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o'estin al-Rahimine I want to welcome you all to welcome you all to this class and it's a history class and it's a history class and it's Saturday night so I don't know what's wrong with you all but it's for a good purpose inshall

and I think it's one that that sparks a lot of curiosity there are a lot of

people that are deeply interested in this topic and I could tell by the online response that a lot of people were sort of waiting for a deep

detailed explanation on the topic of slavery and one of the things when we're discussing this topic that's very important to put out there from now,

because I'm sure that clips are going to be taken of this by Islamophobes and they're going to be plastered all over the internet,

is that this discussion has more academic value than anything else,

meaning we're not talking about how to reintroduce slavery in a proper way here.

We're talking about the history of slavery, we're talking about,

you know, how it developed, we're talking about everything that happened with slavery before Islam.

We'll probably have a little bit of time to talk about it after Islam and then modern manifestations of slavery.

Why? Number one, to just talk about the world in which

Islam was born into and how it dealt with a very, very brutal institution,

something that was unfortunately universally

acceptable and how Islam managed to redefine that. The second thing you know more

than anything else is for us even as Muslims so it's not just

necessarily non-Muslims for Muslims to sort of come to an understanding when they

see these headlines out there about Islam and slavery and when you hear about a

group doing something in the name of Islam

unfortunately many times it's not just you know non-Muslims that would have

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