Who destroyed slavery in Islam?

Answer 1

Answer 1

• Slavery is no longer existing.

• Islam; per Quran God revelation to prophet Muhammad; started while slavery was a normal trade system in Africa, Europe, the USA, and many countries of the world.
• Islam rules are encouraging limiting slavery by God rewarding; per Quran rules and instructions and prophet Muhammad teachings; those who free slaves to be forgiven of their sins. The another rule was that if one gets a child through sex with a slave woman, then both the child and his/her mother are set free.

Answer 2

Nobody. Islamic Law has not been abrogated and abolishing slavery would be an abrogation. There are many imposed restrictions on slavery, but these come from states and not Islamic Law. While it certainly is the case that the Qur'an encourages slave owners to free their slaves, it does not require them to do so. The Qur'anic quotes in Answer 3 explicitly prove this assertion. Under Islam, slavery expanded and developed into a truly international enterprise. (Hint: The Quran quotes in Answer 3 explicitly prove that slavery expanded allover the world before Islam (you may refer to the history of the different empires before Islam) but on the revelation of Quran to prophet Muhammad in the 7th century, both Quran and the prophet instructed Muslim to limit slavery as introduction to its elimination completely)

Further, slavery is still a huge part of the world; there are currently between 12-27 million slaves in the world, primarily in the Third World and many in Islamic Countries. There are 200,000 slaves in Mauritania (one-fifth of the entire population), 800,000 in Niger, 200,000 in Mali, and 200,000 in Sudan. This is because the laws of the national governments, some of which banned slavery as recently as 2007, do not reach most of the areas outside of the capital cities.

By and large, the reason for the reduction and elimination of slavery in the Islamic World came at the hands of Western Imperialism and International Pressure. Unlike the Islamic Feminist Movement, which was endemic to the Islamic World, there is no Islamic Abolitionist Movement. The evidence for this is that almost every current Islamic country abolished slavery through either: (1) active world-policing by the British during the 1830s-1870s to stop slave traders and force weaker regimes to abandon slavery - especially in Western Africa, (2) colonization during which extant slave-holding kingdoms such as Tripolitania and Egypt were forced by the occupier to abolish slavery, (3) international pressure after World War II on non-colonized Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia and formerly colonized countries that never banned slavery such as Sudan and Mauritania. By contrast, the Abolitionist movements in the UK, USA, Brazil, and Mexico were largely endemic and based on a desire by the citizens of those countries to abolish slavery, not international pressure. The only similar act in the Islamic World was the Abolition of Slavery in the Ottoman Empire in 1847 under the Tanzimat Reforms primarily in order to prevent the dissolution of the Empire. However, slavery continued by and large in most places in the Ottoman Empire for several more decades due to the weak enforcement of the abolition.

Answer 3

• Answer 2 above is sure from a non Muslim who may be has some misunderstanding about the Quran and about the Islamic history.
• Islam per Quran revelation to prophet Muhammad; peace be upon him; was in the seventh century. At that time Quran stated many rules to limit slavery well before the west and before all other God religions.
• Quran says in this regards (meaning English translation): " And never is it for a believer to kill a believer except by mistake. And whoever kills a believer by mistake - then the freeing of a believing slave and a compensation payment presented to the deceased's family [is required] unless they give [up their right as] charity. But if the deceased was from a people at war with you and he was a believer - then [only] the freeing of a believing slave; and if he was from a people with whom you have a treaty - then a compensation payment presented to his family and the freeing of a believing slave. And whoever does not find [one or cannot afford to buy one] - then [instead], a fast for two months consecutively, [seeking] acceptance of repentance from Allah. And Allah is ever Knowing and Wise." (4:93)
• Quran says also "Allah (or God and same God in Christianity and Judaism) will not impose blame upon you for what is meaningless in your oaths, but He will impose blame upon you for [breaking] what you intended of oaths. So its expiation is the feeding of ten needy people from the average of that which you feed your [own] families or clothing them or the freeing of a slave. But whoever cannot find [or afford it] - then a fast of three days [is required]. That is the expiation for oaths when you have sworn. But guard your oaths. Thus does Allah make clear to you His verses that you may be grateful" (5:89)
• Quran says also "And those who pronounce thihar from their wives and then [wish to] go back on what they said - then [there must be] the freeing of a slave before they touch one another. That is what you are admonished thereby; and Allah is Acquainted with what you do." (58:3)
• The Quran verses above prove that it was the Islam religion; per Quran revelation to prophet Muhammad in the 7th century; that called for slavery limitation.
• In addition to the above, prophet Muhammad urged Muslims to free slaves as far as they can to be rewarded by God mercy and forgiveness. Some Muslims even bought slavers from others just to free them.

No other religion at that time urged its followers to free their slaves just for God sake and satisfaction as demonstrated below:

• The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade began around the mid-fifteenth century when Portuguese interests in Africa moved away from the fabled deposits of gold to a much more readily available commodity -- slaves. By the seventeenth century the trade was in full swing, reaching a peak towards the end of the eighteenth century. It was a trade which was especially fruitful, since every stage of the journey could be profitable for merchants. Slaves for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade were initially sourced in Senegalese and the Windward Coast. Around 1650 the trade moved to west-central Africa (the Kingdom of the Kongo and neighboring Angola).
• For two hundred years, 1440-1640, Portugal had a monopoly on the export of slaves from Africa. It is notable that they were also the last European country to abolish the institution - although, like France, it still continued to work former slaves as contract laborers.
• Between 1450 and the end of the nineteenth century, slaves were obtained from along the west coast of Africa with the full and active co-operation of African kings and merchants. (There were occasional military campaigns organized by Europeans to capture slaves, especially by the Portuguese in what is now Angola, but this accounts for only a small percentage of the total.)
• During the eighteenth century, when the slave trade accounted for the transport of a staggering 6 million Africans, Britain was the worst transgressor - responsible for almost 2.5 million. This is a fact often forgotten by those who regularly cite Britain's prime role in the abolition of the slave trade.
• As a result of the slave trade, five times as many Africans arrived in the Americas than Europeans. Slaves were needed on plantations and for mines and the majority was shipped to Brazil, the Caribbean, and the Spanish Empire
• More than 11 millions were moved from Africa to America as slaves in the period from 1450 to 1900.
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The above information proves the false argument mentioned in Answer 2 that says "By and large, the reason for the reduction and elimination of slavery in the Islamic World came at the hands of Western Imperialism and International Pressure."