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> Yes, they had slavery and slave trade was a part of their economic system, but Islamic philosophies allowed a slave to be freed and treated at par as a citize

> Yes, they had slavery and slave trade was a part of their economic system, but Islamic philosophies allowed a slave to be freed and treated at par as a citizen once he bought his freedom or was freed. There are even freed slaves who rose up to rule the kingdoms they were citizens of If their slaves were treated so well, where are the descendants of their sub-Saharan slaves? They imported more than both Americas combined, so their black population should be much larger than that of the US. Others also had good reason to avoid falling under the Ottoman Empire: The Ottoman Turks conducted a large-scale genocide and ethnic cleansing of the ancient and indigenous, Greek, Armenian, Assyrian, and Maronite Christian inhabitants of Anatolia, north western Iran, the fringes of northern Iraq and northern Syria and Mount Lebanon during and immediately after World War I, resulting in well over 3 million deaths and large-scale deportations in the Armenian genocide, Assyrian genocide, Greek genocide, and Great famine of Mount Lebanon. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_Middle_East#Persecution_of_Christians_in_Middle_East https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_Middle_Eas...

webmobdev 5y ago
> If their slaves were treated so well, where are the descendants of their sub-Saharan slaves? If you are talking about the middle-east, the slaves were obviously traded, worked till dead or freed and sent back. (Even today, the number of foreigners working in the GCC outnumber the Arabs by 2x-3x, and while the middle-east welcomes foreigners to work in their country, none of the GCC countries give citizenship to them.) Islamic empires were on a wane and the collapse of the Ottoman empire sealed its fate. Ofcourse, the Christian vs Islam political narrative was instrumental in this, and obviously there is a lot of exaggeration on this end by western historians, especially after imperialism peaked. The west was very much concerned if the old empires would rise again, and clash with the west, and thus created a lot of political propaganda to show themselves as more civilised and knowledgeable than the east.

webmobdev 5y ago

> If their slaves were treated so well, where are the descendants of their sub-Saharan slaves? If you are talking about the middle-east, the slaves were obviously traded, worked till dead or freed and sent back. (Even today, the number of foreigners working in the GCC outnumber the Arabs by 2x-3x, and while the middle-east welcomes foreigners to work in their country, none of the GCC countries give citizenship to them.) Islamic empires were on a wane and the collapse of the Ottoman empire sealed its fate. Ofcourse, the Christian vs Islam political narrative was instrumental in this, and obviously there is a lot of exaggeration on this end by western historians, especially after imperialism peaked. The west was very much concerned if the old empires would rise again, and clash with the west, and thus created a lot of political propaganda to show themselves as more civilised and knowledgeable than the east.