Prisons before modernity: Incarceration in the medieval Indo-Mediterranean
(2012)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2012). Prisons before modernity: Incarceration in the medieval Indo-Mediterranean. Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean, 24(2), 179-197. https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2012.684759
Over the course of the sixth/twelfth century, a new literary genre entered the Eastern Islamic world: the Persian prison poem (ḥabsiyyāt). Far from being an isolated event, the prison poem was forged when punishment came to be reconfigured as incarce... Read More about Prisons before modernity: Incarceration in the medieval Indo-Mediterranean.