- BOOK ID
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- Prefaces
- Slavery in Ancient Times
- Christianity and Slavery
- Islam Attacks Slavery
- Slaves in the History of Islam
- The Origin of Negro Slavery
- Christians Organise Slave-Trade
- East African Slave-Trade
- Sufferings of Slaves
- Churches Participate in Slave-Trade
- Why Slavery Was Abolished
- Hypocricy of the Abolitionists
- Was American Civil War to Emancipate The Slaves
- Territorial Slavery
- Postscript
Slavery from Islamic And Christian perspectives
BOOK ID
Title: Slavery from Islamic Christian perspectives
Author(s): Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi
Publisher(s): Vancouver Islamic Educational Foundation
Category: Comparative Religion Politics amp; Current Affairs
Topic Tags: Slavery Islam Christianity
ISBN: 0-920675-07-7
Appearance: 189 p .
Congress Classification: BP230/15/ر6الف5 1367
Dewey decimal classification: 297/483
National bibliography number: 1616763
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سرشناسه : رضوي، سعيد اختر، 1305 - 1381.
Rizvi, Saeed Akhtar
عنوان و نام پديدآور : Slavery from Islamic Christian perspectives./ Saeed Akhtar Rizvi
مشخصات نشر : British Columbia: Vancouver Islamic Educational Foundation, 1988=1367.
مشخصات ظاهري : 189ص.
شابك : 0-920675-07-7
يادداشت : انگليسي.
آوانويسي عنوان : اسليوري فرام اسلاميك...
موضوع : اسلام و بردگي و برده داري
موضوع : بردگي و برده داري -- تاريخ
موضوع : مسيحيت و بردگي و برده داري
رده بندي كنگره : BP230/15/ر6الف5 1367
رده بندي ديويي : 297/483
شماره كتابشناسي ملي : 1616763
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From Islamic and Christian PerspectivesSlavery in ancient times, Christianity and slavery, Islam attacks slavery, slaves in the history of Islam, the Negro slavery, and the abolition of slavery.
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 they compromised with it. Some of these civilisations even patronised slavery. The Christian churches participated in slave-trade. Their priests blessed the ships carrying human 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 because European girls did not like to live as nuns. Among all the religions it was only Islam that 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 became champions of its abolition.
'Allamah Sayyid Sa'eed Akhtar Rizvi, the Chief Missionary of Bilal Muslim Mission of 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 fact after fact from history; quoted from the Holy Qur'an, the traditions, and contemporary writers on the subject; and cited Islamic and ancient laws. He has clearly
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