Can People Sell their Children into Slavery? Cultural Relativism vs. Universality in Islamic Jurisprudence
In Summer 2023, the TraSIS project organised a joint conference with the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) in the picturesque Swiss lakeside town of Murtensee. Some of our guests generously agreed to contribute a blog post in which they discuss one of the sources they presented on at the conference. In the third post of this series, Jonathan AC Brown, Chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown University, explores the sale of non-Muslim children into slavery in Islamic…