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Possessed by the right hand : the problem of slavery in Islamic law and Muslim cultures
- Title
- Possessed by the right hand : the problem of slavery in Islamic law and Muslim cultures / by Bernard K. Freamon.
- Author
- Freamon, Bernard K., 1947-
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 21-506 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Details
- Description
- xv, 570 pages : illlustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- In 'Possessed by the Right Hand', the first comprehensive legal history of slavery in Islam ever offered to readers, Bernard K. Freamon, an African-American Muslim law professor, provides a penetrating analysis of the problems of slavery and slave-trading in Islamic history. After examining the issues from pre-Islamic times through to the nineteenth century, Professor Freamon considers the impact of Western abolitionism, arguing that such efforts have been a failure, with the notion of abolition becoming nothing more than a cruel illusion. He closes this ground-breaking account with an examination of the slaving ideologies and actions of ISIS and Boko Haram, asserting that Muslims now have an important and urgent responsibility to achieve true abolition under the aegis of Islamic law.
- Series Statement
- Studies in global slavery, 2405-4585 ; volume 8
- Uniform Title
- Studies in global slavery ; v. 8.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-559) and index.
- Contents
- Slavery, slave trading, and the law in pre-Islamic Middle East -- Slavery and slave trading in early Islam -- Slavery and empire in the medieval and early modern Islamic worlds -- The "Mamluk/Ghulam Phenomenon" : slave sultans, soldiers, eunuchs, and concubines -- Plural imperialisms and multiple diasporas -- A taxonomy of slavery and slave trading in Muslim cultures -- The rise and impact of abolitionism -- A tale of three sovereigns : the Shah, the Khedive, and the Sultan -- The illusion of abolition -- The reemergence of slavery and slave trading in the Muslim world.
- Call Number
- Sc E 21-506
- ISBN
- 9789004364813
- 9004364811
- 9789004398795 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019010128
- OCLC
- 1085698779
- Author
- Freamon, Bernard K., 1947-
- Title
- Possessed by the right hand : the problem of slavery in Islamic law and Muslim cultures / by Bernard K. Freamon.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Studies in global slavery, 2405-4585 ; volume 8Studies in global slavery ; v. 8.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-559) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Freamon, Bernard K., 1947- Possessed by the right hand Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] 9789004398795 (DLC) 2019022234 (OCoLC)1096224401
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 21-506JFE 20-3370