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Ransoming prisoners in precolonial Muslim western Africa
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ISBN: 9781800109995 9781648250644 Year: 2023 Publisher: Rochester, NY University of Rochester Press

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Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads.


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Black Morocco
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ISBN: 9781107651777 9781107025776 9781139198783 9781139616324 1139616323 9781139625623 1139625624 1139198785 9781283870580 1283870584 110702577X 110723641X 1139610740 1139612603 1139609025 1139621904 1107651778 Year: 2012 Volume: 123 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Chouki El Hamel argues that we cannot rely solely on Islamic ideology as the key to explain social relations and particularly the history of black slavery in the Muslim world, for this viewpoint yields an inaccurate historical record of the people, institutions and social practices of slavery in Northwest Africa. El Hamel focuses on black Moroccans' collective experience beginning with their enslavement to serve as the loyal army of the Sultan Isma'il. By the time the Sultan died in 1727, they had become a political force, making and unmaking rulers well into the nineteenth century. The emphasis on the political history of the black army is augmented by a close examination of the continuity of black Moroccan identity through the musical and cultural practices of the Gnawa.

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