Zilfi, Madeline C.

Women and slavery in the late Ottoman Empire : the design of difference / Madeline C. Zilfi. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. - xvi, 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization / Ed. board: David Morgan ... et al. . - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-269) and index.

Empire and imperium ; Currents of change ; Women and the regulated society ; Telling the Ottoman slave story ; Meaning and practice ; Feminizing slavery ; Men are kanun, women are shari'ah.

9780521515832 (hardback)


Women slaves--History.--Turkey
Slavery--History.--Turkey