Mugīṯ y Barīra: una historia de desamor en tiempos del Profeta como base jurídica del divorcio a instancias de la mujer musulmana

  1. Ana B. Cano-carrillo 1
  2. Francisco Vidal-castro 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Jaén
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    Universidad de Jaén

    Jaén, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0122p5f64

Book:
XI Congreso virtual sobre Historia de las Mujeres
  1. Manuel Cabrera Espinosa (coord.)
  2. Juan Antonio López Cordero (coord.)

Publisher: Archivo Histórico Diocesano de Jaén

Year of publication: 2019

Pages: 189-208

Congress: Asociación de Amigos del Archivo Histórico Diocesano de Jaén. Congreso virtual sobre Historia de las Mujeres (11. 2019. null)

Type: Conference paper

Sustainable development goals

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the hadith (tradition of the Prophet Muhammad) on the couple of Mugīth and Barīra (7th century) as a precedent and legal basis for divorce at the behest of Muslim women and its repercussion. Barīra was a slave married to another slave, Mugīth, who after getting her manumission with the help of another woman (‛Ā'iša, wife of the Prophet), enjoyed the possibility, sanctioned by the Prophet, to choose between continuing with her husband or separate from him. She chose to separate from him even though Mugīth followed her throughout the city crying and awakening the compassion of others.