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... and destabilizes these narratives, which are seemingly derivative narratives of the Atlantic model of slavery. It also tries to debunk the binary narrative and the silencing of history, substantiating the discussion with a historical account of the emperor’s special army of captives, called c’äwa , in the longue...

...Abdul Sheriff Slavery is not a fixed condition but a spectrum of unfreedom. The term Islamic slavery has been bandied about for four decades without an adequate definition. At the birth of Islam there were a large number of captives from endemic intertribal warfare, many of them Arabs who were...

... and the use of alternative narrative frames portray converts and conversion from a significantly different perspective. In this article, primarily through the study of captivity narratives, I explore how and why these tropes of conversion were employed, the functions they fulfilled, and the contexts in which...

..., African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1999 . Bekkaoui Khalid . White Women Captives in North Africa: Narratives of Enslavement, 1735-1830 . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2010 . Braudel Fernand...

.... How two such differ- Book Review by Alamgir Hashmi ent poems as “Love’s Captives” and “Landscape” now have an almost natural English existence is a measure of her suc- AMERICANIZING FAlZ cess; the proximity...

... for the West Bank, the universities’ curriculum is mainly derivative of the Western academy. 9 In the case of the Israeli academy, it also seeks to turn Palestinian students into captive minds in institutions that constitute part of the state machinery entrusted with tasks relating to population management...

..., it is estimated that some 1.8 million humans perished. 3 When Zong had set off from West Africa on September 6, 1781, it carried 440 captives. Of those, 60 had died from illness, hunger, exposure, or heartbreak before Captain Collingwood ordered his crew to throw 132 enslaved people overboard over...

.... The Katherine visited Ndzwani Island, where the sultan contracted Captain South to join in an attack on neighboring Mwali (Moheli) Island. The Katherine put the Malagasy captives ashore in Ndzwani, where they would be held for more than a month. The vessel then took on the sultan's sons and four hundred...

... translation), European Captive the School of Public Policy and Administration Women and Their Muslim Masters: Captivity Narratives and coordinator of the political science program from “Turkish” Lands ( Kitap, 2005; in Turkish), and of the Atkinson Faculty, York University. In Iran, Women...

... next stop on the A welcoming reception was in due course arranged West African coast. In a letter to a friend written from for her by President William Vacanarat Shadrach lbb- here she talked about the art objects she had already man himself. She was captivated by the president. “His begun...

...- the           tion of the Old Oyo Empire, Ifacayeh, together with his mother, brother, and two sisters, was 1, 2010 No. -2009-047 taken captive by the warriors of Ojo Amepo, a renegade Muslim Yoruba chief. Separated...

... Indian Muslim middle class, mainly those of captive in Istanbul. The Khilafatists demanded that UP, Bihar and urban Punjab. Their objectives were the person and the office of the Khalifa be pro- modest, for they demanded not much more than fair tected and preserved and his sovereignty...

... entertainment weeklies, and legal journals, covered around the 1936 murder of Imtithal Fawzy, I will the case in one form or another. That the Egyptian demonstrate that events like her murder, publicized public was captivated by the sensational nature of by the press and debated in the public discourse...

..., h sai Revolution.” Islamic the hostage country whole in my took country stu- “Your responded, a student the admonished that taking, hostage he for hostage dent when American captivity former in a while by told was Tehran...

... . sumption that the capitalist state is pretty much captive to the dominant interests in society. Like the neo-elassical Send10the lN1itute of R8ce R..latlons, 2~ Leeke Street, London We 1X9HS, UK Pleasesendcashwithorder, ct>t'ques made...

... they A young man of some twelve years at the employed an interpreter with Drian-Ramaka is mparative time he was rustled aboard the Nossa Senhora unclear, but it is likely, at least during the fi rst da Esperança, Drian-Ramaka had been born months of his captivity...

...—not to mention the Atlantic slave trade encapsulated in this section by Laleh Khalili's captivating essay on the slave ship Zong —one can also clearly see that the roots and routes of maritime capitalism also lie in violence. 6 Indeed, one could argue that the gunboat and the container alike are unmistakable...

... that every wounded or sick provisions concerning the treatment to which captives are person is entitled to receive adequate medical care (entailing entitled. Despite many requests and negotiations, the ICRC respect for the medical personnel and transport protected by was not able to obtain access...

.... The text and spirit of these discourses also edge. This possibility of self-­transformation is opposed human captivity, trafficking, and subju- framed within an ethical philosophy of justice so gation to the status of captives, who were reduced admired by the French enslaver...

...]). That domain, she argues persuasively, (re)produces the conditions that create and sustain waste in all its ramification, the most crucial of which is the wastage of human lives (particular as “life-times”). Thus, many people around the world are forced to be(come) “disposable life” (6, 12) or “captive life...