Justin Marozzi
Captives and Companions : A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade...
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SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONA startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the presentSlavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history. Captives and Companions is a brilliant synthesis of history and contemporary reportage that brings to life the voices of the enslaved in stories of eighthcentury concubines and ninthcentury revolts, thirteenthcentury slave soldiers who established dynastic rule over Egypt, Syria, and Iraq, eighteenthcentury corsairs and twentiethcentury pearl divers in the Gulf. It also has firsthand accounts of this legacy in the twentyfirst century, including the depredations of Daesh and continuing hereditary slavery in Mali and Mauritania.Justin Marozzi traces the extraordinary variety of enslavement in the Islamic world, which ranged from agricultural labour and domestic toil to elite concubinage, guardianship of sacred spaces, political leadership and even military command. He shows how Africa bore the brunt of the demand for slave labour, fuelled throughout the nineteenth century by expanding global markets and commodity chains. Slavers plied African coasts, traders raided inland for human cargo, and millions were marched across the Sahara into captivity. Meanwhile, North African corsairs turned the Mediterranean into a slaveraiding freeforall between Muslims, Christians and Jews.Taking the reader on an extraordinary historical journey from Baghdad to...
Binding: Hardback;448 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: HBG; Weight: 1118 g; Dimensions: 241 x 164 x 39
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SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONA startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the presentSlavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history. Captives and Companions is a brilliant synthesis of history and contemporary reportage that brings to life the voices of the enslaved in stories of eighthcentury concubines and ninthcentury revolts, thirteenthcentury slave soldiers who established dynastic rule over Egypt, Syria, and Iraq, eighteenthcentury corsairs and twentiethcentury pearl divers in the Gulf. It also has firsthand accounts of this legacy in the twentyfirst century, including the depredations of Daesh and continuing hereditary slavery in Mali and Mauritania.Justin Marozzi traces the extraordinary variety of enslavement in the Islamic world, which ranged from agricultural labour and domestic toil to elite concubinage, guardianship of sacred spaces, political leadership and even military command. He shows how Africa bore the brunt of the demand for slave labour, fuelled throughout the nineteenth century by expanding global markets and commodity chains. Slavers plied African coasts, traders raided inland for human cargo, and millions were marched across the Sahara into captivity. Meanwhile, North African corsairs turned the Mediterranean into a slaveraiding freeforall between Muslims, Christians and Jews.Taking the reader on an extraordinary historical journey from Baghdad to...
Binding: Hardback;448 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: HBG; Weight: 1118 g; Dimensions: 241 x 164 x 39
Extended returns Orders placed after 29th October 2026 can be returned until 5th January 2027
Something not quite right? You have 21 days from the day you receive it, to send something back. When you purchase Debenhams Deliver+, you will have an extra 14 days on top of our standard 21-day window to initate a return.
Please note, we cannot offer refunds on fashion face masks, cosmetics, pierced jewellery, adult toys, and swimwear or lingerie if the hygiene seal is not in place or has been broken.
Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.
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Justin Marozzi
Captives and Companions : A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade...
“Refund was approved and back in my account the same day.” - Deliver+ customer
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