Research Catalog

Title

Slavery, Islam and diaspora / edited by Behnaz A. Mirzai, Ismael Musah Montana, and Paul E. Lovejoy.

Publication

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Mirzai, Behnaz A.
• Montana, Ismael Musah.
• Lovejoy, Paul E.
• Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora

Description

xi, 318 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"An exploration of the history of African slaves in the Muslim world. Written by a cast of experts in the field, Slavery, Islam and Diaspora identifies the distinct cultural identity and social stratum of slaves in Islamic society and shows how Islam has been used alternately to justify enslavement, liberate slaves and defend the autonomy of certain communities. Local perceptions of Islam are also taken into account in this rich and remarkable volume of scholarly approaches to the history and concept of slavery."

Subject

• Slavery and Islam > History
• Slavery > Islamic countries > History
• African diaspora

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History
• Aufsatzsammlung.

Note

• Contains papers originally presented at the conference on Slavery, Islam and Diaspora, sponsored by the Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora, York University, Ontario, 24-26 Oct. 2003.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of Maps. -- Preface. -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Slavery, Islam and Diaspora. -- Chapter 2: Bringing the Slaves Back In. -- Chapter 3: Blacks beyond the Black Sea: Eunuchs in the Crimean Khanate. -- Chapter 4: Slave Trade and Slavery on the Swahili Coast. -- Chapter 5: Qajar Haram: Imagination or Reality? -- Chapter 6: Slaves in a Muslim City: A Survey of Slavery in Nineteenth Century Kano. -- Chapter 7: Islam, Ethnicity and Slave Agitation: Hausa 'Mamluks' in Nineteenth Century Yoruband. -- Chapter 8: Ransoming Captives in the Sokoto Caliphate. -- Chapter 9: Debating Slavery and Abolition in the Arab Middle East -- Chapter 10: The Bori Colonies of Tunis -- Chapter 11: The Servile Populations of the Algerian Sahara, 1850-1900. -- Chapter 12: Bellah Highwaymen: Slave Banditry and Crime in Colonial Northern Mali. -- Chapter 13: Literacy among Muslims in Nineteenth Century Trinidad and Brazil -- Chapter 14: Religious Constancy and Compromise among Nine-teenth Century Caribbean-Based African Muslims. -- Glossary. -- Bibliography. -- Notes on Contributors. -- Index.

ISBN

• 1592217044 (hardcover)
• 1592217052 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009017754

OCLC

• 324731235
• SCSB-11907687

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library