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Based primarily on eighteenth-century criminal records from the Court of Aldermen in Batavia (modern-day Jakarta), this dissertation explores the way in which demographic and economic constraints influenced colonial law, and details the effects of these forces on the female unde…

In this thesis, I examine the musical and social performance of the class of musicians known as singing slave girls in the early Islamic court at Baghdad from 661 to 950CE as seen through their representation in three 9th century texts. The singing slave girls, called qayna in A…