European observers took personal umbrage at Islamic defenses of slavery

Evidence

A member of the Geographic Society, the Russian Count Zalowski, erupted with anger over Shafïk’s points about slavery and Christianity. If the length of the meeting’s published minutes offers any indication, he pontificated for at least twenty minutes about the consolation the Christian Church offered to slaves. Excerpts of Ahmad Shafïk’s study were quickly published in the English-language Egyptian Gazette, where it gained its author even greater notoriety among Europeans. The pressure grew until Shafïk issued a statement through the Geographic Society and asserted that his intention had never been to slander the doctrine of the Christian Church, but simply to correct “the false idea prevalent in the European world that the Muslim religion sanctions the horrors committed in central Africa.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 679

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: European slavery predated Islam and was already heavily rationalized; Egyptian intellectuals publicly composed defenses of Islamic slavery against European clerical attack — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 676; Islamic and Christian societies held fundamentally different concepts of slavery — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 495
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: European slavery predated Islam and was already heavily rationalized; Egyptian intellectuals publicly composed defenses of Islamic slavery against European clerical attack — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 676; Islamic and Christian societies held fundamentally different concepts of slavery — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 495