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There is a lot of confusion about slavery in Islamic society. Since the Ottoman sultans functioned as divine monarchs in a sense all Ottoman subjects were their slaves. Moreover since in an Islamic state no Muslim may legally be enslaved the act of converting those taken in the devshirme acted as automatic legal manumission. Saying that they never became free roughly equates to saying that medieval Christian nobles were never free of their liege-lord, since they owed their liege service for life, just as janissaries served the sultan. --[[User:WOVcenter|WOVcenter]] 23:52, 10 March 2007 (EST) | There is a lot of confusion about slavery in Islamic society. Since the Ottoman sultans functioned as divine monarchs in a sense all Ottoman subjects were their slaves. Moreover since in an Islamic state no Muslim may legally be enslaved the act of converting those taken in the devshirme acted as automatic legal manumission. Saying that they never became free roughly equates to saying that medieval Christian nobles were never free of their liege-lord, since they owed their liege service for life, just as janissaries served the sultan. --[[User:WOVcenter|WOVcenter]] 23:52, 10 March 2007 (EST) | ||
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| + | Also, the word "devshirme" was mispelled throughout the article as "devsirme." Other than that no changes were made to the root article. --[[User:WOVcenter|WOVcenter]] 23:54, 10 March 2007 (EST) | ||
Latest revision as of 04:54, March 11, 2007
There is a lot of confusion about slavery in Islamic society. Since the Ottoman sultans functioned as divine monarchs in a sense all Ottoman subjects were their slaves. Moreover since in an Islamic state no Muslim may legally be enslaved the act of converting those taken in the devshirme acted as automatic legal manumission. Saying that they never became free roughly equates to saying that medieval Christian nobles were never free of their liege-lord, since they owed their liege service for life, just as janissaries served the sultan. --WOVcenter 23:52, 10 March 2007 (EST)
Also, the word "devshirme" was mispelled throughout the article as "devsirme." Other than that no changes were made to the root article. --WOVcenter 23:54, 10 March 2007 (EST)
