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Oxford UniversityPress paperback. |
| Description |
vii, 184 pages, 24 pages of color plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Slavery -- Race -- Islam in Arabia -- Prejudice and piety, literature and law -- Conquest and enslavement -- Ventures in ethnology -- The discovery of Africa -- In black and white -- Slaves in arms -- The nineteenth century and after -- Abolition -- Equality and marriage -- Image and stereotype -- Myth and reality. |
| Summary |
From the time of Moses up to the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. But if the Middle East was the last region to renounce slavery, how do we account for its -- and especially Islam's -- image of racial harmony? This book explores these questions. The research presented in this book was first undertaken as part of a group project on tolerance and intolerance in human societies. The group project was never completed but the material gathered for the project on Islam stimulated the book's study of race and slavery in the Middle East, a subject that appears to have so far encouraged scant study. -- Publisher description. |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Middle East -- History.
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Slavery and Islam -- Middle East -- History.
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Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Middle East -- Race relations.
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Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
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Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
(OCoLC)fst01086536
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Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
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Slavery and Islam. (OCoLC)fst01120509
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Middle East. (OCoLC)fst01241586
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| ISBN |
0195053265 (pbk.) |
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9780195053265 (pbk.) |
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0195062833 (cased) |
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9780195062830 (cased) |
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