{"title":"Islam, Slavery, and Racism: The Use of Strategy in the Pursuit of Human Rights (1987)*","authors":"Fadel Abdallah","doi":"10.35632/ajis.v41i1.3423","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Slavery is one of the most controversial and arresting topics in humanhistory. The question of Islam in relation to slavery has been an issue ofconcern among scholars for a long time. It became a question in which manyOrientalists found a convenient gap to pass through in their attacks againstthe system of governance and justice in Islam. This self-righteous criticismagainst the attitude of Islam towards slavery is part of a long Western traditionof scholarship based on stereotyping, overstating, and selectivity of Islamin particular and the Orient in general. Most of the time, the statements ofthese scholars are presented in a sugar-coated style of language that is moredangerous than if they were presented in a critical, open, and direct language.Thomas Carlyle, Renan, Goldziher, Macdonald, von Grunebaum, Gibb andBernard Lewis are good examples and representatives of this tradition.\n*This article was first published in the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 4, no. 1 (1987): 31-50","PeriodicalId":34866,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Islam and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"American Journal of Islam and Society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v41i1.3423","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Slavery is one of the most controversial and arresting topics in humanhistory. The question of Islam in relation to slavery has been an issue ofconcern among scholars for a long time. It became a question in which manyOrientalists found a convenient gap to pass through in their attacks againstthe system of governance and justice in Islam. This self-righteous criticismagainst the attitude of Islam towards slavery is part of a long Western traditionof scholarship based on stereotyping, overstating, and selectivity of Islamin particular and the Orient in general. Most of the time, the statements ofthese scholars are presented in a sugar-coated style of language that is moredangerous than if they were presented in a critical, open, and direct language.Thomas Carlyle, Renan, Goldziher, Macdonald, von Grunebaum, Gibb andBernard Lewis are good examples and representatives of this tradition.
*This article was first published in the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 4, no. 1 (1987): 31-50
奴隶制是人类历史上最具争议性和最吸引人的话题之一。伊斯兰教与奴隶制的关系问题长期以来一直是学者们关注的问题。在这个问题上,许多东方学者找到了一个方便的缺口,借以攻击伊斯兰教的管理和正义制度。这种自以为是地批评伊斯兰教对奴隶制的态度,是西方悠久的学术传统的一部分,其基础是对伊斯兰教和整个东方的刻板印象、夸大其词和选择性。Thomas Carlyle、Renan、Goldziher、Macdonald、von Grunebaum、Gibb 和 Bernard Lewis 就是这一传统的典范和代表:31-50