"Islamic law was far from monolithic, with different schools providing competing accounts. Nevertheless, it was agreed that non-Muslims living under non-Muslim rule could readily be enslaved by Muslims, and their status was heritable, although owners could free as well as bequeath, sell and give slaves. However, although, even among orthodox Muslims, the notion that slaves were properly secured by conquest alone was very far from being observed, non-Muslims living under Muslim rule were protected from enslavement, Christians and Jews being regarded as Peoples of the Book, and thus related to Muslims, and enjoying religious freedom on payment of a poll tax. Thus, for the purposes of ensuring slave labour, Muslim societies were not able to draw on the bulk of the population under their control and had to rely on the slave trade. In India, Islamic rulers, such as the sultans of the Delhi sultanate (1206–1526), used enslavement as a form both of extracting revenues and of punishment, not least for not paying taxes. Fiscal factors were to the fore and territorial expansion was in part financed by the sale of slaves."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Jeremy Black, A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History (2011)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Delhi_Sultanate
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Related Quotes
"The continued dynamism of successive Islamic societies produced fresh bouts of conquest that led to new sources of sl…"
"Seeing the canonization that success had brought to this magnificent thief, other Moslem rulers profited by his examp…"
"It is in the nature of governments to degenerate; for power, as Shelley said, poisons every hand that touches it. The…"
"There was persecution, partly religious and partly political, and a stubborn resistance was offered by the Hindus… Th…"
"[The Sultanate of Delhi] “was an Islamic State, pure and simple, and gave no religious toleration to the Hindus… and …"
"After the Delhi Sultanate had been set up, India found itself within the cultural orbit of the so-called Moslem world…"
"Throughout the period of the Sultanate of Delhi, Islam was the religion of the State. It was considered to be the dut…"
"The popular notion that after the conquest of Muhammad Ghauri, India formed a Muslim Empire under various dynasties, …"
"THE FIRST THREE centuries of Turkish rule in India exhibit a “similarity to the course of human life with its three s…"
"Particularly the Delhi Sultanate was hardly a functioning empire but rather an uneasy foreign occupation, with the oc…"