In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who ...
Focusing on a seventeenth-century Syrian city, this study examines the practice of slavery as a strategy for building elite households in the Ottoman Empire. After an overview of the slave trade and ...
In his tome L’Esclavage dans le Monde Musulman (Slavery in the Muslim World), published in French by Amsterdam, M’hamed Oualdi, a professor at Sciences Po Paris says he wants to “cut through the ...
Suleyman the Magnificent, sultan of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century. The Empire enslaved millions of people - Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Having spent the ...
The astonishing life of Mohammed Ali ben Said (c. 1837–1882) is recounted in this sparkling biography from journalist Calbreath (coauthor, The Wrong Stuff). The son of a legendary warrior in the ...
Chapter 1: Introduction: The embarrassing institution -- The nature of slavery in Islam -- Rhythms of expansion and contraction -- Slave numbers -- Orientalist contradictions -- The logic of Islamic ...
Lenny Henry has argued that Britain should pay reparations to Caribbean countries and black British people - David Hartley/ Press Photos Ltd It seems that some examples of slavery matter more than ...
Travails: the material and mental conditions of travelling to and in Turkey -- Cutthroats: British travellers and the hazards of piracy and banditry -- The genius of the place: images of the Turkish ...
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