Buch, Englisch, Band 123, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 575 g
Reihe: African Studies
A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam
Buch, Englisch, Band 123, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 575 g
Reihe: African Studies
ISBN: 978-1-107-65177-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Chouki El Hamel argues that we cannot rely solely on Islamic ideology as the key to explain social relations and particularly the history of black slavery in the Muslim world, for this viewpoint yields an inaccurate historical record of the people, institutions and social practices of slavery in Northwest Africa. El Hamel focuses on black Moroccans' collective experience beginning with their enslavement to serve as the loyal army of the Sultan Isma'il. By the time the Sultan died in 1727, they had become a political force, making and unmaking rulers well into the nineteenth century. The emphasis on the political history of the black army is augmented by a close examination of the continuity of black Moroccan identity through the musical and cultural practices of the Gnawa.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
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Introduction; Part I. Race, Gender, and Slavery in the Islamic Discourse: 1. The notion of slavery and the justification of concubinage as an institution of slavery in Islam; 2. The interplay between slavery, race, and color prejudice; Part II. Black Morocco: The Internal African Diaspora: 3. The trans-Saharan diaspora; 4. 'Racializing slavery': the controversy of Mawlay Isma'il's project; 5. The Black Army functions and the role of women; 6. The political history of the Black Army: between privilege and marginality; 7. The abolition of slavery in Morocco; 8. The Gnawa and the memory of slavery; Conclusion.
