki |title=Baluchi Experiences Under Slavery and the Slave Trade of the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, 1921–1950 |journal=The Journal of the Middle East and Africa |date=2013 |volume=4 |issue=2 |page=214 |doi=10.1080/21520844.2013.830995}}</ref> Another notable case was that of Marzuq who was kidnapped from Makran and sold in Sharjah. Marzuq was purchased by Rashid bin Ali who had sex with her. When she became pregnant he married her off to another Baluchi to avoid taking responsibility for the child.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Suzuki |first1=Hideaki |title=Baluchi Experiences Under Slavery and the Slave Trade of the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, 1921–1950 |journal=The Journal of the Middle East and Africa |date=2013 |volume=4 |issue=2 |page=218 |doi=10.1080/21520844.2013.830995}}</ref> Slave owners arranged many marriages for their female slaves, often just so they would not have to take responsibility for impregnating their slaves.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Suzuki |first1=Hideaki |title=Baluchi Experiences Under Slavery and the Slave Trade of the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, 1921–1950 |journal=The Journal of the Middle East and Africa |date=2013 |volume=4 |issue=2 |page=219 |doi=10.1080/21520844.2013.830995}}</ref> A large number of free ] women were kidnapped in the first half of the 20th century by slave traders and sold across the ]. For example Yuri bint Lapek was abducted after raiders killed her husband.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Suzuki |first1=Hideaki |title=Baluchi Experiences Under Slavery and the Slave Trade of the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, 1921–1950 |journal=The Journal of the Middle East and Africa |date=2013 |volume=4 |issue=2 |page=214 |doi=10.1080/21520844.2013.830995}}</ref> Another notable case was that of Marzuq who was kidnapped from ] and sold in ]. Marzuq was purchased by Rashid bin Ali who had sex with her. When she became pregnant he married her off to another Baluchi to avoid taking responsibility for the child.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Suzuki |first1=Hideaki |title=Baluchi Experiences Under Slavery and the Slave Trade of the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, 1921–1950 |journal=The Journal of the Middle East and Africa |date=2013 |volume=4 |issue=2 |page=218 |doi=10.1080/21520844.2013.830995}}</ref> Slave owners arranged many marriages for their female slaves, often just so they would not have to take responsibility for impregnating their slaves.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Suzuki |first1=Hideaki |title=Baluchi Experiences Under Slavery and the Slave Trade of the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, 1921–1950 |journal=The Journal of the Middle East and Africa |date=2013 |volume=4 |issue=2 |page=219 |doi=10.1080/21520844.2013.830995}}</ref>


==Modern manifestations== ==Modern manifestations==
The most widespread raptio in modern times was the kidnapping of tens of thousands of girls during the Partition of India.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Larry Collins|author2=Dominique Lapierre|title=Freedom at Midnight|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.103056/page/n359/mode/2up|year=1975|page=336|publisher=Collins|isbn=978-0-00-216055-1}}</ref> These women were kept as captives or forced wives<ref>{{cite book|author=Yasmin Khan|title=The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i9WdQp2pwOYC&pg=PA135|year=2007|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-12078-8|pages=135–}}</ref> and concubines.<ref>{{cite book|author=Yasmin Khan|title=The Great Partition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mUpwcVeO0s4C&pg=RA2-PA39|date=18 September 2007|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-17639-1|pages=2–}}</ref> For instance, one account from Kirpal Singh mentions how Pakistani soldiers in Kamoke took 50 Hindu girls after killing most of their men.<ref>{{cite book|author=Bina D Costa|title=Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia|year=2010|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9780415565660|pages=57–58}}</ref> After being taken, Hindu and Sikh girls were forcibly converted to Islam to be "worthy" of their captors' harems.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Larry Collins|author2=Dominique Lapierre|title=Freedom at Midnight|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f7BHAAAAMAAJ|year=1975|page=336|publisher=Collins|isbn=978-0-00-216055-1}}</ref> Pashtun tribesmen captured a large number of non-muslim girls from Kashmir and sold them as slave-girls in West Punjab.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Major |first1=Andrew |title=Abduction of women during the partition of the Punjab |journal=South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies |date=1995 |volume=18 |issue=1 |page=62 |doi=10.1080/00856409508723244}}</ref> In Mirpur, many of the Hindu women captured by Pakistani soldiers committed jauhar, the old practice of Hindu women to escape Muslim soldiers.<ref>{{cite book|author=Bal K. Gupta|title=Forgotten Atrocities: Memoirs of a Survivor of the 1947 Partition of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N2BIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA33|year=2012|isbn=978-1-257-91419-7|pages=33–34}}</ref> One Indian official wrote how Hindu girls were distributed among Muslims in Gujranwala after the massacre of their men. An even larger number of Muslim women were taken by Sikh jathas.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Barbara D. Metcalf|author2=Thomas R. Metcalf|title=A Concise History of Modern India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c7UgAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA226|date=24 September 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-53705-6|pages=226–}}</ref> Muslim girls in East Punjab would be distributed among the jathas, Indian military and police.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Major |first1=Andrew |title=Abduction of women during the partition of the Punjab |journal=South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies |date=1995 |volume=18 |issue=1 |page=63 |doi=10.1080/00856409508723244}}</ref> The governments of India and Pakistan later agreed to restore Hindu and Sikh women to India and Muslim women to Pakistan.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Barbara D. Metcalf|author2=Thomas R. Metcalf|title=A Concise History of Modern India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c7UgAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA226|date=24 September 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-53705-6|pages=226–}}</ref> Many women feared how they would be treated by their relatives if they returned, so they refused to return to their people and chose to convert to the religion of their captors.<ref>{{cite book|author=Yasmin Khan|title=The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i9WdQp2pwOYC&pg=PA135|year=2007|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-12078-8|pages=135–}}</ref> Some fell in love with their captors.<ref>{{cite book|author=Bina D Costa|title=Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia|year=2010|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9780415565660|pages=62}}</ref> The most widespread raptio in modern times was the ].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Larry Collins|author2=Dominique Lapierre|title=Freedom at Midnight|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.103056/page/n359/mode/2up|year=1975|page=336|publisher=Collins|isbn=978-0-00-216055-1}}</ref> These women were kept as captives or forced wives<ref>{{cite book|author=Yasmin Khan|title=The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i9WdQp2pwOYC&pg=PA135|year=2007|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-12078-8|pages=135–}}</ref> and concubines.<ref>{{cite book|author=Yasmin Khan|title=The Great Partition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mUpwcVeO0s4C&pg=RA2-PA39|date=18 September 2007|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-17639-1|pages=2–}}</ref> For instance, one account from Kirpal Singh mentions how ]<nowiki/>s in Kamoke took 50 Hindu girls after killing most of their men.<ref>{{cite book|author=Bina D Costa|title=Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia|year=2010|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9780415565660|pages=57–58}}</ref> After being taken, Hindu and Sikh girls were forcibly converted to Islam to be "worthy" of their captors' harems.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Larry Collins|author2=Dominique Lapierre|title=Freedom at Midnight|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f7BHAAAAMAAJ|year=1975|page=336|publisher=Collins|isbn=978-0-00-216055-1}}</ref> ] tribesmen captured a large number of non-muslim girls from Kashmir and sold them as slave-girls in ].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Major |first1=Andrew |title=Abduction of women during the partition of the Punjab |journal=South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies |date=1995 |volume=18 |issue=1 |page=62 |doi=10.1080/00856409508723244}}</ref> In ], many of the Hindu women captured by Pakistani soldiers committed jauhar, the old practice of Hindu women to escape Muslim soldiers.<ref>{{cite book|author=Bal K. Gupta|title=Forgotten Atrocities: Memoirs of a Survivor of the 1947 Partition of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N2BIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA33|year=2012|isbn=978-1-257-91419-7|pages=33–34}}</ref> One Indian official wrote how Hindu girls were distributed among Muslims in ] after the massacre of their men. An even larger number of Muslim women were taken by Sikh ].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Barbara D. Metcalf|author2=Thomas R. Metcalf|title=A Concise History of Modern India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c7UgAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA226|date=24 September 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-53705-6|pages=226–}}</ref> Muslim girls in East Punjab would be distributed among the jathas, ] and police.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Major |first1=Andrew |title=Abduction of women during the partition of the Punjab |journal=South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies |date=1995 |volume=18 |issue=1 |page=63 |doi=10.1080/00856409508723244}}</ref> The governments of India and Pakistan later agreed to restore Hindu and Sikh women to ] and Muslim women to Pakistan.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Barbara D. Metcalf|author2=Thomas R. Metcalf|title=A Concise History of Modern India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c7UgAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA226|date=24 September 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-53705-6|pages=226–}}</ref> Many women feared how they would be treated by their relatives if they returned, so they refused to return to their people and chose to convert to the religion of their captors.<ref>{{cite book|author=Yasmin Khan|title=The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i9WdQp2pwOYC&pg=PA135|year=2007|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-12078-8|pages=135–}}</ref> Some fell in love with their captors.<ref>{{cite book|author=Bina D Costa|title=Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia|year=2010|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9780415565660|pages=62}}</ref>


Christian prisoners of war in the Sudanese civil war are often enslaved. The female captives are used sexually. Their Muslim captors state that Islamic law allows them. In Afghanistan the Taliban has committed atrocities against the Shia population. One of its atrocities has been to enslave Shia Hazara women and use them for concubinage.<ref>{{cite book|author=Kecia Ali|title=Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith and Jurisprudence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=my4XCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA53|date=21 December 2015|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=978-1-78074-853-5|pages=53–}}</ref> In 1998 eyewitnesses in Mazar e Sharif reported the abduction of hundreds of Shia girls who were used by Taliban fighters as concubines.<ref>{{cite book|author=N. Nojumi|title=The Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan: Mass Mobilization, Civil War, and the Future of the Region|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h18YDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA168|date=30 April 2016|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|isbn=978-0-312-29910-1|pages=168–}}</ref> The Taliban either takes beautiful young women from other ethnic groups as concubines or forcibly marries them.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Peter J. Claus|author2=Sarah Diamond|author3=Margaret Ann Mills|title=South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia : Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ienxrTPHzzwC&pg=PA7|year=2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-93919-5|pages=7–}}</ref> Christian prisoners of war in the ] are often enslaved. The female captives are used sexually. Their Muslim captors state that Islamic law allows them. In ] the ] has committed atrocities against the Shia population. One of its atrocities has been to enslave Shia ] women and use them for concubinage.<ref>{{cite book|author=Kecia Ali|title=Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith and Jurisprudence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=my4XCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA53|date=21 December 2015|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=978-1-78074-853-5|pages=53–}}</ref> In 1998 eyewitnesses in ] reported the abduction of hundreds of Shia girls who were used by Taliban fighters as concubines.<ref>{{cite book|author=N. Nojumi|title=The Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan: Mass Mobilization, Civil War, and the Future of the Region|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h18YDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA168|date=30 April 2016|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|isbn=978-0-312-29910-1|pages=168–}}</ref> The Taliban either takes beautiful young women from other ethnic groups as concubines or forcibly marries them.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Peter J. Claus|author2=Sarah Diamond|author3=Margaret Ann Mills|title=South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia : Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ienxrTPHzzwC&pg=PA7|year=2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-93919-5|pages=7–}}</ref>


