From Muslim Community to Islamic Society: Law, Slavery and Concubinage in Bilad al-Sudan

“‘But this I am sure of’, said the English author Morgan in the early eighteenth Century [from the perspective of Algeria], ‘that there is not one natural African, on this Side the Niger, who if asked, of what Religion he is, will not, with Indignation in his Countenance, on account of so dubious and affronting a Question, immediately reply, “I am, God be praised, a Mussulman”.

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