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... a military system based exclusively on mamluk infantry, the vast majority of whom were of slave castes. By comparison to the mamluks, employment of military slaves and militia derived from the regions of sub-Saharan Africa that had occurred both before and after the Ottoman period has been overlooked...

.... Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 slave elite military slaves state formation References Akande Habeeb . Eclairer l’obscurité: les Noirs et les Nord-Africains selon l’Islam . London : Rabaah , 2014 . Akansus Muhammad b. Ahmad . Al-Jaysh al-’aramram...

... as not only domestic (household) and market-driven (chattel) but also polity-driven (military-administrative). We further seek to soften another binary, freedom and slavery, to underline the fact that the domain of unfreedom included a range of dependent relations. Because slave soldiers and administrators...

..., enforced conversion to Shiism existed along with the practice of making military slaves and palace eunuchs out of captured Christians from Caucasia. 14 By contrast, the Mughals of India—the farthest east (Bengal)—refrained from practicing military slavery and did not require conversion as a sign...

... the Arabian Sea. 54 This was not just true of large empires; indeed many smaller rulers along the littoral were as much merchants as they were rulers. The Sidis were the descendants of military slaves from Africa who had risen to rule a maritime state along the western coast of India. They were famous...

... as a whole.38 worse. Farid ascribes the eighteenth-­century The narrative is therefore arranged according decline to an increase in military slaves: “The to the reign of each Ottoman sultan, and there government of the [Ottoman] state became...

... . Ishikawa Hiroki . “ Changes in the Military System during the Gondar Period (1632–1769): Their Influence on the Decline of the Solomonic Dynasty .” Annales d’Éthiopie 18 ( 2002 ): 215 – 29 . Kake I. B. “ The Slave Trade and the Population Drain from Black Africa to North Africa...

... and Slavery across the Indian Ocean . New York : Oxford University Press , 2016 . Alpers Edward . “ On Becoming a British Lake: Piracy, Slaving, and British Imperialism in the Indian Ocean during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century .” In Harms , Indian Ocean Slavery...

..., policemen, or slaves from East Africa by the Omani Arabs.8 fi shermen. Other Baluch joined the military. Still others labored in the oil fi elds and on the History farms of the wealthy Gulf states. Although the Historically it is believed that the Baluch moved Baluch work extremely hard...

... stood the Ottoman emperor, whose authority relationships in a weblike structure that did was represented by his slaves in all corners of the not have a single center. Some political actors, empire. I argue that the various military rebel- whom I would call constitutionalists, such as lions...

...   coercion” and that “we have to take it from there.” “Abe Ques- historian who uncovered the direct involvement of the military tions Sex Slave ‘Coercion BBC News, 2 March 2007, news.bbc...

... 179 ing an estimated 1 million Africans to its lucra- dreams of empire, it was a military success. tive sugar islands during the eighteenth century The initial conquest of Algiers, Oran, and their alone. Both the slave trade and colonial slavery dependent lands was followed by a long and bru...

.... This French scholars, forgetting the “mamluk” and fo- would have been considered inappropriate. The 30. According to Reeva Simon, “The legacy of these ofcers made during this period of early 31. See Crone, Slaves on Horses. this Ottoman military education transcended adulthood, lasted and, for many...

... Omar bin Aissa . Le Service militaire obligatoire: Conséquences de son application ( Mandatory Military Service: Consequences of its Application ). Algiers : Le Typography d'Ar , 1930 . Bendrissou Salah . “ Implantation des Mozabites dans l'Algérois entre les deux guerres...

... Behnaz . “ African Presence in Iran: Identity and Its Reconstruction in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries .” Revue française d’histoire d’outre-mer 89 , no. 336–37 ( 2002 ): 229 – 46 . Pipes Daniel . Slave Soldiers and Islam: The Genesis of a Military System . New Haven...

... been at “as they were before European contact.” raised for the slaves tooInstead, the problem of the slave is perceived as one of social adaptation to The military and political takeover of the conti...

... manifestations of Islam in West Africa within the epistemologies of the global intellectual economies of Islam, the colonial library, and the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition. The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa By Ware Rudolph T. III Chapel...

... mimman zalamuh” (They control emerged. This crucial episode in the pasha’s fi rst military training schools and camps (at Aswan were heedless oppressors and I was one of those relationship to the religious establishment remains for the Sudanese slaves and in Farshut for Ibrahim’s whom...

... More recently, Jeanette Pinto has devoted an important a nice parallel to the role of African slaves as military small book to this topic that is based on much more and political leaders in India, although it tells us little extensive primary research than previous efforts, about African c...

... networks moved along the Hudson River's inland highway; through conquered native lands along the river and its canals; across the Middle Passage of the transatlantic slave trade; among southern slave plantations and regions of military conquest and railway development across the continent; and through...