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Template:ImagesIndex Slavery is explicitly allowed by Islam. This sanction of slavery has helped the Muslim world create one of the largest trans-continental slave trades in history.
Slavery
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| A painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme of a Slave Market. |
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| An African trader (possibly an Egyptian) with two Sudanese slave girls for sale. The African is a Muslim while the girls are not. |
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| 13th century slave market in the Yemen |
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| A Muslim slave trader. |
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| A 19th-century engraving depicting an Arab slave-trading caravan transporting black African slaves across the Sahara. |
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| A boy slave in the slave trade market of Zanzibar punished by his ‘Arab master’ by being chained to a 32 pound log. |
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| Harem pool with black eunuch slave. Black slaves serving harems were desirably castrated ‘level with the abdomen’. |
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| Unlike the West, slavery is still alive and thriving in the Islamic East. |
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| Finally free: Mende Nazer was abducted and sold into slavery in Sudan at the age of 12. She has been granted asylum in UK. |
See Also
- Slavery - A hub page that leads to other articles related to Slavery