Alashjaai, Nouf_MENG_2014

Title Alashjaai, Nouf_MENG_2014
Alternative Title Misinterpretations Breed Mistreatment: Slavery in the Antebellum South and the Ottoman Empire Justified by Personal Interpretations of Religious Texts
Creator Alashjaai, Nouf
Collection Name Master of English
Description Many societies throughout history have practiced slavery; Muslim and Christian societies are no exception. This paper aims to explore and compare American institutional slavery as portrayed in Alex Haley's Roots miniseries and institutional slavery in the Ottoman Empire. This comparison will show how Muslims in the Ottoman Empire mistreated slaves and practiced slavery despite its opposition to the teachings of Islam and Mohammed, similar to how the Christians portrayed in Roots practiced slavery against the teachings of Christianity. In both contexts, slaveholders abused and exploited the precepts of their religion to justify their activities and perpetuate institutional slavery.
Subject Slavery; Slavery and Islam; Slavery and Judaism; Slavery and the church
Keywords Christianity and slavery; Ottoman Empire
Digital Publisher Stewart Library, Weber State University
Date 2014
Language eng
Rights The author has granted Weber State University Archives a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce their theses, in whole or in part, in electronic or paper form and to make it available to the general public at no charge. The author retains all other rights.
Source University Archives Electronic Records; Master of Arts in English. Stewart Library, Weber State University
OCR Text Show
Format application/pdf
ARK ark:/87278/s626ct1w
Setname wsu_smt
ID 96701
Reference URL https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s626ct1w
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