Possessed by the Right Hand
Subtitle: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9789004364813
Subjects: Slavery; Islam; Middle east, social conditions
Description: 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.