Slave elites in the Middle East and Africa
Subtitle: a comparative study
By: edited by Miura Tora and John Edward Philips.
Contributors: Miura, Tōru, 1953-; Philips, John Edward, 1952-; Slave Elites Workshop (1998 : Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo)
Series: Islamic area studies
Publisher: Kegan Paul International
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Slavery -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses; Slavery -- Africa -- History -- Congresses; Slavery and Islam -- History -- Congresses; Slavery -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses; Civilization, Islamic -- Congresses; Elite (Social sciences) -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses; Elite (Social sciences) -- Africa -- History -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.; Cross-cultural studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Table of contents: title: Slave elites in Islamic history / Sato Tsugitaka; title: The Turkish military elite of Samarra and the third century land tenure system / Matthew S. Gordon; title: Slave elites and the Saqaliba in al-Andalus in the Umayyad Period / Sato Kentaro; title: The location of the "manufacture" of eunuchs / Jan S. Hogendorn; title: My slave, my son, my lord: slavery, family and state in the Islamic Middle East / Dror Ze'evi; title: The changing concept of Mamlūk in the Mamluk sultanate in Egypt and Syria / Nasser Rabbat; title: Waqf as an instrument of investment in the Mamluk sultanate: security vs. profit? / Carl F. Petry; title: The power of knowledge and the knowledge of power: kinship, community and royal slavery in pre-colonial Kano, 1807-1903 / Sean Stilwell; title: The concept of slavery in Ottoman and other Muslim societies: dichotomy or continuum / Ehud R. Toledano; title: Mawlay Ismaʻil's Jaysh al-ʻAbīd: reassessment of a military experience / Fatima Harrak; title: Comrades in arms or captives in bondage: Sudanese slaves in the Turco-Egyptian Army, 1821-1865 / Ahmad Alawad Sikainga; title: The persistance of slave officials in the Sokoto Caliphate / John Edward Philips; title: Slave elites in Japanese history / Miura Toru.