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Joseph Pitts (1662 or 1663–1739) was an English sailor who was captured by Barbary pirates, and sold into slavery in Algiers in 1678. Forced to convert to Islam, he was the first known Englishman to undertake the ḥajj or Muslim pilgrimage, when, as a slave, he accompanied his Muslim master to Mecca and Medina in 1685 or 1686.
In an essay that summarised her inspiration, motives, and research for the project—published by Stevenson, Cape Town, in 2023 as a booklet [38] —the artist said the works were her homage to the victims of the Indian Ocean slave trade. Of the people who were sold into slavery from Kerala and the Indian littoral, she wrote: ‘Cultivating ...
Yusuf (Arabic: يوسف ٱبن يعقوب ٱبن إسحاق ٱبن إبراهيم, romanized: Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb ibn ʾIs-ḥāq ibn ʾIbrāhīm, lit. ' Joseph, son of Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham ') is a prophet and messenger of God mentioned in the Qur'an [1]: 34 and corresponds to Joseph, a person from the Hebrew and Christian Bible who was said to have lived in Egypt before the New ...
The 'Arab' slave trade was part of the broader 'Islamic' slave trade. Bernard Lewis writes that "polytheists and idolaters were seen primarily as sources of slaves, to be imported into the Islamic world and molded-in Islamic ways, and, since they possessed no religion of their own worth the mention, as natural recruits for Islam."
Joseph in Egypt (painting) Joseph Sold to Potiphar; Joseph's Brothers Beg for Help; P. Pharaoh with his Butler and Baker This page was last edited on 5 May 2024, at ...
Joseph Sold to Potiphar (c. 1515) by Pontormo. Joseph Sold to Potiphar is an oil on panel painting by Pontormo, executed c. 1515, now in the National Gallery in London. [1] Like The Baker Tortured, Joseph in Egypt and Joseph's Brothers Ask Him For Help (all also in the National Gallery), it was originally painted for the Marriage Chamber of the Palazzo Borgherini.
Joseph in Egypt is an oil painting on panel of c. 1518 by Pontormo, now in the National Gallery in London, which bought it in 1882. [1] Like the same artist's Joseph's Brothers Beg for Help, Joseph Sold to Potiphar and Pharaoh with his Butler and Baker (all also in the National Gallery), it was originally part of the Marriage Chamber in the Palazzo Borgherini in Florence.
Joseph's father was a very wealthy merchant. [5] The family eventually moved to Patras. The city primarily dealt with Italian merchants. Stephanini learned the family business and spoke Italian. [6] When the Greek War of Independence broke out Joseph was captured and sold into slavery.