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