==Modern Muslim attitudes== ==Modern Muslim attitudes==
While classical Islamic law permits sexual slavery, the vast majority of Muslims today oppose it. This contradiction is demonstrated by Ahmed Hassan, a twentieth century translator of Sahih Muslim, who prefaced the translated chapter on marriage by claiming that Islam only allows sex within marriage. This was despite the fact that the same chapter included many references to Muslim men having sex with slave-girls.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jacqueline L. Hazelton|title=Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NaVhAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT3|date=25 October 2010|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-11389-3|page=107}}</ref> Most ordinary Muslims ignore the existence of slavery and concubinage in Islamic history and texts. Most also ignore the millennia old consensus permitting it and a few writers even claim that those Islamic jurists who allowed sexual relations outside marriage with female slaves were mistaken.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jacqueline L. Hazelton|title=Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NaVhAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT3|date=25 October 2010|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-11389-3|page=108}}</ref> While classical ] permits sexual slavery, the vast majority of Muslims today oppose it. This contradiction is demonstrated by Ahmed Hassan, a twentieth century translator of Sahih Muslim, who prefaced the translated chapter on marriage by claiming that Islam only allows sex within marriage. This was despite the fact that the same chapter included many references to Muslim men having sex with slave-girls.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jacqueline L. Hazelton|title=Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NaVhAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT3|date=25 October 2010|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-11389-3|page=107}}</ref> Most ordinary Muslims ignore the existence of slavery and concubinage in Islamic history and texts. Most also ignore the millennia old consensus permitting it and a few writers even claim that those Islamic jurists who allowed sexual relations outside marriage with female slaves were mistaken.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jacqueline L. Hazelton|title=Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NaVhAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT3|date=25 October 2010|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-11389-3|page=108}}</ref>


Asifa Quraishi-Landes aso oberves that most Muslims believe that sex is only permissible within marriage and they ignore the permission for keeping concubines in Islamic jurisprudence.<ref>{{cite book|author=Asifa Quraishi-Landes|title=Feminism, Law, and Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfkFDAAAQBAJ|date=15 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-13579-1|page=182|chapter=A Meditation on Mahr, Modernity, and Muslim Marriage Contract Law}}</ref> Furthermore, the majority of modern Muslims are not aware that Islamic jurists had made an analogy between the marriage contract and sale of concubines<ref>{{cite book|author=Asifa Quraishi-Landes|title=Feminism, Law, and Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfkFDAAAQBAJ|date=15 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-13579-1|page=178|chapter=A Meditation on Mahr, Modernity, and Muslim Marriage Contract Law}}</ref> and many modern Muslims would be offended by the idea that a husband owns his wife's private parts under Islamic law.<ref>{{cite book|author=Asifa Quraishi-Landes|title=Feminism, Law, and Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfkFDAAAQBAJ|date=15 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-13579-1|page=182|chapter=A Meditation on Mahr, Modernity, and Muslim Marriage Contract Law}}</ref> Asifa Quraishi-Landes aso oberves that most Muslims believe that sex is only permissible within marriage and they ignore the permission for keeping concubines in Islamic jurisprudence.<ref>{{cite book|author=Asifa Quraishi-Landes|title=Feminism, Law, and Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfkFDAAAQBAJ|date=15 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-13579-1|page=182|chapter=A Meditation on Mahr, Modernity, and Muslim Marriage Contract Law}}</ref> Furthermore, the majority of modern Muslims are not aware that Islamic jurists had made an analogy between the marriage contract and sale of concubines<ref>{{cite book|author=Asifa Quraishi-Landes|title=Feminism, Law, and Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfkFDAAAQBAJ|date=15 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-13579-1|page=178|chapter=A Meditation on Mahr, Modernity, and Muslim Marriage Contract Law}}</ref> and many modern Muslims would be offended by the idea that a ] owns his wife's private parts under Islamic law.<ref>{{cite book|author=Asifa Quraishi-Landes|title=Feminism, Law, and Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfkFDAAAQBAJ|date=15 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-13579-1|page=182|chapter=A Meditation on Mahr, Modernity, and Muslim Marriage Contract Law}}</ref>


In response to the enslavement of Yazidi women by ISIS the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Fiqh Council of North America claimed that no scholar disputes the abolition of slavery was one of the aims of Islam. However, Kecia Ali finds this claim dishonest. While there was definitely an “emancipatory ethic” (encouragement for freeing slaves) in Islamic jurisprudence, slavery was never actually abolished.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ali |first1=Kecia |title=Redeeming Slavery: The ‘Islamic State’ and the Quest for Islamic Morality |journal=Mizan: Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations |date=2016 |volume=1 |issue=1 |page=6 |url=https://mizanproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/02-Mizan-Journal-Vol-1_Issue-1_Ali_Redeeming-Slavery.pdf}}</ref> The translator of Ibn Kathir's treatise on slaves, Umar ibn Sulayman Hafyan, felt obliged to explain why he published a slave treatise when slavery no longer exists. He states that just because slavery no longer exists does not mean that the laws about slavery have been abrogated. Moreover, slavery was only abolished half a century ago and could return in the future. His comments were a reflection of the predicament modern Muslims find themselves in.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Matthew Gordon|author2=Kathryn A. Hain|title=Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F3QzDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA304|year=2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-062218-3|pages=304–}}</ref> In response to the enslavement of ] women by ] the ] and Fiqh Council of North America claimed that no scholar disputes the abolition of slavery was one of the aims of Islam. However, ] finds this claim dishonest. While there was definitely an “emancipatory ethic” (encouragement for freeing slaves) in Islamic jurisprudence, slavery was never actually abolished.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ali |first1=Kecia |title=Redeeming Slavery: The ‘Islamic State’ and the Quest for Islamic Morality |journal=Mizan: Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations |date=2016 |volume=1 |issue=1 |page=6 |url=https://mizanproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/02-Mizan-Journal-Vol-1_Issue-1_Ali_Redeeming-Slavery.pdf}}</ref> The translator of ]'s treatise on slaves, Umar ibn Sulayman Hafyan, felt obliged to explain why he published a slave treatise when ] no longer exists. He states that just because slavery no longer exists does not mean that the laws about slavery have been abrogated. Moreover, slavery was only abolished half a century ago and could return in the future. His comments were a reflection of the predicament modern Muslims find themselves in.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Matthew Gordon|author2=Kathryn A. Hain|title=Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F3QzDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA304|year=2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-062218-3|pages=304–}}</ref>


