Islamic slavery conventions were not adopted into the emerging European world system

Evidence

There was, however, one element in Islamic civilization that had little or no effect on medieval Europe as the latter was being transformed into the center of a dominant world system. This was the Muslim concept of the slave. Great differences persisted between slavery in Western and Christian societies and slavery in Islam. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 495

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• QUESTION: If Islamic slavery was relatively less racialized and more mobile, did the Christian-European rejection of it help harden the racial character of Atlantic slavery?
• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s stated goal on the Black radical tradition’s origins — the divergence between Muslim and Christian slave regimes shapes the eventual Atlantic slave system the tradition reacts against.

Related

• Islamic and Christian societies held fundamentally different concepts of slavery (similarity 0.92)
• European slavery was already elaborate before Islam and rejected Muslim slave ideals as heretical (similarity 0.87)
• Islamic societies originated modern racial stratification and racialized slavery (similarity 0.84)
• Islam, despite universalist ideals, made slavery largely racial (similarity 0.84)
• Islamic slavery permitted social mobility and produced entire slave-founded dynasties (similarity 0.84)
• Medieval slavery in the Mediterranean ran in many directions, not just one. (similarity 0.83)
• Medieval Mediterranean slavery directly prefigured Atlantic colonial slavery. (similarity 0.83)
• Islamic slavery differed markedly from Western Christian slavery. (similarity 0.83)
• American Islamophobia stems from slavery and anti-Black racism, not just Orientalism. (similarity 0.83)
• Islamic Mediterranean civilization both retarded and then accelerated Europe’s development, seeding anti-Islamic racism. (similarity 0.82)
• Medieval Mediterranean slavery was the template for Atlantic colonial slavery. (similarity 0.82)
• Europe’s first racialized view of Africans came through Islam’s armies (similarity 0.82)
• Islam’s racialization dates to American slavery, not modern immigration debates (similarity 0.82)
• American racialization of slaves ran on labor and land, not on religion (similarity 0.82)
• Claiming Islam invented racial prejudice serves modern Western hostility toward Muslims. (similarity 0.81)