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Rhetoric concerning their mothers surrounded this rise to power, serving either to glorify or criticize their ascension to the caliphate. One rhetorical tactic involved portraying the slave mothers as foreign princesses with prestigious family backgrounds, thereby elevating their social status. An
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who had given birth to her master's child. These women were regarded as property and could be sold by their owners, a practice that was permitted at the time under some strict rules and regulations from
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from her master were considered freeborn and legitimate, and they were often treated similarly with the other children born to the master's free wives. In 740,
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If an unmarried slave bore a child and the slave owner did not acknowledge parenthood, then the slave had to face
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authorized a policy during his time as a caliph, that prohibited owners from selling or gifting their
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should not be sold and should be granted freedom following her master's death. Children born to
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as the first Umayyad caliph with a slave mother. Subsequently, the last three
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example of this is Yazid III, who proudly declared that his mother was a
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was still sellable despite having given birth to the owner's child.
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legal schools of jurisprudence embrace Umar's perspective that the
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Arabic term for a slave-concubine that mothers a master's child
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claimed that he was not truly the son of the Umayyad prince
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when giving birth to a child by her enslaver, sultan
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Index

Umm walad
Umm Walad

Roxelana
Crimean slave trade
Suleiman the Magnificent
Arabic
lit.
slave-concubine
Muhammad
Umar
Ali
Uthman
Shi'ism
temporary marriages
Sunni
Zayd ibn Ali
Yazid III
Umayyad
Abbasid
Persian
Sassanid dynasty
Caesar
Khaqan
Marwan II
Muhammad ibn Marwan
zina
Islamic sexual jurisprudence
Islamic views on slavery
Ma malakat aymanukum

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