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Slavery
 
 from Islamic and Christian Perspectives
 
 bySayyid Sa'eed Akhtar Rizvi
 Published by:
 Vancouver Islamic Educational FoundationBritish Columbia - CanadaISBN 0-920675-07-7
 
Table of Contents
Publisher's Preface to the First Edition .....................................................................3Author's Preface To The Second Edition ...................................................................4Chapter 1 - Slavery in Ancient Times ............................................................................5Chapter 2 - Christianity and Slavery ..............................................................................7Chapter 3 - Islam Attacks Slavery ..................................................................................9Chapter 4 - Slaves in the History of Islam ...................................................................191. Salman, the Persian .............................................................................................19ii. Zayd bin Harithah ...............................................................................................22iii. 'Ammar bin Yasir ...............................................................................................24iv. Miytham al-Tammar ...........................................................................................26v. Bilal al-Habashi ...................................................................................................29vi. Fizzah .................................................................................................................31vii. Qambar ..............................................................................................................33viii. Sa'id ..................................................................................................................34ix. Slaves: The Helpers Of The Faith ......................................................................35x. Slaves' Children: Imams and Caliphs ..................................................................36Chapter 5 - The Origin of Negro Slavery .....................................................................45Chapter 6 - Christians Organise Slave-Trade ...............................................................48Chapter 7 - East African Slave-Trade ...........................................................................53Chapter 8 - Sufferings of Slaves ...................................................................................56Chapter 9 - Churches Participate in Slave-Trade .........................................................60Chapter 11 - Hypocricy Of The Abolitionists ..............................................................67Chapter 12 - Was American Civil War to Emancipate the Slaves ................................69Chapter 13 - Territorial Slavery ....................................................................................73Postscript ......................................................................................................................77
 
Prefaces
Publisher's Preface to the First Edition
Slavery is one of the oldest evils of society which defied the attempts of reformers for so many centuries. Ancient civilisations could not eradicate slavery, so theycompromised with it. Some of these civilisations even patronised slavery. TheChristian churches participated in slave-trade. Their priests blessed the ships carryinghuman cargo and admonished the slaves to be obedient, but never urged the masters to be kind. As late as 1970, Roman Catholics purchased 1500 Indian girls becauseEuropean girls did not like to live as nuns. Among all the religions it was only Islamthat attacked the very foundations of this evil. But it is the irony of the history that the people who nourished slavery, supported it, and derived benefit from it, later becamechampions of its abolition.'Allamah Sayyid Sa'eed Akhtar Rizvi, the Chief Missionary of Bilal Muslim Missionof Tanzania has very ably and painstakingly written this book. Like a research scholar that he is, he has objectively treated the theme of this book. He has marshalled factafter fact from history; quoted from the Holy Qur'an, the traditions, and contemporarywriters on the subject; and cited Islamic and ancient laws. He has clearly and vividlyshown that Western civilisation is not so great a champion of emancipation of slavesas it poses to be. In fact this book will prove to he an eye-opener for those who blindly nod in approval to the propaganda about Western humanism.Peermahomed Ebrahim Trust proudly presents this volume to the readers and hopesthat it will gain approval of the public.Trustees,Peermahomed Ebrahim Trust Karachi, Pakistan15 Jamadi I, 139227 June, 1972
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