Mufti Taqi Usmani states that slavery and turning captives into concubines is still allowed by Islam. However, he states that due to signing international treaties the Muslim countries should not enslave prisoners of war as long as other nations also refrain from enslavement.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Usmani |first1=Muftii Taqi |title=Slavery in Islam |url=https://www.deoband.org/2013/01/hadith/hadith-commentary/slavery-in-islam/ |website=Deoband.org}}</ref> ] states that slavery and turning captives into concubines is still allowed by Islam. However, he states that due to signing international treaties the Muslim countries should not enslave prisoners of war as long as other nations also refrain from enslavement.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Usmani |first1=Muftii Taqi |title=Slavery in Islam |url=https://www.deoband.org/2013/01/hadith/hadith-commentary/slavery-in-islam/ |website=Deoband.org}}</ref>
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Slaves could be used for sexual service by their owners, since Islam permits men to have sexual intercourse with their female slaves. Legal and literary documents show that those slaves used for sexual service were differentiated at slave markets from those who were intended mainly for domestic services. These slave girls were called "slaves for pleasure" (muṭʿa, ladhdha) or “slave-girls for sexual intercourse” (jawārī al-waṭ). Many female slaves became concubines to their owners and bore their children. Others were just used for sex before being transferred. The allowance for men to use contraception with female slaves assisted in thwarting unwanted pregnancies.

Early sources indicate that that sexual slavery of women was viewed as both a male privilege and a privilege for the victor over the defeated. Islamic legal texts state that sexual pleasure was a male privilege over women. Men were permitted to have as many concubines as they could afford. Some men purchased female slaves, whereas Muslim soldiers in the early Islamic conquests were given female captives as a reward for military participation. As the slaves for pleasure were typically more expensive, they were a privilege for elite men.

Islamic legal sanction

In Islam, it is the male's ownership of a woman's sexual organs which makes sex licit. Islamic jurists also describe marriage as a kind of sale where the wife's private parts are purchased. However, there are some differences between the rights of a wife and female slave. The term suriyya (concubine) was used for female slaves with whom masters enjoyed sexual relations. It was not a secure status as the concubine could be traded as long as the master had not impregnated her.

Islamic law recognises two categories of concubines:

  • Slave-girls by descent: those who are born to slave parents. (Owners who would marry off their female slaves to someone else, would also be the masters of any children born from that marriage).
  • Captives: these were originally free people who are captured in battle.

The concubines were owned by their masters. The owners could obtain the slave-girls through purchase, capture or receive them as a gift. Islam permits men to have sexual intercourse with them and there is no limit on the number of concubines they could keep, unlike in polygamy where there is a limit of four wives. The master could also sell her or gift her to someone else. The female slave was essentially a chattel. An owner's slave could also be inherited by an heir. While she was under her master's control the slave girl could not have sex with anyone else.

The issue of consent

The classical Islamic jurists make an analogy between the marriage contract and sale of concubines. They state that the factor of male ownership in both is what makes sex lawful with both a wife and female slave.

The Hanafi scholars allow the husband to have sex with his wife against her will, as long as he has paid her dowry. The Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali schools do not forbid a husband from forcing his wife to have sex nor do they expressly say anything in favour of it. For all Sunni law schools the concept of marital rape is an oxymoron. According to the Islamic jurists, rape is either a kind of zina or a property crime, which by definition cannot be committed by a husband or master, since he is the owner of his wife and slave's sexual capacity.

There is no requirement in any of the Sunni law schools for the master to have his female slave's consent before he has sex with her. A slave, by legal definition, does not have the capacity to refuse consent. The Hanafis state that a man may force the woman to sexually satisfy him. It is mentioned in Kitab al-Maghazi that Uthman ibn Affan had sexual intercourse with a war captive, Zaynab bint Hayyan, and that she "detested" him.

Muhammad and his Companions took for granted the allowance of having sex with female war captives. The consent of the women was irrelevant. Some modern Muslim writers seek to defend Islam by claiming that Islam permits men to have sex with female captives as a way of integrating them into society. But in the case of the women from the Banu Mustaliq tribe who were captured by the Companions, their captors wanted to practice coitus interruptus during sex with them because if these women became pregnant their captors would not be able to return them in exchange for ransom. According to Kecia Ali, modern Muslim scholarship is silent on the question of what it means to accept that Muhammad implicitly permitted Muslim soldiers to rape the female captives.

