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

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

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

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

Explores the stories of African Muslim slaves in the New World. The author argues that although Islam as brought by the Africans did not outlive the last slaves