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The 2025 Shortlist: Captives and Companions by Justin Marozzi

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 - Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World by Justin Marozzi Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, complex and controversial history. Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World is a brilliant synthesis of history and contemporary reportage, which brings to life the voices of the enslaved in stories of eighth-century concubines and ninth-century revolts, thirteenthcentury slave soldiers who established dynastic rule over Egypt, Syria and Iraq, eighteenth-century corsairs and twentieth century pearl divers in the Gulf. It includes first-hand accounts of this legacy in the twenty-first century, including the depredations of Daesh and continuing hereditary slavery in Mali and Mauritania. Justin Marozzi traces the extraordinary variety of enslavement in the Islamic world, which ranged from agricultural labour and domestic toil to elite concubinage, guardianship of sacred spaces, political leadership and even military command. Taking the reader on an extraordinary historical journey from Baghdad to Bamako, Tripoli to Timbuktu, Istanbul to the Black Sea, this is the riveting human drama of those caught up in one of history’s most remarkable overlooked stories Published by: Allen Lane, Penguin Books