SLAVE ELITES IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
A Comparative Study

Edited by Toru Miura and John Edward Philips
Kegan Paul International: London&New York, 2000

　

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Contents

List of Contributors

Preface

Introduction

Slave Elites in lslamic History~by SATO Tsugitaka

Part One: Origins

The Turkish Military Elite of Samarra and the Third Century Land Tenure System
by Matthew S, Gordon

Slave Elites and the Saqaliba in at-Andalus in the Umayyad Period
by Sato Kentaro

The Location of the "Manufacture" of Eunuchs
by Jan S. Hogendorn

Part Two: Power and Networks
My Slave, My Son, My Lord: Slavery, Family and State in the Islamic Middle East
by Dror Ze'evi

The Changing Concept of Mamluk in the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt and Syria
by 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
by Sean Stilwell

Part Three: Transition
The Concept of Slavery in Ottoman and Other Muslim Societies: Dichotomy or Continuum
by Ehud R. Toledano

Mawlay Isma'il's Jaysh al-'Abld: Reassessment of a Military Experience
by Fatima Harrak

Comrades in Arms or Captives in Bondage: Sudanese Slaves in the Turco-Egyptian Army, 182l-1865
by Ahmad Alawad Sikainga

The Persistence of Slave Officials in the Sokoto Caliphate
by John Edward Phillips

Concluding Remarks

Slave Elites in Japanese History--by Miura Toru

Index