Arab slave trade

Arab slave trade refers to various periods in which a slave trade has been carried out under the auspices of Arab peoples or Arab countries. The Arab slave trades are often associated or connected to the history of slavery in the Muslim world.

The main examples of Arabic slave trades are :

• Al-Andalus slave trade (between the 8th and the 15th century)
• Barbary slave trade (between the early-16th and the early 19th century)
• Trans-Saharan slave trade (between the mid-7th century and the 20th century)
• Indian Ocean slave trade (between the antiquity and the early 20th-century.)
  • Comoros slave trade (from an unknown time until the mid 19th-century.)
  • Zanzibar slave trade (from an unknown time until the early 20th-century.)
• Ottoman slave trade (between the 13th and the early 20th-century.)
• Red Sea slave trade (between the antiquity and the mid-20th-century.)
• Lybian slave trade (started in the 7th century, ongoing)

• Saqaliba
• Prague slave trade
• Khazar slave trade
• Volga Bulgarian slave trade
• Black Sea slave trade
• Bukhara slave trade
• Khivan slave trade
• History of slavery in the Muslim world