Slave elites in the Middle East and Africa : a comparative study /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	London ; New York : Kegan Paul International, 2000.
Description:	xii, 248 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Islamic area studies
Subject:	Slavery -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses. Slavery -- Africa -- History -- Congresses. Slavery and Islam -- History -- Congresses. Slavery -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses. Islamic civilization -- Congresses. Elite (Social sciences) -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses. Elite (Social sciences) -- Africa -- History -- Congresses. Elite (Social sciences) Islamic civilization. Slavery. Slavery and Islam. Africa. Middle East. Conference papers and proceedings. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4147273

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Other authors / contributors:	Miura, Tōru, 1953- Philips, John Edward, 1952- Slave Elites Workshop (1998 : Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo)
ISBN:	0710306601 9780710306609
Notes:	Proceedings of The Slave Elites Workshop organized by the Islamic Area Studies Project and held in Tokyo on October 10-11, 1998 at the Institute of Oriental Culture, the University of Tokyo. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Slave Elites in Islamic History / Sato Tsugitaka
The Turkish Military Elite of Samarra and the Third Century Land Tenure System / Matthew S. Gordon
Slave Elites and the Saqaliba in al-Andalus in the Umayyad Period / Sato Kentaro
The Location of the "Manufacture" of Eunuchs / Jan S. Hogendorn
My Slave, My Son, My Lord: Slavery, Family and State in the Islamic Middle East / Dror Ze'evi
The Changing Concept of Mamluk in the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt and Syria / Nasser Rabbat
Waqf as an Instrument of Investment in the Mamluk Sultanate: Security vs. Profit? / Carl F. Petry
The Power of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Power: Kinship, Community and Royal Slavery in Pre-Colonial Kano, 1807-1903 / Sean Stilwell
The Concept of Slavery in Ottoman and Other Muslim Societies: Dichotomy or Continuum / Ehud R. Toledano
Mawlay Isma'il's Jaysh al-'Abid: Reassessment of a Military Experience / Fatima Harrak
Comrades in Arms or Captives in Bondage: Sundanese Slaves in the Turco-Egyptian Army, 1821-1865 / Ahmad Alawad Sikainga
The Persistence of Slave Officials in the Sokoto Caliphate / John Edward Philips
Concluding Remarks: Slave Elites in Japanese History / Miura Toru.

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