Possessed by the Right Hand (Studies in Global Slavery)

by Bernard K. Freamon

Series:Studies in Global Slavery

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In Possessed by the Right Hand , the first comprehensive legal history of slavery in Islam ever offered to readers, Bernard K. Freamon, an African-American Muslim law professor, provides a penetrating analysis of the problems of slavery and slave-trading in Islamic history. After examining the issues from pre-Islamic times through to the nineteenth century, Professor Freamon considers the impact of Western abolitionism, arguing that such efforts have been a failure, with the notion of show more abolition becoming nothing more than a cruel illusion. He closes this ground-breaking account with an examination of the slaving ideologies and actions of ISIS and Boko Haram, asserting that Muslims now have an important and urgent responsibility to achieve true abolition under the aegis of Islamic law. show less

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Bernard K. Freamon

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Bernard K. Freamon, LLM (2002), JSD (2007), Columbia University; JD (1974), Rutgers Law School; is Emeritus Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School. He is the author of "Straight, No Chaser: Slavery, Abolition and Modern Islamic Thought" in Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition (2013) and other works.