📜 Dr. (Craig Considine), an Irish-American researcher, and a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Rice University: "The Messenger Muhammad (ﷺ) is the first anti-racism recorded in history."
Is there gonna be a video on slavery in the current Muslim world? OH my badddddd they prefer the term ‘indentured servitude’ instead lol No but for real we have so many human rights issues going on currently in that side of the realm.. do you plan on covering it at all? Or just the slavery in the past
The last Ottoman eunuch, Sadi Yaylımateş died in 1975. This person was born in 1895 in Ethiopia and was abducted by slave-traders at the age of 8 years. He was brought to Alexandria, Egypt and castrated there. According to the very little information that was divulged, the bottom part of his body was placed in hot sand ‘to heal the castration’. He was later taken to the Ottoman Harem on an arduous boat trip. He had a strict training and was later tasked with the care of Ottoman princes. Those who knew him reported that he spoke a beautiful Ottoman courtly Turkish which he must have learned during his training period. He served under the last three sultans: Abdülhamit II, Mehmet V and Vahdettin. Interestingly, he did not stay at the palace but resided in an apartment in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul and commuted to Yıldız Palace by bike. After the republic was proclaimed he moved to Tuzla township on the Asian side of Istanbul and lived there until his death in 1975. His given name was Sadi and he received the Yaylımateş last name when Turkish citizens were given last names in 1934. He apparently was well-to-do and donated money for a mosque construction in Tuzla and later donated his lands there as well. Two streets in Tuzla were named after him. He was also a beekeeper and sold honey. He is mentioned in the Turkish novel Meyyâle by Hıfzı Topuz, a historical novel about late 19th century Ottoman Court. The last eunuch of the Ottoman court was buried in the Tuzla cemetery. I have personally translated and summarized this information from the article by İskender Özsoy published in the Evrensel online magazine, published on 11/28/2021.
@@skp8748 Ntz8748 got it right. If u paid attention to the video it stated salt mine slaves were not expected to live past 5 years. Additionally, archeologists have recovered several letters from the Roman Empire from rich people complaining that too many former slaves were obtaining wealth & purchasing homes in their neighborhood. Slavery was mostly the same world over.
@@Mlopesfornow Lol slavery Ottomans did was not ethnic based lmao... They captured everyone from white blue eyed europeans to Mongols to black Africans to Chinese and sold them for tribute which btw something all empires did ...+ you dont see a fringe community of slave grand children demanding their rights and facing discrimination in today's Turkey like in the US do you ? A fringe community in the tens of millions that faced torture and second citizens treatment due TO THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN
It's cause slaves were not only black. There were fellow Arab slaves. The first muslim ever murdered by her Arab Pagan owner was Summayah, who was Arab herself. But she was a slave. And there were many black non-slaves too that interacted with the Arabs.
@@epa2349 Slaves means slaves the Arabs were not obsessed with color. They were obsessed with their tribal pride. Yes slaves were mistreated miserably when their owner come to know that they are accepted Islam . And that same thing was going through all of the people of other faith. Like a Persian mistreat his slaves if they came to know that they are secretly Jew or Christian. Back then people were not racist based on color. All of the painting 🖼 from old world just showed that .
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@@KingsandGenerals Thank you for making such a beautiful video about slave's in the Islamic world and I which if you could make a video about the qramita and Uyunids who destroyed the qramita after the Zanj rebellion video
@@Sajsh-j2e Quick question. WHY do slavery from the West not called the European or Christian slavery but instead called the “Atlantic” slave trade. However, when it comes to the Indian slave trade it’s given an ethnic or religious name? Why pick and choose when we should either name all of them after an ethnicity or a religion?
Saudi Arabia formally abolished slavery as late as 1962, but slavery-like employment patterns and conditions remain rampant in the kingdom and across the region, already infamous for some of the worst employment laws in the world.
So too in America, even if we ignore the child sweatshops that American companies use, prisoners in America can be rented out as slaves to make items cheaply for a large profit.
@@Lexcepcion why so obsessed about america? did i say anything about america? do you think if america doing it so other countries can do it too? do you know the video is all about? maybe try at least read the title of the video? you're the one who is delusional here.
I dont understand why slavery is considered more heinous than colonialism....one is taking someone in far away land n one is someone coming into ur house n making u slave. in the "Great African Scramble" Belgium alone halved the population of Congo...thing about what British, French, Spanish n Portuguese did... if u watched the video properly slaves were treated better in Arab than their European counterparts...n certainly far better than American south. YES in modern day, European n Scandinavian countries r treating workers better, but still those Arab countries r treating people better than USA(may b apart from Qatar), where people has to do a 2nd job to make ends meet....the workers in Arab countries r not brought forcefully n they r paid much more than they would make in their country.
@@Ti2tu this video didn’t say slaves living in Arabia had it better. More like some had it better, like good looking women or voice artists. The rest sounded just as bad. You may be right about colonialism but that was not my topic. And I wasn’t saying it to compare it to another country. Just stating the fact that a form of slavery in Arabian countries survives when they don’t allow immigrants sufficient pay or even their passport in order to flee/return to their countries/families. If you disagree I’m happy to hear your side and educate myself and if you want to compare and study another system I will read that post:)
What? That was uncommon Outdated practice by some which was outlawed with penalties.. look it up Western media will say whatever makes there state appears morally superior and justifie aggressions and interventions.
Another one might argue that you don't know what are you talking about . Nobody can confiscate your passport in saudi Arabia, if so he/she will face the law, If The employer confiscate the worker’s passport it's considered a crime of trafficking in persons, and the perpetrator is punishable by 15 years imprisonment and a fine of one million riyals
The Ottoman Empire actually bought a lot of slaves from Sub-Saharan Africa, many of whom ended up as guards or eunuchs working in the Sultan's harem. It is believed this was a precaution to ensure that any concubine that has an affair would end up producing a child with black complexion, therefore they couldn't have been sired by the Sultan. The Chief Black Eunuch was a official post for the head eunuch of the palace.
Great video, would have been stellar to transition to a recommendation of your series on Malik Amber & the Ghaznavid founder for your viewers, The Former being an African slave who received an education from his master and was imported to India where he ended ruling a kingdom and fought the Mughals, while the latter being a Turkish slave soldier given martial training who eventually founded his own dynasty (Ghaznavids) that began the first proper Muslim raids and conquest into the core of India.
The Caliphate ISIS had established that was destroyed by the last President re-established widespread slavery that persists today. A culture that consists of slavery, middle aged men 'marrying' children, and honor killing is evil and deserves no respect.
This seems to me like a very good introduction to this difficult and often overlooked subject. I'm looking forward to the video about the Zanj Rebellion and also hope we'll see a similar video about slavery in the Ottoman Empire.
Many young girls from poor families volunteered to become slaves in ottomans !!! We humans went through sad times 😞 now all this technology and freedom yet we still having wars
The Caliphate ISIS had established that was destroyed by the last President re-established widespread slavery that persists today. A culture that consists of slavery, middle aged men 'marrying' children, and honor killing is evil and deserves no respect.
"Everybody hated becoming slaves, but most people didn't mind owning slaves themselves" Thomas Sowell One more thing, while slave trade had been banned in the US by the middle of the 19th century, the slave markeds of Mecca didn't close until the early 1960's, at the time when the Civil Rights movement started to pick up in the US.
Slavery didn’t end in the U.S. by the middle of 19th century, because it is still legal for the government to own slaves. Per the 13th amendment: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, EXCEPT AS PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME WHEREOF THE PARTY SHALL HAVE BEEN DULY CONVICTED, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction”.
@@stefanodadamo6809 Hold the L. You should be fearful of slavery’s current iteration in America seeing as it escaped your perception. That tends to happen when you change the word slave to inmate, and exploit labor behind wired fences instead of open fields. Rape is overlooked, shankings are commonplace, and the public only ever gets to see 1% of your experience. That’s all that’s changed, but slavery remains…only now it’s behind closed doors.
@@CloroxBleachCompany Slavery still exist to this day in the Middle East, in places like Dubai. Where poor people from 3rd world countries ends up living like slaves, abused, little to no pay and not being fed properly. Working for Westerners is way preferable for these people than working for a Saudi household. Because the vast majority of Westerners treats them like human beings.
K&G's covered the subject well. Good job as always. Looking forward to the next episode covering the 'Zanj Rebellion' of the late 800's. Another notable mention is 'Battle of the Slaves of 1169' which took place around Cairo within the sectors of the Fatimid military.
Thank you for doing this topic; this is a very important part of history that should not be forgotten! You can easily look at some of the people from Saudi Arabia Oman Yemen Libya etc... and clearly tell that some of them have some amount of African Ancestry within them whether they want to admit it or not. Great topic please do the Ottomans next; they were notorious for taking white slaves from Europe.
Did you think that slave is end !! Noo .. you are living in modern big slave company ... Now day the employer have to work very hard with his wife to keep his house certain , and when he or she tired or illness or broken the elite simply rubbish him and instead with anther slave ... Welcome in hell ..
Yeah I do too I belong to Arabian tribe and my grandma was blacky and I am a Very proud of her and because she was a granddaughter for prophet Muhammad she was holy and highly respected a lot of tribes in southern Egypt are a mix between Arab and black I can even tell you about Arab tribe attacked a Police station for a black nephews Blood relationship is more precious than anything
Did you think that slave is end !! Noo .. you are living in modern big slave company ... Now day the employer have to work very hard with his wife to keep his house certain , and when he or she tired or illness or broken the elite simply rubbish him and instead with anther slave ... Welcome in hell ..
This video is not based at all, it's as neutral as possible, Good job. I learned so much from your channel without any propaganda. Respect from Morocco.
Great video as always. Really interesting, these are things people don't usually think about. I'm actually more interested in how slavery was in different regions.
Lol if you don't read for yourself, you will never get the whole truth. Very incomplete. So-called Scholars hate discussing the white Arab slave trade LOL.
There was also times when former slaves gained a lot of power that they became de facto rulers of their states that happened in both mameluke egypt and India and there were even slaves in the ottoman empire like the Janissarys who turned against their sultan and appointed another one !
Yes in india, qutubdiin aibak was a slave of ghurid dynasty who later formed his own empire called delhi sultanate later khiljis revolted against their turkik overloads and occupied delhi sultanate known as khilji period . Delhi sultanate is called slave dynasty because it was formed by a slave.
The story of Balban , the delhi sultan who was a slave of Sultan Iltutmish is very fascinating. Iltutmish himself was once a slave or of slave dynasty, I'm not so sure. Balban rose in rank step by step by his efficiency and became one of the nobles . Later when the sultan gave his heirship to his daughter, Razia, and the events leading to her death.. in short Balban became sultan by a series of events of fate and his luck. He was such a strong sultan tat , he also fortified india against Mongols before Aladdin kilji. . Story says tat Balban was kept for selling in a slave market in a town( i think Iraq, don't remember now) and a Sufi walked past . He showed respect to the Sufi saint. Please by his behaviour even though in his poor condition, the Sufi told him: ' I'm giving you the keys to India '. And when Balban came to know tat he was purchased for the sultan of India , along with 40 others, he knew his time will come to fulfill the prophecy.
@@rohitchandran97 immediately abolishing it would have created problems... So it was done by: (1) giving more rights to slaves. (2) Encouraging freeing them to get closer to God.
