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Islam and the Abolition of Slavery (Hardcover)
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Islam and the Abolition of Slavery (Hardcover)
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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. Drawing on examples from the whole 'abode' of
Islam, from the Philipines to Senegal and from the Caucasus to
South Africa, Gervase Clarence-Smith ranges across the history of
Islam, paying particular attention to the period from the late 18th
century to the present. He shows that "sharia-minded" attempts to
achieve closer adherence to the holy law restricted slavery, even
if they did not end it. However, the sharia itself was not as clear
about the legality of servitude as is usually assumed, and
progressive scholars within the schools of law might even have
achieved full emancipation over the long term. The impact of
mystical and millenarian Islam was contradictory, in some cases
providing a supportive agenda of freedom, but in other cases
causing great surges of enslavement. The revisionist Islam that
emerged from the 18th century was divided. "Fundamentalists"
stressed the literal truth of the founding texts of Islam, and thus
found it difficult to abandon slavery completely. "Modernists, '
appealing to the spirit rather than to the letter of scripture,
spawned the most radical opponents of slavery, notably Sir Sayyid
Ahmad Khan, the Islamic William Wilberforce. Once slavery had
disappeared, it was the Sufi mystics who did most to integrate
former slaves socially and religiously, avoiding the deep social
divisions that have plagued Western societies inthe aftermath of
abolition. In this important new book, Clarence-Smith provides the
first general survey of the Islamic debate on slavery. Sweeping
away entrenched myths, he hopes to stimulate more research on this
neglected topic, thereby contributing to healing the religious
rifts that threaten to tear our world apart in the 21st century.
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