The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam

John Hunwick (Shari'a in Songhay) and Eve Troutt Powell (A Different Shade of Colonialism) have gathered (and briefly annotated) primary sources from the Koran, Islamic historians and theologians, non-Muslim anthropologists and others to end ""the silence surrounding the experience... of African slaves in the Islamic Mediterranean."" Though this ""other"" slave trade spanned nearly 10 centuries, no definitive history exists; The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam offers scholars and students insight into the relationships between the brutal culture of slavery and the rich traditions of the Islamic world. Illus. (Markus Wiener [www.markuswiener.com], $38.95 302p ISBN 1-55876-274-4; paper $18.95 -275-2)