Muhammad Qutb Qutb, Muhammad, Islam, the Misunderstood Religion, Markazi Maktabi Islami, Delhi-6, 1992 p.50
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Islam made it lawful for a master to have a number of slave-women captured in wars and enjoined that he alone may have sexual relations with them ... Europe abhors this law but at the same gladly allows that most odious form of animalism according to which a man may have illicit relations with any girl coming across him on his way to gratify his animal passions.
— Islamic views on concubinage
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About Islamic views on concubinage
For the history of this practice, see History of concubinage in the Muslim world
About Islamic views on concubinage
For the history of this practice, see History of concubinage in the Muslim world