Author: W. G. Clarence-SmithPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195221510
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
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Islam and the Abolition of Slavery
Author: W. G. Clarence-SmithPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195221510
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Slavery and Islam
Author: Jonathan A.C. BrownPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1786076365
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
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.
The Abolition of Slavery in Ottoman Tunisia
Author: Ismael M. MontanaPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813048427
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
In this groundbreaking work, Ismael Montana fully explicates the complexity of Tunisian society and culture and reveals how abolition was able to occur in an environment hostile to such change. Moving beyond typical slave trade studies, he departs from the traditional regional paradigms that isolate slavery in North Africa from its global dynamics to examine the trans-Saharan slave trade in a broader historical context. The result is a study that reveals how European capitalism, political pressure, and evolving social dynamics throughout the western Mediterranean region helped shape this seismic cultural event.
Islam and the Abolition of Slavery
Author: William Clarence-SmithPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1787384160
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In this important book, Clarence-Smith provides the first general survey of the Islamic debate on slavery. Sweeping away entrenched myths, he hopes to stimulate more research on this neglected topic. He draws on examples from the 'abode of Islam', from the Philippines to Senegal and from the Caucasus to South Africa, paying particular attention to the period from the late eighteenth century to the present. Once slavery had disappeared, it was the Sufi mystics who did most to integrate former slaves socially and religiously, avoiding the deep social divisions that have plagued the Western societies in the aftermath of abolition.
Black Morocco
Author: Chouki El HamelPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139620045
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Chouki El Hamel argues that we cannot rely solely on Islamic ideology as the key to explain social relations and particularly the history of black slavery in the Muslim world, for this viewpoint yields an inaccurate historical record of the people, institutions and social practices of slavery in Northwest Africa. El Hamel focuses on black Moroccans' collective experience beginning with their enslavement to serve as the loyal army of the Sultan Isma'il. By the time the Sultan died in 1727, they had become a political force, making and unmaking rulers well into the nineteenth century. The emphasis on the political history of the black army is augmented by a close examination of the continuity of black Moroccan identity through the musical and cultural practices of the Gnawa.
Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa
Author: Elisabeth McMahonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025826
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This book demonstrates the links between emancipation and the redefinition of honour among all classes of people on the island of Pemba.
The Walking Qurʼan
Author: Rudolph T. WarePublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469614316
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa
Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition
Author: Robert W. HarmsPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030016646X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
div While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, their efforts paradoxically caused a great increase in legal and illegal slave trading in the western Indian Ocean. Bringing together essays from leading authorities in the field of slavery studies, this comprehensive work offers an original and creative study of slavery and abolition in the Indian Ocean world during this period. Among the topics discussed are the relationship between British imperialism and slavery; Islamic law and slavery; and the bureaucracy of slave trading./DIV
Race and Slavery in the Middle East
Author: Bernard LewisPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195053265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
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.
Islam and the Abolition of Slavery
Author: William Gervase Clarence-SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9781787383388
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In this important book, Clarence-Smith provides the first general survey of the Islamic debate on slavery. Sweeping away entrenched myths, he hopes to stimulate more research on the neglected topic. He draws on examples from the 'abode of Islam', from the Philippines to Senegal and from the Caucasus to South Africa, paying particular attention for the period from the late eighteenth century to the present. Once slavery had disappeared, it was the Sufi mystics who did most to integrate former slaves socially and religiously, avoiding the deep social divisions that have plagued Western society in the aftermath of abolition.