What does the slave trade in the Saqaliba tell us about Early Islamic slavery?
The Saqaliba—a term that in medieval Arabic literature denoted the Slavic populations of central and eastern Europe (and possibly some of their neighbors)—offer a particularly insightful case study of the mechanisms of the early Islamic slave trade and the nature of the Muslim...
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Cambridge University Press
2017
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