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The history of slavery in the Muslim world began with institutions inherited from pre-Islamic Arabia. [1][2][3][4] Throughout Muslim history slaves served in various social and economic roles, from powerful emirs to harshly treated manual laborers. Slaves were widely employed in irrigation, mining, and animal husbandry, but most commonly as ...
Islamic views on slavery. Islamic views on slavery represent a complex and multifaceted body of Islamic thought, with various Islamic groups or thinkers espousing views on the matter which have been radically different throughout history. The Quran and the hadith (sayings of Muhammad) are the sources used for Sharia ,where the legislation ...
v. t. e. The trans-Saharan slave trade, also known as the Arab slave trade, [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] was a slave trade in which slaves were mainly transported across the Sahara. Most were moved from sub-Saharan Africa to North Africa to be sold to Mediterranean and Middle Eastern civilizations; a small percentage went the other direction.
Slavery in the Rashidun Caliphate refers to the chattel slavery taking place in the Rashidun Caliphate (632–661), a period when the Islamic Caliphate was established and the Islamic conquest expanded outside of the Arabian Peninsula. The slave trade in the Rashidun Caliphate expanded in parallel with the Imperial Early Muslim conquests, when ...
The Zanj Rebellion (Arabic: ثورة الزنج Thawrat al-Zanj / Zinj) was a major revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate, which took place from 869 until 883.Begun near the city of Basra in present-day southern Iraq and led by one Ali ibn Muhammad, the insurrection involved both enslaved and freed East Africans (collectively termed "Zanj" in this case) exported in the Indian Ocean slave trade ...
Arab slave trade. Arab slave trade refers to various periods in which a slave trade has been carried out under the auspices of Arab peoples or Arab countries. Examples include: Al-Andalus slave trade. Barbary slave trade. Trans-Saharan slave trade. Indian Ocean slave trade.
HT1316 .L48 1990. Race and Slavery in the Middle East: an Historical Enquiry is a 1990 book written by the British historian Bernard Lewis. [1][2] The book details the Islamic history of slavery in the Middle East from its earliest incarnations until its abolition in the various countries of the region. Though the book details specifically the ...
Legal Chattel slavery existed in Saudi Arabia until the 1960s. Hejaz (the western region of modern day Saudi Arabia), which encompasses approximately 12% of the total land area of Saudi Arabia, was under the control of the Ottoman Empire from 1517 to 1918, and as such nominally obeyed the Ottoman laws. When the area became an independent nation ...