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This attempt to require sexual exclusivity for female slaves was rare in antiquity, when female slaves generally had no claim to an exclusive sexual relationship. [104] According to Sikainga, "in reality, however, female slaves in many Muslim societies were prey for members of their owners' household, their neighbors, and their guests." [103]
As sexual commodities, female slaves were, in some historical periods, not allowed to cover themselves in the fashion of free women. [43] The Caliph Umar prohibited slave girls from resembling free women and forbade them from covering their face. [44] Slave women were also not required to cover their arms, hair or legs below the knees. [45]
While a Muslim man were given the right to sex with both wives as well as female slaves, Islamic law did not define a difference between his child with a slave (if he had acknowledged paternity) and his child with a legal wife; there was no difference in legitimacy defined between the child of a slave mistress or a wife, and therefore, both ...
Jarya or jariya (SING; Arabic: جارية), also jawari (PLUR), was a term often used for female slaves in the medieval Islamic world. [2] In a courtly context, they could be " slaves for pleasure " (muṭʿa, ladhdha) or “slaves for sexual intercourse ” (jawārī al-waṭ), [ citation needed ] who had received special training in artistic ...
There were a number of categories of female slaves with whom sexual relations were prohibited: If a female slave's status as a slave is in doubt, some scholars prohibited sexual relations with her. [61] This became a greater concern from 1000 CE onwards, as many women were made slaves under dubious circumstances. [62]
Female slaves of Berb ethnicity were particularly popular to be bought for child birth during the Umayyad era, and Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (r. 723–743) specifically requested his Governors in North Africa to send him female Berb slaves to became umm-walad, that is to give birth to his children. [27]
All free Muslim women where expected to be secluded from men in such a high degree as their financial circumstances made practically possible. In the case of women of upper and middle classes, this resulted in full harem seclusion. The disappearance of women from social life expanded the institution of the qiyan; the female slave entertainer.
A Muslim man was allowed by law to have sexual intercourse with his female slave, unless she was legally owned by his wife. [16] The child of a slave was born a slave, unless the male slave owner acknowledged the child of his female slave as his, in which case the child would be automatically free by law. [17]