Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44724-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 570 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 818 g

Reihe: Studies in Global Slavery

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 issues from pre-Islamic times through to the nineteenth century, Professor Freamon considers the impact of Western abolitionism, arguing that such efforts have been a failure, with the notion of abolition becoming nothing more than a cruel illusion. He closes this ground-breaking account with an examination of the slaving ideologies and actions of ISIS and Boko Haram, asserting that Muslims now have an important and urgent responsibility to achieve true abolition under the aegis of Islamic law.


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Autoren/Hrsg.

K. Freamon, Bernard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Leben & Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Maps

Introduction 1

1 Slavery, Slave Trading and the Law in the Pre-Islamic Middle East

2 Slavery and Slave Trading in Early Islam

3 Slavery and Empire in the Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Worlds

4 The "Mamluk/Ghulam Phenomenon"—Slave Sultans, Soldiers, Eunuchs and Concubines

5 Plural Imperialisms and Multiple Diasporas

6 A Taxonomy of Slavery and Slave Trading in Muslim Cultures

7 The Rise and Impact of Abolitionism

8 A Tale of Three Sovereigns—the Shah, the Khedive, and the Sultan

9 The Illusion of Abolition

10 The Reemergence of Slavery and Slave Trading in the Muslim World

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bernard K. Freamon, LLM (2002), JSD (2007), Columbia University; JD (1974), Rutgers Law School, is Emeritus Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School. He is the author of “Straight, No Chaser: Slavery, Abolition and Modern Islamic Thought” in Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition (YUP, 2013) and other works.