Ibn Battuta’s Account of Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq’s Court During Eid
In his famous travelogue The Travels of Ibn Battuta (A.D. 1325–1354), the Moroccan explorer describes the customs at the court...
In his famous travelogue The Travels of Ibn Battuta (A.D. 1325–1354), the Moroccan explorer describes the customs at the court...
Islamic law provided a shocking loophole: if a man lusted after another person’s slave girl and the owner refused to...
Islamic Sharia imposed almost no real physical punishment on a slave owner for castrating or severely mutilating his own slave....
In Islamic Sharia, the rules regarding the killing of a human being varied dramatically depending on the status of the...
In nearly every ancient civilization, slaves who attempted to escape the brutality of their owners faced severe punishment. Yet Islamic...
While a single statement from a slave woman was considered sufficient for a man to have sexual relations with her...