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Race and slavery in the Middle East [electronic resource] : an historical enquiry / Bernard Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Bernard, 1916-2018.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Middle East--History.
- Slavery.
- Slavery and Islam--Middle East--History.
- Slavery and Islam.
- Race relations--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Race relations.
- Middle East--Race relations.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v, 184 p., 24 p. of plates) : col. ill.
- Other Title:
- Race and slavery in the Middle East
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Summary:
- From the time of Moses up to the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. But if the Middle East was the last region to renounce slavery, how do we account for its - and especially Islam's - image of racial harmony? This book explores these questions.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 1990.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199854561 (ebook) :
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