The prostitution is the focal point of women finding their identity in the Western systems. In order to further clarify this matter, it is necessary to state that, basically, due to the widespread prevalence of prostitution at the international and national level, countries are obliged to look at prostitution as...
Read More »The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic
The book tells the story of Rufino, or Abuncare, a Yoruba Muslim from the kingdom of Oyo, who came to Brazil as a slave in c. 1823 and lived in the Atlantic cities of....
Read More »Slavery from Islam’s Point of View
Slavery has been one of the most unfair practices in human history, something that any good conscience would reject. This is because all human beings are born free and none of them is entitled to enslave others. Although slavery in its most brutal form is no...
Read More »Call for papers: Slavery, Liberation and Islamic Law in the Middle East and beyond
This one day multi-disciplinary symposium “Slavery, Liberation and Islamic Law in the Middle East and beyond” will be held on October 30, 2018, at Brock University in...
Read More »Slavery from Islamic and Christian Perspectives+PDF
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 they compromised with...
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