Nah. The Zanj rebellion was more like Shia messianic movement, in which a Persian Man by the Name of Ali Ibn Muhammad, claimed that he is the Prophecized Mahdi of House of Prophet who will avenge their death from Usurpers(in this case house of Abas) and who is going to cleanse the world from injustice and sin and will empower the weak. Any man who follows him need no work to be saved as heaven is guaranteed. Thus he claimed descendancy from house of prophet via his daughter. He was known as very politically aspirant person, he tried to instigate rebellions but failed and at one time imprisoned but was vouched for by highly regarded poet. He went to southern iraq where he found his lost flock in march lands where zanj worked. He found his oppertunity to rise to the status of Islamic caliph and prince of believers. Thus he started preaching, and used slogans of egalitarian Kharijites" let the fit rule even if he was abyssinian slave" and so many zanjis truly believed he was messianic Mahdi sent from God to restore justice to the world and relievr their conditions at end of time. The Zanj rebellion was so bloody because these blacks felt they are on godly mission to crush their opprressors, joined by the marginalized nomadic bedouins after some major success, the movement began to grow in strength as Mawalis(non-arab muslims) joined as well believing messianic character of Ali ibn Muhammad as the true mahdi. The movement crippled the abbasid caliphate for 20 years before finally being crushed.
I really think they whitewashed things quite a bit actually. Spent a lot of time talking about what it would look like idealistically under a certain interpretation of Islam and not much time on the horrors that the slaves experienced. Wonder where the descendants of those millions of African slaves are today? North America imported less than 400k slaves and we still have a large black population but none to be seen in Arabia.
Wonderfull, you really hear the inspired tone when you speak of the revolutionary words of the Prophet pbuh, the laws of islam about slavery, and the later disappointment of the treatment of slaves as we move more and more away from the era of the prophet. Well done.
Revolutionary ? There hasnt been a singlr emancipation movement in the entire islamic world . The only reason these countries don’t practice slavery, tho many still do , is because of the force of the colonisation. How did the western countries develop this view of being against slavery? Christianity.
A great informative video The Americas always get the spotlight for this issue and while both were bad the Arabian one doesn't even get mentioned at all.
Western slavery was the biggest and worst and we can see it in modern day how whites treat other races in america and asutralia like how see it every single day on youtube calling on the cops black kids for sellin water and bbq or ploice brutality against blacks and targeting them all the time
@@JohnSmith-tt3go I'm not talking about modern day slavery as heartbreaking as it is I'm talking about the medieval and pre modern trans Atlantic slave trade and the Arabian one
«Kings and Generals» has improved yet again: This time it is the names of historians whose results are quoted. Please consider for the future if you would buiild on this by also naming the titles of books you quote. Great quality; way to go!
@@ADINSANE We know about it but we dont deny it we actually think it was a good think because unlike the (western slavery) ours were more then because of skin color its more if the kingdom of that time had a war they will keep prisoner of war heck they will get better Place then normal muslims because as everyone here said the so called slaves end up becoming high rank or even kings
@@ADINSANE You are right in part but wrong to a larger extent, as the western histories are very sanitised and little or no true accountability of the transatlantic slave trade is really detailed in the history taught, secular or not. I am British and I can assure you that we very much paper over the acts perpetrated by our ancestors in the histories taught in schools rather than facing up to our past transgressions. There is virtually no history taught in Spain or Portugal about the slave trade to the plantations in the Indo Chinese and Pacific Rim countries. Same as the Americans actually teaching the real history of the slave supported economy of the north and south pre and post civil war, the Jim Crow laws or the treatment of the First Nation tribes by the post civil war governments through to the enforced sterilisation of women up to the 1970's (biggest joke is that the main supporters of this legislation were in main the same political leaning ones that were and are pro life supporters.....just go figure - Nazi Germany spring to mind anyo one?). As regards the Armenian genocide, I think that the British double dealing and reneged agreements to the Armenians and the Kurds is another bit of history that is papered over in regards to the post 1st World War atrocities that the victors were involved in. The genocide of the Kurds by use of poison gas (British critism of Saddam Hussain anyone, and the lack of report of the similarities of the 2 atrocities as detailed by the Kurdish people) and the supposed protection of the Armenians by the British that evaporated (and documentation that effectively shows the duplicity of the British government and effective aid to the new Turkish regime). I am British and not through the sanitised version of our history taught in schools do I know of our involvement in these atrocities, but I can assure you that the majority of my countrymen are oblivious to our shocking acts of barbarity and atrocities carried out directly or collusion with other parties.
@@ADINSANE it's because Turks look at this event as a massacre than a genocide. This was a retaliation after russians backing revolting armed armenian groups who saw the empire in a weak state so armenians believed in russians that they would create armenia after the fall of ottomans. Many people on both sides were dying, the whole place was chaos. It was actually due to an armenian telling ottomans of weapon caches in certain cities.
@@KaylDunnyan bruh in what world you are living in,statue? Law? The closest thing to a slavery system was gholams,dickless mans who served kings in gajar era,and it was only for kings and they were living in paradis
@@ardavan2550 Yes they did, I think what you meant to say was the *Achemedid Persians (King Cyrus Era) didn’t participate in slavery, which is correct because they practiced Zoroastrianism which banned slavery.
The romanticization of a number or responders in the comments is disturbing. No matter how prestigious one’s position may be. Being robbed of your honor and manhood is vile and disgusting. Slavery on any level is wrong l. Yet I understand that was the way of the world then. Great historical breakdown.
I would like to see more videos like this but focusing on the African kingdoms and tribes involved in slavery. Africa is still one of the places slavery is still common. In Italy they are having an influx of slaves from Nigeria being enslaved by other Nigerians. That's a subject worth talking about.
I think you mean migrants leaving Nigeria for Italy being enslaved by Libyans no? I’ve never heard Nigerians enslaving each other unless for religious reasons in the past.
That is very interesting that slavery is still going on in Africa today and in Nigeria. Wow and when I ask some Nigerians how are things in Africa there home land they say life is good it is a good place to go visit . No wonder so many Africans are leaving Africa I guess …🤔…
@@Zeerich-yx9po Yes. They are mostly women used for prostitution. They are forced to do it, literally under threat of death and violence. It's a bit of a touchy subject involving immigration, race, slavery, sex, and crime.
Very cogent ideas...narrated in an articulate manner...I learned a lot... Thanks...what would it take to have a chance at researching material for you guys.??
Good to see that you're finally discussing the history of Slavery in the Islamic World, I was waiting years for this all to be finally brought up. Hopefully videos on the Barbary Slave Trade,Ottoman Slave Trade & Crimean-Nogai Slave Raids aren't far away. Western sources mention a huge death rate of Black slaves along the slave routes on their way to the Middle East,India and China.
I don’t like commenting but I just wanted to say I hope you want them to touch on this out of a thirst for history and not this got you thing I see people do on these topics
@@dhfbvchchchc6541 do you put the same comments on videos about american/european slavery? Or do you just care about being politically correct to the SLAVERS in this video? And with toxic you mean you hope that commenters here wouldn't behave like "progressives" about american slavery?
The image you used when talking about Bilal ibn Rabah was not correct, that was actually the image of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, a west african prince from senegal who was sold in to slavery.
One absolutely horrible event tied to slavery in the caliphate was the Zanj Rebellion. It is difficult to properly visualize the size of the massacre. Now imagine a parallel universe where the Zanj successfully fight the Abasids, and establish a colony of freed African slaves in southern Iraq...
Many thanks for covering this topic. The death rates of the Arab Slave Trade far surpassed those of the European and Americas version. Also, the companion Bilal was often the source of ridicule amongst his peers and is not as revered as compared to the others. Islam and Arabic culture to this day still has racial discrimination issues although that disease can be found all over the world so it is not specific or monopolized by one group, nation or culture. I can personally state that during my 20 year tenure in Islam this subject was often avoided.
I would say it is more of Arabic culture and not Islamic. Before the Prophet, blacks were widely seen as inferior in Arabia, but this has no place in Islam. The Prophet taught that an arab is not superior to a black man and vice-versa. This was unheard of at the time. For example, while on their way to Madinah, Abu Dharr (a companion) and Bilal got into an argument, and Abu Dharr out of anger referred to Bilal as “son of a black woman” in a belittling manner. When the Prophet heard of this, he called on Abu Dharr and asked him what he had said to Bilal. When Abu Dharr repeated what he said, the Prophet was angry and replied “You are a man who still has the traits of Jahiliyyah inside you”. Jahiliyyah is used to refer to the period of ignorance in arabia before Islam. From this, it is clear that racism is something Islam came to stop. Nevertheless, this was an isolated occurence and Abu Dharr later went to Bilal and asked for his forgiveness. Bilal was accepted among companions as an equal and was not ridiculed. I don’t know where you got the idea that he was often ridiculed. Unfortunately however, as you rightly point out, some of these Jahiliyyah traits survive to this day despite Islam’s teachings, but it’s clear they do not arise from Islam as there’s no basis for such. Islam is universal and is not synonymous with arabic culture, this is something people need to know before imposing arabic culture on Islam which I fear you have done. There’s no perfect muslim. Humans make mistakes. Don’t judge Islam by the bad actions of some muslims, judge it by what it teaches. However I do agree with you that this is an under discussed topic. We need to educate/remind more muslims that any form of racial discrimination is against the tenets of Islam.
Every people on earth were slaves at one time or another, just depends on who was in control. Slavery is a huge part of world history. No matter ur race or ethnicity. I wish people understood this especially in America.
@@stonem0013 considering it's not a problem anymore...yeah, if everyone everywhere was literally doing it for thousands of years there is no one to hold accountable, especially now that hundred + years have past since it ended in most the world. It's fine to talk about but to act as if it has any bearing in the modern world is just ridiculous
@@DaWoWzer uh, what? That's an incredibly naive and ignorant take. Clearly you haven't given this subject much thought. Many of the cultutal and societal effects of slavery are intergenerational - trauma, wealth (or poverty), racism, attitudes, and many other factors that had their origin in slavery still persist in some form today. You simply pronouncing 'it has no bearing' doesn't change that one bit.
It's important to keep in mind that medieval law enforcement in the Caliphate or elsewhere would have been sporadic, and the laws themselves represent a goal or an ideal rather than a reality. They are still great primary sources because what they do tell you is what kind of problems a society was dealing with. F.ex. if they saw a need to make a law against a slave owner using his slaves to start a brothel, you can be sure this was something that was going on to such an extent that it was considered a major social issue. Same goes for other laws against mistreatment of slaves.
No, it’s not an indication that any of those were “prevalent”, it’s just that Muslims are quite conservative and those laws were put in place before any of those even take place or take root in society. It was about prevention rather than cure and also maybe scoring some points with religious scholars and individuals who wouldn’t agree with the mistreatment of slaves.
Rabia one of the earliest Sufi saints despite being born a Muslim was sold into slavery and worked by her master/pimp as a prostitute proving your point. I'm sure she was far from the only one.
What the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم says about slavery: 1) It says in a hadith qudsi: “Allah, may He be exalted, said: ‘There are three whose opponent I will be on the Day of Resurrection, and whomever I oppose, I will defeat … A man who sold a free man and consumed his price.’” (Narrated by al-Bukhari, 2227) 2) Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “They are your brothers whom Allah has put under your authority, so if Allah has put a person’s brother under his authority, let him feed him from what he eats and clothe him from what he wears, and let him not overburden him with work, and if he does overburden him with work, then let him help him.” Narrated by al-Bukhari (6050). 3) Ibn ‘Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) manumitted a slave of his, then he picked up a stick or something from the ground and said: There is no more reward in it than the equivalent of this, but I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) say: “Whoever slaps his slave or beats him, his expiation is to manumit him.” (Narrated by Muslim, 1657) 4) Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard Abu’l-Qasim (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) say: “Whoever accuses his slave when he is innocent of what he says will be flogged on the Day of Resurrection, unless he is as he said.” (Narrated by al-Bukhari, 6858)
@@jizyaisextortion9790 1. Why miss the parts where he bought slaves only to free them? 2. If he allowed slaves to emigrate to Ethiopia (which is what the hadith is about, afai remember), Meccans would beat the shit out of every Muslim they would have their hands on. That being said, slaves continued to convert to Islam, with the rest of the Muslims often raising money to free them. Muslims being a small community could not just let everyone into wiping them out for a moral high ground that their fellow Arabs would barely comprehend. Also, cringe username. Imagine being this obsessed on what was a very minor aspect of Islam.
@@jizyaisextortion9790 bruh shut up, you are just a typical Christian divorced from the Bible and reality. Where in your Bible does it discourage slavery? Doesn't it say if a slave is beaten to the point of death but dies in two days not one day, the Master cannot be held accountable for it?
The thing is that while Islam upholds the rights of slaves it does not ban it. Hence Muslims throughout history have owned slaves and treated them far far worse thenbthe example of Muhammad (SAW)
Christians and Jews were also forces to pay jizyah, an extra tax for not being muslim and were treated as second class citizens. Also the barbery pirates also raided the EuropeN coast and it's vessels for slaves. Many of those slaves had to row themselves to death on muslim vessels.
Slavery in Muslim world was also one of many factors that make it fall behind the west. When the western countries start eradicated slavery they rapidly industrialized under capitalism while the muslim world still largely agricultural with slavery and serfdom making the backbone of economy.
That’s stupid, there’s no correlation between economic prosperity of industrialization and slavery. It is possible slavery and economic development exist in the same empire. Western or eastern
@Abdallah_79916 stop being denial, it's not theoretical but factual on what's actually happened. Tell me who industrialized first and who's having the last slavery? No wonder muslim world is backwards if not because of oil money.
@@lukaswilhelm9290 so there’s countries in the west, especially South America, that have been industrialized and ended slavery way long ago, and yet they are one of the poorest countries in the world. China, Russia, some North African countries, some Muslim countries( non oil) and more richer than the countries that have adopted liberal democracies and that have industrialized long ago. So it’s definitely not a factor for economic development and prosperity. Stop being emotional and illogical
@Abdallah_79916 nope, Latin America in 19th century largely still agrarian and barely industrialized unlike North America that's why this legacy of being poor still carry on. Also China and Russia and most muslim countries barely democratic in sense of liberal free democracy of the west, don't believe me? Then just put a criticism on your prophet to proves my words Abdul. They also still poorer than the west, G7 mostly western country and almost 50% of world economy so where is your muslim state in G7? None of your words disprove the fact that the west is more democratic, industrialized and richer than Muslim world who just recently in 20th century gain independence and still mostly third world countries. It's you that being emotional and illogical here Abdul not me.
@@lukaswilhelm9290 based on GDP growth many liberal democracies are way behind compared to not liberal democracies. What’s the factor? Can it possibly be long colonization history?
@@curtisthomas2670 well in America they don't really teach you about the Arab slave trade. Plus I can't think of a major movie that deals with the Arab slave trade.
@@kase3176 why would it be taught in the US? It isn't part of US history, the ME slave traders didn't supply slaves to the US and they had no plantations here.
It is strange how people associate slavery with only black people, the fact is that if you lose a war or even a small battle, you may turn into a slave. This happened to all races. You can see some people in the Middle East who were part of the royal families in Europe but because they lost a battle they became slaves. I understand that many here hate to talk about this, but if we are going to talk about slavery, we must tell history without shame.
Castration of slaves may have been "prohibited" in Islam, but it had widespread practice throughout Dar Al-Islam. That's why there are so few people in modern Arabia who are descendants of those slaves. Swahili, a language from a different language tree, contains many borrowed Arabic words due to the heavy trafficking of African slaves.
Exactly, most of these slaves had no rights and if they supposedly did in a book, nobody looked at it or had a person to back them up for it. I find it hysterical that they give this soft position like it was great slavery 😂😂😂
Thank you! If someone whitewashed western slavery the way he just did Arab slavery they would be called out in a second! The Bible also has verses about freeing slaves and treating them well but one interpretation of a religion and historical reality are completely different. He should present the history, not the PC Islamic “ideal”
An Arab Slave Dealer (Syeb-bin-Habib) reported in 1882 to have admitted that of the 300 slaves he acquired from the African interior only 50 of those slaves had reached the East African Coast alive. The slave trade route from the interior to Lake Tanganyika was littered with the skeletons of slaves who died along the route.
@@0Er0 That book is extremely biased though. 90% of Azumah's book is "circlejerking" on the acts of certain groups of slave traders and a few empires and ignores, totally, the actual rules of slavery in Islam. He's also, ironically, downplaying practices of slavery in other parts of the world constantly.
One major reason for the abolition of slavery in Saudi Arabia in 1962 was JFK's "inducement" of allowing the country to have access to US military weapons and expertise which were greatly desired as the civil war in Yemen continued. The US, in turn, was being pressured by Egyptian President Nassar to pressure Saudi Arabia to enact "modernization reforms" as the administration labeled the antislavery laws.
Is good to know you can find places in youtube where the creators don´t offer simple answer to complex topics and offer perspective by using well researched facts. Also, it is good to know that the audience is not a digital mob crying for an echo chamber and are able to have a civil discussion.
Leftists love forming echo chambers. When it's non-White cultures or is a non-Christian culture they are "Nuanced" and when it's the opposite...............lol
@@BleedForTheWorld The ones where some people are povided wtih narratives that align with what they already believe in, instead of offering nuance. In this case an echo chamber will be one where the main idea is that white people is evil, therefore it is only the trasatlantic slave trade the one that counts as evil an slavery in islam don´t. Many people on the internet look for this kind of content and if they don´t found it they will scream racisim.
@@BleedForTheWorld No, but I think the statement is not correct given that all parites who delt with this practice did it on the basis of racial lines. So yeah it was racist, but not because they were white, it was because they had an imperialist mindset, just as the arabas who lead the caliphates. Not one people can be heald acountable for being racist given that at some point in history many groups have been racist towards others. What it can be said is that the white supremacist flavour of racisim is the most recent one and the one who we still seeing the consequences today, but there are many ther examples, that while not justifing it are as bad as it. The japense empire through the AJA commited atrocity becuase they considered the chinese weaker and inferior. The chinese spent most of their history seeing people outisde china as inferior. The slavs got thieir name for being slave so mayn times, by nords and nomads form central asia that many people see the tribes living in modern russia and ukraine as being naturally subserviant to other peoples. These i the kind of nuance I am talking about.
The word Ajam ( that was mentioned as the most expensive Selves) means :Non Arab and by their definition, they mean the population in today's Iran ( Persia) . The narrator had wrongly said that Ajam meant the population in Irak . While it is indeed the population in Iran....
An amazing look into the economic system of early Muslim empire. While slavery was never good, it is important to realize that it was too important to not do. Even today plenty of business people wish they could enslave thier workers for maximum productivity. Still, I wonder if this strange relationship to slavery led to the slave trade involving the Americas later - by having issues enslaving Christian’s and Jews, the Muslims had to look to pagan Africans for slaves, thereby resulting in local African slave infrastructure to support foreign buyers. Contrary to popular belief, the Europeans never enslaved west Africans for work in the Americas- they bought them from West African slave traders to bring over. Was this infrastructure established due to the Islam desire for foreign slave labor, or was it something local for local consumption? I feel like there is a phd somewhere in this.
Slavery was important for economy and so was *"interest based economics"* . While one was banned another continued. Also remember it was not just economic slavery that was legal but also sex slavery.
@@manteshsharma9351 I don't think you understand the relationship between an Islamic slavery and "sex slavery". Also no, "interest based economics" isn't "as important" as slavery. In practical terms, it's easier to outlaw "interests", or more accurately *usury*, than slavery. Just look at the effort of the era of the emancipation of slavery for example, it tooks an entire social revolution, huge loads of money, a very long time, and an empire that's as big or as influential as the British empire
Not too long ago… Saudi Arabia and Yemen abolished slavery in 1962, Oman abolished slavery as recently as 1970 (as mentioned). Without pointing fingers, this also has a cultural aspect. Meaning that in the Arabian peninsula tradition and religion are intermingled. Let’s also recognise that Arabs are a minority in Islam. Edited to add: I personally know people who were born to slavery.
No. This is incorrect. You are confusing Islamic law or writings, with what ACTUALLY was done. The suffering of slaves was horrific, even much more horrific than the European slave trade.
I saw Abū Dharr Al-Ghifārī wearing a cloak, and his slave, too, was wearing a cloak. We asked him about that (i.e., how both were wearing similar cloaks). He replied, “Once I abused a man and he complained of me to the Prophet. The Prophet asked me, ‘Did you abuse him by slighting his mother?’ He added, ‘Your slaves are your brethren upon whom Allah has given you authority. So, if one has one’s brethren under one’s control, one should feed them with the like of what one eats and clothe them with the like of what one wears. You should not overburden them with what they cannot bear, and if you do so, help them (in their difficult work).’” Sahih al-(Bukhari 2545)
I agree with you about this narration however, what I doubt is that the translation which the majority of the world use is wrong in term of islamic slavery because in Islam slavery was prohibited but servants were allowed. In other words, those people who served companions were servants not slaves and even in the Quran Allah addresses us as worshippers because linguistically, the word عبد in the Quran means worshipper and if we make it into a present tense verb like يعبد means "to worship" not "to enslave". Pre-islamic era people used the word عبد as a meaning of slave but the Quran used differently and probably because when Allah (SWT) created the first Human being (Adam AS) Allah considered him as his worshipper but later when people started to go astray and force poor and defenseless people to serve them, they started to use the word "عبد" as a mean of "you will only serve me to death or until I tell you to do something else" as if he was God and that slave was his creation (something like that) so they added another meaning to that word because you know that language is not fixed it is dynamic it changes depends on new tradition and culture emerges in the same place and new words and meanings show up whether they are right or fit or whether wrong. Just like English language, English is originally a Viking language not British because English appeared when the Vikings took over Britian and the British before the invasion of Vikings did not speak English like how they do these days and then when English appeared it took generations to evolve to standard English which is now the global language these days. I did heard in Islam that the mahr for marrying a slave woman is her freedom and becomes a muslim and I think that refers to women who were held as captives from enemy territories? Allah knows the best of course :)
@@omaralsalihi5033 Slavery was not prohibited in Islam. Surah 23: 6 and Surah 70: 30: "Except your wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they will not be blamed [/] Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they are not to be blamed -." You're literally allowed to rape your female slaves. It doesn't really get more abject than that.
The week-by-week coverage of the Pacific Theater in WWII is OUTSTANDING. You get info on all the forces fighting--including the Indian troops fighting in the British Army. The videos are amazingly granular, going down to minute details that you will not see anywhere else. Slavery goes back to prehistory I would guess. Somebody has to do the work that is tedious, arduous and odious. Love, David
This video focused on a best case scenario. How the culture felt that slave's should be treated. It doesn't explore the horrible day to day life of someone who was enslaved and spent the rest of their life in that region. There is no good or humane kind of slavery. Also castration was almost always done to a male slave in this region. This video implied that castration was against the rules and didn't happen often.
I hope you acknowledge the inspiration behind the rebellion, Ali ibn Muhammad a Muslim inspiring them through the Quran and hadith to rebel and how the Zanj rebellion involved taking slaves themselves. Is was a crazy rebellion invovling around the same number of deaths as the civil war. All due to the ill treatment. Ill-treatment which was already looked down upon by the Quran. Good video anyway!
Caliphate was the only time in history when slaves could rise to become prime ministers, generals and even kings establishing their dynasties such as mamluks, turks and ayubids.
Not true same in Roman Empire. And the Mamluks took over by force and it wasn’t like oh you’re are slaves and are equal to us please by our leaders. It was more like they were the military class who saw a weakness in there Arab overlords and overthrew them. And just because they became rulers through force does not excuse the immortality of Muslims actually raiding there European Christian villages killing their families and enslaving them to be warriors. Very spiritual religion this Islam. You can NEVER use the words of Jesus to raid villages, to kill ppl, to make women sex slaves to enslave children and force them yo be your warriors. That’s the difference!!
@@zeyh863 in teachings of Islam, raiding some random village is not permissible... Also not allowed to kill women, the elder, the children, the civilians and so on... However, I do agree that there had been Muslims who didn't follow the teachings of Islam and did atrocities. Just like crusaders, who neglected the teachings of Jesus.
@@rohitchandran97 the conquest was meant to take down the tyrant regimes and establish more civilized law... Which could open the way for the golden age of these lands.
Not true. In fact second caliph Umar was killed by a Irani slave as he was subject to Arab , Umar and his master cruel treatment and injustice particular by Umar.
Zanj rebellion was more religious and economic than racial one. The head of Zanj Rebellion was Person who is not black. His was Ali ibn Muhammad a Persian Hashmite and his mother was bedouin from famous Arabian Banu Asad tribe. He was called Sahib AlZanj because of his massive black followers. And It was called Zanj because there was huge black revolt in it. But It forget the role of Nomadic Bedouin smugglers who kept the revolution alive and bloody for 30 years. Zanj couldnt have survived being besieged in Al-Mukhtarah without Bedouins support and smuggle of food and supplies at all.
This is the side of slavery that literally all non western groups love to forget about when talking about the slave trade. I bet you there’s 0 guilt about this topic in the Middle East and probably even some pride attached to it. This and the Barbary pirates never get talked about nearly enough
@@johnalejandro6392 Exactly, the UK even enforced it on slave nations by using their royal navy to intacept slave ships and freeing the slaves. Also paying off any slave owners compensation when they banned in in 1830's at another huge cost to themselves. Literally 0 credit, 0 people care. They'd rather watch 12 years a slave and guilt trip random white people smh. Honestly if any blacks tried that in the middle east, India, Asia etc. they'd get laughed at. Everyone knows this is the case.
Bc western slavery was the biggest and worst and we can see it in modern day how whites treat other races in america and asutralia like how see it every single day on youtube calling the cops black kids for sellin water and bbq or police brutality against blacks and targeting them all the time and we dont see this shiitt anywhere its just in the west around whites
No guilt at all! In France little arabs love To yell To blacks " we enslaved your ancestors for centuries fou negros". And at thé same time keep whinning about French colonization. Typical islamic double standard.
This video is for our white counterpart especially from US. Slavery is not "white thing". Black enslave black, white enslave white, arab enslave arab, asian enslave asian Arguably the oldest occupations in the world 1. Hunter/Gatherer 2. Security 3. Farmer/Cattleman 4. Ruler 5. Taxmen 6. Carpenter/Builder 7. Diplomat 8. Teacher 9. Artists (Poets, Painters, Sculptors etc) 10. Writer 11. Prostitute 12. Merchant 13. Slave Hunter 14. Slave Trader
I really like the way you explained it. Many who are anti Islam argue opposite and exaggerate facts but you made it clear Islam did not support unjust acts and were about manumission and the bad stuff that occurred weren’t even allowed in Islam like castration and mistreatment which you still addressed that they were dealed with in Islamic courts. Subbing with the notis on man thank you for producing this masterpiece
@@mennabadr2747 M8 did you miss the part where those were under heavy controversy by the Islamic court at the time. The prophet taught never to even slap a slave, therefore rape and forceful sex with a slave is haram.
As a Muslim, I see this as a balanced, well thought view of history. It is really unbiased though I disagree with you on some minor points. Great work.
I have expected you to speak more about Turkish slaves ghulams ''mameluks''.They took power from their rulers.I was dissapointed.It's huge part of Umayyad and Abbasid history.
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Prophet Mohamed says:" we are all from Adam and Adam is from soil"
Fun fact: Bilal was the first slave that converted to islam.
Can you plz make a video on Slave dynasty /Delhi sultanate
They had many impressive Sultans .
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"The Messenger Muhammad (ﷺ) is the first anti-racism recorded in history."
Is there gonna be a video on slavery in the current Muslim world? OH my badddddd they prefer the term ‘indentured servitude’ instead lol
No but for real we have so many human rights issues going on currently in that side of the realm.. do you plan on covering it at all? Or just the slavery in the past
The last Ottoman eunuch, Sadi Yaylımateş died in 1975. This person was born in 1895 in Ethiopia and was abducted by slave-traders at the age of 8 years. He was brought to Alexandria, Egypt and castrated there. According to the very little information that was divulged, the bottom part of his body was placed in hot sand ‘to heal the castration’. He was later taken to the Ottoman Harem on an arduous boat trip. He had a strict training and was later tasked with the care of Ottoman princes. Those who knew him reported that he spoke a beautiful Ottoman courtly Turkish which he must have learned during his training period. He served under the last three sultans: Abdülhamit II, Mehmet V and Vahdettin. Interestingly, he did not stay at the palace but resided in an apartment in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul and commuted to Yıldız Palace by bike. After the republic was proclaimed he moved to Tuzla township on the Asian side of Istanbul and lived there until his death in 1975. His given name was Sadi and he received the Yaylımateş last name when Turkish citizens were given last names in 1934. He apparently was well-to-do and donated money for a mosque construction in Tuzla and later donated his lands there as well. Two streets in Tuzla were named after him. He was also a beekeeper and sold honey. He is mentioned in the Turkish novel Meyyâle by Hıfzı Topuz, a historical novel about late 19th century Ottoman Court. The last eunuch of the Ottoman court was buried in the Tuzla cemetery.
I have personally translated and summarized this information from the article by İskender Özsoy published in the Evrensel online magazine, published on 11/28/2021.
Don't think he was the last, slavery still exists in Autocratic countries you can search the video of Chinese slave women the video is from 2022.
@@DanishKhanbx he was the last Ottoman eunuch
@@MadaraUchiha-bt4hg eunuch is slave
@@AREMUP yes, the guy is just telling us the story of 'the last ottoman eunuch', he's not telling us "the story of the last slave on earth"
28/11/2021
Ottoman and Islamic slavery is a subject unfortunately often ignored/overshadowed by European colonial slavery.
@@skp8748It 100% did, slave isn't treated like a human should be
@@skp8748 Ntz8748 got it right. If u paid attention to the video it stated salt mine slaves were not expected to live past 5 years. Additionally, archeologists have recovered several letters from the Roman Empire from rich people complaining that too many former slaves were obtaining wealth & purchasing homes in their neighborhood.
Slavery was mostly the same world over.
Lol because it wasnt race based ... all enemies got insalved and most of em were blue eyes blond nordic slaves
Maybe it was your school because slavery in the Ottoman Empire was covered at my school
@@Mlopesfornow Lol slavery Ottomans did was not ethnic based lmao... They captured everyone from white blue eyed europeans to Mongols to black Africans to Chinese and sold them for tribute which btw something all empires did ...+ you dont see a fringe community of slave grand children demanding their rights and facing discrimination in today's Turkey like in the US do you ? A fringe community in the tens of millions that faced torture and second citizens treatment due TO THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN
The Transaharan and East African slave trade are seldom covered in Western History Classes, I'm glad you shined some light on it.
It's cause slaves were not only black. There were fellow Arab slaves. The first muslim ever murdered by her Arab Pagan owner was Summayah, who was Arab herself. But she was a slave.
And there were many black non-slaves too that interacted with the Arabs.
@@dnajournal4321
Vast Majority of those slaves were black & they were treated much much harshly than White slaves.
@@epa2349
Slaves means slaves the Arabs were not obsessed with color. They were obsessed with their tribal pride.
Yes slaves were mistreated miserably when their owner come to know that they are accepted Islam .
And that same thing was going through all of the people of other faith. Like a Persian mistreat his slaves if they came to know that they are secretly Jew or Christian. Back then people were not racist based on color. All of the painting 🖼 from old world just showed that .
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@@dnajournal4321 naw you guys are anti black racist and it still exists today
You know you're a very talented narrator if your audience become surprised how a 16 minutes documentary ended so fast.
Don’t uyghurs want a caliphate? They’re all joining Isis
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@@danielyonas9928 That's like watching a flat Earther debate a cube Earther
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@@KingsandGenerals Thank you for making such a beautiful video about slave's in the Islamic world and I which if you could make a video about the qramita and Uyunids who destroyed the qramita after the Zanj rebellion video
Who came to the idea of stealing from Escape from Tarkov? I always wonder why not more games use this system (Scav & PMC)
@@Sajsh-j2e Quick question. WHY do slavery from the West not called the European or Christian slavery but instead called the “Atlantic” slave trade. However, when it comes to the Indian slave trade it’s given an ethnic or religious name? Why pick and choose when we should either name all of them after an ethnicity or a religion?
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Saudi Arabia formally abolished slavery as late as 1962, but slavery-like employment patterns and conditions remain rampant in the kingdom and across the region, already infamous for some of the worst employment laws in the world.
So too in America, even if we ignore the child sweatshops that American companies use, prisoners in America can be rented out as slaves to make items cheaply for a large profit.
And you think America is not doing the same thing? You’re delusional.
@@Lexcepcion why so obsessed about america? did i say anything about america? do you think if america doing it so other countries can do it too? do you know the video is all about? maybe try at least read the title of the video? you're the one who is delusional here.
do u work their or just talking nonsense that u learn from the western propaganda !
What about the 16 years old Mexicans who work in labor in the USA!
One might argue slavery continues in Arabia in the way filipinos and others are working there for years, having their passports confiscated etc
I dont understand why slavery is considered more heinous than colonialism....one is taking someone in far away land n one is someone coming into ur house n making u slave.
in the "Great African Scramble" Belgium alone halved the population of Congo...thing about what British, French, Spanish n Portuguese did...
if u watched the video properly slaves were treated better in Arab than their European counterparts...n certainly far better than American south.
YES in modern day, European n Scandinavian countries r treating workers better, but still those Arab countries r treating people better than USA(may b apart from Qatar), where people has to do a 2nd job to make ends meet....the workers in Arab countries r not brought forcefully n they r paid much more than they would make in their country.
@@Ti2tu this video didn’t say slaves living in Arabia had it better. More like some had it better, like good looking women or voice artists. The rest sounded just as bad.
You may be right about colonialism but that was not my topic.
And I wasn’t saying it to compare it to another country. Just stating the fact that a form of slavery in Arabian countries survives when they don’t allow immigrants sufficient pay or even their passport in order to flee/return to their countries/families.
If you disagree I’m happy to hear your side and educate myself and if you want to compare and study another system I will read that post:)
You do not have to argue, there are tens of thousands of confirmed cases of slavery in Saudi Arabia and the UAE
What? That was uncommon Outdated practice by some which was outlawed with penalties.. look it up
Western media will say whatever makes there state appears morally superior and justifie aggressions and interventions.
Another one might argue that you don't know what are you talking about .
Nobody can confiscate your passport in saudi Arabia, if so he/she will face the law, If The employer confiscate the worker’s passport it's considered a crime of trafficking in persons, and the perpetrator is punishable by 15 years imprisonment and a fine of one million riyals
Well, the comments for this are going to be interesting. I'm betting on some kind of US American slavery comparison being brought frequently.
Oh yes it will. Get the popcorn.
Oh boy it’s gonna get heated
@@legiran9564 😂😂😂
"Experts" out there comparing elite Mamluks to enslaved Cotton farmers or Coal miners 🤦🏻♂️ I see it coming...
We are ready 😂
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I'm so glad your channel covers eastern history equally as much as western history! 😁
Yes king and general channel is very good and I’ve learnt so much and it also comes across without any propaganda either
Overall they covers western history much more but do covers some eastern one also.
But no videos recently much on India .
@Jason Kopf No one is arguing it didnt...
@Jason Kopf I wish more Americans knew that.
The Ottoman Empire actually bought a lot of slaves from Sub-Saharan Africa, many of whom ended up as guards or eunuchs working in the Sultan's harem. It is believed this was a precaution to ensure that any concubine that has an affair would end up producing a child with black complexion, therefore they couldn't have been sired by the Sultan. The Chief Black Eunuch was a official post for the head eunuch of the palace.
Eunuchs have their genitals cut off. That's the precaution.
And now black call Erdogan's Turks their "brothers"...lol!
@@M-J-qn8td Uhhhh... How is that related?
But male slaves working in harem were already being castrated. Why they need to be black when they can not have child
As a black man any black brother that is a Muslim is a traitor.
This was a very nicely done video Kings and Generals, keep them coming!
Great video, would have been stellar to transition to a recommendation of your series on Malik Amber & the Ghaznavid founder for your viewers, The Former being an African slave who received an education from his master and was imported to India where he ended ruling a kingdom and fought the Mughals, while the latter being a Turkish slave soldier given martial training who eventually founded his own dynasty (Ghaznavids) that began the first proper Muslim raids and conquest into the core of India.
They actually have a video about Malik Amber!
@@blava3155 Yup. Go check it out, It's absolutely amazing!
Core? Na only the upper region
The Caliphate ISIS had established that was destroyed by the last President re-established widespread slavery that persists today.
A culture that consists of slavery, middle aged men 'marrying' children, and honor killing is evil and deserves no respect.
I can't wait to see the Qaramtin video and the uyunids video 🤩
This seems to me like a very good introduction to this difficult and often overlooked subject. I'm looking forward to the video about the Zanj Rebellion and also hope we'll see a similar video about slavery in the Ottoman Empire.
Many young girls from poor families volunteered to become slaves in ottomans !!! We humans went through sad times 😞 now all this technology and freedom yet we still having wars
ZANJ REBELLION LET'S GO 🗣
The Caliphate ISIS had established that was destroyed by the last President re-established widespread slavery that persists today.
A culture that consists of slavery, middle aged men 'marrying' children, and honor killing is evil and deserves no respect.
It's part of the Bahraini and eastern province of saudi beautfully history😁
I can't wait to see the Qaramtin and the uyunids video 🤩
I hope we'll also see a similar video about slavery in the Russian Empire.
K&G one of the best history channels on TH-cam. Animation, narration, choice of topics and delivery are all great!
Thanks!
"Everybody hated becoming slaves, but most people didn't mind owning slaves themselves" Thomas Sowell
One more thing, while slave trade had been banned in the US by the middle of the 19th century, the slave markeds of Mecca didn't close until the early 1960's, at the time when the Civil Rights movement started to pick up in the US.
Slavery didn’t end in the U.S. by the middle of 19th century, because it is still legal for the government to own slaves. Per the 13th amendment: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, EXCEPT AS PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME WHEREOF THE PARTY SHALL HAVE BEEN DULY CONVICTED, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction”.
@Trz Still better than chopping hands like in Saudi Arabia.
@@stefanodadamo6809 Hold the L. You should be fearful of slavery’s current iteration in America seeing as it escaped your perception. That tends to happen when you change the word slave to inmate, and exploit labor behind wired fences instead of open fields. Rape is overlooked, shankings are commonplace, and the public only ever gets to see 1% of your experience. That’s all that’s changed, but slavery remains…only now it’s behind closed doors.
CNN reported a Slave Auction in Libya couple years back
@@CloroxBleachCompany Slavery still exist to this day in the Middle East, in places like Dubai. Where poor people from 3rd world countries ends up living like slaves, abused, little to no pay and not being fed properly.
Working for Westerners is way preferable for these people than working for a Saudi household. Because the vast majority of Westerners treats them like human beings.
K&G's covered the subject well. Good job as always. Looking forward to the next episode covering the 'Zanj Rebellion' of the late 800's. Another notable mention is 'Battle of the Slaves of 1169' which took place around Cairo within the sectors of the Fatimid military.
Thank you for doing this topic; this is a very important part of history that should not be forgotten! You can easily look at some of the people from Saudi Arabia Oman Yemen Libya etc... and clearly tell that some of them have some amount of African Ancestry within them whether they want to admit it or not. Great topic please do the Ottomans next; they were notorious for taking white slaves from Europe.
Did you think that slave is end !!
Noo .. you are living in modern big slave company ...
Now day the employer have to work very hard with his wife to keep his house certain , and when he or she tired or illness or broken the elite simply rubbish him and instead with anther slave ...
Welcome in hell ..
Stop playing victims if you come to slavery you're a horrible beings
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They’re still slaves their unfortunately
Yeah I do too I belong to Arabian tribe and my grandma was blacky and I am a
Very proud of her and because she was a granddaughter for prophet Muhammad she was holy and highly respected a lot of tribes in southern Egypt are a mix between Arab and black
I can even tell you about Arab tribe attacked a Police station for a black nephews
Blood relationship is more precious than anything
Shocking that till the 1960s slavery was still practiced in arabia
Did you think that slave is end !!
Noo .. you are living in modern big slave company ...
Now day the employer have to work very hard with his wife to keep his house certain , and when he or she tired or illness or broken the elite simply rubbish him and instead with anther slave ...
Welcome in hell ..
@@waleazakro true just different term people are hypocrites
@@joahua122 ...So Arabia still has among the worst slavery in the world. Got it.
@@stephenjenkins7971 well idk about that Stephen
It's more shocking that the slaves in 1960 in Arabia had more right then blacks in America....
Another great video! I am hyped for the zanj rebellion as I only know so little about it.
It's a part of the Bahraini and eastern province of saudi arabia's beautiful history 😁💪 I can't wait to see the Qaramtin video and the uyunids video 🤩
@@Sajsh-j2e truly my friend haha!
Islam is poison for the mind.
@@Sajsh-j2e تحب القرامطة ومبسوط فيهم وهم اعاجم ضحكوا على المحليين
Thanks for this hugely substantial context for the persistence of slavery in human societies.
All of this has been written in books for hundreds of years glad you have a new found interest
@@nonesname1979 - but not exactly widely known in the west. To say the least. The book “White Gold” was an eye-opener.
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This video is not based at all, it's as neutral as possible, Good job.
I learned so much from your channel without any propaganda.
Respect from Morocco.
Great video as always. Really interesting, these are things people don't usually think about. I'm actually more interested in how slavery was in different regions.
Lol if you don't read for yourself, you will never get the whole truth. Very incomplete. So-called Scholars hate discussing the white Arab slave trade LOL.
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Thank you for this excellent, informative video! I am really looking forward to you covering the Zanj Rebellion.
There was also times when former slaves gained a lot of power that they became de facto rulers of their states
that happened in both mameluke egypt and India and there were even slaves in the ottoman empire like the Janissarys who turned against their sultan and appointed another one !
Yes in india, qutubdiin aibak was a slave of ghurid dynasty who later formed his own empire called delhi sultanate later khiljis revolted against their turkik overloads and occupied delhi sultanate known as khilji period .
Delhi sultanate is called slave dynasty because it was formed by a slave.
@@keshavtyagi948 Khaljis were also Turkic just like Ilbaris but not slaves unlike Ilbaris
@@yaralikatil khiljis were afghans , but some khiljis have turkik parents like aluddin khilji but were overall afghans.
@@keshavtyagi948 Khaljis means ruling class of Khalajis who were from Khalaj tribe
The story of Balban , the delhi sultan who was a slave of Sultan Iltutmish is very fascinating. Iltutmish himself was once a slave or of slave dynasty, I'm not so sure. Balban rose in rank step by step by his efficiency and became one of the nobles . Later when the sultan gave his heirship to his daughter, Razia, and the events leading to her death.. in short Balban became sultan by a series of events of fate and his luck. He was such a strong sultan tat , he also fortified india against Mongols before Aladdin kilji. . Story says tat Balban was kept for selling in a slave market in a town( i think Iraq, don't remember now) and a Sufi walked past . He showed respect to the Sufi saint. Please by his behaviour even though in his poor condition, the Sufi told him: ' I'm giving you the keys to India '. And when Balban came to know tat he was purchased for the sultan of India , along with 40 others, he knew his time will come to fulfill the prophecy.
If you havent talked about the great slave rebellion against the abbassid Caliphate It could be a great topic
It's a part of the Bahraini and eastern province of saudi arabia's beautiful history 😁💪 I can't wait to see the Qaramtin video and the uyunids video 🤩
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انت حساوي ؟
@@الدوقالملجم لا قطيفي
@علي يا سر وانت وشلك دخل. حاط صورة اسماعيل الصفوي فاتح بلاد فارس بحيث اقهر أصحاب الفتن من اشكلك. فمالك دخل فاهم يا منحط.
The Quran recognizes slavery as a source of injustice, as it places the freeing of slaves on the same level as feeding the poor.
Yeah, freeing slaves is encouraged... Caliph Umar R.A. said, " How can you enslave them when they were born free to their mothers?"
so y dnt muhammad abolish slavery ???😂 . why he kept sex slaves ?
@@rohitchandran97 immediately abolishing it would have created problems... So it was done by: (1) giving more rights to slaves. (2) Encouraging freeing them to get closer to God.
Yeah right. But the Arab slave trades prospered more than the transatlantic one.
The Zanj rebellion and the revolt of the Muslim Spartacus is a an interesting one.
The Muslim spartacus?
@@WinnerNevQuitsQuitterNevWins His name was Ali ibn Muhammad. He led the Rebellion as far as I know.
@@MrHazz111 oh alright thanks, you got me real interested the moment you said Spartacus 😁
Nah. The Zanj rebellion was more like Shia messianic movement, in which a Persian Man by the Name of Ali Ibn Muhammad, claimed that he is the Prophecized Mahdi of House of Prophet who will avenge their death from Usurpers(in this case house of Abas) and who is going to cleanse the world from injustice and sin and will empower the weak. Any man who follows him need no work to be saved as heaven is guaranteed. Thus he claimed descendancy from house of prophet via his daughter. He was known as very politically aspirant person, he tried to instigate rebellions but failed and at one time imprisoned but was vouched for by highly regarded poet. He went to southern iraq where he found his lost flock in march lands where zanj worked. He found his oppertunity to rise to the status of Islamic caliph and prince of believers. Thus he started preaching, and used slogans of egalitarian Kharijites" let the fit rule even if he was abyssinian slave" and so many zanjis truly believed he was messianic Mahdi sent from God to restore justice to the world and relievr their conditions at end of time. The Zanj rebellion was so bloody because these blacks felt they are on godly mission to crush their opprressors, joined by the marginalized nomadic bedouins after some major success, the movement began to grow in strength as Mawalis(non-arab muslims) joined as well believing messianic character of Ali ibn Muhammad as the true mahdi. The movement crippled the abbasid caliphate for 20 years before finally being crushed.
Thank you for keeping the history real and unbiased.
I really think they whitewashed things quite a bit actually. Spent a lot of time talking about what it would look like idealistically under a certain interpretation of Islam and not much time on the horrors that the slaves experienced. Wonder where the descendants of those millions of African slaves are today? North America imported less than 400k slaves and we still have a large black population but none to be seen in Arabia.
Wonderfull, you really hear the inspired tone when you speak of the revolutionary words of the Prophet pbuh, the laws of islam about slavery, and the later disappointment of the treatment of slaves as we move more and more away from the era of the prophet. Well done.
Bro your prophet thought Blacks were worth half of whites. Bilal was an exception.
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Revolutionary ? There hasnt been a singlr emancipation movement in the entire islamic world . The only reason these countries don’t practice slavery, tho many still do , is because of the force of the colonisation. How did the western countries develop this view of being against slavery? Christianity.
how many sex slaves did he himself had ?
I've been watching you for years, and thank you, please keep doing what you do
A great informative video
The Americas always get the spotlight for this issue and while both were bad the Arabian one doesn't even get mentioned at all.
Acknowledging current day slavery doesn't push the political narrative.
Western slavery was the biggest and worst and we can see it in modern day how whites treat other races in america and asutralia like how see it every single day on youtube calling on the cops black kids for sellin water and bbq or ploice brutality against blacks and targeting them all the time
@@JohnSmith-tt3go I'm not talking about modern day slavery as heartbreaking as it is I'm talking about the medieval and pre modern trans Atlantic slave trade and the Arabian one
actually they do but they get mentioned less because it was the best treatment of slaves probably
@@themouthofsauron6926 Nah because we see rebellions and oppositions against rulers even by free people who get treated like *Kings* lol try again
«Kings and Generals» has improved yet again: This time it is the names of historians whose results are quoted. Please consider for the future if you would buiild on this by also naming the titles of books you quote. Great quality; way to go!
This topic is very sensitive in our arab countries
They actually don't teach us about it in our schools.
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We know about it but we dont deny it we actually think it was a good think because unlike the (western slavery) ours were more then because of skin color its more if the kingdom of that time had a war they will keep prisoner of war heck they will get better Place then normal muslims because as everyone here said the so called slaves end up becoming high rank or even kings
@@ADINSANE You are right in part but wrong to a larger extent, as the western histories are very sanitised and little or no true accountability of the transatlantic slave trade is really detailed in the history taught, secular or not. I am British and I can assure you that we very much paper over the acts perpetrated by our ancestors in the histories taught in schools rather than facing up to our past transgressions. There is virtually no history taught in Spain or Portugal about the slave trade to the plantations in the Indo Chinese and Pacific Rim countries. Same as the Americans actually teaching the real history of the slave supported economy of the north and south pre and post civil war, the Jim Crow laws or the treatment of the First Nation tribes by the post civil war governments through to the enforced sterilisation of women up to the 1970's (biggest joke is that the main supporters of this legislation were in main the same political leaning ones that were and are pro life supporters.....just go figure - Nazi Germany spring to mind anyo one?).
As regards the Armenian genocide, I think that the British double dealing and reneged agreements to the Armenians and the Kurds is another bit of history that is papered over in regards to the post 1st World War atrocities that the victors were involved in. The genocide of the Kurds by use of poison gas (British critism of Saddam Hussain anyone, and the lack of report of the similarities of the 2 atrocities as detailed by the Kurdish people) and the supposed protection of the Armenians by the British that evaporated (and documentation that effectively shows the duplicity of the British government and effective aid to the new Turkish regime).
I am British and not through the sanitised version of our history taught in schools do I know of our involvement in these atrocities, but I can assure you that the majority of my countrymen are oblivious to our shocking acts of barbarity and atrocities carried out directly or collusion with other parties.
That's just plain lie! If you are Arab you would have been taught about Mamluks and their dynasty in schools.
Stop self-hating you west boot licker!
Donot take the video seriouslly take the knouldge from the history books written from that time it more correct less misinformation .
@@ADINSANE it's because Turks look at this event as a massacre than a genocide. This was a retaliation after russians backing revolting armed armenian groups who saw the empire in a weak state so armenians believed in russians that they would create armenia after the fall of ottomans. Many people on both sides were dying, the whole place was chaos. It was actually due to an armenian telling ottomans of weapon caches in certain cities.
Very good video. Could you also do a video about slavery in Sassanid Empire.
Persians never used slaves
@@ardavan2550 LOL yes they did and extensively! there are detailed laws about the status of slaves in the Sassanid empire
@@KaylDunnyan bruh in what world you are living in,statue? Law?
The closest thing to a slavery system was gholams,dickless mans who served kings in gajar era,and it was only for kings and they were living in paradis
@@ardavan2550 Yes they did, I think what you meant to say was the *Achemedid Persians (King Cyrus Era) didn’t participate in slavery, which is correct because they practiced Zoroastrianism which banned slavery.
@@sjappiyah4071 you know that iran followed zoroastrianism up until after islamic invastion😂?
The romanticization of a number or responders in the comments is disturbing. No matter how prestigious one’s position may be. Being robbed of your honor and manhood is vile and disgusting. Slavery on any level is wrong l. Yet I understand that was the way of the world then. Great historical breakdown.
This comment reeks of presentism.
It's quite disturbing how quickly slavery apologist appear just because it's different from American slavery.
But slavery isnt necessarily bad, if slavery is done in a humane manner, whats wrong with it?
@@cmd9558 no way you just said that
@@cmd9558 How about you volunteer then?
@@mahdiadib9295 Actually he did it is honestly not different than being a servant nowadays how about that?
@@williamrobert9898 pretty sure a servant can quit to get a different job and they get paid
This was quite the enlightening video. Nice job.
I would like to see more videos like this but focusing on the African kingdoms and tribes involved in slavery. Africa is still one of the places slavery is still common. In Italy they are having an influx of slaves from Nigeria being enslaved by other Nigerians. That's a subject worth talking about.
I think you mean migrants leaving Nigeria for Italy being enslaved by Libyans no? I’ve never heard Nigerians enslaving each other unless for religious reasons in the past.
Lol miss information
That is very interesting that slavery is still going on in Africa today and in Nigeria. Wow and when I ask some Nigerians how are things in Africa there home land they say life is good it is a good place to go visit . No wonder so many Africans are leaving Africa I guess …🤔…
@@derrickportis5899 How so? Please be specific.
@@Zeerich-yx9po Yes. They are mostly women used for prostitution. They are forced to do it, literally under threat of death and violence. It's a bit of a touchy subject involving immigration, race, slavery, sex, and crime.
Very cogent ideas...narrated in an articulate manner...I learned a lot... Thanks...what would it take to have a chance at researching material for you guys.??
Good to see that you're finally discussing the history of Slavery in the Islamic World, I was waiting years for this all to be finally brought up. Hopefully videos on the Barbary Slave Trade,Ottoman Slave Trade & Crimean-Nogai Slave Raids aren't far away. Western sources mention a huge death rate of Black slaves along the slave routes on their way to the Middle East,India and China.
I don’t like commenting but I just wanted to say I hope you want them to touch on this out of a thirst for history and not this got you thing I see people do on these topics
Hopefully this shit doesn’t turn toxic
@@dhfbvchchchc6541 do you put the same comments on videos about american/european slavery? Or do you just care about being politically correct to the SLAVERS in this video? And with toxic you mean you hope that commenters here wouldn't behave like "progressives" about american slavery?
@@dhfbvchchchc6541 probably the latter by his tone
It will turn toxic eventually. Same will happen if there will be videos about slavery in Rome, India, China etc.
The quality of the videos and research is only improving with time. Excellent vid again mu friends! 👏
"Slaves were unable to enter into a contract"
"Slaves had a contractual right to buy their freedom over time"
Fascinating.
What is so fascinating about slavery 😑
Now I don't call these rules slavery
lol.
@@randomlyfree7964 it is good
@@randomlyfree7964 Read what I posted.
'Since when did you enslave the people, though they were born from their mothers in freedom'?
Omar bin khattab R.A. said this
I'm happy you are highlighting the fact that not all slaves were black.
The image you used when talking about Bilal ibn Rabah was not correct, that was actually the image of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, a west african prince from senegal who was sold in to slavery.
Glad
Someone pointed this out
a prince ??? how can a prince be sold???
@@jaahiliintaafkaayaankagooy7570 : He was captured by slavers from another ethnic group, who sold him into slavery.
He is from my tribe a fulani from futajalon
@@samy7013 they are the Mandingos who sold him for him he is from my tribe a fulani conqueros of west Africa
One absolutely horrible event tied to slavery in the caliphate was the Zanj Rebellion. It is difficult to properly visualize the size of the massacre.
Now imagine a parallel universe where the Zanj successfully fight the Abasids, and establish a colony of freed African slaves in southern Iraq...
Many thanks for covering this topic. The death rates of the Arab Slave Trade far surpassed those of the European and Americas version. Also, the companion Bilal was often the source of ridicule amongst his peers and is not as revered as compared to the others. Islam and Arabic culture to this day still has racial discrimination issues although that disease can be found all over the world so it is not specific or monopolized by one group, nation or culture. I can personally state that during my 20 year tenure in Islam this subject was often avoided.
I would say it is more of Arabic culture and not Islamic. Before the Prophet, blacks were widely seen as inferior in Arabia, but this has no place in Islam. The Prophet taught that an arab is not superior to a black man and vice-versa. This was unheard of at the time. For example, while on their way to Madinah, Abu Dharr (a companion) and Bilal got into an argument, and Abu Dharr out of anger referred to Bilal as “son of a black woman” in a belittling manner. When the Prophet heard of this, he called on Abu Dharr and asked him what he had said to Bilal. When Abu Dharr repeated what he said, the Prophet was angry and replied “You are a man who still has the traits of Jahiliyyah inside you”. Jahiliyyah is used to refer to the period of ignorance in arabia before Islam. From this, it is clear that racism is something Islam came to stop. Nevertheless, this was an isolated occurence and Abu Dharr later went to Bilal and asked for his forgiveness. Bilal was accepted among companions as an equal and was not ridiculed. I don’t know where you got the idea that he was often ridiculed. Unfortunately however, as you rightly point out, some of these Jahiliyyah traits survive to this day despite Islam’s teachings, but it’s clear they do not arise from Islam as there’s no basis for such. Islam is universal and is not synonymous with arabic culture, this is something people need to know before imposing arabic culture on Islam which I fear you have done. There’s no perfect muslim. Humans make mistakes. Don’t judge Islam by the bad actions of some muslims, judge it by what it teaches. However I do agree with you that this is an under discussed topic. We need to educate/remind more muslims that any form of racial discrimination is against the tenets of Islam.
Balanced and interesting discussion of a neglected topic. Thank you!
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Every people on earth were slaves at one time or another, just depends on who was in control. Slavery is a huge part of world history. No matter ur race or ethnicity. I wish people understood this especially in America.
what is your point exactly? That because something happened in more than one country, it should be overlooked?
@@stonem0013 considering it's not a problem anymore...yeah, if everyone everywhere was literally doing it for thousands of years there is no one to hold accountable, especially now that hundred + years have past since it ended in most the world. It's fine to talk about but to act as if it has any bearing in the modern world is just ridiculous
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Some peaple blame religion for endorse slavery, but little they know That's how the world works at those past centuries
@@DaWoWzer uh, what? That's an incredibly naive and ignorant take. Clearly you haven't given this subject much thought. Many of the cultutal and societal effects of slavery are intergenerational - trauma, wealth (or poverty), racism, attitudes, and many other factors that had their origin in slavery still persist in some form today. You simply pronouncing 'it has no bearing' doesn't change that one bit.
Not overlook or justify I'm saying all people were slaves at one point or another it's 2022 get over it
I always enjoy KG vide, this was yet another well documented video of the period, well done. 👏 💯
It's important to keep in mind that medieval law enforcement in the Caliphate or elsewhere would have been sporadic, and the laws themselves represent a goal or an ideal rather than a reality. They are still great primary sources because what they do tell you is what kind of problems a society was dealing with. F.ex. if they saw a need to make a law against a slave owner using his slaves to start a brothel, you can be sure this was something that was going on to such an extent that it was considered a major social issue. Same goes for other laws against mistreatment of slaves.
No, it’s not an indication that any of those were “prevalent”, it’s just that Muslims are quite conservative and those laws were put in place before any of those even take place or take root in society. It was about prevention rather than cure and also maybe scoring some points with religious scholars and individuals who wouldn’t agree with the mistreatment of slaves.
uuuh, no, muhammed pbuh said that thats why its a law
Rabia one of the earliest Sufi saints despite being born a Muslim was sold into slavery and worked by her master/pimp as a prostitute proving your point. I'm sure she was far from the only one.
@@profanotherletter4346 *said that. That's why it's a law
another pseudo expert lol
he said in the video that it was in "jahilya"
What the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم says about slavery:
1) It says in a hadith qudsi: “Allah, may He be exalted, said: ‘There are three whose opponent I will be on the Day of Resurrection, and whomever I oppose, I will defeat … A man who sold a free man and consumed his price.’” (Narrated by al-Bukhari, 2227)
2) Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “They are your brothers whom Allah has put under your authority, so if Allah has put a person’s brother under his authority, let him feed him from what he eats and clothe him from what he wears, and let him not overburden him with work, and if he does overburden him with work, then let him help him.” Narrated by al-Bukhari (6050).
3) Ibn ‘Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) manumitted a slave of his, then he picked up a stick or something from the ground and said: There is no more reward in it than the equivalent of this, but I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) say: “Whoever slaps his slave or beats him, his expiation is to manumit him.” (Narrated by Muslim, 1657)
4) Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard Abu’l-Qasim (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) say: “Whoever accuses his slave when he is innocent of what he says will be flogged on the Day of Resurrection, unless he is as he said.” (Narrated by al-Bukhari, 6858)
@@jizyaisextortion9790 what is the matter with this Hadith?
@@jizyaisextortion9790 it’s not “sunnah”. And I never said it’s not allowed.
@@jizyaisextortion9790 1. Why miss the parts where he bought slaves only to free them?
2. If he allowed slaves to emigrate to Ethiopia (which is what the hadith is about, afai remember), Meccans would beat the shit out of every Muslim they would have their hands on. That being said, slaves continued to convert to Islam, with the rest of the Muslims often raising money to free them. Muslims being a small community could not just let everyone into wiping them out for a moral high ground that their fellow Arabs would barely comprehend.
Also, cringe username. Imagine being this obsessed on what was a very minor aspect of Islam.
@@jizyaisextortion9790 bruh shut up, you are just a typical Christian divorced from the Bible and reality. Where in your Bible does it discourage slavery? Doesn't it say if a slave is beaten to the point of death but dies in two days not one day, the Master cannot be held accountable for it?
The thing is that while Islam upholds the rights of slaves it does not ban it. Hence Muslims throughout history have owned slaves and treated them far far worse thenbthe example of Muhammad (SAW)
Christians and Jews were also forces to pay jizyah, an extra tax for not being muslim and were treated as second class citizens. Also the barbery pirates also raided the EuropeN coast and it's vessels for slaves. Many of those slaves had to row themselves to death on muslim vessels.
Video of Hakkapeliitta light cavalry would be great to see in a future.
Not many people know about them.
Slavery in Muslim world was also one of many factors that make it fall behind the west. When the western countries start eradicated slavery they rapidly industrialized under capitalism while the muslim world still largely agricultural with slavery and serfdom making the backbone of economy.
That’s stupid, there’s no correlation between economic prosperity of industrialization and slavery.
It is possible slavery and economic development exist in the same empire. Western or eastern
@Abdallah_79916 stop being denial, it's not theoretical but factual on what's actually happened. Tell me who industrialized first and who's having the last slavery? No wonder muslim world is backwards if not because of oil money.
@@lukaswilhelm9290 so there’s countries in the west, especially South America, that have been industrialized and ended slavery way long ago, and yet they are one of the poorest countries in the world.
China, Russia, some North African countries, some Muslim countries( non oil) and more richer than the countries that have adopted liberal democracies and that have industrialized long ago.
So it’s definitely not a factor for economic development and prosperity.
Stop being emotional and illogical
@Abdallah_79916 nope, Latin America in 19th century largely still agrarian and barely industrialized unlike North America that's why this legacy of being poor still carry on. Also China and Russia and most muslim countries barely democratic in sense of liberal free democracy of the west, don't believe me? Then just put a criticism on your prophet to proves my words Abdul. They also still poorer than the west, G7 mostly western country and almost 50% of world economy so where is your muslim state in G7?
None of your words disprove the fact that the west is more democratic, industrialized and richer than Muslim world who just recently in 20th century gain independence and still mostly third world countries. It's you that being emotional and illogical here Abdul not me.
@@lukaswilhelm9290 based on GDP growth many liberal democracies are way behind compared to not liberal democracies.
What’s the factor? Can it possibly be long colonization history?
The Sokoto Caliphate is a great area of study also for slavery in Islamic black Africa
I'm a fulani Muslim
@@alphaomarbarry6511 nobody asked.
@@alphaomarbarry6511 youre a devil at that point
@@larry6130 dude you act like your ancestors didn't enslave other race lol 😂🤣🤣🤣 mansa musa wealthiest man from has 10k slaves
Great job! 👍
This history is never talked about.
Except in the loads of TH-cam videos, books, documentaries etc on the subject
@@curtisthomas2670
You know as well as I do that this history is not mainstream. 🧐
@@kase3176 not mainstream where? I learned about the Arab slave trade in school in the Caribbean.
@@curtisthomas2670 well in America they don't really teach you about the Arab slave trade. Plus I can't think of a major movie that deals with the Arab slave trade.
@@kase3176 why would it be taught in the US? It isn't part of US history, the ME slave traders didn't supply slaves to the US and they had no plantations here.
Yet another fantastic production! Thanks!
Beautiful work there buddy.
It is strange how people associate slavery with only black people, the fact is that if you lose a war or even a small battle, you may turn into a slave. This happened to all races. You can see some people in the Middle East who were part of the royal families in Europe but because they lost a battle they became slaves. I understand that many here hate to talk about this, but if we are going to talk about slavery, we must tell history without shame.
Castration of slaves may have been "prohibited" in Islam, but it had widespread practice throughout Dar Al-Islam. That's why there are so few people in modern Arabia who are descendants of those slaves. Swahili, a language from a different language tree, contains many borrowed Arabic words due to the heavy trafficking of African slaves.
Exactly, most of these slaves had no rights and if they supposedly did in a book, nobody looked at it or had a person to back them up for it. I find it hysterical that they give this soft position like it was great slavery 😂😂😂
So how is it The Islamic religions problem Quran had prohibited it this looks more like a human problem to me
@@izyanjamal7717 yet you're prophet had many slaves😅
Maybe so but can't blame Islam but the people who adopted it as business
Thank you! If someone whitewashed western slavery the way he just did Arab slavery they would be called out in a second! The Bible also has verses about freeing slaves and treating them well but one interpretation of a religion and historical reality are completely different. He should present the history, not the PC Islamic “ideal”
EXCELLENT VIDEO
Good video as always. I'm binging k&g and it's so amazing how even your older videos are high quality
An Arab Slave Dealer (Syeb-bin-Habib) reported in 1882 to have admitted that of the 300 slaves he acquired from the African interior only 50 of those slaves had reached the East African Coast alive. The slave trade route from the interior to Lake Tanganyika was littered with the skeletons of slaves who died along the route.
@Mohamed the guy I would show the source if TH-cam Comments could allow to post images.
@Mohamed the guy I got the image saved but I have no link so hard luck for you.
@Mohamed the guy read the book the legacy of arab islam in africa by john azumah.
@@0Er0 That book is extremely biased though. 90% of Azumah's book is "circlejerking" on the acts of certain groups of slave traders and a few empires and ignores, totally, the actual rules of slavery in Islam. He's also, ironically, downplaying practices of slavery in other parts of the world constantly.
@@themercifulguard3971 i doubt you have even read 0.09% of the book 😂
One major reason for the abolition of slavery in Saudi Arabia in 1962 was JFK's "inducement" of allowing the country to have access to US military weapons and expertise which were greatly desired as the civil war in Yemen continued. The US, in turn, was being pressured by Egyptian President Nassar to pressure Saudi Arabia to enact "modernization reforms" as the administration labeled the antislavery laws.
Is good to know you can find places in youtube where the creators don´t offer simple answer to complex topics and offer perspective by using well researched facts. Also, it is good to know that the audience is not a digital mob crying for an echo chamber and are able to have a civil discussion.
What sort of echo chambers?
Leftists love forming echo chambers. When it's non-White cultures or is a non-Christian culture they are "Nuanced" and when it's the opposite...............lol
@@BleedForTheWorld The ones where some people are povided wtih narratives that align with what they already believe in, instead of offering nuance. In this case an echo chamber will be one where the main idea is that white people is evil, therefore it is only the trasatlantic slave trade the one that counts as evil an slavery in islam don´t. Many people on the internet look for this kind of content and if they don´t found it they will scream racisim.
@@hsl537 well it was racism because it was white people. Do you have a problem with that?
@@BleedForTheWorld No, but I think the statement is not correct given that all parites who delt with this practice did it on the basis of racial lines. So yeah it was racist, but not because they were white, it was because they had an imperialist mindset, just as the arabas who lead the caliphates. Not one people can be heald acountable for being racist given that at some point in history many groups have been racist towards others. What it can be said is that the white supremacist flavour of racisim is the most recent one and the one who we still seeing the consequences today, but there are many ther examples, that while not justifing it are as bad as it. The japense empire through the AJA commited atrocity becuase they considered the chinese weaker and inferior. The chinese spent most of their history seeing people outisde china as inferior. The slavs got thieir name for being slave so mayn times, by nords and nomads form central asia that many people see the tribes living in modern russia and ukraine as being naturally subserviant to other peoples. These i the kind of nuance I am talking about.
The word Ajam ( that was mentioned as the most expensive Selves) means :Non Arab and by their definition, they mean the population in today's Iran ( Persia) . The narrator had wrongly said that Ajam meant the population in Irak . While it is indeed the population in Iran....
Ajam means the non arabs
Yes Persian were called Ajam, and still till this day sometimes but ultimately Ajam just mean a foreigner.
