In this poster presentation we introduced the project “TraSIS: Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies. Three Concepts from Islamic Legal Sources”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant number 208124). The project provides cutting-edge research on the legal history of slavery and coerced labour in Islamicate societies, drawing on both normative literatures (furūʿ, fatāwā, shurūṭ works, etc.) and documentary sources (papyri, court records, etc). The project focuses on three legal categories that nuances the slavery/freedom binary: the umm al-walad, kitāba and kafāla.
