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What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong? Every major religion and philosophy once condoned or approved of slavery, but in modern times nothing is seen as more evil. Americans confront this crisis of authority when they erect statues of Founding Fathers who slept with their slaves. And Muslims faced it when ISIS revived sex-slavery, justifying it with verses from the Quran and the practice of Muhammad. Exploring the moral and ultimately theological problem of slavery, Jonathan A.C. Brown traces how the Christian, Jewish and Islamic traditions have tried to reconcile modern moral certainties with the infallibility of God's message. He lays out how Islam viewed slavery in theory, and the reality of how it was practiced across Islamic civilization. Finally, Brown carefully examines arguments put forward by Muslims for the abolition of slavery. CONTENTS
Introduction: Can We Talk About Slavery? What I Argue in this Book Apology for Slavery? Power and the Study of Slavery Blackness, Whiteness and Slavery 1. Does 'Slavery' Exist? The Problem of Definition The Main Argument Definition: A Creative Process Definition to Discourse: A Political Process Defining \ˈslā-v(ə-)rē\: We Know It When We See It Defining Slavery as Status or a Condition Slavery as Unfreedom Slavery as Human Property Slavery as Distinction: The Lowest Rung & Marginality Slavery as Coercion & Exploitation under the Threat of Violence The Problem with Modern-Day Slavery Slavery & Islam - A Very Political Question Conclusion: Of Course, Slavery Exists The Proper Terms for Speaking about 'Slavery' 2. Slavery in the Shariah What Islam Says about Slavery - Ideals and Reality Slavery in the Quran & Sunna Inheriting the Near East - Roman, Jewish and Near Eastern Laws versus Islam Islam's Reform of Slavery Basic Principles of Riqq in the Shariah The Ambiguities of Slavery in the Shariah Riqq & Rights in the Shariah Summary: Law and Ethics 3. Slavery in Islamic Civilization What is Islamic Civilization? Is there 'Islamic Slavery'? The Shariah & Islamic Slavery The Classic Slavery Zone Consuming People & 'Ascending Miscegenation' Slave Populations Routes of the Muslim Slave Trade Blackness and Slavery in Islamic Civilization The Roles and Experiences of Slaves in Islamic Civilization The Slave as Uprooted Person and Commodity The Slave as Domestic Labor . . . Even Trusted Member of a Household Slave as Sexual Partner Slave as Saint, Scholar or Poet Slave as Elite Administrator & Courtesan Slave as Soldier - When Soldiers often Ruled Slave as Rebel 4. The Slavery Conundrum No Squaring the Circle: The American/Islamic Slavery Conundrum Slavery is Evil Religions and Slavery Slavery is Slavery: The Problem of Labeling 'Slavery' with One Moral Judgment The Past as Moral Authority: Can We Part with the Past? 5. Abolishing Slavery in Islam Is Abolition Indigenous to Islam or Not? Islam as Emancipatory Force - An Alternative History Abolishing Slavery . . . For Whom? Concentric Circles of Abolition 'The Lawgiver Looks Expectantly Towards Freedom' - Abolition as an Aim of the Shariah Doubling Down - Progressive Islam & the Axiomatic Evil of Slavery Prohibited by the Ruler but Not by God: The Crucial Matter of Taqyid al-Mubah If You Can't Do it Right, You Can't Do it at All - Prohibiting Riqq Poorly Done Same Shariah, Diff erent Conditions - The Obsolescence or Unfavorability of Slavery Slavery: A Moot Point & Bad PR Defending Slavery in Islam 6. The Prophet & ISIS: Evaluating Muslim Abolition Do Muslim Approaches to Abolition Pass Moral Muster? A Consensus on Abolition Could Slavery in Islam ever be Unabolished? Abolition vs. ISIS This Author's Opinion 7. Concubines and Consent: Can We Solve the Moral Problem of Slavery? Species of Moral Change Moral Disgust at Slavery Today Conclusion & Crisis: Concubinage and Consent Disbelief is Unproductive Appendices Select Bibliography Notes Index
Introduction: Can We Talk About Slavery? What I Argue in this Book Apology for Slavery? Power and the Study of Slavery Blackness, Whiteness and Slavery 1. Does 'Slavery' Exist? The Problem of Definition The Main Argument Definition: A Creative Process Definition to Discourse: A Political Process Defining \ˈslā-v(ə-)rē\: We Know It When We See It Defining Slavery as Status or a Condition Slavery as Unfreedom Slavery as Human Property Slavery as Distinction: The Lowest Rung & Marginality Slavery as Coercion & Exploitation under the Threat of Violence The Problem with Modern-Day Slavery Slavery & Islam - A Very Political Question Conclusion: Of Course, Slavery Exists The Proper Terms for Speaking about 'Slavery' 2. Slavery in the Shariah What Islam Says about Slavery - Ideals and Reality Slavery in the Quran & Sunna Inheriting the Near East - Roman, Jewish and Near Eastern Laws versus Islam Islam's Reform of Slavery Basic Principles of Riqq in the Shariah The Ambiguities of Slavery in the Shariah Riqq & Rights in the Shariah Summary: Law and Ethics 3. Slavery in Islamic Civilization What is Islamic Civilization? Is there 'Islamic Slavery'? The Shariah & Islamic Slavery The Classic Slavery Zone Consuming People & 'Ascending Miscegenation' Slave Populations Routes of the Muslim Slave Trade Blackness and Slavery in Islamic Civilization The Roles and Experiences of Slaves in Islamic Civilization The Slave as Uprooted Person and Commodity The Slave as Domestic Labor . . . Even Trusted Member of a Household Slave as Sexual Partner Slave as Saint, Scholar or Poet Slave as Elite Administrator & Courtesan Slave as Soldier - When Soldiers often Ruled Slave as Rebel 4. The Slavery Conundrum No Squaring the Circle: The American/Islamic Slavery Conundrum Slavery is Evil Religions and Slavery Slavery is Slavery: The Problem of Labeling 'Slavery' with One Moral Judgment The Past as Moral Authority: Can We Part with the Past? 5. Abolishing Slavery in Islam Is Abolition Indigenous to Islam or Not? Islam as Emancipatory Force - An Alternative History Abolishing Slavery . . . For Whom? Concentric Circles of Abolition 'The Lawgiver Looks Expectantly Towards Freedom' - Abolition as an Aim of the Shariah Doubling Down - Progressive Islam & the Axiomatic Evil of Slavery Prohibited by the Ruler but Not by God: The Crucial Matter of Taqyid al-Mubah If You Can't Do it Right, You Can't Do it at All - Prohibiting Riqq Poorly Done Same Shariah, Diff erent Conditions - The Obsolescence or Unfavorability of Slavery Slavery: A Moot Point & Bad PR Defending Slavery in Islam 6. The Prophet & ISIS: Evaluating Muslim Abolition Do Muslim Approaches to Abolition Pass Moral Muster? A Consensus on Abolition Could Slavery in Islam ever be Unabolished? Abolition vs. ISIS This Author's Opinion 7. Concubines and Consent: Can We Solve the Moral Problem of Slavery? Species of Moral Change Moral Disgust at Slavery Today Conclusion & Crisis: Concubinage and Consent Disbelief is Unproductive Appendices Select Bibliography Notes Index
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Brown, Jonathan A. C.
- ISBN: 9781786078391
- Condition: New
- Number Of Pages: 448
- Publication Year: 2022
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English