Below you will find an on going list of some valuable works on race and slavery in various Muslim societies.
Alzaim, Safa. Antara: an Exploration in Meaning, the Epic and the Creative Art of Translation ; a Thesis. Boston: University of Massachusetts Boston, 2010. Print.
Austen, Ralph A. Trans-Saharan Africa in World History. New York, NY: Oxford UP, 2010. Print.
Ayalon, David. Islam and the Abode of War: Military Slaves and Islamic Adversaries. Aldershot, Great Britain: Variorum, 1994. Print.
Besteman, Catherine Lowe. Unraveling Somalia: Race, Violence, and the Legacy of Slavery. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1999. Print.
El, Hamel Chouki. La Vie Intellectuelle Islamique Dans Le Sahel Ouest-africain, XVI-XIX Siècles: Une étude Sociale De L’enseignement Islamique En Mauritanie Et Au Nord Du Mali (XVI-XIX Siècles) Et Traduction Annotée De Fatḥ Ash-shakūr D’al-Bartilī Al-Walātī (mort En 1805). Paris, France: L’Harmattan, 2002. Print.
Ennaji, Mohammed. Serving the Master: Slavery and Society in Nineteenth-century Morocco. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999. Print.
Ensel, Remco. Saints and Servants: Hierarchical Interdependence between Shurfa and Haratin in the Moroccan Deep South. Amsterdam: Univ. of Amsterdam, 1998. Print.
Fisher, Allan G. B., and Humphrey J. Fisher. Slavery and Muslim Society in Africa; the Institution in Saharan and Sudanic Africa and the Trans-Saharan Trade,. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. Print.
Gomez, Michael Angelo. Diasporic Africa: a Reader. New York: New York UP, 2006. Print.
Hunwick, John O., and Eve Troutt Powell. The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam. Princeton: M. Wiener Publications, 2001. Print.
Ibn, Khaldūn, Franz Rosenthal, N. J. Dawood, and Bruce B. Lawrence. The Muqaddimah: an Introduction to History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2005. Print.
Jāḥiẓ. The Book of the Glory of the Black Race = Kitab Fakhr As-Sudan ʼAla Al-Bidan. Los Angeles, CA: Preston Pub., 1985. Print.
Lewis, Bernard, and Bernard Lewis. Race and Slavery in the Middle East: an Historical Enquiry. New York: Oxford UP, 1990. Print.
Lovejoy, Paul E. Transformations in Slavery a History of Slavery in Africa. Cambridge [u.a.: Cambridge Univ., 2009. Print.
Manning, Patrick. Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990. Print.
Marmon, Shaun Elizabeth. Slavery in the Islamic Middle East. Princeton, NJ: M. Wiener, 1999. Print.
Mirzai, Behnaz A., Ismael Musah. Montana, and Paul E. Lovejoy. Slavery, Islam and Diaspora. Trenton, NJ: Africa World, 2009. Print.
Norris, H. T. The Berbers in Arabic Literature. London: Longman, 1982. Print.
Powell, Eve Troutt. A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain, and the Mastery of the Sudan. Berkeley: University of California, 2003. Print.
Scarr, Deryck. Slaving and Slavery in the Indian Ocean. New York: St. Martin’s, 1998. Print.
Sheriff, Abdul. Dhow Culture of the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism, Commerce and Islam. New York: Columbia UP, 2010. Print.
Sikainga, Ahmad Alawad. Slaves into Workers: Emancipation and Labor in Colonial Sudan. Austin: University of Texas, 1996. Print.
Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World: 1400 – 1680. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 1993. Print.
Toledano, Ehud R. Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East. Seattle: University of Washington, 1998. Print.
Webb, James L. A. Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change along the Western Sahel, 1600-1850. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 1995. Print.
Willis, John Ralph. Slaves and Slavery in Muslim Africa. London, England: F. Cass, 1985. Print.