Slavery in the Islamic World

Chapter 1 Introduction: What Is Islamic About Slavery in the Islamic World?

Chapter 2 “What Is Islamic About Slavery in Muslim Societies?” Cooper, Concubinage and Contemporary Legacies of ‘Islamic Slavery’ in North, West and East Africa

Chapter 3 Reading the Hidden History of the Cape: Islam and Slavery in the Making of Race and Sex in South Africa

Chapter 4 French and English Orientalisms and the Study of Slavery and Abolition in North Africa and the Middle East: What Are the Connections?

Chapter 5 The Figure of the Eunuch in the Lettres persanes: Re-evaluation and Resistance

Chapter 6 Gender, Race and Slavery in the Mamluk Households of Eighteenth-Century Egypt

Chapter 7 Africans in the Palace: The Testimony of Taj al-Saltana Qajar from the Royal Harem in Iran

Chapter 9 “Tyran[n]ical Masters Are the Turks”: The Comparative Context of Barbary Slavery

Chapter 10 The “Slave Wife” Between Private Household and Public Order in Colonial Algeria (1848–1906)