Slavery and Islam - Jonathan A C Brown

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Notes on transliteration, dates and citation

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Introduction: Can We Talk About Slavery?

What I Argue in this Book

Apology for Slavery?

Power and the Study of Slavery

Blackness, Whiteness and Slavery

1 Does 'Slavery' Exist? The Problem of Definition

The Main Argument

Definition: A Creative Process

Definition to Discourse: A Political Process

Defining \?sl?-v(?-)r?\: We Know It When We See It

Defining Slavery as Status or a Condition

Slavery as Unfreedom

Slavery as Human Property

?? Patterson & Natal Alienation

Slavery as Distinction: The Lowest Rung & Marginality

Slavery as Coercion & Exploitation under the Threat of Violence

The Problem with Modern-Day Slavery

Slavery & Islam - A Very Political Question

Conclusion: Of Course, Slavery Exists

The Proper Terms for Speaking about 'Slavery'

2 Slavery in the Shariah

What Islam Says about Slavery - Ideals and Reality

Slavery in the Quran & Sunna

Inheriting the Near East - Roman, Jewish and Near Eastern Laws versus Islam

Islam's Reform of Slavery

Basic Principles of Riqq in the Shariah

The Ambiguities of Slavery in the Shariah

?? Riqq & Rights in the Shariah

?? Religious Practice

?? Freedom of Movement

?? Social and Political Roles

?? Marriage and Family Life

?? Right to Property

?? Rights to Life and Physical Protection

Summary: Law and Ethics

3 Slavery in Islamic Civilization

What is Islamic Civilization?

Is there 'Islamic Slavery'?

The Shariah & Islamic Slavery

?? Muslims Enslaving Muslims

The Classic Slavery Zone

Consuming People & 'Ascending Miscegenation'

Slave Populations

Routes of the Muslim Slave Trade

Blackness and Slavery in Islamic Civilization

The Roles and Experiences of Slaves in Islamic Civilization

The Slave as Uprooted Person and Commodity

The Slave as Domestic Labor . . . Even Trusted Member of a Household

Slave as Sexual Partner

Slave as Saint, Scholar or Poet

Slave as Elite Administrator & Courtesan

Slave as Soldier - When Soldiers often Ruled

Slave as Rebel

4 The Slavery Conundrum

No Squaring the Circle: The American/Islamic Slavery Conundrum

Slavery is Evil

?? The Intrinsic Wrongs of Slavery

?? Religions and Slavery

?? Minimizing the Unminimizable or Historicizing the Unhistoricizable

Slavery is Slavery: The Problem of Labeling 'Slavery' with One Moral Judgment

?? The Moral Wrongness of Slavery as Unfreedom

?? The Moral Wrongness of Slavery as Owning Human Property

?? The Moral Wrongness of Slavery as Inequality

?? The Moral Wrongness of Slavery as the Threat of Violence

?? The Bald Man Fallacy and the Wrongness of Slavery

?? When Slavery is 'Not that Bad': The Problem with Conditions vs. Formal Categories

?? Do Some People Deserve to be Enslaved?

?? Or, Is Freedom a Human Right?

The Past as Moral Authority: Can We Part with the Past?

?? The Natural Law Tradition and Slavery

?? Critics of Slavery and the Call for Abolition

?? The Consequences of Moral Progress

?? Muslim Efforts to Salvage the Past

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