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Graduate Record 2020-2021 
    
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Graduate Record 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

HIME 5053 - Slavery in the Middle East and Ottoman Empire

This course explores the practice of slavery in its various forms in the Middle East and North Africa from pre-Islamic times through the abolition of the slave trade in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Topics include: sources of slaves and the slave trade; manumission; the social and legal position of slaves in Islamic societies; the slave-soldier phenomenon; captivity and ransom; gender and race; and the movement towards abolition. Prerequisite: Graduate students and advanced undergraduates with previous study of the Middle East.



Credits: 3