This edited volume determines where slavery in the Islamic world fits within the global history of slavery and the various models that have been developed to an

Slavery, recognized and regulated by Islamic law, was an integral part of Muslim societies in the Middle East well into modern times. Recruited from the "Abode

What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong? Every major religion and philosophy once condoned or approved of slavery, but in

...a comprehensive portrait of slavery in the Islamic world from earliest times until today...D>--Arab Book World

From the days before Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. But if the Middle East was one of the last regions to renounce s