Islam's Black slaves : the other Black diaspora

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"A companion volume to The Black Diaspora, this work tells the story of the Islamic slave trade. Islam's Black Slaves documents a centuries-old institution that still survives, and traces the business of slavery and its repercussions from Islam's inception in the seventh century, thro...

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Main Author: Segal, Ronald, 1932-2008
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Slavery and Islam > History.
Slavery > Islamic countries > History.
African diaspora.
Esclavage > Aspect religieux > Islam > Histoire.
Africains > Pays étrangers.
Islamic countries.
Subsaharan Africa.
Islam.
diasporas.
slave trade.
15.59 history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: other.
Slavery.
Slavery and Islam.
Sklaverei
Slavernij.
Slavenhandel.
Negers.
Afrika
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Contrasts
  • Out of Arabia
  • Imperial Islam
  • The practice of slavery
  • The farther reaches: China, India, Spain
  • Into Black Africa
  • The Ottoman Empire
  • The "Heretic" state: Iran
  • The Libyan connection
  • The terrible century: East Africa, The Sudanic states and Sahara
  • Colonial translations: Northern Nigeria, French Soudan, Mauritania, Somalia, Zanzibar and the Kenyan coast
  • Survivals of slavery: Mauritania, Sudan
  • America's Black Muslim backlash.

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