Slavery in the Islamic world : its characteristics and commonality /

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Other Authors: Fay, Mary Ann (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: what is Islamic about slavery in the Islamic world? / Mary Ann Fay
  • "What is Islamic about slavery in Muslim societies?" Cooper, concubinage and contemporary legacies of 'Islamic slavery' in North, West and East Africa / E. Ann McDougall
  • Reading the hidden history of the Cape: Islam and slavery in the making of race and sex in South Africa / Gabeba Baderoon
  • French and English orientalisms and the study of slavery and abolition in North Africa and the Middle East: what are the connections? / Diane Robinson-Dunn
  • The figure of the eunuch in the Lettres persanes: re-evaluation and resistance / Sarga Moussa
  • Gender, race and slavery in the Mamluk households of eighteenth-century Egypt / Mary Ann Fay
  • Africans in the palacy: the testimony of Taj al-Saltana Qajar from the Royal harem in Iran / Anthony A. Lee
  • Encountering domesting slavery: a narrative from the Arabian Gulf / Rima Sabban
  • "Tyran[n]ical masters are the Turks": the comparative context of Barbary slavery / Christine E. Sears
  • The "slave wife" between private household and public order in colonial Algeria (1848-1906) / Sarah Ghabrial.