The Zanj Rebellion was a series of uprisings that took place between 869 and 883 AD near the city of Basra in present-day Iraq.
The thesis applies a structural framework for analyzing race, to demonstrate the racialization process, prevalent racial ideologies in Arabic literature and Islamic doctrine, and the race consciousness and identities displayed by black poets and authors that lived in the Abbasid era. In the ninth century, enslaved Africans from the east coast of Africa, called the Zanj, revolted for nearly fifteen years in southern Iraq against their Arab slave masters and challenged the social order of the Abbasid Empire. With a personal account, you can read up to 100 articles each month for free. Many Zanj were taken as slaves and were often used in strenuous agricultural work.

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In the ninth century, enslaved Africans from the east coast of Africa, called the Zanj, revolted for nearly fifteen years in southern Iraq against their Arab slave masters and challenged the social order of the Abbasid Empire. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 In addition to IJAHS [CDATA[ //
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It utilizes translated Arabic literature and poetry written from the seventh to the ninth century to position the Zanj and other blacks from the period as autonomously motivated historical actors. Evaluating the Zanj Rebellion in terms of racial motivation sparks a lively debate, beginning with Zakariyau Oseni’s “The Revolt of Black Slaves in Iraq Under the ‘Abbasid Administration 869-883 CE”. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents. Social History Commons, Sarah Frankel >

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document.write("" + "thinkIR" + "@" + "louisville.edu" + "<\/a>") It examines the Arab Islamic slave trade and the racial stratification experienced by blacks in the early centuries of Islamic history in conjunction with the Zanj Rebellion. This thesis is a socio-historical investigation on the role that race played in starting the Zanj Rebellion of 869 C.E.

This thesis is a socio-historical investigation on the role that race played in starting the Zanj Rebellion of 869 C.E. The Zanj rebellion is one of the few slave revolts where women took an active part in the struggle.

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