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This handbook provides basic reference information on Eritrea, including its geography, history, government, military forces, and communications and transportation networks. This information is intended to familiarize military personnel with local customs and area knowledge to assist them during their assignment to Eritrea. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Royal Geographical Society on July 1, 1998. The length of the article is 5107 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: KEY WORDS: Egypt, irrigation efficiency, peasant/state relations, supply and demand patterns, water requirements.

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Title: Water management in the Egyptian delta: problems of wastage and inefficiency.
Author: Lutfi Radwan
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1998
Publisher: Royal Geographical Society
Volume: 164Issue: 2Page: 129

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This collection of essays offers a new paradigm, in which the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic worlds of slavery are brought into focus under the same lens. While slave studies have considered either trans-Atlantic or Islamic slavery, rarely has any study combined the enslavement of Africans in America and the Lands of Islam in one volume. Both the Saharan and Atlantic worlds imported enslaved populations from western and central Sudan, but in general the two markets have been treated in isolation and without reference to the common bond of Islam and the multiple roles that Islam has played in the history of slavery, whether in West Africa itself, the Americas, or the Islamic Mediterranean. Western Africa served as the point of dispersion across desert and sea, but it was also the final destination of many of those who were enslaved but who were not transported across the Atlantic or the Sahara. The relationship between Islam and slavery is explored as a series of frontiers: in the Americas between enslaved Muslims and their Christian masters and the types of resistance and accommodation that arose there; in West Africa between Muslim and non-Muslim societies and the attempts at defining who was a Muslim in terms of issues of enslavement; in North Africa between Muslim masters and the enslaved population from West Africa and the popularity of spirit possession cults. The resistance of Muslims to assimilation and the accommodation of Muslims to bondage also created other frontiers that are explored in this book. ... Read more

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"A college-level readership will find these informed, informative, and strongly recommended essays will provide them with exceptionally important insights into the political and religious issues in the Sudan. . . . Intriguing comparisons and analysis." --Midwest Book Review

Slavery on the frontiers of Islam
This collection of essays offers a new paradigm, in which the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic worlds of slavery are brought into focus under the same lens. While slave studies have considered either trans-Atlantic or Islamic slavery, rarely has any study combined the enslavement of Africans in America and the Lands of Islam in one volume. Both the Saharan and Atlantic worlds imported enslaved populations from western and central Sudan, but in general the two markets have been treated in isolation and without reference to the common bond of Islam and the multiple roles that Islam has played in the history of slavery, whether in West Africa itself, the Americas, or the Islamic Mediterranean. Western Africa served as the point of dispersion across desert and sea, but it was also the final destination of many of those who were enslaved but who were not transported across the Atlantic or the Sahara.
The relationship between Islam and slavery is explored as a series of frontiers:
w in the Americas between enslaved Muslims and their Christian masters and the types of resistance and accommodation that arose there;
w in West Africa between Muslim and non-Muslim societies and the attempts at defining who was a Muslim in terms of issues of enslavement;
w in North Africa between Muslim masters and the enslaved population from West Africa and the popularity of spirit possession cults.
The resistance of Muslims to assimilation and the accommodation of Muslims to bondage also created other frontiers that are explored in this book.

Incorporates similar questions on each under one cover
The high price tag of Slavery On The Frontiers Of Islam will limit its acquisition to all but the most dedicated of multicultural and Islamic Studies collections; but a college-level readership will find these informed, informative, and strongly recommended essays will provide them with exceptionally important insights into the political and religious issues in the Sudan. Slave studies usually consider trans-Atlantic slavery or slavery in Islamic nations as separate phenomenon: compiled and edited by Paul Lovejoy, Slavery On The Frontiers Of Islam deftly incorporates similar questions on each under one cover, and goes on to provide intriguing comparisons and analysis. ... Read more

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