In this booklet, including the chapter of her thesis in sociology at A.I.U., the human rights activist and translator of ProMosaik LAPH, Milena Rampoldi talks about the controversial term of "race" by stating the following: "I am convinced that Hurgronje's biography - even if it is full of contradictions - is also reflected in this conference I would like to analyse in this chapter, and which was held at the university of Leide in 1922. My objective is to show how the Dutch Islamic scholar at the beginning of the 1920s presented the egalitarian and anti-racist standpoint of Islam he called...

This booklet is an extract of the chapter four of my thesis in sociology written at A.I.U. between 2022-24. It is focused on slavery in Mauritania as well as on the ways to overcome/eradicate it from inside. It is the most complex and most open-ended of all parts of this research as it deals with the challenging dialectics between abolitionist and anti-abolitionist forces still existing in Muslim communities. When it comes to slavery and abolitionism, Islam is a reform-focused doctrine based on a fundamentally egalitarian abolitionism to be implemented step by step. After having introduced...

In this booklet including the last part of chapter four of her thesis in sociology written at A.I.U. between 2022 and 2024, the human rights activist and translator Milena Rampoldi introduces two abolitionists of two different epoch theorising the concept of the so-called "deracialisation of slavery". However, when we "deracialise" slavery in today's Mauritania, where slavery is connected with a paradigm of apartheid, racism, and ethnic/racial discrimination which came up during the historical development and because of the contact of Muslim slavery with the race-based Atlantic slave trade in...