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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]
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 ...
White converts to Islam may enjoy white privileges that Muslims of color do not enjoy in Australia. White Muslims may be perceived as non-white if they are visibly Muslim, such as by wearing a hijab , but many white privileges would return if the white Muslim were to dress in a less visibly Islamic fashion .
The slave concubines (and later mothers) of the Shah mainly consisted of enslaved Circassian, Georgian and Armenian women, captured as war booty, bought at the slave market or received as gifts from local potentates. [119] The slave concubines were sometimes forced to convert to shia Islam upon entering the harem, and referred to as kaniz.
Islam has clearly and categorically forbidden the primitive practice of capturing a free man, to make him a slave or to sell him into slavery. On this point the clear and unequivocal words of [Muhammad] are as follows: There are three categories of people against whom I shall myself be a plaintiff on the Day of Judgement. Of these three, one is ...
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]
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).
According to Smith "the majority of the faithful eventually accepted abolition as religiously legitimate and an Islamic consensus against slavery became dominant", though this continued to be disputed by some literalists. [100] [3] Islamic thinkers have applied a variety of methods to argue against concubinage and slavery.