Captives and Companions
a history of slavery and the slave trade in the islamic world
$76.01
- Hardcover
560 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2025
Summary
Captives and Companions: Slavery in the Islamic World
A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the present.
Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, rich, and controversial history. Unlike the notorious and shorter-lived Atlantic slave trade, its story is much less known.
In the earliest days of Islam, Arab Muslims enslaved men, women, and children as the spoils of war. Later, and for many centuries, young boys were imported to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241522158 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241522153 |
| Author: | Justin Marozzi |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 750g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 156mm x 40mm |
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A bold, brilliant and timely history that confronts one of the most neglected and uncomfortable subjects in global history. Justin Marozzi brings to life the complexity and humanity of the Islamic world’s entanglement with slavery using an extraordinary range of sources, across more than a millennium and across sweeping geographies. Not just a mesmerising book, but a profoundly important one too – Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
About The Author
Justin Marozzi
Justin Marozzi is a historian and journalist who has spent most of his professional life living and working in the Muslim world. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and former Trustee of the Royal Geographical Society, he is a senior advisor to the Middle East Association. His previous books include South from Barbary- Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara (2001), the bestselling Tamerlane- Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World (2004) and The Man Who Invented History- Travels with Herodotus (2008). His last book, Baghdad- City of Peace, City of Blood (2014) won the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize and was praised by the judges as ‘a truly monumental achievement’.
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