Monday, 17 August 2026

The Untold Story of Female Slavery in the Ottoman Empire

 

Further reading: For Shemsigul's story, check out “Shemsigül: A Circassian Slave in Mid-Nineteenth- Century Cairo,” in Edmund Burke's Struggle and Survival in the Modem Middle East. Additionally, Justin Marozzi's Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World is a good overview of slavery in the Islamic World. For abolition in the Islamic World, check out Islam and the Abolition of Slavery by William Gervase Clarence-Smith. 

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