Captives and companions : a history of slavery and the slave trade in the Islamic world /Justin Marozzi.

"Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history. Captives and Companions is a ... synthesis of history and contemporary reportage that brings to life the voices of the enslaved in stories of eighth-century concubines and ninth-century revolts, thirteenth-century slave soldiers who established dynastic rule over Egypt, Syria, and Iraq, eighteenth-century corsairs and twentieth-century pearl divers in the Gulf. It also has first-hand accounts of this legacy in the twenty-first century, including the depredations of Daesh and continuing hereditary slavery in Mali and Mauritania."--Publisher.