The free blacks in the south who refuse Arabization and call themselves “Negro-Africans” and the black chattel slave class (abid) are at the bottom. Slavery is part of jihad and jihad will remain as long as there is Islam. By Dr Haroon Sidat, Cardiff University To the modern mind, very few practices can be more morally unsettling than the concept of slavery. Early Muslims were part of societies in which various unfree statuses existed, including capture, purchase, inherited slave status and debt peonage. They are merely writers. In Slavery & Islam, Jonathan A.C Brown lays out how Islam viewed slavery in theory, and the reality of how it was practised across Islamic civilization. For Muslims, this becomes acute as the Quran - the word of God and the foundation of their moral ontology – fails to disrupt slavery. When Islam came, there were many causes of slavery, such as warfare, debt (where if the debtor could not pay off his debt, he became a slave), kidnapping and raids, and poverty and need. Thus, it is no surprise that the Quran, the Prophet's normative practice and Islamic jurisprudence accepted slavery. Whoever say such thing is an infidel Slavery therefore “is a reduction in legal status that is caused by unbelief,” whose “vestigial effect” can remain even for an enslaved convert to Islam or a child born into slavery. Slavery & Islam is a thoughtful, well-researched, and well-written elucidation of a very difficult problem.' Slavery was pervasive in the late antique world in which the Quran arose. It is certain to be as widely debated as it is widely read. Slavery was a very endemic part of Islamic interaction with Africa. Warning: Orientalist paintings depicting female nudity follow.. Last year, a political party in Germany provoked controversy when it used the following painting in its election campaign to illustrate one of the reasons it was against immigration. Slavery and Islam by Jonathan A.C. Brown. https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Islam-Jonathan-C-Brown/dp/1786078392 Many people out of ignorance or out of biased attack Islam (Submission) for its stand on slavery, distorting and misrepresenting the true stand of Islam (Submission). And we will all be all the better for it.' However, in this case, Arab racism supersedes adherence to the Shari‘ah (Islamic law). Slavery was a mainstay of life in pre-Islamic Arabia and surrounding lands. Finally, Brown carefully examines arguments put forward by Muslims for the abolition of slavery. The country is entirely Muslim. 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