Publication

2006 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

73,250 words, Guess

Page Count

293 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2005054310
  • Goodreads178677
  • LibraryThing4414317

Classifications

  • DDC297.2/7
  • LCCHT919 .C53 2006

Description

"Debates about Muslim slavery occur in a context of fierce polemics between Islam and other belief system. While Islamic groups had a generally muted impact on the legal repudiation of slavery, a growing religious commitment to abolition was essential if legislation was to be successfully enforced. Drawing on examples from the Philippines to Senegal and from Tatarstan to Brazil, this book sweeps away entrenched myths to show that there was indeed an abolitionist current in Islam."--Jacket.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Islam and the abolition of slaveryOxford University Press2006-01-01

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