Descript |
xii, 248 p. ; 24 cm. |
Note |
Proceedings of The Slave Elites Workshop organized by the Islamic Area Studies Project and held in Tokyo on October 10-11, 1998 at the Institute of Oriental Culture, the University of Tokyo. |
Contents |
Slave elites in Islamic history / Sato Tsugitaka -- The Turkish military elite of Samarra and the third century land tenure system / Matthew S. Gordon -- Slave elites and the Saqaliba in al-Andalus in the Umayyad Period / Sato Kentaro -- The location of the "manufacture" of eunuchs / Jan S. Hogendorn -- My slave, my son, my lord: slavery, family and state in the Islamic Middle East / Dror Ze'evi -- The changing concept of Mamlūk in the Mamluk sultanate in Egypt and Syria / Nasser Rabbat -- Waqf as an instrument of investment in the Mamluk sultanate: security vs. profit? / Carl F. Petry --The power of knowledge and the knowledge of power: kinship, community and royal slavery in pre-colonial Kano, 1807-1903 / Sean Stilwell -- The concept of slavery in Ottoman and other Muslim societies: dichotomy or continuum / Ehud R. Toledano -- Mawlay Ismaʻil's Jaysh al-ʻAbīd: reassessment of a military experience / Fatima Harrak -- Comrades in arms or captives in bondage: Sudanese slaves in the Turco-Egyptian Army, 1821-1865 / Ahmad Alawad Sikainga -- The persistance of slave officials in the Sokoto Caliphate / John Edward Philips -- Slave elites in Japanese history / Miura Toru. |
ISBN |
0710306601 |
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