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The Harem, Slavery and British Imperial Culture - Anglo-Muslim Relations in the Late Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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The Harem, Slavery and British Imperial Culture - Anglo-Muslim Relations in the Late Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Imperialism
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This book focuses on British efforts to suppress the traffic in
female slaves destined for Egyptian harems during the late
nineteenth century. It considers this campaign in relation to
gender debates in England, and examines the ways in which the
assumptions and dominant imperialist discourses of these
abolitionists were challenged by the newly established Muslim
communities in England, as well as by English people who converted
to or were sympathetic with Islam. While previous scholars treated
antislavery activity in Egypt first and foremost as an extension of
earlier efforts to abolish plantation slavery in the New World,
this book considers it in terms of encounters with Islam during a
period which it argues marked a new departure in Anglo-Muslim
relations. This approach illuminates the role of Islam in the
creation of English national identities within the global cultural
system of the British Empire. This book will appeal to those with
an interest in British imperial history; Islam; gender, feminism
and women's studies; slavery and race; the formation of national
identities; global processes; Orientalism; and Middle Eastern
studies. -- .
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