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Islamic views on slavery represent a complex and multifaceted body of Islamic thought, [1] [2] with various Islamic groups or thinkers espousing views on the matter which have been radically different throughout history. [3] Slavery was a mainstay of life in pre-Islamic Arabia and surrounding lands.
The dominating Islamic view, expressed by contemporary Arab writers, was that slavery was benevolent since the supply source of slaves were the non-Islamic outside world of Polytheist-Idolators and Barbaric infidels, who thanks to their enslavement would convert to Islam and enjoy the benefits of Islamic civilisation. [59]
Pages in category "Islam and slavery" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. ... Islamic views on slavery; A. Abd (Arabic) Abeed; H.
In Islamic jurisprudence, slavery was theoretically an exceptional condition under the dictum The basic principle is liberty. [138] [9] Reports from Sudan and Somalia showing practice of slavery is in border areas as a result of continuing war [139] and not Islamic belief.
During the Early Muslim conquests of the 7th- and 8th-centuries, a system of military slavery grew in which non-Muslim men from the conquered peoples such as Berbs and Persians were captured, enslaved, converted to Islam, manumitted and then enlisted in the Caliphate army, a custom which blurred the lines between free recruits and slave ...
Race and Slavery in the Middle East: an Historical Enquiry is a 1990 book written by the British historian Bernard Lewis. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book details the Islamic history of slavery in the Middle East from its earliest incarnations until its abolition in the various countries of the region.
Lewis states that in Muslim lands slaves had a certain legal status and had obligations as well as rights to the slave owner, an improvement over slavery in the ancient world. [21] [22] Due to these reforms the practice of slavery in the Islamic Empire represented a "vast improvement on that inherited from antiquity, from Rome, and from ...
According to some scholars, [25] there has been a "reopening" of the issue of slavery by some conservative Salafi Islamic scholars after its "closing" earlier in the 20th century when Muslim countries banned slavery and "most Muslim scholars" found the practice "inconsistent with Qur'anic morality." [26] [27]