All four law schools also have a consensus that the master can marry off his female slave to someone else without her consent. A master can also practice coitus interruptus during sex with his female slave without her permission. A man having sex with someone else's female slave constitutes zina. If he marries off his own female slave and has sex with her even though he is then no longer allowed to have sexual intercourse with her, that sex is still considered a lesser transgression than zina and the jurists say he must not be punished. It is noteworthy that while formulating this ruling, it is the slave woman's marriage and not her consent which is an issue.

Sexual enslavement, the concept of honour and humiliation

Enslavement was intended both as a debt and form of humiliation. The sexual relationship between a concubine and her master was viewed as a debt of humiliation upon the woman until she gave birth to her master's child and the master's later death. Becoming a slave meant losing one's honour and one's rights.

Umm Walad (slave mother)

Umm walad (mother of child) is a title given to a woman who gave birth to her master's child. If a female slave gave birth to her master's child she still remained a slave. However, the master would no longer be allowed to sell her. She would also become free once he died. The Sunni law schools disagree on the concubine's entitlement to this status. Many Maliki jurists ruled that the concubine becomes entitled to the status of umm walad even if her master does not acknowledge that the child is his. However, Hanafi jurists state that the umm walad status is contingent on the master acknowledging paternity of the child. If he does not accept that he is the father of the child then both the mother and child remain slaves.

Forced conversion for concubinage

Most traditional scholars require the conversion of a pagan slave-girl before sex, even through force if necessary. The majority of jurists do not allow sexual intercourse with Zoroastrian or pagan female captives. They require a conversion of these women before sex can take place. Ibn Hanbal allowed sexual intercourse with pagan and Zoroastrian female captives if they are forced to become Musim. Many traditions state that the female captives should be forced to accept Islam if they do not convert willingly. Hasan al-Basri narrates that Muslims would achieve this objective through various methods. They would order the Zoroastrian slave-girl to face the qiblah, utter the shahada and perform wudhu. Her captor would then have sex with her after one menstrual cycle. However, others add the condition that the slave-girl must be taught to pray and purify herself before the master can have sex with her.

The scholars significantly lower the threshold of conversion for the girls so that the master may be able to have sex with her as soon as possible. Only a few early scholars permitted sex with pagan and Zoroastrian slaves girls without conversion. Al-Mujahid and Safiid bin al-Musayyab say the master can still have sex with his Zoroastrian or pagan female slave even if she refuses to convert.

Imam Shafi'i claims that the Companions of Muhammad did not have sexual intercourse with Arab captives until they converted to Islam. But Ibn Qayyim argues that the Companions of the Prophet had sexual intercourse with Arab captives, such as the women of the Banu Mustaliq tribe, without making the sex conditional on the conversion of the women. He also asserted that no tradition required the conversion of a slave-girl before her master can have sex with her.

Sexual slavery in Pre-Islamic Arabia and Early Islam

The pre-Islamic Arabs used to practice female infanticide. They would bury their daughters alive upon birth. One of the motivations for fathers burying their daughters alive was the fear that when they grew up an enemy tribe could take them captive and dishonour them. A study of the Arab genealogical text Nasab Quraysh records the maternity of 3,000 Quraishi tribesmen, most of whom lived in between 500 and 750 CE. The data shows that there was a massive increase in the number of children born to concubines with the emergence of Islam. An analysis of the data found that no children were born from concubines before the generation of Muhammad's grandfather. There were a few cases of children being born from concubines before Muhammad but they were only in his father's and grandfather's generation. The analysis of the data thus showed that concubinage was not common before the time of Muhammad, but increased for men of his generation as a result of military conquests. Due to these conquests, a large number of female slaves were available to the conquerors. Although there were more births, the attitude towards children born from slaves still remained negative. Some early Arab Muslims discriminated against those people who were born fron non-Arab female slaves. However, there is no indication that these attitudes were ever acted upon.

Women of Hawazin

The Banu Thaqif and Banu Hawazin tribes decided to go to war against Muhammad under the leadership of Malik ibn Awf. Malik had the unfortunate idea of bringing the women, children and livestock with his army. He believed that by bringing their women and children with the army, all his soldiers would fight more courageously to defend them. When Muhammad was informed that the Hawazin had brought their women, children and livestock with them, he smiled and said "Inshaa Allah, all these will become the booty of war for the Muslims."

The Muslim army defeated the Hawazin and captured their women and children. The pagan soldiers fled. The war booty which the Muslims obtained was 24,000 camels, more than 40,000 goats, 160,000 dirhams worth of silver and 6,000 women and children. Muhammad waited ten days for the Hawazin to repent and reclaim their families and properties. However, none of them came. Finally, Muhammad distributed the war booty among the Muslim soldiers. The Muslim soldiers initially hesitated to have sex with the married female captives, until a verse was revealed giving them permission to have sex with them:

Imam Ahmad recorded that Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri said, "We captured some women from the area of Awtas who were already married, and we disliked having sexual relations with them because they already had husbands. So, we asked the Prophet about this matter, and this Ayah (verse) was revealed, Also (forbidden are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess). Consequently, we had sexual relations with these women."

Muhammad gave a girl called Zaynab bint Hayyan to Uthman ibn Affan. Uthman had sexual intercourse with her and she detested him. A woman was given to Abdurrahman ibn Awf. He resisted having sexual intercourse with her until her menses were over and then he had sex with her by virtue of her being his property. Jubayr bin Mu'tim also received a slave girl, who was not impregnated. Talha ibn Ubaydullah had sexual intercourse with the female captive given to him. Abu Ubaydah ibn Jarrah impregnated the slave girl he was given.

