Slavery in the Islamic World: Its Characteristics and Commonality [Hardcover]

This edited volume determines where slavery in the Islamic world fits within the global history of slavery and the various models that have been developed to analyze it. To that end, the authors focus on a question about Islamic slavery that has frequently been asked but not answered satisfactorily, namely, what is Islamic about slavery in the Islamic world. Through the fields of history, sociology, literature, women's studies, African studies, and comparative slavery studies, this book is an important contribution to the scholarly research on slavery in the Islamic lands, which continues to be understudied and under-represented in global slavery studies. 

1. Chapter 1/Introduction

Mary Ann Fay

What is Islamic about Slavery in the Islamic World? 

2. Chapter Two

E. Ann McDougall

What is Islamic about Slavery in Muslim Societies? Cooper, Concubinage and Contemporary Legacies of Islamic Slavery in North, West and East Africa 

Gabeba Baderoon

Reading the Hidden History of the Cape:  Islam and Slavery in the Making of Race and Sex in South Africa  

4. Chapter Four

Diane Robinson Dunn

French and English Orientalisms and the study of slavery and abolition in North Africa and the Middle East: what are the connections? 

5. Chapter Five

Sarga Moussa

The Figure of the Eunuch in the Lettres persanes: Reevaluation and Resistance

6. Chapter Six

Mary Ann Fay

Gender, Race and Slavery in the Mamluk Households of Eighteenth-Century Egypt

7. Chapter Seven

Anthony Lee

Africans in the Palace: The Testimony of Taj al-Saltana Qajar from the Royalӟ