IRL difference between concubine and second wife

[majdavlk]

What was the difference IRL? When Mongols adopted islam did they make any difference between those 2?

From what i understand concubine should be something like a second wife but has less prestige and influence, same with second wifes islam had but there they are "de jure" equal while 1 wife still had more influence or something like that. Please correct me.

 

[Tinuviel]

Wives are free women and concubines are slaves. Someone who is free cannot enter into concubinage. Wives have shares of inheritance, not sure about concubines. Wives also have rights over their husbands, concubines probably don't since they have slave-master relationship. Concubines become free upon the masters death if they bear children and sometimes rise to high position when their children become prominent. I don't know if Mongols distinguished the two, but they probably did, after all they started to adapt to the people they were ruling. Women who were married for political purposes or from muslim or noble families probably became wives since muslim women aren't allowed to be concubines and it'd be unfitting for a noble to only become a concubine.

 

[Karlington]

Wives are free women and concubines are slaves. Someone who is free cannot enter into concubinage. Wives have shares of inheritance, not sure about concubines. Wives also have rights over their husbands, concubines probably don't since they have slave-master relationship. Concubines become free upon the masters death if they bear children and sometimes rise to high position when their children become prominent. I don't know if Mongols distinguished the two, but they probably did, after all they started to adapt to the people they were ruling. Women who were married for political purposes or from muslim or noble families probably became wives since muslim women aren't allowed to be concubines and it'd be unfitting for a noble to only become a concubine.

This is not universally true. Concubines weren't always slaves. I'm not sure about the Mongols in particular, though.

 

[Tinuviel]

This is not universally true. Concubines weren't always slaves. I'm not sure about the Mongols in particular, though.

Forgot to say in theory it should be like that in Islam, but obviously people found ways to circumvent that and it got more complicated when it comes to the royal family lol

 

[Tryvenyal]

This is not universally true. Concubines weren't always slaves. I'm not sure about the Mongols in particular, though.

Slaves or servants. In some societies servants could rise to influential positions, in others they are locked just above slavery.
And... The same I guess unfortunately can be said about Wives...

 

[Karlington]

Slaves or servants. In some societies servants could rise to influential positions, in others they are locked just above slavery.
And... The same I guess unfortunately can be said about Wives...

The thing with wives has changed in the modern age, though. Having once been married I can confirm that in the modern era husbands are the slaves of their wives.

 

[Tryvenyal]

The thing with wives has changed in the modern age, though. Having once been married I can confirm that in the modern era husbands are the slaves of their wives.

Haha! Living in a Marriage-like relationship, I can only agree