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Justin Marozzi discusses the complex history of slavery in the Islamic world and its implications.

In this Conflicted Conversation, Justin Marozzi discusses his new book Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World. Justin traces the long, varied history of slavery in the Islamic world, arguing that slavery could sometimes offer remarkable paths to freedom and power, but that these exceptions never erased the violence of capture, ownership and exploitation—or the uneasy entanglement of abolition with Western imperialism. Justin explains: The scale and longevity of slavery in the Islamic world The spiritual status of enslaved people in early Islam The Quran, manumission and the legal regulation of slavery The Islamic conquests and the expansion of slave-taking Anti-black racism and the Zanj Revolt in Abbasid Iraq Concubines, eunuchs, and sexual slavery Mamluks, Janissaries and elite forms of servitude Christian and Muslim slave-raiding across the Mediterranean Ottoman abolition and its entanglement with Western imperialism Modern slavery, Daesh and hereditary servitude in Mauritania Join the Conflicted Community here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Find us on X…

People in this episode

Guest: Justin Marozzi

Topics covered

• slavery
• Islam
• history
• abolition
• racism
• Islamic conquests
• modern slavery

Keywords

• slavery
• Islam
• Quran
• manumission
• Zanj Revolt
• Mamluks
• Janissaries
• Ottoman abolition
• modern slavery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Daesh

Books & works: Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World

Places: Abbasid Iraq, Mauritania, Ottoman, Islamic world

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