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