Includes index

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-259) and index

Contrasts -- Out of Arabia -- Imperial Islam -- The practice of slavery -- The farther reaches: China, India, Spain -- Into Black Africa -- The Ottoman Empire -- The "Heretic" state: Iran -- The Libyan connection -- The terrible century: East Africa, The Sudanic states and Sahara -- Colonial translations: Northern Nigeria, French Soudan, Mauritania, Somalia, Zanzibar and the Kenyan coast -- Survivals of slavery: Mauritania, Sudan -- America's Black Muslim backlash

"A companion volume to The Black Diaspora, this work tells the story of the Islamic slave trade. Islam's Black Slaves documents a centuries-old institution that still survives, and traces the business of slavery and its repercussions from Islam's inception in the seventh century, through its history in China, India, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, and Spain, and on to Sudan and Mauritania, where, even today, slaves continue to be sold." "Islam's Black Slaves also examines the continued denial of the very existence of this sector of the black diaspora, although it survives today in significant numbers; and in an illuminating conclusion, Segal addresses the appeal of Islam to African-American communities, and the perplexing refusal of Black Muslim leaders to acknowledge black slavery and oppression in present-day Mauritania and Sudan."--Jacket