معراج الصعود إلى نيل حكم مجلوب السود

مقدمة

Ahmad Baba wrote this legal opinion in 1615 in Timbuktu in answer to questions sent by Saʿīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jirārī of the Tuat oasis about slaves brought from West Africa. He held that under Islamic law unbelief is the only ground for enslavement, never colour or ethnicity, listed the peoples of West Africa who were Muslim and therefore not to be enslaved, and ruled that a slave claiming to be a free-born Muslim should be believed. He also rejected the claim that Black Africans were destined for slavery by a curse on Ham. The text was edited and translated by John Hunwick and Fatima Harrak (2000).

مزيد من أعمال أحمد بابا التمبكتي

• 1596نيل الابتهاج بتطريز الديباج