Slavery In The Islamic Middle East

Author : Shaun Elizabeth Marmon
Publisher : Markus Wiener Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery in the Islamic Middle East written by Shaun Elizabeth Marmon and published by Markus Wiener Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery, recognized and regulated by Islamic law, was an integral part of Muslim societies in the Middle East well into modern times. Recruited from the "Abode of War" by means of trade or warfare, slaves began their lives in the Islamic world as deracinated outsiders, described by Muslim jurists as being in a state like death, awaiting resurrection and rebirth through manumission. Many of these slaves were manumitted and some rose to prominence as soldiers and political leaders. Others were not so fortunate. Slaves of African origin, in particular, were often condemned to lives of menial labor. Despite the importance of slavery in Islamic history, this institution has received scant attention from scholars. This volume examines the institution of slavery in Islam in a range of cultural settings.

Author : Bernard Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195053265
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and Slavery in the Middle East written by Bernard Lewis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time of Moses up to the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. But if the Middle East was the last region to renounce slavery, how do we account for its -- and especially Islam's -- image of racial harmony? This book explores these questions. The research presented in this book was first undertaken as part of a group project on tolerance and intolerance in human societies. The group project was never completed but the material gathered for the project on Islam stimulated the book's study of race and slavery in the Middle East, a subject that appears to have so far encouraged scant study. -- Publisher description.

Author : Mary Ann Fay
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137597550
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery in the Islamic World written by Mary Ann Fay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume determines where slavery in the Islamic world fits within the global history of slavery and the various models that have been developed to analyze it. To that end, the authors focus on a question about Islamic slavery that has frequently been asked but not answered satisfactorily, namely, what is Islamic about slavery in the Islamic world. Through the fields of history, sociology, literature, women's studies, African studies, and comparative slavery studies, this book is an important contribution to the scholarly research on slavery in the Islamic lands, which continues to be understudied and under-represented in global slavery studies.

Author : Ehud R. Toledano
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300126182
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As If Silent and Absent written by Ehud R. Toledano and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book reconceptualizes slavery through the voices of enslaved persons themselves, voices that have remained silent in the narratives of conventional history. Focusing in particular on the Islamic Middle East from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, Ehud R. Toledano examines how bonded persons experienced enslavement in Ottoman societies. He draws on court records and a variety of other unexamined primary sources to uncover important new information about the Africans and Circassians who were forcibly removed from their own societies and transplanted to Middle East cultures that were alien to them. Toledano also considers the experiences of these enslaved people within the context of the global history of slavery. The book looks at the bonds of slavery from an original perspective, moving away from the traditional master/slave domination paradigm toward the point of view of the enslaved and their responses to their plight. With keen and original insights, Toledano suggests new ways of thinking about enslavement.

Author : Murray Gordon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0941533301
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery in the Arab World written by Murray Gordon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1989 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...a comprehensive portrait of slavery in the Islamic world from earliest times until today...D>--Arab Book World

Author : Ehud R. Toledano
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295802421
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East written by Ehud R. Toledano and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Ottoman Empire, many members of the ruling elite were legally slaves of the sultan and therefore could, technically, be ordered to surrender their labor, their property, or their lives at any moment. Nevertheless, slavery provided a means of social mobility, conferring status and political power within the military, the bureaucracy, or the domestic household and formed an essential part of patronage networks. Ehud R. Toledano’s exploration of slavery from the Ottoman viewpoint is based on extensive research in British, French, and Turkish archives and offers rich, original, and important insights into Ottoman life and thought. In an attempt to humanize the narrative and take it beyond the plane of numbers, tables and charts, Toledano examines the situations of individuals representing the principal realms of Ottoman slavery, female harem slaves, the sultan’s military and civilian kuls, court and elite eunuchs, domestic slaves, Circassian agricaultural slaves, slave dealers, and slave owners. Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East makes available new and significantly revised studies on nineteenth-century Middle Eastern slavery and suggests general approaches to the study of slavery in different cultures.

Author : Jonathan A.C. Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1786076365
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery and Islam written by Jonathan A.C. Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong? Every major religion and philosophy once condoned or approved of slavery, but in modern times nothing is seen as more evil. Americans confront this crisis of authority when they erect statues of Founding Fathers who slept with their slaves. And Muslims faced it when ISIS revived sex slavery, justifying it with verses from the Quran and the practice of Muhammad. Exploring the moral and ultimately theological problem of slavery, Jonathan A.C. Brown traces how the Christian, Jewish and Islamic traditions have tried to reconcile modern moral certainties with the infallibility of God’s message. He lays out how Islam viewed slavery in theory, and the reality of how it was practiced across Islamic civilization. Finally, Brown carefully examines arguments put forward by Muslims for the abolition of slavery.

Author : Ronald Segal
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374527970
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam's Black Slaves written by Ronald Segal and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-02-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Islamic slave trade from its inception in the seventh century through its history in China, India, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, and Spain.

Author : Terence Walz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9774163982
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and Slavery in the Middle East written by Terence Walz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 19th century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet little is known about them. The nine essays in this volume examine the lives of slaves and freed men and women in Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean.

Author : R. Davis
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403945518
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters written by R. Davis and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-09-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study that digs deeply into this 'other' slavery, the bondage of Europeans by North-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the trans-Atlantic trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Here are explored the actual extent of Barbary Coast slavery, the dynamic relationship between master and slave, and the effects of this slaving on Italy, one of the slave takers' primary targets and victims.