Re: Concubines
3- when did this practice became obsolete ? when muslim expansion was stopped by western powers so there were no more slaves coming in from conquests
Women slaves were still being traded in the Ottoman Empire by 1908.
However, under anti-slavery pressure by the West, successive Ottoman Caliphs refused to sanction the taking of new slaves. Slavery was allowed to die out naturally within the Ottoman Empire as the last generation of existing slaves died out.