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The African diaspora in the Mediterranean lands of Islam / [introduced, compiled, and edited by] John Hunwick and Eve Troutt Powell.

Contributor(s): Hunwick, John O | Powell, Eve TrouttMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Princeton series on the Middle EastPublication details: Princeton : Markus Wiener Publishers, ©2002. Description: xxxvii, 246 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1558762744; 9781558762749; 1558762752; 9781558762756Subject(s): Slavery and Islam -- Mediterranean Region | Slavery -- Mediterranean Region -- History | African diaspora | Mediterranean Region -- Race relationsGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 306.3/62/0917671 LOC classification: HT1317 | .A37 2002
Contents:
The same but different: Africans in Slavery in the Mediterranean Muslim World / by John Hunwick -- The Silence of the Slaves / Eve M. Troutt Powell -- I. Basic Texts on Slavery -- II. Some Muslim Views on Slavery -- III. Slavery and the Law -- IV. Perceptions of Africans in Some Arabic and Turkish Writings -- V. Slave Capture -- VI. The Middle Passage -- VII. Slave Markets -- VIII. Eunuchs and Concubines -- IX. Domestic Service -- X. Agricultural Labor -- XI. Military Service -- XII. Religion and Community -- XIII. Freedom and Post-Slavery -- XIV. Abolition of Slavery -- XV. Slave Narrative.
Summary: "For every gallon in ink that has been spilt on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its consequences, only one every small drop has been spent on the study of the forced migration of black Africans into the Mediterranean world of Islam. From the ninth to the early twentieth century, probably as many black Africans were forcibly taken across the Sahara, up the Nile valley, and across the Red Sea, as were transported across the Atlantic in much shorter period. Yet their story has not yet been told. Slavery was a fundamental social assumption of Arab society at the rise of Islam and of the various Mediterranean societies in which Islamic culture developed. It was written into the shari'a, and was therefore considered a divinely sanctioned practice that mere human beings could not abrogate or interfere with. Black Africa was the earliest source for slaves and the last great "reservoir" to dry up; in the 640's slaves were already part of the "non-aggression pact" between the Arab conquerors of Egypt and Nubian rulers to their south, while as late as 1910 slaves were still being shipped out of Benghazi, supplied, it would seem, via as eastern Saharan route from Wadai (in Chad). By the seventeenth century blackness of skin of African origin was virtually synonymous in the Arab world with both the notion and the work 'abd (slave). Even today the word for Africans in many dialects of Arabic remains just that--'abid--"slaves." This book provides an introduction to this other" slave trade, and to the Islamic cultural context within which it took place, as well as the effects this context had on its victims."--Book cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246).

The same but different: Africans in Slavery in the Mediterranean Muslim World / by John Hunwick -- The Silence of the Slaves / Eve M. Troutt Powell -- I. Basic Texts on Slavery -- II. Some Muslim Views on Slavery -- III. Slavery and the Law -- IV. Perceptions of Africans in Some Arabic and Turkish Writings -- V. Slave Capture -- VI. The Middle Passage -- VII. Slave Markets -- VIII. Eunuchs and Concubines -- IX. Domestic Service -- X. Agricultural Labor -- XI. Military Service -- XII. Religion and Community -- XIII. Freedom and Post-Slavery -- XIV. Abolition of Slavery -- XV. Slave Narrative.

"For every gallon in ink that has been spilt on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its consequences, only one every small drop has been spent on the study of the forced migration of black Africans into the Mediterranean world of Islam. From the ninth to the early twentieth century, probably as many black Africans were forcibly taken across the Sahara, up the Nile valley, and across the Red Sea, as were transported across the Atlantic in much shorter period. Yet their story has not yet been told. Slavery was a fundamental social assumption of Arab society at the rise of Islam and of the various Mediterranean societies in which Islamic culture developed. It was written into the shari'a, and was therefore considered a divinely sanctioned practice that mere human beings could not abrogate or interfere with. Black Africa was the earliest source for slaves and the last great "reservoir" to dry up; in the 640's slaves were already part of the "non-aggression pact" between the Arab conquerors of Egypt and Nubian rulers to their south, while as late as 1910 slaves were still being shipped out of Benghazi, supplied, it would seem, via as eastern Saharan route from Wadai (in Chad). By the seventeenth century blackness of skin of African origin was virtually synonymous in the Arab world with both the notion and the work 'abd (slave). Even today the word for Africans in many dialects of Arabic remains just that--'abid--"slaves." This book provides an introduction to this other" slave trade, and to the Islamic cultural context within which it took place, as well as the effects this context had on its victims."--Book cover.