A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád'/Appendix B
APPENDIX B.
SLAVERY AND CONCUBINE-SLAVES AS CONCOMITANT EVILS OF WAR.
- 1. Slavery and concubinage not allowed by the Koran
- 2. Measures taken by the Koran to abolish future slavery
- 3. None of the prisoners of war was enslaved
- 4. Bani Koreiza not enslaved
- 5. Rihana
- 6. Omar, the second Khalif, liberated all the Arab slaves
- 7. Concubinage
- 8. Maria the Coptic
- 9. Despatch of Mokowkas
- 10 & 11. Maria neither a slave nor a concubine
- 12. Maria had no son
- 13. The story of Maria and Haphsa a spurious one
- 14. The affair not noticed in the early biographies
- 15. Sir W. Muir's authority not valid
- 16. The best commentators and traditionalists refute the story
- 17. The story not accredited by the Koran
- 18. The story when fabricated
- 19. Zeinab's case
- 20. The story a spurious one
- 21. Sir W. Muir's conjectures not justified
- 22. A wrong translation of Sir W. Muir
- 23. In Zeinab's case no exceptional privilege was secured
- 24. The false story traced to Mukatil
- 25. Katádas conjectural interpretation not warranted
- 26. Other conjectures