W. G. Clarence-Smith, "Islam and the Abolition of Slavery"
English | ISBN: 0195221516, 1850657084 | 2006 | 320 pages | PDF | 15,1 MB
Contemporay debates about Muslim slavery occur in a context of fierce polemics between Islam and other belief systems. While Islamic groups had an ambivalent and generally muted impact on the legal repudiation of slavery, a growing religious commitment to abolition was essential if legislation was to be enforced in the twentieth century.