A delegation from the Hawazin tribe came to Muhammad and converted to Islam. Once they had given allegiance to Muhammad they asked about their captured families and property. They said "Those who you have brought as captives are our mothers, sisters and aunts and they alone bring disgrace to peoples. O Prophet, we ask for your kindness and gerosity. Free our women." Muhammad gave them a choice between reclaiming their property or their women and children. The Hawazin tribesmen responded that if they had to choose between reclaiming their property or their honour, they would choose their honour (their womenfolk).

Muhammad returned their women and children to them. The girl who had been given to Abdurrahman ibn Awf was given a choice to stay with him or return to her family. She chose her family. Likewise, the girls given to Talha, Uthman, Ibn Umar and Safwan bin Umayya were also returned to their families. However, the girl who had been given to Saad ibn Abi Waqas chose to stay with him. Uyanya had taken an old woman. Her son approached him to ransom her for 100 camels. The old woman asked her son why would he pay a 100 camels when Uyanya would leave her anyway without taking ransom. This angered Uyanya.

Overview of slave-concubines' experiences

Becoming a concubine for her master could translate to gaining security and standing and other material benefits. If she bore her master a child and if he accepted paternity she could obtain the position of an umm walad. If she bacame an umm walad her daily life would probably resemble that of a free wife, but with a lower position. There are many instances of slave concubines in Muslim history who rose to positions of great influence. However, this position did not lighten the suffering that the slaves experienced in their lives. Many of them had been forcibly taken from their homes and permanently separated from their families. They were displayed at slave markets and humiliated and subjected to forced labour, forced marriages and sex.

Many slaves went through a period of distress, when they were first enslaved, which was typically a violent occasion. Between the 800s and 1200s the four main ways to enslave a person were kidnapping, slave raids, piracy, and poverty. Islamic law only gave female slaves protection from sexual exploitation by anyone who was not their owner. The owner was obliged by Islamic law to provide his female slaves with food, clothing, and shelter. The disciplinary hitting of the slave was considered to be for the master's own good. The slave owner was also encouraged to not use excessive violence. While some idealise the lives of elite female slaves, many in practice suffered from abuse by both their owners and others. Because bearing her master's child could lead to freedom for a slave-girl, some female slaves had a motive to have sex with their owners. This angered the master's wives who would often punish such slaves.

The female slaves were traded as chattel. Because female slaves were traded among men and many of them had been owned by up to thirty men consecutively, they had a great deal of knowledge about sexual intercourse and were able to tutor elite adolescent males about sexual techniques. Slave girls were seen as sexual commodities and were not allowed to cover themselves. Before being bought many women's bodies were examined. The Hanafis allowed potential male buyers to uncover and touch a female slave's arms, breasts and legs. Umar prohibited slave girls from resembling free women by covering their hair. Slave women did not veil and like prostitutes were exempt from a lot of the gender restrictions upon upper class women. If a slave fornicated she also received less punishment than a respectable woman.

The most fortunate female captives were women like Safiyya and Juwayriah who were freed from slavery and married Muhammad. The lives of female captives depended on whether her tribe could ransom her or if her captor chose to marry her. If neither of the two happened such women suffered because their captors owned their bodies and lives. If they were unattractive the captors would keep them as servants and if they were beautiful the captors were allowed to keep them as their concubines. The captors were also allowed to sell her. Due to this some female captives committed suicide. There is an account of a woman called Sakhra, who was a female captive from the Banu Amir tribe. She committed suicide by throwing herself to the ground from a camel.

Socio-economic variations in historical concubinage

While Muslim cultures acknowledged concubinage, as well as a polygamy, as a man's legal right, in reality these were usually practiced only by the royalty and elite sections of society. The large-scale availability of women for sexual slavery had a strong influence on Muslim thought, even though the "harem" culture of the elite was not mirrored by most of the Muslim population.

Andalusia

In Muslim society in general, monogamy was common because keeping multiple wives and concubines was not affordable for many households. The practice of keeping concubines was common in the Muslim upper class. Muslim rulers preferred having children with concubines because it helped them avoid the social and political complexities arising from marriage and kept their lineages separate from the other lineages in society.

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman rulers would keep hundreds, even thousands, of concubines. Female war captives were often turned into concubines for the Ottoman rulers. Ambitious slave families associated with the palace would also frequently offer their daughters up as concubines. Circassian and Georgian women were systematically trafficked to eastern harems. This practice lasted into the 1890s. Fynes Moryson noted that some Muslim men would keep their wives in various cities while others would keep them in a single house and would keep adding as many women as their lusts permitted. He wrote that "They buy free women to be their wives, or they buy "conquered women" at a lesser price to be their concubines." Ottoman society had provided avenues for men who wished to have extramarital sex. They could either marry more wives while wealthy men could possess slaves and use them for sex.

Research into Ottoman records show that polygamy was absent or rare in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Elite men were required to leave their wives and concubines if they wished to marry an Ottoman princess. Writing in the early 18th century, one visitor noted that from among the Ottoman courtiers, only the imperial treasurer kept female slaves for sex and he was perceived by others as lustful.

Indian subcontinent

Ovington, a voyager who wrote about his journey to Surat, stated that Muslim men had an "extraordinary liberty for women" and kept as many concubines as they could afford. Akbar had a harem of at least 5000 women and Aurangzeb's harem was even larger. The nobles in India could possess as many concubines as they wanted. Ismail Quli Khan, a Mughal noble, possessed 1200 girls. Another nobleman, Said, had many wives and concubines from whom he fathered 60 sons in just four years. Francisco Pelseart describes that noblemen would visit a different wife each night, who would welcome him along with the slave girls. If he felt attracted to any slave-girl he would call her to him for his enjoyment while the wife would not dare to show her anger. The wife would punish the slave-girl later.

