Research Catalog

Title

Slavery on the frontiers of Islam / Paul E. Lovejoy, editor.

Publication

Princeton : Markus Wiener Publishers, c2004.

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Additional Authors

Lovejoy, Paul E.

Description

viii, 297 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

The African Diaspora was a consequence of the enslavement in the interior of West Africa. This work examines the conditions of slavery facing Muslims and converts to Islam both in the central Sudan and in the broader diaspora of Africans. It considers the consequences of European colonization.

Subject

• Slavery > Sahara > History
• Slavery > Sudan > History
• Slavery > Islamic countries > History
• Slavery and Islam

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "Part of a series of publications associated with the research agenda of the Nigerian Hinterland Project and the UNESCO "Slave Route" Project"--Ack.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-288) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Slavery, the Bilād al-Sūdān and the frontiers of the African diaspora / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Frontiers of enslavement: Bagirmi and the Trans-Saharan slave routes / Michael LaRue -- Ilorin as a slaving and slave trading emirate / Ann O'Hear -- The southward campaigns of Nupe in the lower Niger valley / Femi J. Kolapo -- The development of Mamlūk slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate / Sean Stilwell -- Slavery on two Ribāṭ in Kano and Sokoto / John Edward Philips -- Slavery and plantation society at Dorayi in Kano emirate / Ibrahim Hamza -- The religious practices of black slaves in the Mediterranean Islamic world / John Hunwick -- Aḥmad ibn al-Qāḍī al-Timbuktāwī on the Bori ceremonies of Tunis / Ismael Musah Montana -- Muḥammad Kabā Saghanughu and the Muslim community of Jamaica / Yacine Dadi Addoun and Paul Lovejoy -- Community of believers: Trinidad Muslims and the return to Africa, 1810-1850 / David V. Trotman and Paul E. Lovejoy -- Muslim freedmen in the Atlantic world: images of manumission and self-redemption / Paul E. Lovejoy.

ISBN

1558763287 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003018944

OCLC

52942851

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library