"A must read for any social historian of the region."-The American Historical Review
The individual lives of African slaves in the Middle East, with a new afterword, new in paperback
In the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet relatively little is known about them. Studies have focused mainly on the Mamluk and harem slaves of elite households, who were mostly white, and on abolitionist efforts to end the slave trade, and most have relied heavily on Western language sources. In recent decades new sources have become available, ranging from Egyptian religious and civil court and police records to rediscovered archives and accounts in Western archives and libraries. Along with new developments in the study of African slavery these sources provide a perspective on the lives of non-elite trans-Saharan Africans in nineteenth century Egypt and beyond. The nine essays in this volume examine the lives of slaves and freed men and women in Egypt and the region.
Contributors:
Kenneth M. Cuno University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Y. Hakan Erdem Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Michael Ferguson Concordia University, Canada
Emad Ahmad Helal Shams al-Din, Suez Canal University, Egypt
Liat Kozma Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
George Michael La Rue, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, USA
Ahmad A. Sikainga Ohio State University, USA
Eve M. Troutt Powell University of Pennsylvania, USA
Terence Walz Independent scholar, Washington, DC, USA
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"A very welcome addition to the literature on enslavement in the Middle East, which includes some excellent studies. It is a must read for any social historian of the region."-The American Historical Review
"Race and Slavery in the Middle East is a well-researched and eloquently written book about African slavery. The editors, Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno, have drawn on the expertise of specialists to unpack the histories, culture, and the trans-Saharan Africans' experience with race and marginalization in nineteenth century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean. Relying on a broad range of sources, including census data, Islamic court records, biographies, and police records, the editors succeed in capturing the lost voices of the trans-Saharan Africans and presenting their experience of race and slavery devoid of Western imagery and bias."-The Historian
"Walz and Cuno assembled this volume in a time when many scholars were quite interested in the intersection of comparative world-history, gender, and slavery. These contributors offer this, and they also reveal some dynamics of diaspora communities in this world-system. Such knowledge is pregnant with wisdom for government officials tasked with ameliorating neighborhood dynamics as, to borrow categories from these chapters, white, red, brown and black people from the world-system demarcated by the Black, Caspian, and Red Seas, in addition to the Persian Gulf and Lake Chad, migrate to new homes and safe havens in Western Europe."-Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association
"This volume is an excellent contribution to the study of slavery and race in the Ottoman empire and should be considered essential reading for purposes of the comparative study of slavery as well as the study of slavery in the Islamic world."-Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Terence Walz (Edited by) is an independent scholar working in Washington, DC. He is the author of Trade between Egypt and Bilad as-Sudan, 1700-1820.
Kenneth M. Cuno (Edited by) is professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt (2015), which was awarded the Albert Hourani Book Prize by the Middle East Studies Association, and co-editor of Family, Gender and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia (2009).
Note on Transliteration and Personal and Place Names
List of Maps and Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Study of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Mediterranean
Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno
1. Muhammad Ali's First Army: The Experiment in Building an Entirely Slave Army
Emad Ahmed Helal
2. Sudanese, Habasha, Takarna, and Barabira: Trans-Saharan Africans in Cairo as Shown in the 1848 Census
Terence Walz
3. African Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Rural Egypt: A Preliminary Assessment
Kenneth M. Cuno
4. "My Ninth Master was a European": Enslaved Blacks in European Households in Egypt, 1798-1848 99
George Michael La Rue
5. Magic, Theft, and Arson: The Life and Death of an Enslaved African Woman in Ottoman Izmit
Y. Hakan Erdem
6. Slavery and Social Life in Nineteenth-Century Turco-Egyptian Khartoum
Ahmad Alawad Sikainga
7. Enslaved and Emancipated Africans on Crete
Michael Ferguson
8. Black, Kinless, and Hungry: Manumitted Female Slaves in Khedival Egypt 197
Liat Kozma
9. Slaves or Siblings? Abdallah al-Nadim's Dialogues about the Family
Eve M. Troutt Powell
Bibliography
Index