Lower class Muslims were generally monogamous. Since they hardly had any rivals, women of the lower and middle class sections of society fared better than upper class women who had to contend with their husbands' other wives, slave-girls and concubines. Shireen Moosvi has discovered Muslim marriage contracts from Surat, dating back to the 1650s. One stipulation in these marriage contracts was that the husband was not to marry a second wife. Another stipulation was that the husband would not take a slave girl. These stipulations were common among middle-class Muslims in Surat. If the husband took a second wife the first wife would gain an automatic right of divorce, thus indicating the preference for monogamy among the merchants of Surat. If the husband took a slave-girl the wife could sell, free or give away that slave-girl, thereby separating the female slave from her husband.

There is no evidence that concubinage was practiced in Kashmir where, unlike the rest of the medieval Muslim world, slavery was abhorred and not widespread. Except for the Sultans, there is no evidence that the Kashmiri nobility or merchants kept slaves. In medieval Punjab the Muslim peasants, artisans, small tradesmen, shopkeepers, clerks and minor officials could not afford concubines or slaves. But the Muslim nobility of medieval Punjab, such as the Khans and Maliks, kept concubines and slaves. Female slaves were used for concubinage in many wealthy Muslim households of Punjab.

Court cases from 19th century Punjab show the courts recognising as legitimate the sons of Muslim zamindars (landlords) born from their concubines. The Nawab of Bahawalpur, according to a Pakistani jouralist, kept 390 concubines. He had only had sex with most of them once. Marathas captured during wars with the Mughals had been given to their soldiers from the Baloch Bugti tribe. Their descendants became known as "Mrattas" and their women were traditionally used as concubines by the Bugtis. They became equal citizens of Pakistan in 1947.

History of sexual enslavement

Sexual enslavement of non-Muslim women by Muslim men

In Andalus the concubines of the Muslim elite were usually non-Muslim women from the Christian areas of the Iberian peninsula. Many of these had been captured in raids or wars before being gifted the elite Muslim soldiers as war booty or sold as slaves in Muslim markets. Berber pirates trafficked French, Italian, Spanish and Portugese women to North Africa. Christian females were enslaved more than any other religious demographic. It is difficult to track down the experienced of European female slaves because they would have accounted for 5 percent of the slaves trafficked to North Africa and even fewer women were freed from slavery than men between the 16th and 19th centuries. During those centuries, at least 50,000 to 75,000 European girls were forcibly taken and most of them never returned home. One male English slave narrated an account of a young English girl who was given as concubine to the Moroccan king, Mulley Ismail. She tried to resist his sexual advances. He then ordered his black slaves to whip and torture her until she gave in.

Enslaved European men also narrated accounts of women who "apostasised." The life stories of these women were similar to Roxelana, who rose from being a Christian slave-girl into the chief advisor of her husband, Sultan Suleyman of the Ottoman Empire. There are several accounts of such women of humble birth who associated with powerful Muslim men. While the associations were initially forced, the captivity gave women a taste for access to power. Diplomats wrote with disappointment about apostate women who wielded political influence over their masters-turned-husbands. Christian male slaves also recorded the presence of authoritative convert women in Muslim families. Christian women who converted to Islam and then became politically assertive and tyrannical were regarded by Europeans as traitors to the faith. Enslaved Christian women lost all hope of returning home through ransom once they entered a Muslim household. The women were forced to enter a life of sexual subjugation to their new husbands. There is also evidence that many "privileged" female captives wanted to escape if they were given the chance. There is an account of an Irish mother who attacked her Algerian male captors when she learnt that her enslavement meant that she was going to be separated from her children forever. She was later subdued.

The Muslim Sultanates in India before the Mughal Empire captured large numbers of non-Muslims from the Deccan. The Muslim masters would impregnate their non-muslim slaves and the children they fathered would be raised as Muslims. Non-muslim girls were socially ostracised by their own communities for the sexual relationships Muslim soldiers and nobles would have with them, therefore, many of them preferred to convert to Islam. When Muslims would surround Rajput citadels, the Rajput women would commit jauhar to save themselves from being dishonoured by their enemies. In 1296 around 16,000 women committed jauhar to save themselves from Alauddin Khalji's army. Rajput women would commit it when they saw that defeat and enslavement was imminent for their people. In 1533 in Chittorgarh nearly 13,000 women and children killed themselves instead of being taken captive by Bahadur Shah's army. For them sexual intercourse was the worst form of humiliation. Rajputs practised jauhar (collective suicide) mainly when their opponents were Muslims.

The womenfolk of enemies were captured both to humiliate their men and to use the beautiful maidens for various purposes. Beautiful female captives were mostly used for sex. After the period of Akbar's rule enslavement of women continued to be used to punish their men. Jahangir explicitly ordered the destruction of the domain of the rebellious zamindar of Jaitpur and the capture of his women. Thus, his daughters and wives were captured and brought to the harem. Manucci records that, during Mughal rule, when faujdars would enter rebellious villages they would take the most attractive girls and present them to the king. The rest would either be sold or kept for themselves. Ahmad Shah Abdali's army captured Maratha women to fill Afghan harems. The Sikhs attacked Abdali and rescued 2, 2000 Maratha girls.

Sexual enslavement of Muslim women by non-Muslim men

Muslim historical sources see the capture and concubinage of non-muslim women as legitimate violence against women. However, the same practice was criticised when Christians captured Muslim women. In the eleventh century Christians began an aggressive policy towards Muslims in Andalus. Christian military leaders captured Muslim women and included eight year old Muslim virgins as part of their war booty. When Granada passed from Muslim rule to Christian rule, thousands of Moorish women were enslaved and trafficked to Europe. Muslim women were kept as concubines by Christian men.

