| Edition |
1st pbk. ed. |
| Description |
xi, 273 p. : maps ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-259) and index. |
| Contents |
Contrasts -- Out of Arabia -- Imperial Islam -- The practice of slavery -- The farther reaches: China, India, Spain -- Into Black Africa -- The Ottoman Empire -- The "Heretic" state: Iran -- The Libyan connection -- The terrible century: East Africa, The Sudanic states and Sahara -- Colonial translations: Northern Nigeria, French Soudan, Mauritania, Somalia, Zanzibar and the Kenyan coast -- Survivals of slavery: Mauritania, Sudan -- America's Black Muslim backlash. |
| Subject |
Slavery and Islam -- History.
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Slavery -- Islamic countries -- History.
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African diaspora.
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| ISBN |
0374527970 (pbk.) |
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9780374527976 (pbk.) |
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