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Sale of a child-slave (1872), painting by Vasily Vereshchagin, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. A rich Turkish man examines a naked boy, before buying him. The history of slavery in the Muslim world was throughout the history of Islam with slaves serving in various social and economic roles, from powerful emirs to harshly
According to professor Ibrahima Baba Kaké, there were four main slavery routes to North Africa, from east to west of Africa, from the Maghreb to the Sudan, from Tripolitania to central Sudan and from Egypt to the Middle East. [87] Caravan trails, set up in the 9th century, went past the oasis of the Sahara; travel was difficult and uncomfortable.
An article in the Middle East Quarterly in 1999 reported that slavery is endemic in Sudan. [72] Estimates of abductions during the Second Sudanese Civil War range from 14,000 to 200,000 people. [73] During the Second Sudanese Civil War people were taken into slavery; estimates of abductions range from 14,000 to 200,000.
White slaves where imported from the Black Sea region in the North East from first the Crimean slave trade and later from the Circassian slave trade. The Ottoman Empire issued decrees to restrict and gradually phase out the slave trade between 1830 and 1909, but these laws were not strictly enforced in the Ottoman provinces, such as Palestine ...
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.
The main examples of Arabic slave trades are : Trans-Saharan slave trade (between the mid-7th century and the 20th century) Indian Ocean slave trade (between the antiquity and the early 20th-century) Comoros slave trade (from an unknown time until the mid 19th-century) Zanzibar slave trade (from an unknown time until the early 20th-century)
Lewis, B. (1990). Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry. Storbritannien: Oxford University Press. Willis, J. R. (2014). Slaves and Slavery in Africa: Volume One: Islam and the Ideology of Enslavement. Storbritannien: Taylor & Francis. Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History. (2017).
Slave trade routes through Ethiopia Dhows were used to transport goods and slaves. African slaves in an unspecified location in Saudi Arabia, c. 1890 A Meccan merchant (right) and his Circassian slave, between 1886 and 1887 An enslaved Armenian woman carries thistles A female Armenian slave Jubail, 1935. The Pearling industry in the region at ...