JOHN RALPH WILLIS Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies Princeton University.

Introduction The Ideology of Enslavement in Islam, John Ralph Willis; Chapter I Hijra and the Ideology of Enslavement, Willis John Ralph; Chapter II Models of the World and Categorial Models: The "Enslavable Barbarian" as a Mobile Classificatory Label; Chapter III The Image of Africans in Arabic Literature: Some Unpublished Manuscripts1, Akbar Muhammad; Chapter IV Genesis, Judaism, and the 'Sons of Ham', Ephraim Isaac; Chapter V Stereotypes and Attitudes Towards Slaves in Arabic Proverbs: a Preliminary View, William John Sersen; chapter VI Enslavement, Slavery and Attitudes Towards the Legally Enslavable in Hausa Islamic Literature, M. Hiskett; chapter VII The Mi'raj: a Legal Treatise on Slavery by Ahmad Baba, Bernard Barbour, Michelle Jacobs; chapter VIII Zuhur al-Basatin and Ta'rikh al-Turubbe: Some Legal and Ethical Aspects of Slavery In the Sudan as Seen in the Works of Shaykh Musa Kamara, Constance Hilliard; Chapter IX Slavery and Islamization in Africa: A Comparative Study, Nehemia Levtzion; Chapter X Mawlas: Freed Slaves and Converts in Early Islam, Daniel Pipes;