Index of Images for Section:
Friday, October 24, 1997

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1. The slave market in Zabid, in the Yemen.
2. A slave bringing food.
3. The story of the two foxes. A prince hunting with falcon, cheetah, and huntsman.
4. The birth of the Persian hero Rustam, with women and black servants in attendance.
5. A merchant with attendants and packhorse driver.
6. An Ottoman prince and grand vizier with attendants.
7. The heir apparent Mehmen at the Ibrahim Pasha Palace, with eunuchs.
8. The funeral of the sultan's mother, Nur Banu, with eunuchs in the background.
9. The chief black eunuch conducts the young prince to the circumcision ceremony.
10. Princes, pages, and eunuchs at an evening party by the Golden Horn.
11. Isfandiyar slaying the black sorceress.
12. Iskandar fighting the Sanjis (Habashis).
13. Mishrasb and Tahrusiyye watching Darab fighting the Sanjis. The body of Tanbalus is floating in the water.
14. Darab going into battle against the Zanjis.
15. Darab receiving homage from the defeated Zanjis.
16. A black slave wrestles with Abu Jahl, an Arab sayyid.
17. The Ethiopian king with some of the Prophet's Companions, who are bringing greetings.
18. Bilal and other Companions of the Prophet.
19. Iskandar shooting a duck from a boat, with boatmen.
20. Magicians
21. Humay's groom, who had a secret passion for her, murdering her at night when she would not submit to him.
22. "The woman who discovered her maidservant having improper relations with an ass."
23. "The old man who upbraided the Negro and the girl for flirting."
24. A woman of the Sudan.

Photos and captions are from Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry by Bernard Lewis (Oxford University Press, 1990). Olin and Uris, HT1316 .L67