Electronic Resource
Cambridge
:
Cambridge University Press
The @journal of African history
33 (1992), S. 351-368
ISSN:
0021-8537
Source:
Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
Topics:
History
Notes:
The aim of this article is to illustrate the process whereby certain Berber tribes during the eighth century A.D. substituted slaves from the Bilād al-Sūdān for Berber slaves from North Africa. From the outset, this conversion was influenced strongly, if not instigated, by Ibāḍī merchants until the slave trade became a predominantly Ibāḍī monopoly from the mid-eighth century onwards. The slave trade along the central Sudan route in particular provided the increase in the community's wealth and security, as well as the means for its establishment and expansion as a Muslim sect among diverse Berber tribes and, finally, as the origins for the subsequent, far-flung network of trans-Saharan trade.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021853700032527
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