Unfree Lives: Slaves at the Najahid and Rasulid Courts of Yemen (11th to 15th centuries CE) / Magdalena Moorthy Kloss.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025 | Studies in Global Slavery ; 16.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: 1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Preliminary Remarks -- List of Maps -- Introduction -- 1 Historical Context and Sources -- 1The Najahids – a Dynasty of (Former) Slaves -- 2The Rasulids -- 2 The Medieval Slave Trade to Yemen -- 1Overview -- 2The Unknown Orig
Unfree Lives illuminates Yemen’s forgotten history of slavery, as well as the transregional dimensions of slave trading in the Red Sea and wider Indian Ocean world. By analyzing Arabic narrative and administrative sources, Magdalena Moorthy Klos
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