Slave elites in the Middle East and Africa : a comparative study / edited by Miura Toru and John Edward Philips.

Slave elites in Islamic history / Sato Tsugitaka -- The Turkish militaryelite of Samarra and the third century land tenure system / Matthew S. Gordon -- Slave elites and the Saqaliba in al-Andalus in the Umayyad Period / Sato Kentaro -- The location of the "manufacture" of eunuchs / Jan S. Hogendorn -- My slave, my son, my lord: slavery, family and state in the Islamic Middle East / Dror Ze'evi -- The changing concept of Mamluk in the Mamluk sultanate in Egypt and Syria / Nasser Rabbat -- Waqf as an instrument of investment in the Mamluk sultanate: security vs. profit? / Carl F. Petry --The power of knowledge and the knowledge of power: kinship, community and royal slavery in pre-colonial Kano, 1807-1903 / Sean Stilwell -- The concept of slavery in Ottoman and other Muslim societies: dichotomy or continuum / Ehud R. Toledano -- Mawlay Isma{u2591}il's Jaysh al-{u2591}Abid: reassessment of a military experience / Fatima Harrak -- Comrades in arms or captives in bondage: Sudanese slaves in the Turco-Egyptian Army, 1821-186