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Slavery in the Islamic World

Its Characteristics and Commonality

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Editors:
  1. Mary Ann Fay

    1. Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA

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  • Determines where slavery in the Islamic world fits within the global history

  • Based on the fields of history, sociology, literature, women's studies, African studies, and comparative slavery studies

  • Provides an important contribution to the scholarly research on slavery in the Islamic lands

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: What Is Islamic About Slavery in the Islamic World?

    • Mary Ann Fay
    Pages 1-5

  3. “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
    Pages 7-36

  4. Reading the Hidden History of the Cape: Islam and Slavery in the Making of Race and Sex in South Africa

    • Gabeba Baderoon
    Pages 37-50

  5. 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
    Pages 51-73

  6. The Figure of the Eunuch in the Lettres persanes: Re-evaluation and Resistance

    • Sarga Moussa
    Pages 75-89

  7. Gender, Race and Slavery in the Mamluk Households of Eighteenth-Century Egypt

    • Mary Ann Fay
    Pages 91-100

  8. Africans in the Palace: The Testimony of Taj al-Saltana Qajar from the Royal Harem in Iran

    • Anthony A. Lee
    Pages 101-123

  9. Encountering Domestic Slavery: A Narrative from the Arabian Gulf

    • Rima Sabban
    Pages 125-153

  10. “Tyran[n]ical Masters Are the Turks”: The Comparative Context of Barbary Slavery

    • Christine E. Sears
    Pages 155-177

  11. The “Slave Wife” Between Private Household and Public Order in Colonial Algeria (1848–1906)

    • Sarah Ghabrial
    Pages 179-202

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 203-206
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About this book

This edited volume determines where slavery in the Islamic world fits within the global history of slavery and the various models that have been developed to analyze it. To that end, the authors focus on a question about Islamic slavery that has frequently been asked but not answered satisfactorily, namely, what is Islamic about slavery in the Islamic world. Through the fields of history, sociology, literature, women's studies, African studies, and comparative slavery studies, this book is an important contribution to the scholarly research on slavery in the Islamic lands, which continues to be understudied and under-represented in global slavery studies. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Mary Ann Fay

About the editor

Mary Ann Fay is former Associate Professor of History in the Department of History and Geography at Morgan State University, USA and is the author of Unveiling the Harem: Elite Women and the Paradox of Seclusion in Eighteenth-Century Cairo.

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