An important introduction to the study of the slave trade from Sub Saharan Africa to the Islamic Mediterranean which lasted until the early twentieth century. Focuses on the role of slavery in Islamic law and society and throughout Islamic history. Notes, bib.,246pp, USA. MARKUS WIENER PUBLICATIONS INC, 1558762752

Drawing on examples from the Philippines to Senegal and from the Caucasus to South Africa, the author looks at the issue of slavery and Islam from the late eighteenth century to the present. This study challenges myths about slavery, elucidates its contested legality in Islamic law and the Muslim effort to abolish the practice. Index, bib, 292pp, UK. HURS

Written as a companion to 'The Black Diaspora', this book traces the business of slavery and its repercussions from Islam's inception in the seventh century until today. Reveals the numbers involved in this trade, and explores the differences between the traffic in the East and the West. Also examines the continued denial of the very existence of this sector of the black diaspora, and in an illuminating conclusion 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. Notes, index, xi, 273pp, UK. ATLANTIC BOOKS.

Investigates how Africans' enslavement by Berbers, Arabs, and other Africans became institutionalized and legitimized throughout Muslim Africa. Explains how slaves came to serve as currency, goods, eunuchs, soldiers, and in some cases as statesmen. Notes, bib, index, b/w illus, xxi, 410pp, UK. HURST & Co.

A collection of essays looking at the trans Saharan and trans Atlantic slave routes and the relationship between slavery and Islam. Index, bib, notes, maps, viii, 297pp, USA. MARKUS WIENER PUBLICATIONS INC.

Illuminating for the first time a significant, but ignored subject, the book supports and widens current scholarly examination of Africans' essential role in the enslavement of fellow-Africans and their delivery to internal, Atlantic or trans-Saharan markets. 224pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.