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1 online resource (xv, 570 pages) |
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Studies in global slavery, 2405-4585 ; volume 8 |
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Studies in global slavery ; v. 8.
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| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Figures and Maps; Introduction; Chapter 1; Slavery, Slave Trading and the Law in the Pre-Islamic Middle East; 1 Origins of Slavery; 2 Greco-Roman/Hebrew Historiographic Dominance; 3 The Importance of Afro-Irano-Semitic Influences on Slavery in the Middle East; 4 Slavery and Slave Trading in Pre-Islamic Middle Eastern Civilizations; 5 The Pre-Islamic Slave Trades in the Indian Ocean and along the Silk Road; 6 A Summary of the Pre-Islamic Legal Rules on Slavery; Chapter 2; Slavery and Slave Trading in Early Islam |
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1 Slavery and Slave Trading in the Formative Period of Islam2 The Qurʼan, Human Equality, and Slavery; 3 Post-revelatory Pietistic Egalitarianism and Hard-Hearted Tribalism: A Titanic Struggle Emerges; 4 Further Qurʼanic Support for a Pietistic Egalitarianism; 5 Pluralism and Diversity as Qurʼanic Values; 6 The Qurʼan's Use of the Fact of Human Inequalities as an Organon to Encourage Monotheistic Belief and Piety; 7 Slavery in the Qurʼan; 8 Three Linguistic Forms Primarily Used in the Qurʼanic Provisions on Slavery; 9 The Troubling Rules Mandating the Taking of Slaves as "War Booty." |
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10 Conclusion: The Qurʼan, Human Equality and Slavery11 Practical Effects: The Development of Islamic Law's Concrete Norms and Rules on Slavery; Chapter 3; Slavery and Empire in the Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Worlds; 1 Imperialism and Slavery in the Early Islamic Project; 2 Abu Bakr and Slavery; 3 ʿUmar ibn al-Khattab; 4 Slavery and the Early Islamic Conquests; 5 Slavery and the Muslim Conquest of Egypt: The Beginning of a Unique Ethos; 6 The Baqt; 7 The Rise of the Abbasid Caliphate; 8 Slavery, Slave Trading, and the Success of the Early Abbasid Caliphate |
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9 A Return to the Development of the Unique Ethos in Egypt10 The Fatimids, the Ayyubids, and the Continued Diversification of a New Egyptian Elite Slave Caste; Chapter 4; The "Mamluk/Ghulam Phenomenon"-Slave Sultans, Soldiers, Eunuchs, and Concubines; 1 Slave Sultans and Soldiers; 2 Eunuchs and Concubines; Chapter 5; Plural Imperialisms and Multiple Diasporas; 1 Slavery and the Vast Indian Ocean Imperial and Commercial Diaspora; 2 Ibn Battuta's Account of East Africa; 3 Enter the Europeans; 4 East Africa and the Omanis-"The Bedouin of the Sea." |
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5 The Red Sea and Slavery and Slave Trading in Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Arabia6 The Persian Gulf; 7 Eurasian Slave Trading and the "Silk Road"; 8 Some Slave-Trade Descriptions; Chapter 6; A Taxonomy of Slavery and Slave Trading in Muslim Cultures; 1 Domestic Servitude; 2 Military and Naval Slaves; 3 Concubinage; 4 "Gang" and Plantation Slavery; 5 "Sultanic" Slavery; Chapter 7; The Rise and Impact of Abolitionism; 1 Overview-Transatlantic Abolitionism; 2 Slavery and Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean and Afroeurasian Worlds during the "Age of Revolution." |
| Summary |
In Possessed by the Right Hand, the first comprehensive legal history of slavery in Islam ever offered to readers, Bernard K. Freamon, an African-American Muslim law professor, provides a penetrating analysis of the problems of slavery and slave-trading in Islamic history. After examining the issues from pre-Islamic times through to the nineteenth century, Professor Freamon considers the impact of Western abolitionism, arguing that such efforts have been a failure, with the notion of abolition becoming nothing more than a cruel illusion. He closes this ground-breaking account with an examination of the slaving ideologies and actions of ISIS and Boko Haram, asserting that Muslims now have an important and urgent responsibility to achieve true abolition under the aegis of Islamic law |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 11, 2019) |
| Subject |
Slavery and Islam.
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Slavery -- Islamic countries
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Slavery (Islamic law)
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RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
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Slavery.
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Slavery and Islam.
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Slavery (Islamic law)
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Islamic countries.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019022234 |
| ISBN |
9789004398795 |
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9004398791 |
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