Race and Slavery in the Middle East : An Historical Enquiry
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0195062833
ISBN-13
9780195062830
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 25th, 1990
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
468 grams
Dimensions
16.40 x 24.20 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Slavery & abolition of slaveryIslamic studies
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From the time of Moses up to the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. This study explores how Islam's image of racial harmony is set at odds with the area's late renouncement of slavery.
The state of race relations in Islamic societies has often been the subject of optimistic descriptions. Sources as various as Toynbee and Malcolm X refer to a racial Utopia, a colour-blind society. This society is seen as the direct result of the tenets of Islam, in which the only important distinction is that between Believers and Infidels. In support of this view is the indisputable fact that the Koran expresses no racial or colour prejudice. Contradicting it are various historical documents, and such literary sources as the The Thousand and One Nights, which clearly depict the social advantages of possessing white skin, as in the tale of the black slave who is rewarded by becoming white upon his passing into Heaven.
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