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Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures

Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures

Name: Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures
Brand: Brill Academic Publishers
SKU: 9789004447240
Price: 917.70 HKD
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Author: Bernard K. Freamon
ISBN: 9789004447240

By Bernard K. Freamon

Brill Academic Publishers March 2021

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ISBN-13: 9789004447240
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Publication: March 2021
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Countri(es) for reference only

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In Possessed by the Right Hand, the first comprehensive legal history of slavery in Islam ever offered to readers, Bernard K. Freamon, an African-American Muslim law professor, provides a penetrating analysis of the problems of slavery and slave-trading in Islamic history. After examining the issues from pre-Islamic times through to the nineteenth century, Professor Freamon considers the impact of Western abolitionism, arguing that such efforts have been a failure, with the notion of abolition becoming nothing more than a cruel illusion. He closes this ground-breaking account with an examination of the slaving ideologies and actions of ISIS and Boko Haram, asserting that Muslims now have an important and urgent responsibility to achieve true abolition under the aegis of Islamic law.

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