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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ronald Segal |
ISBN: | 0374227748 9780374227746 0374527970 9780374527976 |
OCLC Number: | 44727984 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | xi, 273 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Contrasts -- Out of Arabia -- Imperial Islam -- The practice of slavery -- The farther reaches: China, India, Spain -- Into Black Africa -- The Ottoman Empire -- The "Heretic" state: Iran -- The Libyan connection -- The terrible century: East Africa, The Sudanic states and Sahara -- Colonial translations: Northern Nigeria, French Soudan, Mauritania, Somalia, Zanzibar and the Kenyan coast -- Survivals of slavery: Mauritania, Sudan -- America's Black Muslim backlash. |
Responsibility: | Ronald Segal. |
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Abstract:
An incisive study of the Islamic slave trade examines the tradition in terms of a centuries-old institution that survives into the modern world, discussing the differences between the Eastern and Western trades, the extent of the slave trade, and the popularity of the Islamic faith in African-Ameri
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