Mary Ann Fay is former Associate Professor of History in the Department of History and Geography at Morgan State University, USA and is the author of Unveiling the Harem: Elite Women and the Paradox of Seclusion in Eighteenth-Century Cairo.

• 1. Chapter 1/Introduction What is Islamic about Slavery in the Islamic World? by Mary Ann Fay.- 2. Chapter Two “What is Islamic about Slavery in Muslim Societies?” Cooper, Concubinage and Contemporary Legacies of ‘Islamic Slavery’ in North, West and East Africa by E. Ann McDougall.- 3. Chapter Three Reading the Hidden History of the Cape:  Islam and Slavery in the Making of Race and Sex in South Africa  by Gabeba Baderoon.- 4. Chapter Four French and English Orientalisms and the study of slavery and abolition in North Africa and the Middle East: what are the connections? by Diane Robinson Dunn.- 5. Chapter Five The Figure of the Eunuch in the Lettres persanes: Reevaluation and Resistance by Sarga Moussa.- 6. Chapter Six Gender, Race and Slavery in the Mamluk Households of Eighteenth-Century Egypt by Mary Ann Fay.- 7. Chapter Seven Africans in the Palace: The Testimony of Taj al-Saltana Qajar from the Royal Harem in Iran by Anthony Lee.- 8. Chapter Eight Encountering Domestic Slavery: A Narrative from the Arabian Gulf by Rima Sabban.- 9. Chapter Nine “Tyranical Masters is the Turks” : The Comparative Context of Barbary Slavery by Christine Sears.- 10. Chapter Ten The ‘Slave-Wife’ Between Private Household and Public Order in Colonial Algeria (1848-1906) by Sarah Ghabrial