An amazing look into the economic system of early Muslim empire. While slavery was never good, it is important to realize that it was too important to not do. Even today plenty of business people wish they could enslave thier workers for maximum productivity. Still, I wonder if this strange relationship to slavery led to the slave trade involving the Americas later - by having issues enslaving Christian’s and Jews, the Muslims had to look to pagan Africans for slaves, thereby resulting in local African slave infrastructure to support foreign buyers. Contrary to popular belief, the Europeans never enslaved west Africans for work in the Americas- they bought them from West African slave traders to bring over. Was this infrastructure established due to the Islam desire for foreign slave labor, or was it something local for local consumption? I feel like there is a phd somewhere in this.
Slavery was important for economy and so was *"interest based economics"* .
While one was banned another continued.
Also remember it was not just economic slavery that was legal but also sex slavery.
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@@manteshsharma9351 I don't think you understand the relationship between an Islamic slavery and "sex slavery". Also no, "interest based economics" isn't "as important" as slavery. In practical terms, it's easier to outlaw "interests", or more accurately *usury*, than slavery. Just look at the effort of the era of the emancipation of slavery for example, it tooks an entire social revolution, huge loads of money, a very long time, and an empire that's as big or as influential as the British empire
They did enslave a lot of European Christians.
Not too long ago… Saudi Arabia and Yemen abolished slavery in 1962, Oman abolished slavery as recently as 1970 (as mentioned). Without pointing fingers, this also has a cultural aspect. Meaning that in the Arabian peninsula tradition and religion are intermingled. Let’s also recognise that Arabs are a minority in Islam. Edited to add: I personally know people who were born to slavery.
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Read Islam. Study Arab Culture.
Arab Culture + Jewish Monotheistic God = Islam
@@rj14053 Greetings from Muscat. I’ve been in the Gulf since 2006.
No. This is incorrect. You are confusing Islamic law or writings, with what ACTUALLY was done. The suffering of slaves was horrific, even much more horrific than the European slave trade.
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I saw Abū Dharr Al-Ghifārī wearing a cloak, and his slave, too, was wearing a cloak. We asked him about that (i.e., how both were wearing similar cloaks). He replied, “Once I abused a man and he complained of me to the Prophet. The Prophet asked me, ‘Did you abuse him by slighting his mother?’ He added, ‘Your slaves are your brethren upon whom Allah has given you authority. So, if one has one’s brethren under one’s control, one should feed them with the like of what one eats and clothe them with the like of what one wears. You should not overburden them with what they cannot bear, and if you do so, help them (in their difficult work).’” Sahih al-(Bukhari 2545)
I agree with you about this narration however, what I doubt is that the translation which the majority of the world use is wrong in term of islamic slavery because in Islam slavery was prohibited but servants were allowed. In other words, those people who served companions were servants not slaves and even in the Quran Allah addresses us as worshippers because linguistically, the word عبد in the Quran means worshipper and if we make it into a present tense verb like يعبد means "to worship" not "to enslave". Pre-islamic era people used the word عبد as a meaning of slave but the Quran used differently and probably because when Allah (SWT) created the first Human being (Adam AS) Allah considered him as his worshipper but later when people started to go astray and force poor and defenseless people to serve them, they started to use the word "عبد" as a mean of "you will only serve me to death or until I tell you to do something else" as if he was God and that slave was his creation (something like that) so they added another meaning to that word because you know that language is not fixed it is dynamic it changes depends on new tradition and culture emerges in the same place and new words and meanings show up whether they are right or fit or whether wrong. Just like English language, English is originally a Viking language not British because English appeared when the Vikings took over Britian and the British before the invasion of Vikings did not speak English like how they do these days and then when English appeared it took generations to evolve to standard English which is now the global language these days. I did heard in Islam that the mahr for marrying a slave woman is her freedom and becomes a muslim and I think that refers to women who were held as captives from enemy territories? Allah knows the best of course :)
@@omaralsalihi5033 Slavery was not prohibited in Islam. Surah 23: 6 and Surah 70: 30: "Except your wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they will not be blamed [/] Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they are not to be blamed -." You're literally allowed to rape your female slaves. It doesn't really get more abject than that.
@@omaralsalihi5033 you're prophet literally had many slaves. 😂
Mamluks were the former slaves reached to the level of master(kings or sultan) in egypt and dehli etc.and many served as General in armies .
If you believe that slavery is good just because according to you some became king's bthen that's the most evil explanation you can get
@@stevenclark5646 its truly evil i was just taking about the term 'Mamluks' it is used for slaves that rose to the level of kings and generals.
Amazing work
The week-by-week coverage of the Pacific Theater in WWII is OUTSTANDING. You get info on all the forces fighting--including the Indian troops fighting in the British Army. The videos are amazingly granular, going down to minute details that you will not see anywhere else. Slavery goes back to prehistory I would guess. Somebody has to do the work that is tedious, arduous and odious.
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True, but I miss seeing medieval wars and battles, especially that of muslim empire, which is amazing to watch.
Check out Christianity & Islam debates on TH-cam. Very educational for Muslims and non-Muslims
This video focused on a best case scenario. How the culture felt that slave's should be treated. It doesn't explore the horrible day to day life of someone who was enslaved and spent the rest of their life in that region. There is no good or humane kind of slavery. Also castration was almost always done to a male slave in this region. This video implied that castration was against the rules and didn't happen often.
4:34 whenever I see people spreading hatred toward others I recall this speech onto my mind.. May Allah help us all
Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job
Hopefully more material on the Berber slavery of Europeans. As many people see slavery = solely a racist based concept
Aaaannd there it is 😂 😂 😂
@@stefanodadamo6809 slavery based on religion rather than race is better, with religion its more logical, with rsce it isnt as much.
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Portugal, when going southward, had a papal bull basically saying "They Christians? You ally! They not? You enslaved or convert!"
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What?
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It truly is.
But still a good topic to make a video about.
Great Episode again wating for next
Americans: we are racist, we treat blacks as slaves
Arabs: we are racist, we treat our black slaves worse than we treat our white slaves
You were still treated better than most slaves if you were white goddamn
Slavs were slaves to Turks
I hope you acknowledge the inspiration behind the rebellion, Ali ibn Muhammad a Muslim inspiring them through the Quran and hadith to rebel and how the Zanj rebellion involved taking slaves themselves. Is was a crazy rebellion invovling around the same number of deaths as the civil war. All due to the ill treatment. Ill-treatment which was already looked down upon by the Quran. Good video anyway!
The quran encourages slavery, oppression and forced conversion by the sword...
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Wonderful as usual. Please make a video on Indian, Chinese and SEA slaves under the English Empire.
Just for information, i know at most regions in South East Asia is unknowns about slavery. But others have too. Its different system than other area
There was no English empire
Caliphate was the only time in history when slaves could rise to become prime ministers, generals and even kings establishing their dynasties such as mamluks, turks and ayubids.
Not true same in Roman Empire. And the Mamluks took over by force and it wasn’t like oh you’re are slaves and are equal to us please by our leaders. It was more like they were the military class who saw a weakness in there Arab overlords and overthrew them. And just because they became rulers through force does not excuse the immortality of Muslims actually raiding there European Christian villages killing their families and enslaving them to be warriors. Very spiritual religion this Islam. You can NEVER use the words of Jesus to raid villages, to kill ppl, to make women sex slaves to enslave children and force them yo be your warriors. That’s the difference!!
@@zeyh863 in teachings of Islam, raiding some random village is not permissible... Also not allowed to kill women, the elder, the children, the civilians and so on...
However, I do agree that there had been Muslims who didn't follow the teachings of Islam and did atrocities. Just like crusaders, who neglected the teachings of Jesus.
@@aub3365 so what villages r allowed ? Muhammad's students itself went for war to conquest outside saudi
@@rohitchandran97 the conquest was meant to take down the tyrant regimes and establish more civilized law... Which could open the way for the golden age of these lands.
Not true. In fact second caliph Umar was killed by a Irani slave as he was subject to Arab , Umar and his master cruel treatment and injustice particular by Umar.
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Some Turkic groups were in fact Iranian and Persian origins that were Turkized. The Kharzemian are good example of this.
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Looking forward to the Zanj Rebellions.
Zanj rebellion was more religious and economic than racial one. The head of Zanj Rebellion was Person who is not black. His was Ali ibn Muhammad a Persian Hashmite and his mother was bedouin from famous Arabian Banu Asad tribe. He was called Sahib AlZanj because of his massive black followers. And It was called Zanj because there was huge black revolt in it. But It forget the role of Nomadic Bedouin smugglers who kept the revolution alive and bloody for 30 years. Zanj couldnt have survived being besieged in Al-Mukhtarah without Bedouins support and smuggle of food and supplies at all.
Well I guess that separates you from the Abbasids
Very informative video, thank you !
This is the side of slavery that literally all non western groups love to forget about when talking about the slave trade. I bet you there’s 0 guilt about this topic in the Middle East and probably even some pride attached to it. This and the Barbary pirates never get talked about nearly enough
Probably becuase only in America do blacks get shot for things like Jay walking
@@johnalejandro6392 Exactly, the UK even enforced it on slave nations by using their royal navy to intacept slave ships and freeing the slaves. Also paying off any slave owners compensation when they banned in in 1830's at another huge cost to themselves. Literally 0 credit, 0 people care. They'd rather watch 12 years a slave and guilt trip random white people smh.
Honestly if any blacks tried that in the middle east, India, Asia etc. they'd get laughed at. Everyone knows this is the case.
Bc western slavery was the biggest and worst and we can see it in modern day how whites treat other races in america and asutralia like how see it every single day on youtube calling the cops black kids for sellin water and bbq or police brutality against blacks and targeting them all the time and we dont see this shiitt anywhere its just in the west around whites
No guilt at all! In France little arabs love To yell To blacks " we enslaved your ancestors for centuries fou negros". And at thé same time keep whinning about French colonization. Typical islamic double standard.
Of course we are proud of it lmao. Hopefully we'll enslave non-Muslims again.
Something neglected to mention in this video was how free blacks were living among Arabs and also owned slaves as well.
Yeah and some of the people the free Black's owned were Non Black's yup.
This was gooood. Comprehensive video
This video is for our white counterpart especially from US. Slavery is not "white thing". Black enslave black, white enslave white, arab enslave arab, asian enslave asian
Arguably the oldest occupations in the world
1. Hunter/Gatherer
2. Security
3. Farmer/Cattleman
4. Ruler
5. Taxmen
6. Carpenter/Builder
7. Diplomat
8. Teacher
9. Artists (Poets, Painters, Sculptors etc)
10. Writer
11. Prostitute
12. Merchant
13. Slave Hunter
14. Slave Trader
Thanks for this video
I really like the way you explained it. Many who are anti Islam argue opposite and exaggerate facts but you made it clear Islam did not support unjust acts and were about manumission and the bad stuff that occurred weren’t even allowed in Islam like castration and mistreatment which you still addressed that they were dealed with in Islamic courts. Subbing with the notis on man thank you for producing this masterpiece
he also said Islam never forbade slave so raping woman is good for allah like Isis did today and the future
@@mennabadr2747 M8 did you miss the part where those were under heavy controversy by the Islamic court at the time. The prophet taught never to even slap a slave, therefore rape and forceful sex with a slave is haram.
As a Muslim, I see this as a balanced, well thought view of history. It is really unbiased though I disagree with you on some minor points. Great work.
Perfect as always ❤️
I have expected you to speak more about Turkish slaves ghulams ''mameluks''.They took power from their rulers.I was dissapointed.It's huge part of Umayyad and Abbasid history.