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020			_a1558762744 _q(hc ; _qalk. paper)
020			_a9781558762749 _q(hc ; _qalk. paper)
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020			_a9781558762756 _q(pb ; _qalk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)48494711
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _dBAKER _dNLGGC _dBTCTA _dYDXCP _dALAUL _dHEBIS _dDEBBG _dOCL _dOCLCA _dOCLCQ _dOCLCF _dOCLCQ _dOCLCO _dOCLCQ _dL2U _dOCLCQ _dOCLCO _dOCLCA
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050	0	0	_aHT1317 _b.A37 2002
082	0	0	_a306.3/62/0917671 _221
099			_aH2m _bHUNWI 26348
245	0	4	_aThe African diaspora in the Mediterranean lands of Islam / _c[introduced, compiled, and edited by] John Hunwick and Eve Troutt Powell.
260			_aPrinceton : _bMarkus Wiener Publishers, _c©2002.
300			_axxxvii, 246 pages : _billustrations, map ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aPrinceton series on the Middle East.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 243-246).
505	0		_aThe 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.
520			_a"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.
541			_aAmazonUK _cPurchase _d2008-02-01
650		0	_aSlavery and Islam _zMediterranean Region.
650		0	_aSlavery _zMediterranean Region _xHistory.
650		0	_aAfrican diaspora.
651		0	_aMediterranean Region _xRace relations.
655		7	_aHistory.
700	1		_aHunwick, John O.
700	1		_aPowell, Eve Troutt.
830		0	_aPrinceton series on the Middle East.
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