Mustafa Demirci, Siyah Öfke: Ortaçağ İslâm Dünyasında Zenci Kölelerin İsyanı (869-883), Çizgi Kitabevi Yayınları, 3. Baskı, Konya 2021, 318 Sayfa, ISBN: 9786051960272

Abstract

During the Abbasîd period, Prof. Dr. Mustafa Demirci’s monograph on the ‘black rebellion’ that took place between 869-883 A.D. and was led by the Shiite leader Ali b. Muhammad, titled “Black Rage: The Rebellion of Zanj Slaves in the Medieval Islamic World (869-883)” by Prof. Dr. Mustafa Demirci is one of the most important studies both in terms of its subject matter and the author’s approach and perspective on the subject. The study, which was prepared with a rich academic iteratüre using basic sources and modern research on the subject, deals with issues such as the geography of the event, the causes and spread of the rebellion, the wars and warfare techniques to suppress the rebellion, the short and long-term effects of the damage left behind by the rebellion from an academic perspective in chronological order. The zanj rebellion started in the marshes of Basra in 869 as a result of Ali b. Muhammad (d. 883), who was originally white and claimed to be a descendant of the Prophet Ali (d. 883), organizing black slaves working under difficult conditions in the large farms in and around Basra, and the rebellion grew and spread in a short time. Muwaffak Billāh (843-891), the brother of the Abbasid Caliph Mu’temid Alallah’ın (843-892), who was assigned to suppress the rebellion, was victorious against the rebels after tough struggles, and the rebellion ended with the killing of the leader of the rebellion, Ali b. Muhammad, in 883.