Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Lewis, Bernard, 1916-2018

Title Race and slavery in the Middle East : an historical enquiry / Bernard Lewis.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  306.362 LEW    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.362 L673R    Check Shelf
Description vii, 184 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Note Rev. ed. of: Race and color in Islam. 1971.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-141) and index.
Contents Slavery -- Race -- Islam in Arabia -- Prejudice and piety, literature and law -- Conquest and enslavement -- Ventures in ethnology -- The discovery of Africa -- In black and white -- Slaves in arms -- The nineteenth century and after -- Abolition -- Equality and marriage -- Image and stereotype -- Myth and reality.
Subject Slavery -- Middle East -- History.
Slavery and Islam -- Middle East -- History.
Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Middle East -- Race relations.
Indexed Term Slavery
Middle East
Added Author Lewis, Bernard, 1916-2018. Race and color in Islam.
ISBN 0195062833 alkaline paper
9780195062830 alkaline paper
0195053265 paperback
9780195053265 paperback
-->
Add a Review