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Slave elites in the Middle East and Africa : a comparative study
- Title
- Slave elites in the Middle East and Africa : a comparative study / edited by Miura Tora and John Edward Philips.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Kegan Paul International, 2000.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xii, 248 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Islamic area studies
- Subjects
- Slavery > Middle East > History > Congresses
- Elite (Social sciences) > Africa > History > Congresses
- Slavery > Cross-cultural studies > Congresses
- Elite (Social sciences) > Middle East > History > Congresses
- Islamic civilization > Congresses
- Slavery and Islam > History > Congresses
- Slavery > Africa > History > Congresses
- Note
- Proceedings of The Slave Elites Workshop organized by the Islamic Area Studies Project and held in Tokyo on October 10-11, 1998 at the Institute of Oriental Culture, the University of Tokyo.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Slave elites in Islamic history / Sato Tsugitaka -- The Turkish military elite of Samarra and the third century land tenure system / Matthew S. Gordon -- Slave elites and the Saqaliba in al-Andalus in the Umayyad Period / Sato Kentaro -- The location of the "manufacture" of eunuchs / Jan S. Hogendorn -- My slave, my son, my lord: slavery, family and state in the Islamic Middle East / Dror Ze'evi -- The changing concept of Mamlūk in the Mamluk sultanate in Egypt and Syria / Nasser Rabbat -- Waqf as an instrument of investment in the Mamluk sultanate: security vs. profit? / Carl F. Petry --The power of knowledge and the knowledge of power: kinship, community and royal slavery in pre-colonial Kano, 1807-1903 / Sean Stilwell -- The concept of slavery in Ottoman and other Muslim societies: dichotomy or continuum / Ehud R. Toledano -- Mawlay Ismaʻil's Jaysh al-ʻAbīd: reassessment of a military experience / Fatima Harrak -- Comrades in arms or captives in bondage: Sudanese slaves in the Turco-Egyptian Army, 1821-1865 / Ahmad Alawad Sikainga -- The persistance of slave officials in the Sokoto Caliphate / John Edward Philips -- Slave elites in Japanese history / Miura Toru.
- Call Number
- Sc E 02-716
- ISBN
- 0710306601
- LCCN
- 00710377
- OCLC
- 44514156
- Title
- Slave elites in the Middle East and Africa : a comparative study / edited by Miura Tora and John Edward Philips.
- Imprint
- London ; New York : Kegan Paul International, 2000.
- Series
- Islamic area studies
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Miura, Tōru, 1953-Philips, John Edward, 1952-Slave Elites Workshop (1998 : Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo)
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 02-716