Another good starting point, I'd suggest, albeit one even less 
specialized, is the relevant portions of Paul E. Lovejoy's excellent 
survey Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa (rev. 
ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000; Library of Congress 
call number HT1321 .L68 2000).   This discusses Islamic slavery in 
Africa and (if memory serves) something of the East African slave trade 
to the Middle East (the "other" international slave trade based in 
Africa), rather than Islamic slavery generally.   For the same topic, 
see also a book Lovejoy edited, The Ideology of Slavery in Africa 
(Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1981; LC call number HT1321 .I3), 
which explores the African Islamic ideology of slavery.

You can identify a number of other works by doing a Subject Browse in 
the Library of Congress catalog (http://catalog.loc.gov ; choose Basic 
Search) on the subject headings

Slavery and Islam Africa
Slavery and Islam
Slavery Islamic countries History

--and so forth.  Be sure to look at neighboring subject headings to 
identify additional relevant titles.

--Jurretta


On Jun 12, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Douglas Deal wrote:

> Ronald Segal's book /Islam's Black Slaves/ is a decent starting point, 
> but sooner or later a reader who wants to learn more about this 
> subject will have to consult the works of specialists who know Arabic. 
> A well-edited collection of documents, many translated from Arabic, is 
> John Hunwick and Eve Troutt Powell, /The African Diaspora in the 
> Mediterranean Lands of Islam/ (Princeton, 2002). Hunwick has been 
> instrumental in a global network of scholars, states, and NGOs who are 
> attempting to preserve thousands of irreplaceable Arabic manuscripts 
> in private libraries in Timbuktu.
>
> Doug Deal
> History/SUNY Oswego