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Slavery in Islamic law is not based on race or ethnicity. However, while there was no legal distinction between white European and black African slaves, in some Muslim societies they were employed in different roles. [5] Slaves in Islam were mostly assigned to the service sector, including as concubines, cooks, and porters. [6]
According to Mohammed Ennaji, the ownership gave the master a right "to punish one's slave". [124] In Islam, a child inherited slavery if he or she was born to a slave mother and slave father. [125] However, if the child was born to a slave mother and her owner master, then the child was free.
The Islamic State announced the revival of slavery as an institution. [215] In 2015, the official prices for slaves which were set by IS were the following: [216] [217] Children aged 1 to 9 were sold for 200,000 dinars ($169). Women and children 10 to 20 years old for 150,000 dinars ($127). Women 20 to 30 years old for 100,000 dinar ($85).
In 2003, Shaykh Saleh Al-Fawzan, a member of Saudi Arabia's highest religious body, the Senior Council of Clerics, issued a fatwa claiming "Slavery is a part of Islam. Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam." [284] Muslim scholars who said otherwise were "infidels". In 2016, Shaykh al-Fawzan responded to a ...
The slave trade from Africa to Arabia via the Red Sea had ancient Pre-Islamic roots, and the commercial slave trade was not interrupted by Islam. While in Pre-Islamic Arabia, Arab war captives were common targets of slavery, importation of slaves from Ethiopia across the Red Sea also took place. [16]
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Islam and slavery may refer to: Islamic views on slavery in theology / jurisprudence; Islamic views on concubinage in theology / jurisprudence;
A well-known prophetic tradition has severely chastised those who enslave free people for monetary gain. [44] Though a free Muslim could not be enslaved, conversion to Islam by a non-Muslim slave did not require that he or she then should be liberated. Slave status was not affected by conversion to Islam. [45]