Muslim Slave System in Medieval India c15.7

c15.7

Rules regarding manumission of slaves are given in the *kitab al-Ataq*, and about sale in *kitab al-Biyu*. But there is no book or chapter whether on *Nikah* (marriage) or *Talaq* (divorce), barter or oath, sale or purchase, mortgage or transfer of property, offspring and progeny, in which slaves or slave girls do not find a prominent and lengthy mention.⁵ This only shows that Muslim society was incomplete without slaves and the slave system permeated every sphere of Muslim life.