Muslim Slave System in Medieval India c5.19

c5.19

However, a vast deal of business is also done by barter, of which we had proof at the holy shrine of Pir-i-Nimcha, where we exchanged two slaves for a few lambs skins! Sanctity and slave dealing may be considered somewhat akin in the Turkestan region, and *the more holy the person the more extensive are generally his transactions in flesh and blood*.³