Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures (Studies in Global Slavery, 8)

Freamon, Bernard K.

ISBN 10: 9004447245 / ISBN 13: 9789004447240

Published by Brill, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures (Studies in Global Slavery, 8)
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004447245
• ISBN 13: 9789004447240
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In Possessed by the Right Hand, the first comprehensive legal history of slavery in Islam ever offered to readers, Bernard K. Freamon, an African-American Muslim law professor, provides a penetrating analysis of the problems of slavery and slave-trading in Islamic history. After examining the issues from pre-Islamic times through to the nineteenth century, Professor Freamon considers the impact of Western abolitionism, arguing that such efforts have been a failure, with the notion of abolition becoming nothing more than a cruel illusion. He closes this ground-breaking account with an examination of the slaving ideologies and actions of ISIS and Boko Haram, asserting that Muslims now have an important and urgent responsibility to achieve true abolition under the aegis of Islamic law.

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About the Author

Bernard K. Freamon, LLM (2002), JSD (2007), Columbia University; JD (1974), Rutgers Law School, is Emeritus Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School. He is the author of “Straight, No Chaser: Slavery, Abolition and Modern Islamic Thought” in Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition (YUP, 2013) and other works.