المتاجرة بالأسرى في البلاد الشامية زمن الحروب الصليبية

Abstract

The phenomenon of trafficking in human beings in the world of wars is a deep and renewable phenomenon, rooted in the ancient nations, and has appeared in different times and different environments, and developed with the diversity of races, the different classes, the different religions, the renewal of needs and the struggle of wills. This study deals with the phenomenon of trafficking in prisoners in the centuries sixth and seventh Hijri / twelfth and thirteenth milady centuries, with these country becoming a permanent theater of fighting, the continuation of war and its ramifications, the circulation of victory and defeat between the Islamic and Crusader forces and the consequent increase in the number of prisoners And the growth of their trade,  This research will shed light on the motives behind the trafficking of prisoners, the vagaries of the markets of the prisoners, the methods of marketing them, the prices of the traffickers, the categories of traffickers, their status and profits, the impact of religious variations, sectarian conflicts and social inequalities in the popularity of the prisoner trade and the results of that. This study will be limited to dealing with trade in prisoners of war who have been enslaved in the course of raids, wars and maritime piracy among the warring forces in the Shami countries; other sources of slavery and international trade in Mamluks and Jawwari are outside the framework of the study.