The harem, slavery and British imperial culture: Anglo-Muslim relations in the late nineteenth centuryManchester University Press, 2017 M03 1 - 240 pages This book focuses on British efforts to suppress the traffic in female slaves destined for Egyptian harems during the late-nineteenth century. It considers this campaign in relation to gender debates in England, and examines the ways in which the assumptions and dominant imperialist discourses of these abolitionists were challenged by the newly-established Muslim communities in England, as well as by English people who converted to or were sympathetic with Islam. While previous scholars have treated antislavery activity in Egypt first and foremost as an extension of earlier efforts to abolish plantation slavery in the New World, this book considers it in terms of encounters with Islam during a period which it argues marked a new departure in Anglo-Muslim relations. This approach illuminates the role of Islam in the creation of English national identities within the global cultural system of the British Empire. |
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... practice of understanding the West and Western identities in relation to the Orient or the Islamic East had existed since the Middle Ages.6 However, certain political developments and the increased, more involved and more intimate ...
... practices. Further complicating this situation and marking it as a new departure in imperial politics, both in terms of the history of anti-slavery activity and Anglo-Muslim relations, was the fact that slavery in Egypt during this ...
... practice engaged in also by the khedives. In addition, slaves who were not given immediate emancipation might be promised freedom after a certain amount of time or upon the death of their master.48 Despite this indigenous tradition of ...
... practice of castrating boys for the purpose of maintaining a supply of eunuch slaves, the Muslim man's right to have such a guard for his harem was assumed, and when one British official suggested levying a heavy tax on men who employed ...
... a gross impropriety' had he expressed his belief in the debasing consequences of a practice so much a part of the domestic life of the elite.73 Because white slaves were usually bought and sold with the [ 17 ] INTRODUCTION.
Contents
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English activism and slavery redefined | 70 |
imperial ideology in English gender politics | 115 |
Islam in England | 154 |
Conclusion | 197 |
Appendices | 210 |
Select bibliography | 213 |
Index | 220 |
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