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	Slavery in the Arab World by Murray Gordon
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Product Details Binding Paperback Dewey Decimal Number 306 EAN 9781561310234 ISBN 1561310239 Manufacturer New Amsterdam Books Number Of Items 1 Number Of Pages 272 Publication Date January 25, 1990 Publisher New Amsterdam Books Availability Usually ships in 24 hours Product Description . . . a comprehensive portrait of slavery in the Islamic world from earliest times until today. . . --'Arab Book World . . . a comprehensive portrait of slavery in the Islamic world from earliest times until today. . . --'Arab Book World Text: English, French (translation) Customers who bought this item also bought Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800 (Early Modern History) The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue Customer Reviews for: Slavery in the Arab World Rating - Hidden History It's fascinating when one comes across history that is not often told, or is ignored. This thouroughly depressing book manages to cover the scope, immense timespan and breadth of the arab slave trade around the world in antiquity. It also doesn't shirk from dealing with the uncomfortable truths of the involvement of Africans in trading each other, or the religious basis for the slave trade as conducted by the arabs. The opening chapter adequately ... Read More Rating - This should be required reading in all schools. The Arab enslavement of African people predates the European African slave trade by a millennium and it is still going on today in the Sudan. The institution of slavery is as old as time, but Europe alone gets blamed for it. Rating - An Important First Broadside This book had some very helpful information, and very surprising information, which I was delighted to learn. Unfortunately, I didn't learn as much as I would have liked because of the writing style. This is honestly in part due to translation, which Gordon can't be blamed for. There were parts of the book where one could tell that there was an obvious translation error from the French, where the word or phrase wasn't used quite the ... Read More Rating - well researched and scholarly this book is of monumental importance because it deal with the neglected aspects of the legacy of slavery in arab countries which go back far into history. as early as the 6th century, the author deals with how islam was used to racialize slavery, racism, forced religous conversion and imperialism. just like christianity, islam has a legacy of these immoral acts. the arabs were traditional slave traders. they have a legacy of enslaving eastern europeans, ... Read More see more reviews See all books by author Murray Gordon

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