What is Arab slave trade?
[[File:African slave trade.png|thumb|400px|{{center|The main slave routes in Africa during the [[Middle Ages]]}}]] The '''Arab slave trade''',<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bean |first1=Frank D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c2qxEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 |title=Selected Topics in Migration Studies |last2=Brown |first2=Susan K. |date=2023-03-01 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-3-031-19631-7 |pages=27 |language=en |quote=Trans-Saharan slave trade was conducted within the ambits of the trans-Saharan trade, otherwise referred to as the Arab trade. Trans-Saharan trade, conducted across the Sahara Desert, was a web of commerical interactions between the Arab world (North Africa and the Persian Gulf) and sub-Saharan Africa.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Iddrisu |first=Abdulai |date=6 January 2023 |title=A Study in Evil: The Slave Trade in Africa |journal=Religions |language=en |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=122 |doi=10.3390/rel14010122 |issn= |quote=Africans experienced three distinct types of slave trades: (1) The European Slave Trade that took Africans across the Atlantic from the mid-fifteenth century until the end of the nineteenth century; (2) the Arab Slave Trade across the Sahara and the Indian Ocean that predated European contact with Africa; and (3) domestic slavery. |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gakunzi |first=David |date=2018 |title=The Arab-Muslim Slave Trade: Lifting the Taboo |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26500685 |journal=Jewish Political Studies Review |volume=29 |issue=3/4 |pages=40–42 |jstor=26500685 |issn=0792-335X |quote=In West Africa, the Arab slave trade encompassed a vast region from the Niger valley to the Gulf of Guinea. This traffic followed the trans-Saharan roads.}}</ref> (also called the '''trans-Saharan slave trade''') was a [[Slavery|slave trade]] in which slaves [[Trans-Saharan trade|were mainly transported]] across the [[Sahara]]. Most were moved from [[West Africa]] and [[Central Africa]] to [[North Africa]] to be sold to [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] and [[M