The Role of Slavery in Islam

Al wahid's argument is just an extended apollogia for the role of slavery in islam. The early caliphat was the first government we know of that actually succeeded in eliminating all these practices, kidnappings and the sale of offspring. In most every important sense, a slave was dead after he or she had been enslaved by his/her master. He argued criminals were condemned to slavery only for capital crimes. And those who sold themselves or their children normally faced starvation.