Slavery in the Islamic world : its characteristics and commonality /: its characteristics and commonality. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mary Ann Fay, editor.
• Editors: Fay, Mary Ann
• 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (206 pages)
• Subjects: 306.362091767; Slavery -- Islamic countries -- History; Slavery and Islam; Slavery; Slavery and Islam; Islamic countries; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137597557
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