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This Volume One of a series on slaves and slavery in Muslim Africa. First published in 1985, it looks at Islam and the ideology of enslavement. Slaves of African origin formed a vital thread in the living lines of economic production in the Near and Middle East and formed the cord of economic activity in Islamic Africa itself. Slaves sustained the salt pits and date palms of desert societies; they worked the spice plantations of the East African littoral - became the porters and placemen in the trans-Saharan trade; and they constituted the entourage - the veritable wealth and currency - of the notables of Islamic societies.

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Author:   John Ralph Willis
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138982093

ISBN 10:   1138982091
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   08 February 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction The Ideology of Enslavement in Islam, John Ralph Willis; Chapter I Hijra and the Ideology of Enslavement, Willis John Ralph; Chapter II Models of the World and Categorial Models: The “Enslavable Barbarian” as a Mobile Classificatory Label; Chapter III The Image of Africans in Arabic Literature: Some Unpublished Manuscripts1, Akbar Muhammad; Chapter IV Genesis, Judaism, and the ‘Sons of Ham’, Ephraim Isaac; Chapter V Stereotypes and Attitudes Towards Slaves in Arabic Proverbs: a Preliminary View, William John Sersen; chapter VI Enslavement, Slavery and Attitudes Towards the Legally Enslavable in Hausa Islamic Literature, M. Hiskett; chapter VII The Mi‘raj: a Legal Treatise on Slavery by Ahmad Baba, Bernard Barbour, Michelle Jacobs; chapter VIII Zuhur al-Basatin and Ta'rikh al-Turubbe: Some Legal and Ethical Aspects of Slavery In the Sudan as Seen in the Works of Shaykh Musa Kamara, Constance Hilliard; Chapter IX Slavery and Islamization in Africa: A Comparative Study, Nehemia Levtzion; Chapter X Mawlas: Freed Slaves and Converts in Early Islam, Daniel Pipes;

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JOHN RALPH WILLIS Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies Princeton University.

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