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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press (April 30, 1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0195053265
  • ISBN-13: 978-0195053265
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 0.9 x 6.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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"A realistic, well-documented study. Important illustrations and primary evidence now made accessible."--Irving R. Mix, Elmira College


"An important book which explains the issue of slavery in the Middle East."--Robert A. Hess, Messiah College


"An excellent and timely work on an important and rather neglected issue."--Ehsan Yarshater, Columbia University


"Splendid--should supplant all previous discussions."--Paul A. Rahe, University of Tulsa


"A splendid discussion of a difficult subject."--Paul A. Rahe, University of Tulsa


"Deceptively brief, delightfully easy to read, and beautifully illustrated."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History


"...Bernard Lewis an exceptionally distinguished historian of the Middle Eastern world....authoritative addresses to reality like his will serve excellently instead, and they make him a matchless guide to the background of Middle East conflict today."--David Pryce-Jones, Commentary


"...pioneering work."--David Warren Bowen, Magill's Literary Annual


"Highly readable."--The New York Review of Books


"This book will foster Bernard Lewis's reputation as the doyen of Middle Eastern studies."--The New York Times Book Review


"Mr. Lewis's knowledge of Islamic history, literature, and jurisprudence is so detailed, expansive, and profoundly integrated that it is enough for him to merely refer to a period or an instance to be able to envision the entire context."--The Washington Times


"His scholarship must be respected....He skillfully sets up and explicates the primary paradoxes of the Islamic view of slavery and of race....[A book] that surely should be read."--Journal of Social History


About the Author


Bernard Lewis is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton University. He is the author of several books, including The Muslim Discovery of Europe, The Assassins, and The Political Language of Islam

Customer Reviews

This book tackles a difficult subject without prejudice, slavery and racism.
"nukemind"
The Muslims took white slaves, too, until rising western military competence put a stop to it; a minor part of this book.
Harry Eagar
Black Africa in Lewis' book does not include Egypt, North Africa and the Maghreb.
Kaigama

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful By "nukemind" on March 24, 2002
Format: Paperback
I've read some of Prof. Lewis' other books and they all have a common theme, impartial academic analysis. This book tackles a difficult subject without prejudice, slavery and racism. Prof. Lewis knows his subject well. He ignores common "western" perceptions of the region, employs corroborating primary sources, and a very readable rendition of how race is perceived (and not perceived) in the Middle East, past and present.
The pictures alone are an amazing collection from around the Islamic world and illustrate local perceptions. Even parallels that seemingly would never occur in most peoples' minds come up such as the fact that many stories in the Arabian Nights depict blacks as slaves, while the Arabs are often "white supremacists" (not to be taken as literally the same as the context in America). The perception of people in the region greatly varies from place to place and from time to time. At times, they struggle with their own racist ideas and the eloquence of some blacks (either former slaves or those born from such unions as well as the occasional martial slave) in the Mideast who became prominent poets, writers, and popular figures in-spite of the racial prejudice. This is an enlightening journey and you'll learn more from this small book then most huge volumes that cannot even grasp what Prof. Lewis has completely understood. Highly recommended.
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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful By Neel Aroon on August 7, 2002
Format: Paperback
Though we're all pretty familiar with the slave trade going to the western hemisphere, we're less familiar with the slave trade going from sub-sahara Africa to North Africa and the Middle East. Bernard Lewis covers this part of the slave trade well in Race and Slavery in the Middle East. He goes through time from pre-Islamic times to the 20th century. He discuses how slavery in that part of the world becomes more and more of racial concept that enslaves both whites, black and people from the caucasus montains and each group was perceived. Lewis also focuses on how other ethnic groups in the Middle East such as Persians were looked at. In addition, Lewis goes through how the growth of Europe slowed down slavery and eventually lead to its abolition in North Africa and the Middle East from initially cutting off supply from the Cacasuss Montains and Eastern Europe and then from Sub-Sahara Africa.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful By General Pete VINE VOICE on January 4, 2005
Format: Paperback
I have my problem with some of the works of Bernard Lewis but this work is a rare exception for me because I think it is excellent. The author does his best to shatter the myth that Islam is color blind. In the pages of this book time and time again he proves that the Arab Muslims may have been in fear of and were at the very least suspicious of the intentions and work ethics of Black converts to Islam.

The book is a work from a purely sociological standpoint and it also had great historical research to back it up. Also be sure to check out the several insightful examples of artwork provided to see how Black Muslims were portrayed in the art of the Arab world.

Overall-Lewis really has all of his ducks in a row here a wonderful book
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful By Roarshak@aol.com on December 24, 1997
Format: Hardcover
The realization that the enslavement of blacks (and others) by an expanding Islamic empire is both disturbing and something that is rarely addressed by historians in classrooms. Prof. Lewis presents the realities and the views of Muslim Arabs and others and explains their reasoning and practices in compact detail. The racist element is disturbing in that black African slaves were treated very badly, while white slaves were employed as soldiers or as part of harems. The dichotomy is disturbingly reminicent of European attitudes towards blacks in the more recent past. Slavery in the Middle East continued for decades after it ended in the Americas and in some countries in North Africa, blacks continue to be treated as second-class citizens and/or slaves (Tuaregs raiders and "white" Moors in Mauretania still practice slavery). Lewis covers an uncomfortable subject the best way possible, by presenting facts and remaining neutral as an observer and first-rate historian.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful By A Customer on June 16, 1998
Format: Hardcover
This book offers an historical perspective on slavery in the Middle East allowing a comparison between slavery in the America's with the rest of the world.
Arab laws protecting slaves are available in the appendix. Also illustrations of mosaics depicting slavery in the Middle East are included.
I recommend this book to anyone interesting in the history of the Middle East or of the US because shows how African's viewed the institution of slavery before the European and American slave trade.
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