William Gervase Clarence-Smith

William Gervase Clarence-Smith is Professor of the Economic History of Asia and Africa at SOAS, University of London. Quotes Slave raiding in conjunction with infidels was perhaps the ultimate negation of the ideal of holy war. Around 1500, Muslims were accused of mounting such attacks with Animist Fulbe in West Africa. A seventeenth-century Ottoman literary source described Christians and Muslims setting out on joint piratical expeditions in the Mediterranean. Islam and the Abolition of Slavery by W_ G_ Clarence-Smith, 2006, Oxford University Press, page 31 External links Category:Academics from the United Kingdom