For both Christians and Muslims, the capture of women from the other religion was a show of power, while the capture and sexual use of their own women by men of the other religion was a cause of shame. Many women would convert to their master's religion. In one case an Algerian woman, Fatima, was captured and enslaved. She converted to Christianity and refused the ransom which the Turks had sent for her release. Other enslaved Muslim women had more "harrowing" experiences in being converted to Christianity.

In India, the Hindu elites and rulers would take revenge by taking Muslim women into their own harems. Rana Kumbha captured Muslim women. Under Medini Rai in Malwa, the Rajputs took Muslim and Sayyid women as slave girls. According to Manucci, the Marathas and Sikhs would also capture Muslim women because 'the Mahomedans had interfered with Hindu women.'

Sexual enslavement of Muslim women by Muslim men

Islamic jurists had completely forbidden the enslavement of Muslims. However, Muslims have still at times enslaved Muslims from other ethnic groups. The caliph Muhammad II of Córdoba gave orders that the Berber houses in Cordoba be looted and that Berber women be captured and sold in Dar-al Banat. The Andalusian ruler of Malaga, Ibn Hassun, unsuccessfully attempted to kill his daughters before the Berber Almohads could capture them. He committed suicide but his daughters survived. These girls were then sold and some of them were taken as concubines by Almohad military commanders. In India attitudes towards women ignored their religious background if they belonged to enemies or rebels. Sher Shah was reported to have sold the wives of rebellious zamindars.

A large number of free Baloch women were kidnapped in the first half of the 20th century by slave traders and sold across the Persian Gulf. For example Yuri bint Lapek was abducted after raiders killed her husband. Another notable case was that of Marzuq who was kidnapped from Makran and sold in Sharjah. Marzuq was purchased by Rashid bin Ali who had sex with her. When she became pregnant he married her off to another Baluchi to avoid taking responsibility for the child. Slave owners arranged many marriages for their female slaves, often just so they would not have to take responsibility for impregnating their slaves.

Modern manifestations

The most widespread raptio in modern times was the kidnapping of tens of thousands of girls during the Partition of India. These women were kept as captives or forced wives and concubines. For instance, one account from Kirpal Singh mentions how Pakistani soldiers in Kamoke took 50 Hindu girls after killing most of their men. After being taken, Hindu and Sikh girls were forcibly converted to Islam to be "worthy" of their captors' harems. Pashtun tribesmen captured a large number of non-muslim girls from Kashmir and sold them as slave-girls in West Punjab. In Mirpur, many of the Hindu women captured by Pakistani soldiers committed jauhar, the old practice of Hindu women to escape Muslim soldiers. One Indian official wrote how Hindu girls were distributed among Muslims in Gujranwala after the massacre of their men. An even larger number of Muslim women were taken by Sikh jathas. Muslim girls in East Punjab would be distributed among the jathas, Indian military and police. The governments of India and Pakistan later agreed to restore Hindu and Sikh women to India and Muslim women to Pakistan. Many women feared how they would be treated by their relatives if they returned, so they refused to return to their people and chose to convert to the religion of their captors. Some fell in love with their captors.

Christian prisoners of war in the Sudanese civil war are often enslaved. The female captives are used sexually. Their Muslim captors state that Islamic law allows them. In Afghanistan the Taliban has committed atrocities against the Shia population. One of its atrocities has been to enslave Shia Hazara women and use them for concubinage. In 1998 eyewitnesses in Mazar e Sharif reported the abduction of hundreds of Shia girls who were used by Taliban fighters as concubines. The Taliban either takes beautiful young women from other ethnic groups as concubines or forcibly marries them.

Modern Muslim attitudes

While classical Islamic law permits sexual slavery, the vast majority of Muslims today oppose it. This contradiction is demonstrated by Ahmed Hassan, a twentieth century translator of Sahih Muslim, who prefaced the translated chapter on marriage by claiming that Islam only allows sex within marriage. This was despite the fact that the same chapter included many references to Muslim men having sex with slave-girls. Most ordinary Muslims ignore the existence of slavery and concubinage in Islamic history and texts. Most also ignore the millennia old consensus permitting it and a few writers even claim that those Islamic jurists who allowed sexual relations outside marriage with female slaves were mistaken.

Asifa Quraishi-Landes aso oberves that most Muslims believe that sex is only permissible within marriage and they ignore the permission for keeping concubines in Islamic jurisprudence. Furthermore, the majority of modern Muslims are not aware that Islamic jurists had made an analogy between the marriage contract and sale of concubines and many modern Muslims would be offended by the idea that a husband owns his wife's private parts under Islamic law.

In response to the enslavement of Yazidi women by ISIS the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Fiqh Council of North America claimed that no scholar disputes the abolition of slavery was one of the aims of Islam. However, Kecia Ali finds this claim dishonest. While there was definitely an “emancipatory ethic” (encouragement for freeing slaves) in Islamic jurisprudence, slavery was never actually abolished. The translator of Ibn Kathir's treatise on slaves, Umar ibn Sulayman Hafyan, felt obliged to explain why he published a slave treatise when slavery no longer exists. He states that just because slavery no longer exists does not mean that the laws about slavery have been abrogated. Moreover, slavery was only abolished half a century ago and could return in the future. His comments were a reflection of the predicament modern Muslims find themselves in.

Mufti Taqi Usmani states that slavery and turning captives into concubines is still allowed by Islam. However, he states that due to signing international treaties the Muslim countries should not enslave prisoners of war as long as other nations also refrain from enslavement.

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