"The certainty of faith carries us over the fissures of doubt, but it does not resolve them." This is the profound quote this book starts with, and aptly sums up a believer's state of mind when they first encounter slavery in Islam.

How many times as a muslim have you asked yourself, "Why was something as evil as slavery allowed in the religion of Islam? Why did our Prophet (PBUH), known to be the most generous of people, own slaves?"

This book systematically, comprehensively, and extensively tackles each and every one of these questions we as muslims struggle with. The Islamic scholar, Jonathan A.C. Brown, very skillfully takes us across centuries of Islamic civilization to define and identify slavery, and then takes us across each aspect of slavery, challenges our very beliefs and makes us question the way we have viewed slavery all our lives.