Islam and the Abolition of Slavery, by William Gervase Clarence-Smith and W. G. Clarence-Smith

William Gervase Clarence-Smith, W. G. Clarence-Smith, Islam and the Abolition of Slavery, Oxford University Press, 2006. Contemporay debates about Muslim slavery occur in a context of fierce polemics between Islam and other belief systems. While Islamic groups had an ambivalent and generally muted impact on the legal repudiation of slavery, a growing religious commitment to abolition was essential if legislation was to be enforced in the twentieth century. Drawing on examples from the whole '..