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> 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 obviou
by 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.