Race and Slavery in the Middle East

Terence Walz (Edited by) is an independent scholar working in Washington, DC. He is the author of Trade between Egypt and Bilad as-Sudan, 1700–1820.Kenneth M. Cuno (Edited by) is professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt (2015), which was awarded the Albert Hourani Book Prize by the Middle East Studies Association, and co-editor of Family, Gender and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia (2009).

• Note on Transliteration and Personal and Place NamesList of Maps and Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Study of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Mediterranean Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno1. Muhammad Ali’s First Army: The Experiment in Building an Entirely Slave Army Emad Ahmed Helal2. Sudanese, Habasha, Takarna, and Barabira: Trans-Saharan Africans in Cairo as Shown in the 1848 Census Terence Walz3. African Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Rural Egypt: A Preliminary AssessmentKenneth M. Cuno4. “My Ninth Master was a European”: Enslaved Blacks in European Households in Egypt, 1798–1848 99George Michael La Rue5. Magic, Theft, and Arson: The Life and Death of an Enslaved African Woman in Ottoman İzmit Y. Hakan Erdem6. Slavery and Social Life in Nineteenth-Century Turco-Egyptian KhartoumAhmad Alawad Sikainga7. Enslaved and Emancipated Africans on CreteMichael Ferguson8. Black, Kinless, and Hungry: Manumitted Female Slaves in Khedival Egypt 197Liat Kozma9. Slaves or Siblings? Abdallah al-Nadim’s Dialogues about the FamilyEve M. Troutt PowellBibliography Index

“A very welcome addition to the literature on enslavement in the Middle East, which includes some excellent studies. It is a must read for any social historian of the region.”—The American Historical Review“Race and Slavery in the Middle East is a well-researched and eloquently written book about African slavery. The editors, Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno, have drawn on the expertise of specialists to unpack the histories, culture, and the trans-Saharan Africans’ experience with race and marginalization in nineteenth century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean. Relying on a broad range of sources, including census data, Islamic court records, biographies, and police records, the editors succeed in capturing the lost voices of the trans-Saharan Africans and presenting their experience of race and slavery devoid of Western imagery and bias.”—The Historian“Walz and Cuno assembled this volume in a time when many scholars were quite interested in the intersection of comparative world-history, gender, and slavery. These contributors offer this, and they also reveal some dynamics of diaspora communities in this world-system. Such knowledge is pregnant with wisdom for government officials tasked with ameliorating neighborhood dynamics as, to borrow categories from these chapters, white, red, brown and black people from the world-system demarcated by the Black, Caspian, and Red Seas, in addition to the Persian Gulf and Lake Chad, migrate to new homes and safe havens in Western Europe.”—Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association“This volume is an excellent contribution to the study of slavery and race in the Ottoman empire and should be considered essential reading for purposes of the comparative study of slavery as well as the study of slavery in the Islamic world.”—Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies