Can you have slaves in islam

Tens of millions of people were placed under the Muslim yoke over the centuries, and yet servitude remains marginal to general accounts of. Islamic history. The Qur'an, which Muslims believe to have been revealed by God to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century, makes numerous references to slaves and slavery . In reconsidering the rôle of Muslim merchants in the development and of the slave trade, and the links with the trans- Atlantic trade in enslaved Africans, I.