Slavery in Medieval Arabia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20052563 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Magdalena Moorthy Klo (0000-0003-0455-2104, Austrian Academy of Sciences, corresponding author), Magdalena Moorthy Kloss |
| Year | 2023 |
| Pages | 139-158 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-031-13260-5_8 |
| OpenAlex | W4380682110 |
| ISBN | 9783031132605 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
The Arabian Peninsula remains a blind spot in recent scholarship on slavery in medieval Islamic contexts. Given the limited secondary literature on the subject, this chapter will rely largely on primary sources to provide a case study from Yemen during the eleventh to fifteenth centuries CE. Medieval texts offer rare insights into the lives of enslaved persons during that era, revealing a remarkable breadth of occupations and tasks assigned to them in Yemeni societies. They also provide evidence of slave trading practices from East Africaacross the Red Seato Yemen. Taken together, primary sources sketch a vivid picture of what it meant to be a slave in medieval South Arabia
Ancient history · Archaeology · Eleventh · Fifteenth · Genealogy · Geography · Islam · Library science · Medieval history · Peninsula · Political science · Scholarship · Sketch · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Classics · Computer Science · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |