Possessed by the right hand : : the problem of slavery in Islamic law and Muslim cultures / / by Bernard K. Freamon.
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 issue...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019] |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Global Slavery
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (586 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Figures and Maps
- Introduction
- Slavery, Slave Trading, and the Law in the 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
- Back Matter
- Bibliography
- Index.