"The permissibility of sex with the captive women was taken for granted by all the men involved, including the Prophet…"

"When directly confronted, in a polemical context, with historical and textual permission for the sexual use of unfree…"

"They agreed unanimously that an enslaved female’s consent was never required for a marriage contracted by her owner. …"

"A man’s intercourse with a female slave might constitute zina¯ only if she belongs to someone else."

"Even if he marries off his own slave and no longer has lawful access to her, his having sex with her is a lesser tran…"

"A surprising assertion about consent also appears in a recent monograph by a scholar of Islamic legal history who dec…"

"These questions arise urgently when one considers that classical Islamic law accepts both slavery as an institution a…"

"Though seldom discussed, forced sex with one’s wife might (or, depending on the circumstances, might not) be an ethic…"

"The silence of the Hanafis can be explained easily: a wife's sexual refusal is irrelevant if not accompanied by her d…"

"Though I believe in the strongest possible terms that meaningful consent is a prerequisite for ethical sexual relatio…"