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  • Jews of a Saharan Oasis
    John Hunwick
    “Jews spread out from Israel into northern Africa after the Roman destruction of much of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. and settled in Saharan oases. Although there was no love for Jews after the birth of Islam five centuries later, Muslim Arabs accepted Jews’ right to retain their own religion in lands they occupied, enabling many Jews to remain in North Africa after Arab conquest of th...
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  • The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam
    Eve Troutt Powell / John Hunwick
    For every gallon of ink that has been spilt on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its consequences, only one very small drop has been spent on the study of the forced migration of black Africans into the Mediterranean world of Islam. From the ninth to the early twentieth century, probably as many black Africans were forcibly taken across the Sahara, up the Nile valley, and acro...
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    116,79 €

  • Slavery in the Islamic Middle East
    David Ayalon / John Hunwick / Robert O. Collins
    Slavery, recognized and regulated by Islamic law, was an integral part of Muslim societies in the Middle East well into modern times. Recruited from the “Abode of War” by means of trade or warfare, slaves began their lives in the Islamic world as deracinated outsiders, described by Muslim jurists as being in a state like death, awaiting resurrection and rebirth through manumiss...
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  • West Africa, Islam, and the Arab World
    John O. Hunwick
    West Africa is defined as the area south of the Sahara between the Atlantic and Lake Chad, encompassing the Sahel zone, tropical forests, and pasturelands. West Africans speak languages belonging to three major families: Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, and Afro-Asiatic, as well as the official languages, French and English, introduced in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The l...
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  • The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam
    Eve Troutt Powell / John Hunwick
    For every gallon of ink that has been spilt on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its consequences, only one very small drop has been spent on the study of the forced migration of black Africans into the Mediterranean world of Islam. From the ninth to the early twentieth century, probably as many black Africans were forcibly taken across the Sahara, up the Nile valley, and acro...
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    27,45 €