Table of Contents

Contents



Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Maps



Introduction 1

1 Slavery, Slave Trading and the Law in the Pre-Islamic Middle East

2 Slavery and Slave Trading in Early Islam

3 Slavery and Empire in the Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Worlds

4 The "Mamluk/Ghulam Phenomenon"—Slave Sultans, Soldiers, Eunuchs and Concubines

5 Plural Imperialisms and Multiple Diasporas

6 A Taxonomy of Slavery and Slave Trading in Muslim Cultures

7 The Rise and Impact of Abolitionism

8 A Tale of Three Sovereigns—the Shah, the Khedive, and the Sultan

9 The Illusion of Abolition

10 The Reemergence of Slavery and Slave Trading in the Muslim World



Bibliography



Index

About the Author

Bernard K. Freamon, LLM (2002), JSD (2007), Columbia University; JD (1974), Rutgers Law School, is Emeritus Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School. He is the author of “Straight, No Chaser: Slavery, Abolition and Modern Islamic Thought” in Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition (YUP, 2013) and other works.